2015 May

2015-05-12

2015-05-12 (5775 Air 23)
Rich Lowry _Jewish World Review_
the price of cheap labor
"it highlighted the poignant juxtaposition of affluent women enjoying what once would have been a luxury, thanks to poor, exploited women with no other options.   It is a tableau that doesn't feel very American or very modern.   We thought we had put the age of sweat-shops behind us, but we hadn't.   It turns out that sweat-shops are where New York City women go to get their mani-pedis.   The Times story is, in part, about the ugly under-belly of immigration...   Census Bureau numbers say that 59% of personal-appearance workers are foreign-born, according to Steven Camarota of the Center for Immigration Studies.   By Camarota's estimate, about a quarter of those foreign workers are illegal, and judging by the Times report, the number is higher in New York City...   [Yebbie Booosh] says that 'immigrants create an engine of economic prosperity'.   Politicians always talk of importing the best and the brightest from abroad.   But New York City's salons capture the tawdry reality of illegal immigration, which creates islands of lawlessness where people can be mistreated with little consequence..."

2015-05-12 (5775 Air 23)
Patrick Thibodeau _CIO_/_IDG_
3 economists use a new approach to look at H-1B, conclude H-1B guest-workers crowd out others
"IT" World
"The paper's 2 strongest claims concern applying for patents and hiring.   It found that winning additional H-1B visas has 'an insignificant effect on patenting', and that 'H-1Bs substantially crowd out employment of other workers'.   This paper, written by researchers at the University of California, Notre Dame University and the U.S. Department of Treasury, makes no policy recommendation to law-makers.   The paper is called 'The Effects of [Cheap, Young, Pliant, Low-Skilled Guest-Workers with Flexible Ethics] on Firms: Evidence from H-1B Visa Lotteries' (pdf).   To reach its conclusions, the paper uses government data in what may be a novel way...   It turns out that firms that won the lottery have no statistically significantly higher employment rates than firms that lost the lottery...   'We are making a definitive conclusion that H-1Bs are crowding out other workers.', said Kirk Doran, an economist at Notre Dame University and a co-author along with Adam Isen of the Office of Tax Analysis, U.S. Dept. of Treasury.   The researchers aren't able to say exactly who those other workers may be, whether they are permanent residents, U.S. citizens or some other category of worker...   H-1B use increased median profits as well as lowered the average pay at firms employing H-1B workers..."
Norm Matloff
Beryl Lieff Benderly: AAAS Science
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.   Over 2,589,226 H-1B visas have been issued from FY1990 to FY2014 according to the State Department annual reports.

2015-05-12 (5775 Air 23)
_Breitbart_
top H-1B cross-border bodyshop HCL paid Bill Clinton $260K for speech during Hitlery's tenure at DoS

2015-05-12 (5775 Air 23)
Dan Cadman _Center for Immigration Studies_
contesting Obummer's immigration over-reach: friends of the court, friends of the US constitution
"A 'friend of the court' [amicus curiae] brief has just been filed with the federal Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans in the case filed against the federal government by over half of the states, which are seeking to have ruled illegal and unconstitutional major portions of the [Obummer regime's] 'executive action' programs on immigration.   The brief supporting the plaintiff states (pdf) was filed by the Committee to Defend the Separation of Powers of the American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ).   According to the ACLJ [in 'fighting on behalf of congress against Obummer's exeutive over-reach], it was filed on behalf of nearly 220K individuals who have expressed their concern over this White House's trampling on the separation of powers established by our constitution.   The brief stands in sharp contrast to the opinion issued by the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel justifying the 'executive actions' just prior to their promulgation.   That opinion was a marvel of logical acrobatics in its attempt to provide a basis for what OLC lawyers clearly understood was the desired path their political masters wished to tread down.   It is my guess that, in the fullness of time, the OLC will arrive at a point of deep embarrassment, both for having shown itself so malleable as to be willing to bend law and logic to arrive at an impossible result and for having issued a document so poorly reasoned that even first-year law students could pick out its flaws.   The ACLJ's brief is succinct, well reasoned, and tightly argued.   I don't know who most of those nearly 220K individuals are that ACLJ speaks for, but I applaud them.   I do know, however, that 113 of them are sitting senators and representatives of the present Congress.   Pretty much all of them are Republicans.   Undoubtedly, party politics has prevented many a Democrat from speaking out on the executive actions when in their heart of hearts they may have serious concerns about executive overreach, but not all Democrats have been so silent.   For instance, to his credit, David Martin (law professor at the University of Virginia, former general counsel of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, and most recently the deputy general counsel of the Department of Homeland Security [DHS] under [the Obummer regime]) felt constrained in November of last year to speak out in a blog entitled 'Concerns about a Troubling Presidential Precedent and OLC's Review of Its Validity'."

2015-05-12 (5775 Air 23)
Terence P. Jeffrey _Cybercast News Service_
7.231M lost jobs: manufacturing employment down 37% from 1979 peak (with graph)
BLS establishment survey: employment, hours, and earnings by industry
BLS household incomes
BLS family incomes
BLS per capita (i.e. per person) incomes
graphs
These income data are not "longitudinal", i.e. they do not follow individuals over the course of their lives.   Instead, these are a series of snap-shots of the statistics gathered from the monthly surveys.   People often move from one fifth (quintile) to another, up or down, and members of a family are often in different quintiles at any particular time, and over their life-times.

2015-05-12 (5775 Air 23)
Phyllis Schlafly _Town Hall_
let's get on a constitutional pro-USA track
Brown Pelican Society of Louisiana

2015-05-12 (5775 Air 23)
Katie Pavlich _Town Hall_
reminder: a record number of people are not in the work-force
graphs

2015-05-12 (5775 Air 23)
_Conservative HQ_
must-see video: Secure Freedom launched counter-jihad campaign
video via YouTu in Belgium

2015-05-12 (5775 Air 23)
_Conservative HQ_
Muslim invasion/colonization of the USA: hijacking "refugee" resettlement program
"In several articles post over the past few months we've told readers of CHQ about the Muslim colonization of America and about the national suicide built into the George W. Bush [Shrub] and [Barack Hussein Obummer] immigration policies that have brought over 2.3M Muslim immigrants to America since 2001/09/11...   Now this issue has finally gotten the attention of the chairman of the House Judiciary sub-committee on Immigration and Border Security, representative Trey Gowdy of South Carolina, who wrote the Department of State demanding that it halt the resettlement of refugees in the city of Spartanburg in his district.   In his letter dated 2015 April 15, congressman Gowdy objected to the 'lack of notice, information and consultation afforded to me and my constituents' and posed 17 pointed questions, including (as paraphrased by Politico): Why and when was his district approved [as a refugee resettlement site]?   What steps were taken to notify local government officials and whether they approved the plan, and where funds for the office and the refugees will come from?   When are the first refugees expected to arrive?   What benefits are they entitled to?   How many will be resettled?   What is their country of origin?   Who is responsible for housing, employment and education services for them?   Representative Gowdy was particularly concerned about the security implications of this immigrant migration.   He asked: 'Do any of the refugees to be resettled in the Spartanburg area have criminal convictions?   If so, for what crimes has each been convicted?'   And 'Please explain the [backgroun-investigation] process performed on refugees scheduled to be resettled in Spartanburg.'   We can answer those questions for representative Gowdy: With [Barack Hussein Obummer] in the White House there isn't any real vetting of the background of these alleged 'refugees'.   The necessity for such congressional oversight has been underscored by an important new monograph by Ann Corcoran entitled, Refugee Resettlement and the Hijra to America (pdf), which released at the end of April as part of the Center for Security Policy's 'Civilization Jihad Reader Series'.   Ms. Corcoran documents that Muslim immigration as a form of jihad via colonization called hijra dates back to the time of Mohammed.   In fact, she quotes hadith sources that assert that migration is a religious obligation for Muslims to spread Islam and build the Islamic state.   She also cites long-time Libyan leader, Muammar Qaddafi [and, for that matter Yasser Arafat], who once said that Europe would be conquered without guns and swords, but with Muslim migrants over-running the continent.   Lest the images of thousands of Muslim 'refugees' crossing the Mediterranean Sea and throwing Christians overboard isn't enough to convince you, a powerful new documentary by Martin Mawyer called 'Europe's Last Stand; America's Final Warning' illustrates just how accurate this prediction is proving to be..."
Muslim Immigration to USA graph from Pew (jpg; 13.74KB)

2015-05-12 (5775 Air 23)
_Conservative HQ_
bringing jihad home: not a single American ISIL/ISIS/Daesh/IS/caliphate terrorist's passport has been cancelled

2015-05-12 (5775 Air 23)
Patrick Goodenough _Cybercast News Service_
movement in EU for mandatory quotas on immigration, military action against smugglers of illegal aliens

2015-05-12 (5775 Air 23)
Paul Stevens _National Post_
tackle immigration/emigration's root causes
"Re: Migrant Surges Stretch Resources.   The migrant surges have only just begun, thanks, in part, to the father and son Bush [GHWBush & Shrub] presidencies.   Had they not taken out Saddam Hussein et al. in response to the 2001/09/11 attacks, the crisis now unfolding in the Mediterranean as thousands of Muslims flee the barbaric Islamic State hordes would not now be featuring on our nightly news broadcasts.   Britain's Royal Navy may conduct operations against the smuggling gangs by attempting to destroy their boats to curtail this migrant onslaught, but the root causes lie in the poverty and strife in the Third World countries they are fleeing.   No amount of resettlement in Western countries will assuage this humanitarian onslaught.   Much as I feel for those caught up in this unfolding crisis, I do not believe Britain should be expected to take in tens of thousands of Muslim migrants in a plan to redistribute them throughout Europe.   Nor should any other European country.   Detain and care for them; eliminate the smugglers and their bases of operation, then return these refugees whence they came and let their governments see to their needs as best they can."

2015-05-12 (5775 Air 23)
William Kristol _Jewish World Review_
the haughty John Kerry's guarantee that Iran won't set off nuclear weapons

2015-05-12 (5775 Air 23)
Lenore Skenazy _Jewish World Review_
of puppies and predators at the park
"...Which is interesting, as the U.S. Department of Justice [DoJ] puts the number of children abducted by strangers at 115 a year.   So [Joey Salads] says 255,550 a year, and the crime stats say 115 a year..."

2015-05-12 (5775 Air 23)
Froma Harrop _Jewish World Review_
on-line dignity: give it up

2015-05-12 (5775 Air 23)
Laura Schroff _Jewish World Review_
_An Invisible Thread_
Washington DC Times
Kansas City Post
San Antonio TX Post
"According to an ancient proverb, an invisible thread connects those who are destined to meet, regardless of place, time or circumstance.   The thread may stretch or tangle.   But it will never break.   I have learned we are all connected by invisible threads, and sometimes to the most unlikely people.   I learned this back in1986, when I was a 35-year-old advertising sales executive in New York City and I met an 11-year-old homeless panhandler on the corner of 56th Street and Broadway..."

2015-05-12 (5775 Air 23)
Cal Thomas _Jewish World Review_
UK's shocking, surprising, stunning conservative election victory (another team Obummer loss in international election meddling)
Town Hall

2015-05-12 (5775 Air 23)
Matthew Fisher _Jewish World Review_
Putin reduced to celebrating the Soviet triumph over the Nazis with despots from countries who had nothing to do with winning the war
National Post

2015-05-12 (5775 Air 23)
Wesley Pruden _Jewish World Review_
the timid defense of free speech
"We see this writ large in the threat to public peace and the lives of the innocent by Islamic radicals.   The radicals, who maim and kill in the name of the prophet, are treated with respect (if not terror), and the Christians who have threatened no one, must be hectored, lectured and exiled to the fringes of the public square.   Pam Geller, who organized the draw-the-prophet cartoon contest in Texas that two home-grown ISIL/ISIS/Daesh/IS/caliphate wannabes tried to shut down with murder and lost their own lives trying, is a villain for some sun-shine defenders of free speech.   One pundit, writing in The Washington Post, is all for the First Amendment, err, uh, umm, 'but'...   Other wizards on the left even accuse Mzz Geller of committing 'hate speech', the currently fashionable name for harsh opinions you may not agree with..."

2015-05-12 (5775 Air 23)
Debra J. Saunders _Jewish World Review_
Rand Paul on the "net neutrality" deception
Town Hall
"Paul has introduced a resolution urging the senate to repeal the Federal Communications Commission's recent net neutrality order.   Don't think that Paul was afraid to challenge his new base.   Marinucci cited a University of Delaware poll that found 81% of Americans -- and 85% of Republicans -- support net neutrality.   Yet in the belly of the beast, Paul stuck to his free market principles.   Paul, 52, responded, 'I would say it depends on how you ask the question.   So let's redo the poll in an imaginary way.   Let's ask the question: How many of you believe the Internet should be regulated?'   Paul chalked up public support for net neutrality to savvy marketing.   'When you say something like 'neutrality,' the name is wonderful: net neutrality.   Who can be against net neutrality?   Who couldn't be against the Man?   Who wouldn't want to stop the Man from charging me too much?   Who's not against the phone company, the telephone company, the television company?   We're all against the Man at some level.'   Folks may naturally protest the idea of Internet providers charging more for faster service, but, Paul said, 'is it really terrible for FedEx to charge more to deliver a letter in 1 day than in 5 days?'   The marketplace is all about charging more for speed and location.   If you believe in the market-place, you don't want the government setting prices.   The senator voiced a pure libertarian position...   Paul's larger plan for increasing broadband competition..."

2015-05-12 (5775 Air 23)
David Shribman _Jewish World Review_
does the USA have an ignorance crisis?

2015-05-12 (5775 Air 23)
David Limbaugh _Jewish World Review_
what Mark Halperin's interview of Ted Cruz really showed us
Cybercast News Service
Town Hall
"...If you like arrogant, condescending, rude, insolent and patronizing Beltway journalism, you may appreciate Halperin's performance.   If you are a person of ordinary sensibilities, however, and not so intoxicated with the leftist worldview that you are incapable of dispassionately assessing the segment, you will have a different reaction.   What first struck me about the interview was not so much the objectively asinine questions Halperin asked but his obvious motive and attitude in asking them...   Cruz showed extraordinary class and restraint in fielding these boorish questions, but what was even more gratifying to me was that in his answers, he implicitly, though emphatically, rejected Halperin's assumptions, making clear that though he is proud of his ethnicity and considers his Cuban-American father his hero, he is a full-blooded American, proud of the Constitution and the liberties it protects...

2015-05-12 (5775 Air 23)
Walter E. Williams _Cybercast News Service_
odds and ends
Creators Syndicate
Brown Pelican Society of Louisiana
Jewish World Review
Town Hall
"...The original motto of our nation, E Pluribus Unum -- meaning 'out of many, one' -- was proposed for the first great seal of the United States by John Adams, Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson in 1776.   It recognizes the diversity of the American people.   You can bet that the campus call for diversity is everything but a patriotic celebration of America.   If anything, it's a condemnation and criticism of the United States and Western values.   The academic vision of diversity calls for the celebration of people based upon their race, religion, genitalia and sexual behavior.   And the last thing academic diversity means is diversity in thought, opinions and political affiliation. [Tax-victims] and irresponsible donors foot the bill for this deviancy..."

2015-05-12 (5775 Air 23)
Richard Land _Cybercast News Service_
USA slights Israel at its own peril

2015-05-12 (5775 Air 23)
Eric Scheiner _Cybercast News Service_
Hank Johnson (D-GA): GOP over-spending budget response could be Baltimore-type violence

2015-05-12 (5775 Air 23)
Laura Ingraham
RINOs move to rescue "fast track"/"trade promotion authority", Trans-Pacific Partnership and the rest of Obummer's trade agenda
14 Dems/Reds/leftists also oppose Trans-Pacific Partnership

2015-05-12 (5775 Air 23)
Katie Pavlich _Town Hall_
documents reveal horrifying details in sexual assaults, violations of 2nd amendment by TSA

2015-05-12 (5775 Air 23)
Brian Darling _Town Hall_
Obummer's hidden taxes are crushing economic growth and employment

2015-05-12 (5775 Air 23)
Susan Stamper Brown _Town Hall_
how's that co-existencee working out for you?

2015-05-12 (5775 Air 23)
Armstrong Williams _Town Hall_
falling short of greatness

2015-05-12 (5775 Air 23)
Matthew Thomas _Town Hall_
the good guys are still good, and the bad guys are still bad, while most do good and evil seemingly at random
"...We did not create these laws [many of them unconstitutional or immoral], but [some people] deemed them acceptable, and again we have sworn to uphold [those that are constitutional]..."

2015-05-12 (5775 Air 23)
Jack Kerwick _Town Hall_
why the left hates Pamela Geller

2015-05-12 (5775 Air 23)
Matthew Sabas _Town Hall_
how Washington DC is betraying USA's young
"Retirees are now receiving more benefits than they paid into the system.   The life-time [Socialist Insecurity] and Medicare payments made to a single earner-couple retiring in 2015 will be almost $1M -- over $500K more than the taxes they paid into the trust funds...   America had the highest high school graduation rate in the world immediately after World War II, but we have now dropped to 22nd out of 27 countries.   U.S. students' math scores are now lower than students in VietNam, [Red China], and most of Europe.   But it's not as if we're short-changing students, as K-12 spending has risen to $13K per student per year—an inflation-adjusted increase of 239% since the 1950s...   Four-year completion rates at colleges remain low and student loans are indebting millennials.   Total student loan debt ballooned from $250M in 2003 to $1.2T in 2014...   for every dollar received by a student in tax-based aid, scholarships at the university were reduced a dollar.   As college tuition increased by 1,180% since 1978, the burden has been shifted from universities to the [tax-victim]...   Questionable tuition-funded expenditures include millions spent on college presidents' salaries, nearly $500M spent on just 40 collegiate athletic programs, and decadent amenities—including a lazy river at Boston University (tuition and expenses in 2015: $62,956).   While universities have to attract and retain students, they leave with an average an average of $25K in debt.   Optimistic entrepreneurs and recent graduates looking forward to paying off their debt face a foreboding job market and an artificially restricted work-force...   Occupational licensing, or government approval to work in certain professions, safeguards established industries and older workers by preventing would-be entrepreneurs from entering the market.   Certification and licensing regulations to work certain jobs were rare up until the mid-20th century.   While in the 1950s less than 5% of all jobs required certification, licensing requirements have now expanded to cover 1 in 3 workers and include occupations unrelated to the health of the general public -- florists, cosmetologists, and yoga instructors now all require certification to operate a business in some states...   75M millennials are negatively affected by these policies..."

2015-05-12 (5775 Air 23)
Justin Haskins _Town Hall_
the most important ObummerDoesn'tCare case you've never heard of

2015-05-12 (5775 Air 23)
Katie Pavlich _Town Hall_
former CIA official Mike Morell: the Obummer regime really blew it on al-Qaeda, terrorism, and Benghazi

2015-05-12 (5775 Air 23)
Terrence Sooley _National Post_
how to build policies that favor urban manufacturing
"Manufacturing has reinvented itself.   A couple of decades ago, as North American cities began to decline after losing their manufacturing to offshoring, the mantra among urban planners and certain economic developers became that we needed to stop 'chasing smoke-stacks' and look to new markets.   But the pendulum has swung.   Manufacturing is reshoring -- for quality control, market proximity, skilled labour and cost savings -- and it's had a make-over...   today's factories are more likely to be clean, high-tech spaces filled with highly educated engineers and trades people.   The Brookings Institute reports factory work, especially in advanced manufacturing, has higher technical requirements and higher pay, rising 5 times [as fast as] the national average...   MIT declares that innovation will flourish in advanced manufacturing hubs because innovation depends on the production of goods...   Don't make the zoning codes too specific (new industries rise quickly, e.g., 3D printing); Help businesses navigate regulatory processes (simplify and support, to reduce hurdles); Offer an expedited permit process (faster permitting can keep businesses from leaving)..."

2015-05-12 (5775 Air 23)
Paul Stevens _National Post_
Turks deny genocide of Armenians & endorse anti-semitic conspiracies, while Kurds prove effective against ISIL/ISIS/Daesh/IS/caliphate

2015-05-12 (5775 Air 23)
Ali Meyer _Cybercast News Service_
FY2015 federal revenues $189T through April, deficit $283G

2015-05-12 (5775 Air 23)
Brittany M. Hughes _Cybercast News Service_
Pew: numbers of Christians in USA dropping, number "unaffiliated" rising
Cheryl Wetzstein: Washington DC Times
Melanie Batley: News Max
"Between 2007 and 2014, the number of Americans identifying as Christians has dropped from 78.4% (178.1M people) to 70.6% (172.8M people), the research shows.   While the number of religiously unaffiliated Americans remains much smaller, the group has risen from 16.1% to 22.8% in the same time, PEW reports.   In actual numbers, PEW reports in increase among unaffiliated Americans from about 37M in 2007 to about 60M in 2014.   This group includes atheists, agnostics or those who claim 'nothing in particular', the report stated...   Those who identify with 'non-Christian' faiths, including Jews, Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus and other religions, rose from 4.7% to 5.9%, the study showed...   The highest retention rate was among adults raised as Hindus (80% retention), followed by Muslims (77% retention) and Jews (75% retention)..."

2015-05-12 (5775 Air 23)
Penny Starr _Cybercast News Service_
Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, counterterrorism analyst: there is virtually no group opposed to Syrian president Bashar al-Assad which is not in bed with al-Qaeda
"Defense secretary Ash Carter announced on Thursday that the [Obummer regime] began 'training and equipping' about 90 'Syrian fighters' as part of an effort to build up an army of 5K to fight [other] Islamic extremists in the country, according to a May 7 report on Military.com."

2015-05-12 (5775 Air 23)
Michael W. Chapman _Cybercast News Service_
Syrian nun & relief leader: ISIL/ISIS/Daesh/IS/caliphate is Islam

2015-05-12 (5775 Air 23)
Rachel Marsden _Town Hall_
Main Street Americans deserve a better return on diplomatic missions

2015-05-12 (5775 Air 23)
Daniel Doherty _Town Hall_
Hot Air poll: Ted Cruz & Scott Walker are still cruising
"Governor Scott Walker (R-WI) and senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) were essentially tied in Hot Air’s recurrent survey last month -- although the latter had a slight edge.   Roughly three weeks later, however, that same dynamic still holds true.   Both Republican hopefuls are garnering roughly one-third of the vote each (with Ted Cruz faring a little bit better)..."

2015-05-12 (5775 Air 23)
John Nolte _Breitbart_
why the Internet's self-balkanization of news & culture is a good thing
"...Mass culture and mass media are hugely important when it comes to how the Left influences and exerts a form of control over America.   As of now, the main-stream media and main-stream culture (TV, movies, music, etc.) are almost wholly owned and controlled by Leftists.   And they use this power to shape opinion, especially the opinion of young people on political and social issues.   Balkanization terrifies these folks because it means a loss of control.   Suddenly they don't have access to 300M+ Americans because we have all gone our own separate ways...   As far as news, we're not so much looking to have our worldviews confirmed, as much as we're turning to those news outlets we trust.   There's a reason more Democrats watch Fox News than they do [MSLSD].   There's a reason (except for work) I won't go near the Washington Post, CNN or The New York Times but trust and respect the very left-wing L.A. Weekly..."

2015-05-12 (5775 Air 23)
_Breitbart_
Investigative Project on Terrorism: Muslims commit disproportionate number of Europe's anti-Semitic attacks

2015-05-12 (5775 Air 23)
John Hayward _Breitbart_
whacky students demand "trigger warnings" for classical Greek and Latin literature
"...At Reason, Brown very charitably tries to make sense of this totalitarian gobbledygook by proposing hypothetical reasons for the student's extreme reaction -- 'was there an assignment or further lectures on Persephone she wished out of?' -- while also noting the 'hyperbolic language of trauma that's used'.   She observes that the student described in this complaint needs individual therapy, not a university-wide injunction against teaching the livelier Greek legends...."
Elizabeth Nolan Brown: Reason: Roman and Greek mythology is too disturbing for some emotionally fragile Columbia U students?

2015-05-12 (5775 Air 23)
Ed Martin _Washington DC Times_
GOP candidates should force contested convention

2015-05-12 (5775 Air 23)
James A. Lyons & Richard D. Fisher ii _Washington DC Times_
we should be taking the military threats from Red China (and North Korea, and Iran) seriously

2015-05-12 (5775 Air 23)
John R. Graham _American Thinker_
beware: the electronic medical/health records debacle will continue to get worse
"In a survey conducted by the Deloitte consulting group, three of four doctors said EHRs are not worth the cost.   The influential RAND Corporation, which had long endorsed EHRs, reported in 2013 that they neither saved money nor improved care.   Doctors and hospitals were induced to install EHRs with $30G in federal money, which started flowing in 2011.   Fortunately, this money has almost run out; when it's gone, the federal government will be less able to bend physicians to its will...   But last year [Obummer regime] disclosed that only 3,152 eligible professionals (doctors, dentists, and so forth) of almost 500K registered had attested to Stage 2 to get their bounties.   This is surprising because, although the government is almost out of EHR subsidy money, it has the power to fine doctors for not using electronic records.   This year the administration will begin doing so.   Last December, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced it would dock 1% of Medicare payments from 257K physicians’ payments for not using EHRs 'meaningfully' and another 1% from 28K providers for not prescribing electronically.   Despite these punitive measures, doctors continue to resist EHRs.   The American Medical Association (AMA), which endorsed the program in 2009, declared it was 'appalled' that over half of eligible professionals will be fined for failing to meet meaningful-use targets in 2015..."

2015-05-12 (5775 Air 23)
Mike Konrad _American Thinker_
anti-semitism in Europe and the UK
"...In reality, the Jews want Judea and Samaria (the West Bank [i.e. Eastern Israel]) back the way the Irish want Ulster back.   The Palestinians are to some extent a foreign entity in the same way that the Plantation British were in Ulster.   Judea and Samaria -- with Jerusalem and Hebron [Chebrun] -- were the religious center of Jewish national life.   Armagh, in Ulster, where Patrick supposedly built his diocese, was the historic religious center of Ireland.   The Palestinians in Judea and Samaria and the Orange settlers in Ulster were both later arrivals in someone else's national territory.   The Highlanders in Ulster might be Gaels, but they often took the Irish side in wars, and the English did not trust them.   Since most of the Orange were Lowlander-English, they were not Gaels, but a mix of Viking, Norman, and Saxon -- that is to say, outsiders..."

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2015-05-13 (5775 Air 24)
Mark Krikorian _Center for Immigration Studies_
Sili Valley executives to US citizen STEM professionals: drop dead
"Silicon Valley oligarchs come to the immigration debate with considerable advantages.   Aside from the obvious giant bags of money, there's the perception (often correct) that they're wizards responsible for breathtaking innovation and economic growth.   So when they say they need ever-greater numbers of indentured code-jockeys from abroad because there aren't not enough Americans available, they're taken seriously (even though the real motivation is simply cheap labor).   This gullibility is all the more prevalent in congress...   But the Silicon Valley oligarchs also have a disadvantage: the inability to hide their contempt for American workers...   No one 'deserves' his job, of course.   And it's true that, as Moe Greene noted, if you've got a business to run you've got to 'kick asses sometimes to make it run right'.   But there was no claim that the hundreds of American workers replaced en masse by H-1Bs (whom they had to train at the risk of losing their severance) at SCE or Disney or elsewhere were not doing their jobs, [were not able to do their jobs well,] or weren't 'qualified' or were being 'carried'.   Rather, they were replaced with less-skilled -- but much cheaper -- foreign workers, using a program that's supposed to be only for the 'best and brightest'.   Dalgaard was blaming the victims of a [crony-socialist] immigration scheme for their own plight.   Nor is this simply a matter of economics.   The culture of Silicon Valley is anchored on the left, as we've seen starkly over the past year on gay marriage.   Given that a visceral aversion to America and ordinary Americans is one of the modern Left's most basic impulses, it's no surprise that this aversion is broadly shared by people in the tech industry.   Such preference for foreigners over Americans isn't confined to skilled immigrants, as Jeb Bush's Ameriphobia attests.   But American software engineers replaced by foreigners are more likely to have the verbal and other skills required to get their complaints heard than do, say, American construction workers in the same situation.   And that may be why the congressional gullibility which has served Big Tech so well for so long is ebbing.   Southern California Edison's purge of American workers, for instance, continues to resonate, with a bipartisan group of senators demanding an inquiry.   Corporate cronyism has been getting the attention it deserves in the financial sector, the 'green' industry, and the Ex-Im Bank.   This is finally beginning to happen to the tech industry too, as the insulation and even deference it enjoyed in its pursuit of cronyist immigration policies begins to wane.   It's about time."
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.   Over 2,589,226 H-1B visas have been issued from FY1990 to FY2014 according to the State Department annual reports.

2015-05-13 (5775 Air 24)
_Conservative HQ_
senator Jeff Sessions is a leader of the rising populist conservatives

2015-05-13 (5775 Air 24)
Norm Matloff _Upon Closer Inspection Norm Says No_
Trans-Pacific Partnership and H-1B
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.   Over 2,589,226 H-1B visas have been issued from FY1990 to FY2014 according to the State Department annual reports.

2015-05-13 (5775 Air 24)
David North & Cody Donald _Center for Immigration Studies_
EB-5 faces population problems: too many middlemen for the numbers of visas
"It is ironic that the Department of Homeland Security [DHS] -- an outfit that apparently believes that there never can be too many people under any circumstance -- finds itself with a highly specialized population problem of its own making..."

2015-05-13 (5775 Air 24)
David North _Center for Immigration Studies_
ebola epidemic is ramping down in Liberia, but USCIS has not noticed
"...On the afternoon of May 12, USCIS held a teleconference promoting Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for aliens -- legal or illegal -- who were in the United States on 2014 November 21, and were from one of the 3 Ebola-impacted West African nations.   The deadline for applications is May 20.   TPS status is created by the government when it decides that a disaster of some kind has struck a nation or nations, and everyone from the area in the United States at the time becomes eligible for an allegedly temporary legal status.   The problem, of course, is that TPS statuses for aliens from designated nations never expire.   The Department of Homeland Security renews the TPS status every 18 months, or as Mark Krikorian put it some years ago, 'temporary status means never having to go home'.   I joined the teleconference hoping to find out how many aliens from the 3 nations had signed up for TPS; my sense is that internal enforcement of the immigration law in the United States is so lax means that relatively few people did so.   (It costs $465.)   The agency would not answer my question on numbers, but gave detailed answers to questions about who is eligible for the program, how to apply, and how to obtain a fee waiver..."

2015-05-13 (5775 Air 24)
Brittany M. Hughes _Cybercast News Service_
DHS OIG: can't say now many illegal aliens they unconstitutionally and illegally refused to prosecute
"The OIG reported that DHS's 3 immigration-related agencies, including U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (US ICE), U.S. Customs and Border Protection (US CBP), and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), received a collective $21G between Fiscal Years 2013 and 2014."

2015-05-13 (5775 Air 24)
Leo Hohmann _WND_
DHS caught smuggling illegal aliens from Somalia across USA-Mexico border
"The U.S. [government] is bringing in 100K Muslims every year through legal channels such as the United Nations refugee program and various visa programs, but new reports indicate a pipe-line has been established through the southern border with the help of the federal agency whose job it is to protect the homeland...   More than 100K Somalis have been brought to the United States legally since 1991 through the UN refugee resettlement program.   Close to half of them have been resettled in Minnesota, with the rest dispersed throughout Ohio, Maine, California, Texas, Idaho, Tennessee, Colorado, Georgia and several other states...   The U.S. [government] allows 1.1M immigrants into the country annually through legal channels, and another 486K crossed the southern border illegally in 2014, according to U.S. Customs and Border Patrol [US CBP].   Taken together, that's 1.6M new immigrants each year, which is at historically high levels even for the U.S.A...   'That's more than any other nation on earth.', Gheen said."
Open Your Eyes People

2015-05-13 (5775 Air 24)
Uriel Heilman _Jewish World Review_
one-sixth of those who say they are Jews are new to Judaism
Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Arizona Jewish Post
Ottawa Jewish Bulletin
Wisconsin Jewish Chronicle

2015-05-13 (5775 Air 24)
Michael Bliss _Jewish World Review_
what the West's long and not yet victorious struggle against communism tells us about the battle with Islamic terrorism
National Post
We should remember how enthusiastic anti-Communists tended to be undermined by corrupt politicians, from the Korean peninsula, to the Bay of Pigs, to VietNam, to Hungary, Poland, Latvia, Lithuania, and Ukraine.

2015-05-13 (5775 Air 24)
Heather Merrill _Jewish World Review_
20 things "successful" people do to be happier
"motivational" fluff

2015-05-13 (5775 Air 24)
John Stossel _Jewish World Review_
disobey!
Town Hall
"it's time for civil disobedience.   Government has become so oppressive, constantly restricting us with new regulations, that our only hope is for some of us to refuse to cooperate...   Murray argues that citizens and companies should start openly defying all but the most useful regulations, essentially ones that forbid assault, theft and fraud.   He writes, 'America is no longer the land of the free.   We are still free in the sense that Norwegians, Germans and Italians are free.   But that's not what Americans used to mean by freedom.'...   government today tries to do much more.   While we try to invent new things, government constantly seeks new ways to control us.   The number of federal crimes on the books is now 50% larger than back in 1980 -- a time when many people mistakenly thought the U.S.A. would cut the size of government.   Murray says, correctly, that no ordinary human being -- not even a team of lawyers -- can ever be sure how to obey the 810 pages of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, 1,024 pages of [ObummerDoesn'tCare] or 2,300 pages of Dodd-Frank.   What if we all stopped trying?..."

2015-05-13 (5775 Air 24)
_Jewish World Review_
representatives from 40 Republican groups plan how to avoid being stuck (again) with a RINO nominee (like Bush, McCain, Romney)
Ralph Z. Hallow: Washington DC Times

2015-05-13 (5775 Air 24)
Michelle Malkin _Jewish World Review_
the return of Obummer's hoax-spreading bitter half
Cybercast News Service
National Review
Town Hall

2015-05-13 (5775 Air 24)
David Ignatius _Jewish World Review_
the antidote to Mideast violence?

2015-05-13 (5775 Air 24)
Peter Orszag _Jewish World Review_
why some young people want nothing to do with politics
"There are 519,682 elected officials in the U.S.A., the authors note, the vast majority of whom hold local jobs; they are mayors, city councilors, school board members, coroners or recorders of deeds.   It is essential to the effective functioning of government -- without which the nation cannot succeed -- that [honest] competent people are willing to run for these offices.   Yet, in a novel survey that Lawless and Fox conducted of more than 2K high school students and more than 2K college students, young people expressed a broad aversion to serving in public office.   Almost 90% said they wouldn't even consider it.   The students said they tend to avoid discussing political issues altogether..."

2015-05-13 (5775 Air 24)
_Conservative HQ_
conservatives in House and senate split on unpatriotic act -- what say you?

2015-05-13 (5775 Air 24)
L. Brent Bozell iii & Tim Graham _Cybercast News Service_
leftist media are eating crow after UK (and Israel) elections
Town Hall

2015-05-13 (5775 Air 24)
Charlie Daniels _Cybercast News Service_
Obummer lacks the will to stop USA's bleeding... or, perhaps he wants the USA to bleed
"And an even more appalling fact, while America spent billions on research and development, Russia and [Red China] obtained much of our hard won aeronautical research with cyber spying, patiently hacking their way into site after site and following the threads until they ended up on classified sites where the real information is stored... Russia and [Red China's] rapid and complete immersion into cyber technology..."

2015-05-13 (5775 Air 24)
Laura Ingraham
bad trade deal loop-holes

2015-05-13 (5775 Air 24)
Allen West _Town Hall_
the politicized false narrative of income inequality
"Recent polls show that the top two issues concerning Americans are the economy/jobs and terrorism -- which I classify as foreign policy/national security.   However, in the world of political gimmickry the prevailing issue that [leftists] wish to focus on is income equality.   Their emphasis cannot be on the issue of record and concern for the American people.   No, it must be on a made up, politicized false narrative of a grievance that serves to manipulate the populace purely for political gain..."

2015-05-13 (5775 Air 24)
Todd Starnes _Town Hall_
Obummer needs to keep his Saul Alinsky, "community-organizing" paws out of our news-rooms... and lives

2015-05-13 (5775 Air 24)
Bob Barr _Town Hall_
court finally declared NSA domestic spying program illegal, senate GOP losership responds, "so, what?"
"...The Second Circuit opinion comports clearly with both the language and the intent of this section of the Patriot Act.   I should know; I was a member of the House Judiciary Committee that debated the legislation in committee and on the floor of the House back in the immediate aftermath of the 2001/09/11 attacks.   More broadly, of course, the Court recognized that the government's absurdly expansive reading of the section would, if allowed to continue, make a mockery of any reasonable expectation of privacy enshrined in and protected by the Fourth Amendment.   Sadly, but true to form, many Republican Senators, including [back-stabbing] majority-leader Mitch McConnell and presidential hopeful Marco Rubio, remain steadfast in support of the surveillance program now clearly found to be unlawful..."

2015-05-13 (5775 Air 24)
Neil McCabe _Town Hall_
some conservatives press GOP to restrict DoJ's foreign cloud snooping
"To put things in perspective, in 1995 the e-mail service HotMail.com was created by two Apple Computer exiles.   In 1998, MSFT paid $400M for HotMail [and promptly set about destroying it, just as they'd destroyed many other great software products after take-overs]...   First, ECPA only protects e-mails less than 180 days old.   At the time, nobody imagined that Americans would treat their e-mail accounts as their virtual life dash-boards with some keeping e-mails more than 10 years or 15 years.   The second hole is that the ECPA does not recognize an expectation of privacy if an American uses a third-party e-mail provider..."

2015-05-13 (5775 Air 24)
Jacob Sullum _Town Hall_
unconstitutional and illegal warrantless snooping goes far beyond the NSA's phone-record dragnet: 2 cases highlight the precariousness of privacy when your records are not respected as yours
"...The Fourth Amendment prohibits 'unreasonable searches and seizures' of our 'persons, houses, papers and effects'. But according to the [corrupt] Supreme Court [going back to the days of the war on ethanol], the Fourth Amendment does not protect our papers once we entrust them to someone else..."

2015-05-13 (5775 Air 24)
Ken Blackwell _Town Hall_
crony socialism in the "short sale" market
"There are the obvious examples, such as far-left environmentalist billionaire Tom Steyer, who has received more than a billion dollars for a light rail project, which personally helped his hedge fund.   However, beyond pay-to-play, there is a more advance version of financial corruption that can happen in the 'short sale' market.   If you're not familiar with that term, is a strategy used by hedge funds and other large investment banks to study investment opportunities and profit from businesses which are likely to drop in value.   The investor borrows money to make that bet, then makes money when paying off the loan is less than the return.   It may sound like a wild form of gambling, but it is legitimate.   After all, capital follows the path of least resistance and great opportunity.   And capital needs that information about investment opportunities, while these tactics by hedge funds can keep stocks from becoming overvalued.   However, no market-place is perfect, and there is always the opportunity for fraud.   Instead of allowing the markets to run their course and using data to study market trends, a handful of elite investors use their political connections to use the media and politicians to drive a stock price down..."

2015-05-13 (5775 Air 24)
Arthur Schaper _Town Hall_
Kamala Harris: scofflaw prosecutor (and, unfortunately, not the only one)

2015-05-13 (5775 Air 24)
Hadley Heath Manning _Town Hall_
escape from ObummerDoesn'tCare
"A Bridge to Better Health Care, a project of Independent Women's Voice, has laid out five guiding principles we believe any repeal and replace effort must adhere to.   Our principles include: protecting people, ensuring consumer choice and affordability, respecting the economy, working at the state level, and respecting the Constitution..."

2015-05-13 (5775 Air 24)
Matt Bowman _Town Hall_
ACLU & eugenic Planned Parenthood seek to ban reproductive choice in Illinois

2015-05-13 (5775 Air 24)
Andrew Langer _Town Hall_
informing the debate over trade and "trade promotion"

2015-05-13 (5775 Air 24)
Katie Pavlich _Town Hall_
women working in Iraq testify about horrifying genocide of Christians and their heritage by ISIL/ISIS/Daesh/IS/caliphate

2015-05-13 (5775 Air 24)
Alex Swoyer _Breitbart_
Defense Authorization Act cuts military personnel, could add illegal aliens

2015-05-13 (5775 Air 24)
Andre Walker _Breitbart_
Kent Police investigate charges of election fraud in South Thanet, where Nigel Farage lost

2015-05-13 (5775 Air 24)
Matthew Boyle _Breitbart_
Rand Paul entered "secret room" to read 800 page version of Obummer's Trans-Pacific Partnership deal, calls for release of the deal to the public

2015-05-13 (5775 Air 24)
Susan Berry _Breitbart_
doctors slam American College of Physicians for caving in to LGBT agenda

2015-05-13 (5775 Air 24)
Awr Hawkins _Breitbart_
bizarrely acting parolee escaped from police, entered private yard and advanced on resident acting as though he were reaching for a firearm, home-owner used her firearm to stop him
"Although wounded, Carmelo continued to resist arrest when deputies reached Doolittle's home.   He was finally taken into custody with the help of the Shasta County Sheriff's K-9."

2015-05-13 (5775 Air 24)
John Hayward _Breitbart_
DoD hunts terrorists on the net

2015-05-13 (5775 Air 24)
_Breitbart_/_AP_
engineer's window of commuter train was broken by a projectile about 20 minutes before Amtrak went off the rails about 3.5 miles away

2015-05-13 (5775 Air 24)
Michelle Moons _Breitbart_
helicopter from Camp Pendleton, being used for earth-quake relief in Himalayas, is missing after possible fuel problem

2015-05-13 (5775 Air 24)
_Fox_/_AP_
House ready to pass bill to end NSA collection of all domestic USA phone records

2015-05-13 (5775 Air 24)
Jennifer Harper _Washington DC Times_
Libertarian Party filed law-suit against Presidential Debate Commission for exclusion, it's unfair and illegal

2015-05-13 (5775 Air 24)
Jessica Chasmar _Washington DC Times_
teen arrested, suspended for wearing "protect your right (to own and carry arms) T-shirt to school, his mother is sueing the school board

2015-05-13 (5775 Air 24)
Frank J. Gaffney ii _Washington DC Times_
tipping point on emasculation of US senate

2015-05-13 (5775 Air 24)
Penny Starr _Cybercast News Service_
corrupt Obummer secretary of indoctrination met with Chicago gangsters, then said "they just need jobs"

2015-05-13 (5775 Air 24)
Melanie Hunter _Cybercast News Service_
guard told Dem senator: you can't take notes about Obummer's corrupt trade agreement

2015-05-13 (5775 Air 24)
Ali Meyer _Cybercast News Service_
cost of pork totaled $4.2G in FY2015; up 56% from previous year

2015-05-13 (5775 Air 24)
Rudy Takala _Cybercast News Service_
corrupt and malevolent FEC want to "dismantle the USA's economic system" and "impose quotas" to get more women in politics
"'If I was really playing God, I'd probably have to completely, like, dismantle our economic system, that doesn't value women's work in the same way it does men's.', said Adrienne Kimmel, one of the forum panelists.   Kimmel also serves as the executive director of the Barbara Lee Family Foundation, which describes itself as working to 'advance women's equality and representation in American politics'."

2015-05-13 (5775 Air 24)
Sarah Torre _Cybercast News Service_
Gosnell's actions are a reminder of USA's failure to protect women and un-born children

2015-05-13 (5775 Air 24)
Michael Brown _WND_
why conservative Christian churches are still growing in the USA and worldwide

2015-05-13 (5775 Air 24)
Seth Borenstein _WND_
from 2014 April through 2015 April, 42.1% of honeybee hives have died off
AP
"The survey found bee-keepers lost 27.4% of their colonies this summer.   That's up from 19.8% the previous summer...   Delaplane and vanEngelsdorp said a combination of mites, poor nutrition and pesticides are to blame for the bee deaths.   USDA bee scientist Jeff Pettis said last summer's large die-off included unusual queen loss and seemed worse in colonies that moved more.   Dick Rogers, chief bee-keeper for pesticide-maker Bayer, said the loss figure is 'not unusual at all' and said the survey shows an end result of more colonies now than before: 2.74M hives in 2015, up from 2.64M in 2014..."

2015-05-13 (5775 Air 24)
_WND_
Frederica S. Wilson (D-FL) proposed bill to force vaccination of all children in USA

2015-05-13 (5775 Air 24)
_WND_
"white" mercenaries have Boko Haram on the run, "bringing back our girls"
"They're Nigeria's unlikely saviors -- most being white, in their 50s and 60s and combat veterans of the former South African apartheid regime.   But, tainted resumes notwithstanding, they've been getting the job done in northern Nigeria, hitting the Islamist terror group Boko Haram hard enough to send the jihadists into retreat, liberating dozens of villages and freeing hundreds of women and girls held as slaves and 'bush wives' during a 6-year-long reign of terror, reported the London Telegraph...   squad of mostly-white bush-warfare experts is employed by Specialized Tasks, Training, Equipment and Protection, a private army run by colonel Eeben Barlow...   Barlow's firm was hired by Nigeria out-going president Goodluck Jonathan in January...   As WND has reported..., [president Barack Hussein Obummer] withheld weapons and intelligence support from Nigeria in its fight against the Islamists because Jonathan's administration stood by the nation's laws criminalizing homosexual acts and strictly forbidding same-sex 'marriage'.   Jonathan was defeated in the March election by retired general Muhammadu Buhari, who ruled as dictator there from 1983 until 1985, when he was removed through a coup.   Buhari's campaign was run by the political firm founded by key [Obummer] strategist David Axelrod.   Buhari previously vowed to institute shariah law [under which homosexuals are to be executed] in the Muslim-dominated parts of the country if elected..."

2015-05-13 (5775 Air 24)
Fiona Macrae _WND_
bright artificial lights can make people chubbier
UK Daily Mail

2015-05-13 (5775 Air 24)
John Hayward _Breitbart_
ISIL/ISIS/Daesh/IS/caliphate using stolen passports to help jihad recruits travel

2015-05-13 (5775 Air 24)
John Hayward _Breitbart_
51-year-old actor Michael Enright joined Kurdish militia to fight against ISIL/ISIS/Daesh/IS/caliphate

2015-05-13 (5775 Air 24)
Mary Chastain _Breitbart_
persecutions by ISIL/ISIS/Daesh/IS/caliphate create market for human traffickers smuggling Yazidis OUT of Iraq

2015-05-13 (5775 Air 24)
Jordan Schachtel _Breitbart_
2 ISIL/ISIS/Daesh/IS/caliphate recruiters arrested in Spain

2015-05-13 (5775 Air 24)
Mary Chastain _Breitbart_
over 11K Nigerian refugees return as Boko Haram are driven out

2015-05-13 (5775 Air 24)
Kipp Jones _Breitbart_
documentary theorizes that Marilyn Monroe was bipolar, and died as a result of medical negligence
"'Autopsy: The Last Hours of Marilyn Monroe' enlists the UK's leading forensic pathologist, Dr. Richard Shepherd to explore Monroe's autopsy report, along with recently revealed private medical records, according to the Mirror.   While her death was officially blamed on a drug overdose, the documentary accuses her physician, Dr. Hyman Engelberg, who also performed her autopsy, of 'signing her death sentence' by prescribing her a lethal cocktail of sleeping pills."

2015-05-13 (5775 Air 24)
Stephen Dinan _Washington DC Times_
Obummer regime's twisted, contradictory immigration priorities (but still rigged to push excessive immigration into the USA)

2015-05-13 (5775 Air 24)
Stephen Dinan _Washington DC Times_
DHS OIG: is releasing some illegal aliens without knowing their criminal history

2015-05-13 (5775 Air 24)
Bruce Cole & Roger L. Beckett _Washington DC Times_
bring history and civics back to the class-room (hold the leftist propaganda)

2015-05-13 (5775 Air 24)
William C Triplett ii _Washington DC Times_
following the Clinton cash

2015-05-13 (5775 Air 24)
Jennifer Harper _Washington DC Times_
Marco Rubio re-invents "peace through strength" in speech to CFR

2015-05-13 (5775 Air 24)
John Steinreich _American Thinker_
credit where none is due

2015-05-13 (5775 Air 24)
Adam Sackowitz _American Thinker_
real education reform: opt out of Communist Corpse

2015-05-13 (5775 Air 24)
Bill Chandler _TEA Party News Network_
everything you need to know about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict (with video)

2015-05-13 (5775 Air 24)
_TEA Party News Network_
does the Muslim terrorist group ISIL have a primary target city in the USA?
"...A few weeks ago, a tweet was put out with the ISIS flag being displayed on [an idiot-phone] in front of the White House with the threat that they will one day fly their flag there.   [Obummer] was silent on that threat.   But, WGN noticed another tweet that others did not.   On June 20, a tweet was sent out with a message being held in Arabic in front of a building.   The building caught the eye of someone at the news station and, upon further investigation, they identified it as the Old Republic Building in Chicago located at 307 N. Michigan Ave..."

2015-05-13 (5775 Air 24)
Howard Richman, Raymond Richman & Jesse Richman _American Thinker_
fast-tracking an international EPA

2015-05-13 (5775 Air 24)
S. Fred Singer _American Thinker_
saving humanity from catastrophic global cooling: a task for geo-engineering

2015-05-13 (5775 Air 24)
Matt Vespa _Town Hall_
warmist hysterics in a tizzy: too much ice in the Antarctic

2015-05-13 (5775 Air 24)
Donna Rachel Edmunds _Breitbart_
Arctic quest to prove catastrophic climate change ends in tragedy, 2 Dutch researchers lost, presumed fallen into icy waters
"The men had been travelling from Resolute Bay in Canada northwards to Bathurst Island across melting summer ice...   the team decided to shift course 'to make their route a bit more interesting and challenging'...   A search and rescue operation mounted by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police eventually found the body of Mr. Cornelissen, but Mr. de Roo has not been found.   Both are believed to have drowned after falling through the ice.   A guard dog which the pair had taken with them was also recovered in good health...   Cornelissen held a degree in architecture... "

2015-05-13/1940-05-13
PM Winston Churchill
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2015-05-14 (5775 Air 25)
Victor Davis Hanson _Jewish World Review_
the forgotten realities of World War 2
Washington DC Times
"More than 60M people perished -- some 50M of them in Eastern Europe, the Soviet Union and China.   The pre-war Soviet state in the 1920s and 1930s had killed perhaps 20 million of its own citizens in purges, exiles, collectivizations, forced famines and show trials.   Then it lost an estimated 25M soldiers and civilians to the German army on the Eastern Front.   Hitler's Germany by late 1942 had occupied almost 1M square miles of Soviet ground.   The Soviet Red Army would eventually be responsible for three-quarters of Germany's WWII casualties, but at a cost of approximately 9M dead of its own combatants.   Nevertheless, the Allied defeat of the Axis powers is more complicated...   When World War II started, America was [non-interventionist] and the Soviet Union collaborationist...   Once the United States entered the war after the attack on Pearl Harbor, the Axis cause was largely doomed.   America mobilized 12m soldiers -- about the same number as did the Soviet Union, despite having a population of about 40m fewer citizens.   American war production proved astonishing.   At the huge Willow Run plant in Michigan, the greatest generation turned out a B-24 heavy bomber every hour.   A single shipyard could mass-produce an ocean-going Liberty merchant ship from scratch in a week.   In just 4 years, the United States would produce more airplanes than all of the major war powers combined.   Germany, Japan, Italy and the Soviet Union could not build a successful four-engine heavy bomber.   America, in contrast, produced 34K excellent B-17s, B-24s and B-29s.   By 1944, the new U.S. Navy had become the largest in the history of civilization at more than 6K ships.   Its B-29 heavy bomber program and Manhattan Project efforts together cost more $50G in today's dollars...   At the same time, the U.S.A. supplied the Soviet Union with 400K heavy trucks, 2K locomotives, 11K rail-cars and billions of dollars worth of planes, tanks, food, clothing and strategic resources.   By 1943-1944, the U.S.A. also supplied about 20% of Britain's munitions..."

2015-05-14 (5775 Air 25)
Robert J. Samuelson _Jewish World Review_
WW2
"They concern the share of Americans who served in the military.   That was, [the census bureau] reports, 16.1M men.   Of these, 6.1M volunteered and 10M were drafted.   According to Census, 406K were killed and 671K others were wounded -- a casualty rate of about 1 in 15 for all services.   (These figures cover only men.   Census also reported separately that 342K women served in World War II; 217 died.)   At the war's end, 12.1M Americans were still in uniform.   This compared with 3.1M in 1970 at the height of the war in Vietnam and 1.5M in 2011.   In 1950, 28% of all men 18 and over were World War II veterans; today, the active-duty military (men and women) are less than 1% of the 18-and-older population, says Census.   What these figures show is that, compared with World War II, we fight our wars today from our hip pocket.   The Census numbers actually under-state the war-time mobilization.   Looking at just men ages 15 to 39 in 1940 (as I have), from 50% to 60% served in World War II.   Presumably, the others were unfit, too old or exempted from service [or already at work in industries to arm and supply troops]."

2015-05-14 (5775 Air 25)
Bill Gertz _Jewish World Review_
Obummer bureaucracy stifles counter-jihad info-war; DoS issued warning on foreign booze
Washington DC Times
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2015-05-14 (5775 Air 25)
Paul Greenberg _Jewish World Review_
the lack of candor
"...calling things by their right name is the beginning of wisdom, for anything less blurs the meaning of the words we use to shape our thoughts, softening their hard edges and reducing them to polite approximations..."

2015-05-14 (5775 Air 25)
Larry Elder _Jewish World Review_
Illinois state senator Barack Hussein Obummer's destructive "urban agenda"
World Net Daily
"Bill Ayers, the former fugitive and still unrepentant domestic terrorist/member of the Weather Underground turned 'educator', founded the Chicago Annenberg Challenge with a $50M grant from the Annenberg Foundation.   Just 3 years out of law school, [Obummer] chaired the newly formed CAC board from 1995 to 1999, spending millions to 'improve' Chicago public schools.   In all, CAC distributed more than $100M from 1995 to 2001 to improve Chicago schools.   Rather than fund the schools directly, Ayers required schools to work with 'external partners', who focused on political radicalism.   'External partners' that focused on math or science were turned down.   The CAC instead funded groups like the far-left Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now or the South Shore African Village Collaborative and the Dual Language Exchange, which focused on Afrocentricity, anti-capitalism, political consciousness and bilingualism.   After 6 years, what did the CAC achieve?   By its own assessment, the money was wasted.   Their report said: 'There were no statistically significant differences in student achievement between Annenberg schools and demographically similar non-Annenberg schools.   This indicates that there was no Annenberg effect on achievement.'...   Valerie Jarrett served as the chief executive of Habitat Company, which managed a project called Grove Parc Plaza from 2001 to 2008...   By 2006, after repeated warnings, federal inspectors found conditions so bad and repairs so minimal they moved to seize Grove Parc, later demolishing it...   Similarly, Rezmar Corp., cofounded in 1989 by Tony Rezko, used more than $87M in government grants, loan and credits over the next nine years to renovate and manage 1K apartments in 30 Chicago buildings -- 11 of them in [Obummer's] district.   Residents complained of rats, insect infestations, no heat, leaking windows and piles of trash.   By the time [Obummer] entered the state senate, buildings were deteriorating and Chicago was suing Rezmar for various violations..."

2015-05-14 (5775 Air 25)
judge Andrew P. Napolitano _Jewish World Review_
Rand Paul & Ted Cruz on the 4th amendment
World Net Daily
Washington DC Times

2015-05-14 (5775 Air 25)
Ann Coulter _Jewish World Review_
what will the GOP losership cave on next?
World Net Daily
"Before sucking up to The New York Times, it would be really great if [legislators and presidents and bureaubums] would [study], so they'd know stuff...   True, it wouldn't be celebrated as a 'kumbaya' moment by Bloomberg News.   But on the plus side, a lot fewer Americans would be murdered, crippled, raped and robbed."

2015-05-14 (5775 Air 25)
George Will _Jewish World Review_
punishing parents who deviate from the power-mad government-enforced diktat
"Controversies about 'free-range parenting' illuminate today's scarred cultural landscape.   Neighbors summon police in response to parenting choices the neighbors disapprove.   Government extends its incompetence with an ever-broader mission of 'child protection'.   And these phenomena are related to campus hysteria about protecting infantilized under-graduates [and graduate students, and faculty] from various menaces, including uncongenial ideas..."

2015-05-14 (5775 Air 25)
Patrick Goodenough _Cybercast News Service_
Yazii girls were told by ISIL/ISIS/Daesh/IS/caliphate: you will become Muslims when we rape you

2015-05-14 (5775 Air 25)
Susan Jones _Cybercast News Service_
corrupt Obummer TSA chief Melvin Carraway refused to report security flaws to congress
"...Committee chairman Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) indicated that ego had something to do with it: The Homeland Security Department [DHS], which over-sees TSA, objected to having Carraway sit on a panel that included Rafi Ron, an ordinary citizen who runs a private security company..."

2015-05-14 (5775 Air 25)
_Conservative HQ_
Ted Cruz battles "trade promotion authority's" sneaky immigration changes
"Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) has filed an amendment to the Trade Act of 2015 to lock in assurances that this legislation cannot be used to change federal immigration law.   'The [Obummer regime] has repeatedly assured Members of Congress that there is nothing in the Trade Act of 2015 that would allow the President to unilaterally make changes to federal immigration laws.', said senator Cruz.   'I agree, and we should put it in writing and make it binding law.   I am a strong supporter of free trade, but I cannot support legislation that would allow the President to once again circumvent Congress to enact his own immigration laws.   Since the Obama Administration has emphatically argued that TPA will not affect immigration, it should support this amendment, which makes that promise explicit.'   The amendment states that nothing in the Trade Act of 2015 or in any trade agreement subject to the Act 'shall alter or affect any law, regulation, or policy relating to immigration'."

2015-05-14 (5775 Air 25)
_Conservative HQ_
Conservative HQ and Rand Paul come out swinging against "trade promotion authority" and "Trans-Pacific Partnership"

2015-05-14 (5775 Air 25)
David Daoud _WND_
Iranian theocracy claims "divine right" to destroy Israel
Algemeiner

2015-05-14 (5775 Air 25)
_Algemeiner_
Israeli HS students won 2 silver medals and 4 bronze medals in physics competition in Red China; ranked 8th of 23

2015-05-14 (5775 Air 25)
_WND_
Dept. of Veterans Affairs has been spending over $6G in violation of federal contracting rules

2015-05-14 (5775 Air 25)
_WND_
EU court chides Google for refusal of 70% of 253,617 requests for removal of info that is inadequate, irrelevant or no longer relevant data
David Gilbert: International Business Times
"While Google's official transparency report says that it has removed 41.3% of the URLs it has evaluated (it says it has evaluated a total of 920,258 URLs for the 253,617 requests it has received), Forget.me says that the refusal rate based on individual requests has now stabilised at 70%...   58.7% of requests ha to do with invasions of privacy..."

2015-05-14 (5775 Air 25)
_Breitbart_
_Clinton Cash_ debuts at #2 on NYTimes best-seller list

2015-05-14 (5775 Air 25)
John Nolte _Breitbart_
George Stephanopoulos hid $50K... make that $75K... donation to Clintons Foundation
Dylan Byers: Politico

2015-05-14 (5775 Air 25)
Alex Swoyer _Breitbart_
day 32 Hitlery Rotten Clinton refuses to answer media questions

2015-05-14 (5775 Air 25)
Ian Hanchett _Breitbart_
Carly Fiorina: leftists believe you don't count as a woman if you're not leftist

2015-05-14 (5775 Air 25)
Ildefonso Ortiz _Breitbart_
14 "heavily armed" men invaded home near Texas-Mexico border, wounded woman and one child
"Preliminary information suggests the robbers attacked the wrong house..."

2015-05-14 (5775 Air 25)
Lee Stranahan _Breitbart_
media ignored Muslim family indicted for murder in Texas
"...the chilling threat Ali Awad Mahmoud Irsan made to his daughter Nesreen after murdering her best friend...   According the Texas prosecutors, Gelareh -- an outspoken Iranian-American critic of Iran and Islam, and a convert to Christianity -- had urged her friend Nesreen to break free from father Ali's domination and marry the man Nesreen had fallen in love with, a Christian named Coty Beavers...   Prosecutors say Nadia Irsan assisted her father by stalking Nesreen and Coty for months, even attaching a GPS tracker to Nesreen's car..."

2015-05-14 (5775 Air 25)
Jacqueline Klimas _Washington DC Times_
Iran fired on merchant-ship from Singapore, in international waters
Rick Moran: American Thinker

2015-05-14 (5775 Air 25)
Terence P. Jeffrey _Cybercast News Service_
ayatolla speaks to indoctrinators of youth; all chant "Death to America! Death to England!... Death to Israel!"

2015-05-14 (5775 Air 25)
Michael Morris _Cybercast News Service_
Mark Levin has added a dozen new affiliates to his 300+ roster
Talkers
Rush Limbaugh 13.25M+
Sean Hannity 12.5M+
Dave Ramsey 8.25M+
Glenn Beck & Mark Levin 7M+
Michael Savage 5.25M+
Jim Bohannon, Mike Gallagher, Michael Medved, George Noory, Doug Stephan 2.75M+
Bill Bennett, Clark Howar & Dennis Miller 2.5M+
Laura Ingraham 2M+...
Dennis Prager 1.5M+
Jerry Doyle, Hugh Hewitt, Lars Larson & Kevin McCullough 1.25M+
...Roger Hedgecock 1M+...

2015-05-14 (5775 Air 25)
Laura Ingraham
non-leftists should demand that encourages enlistment of illegal aliens be removed from defense authorization act
Jake Sherman & Austin Wright: Politico

2015-05-14 (5775 Air 25)
Laura Ingraham
EU trying to force UK to accept more illegal aliens from Africa
Alix Culbertson: Express

2015-05-14 (5775 Air 25)
Alix Culbertson _Express_
police closed investigation of election fraud at Thanet South

2015-05-14 (5775 Air 25)
Joseph Farah _WND_
meet Pamela Geller, one of the bravest women in the USA
"...Have you ever wondered by so many leftists are soft on shariah?   Leftists say they support everything that Islam detests -- 'gay rights', women’s rights, free expression, peace on earth.   But they watch tacitly as Islam runs rough-shod over their entire agenda.   What gives?   Ultimately, it comes down to the left’s ideological commitment to 'multi-culturalism', which began as a back-door assault against Western values and morphed into a war with Judeo-Christian ethics, America and Israel.   Suddenly, they found common ground with the barbarians who behead anyone doesn’t lie prostrate before Allah 5 times a day..."

2015-05-14 (5775 Air 25)
_WND_
parents threatened with jail for getting their children into better schools

2015-05-14 (5775 Air 25)
Tomas Hirst _WND_
18% of Russians can barely buy food
Business Insider

2015-05-14 (5775 Air 25)
_WND_
over 700 suspected terrorists have traveled from UK to Syria and back, 350 of higher concern
Sky

2015-05-14 (5775 Air 25)
Chelsea Schilling _WND_
Sweden's socialist illfare bonanza for returning ISIL/ISIS/Daesh/IS/caliphate jihadists
"When the Islamic State terrorists are ready to retire from beheading, crucifying and burning innocent human beings, they will now enjoy a nice benefits package in Stockholm, Sweden, that includes free housing, health care and financial support.   In fact, Sweden's own soldiers don't even get the same benefits.   And some officials are suggesting the law-abiding population pay for the services so ISIS fighters can 'reintegrate into society'..."

2015-05-14 (5775 Air 25)
Anugrah Kumar _WND_
al-Shabaab threaten more murders of Chtistians in Kenya
Christian Post

2015-05-14 (5775 Air 25)
Bill Federer _WND_
Calvin Coolidge aptly warned of paid agitator lobbyists
"President Calvin Coolidge warned in a speech given 1926 May 15, at the College of William and Mary, in Williamsburg, Virginia: 'But there is another...recent development...the greatly disproportionate influence of organized minorities.   Artificial propaganda, paid agitators, selfish interests, all impinge upon members of legislative bodies to force them to represent special elements rather than the great body of their constituency.   When they are successful, minority rule is established...   The result is an extravagance on the part of the Government which is ruinous to the people and a multiplicity of regulations and restrictions for the conduct of all kinds of necessary business, which becomes little less than oppressive...'..."

2015-05-14 (5775 Air 25)
Michael Bargo ii _American Thinker_
bankruptcy court rulings uncover historic government securities fraud
"Since 2009 [Barack Hussein Obummer] and his Party have created $8T of public debt.   What most Americans and investors are not aware of is that another $8T of government debt was created over the past forty years, mostly by Democrats.   This is the accumulated unfunded public pension and municipal bond debt.   And unlike the national debt, which is easily found and exists on government books, this second amount of debt is not widely known.   What is more unsettling is how this debt was created and how it impacts all Americans.   Its origin has been revealed through the bankruptcy court hearings of Stockton, California; Detroit, Michigan; and the financial situation of Chicago, IL.   As public spending increased and public sector pension debt mushroomed, these and other city governments were unable to keep up with public pension plan expenses.   One fix they attempted was to borrow money from investors by issuing municipal bonds.   But these bonds only created more debt.   Say a muni bond is purchased for $10K.   The buyer of the bond usually receives an interest payment from the issuer twice a year.   If the bond is a 10-year bond, then after 10 years the buyer gets paid back the entire $10K price at termination.   The interest payments made 20 times during those 10 years are the interest income.   But Chicago, Stockton and Detroit came to the point where they could no longer afford to make those biannual bond and termination payments..."

2015-05-14 (5775 Air 25)
James Lewis _American Thinker_
the world is hungry for leadership

2015-05-14 (5775 Air 25)
Doris O'Brien _American Thinker_
USA's perversely artificial obsession with breaking the political mold

2015-05-14 (5775 Air 25)
Norman Rogers _American Thinker_
how to repair higher education: bring on creative destruction and open competition
"The Digital Equipment Corporation was founded in 1957 with a $70K investment.   Its [high quality] mini-computers [and telecommunications gear] became extremely profitable, and at one point, DEC was the second largest computer company in the world.   However, by the 1990s it was losing money, was swallowed up by competitors [Compaq, which was swallowed up by HP, which had a abandoned their own core competency], and faded away..."

2015-05-14 (5775 Air 25)
Bob Yirka _Phys.Org_
mandible found in Romania has 4.8%-11.3% Neanderthal DNA
"DNA testing of a human mandible fossil found in Romania has revealed a genome with 4.8% to 11.3% Neanderthal DNA -- its original owner died approximately 40K years ago, Palaeogenomicist Qiaomei Fu reported to audience members at a Biology of Genomes meeting in New York last week.   She noted also that she and her research team found long Neanderthal sequences.   The high percentage suggests, she added, that the human had a Neanderthal in its family tree going back just 4 to 6 generations.   The finding by the team provides strong evidence that humans and Neanderthals continued breeding in Europe, long after their initial co-mingling in the Middle East (after humans began migrating out of Africa).   Last year, Fu and her team published a paper describing DNA analysis of a human bone fragment found in an unknown place in Siberia.   Dated at 45K years old, the team found evidence of Neanderthal DNA, but more importantly, because it was remarkably well preserved, the relic served to strengthen a slower mutation rate than many in the field were embracing..."

2015-05-14
Bill Federer _WND_
Ralph Bunche: "I know the flavor of racial prejudice and racial persecution. A wise negro can never be an anti-Semite."

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2015-05-15

2015-05-15 (5775 Air 26)
Dan Cadman _Center for Immigration Studies_
visa, immigration, illegal alien statistics vs. Obummer regime's anti-constitutional lawlessness
"With few exceptions, journalists, scholars, interest groups, think tanks, and the like have often been rebuffed in their attempts to obtain policy and statistical information of all sorts that in prior administrations was routinely provided...   don't get the data, get it in such an untimely fashion as to render it useless, or (if you have the wherewithal) end up filing a Freedom of Information Act law-suit.   The executive branch has gone to singular lengths to keep reliable data from being obtained, including 'stream-lining' annual statistical reports in such a way that whole segments of data are no longer available, or creating new categories that require manipulating data into strange amalgams to present a pleasing but false portrayal of effectiveness.   In essence, they have dumbed-down the reports to make them meaningless for any kind of competent review or critical analysis.   All of this seems to have been done with a wizened and cynical political eye.   The most recent example of misfeasance comes to us courtesy of a report from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Office of Inspector General (OIG), drably titled 'DHS Missing Data to Strengthen its Immigration Enforcement Efforts' in classic but typical governmental under-statement...   illegal aliens have no privacy rights under the federal Privacy Act [while the protections for US citizens are regularly violated by felonious government officials via that same corrupt 'prosecutorial discretion'...]"

2015-05-15 (5775 Air 26)
Jeff Poor _Breitbart_
even Jesse Jackson says US execs should not be bringing in H-1B guest-workers, but recruiting American STEM professionals, particularly the African-American community
"'Well, there is more of an opportunity deficit than talent deficit.   It means reaching out further and recruiting and retaining.   For example, the 189 board members in the top 20 companies -- 56 white woman, 3 African-Americans and 1 Latino.   It is not hard to find them.   In the c-suites, 370; 3 blacks.   3 Latinos.   More are qualified than that.   Employment level around 2%.   And while tech is important and [science, technology, engineering, and mathematics] and engineers, about 65% of the valley is non-tech...   As a matter of fact Intel set aside $3M.   Part of it focused on a pipe-line from HBCUs, black colleges to Silicon Valley.   Howard University and Morgan State and North Carolina A&T and Hampton.   As a matter of fact, the chair of MSFT is a Florida A&M graduate.   So, if you want more STEM graduates, more engineers, invest in them.   If you want more apple trees, plant apple seeds.   The fact we need not go abroad to get H-1B workers.   There are workers in Oakland.   Workers in across the country if trained an invested in, in fact they give us high return.   They are American-born and American-bred.'"
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.   Over 2,589,226 H-1B visas have been issued from FY1990 to FY2014 according to the State Department annual reports.

2015-05-15 (5775 Air 26)
Erica Brown _Jewish World Review_
seeking & finding: the secret to being spiritually successful
"...Perhaps the activity of searching for higher ground will bring us closer by virtue of the exploration, the rooting out and naming of longings and yearnings..."

2015-05-15 (5775 Air 26)
Caroline B. Glick _Jewish World Review_
"peace" fantacists in action

2015-05-15 (5775 Air 26)
Wesley Pruden _Jewish World Review_
Marco Rubio fires an impressive opening shot

2015-05-15 (5775 Air 26)
Joseph Curl _Jewish World Review_
is George Snufalupagus the next "news" media personality to commit professional suicide
Washington DC Times

2015-05-15 (5775 Air 26)
Bill Whalen _Jewish World Review_
draft John Bolton for Secretary of State

2015-05-15 (5775 Air 26)
Michelle Malkin _Jewish World Review_
ObummerDoesn'tCare "exchanges" on life support
Cybercast News Service
Power-mad, crony socialist pork and graft by any other name.

2015-05-15 (5775 Air 26)
Dave Weinbaum _Jewish World Review_
killing Pamela

2015-05-15 (5775 Air 26)
Jonah Goldberg _Jewish World Review_
Dems/Reds/leftists get a taste of Obummer's arrogance

2015-05-15 (5775 Air 26)
Donald Lambrro _Jewish World Review_
in Obummer's USA we've all received raises... in taxes, debt, gasoline prices, electricity prices, unemployment, and rates of poverty
Washington DC Times
Kansas City Post
Toronto Ontario Canada Post
Town Hall

2015-05-15 (5775 Air 26)
Rich Lowry _Jewish World Review_
the first lady of imaginary "micro-aggressions"

2015-05-15 (5775 Air 26)
_Conservative HQ_
senator Jeff Sessions has filed amendments to "fast track"/"trade promotion authorization" bill, issued "critical alert" to Trans-Pacific Partnership's likely effects on USA sovereignty
"Amendment #1233 ensures that congressional approval is needed for all changes to U.S. law, and so prohibits the application of trade promotion procedures to any implementing bill that permits modification of a trade agreement without congressional approval.   Amendment #1233 contains provisions for proper enforcement by allowing a point of order to be raised on the Senate floor against any implementing bill that violates these terms -- ensuring that the bill proceeded under normal senate procedures that allow amendment.   This ensures that if changes are made to a trade agreement after congress' initial approval of the agreement, then those changes would also need to be approved by congress, thus safeguarding congressional authority and U.S. sovereignty against international interference pursuant to any open-ended amendment or 'living agreement' provisions.   Amendment #1234 holds the Administration and USTR to their word that no trade agreement will be used to change U.S. immigration law or policy.   Modeled after the Congressional Responsibility for Immigration Act of 2003 -- a bill sponsored by cenators Leahy, Feinstein, and Kennedy -- Amendment #1234 prohibits the application of trade promotion procedures to any implementing bill that affects U.S. immigration law.   If an implementing bill or trade agreement violates these terms, then Amendment #1234 would allow a point of order to be raised on the senate floor against the implementing bill, ensuring that the bill proceeded under normal senate procedures allowing amendment.   With congress set to vote to begin debate on fast-track authority and the Trans-Pacific Partnership, the White House still refuses to answer even the most basic questions about it.   These are the questions senator Sessions says the White House will not answer:   Will it increase or reduce the trade deficit, and by how much?   Will it increase or reduce employment and wages, and by how much?   Will you make the 'living agreement' section public and explain fully its implications?   Will [Red China] be added to the TPP?   Will you pledge not to issue any executive actions, or enter into any future agreements, impacting the flow of foreign workers into the United States?   Proponents of the Trans-Pacific Partnership want congress to fast-track it before the American people know what's in it.   They want us to trust that enforcement will occur, even though it has not in the past.   They want us to trust that the president won't utilize this broad new avenue to expand foreign worker programs, even though his record demonstrates that he will.   They want us to trust that this time is different.   One of the most important areas TPP proponents ignore is the issue of non-tariff barriers.   The barriers to U.S. exports in this century are increasingly not conventional tariffs, but non-tariff barriers like currency manipulation, backdoor taxes, and a variety of state-sanctioned obstacles to market entry.   Under the TPP, the U.S.A. will lower its tariffs but competitor industries will retain their substantial non-tariff barriers.   This is what Nucor Steel's chairman-emeritus, Daniel DiMicco, means when he talks about 'unilateral American trade disarmament' and the 'enablement of foreign mercantilism'.   IOW, poorly-negotiated trade deals, instead of opening new markets for our industries, tilt the playing field even further in their competitors' direction.   The result is not freer global trade, but more mercantilist market domination..."

2015-05-15 (5775 Air 26)
Chris Weller _Jewish World Review_
oleocanthal, the primary phenolic compound found in extra-virgin olive oil, has been shown to eradicate cancer cells
Medical Daily
Raw Story
"oleocanthal was 'destroying' the cancer cells' waste centers, known as lysosomes, which are larger than [those in] healthy cells and also more fragile... healthy cells stayed intact..."

2015-05-15 (5775 Air 26)
Stephanie Coueignoux & Trish Williford _WND_
town rallies around student told to remove US flag
Atlanta GA Journal-Constitution
Town Hall

2015-05-15 (5775 Air 26)
Cheryl K. Chumley _WND_
wreckage of USMC helicopter from Camp Pendleton found in Nepal; 3 bodies found

2015-05-15 (5775 Air 26)
Laura Ingraham
Kirsten Powers: how the left are trying to ban contrary facts, thoughts, and opinions

2015-05-15 (5775 Air 26)
Thomas Lifson _American Thinker_
why did the census bureau pay a racist left-wing wacko $15K-$20K to address employees?
2015-05-13: John Crudele: NYPost
2014-04-16: John Crudele: NYPost: census bureau clams up
2014-04-21: John Crudele: NYPost: fraud runs rampant in census bureau/BLS

2015-05-15 (5775 Air 26)
Norman Rogers _American Thinker_
should the socialists' death tax die?

2015-05-15 (5775 Air 26)
Theodore Dawes _American Thinker_
Forks, WA... and the spotted owl

2015-05-15 (5775 Air 26)
Thomas Lifson _American Thinker_
news from Saudi Arabia that you won't see in the main-stream media

2015-05-15 (5775 Air 26)
Shoshana Bryen _American Thinker_
Christians in Israel and Palestine=Gaza

2015-05-15 (5775 Air 26)
Michael Curtis _American Thinker_
Netanyahu faces the future

2015-05-15 (5775 Air 26)
Clyde Hughes _News Max_
economic indicator: Christies' auction-house set $1.4G week record for art

2015-05-15 (5775 Air 26)
Ed Moy _News Max_
the real fight against poverty
"...The economic status of African Americans has been particularly hard hit by the [Obummer regime].   Black unemployment has increased 60%, the Black/White wealth gap is at a 24-year high, and African Americans who live in poverty have increased to 27%.   Black-owned businesses have suffered too.   Only 1.7% of SBA loans went to Black businesses, compared to 8% under the administration of president George W. Bush [Shrub].   Poverty has gotten worse.   If you want a different result, different policies are needed, not doing more of the same..."

2015-05-15 (5775 Air 26)
Michael W. Chapman _Cybercast News Service_
Phyllis Schalfly: the goal of same-sex "marriage" is "to wipe out the Christian religion"
"On the May 11 talk-radio program, Talkback with Chuck Wilder, the host asked Phyllis Schlafly, 'Have you noticed that only Christian small-business people have been harassed and sued for refusing to participate in same-sex marriages, even though our fast-growing immigrant populations -- you know of Muslims, Hindus and other faiths -- are also opposed to that concept?   The use of same-sex marriage to attack Christian businesses but not businesses run by members of other religions demonstrates what is really driving the demand for the new constitutional right to same-sex marriage.   And Phyllis, give them the bottom line.   What is that bottom line?'..."

2015-05-15 (5775 Air 26)
Pam Key _Breitbart_
Mike Morell: foreign countries have what was on Hitlery's private e-mail server
"When asked if he thinks foreign governments could have gotten information from Clinton's server, Morell said, 'So I think that foreign intelligence services, the good ones, have everything on any unclassified network that the government uses whether it's a a private server or a public one.   They are that good.'"

2015-05-15 (5775 Air 26)
Judson Phillips _Washington DC Times_
some RINOs, like Dems, smooch with over-sized, power-mad government

2015-05-15 (5775 Air 26)
Sierra Rayne _American Thinker_
top 40 non-leftist web-sites

2015-05-15 (5775 Air 26)
_Economy_
UMich consumer sentiment index fell from 95.9 in late-April to 88.6 in mid-May
USA Gold
Foreign Exchange Live
Tyler Durden: Zero Hedge (with graphs)
Doug Short: Advisor Perspectives (with graphs)
Ruth Mantell: MarketWatch (with graph)
UMich Institute for "Social Research", Surveys of Consumers
St. Louis Fed
Federal Reserve Board St. Louis

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2015-05-16

2015-05-16 (5775 Air 27)
Stephen Dinan _Washington DC Times_
DHS tries to blame tech glitch for violating judge's injunction against amnesty for illegal aliens
"First, the lawyers misled the court as to more than 100K three-year amnesty applications that were approved between Nov. 20 and Feb. 16, when judge Hanen issued his injunction. The lawyers said they didn't intend to mislead, and they assumed the judge knew those applications were being approved. Then the Homeland Security Department [DHS] announced it had approved the 2K or so 3-year applications even after the injunction -- a clear violation of the judge's order, and raising questions about the lawyers' excuses for the first 100K botched applications.."

2015-05-16 (5775 Air 27)
Warner Todd Huston _Breitbart_
students of Asian ancestry are suing Harvard for racist admissions policies
"A group of Asian-Americans have filed a complaint against Harvard saying that the school engaged in 'systemic and continuous discrimination' against Asians with its admissions policy.   Over 60 groups representing Chinese, Indians, Korean, and Pakistanis joined forces to file complaints with the civil rights offices at both the departments of justice and education..."

2015-05-16 (5775 Air 27)
George Will _Jewish World Review_
Rick Santorum

2015-05-16 (5775 Air 27)
Steve Apfel _American Thinker_
when professors turn foolish, they turn really stupid

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2015-05-17

2015-05-17 (5775 Air 28)
Chuck Norris _WND_
Obummer's unconstitutional and illegal amnesty for illegal aliens, and Jade Helm 15 (part 1)

2015-05-17 (5775 Air 28)
Marilyn Penn _Political Mavens_
Wednesday's child is full of woe

2015-05-17 (5775 Air 28)
Cory Franklin _Political Mavens_
farm fields as far as the eye could see

2015-05-17 (5775 Air 28)
Sandy FitzGerald _News Max_
FBI: security researcher caused simulated airliner to change course, monitored communications with the cockpit
"...Roberts has been investigating aviation security for some time.   He has been giving presentations for years, including one in Las Vegas in 2010 and another two years later, and has spoken with airplane manufacturers about the problems in their systems...   He said they had gotten into data traffic on more than a dozen flights...   'watched the packets and data going across the network to see where it was going.'..."

2015-05-17 (5775 Air 28)
Newt Gingrich _News Max_
what's behind the collapse of Baltimore

2015-05-17 (5775 Air 28)
_News Max_
even Yebbie Booosh realizes that same-sex "marriage" is not a constitutional right (with video)

2015-05-17 (5775 Air 28)
Greg Richter _News Max_
Obummer cares more about extortion and redistribution than productivity, job creation and a healthy economy

2015-05-17 (5775 Air 28)
_WND_
"Military Religious Freedom Foundation" wants major-general court-martialed for thankin God at National Day of prayer Task Force

2015-05-17 (5775 Air 28)
reverend Jesse Lee Peterson _WND_
Booker T. Washington's Heaven vs. the Obummers' H377
"The [Obummers] are 'free at last' from having to face the voters again -- and free to tell us what they really think.   For Barack, there's no longer any need to hide his inner racist.   And he's no longer bashful about advocating to 'spread the wealth' -- Karl Marx style.   For Michelle, there's no longer a need to run from her early statements like, 'For the first time in my adult life, I'm really proud of my country (now that my husband is president).'   Michelle held nothing back at her recent commencement speech at Tuskegee University, the world-renowned institution founded by Booker T. Washington.   I was born and raised near Tuskegee, and our high-school teacher took us to visit the campus every summer.   We slept in the dorms, ate in the cafeteria, and the experience made a lasting impression on me -- so much so that I patterned my private school, The BOND Leadership Academy, after Tuskegee.   Booker T. Washington was born a slave, without his father.   Yet, armed with a strong spirit, hard work and the assistance of white philanthropists who helped fund his institute, Washington became one of our greatest Americans.   In contrast, what have Barack or Michelle ever done to truly help anyone beside themselves?..."

2015-05-17 (5775 Air 28)
Jason Benham & David Benham _WND_
rebuilding USA's foundations

2015-05-17 (5775 Air 28)
Greg Corombos _WND_
top economist Walter E. Williams sadly notes that too many Americans have contempt for liberty
"'The average American thinks that it is indeed moral for the congress to forcibly use one American to serve the purposes of another American.', Williams told WND and Radio America.   'It will forcefully use one American to serve the purposes of farmers in term of farm subsidies or bank bailouts or welfare or food stamps.'   He added: 'I think that the forcible use of one person to serve the purposes of another is immoral.   As a matter of fact, that's the working definition of slavery.'   Williams is quick to point out that he has no problem helping his neighbor in need.   It's how that help is structured that he rejects out of hand.   'I believe that helping one's fellow man in need by reaching into one's own pockets is praiseworthy and laudable.', he said.   'Helping one's fellow man by reaching in someone else's pockets is worthy of condemnation.   For the Christians among us, when God gave Moses the commandment thou shall not steal.   He did not mean that thou shall not steal unless you got a majority vote in congress.'..."

2015-05-17 (5775 Air 28)
Thomas D. Williams _Breitbart_
Christian churches in Central India attacked 5 times in 5 days

2015-05-17 (5775 Air 28)
_Breitbart_/_AP_
Red/Dem/leftist billionaire to run for governor of WV

2015-05-17 (5775 Air 28)
John J. Xenakis _Breitbart_
thousands of Bangladeshi, Burmese, Rohingya refugees stranded at sea in SE Asia

2015-05-17 (5775 Air 28)
S.A. Miller _Washington DC Times_
Hitlery Rotten Clinton's ties to GMO & Monsanto gave rise to nick-name "bride of frankenfood"

2015-05-17 (5775 Air 28)
Andrew P. Miller _Washington DC Times_
an appeal on behalf of governor Robert F. McConnell

2015-05-17 (5775 Air 28)
Anne R. Pierce _Washington DC Times_
USA must speak out against propaganda
"Ideas matter.   They matter so much that they cause seismic shifts in history...   Words matter.   They matter so much that enemies of freedom use words as weapons and rely upon propaganda to consolidate power.   Speaking out against the world’s worst regimes gives political dissidents and prisoners courage and hope, while failing to speak gives dictators confidence and momentum.   Repressive rulers know that truth about their rule is the biggest threat to their rule.   Why, otherwise, would they expend massive resources stamping out freedom of expression?..."

2015-05-17 (5775 Air 28)
Robert Knight _Washington DC Times_
elections corruption: the left is determined to stop election integrity efforts

2015-05-17 (5775 Air 28)
Stephen Moore _Washington DC Times_
Obummer's poverty mythology

2015-05-17 (5775 Air 28)
Paul Driessen _Washington DC Times_
a new little ice age?: earth may be cooling
"Going back to 1755, only a few solar cycles have had a lower number of sunspots during their maximum phase, he adds.   This continued downward trend began two decades ago, just before Earth stopped warming.   If sun-spots continue declining for a couple more cycles, Earth could enter another 'grand minimum', an extended period of low solar activity.   Reading University space physicist Mike Lockwood agrees.   Solar activity is falling perhaps 'faster than at any time in the last 9,300 years', he observes.   That would mean less incoming solar radiation, which could have a marked cooling effect -- as happened during previous decadeslong episodes of low solar activity.   The 'Maunder Minimum' lasted 70 years (1645-1715), the 'Dalton Minimum' 40 years (1790-1830).   They brought even colder temperatures to the 'Little Ice Age'..."

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2015-05-18

2015-05-18 (5775 Air 29)
David North _Center for Immigration Studies_
Obummer trying to ignore over 100 years of legislative history on limits to immigration; 1 visa per individual admitted

2015-05-18 (5775 Air 29)
Rachel Stoltzfoos _Daily Caller_
Fossil fired American STEM workers, imported cheap foreign labor

2015-05-18 (5775 Air 29)
Mark Steyn _Jewish World Review_
Rock City, the Casbah
"When I first saw this New Yortk Times headline -- 'Let Syrians Settle Detroit' -- I confess I misconstrued it as a proposal to let the post-industrial dystopia's fate be settled by some grand Hunger Games proxy war fought by Iran-backed thugs with chemical weapons and blood-soaked ISIL/ISIS/Daesh/IS/caliphate armies full of gung-ho western jihadists.   But no, the Times wants to move bazillions of Syrian refugees in to revitalize the Motor City, and thereby, as Tim Blair's droll headline suggests, turn Motown into Motown...   What a fascinating study.   If that's how you make 'active' citizens, let's drop the entire student body of Oberlin in the middle of Somalia and see what they're like when they get back..."

2015-05-18 (5775 Air 29)
Christine M. Flowers _Jewish World Review_
de-railed thinking de-humanizes tragecy

2015-05-18 (5775 Air 29)
Debra J. Saunders _Jewish World Review_
water-boarding worked

2015-05-18 (5775 Air 29)
_Conservative HQ_
20 RINOs who deserve to be defeated in primaries for supporting amnesty for illegal aliens, and not supporting veterans
Edwin Mora: Breitbart
"Conservatives won a big battle on national security last week when an amendment authored by representative Mo Brooks (AL-5) passed.   The Brooks amendment stripped a provision from the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) that would have allowed illegal aliens to enlist in the U.S. military and thereby obtain citizenship...   Adding insult to injury, as Breitbart’s Matt Boyle observed, it would have come in an NDAA that reduces America's force size—meaning the NDAA would have, if it weren't for the Brooks amendment bolstered by conservatives like representatives Steve King (R-IA) and Dave Brat (R-VA) among others, put illegal aliens ahead of Americans.   What's more, it would have used a defense bill -- rather than an immigration bill -- to do it...   The Republicans who voted in Committee for the amendment to allow illegal aliens to enlist in the U.S. military are Martha McSally (AZ-2), Tom MacArthur (NJ-3), Frank LoBiondo (NJ-2), Chris Gibson (NY-19), Mike Coffman (CO-6) and Ryan Zinke (MT-At-Large)...   if there was ever an example of a Republican In Name Only or RINO it is these 20, deserve a conservative primary challenge in 2016 and we stand ready to help their challengers in any way we can. They are: Jaime Herrera Beutler (WA-3), Mike Coffman (CO-6), Jeff Denham (CA-10), Carlos Curbelo (FL-26), Charles Dent (PA-15), Mario Diaz-Balart (FL-25), Bob Dold (IL-10), Chris Gibson (NY-19), Richard Hanna (NY-22), John Katko (NY-24), Adam Kinzinger (IL-16), Frank LoBiondo (NJ-2), Tom MacArthur (NJ-3), Martha McSally (AZ-2), Dan Newhouse (WA-4), Dave Reichert (WA-8), Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (FL-27), Elise Stefanik (NY-21), Fred Upton (MI-6), David Valadao (CA-21). Plus Montana's Ryan Zinke who voted for the Gallego amendment in committee and then flipped and supported the Brooks amendment on the Floor."

2015-05-18 (5775 Air 29)
David North _Center for Immigration Studies_
new data show that USCIS fee-waivers are rapidly increasing
"Recently discovered data reveal that in fiscal years 2010-2012, the grants of fee waivers doubled each year, reaching more than 370K in the last-noted year.   Since each fee waiver averaged $585 the last time I ran the numbers, that means that in 2012 the agency lost more than $216M [and these fees are supposed to cover all of USCIS's costs].   And as the figure below shows, the trend is ever upward...   What happens when agency income falls at such a rate?   In general terms, all of the agency's customers, both the paying ones and the non-paying ones, have to wait longer for decisions...   Another probability: the decision-making process is rushed and the resulting decisions are of a lower quality than they would be otherwise.   This is bad news, of course, but is usually hidden by the secretive and manipulative way in which DHS handles statistics (the subject of a posting by another colleague, Dan Cadman).   As a by-product of a routine operation, the re-design of USCIS forms, the data shown above were revealed in an obscure publication; they came from a foot-note on pg8 of this document..."

2015-05-18 (5775 Air 29)
Jeff Poor _Breitbart_
senator Jeff Sessions will offer amendment that forbids altering immigration policy through trade deals

2015-05-18 (5775 Air 29)
Jonathan Tobin _Jewish World Review_
sorry, pope, you are dangerously wrong
Joseph Farah: World Net Daily: Abbas is not an "angel of peace": terrorist's record of anti-Semitism

2015-05-18 (5775 Air 29)
Janine di Giovanni & Conor Gaffey _Jewish World Review_
the new exodus: Christians fleeing ISIL/ISIS/Daesh/IS/caliphate
NewsWeek
Center for a "New" American "Security"

2015-05-18 (5775 Air 29)
Laura Ingraham
ISIL/ISIS/Daesh/IS/caliphate official killed in USA raid in Syria
Susan Jones: Cybercast News Service: intelligence committee chair hails raid

2015-05-18 (5775 Air 29)
Jeff Jacoby _Jewish World Review_
a fitting sentence for the Boston terrorist
"Like [Janet Reno & Bill Clinton,] Timothy McVeigh, like the 2001/09/11 hijackers, like the bombers of Pan Am Flight 103, like the Fort Hood shooter, Tsarnaev and his brother set out to slaughter as many victims as possible, and to do so with a maximum of cruelty and horror..."
Zubeidat Tsarnaeva threatens USA will suffer "eternal and terrifying fire, an otherworldly flame"
Sarah Kaufman: Vocativ

2015-05-18 (5775 Air 29)
Dick Meyer _Jewish World Review_
I am an "at risk" adult. Without intervention, I might lose it. The trigger will be a random act of marketing.
"...I suppose it is a triumph of Big Data that Walgreens knows my neighborhood has lots of elders and targets them with irritating phone propaganda.   But I curse it and the growing ubiquity of consumer brain-washing..."

2015-05-18 (5775 Air 29)
Rex Murphy _Jewish World Review_
"white privilege"
National Post
"I’ve seen the captious phrase 'white privilege' -- a camp neologism by my reading -- very often lately.   It emerges from the intellectual marshes of 'social justice' 'educators', a typical pseudo-concept from that roiling pastiche of academic pursuit..."

2015-05-18 (5775 Air 29)
Herbert London _Jewish World Review_
Red Chinese-Russian alliance further complicates Middle East
Washington DC Times

2015-05-18 (5775 Air 29)
Paul Greenberg _Jewish World Review_
Russian belligerence

2015-05-18 (5775 Air 29)
Laura Hollis _Jewish World Review_
ObummerDoesn'tCare: somewhere between Hawaii and Greece

2015-05-18 (5775 Air 29)
Susan Jones _Cybercast News Service_
Gallup poll: only 26% are satisfied with the way things are going in the USA
"...The poll also asked adults, 'What do you think is the most important problem facing this country today?'   14% said government; 12% said the economy in general; 10% said unemployment/jobs; 8% said race relations; 6% said immigration/illegal aliens; and another 6% said ethical/family/moral decline..."

2015-05-18 (5775 Air 29)
Dana Dovey _Jewish World Review_
5 "healthy foods" that turn deadly if prepared incorrectly
Medical Daily
"Chia seeds...   The seeds are able to absorb 27 times their dry weight in water.   As reported by Time, when this happens the seeds congeal into a thickened gel-like mass, which can become lodged in the consumer's esophagus...   Kale...   raw kale health shakes led her to develop hypothyroidism.   Also known as an underactive thyroid, this is a condition where the thyroid gland doesn't produce enough of certain hormones, which can result in a slowed metabolism, joint pain, infertility, and heart disease.   Although the condition is usually found in women aged 60 and older, the goitrogenic [goiter-producing] properties of kale, which contribute to the enlarged thyroid, can caused the condition in otherwise healthy young women.   Cooking Kale won't completely get rid of these goitrogenic properties, but it will help to reduce them...   uncooked kale can also 'be hard on the digestive system'...   Red kidney beans...   Naturally, red kidney beans contain toxins called lectins.   This chemical inhibits the stomach cells' ability to self-repair following natural stresses.   On a microbiological level, this results in the death of the cells, but to those who consume the raw bean, it feels similar to an intense stomach ache.   As little as five raw beans can cause nausea and vomiting...   these beans must first be soaked in water for at least 5 hours...   Rhubarb...   The leaves are poisonous...   even in small amounts the leaves can make a person ill.   Symptoms of rhubarb stalk poisoning include: difficulty breathing, burning in the mouth, diarrhea, eye pain, seizures, and vomiting...   Ackee -- must wait until fruit is fully ripe...   Jamaican Vomiting Sickness... also known as toxic hypoglycemic syndrome...   Symptoms of this illness are abdominal pain, depleting of hepatic glycogen, hypoglycemia, aciduria, coma, and, unfortunately, in the most severe cases, death.   When eating ackee, one must wait until the fruit's protective pods turn red and open naturally, Time reported.   Once open, the only edible section is the yellow arilli.   This is surrounded by signature black seeds, which are always toxic, regardless of the fruit's ripeness."

2015-05-18 (5775 Air 29)
Gina Barreca _Jewish World Review_
scoundrels and family-men

2015-05-18 (5775 Air 29)
_News Max_
supremes struck down MD law that would have double-taxed residents- income earned in other states
"The 5-4 ruling means the loss of hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue for Maryland's coffers and affects similar tax laws in nearly 5K local jurisdictions in other states, including New York, Indiana, Pennsylvania and Ohio.   Maryland allowed its residents to deduct income taxes paid to other states from their Maryland state tax, but it did not apply that deduction to a local 'piggy back' tax collected for counties and some city governments..."

2015-05-18 (5775 Air 29)
Peter Morici _News Max_
the destruction wreaked by Obummer's foreign policy

2015-05-18 (5775 Air 29)
_News Max_
ISIL/ISIS/Daesh/IS/caliphate slaughtered hundreds as it took the city of Ramadi, Iraq
Cybercast News Service/AP
Cheryl K. Chumley: World Net Daily
Breitbart
Rowan Scarborough: Washington DC Times

2015-05-18 (5775 Air 29)
Dan Weil _News Max_
John Goodman: Peter Ferrara is correct, privatize Socialist Insecurity, Medicare, unemployment insurance

2015-05-18 (5775 Air 29)
Laura Ingraham
national security takes center-stage at Iowa GOP dinner
Eli Stokols: Politico

2015-05-18 (5775 Air 29)
Quin Hillyer _National Review_
why is Yebbie Booosh even running?!?
"So there's this story going around, surely a piece of fiction from a typically clueless Hollywood writer or something, that there's a Republican candidate for president who is open to raising taxes, who urged the confirmation of Loretta Lynch as attorney general, and who is not just a supporter of but a prime mover behind the [Communist Corpse] education mess while blasting opponents for pushing 'conspiracy theories'.   This figment of the imagination also has spent years pushing vastly expanded immigration and what can be described only as mass amnesty for illegals.   Not only that, but he has repeatedly said or strongly implied that those who don't agree with him are not merely misguided, but heartless or nativist (and, yes, 'un-American')...   On second thought, not even Hollywood would be clueless enough to try to sell this story as a realistic drama about a possible Republican nominee.   It must be intended as satire..."

2015-05-18 (5775 Air 29)
L. Brent Bozell iii _Cybercast News Service_
conviction, courage, and Catholic "identity"
"What's the University of Dallas done for you?   It has opened your eyes to the wisdom of the ages.   You too read Aristotle, Aquinas and Augustine.   You also studied Locke and Burke and Hayek; Dante and de Tocqueville; the Constitution and the Bible.   This university has afforded you the opportunity to become acquainted with some of the world's greatest treasures.   The grandeur of the Roman coliseum....   the ashes of Pompeii...   the ruins on the Seven Hills...   the majesty of St. Peter's...   this institution did not intend as its primary mission to prepare you for your career.   It meant to prepare you for your legacy...   Brownson was prescient.   It should frighten us that this is precisely where our nation is also headed today.   Duck Dynasty's Phil Robertson publicly quotes Scripture and is suspended from his television show for being unChristian.   The state advocates the destruction of the family and the sacrament of marriage as a moral good.   A Christian minister appears on CBS to defend the sanctity of marriage and is labeled the leader of a 'hate group'.   It is not secularism that is replacing Christianity, nor even is it atheism.   It is paganism.   Gaia is fast becoming our national God and anti-Christian bigotry our national blood sport..."

2015-05-18 (5775 Air 29)
Craig Millward _Cybercast News Service_
Bobby Jindal: Hitlery Rotten Clinton's comment that she wanted to force people to change their religious beliefs sounds like Red Chinese re-education camps

2015-05-18 (5775 Air 29)
Michael W. Chapman _Cybercast News Service_
reverend Franklin Graham: the LBGT pusy policies are wicked; they want to brain-wash our children
"The plan by the Farifax County Public Schools in Virginia, one of the largest school systems in the nation, to implement a 'transgender' policy and teach middle school kids about 'gender fluidity' -- that there is a sexuality spectrum -- is 'wicked', it is 'a lie', and clear evidence that 'misguided educators' want to 'brainwash our children', said reverend Franklin Grahm, an evangelical leader and son of world-renowned preacher Billy Graham.   'Can you believe these idiots?   Gender fluidity?', said reverend Graham in a May 16 Facebook post.   'Here's an example of some of the wicked things misguided educators today want to expose our children to -- look at this Fox News story.'...   'Teaching them that there is no difference between boys and girls is nothing more than a lie.', he said.   'We are different because God made us different.   School districts should not allow this poison anywhere near the class-room!'..."

2015-05-18 (5775 Air 29)
Michael Patrick Leahy _Breitbart_
House Financial Services committee may hold hearings on 2010 deal to sell uranium firm to Russia

2015-05-18 (5775 Air 29)
Joel B. Pollak _Breitbart_
Dems/Reds/leftists have demographic problem in 2016

2015-05-18 (5775 Air 29)
Mary Chastain _Breitbart_
"white widow" Samantha Lewthwaite has murdered over 400 on behalf of al-Shabaab

2015-05-18 (5775 Air 29)
Tammy Bruce _Washington DC Times_
Obummer's Arne Duncan floats another bad idea
"Nothing screams [leftism] like a policy wonk who insists on confiscating your children because of the cultural hell the bureaucrats themselves created.   Since president Carter created the Department of Education in 1979, we have poured trillions of dollars into the public school system as the federal government increasingly micro-manages what and how your children are taught.   The result is horrifying: According to StudentsFirst, in 2012, the United States placed 27th out of 34 countries in math performance and 20th in science performance.   They also report, '66% of all U.S. fourth graders scored below proficient on the 2013 National Assessment of Education Progress reading test, meaning that they are not reading at grade level.   Even more alarming is the fact that among students from low-income backgrounds, 80% score below grade level in reading.'   According to the Department of Education itself, and reported by The Huffington Post, 32M adults, or 14% of the population, in the United States can't read.   21% of adults in the U.S.A. read below a fifth grade level, and 19% of high school graduates can't read.   In testimony to congress in 2011, Andrew Coulson of the Cato Institute noted, 'We spent over $151K per student sending the graduating class of 2009 through public schools.   That is nearly three times as much as we spent on the graduating class of 1970, adjusting for inflation.   Despite that massive real spending increase, overall achievement has stagnated or declined, depending on the subject.'..."

2015-05-18 (5775 Air 29)
Clarence V. McKee _News Max_
some blacks attack doctor Ben S. Carson for not being leftist enough to suit them

2015-05-18 (5775 Air 29)
Greg Richter _News Max_
Ollie North: Obummer is inviting Iraq blood-bath of biblical proportions
"Despite White House assurances to the contrary, the loss of the Iraqi city of Ramadi to Islamic State (ISIS) forces is not a minor setback, retired lieutenant-colonel Oliver North says.   U.S. forces fought 'every day' in Ramadi between 2004 and 2007 because of the city's strategic importance, North said Monday on Fox News Channel's 'On the Record with Greta Van Susteren'.   'It's the capital of Anbar Province, the key to the Euphrates River Valley.', North said.   'It is the only land ingress/egress from Syria all the way to the Iranian border, so it is a very strategic part of their country.'   Ramadi also is the heartland of the Sunni population in Iraq..."

2015-05-18 (5775 Air 29)
William Bigelow _Breitbart_
DIA: Obummer regime ignored report warning of ISIL/ISIS/Daesh/IS/caliphate threat and arms shipments from Benghazi to Syria
Laura Ingraham
Catherine Herridge: Fox

2015-05-18 (5775 Air 29)
_Breitbart_
Hitlery Rotten Clinton abused yet another e-mail account in effort to dodge public records requirements

2015-05-18 (5775 Air 29)
Pam Key _Breitbart_
Obummer: you must deal honestly with race issues... not dishonestly the way the Obummer regime does

2015-05-18 (5775 Air 29)
senator Chris McDaniel (R-MS-42) _Breitbart_
Mississippians show that tears are neither black nor white

2015-05-18 (5775 Air 29)
Austin Ruse _Breitbart_
Louisiana voters overwhelmingly support Bobby Jindal's stand against big gay hate machine

2015-05-18 (5775 Air 29)
Matthew Boyle _Breitbart_
Rand Paul: I call for president Barack Hussein Obummer to start obeying the law

2015-05-18 (5775 Air 29)
Guy Benson _Town Hall_
ObummerDoesn'tCare disasters from coast to coast

2015-05-18 (5775 Air 29)
Katie Pavlich _Town Hall_
confirmed: weapons were moving through Benghazi to Syria
"Today, Fox News' Catherine Herridge is reporting on documents showing weapons were in fact being trafficked between the two countries.   Further, Herridge reports another aspect in which the White House lied about the attack.   'A Defense Intelligence Agency memo from 2012 Sept. 16, concluded that the Benghazi terror attack was planned at least 10 days in advance to coincide with 2001/09/11 and was in retaliation for a drone strike that killed an al-Qaeda strategist.   The memo was copied to the National Security Council, the State Department and the CIA.'"
Fox
Judicial Watch document archive

2015-05-18 (5775 Air 29)
Mike Adams _Town Hall_
professor shows why they can't be relied upon to defend our rights

2015-05-18 (5775 Air 29)
Ken Allard _Washington DC Times_
re-establishing a consensus on national defense

2015-05-18 (5775 Air 29)
Andrew F. Quinlan _Washington DC Times_
Red Chinese government targeting USA firms doing business there
"One particularly daunting problem that companies face is the [Red Chinese] government's harassment of foreign firms through coordinated efforts between state-owned media and government regulators...   is an impediment to the long-term viability of these ventures.   It is time for the administration to demand an end to such unfair attacks on American companies.   This pattern of harassment of foreign firms by state-controlled media outlets -- ironically, being carried out in the name of combating corruption -- is well-established.   According to testimony by American Foreign Policy Council's Joshua Eisenman, '[Red China] has been making it harder for foreign firms to operate in the mainland by disproportionately targeting them in crack-downs...clamping down on their operations and employing innovative discriminatory tactics to restrict their ability to conduct business.'   Prominent targets have included Apple, MSFT, KFC, McDonald's and Pizza Hut.   Cases brought by regulators typically begin with state-run media breathlessly reporting questionable, exaggerated or inaccurate claims about the American firms..."

2015-05-18 (5775 Air 29)
Susan Au Allen _Washington DC Times_
will increase in Asian Americans affect politics?

2015-05-18 (5775 Air 29)
Ed Feulner _Washington DC Times_
school choice scholarships gives poor children a chance to succeed

2015-05-18 (5775 Air 29)
Mary Chastain _Breitbart_
Recep Tayyip Erdogan rattling Mohammedan sabre; urges Muslim terrorists to take over Jerusalem, Israel

2015-05-18 (5775 Air 29)
Ben Wolfgang _Washington DC Times_
Obummer threatens to veto House science research over-funding bill
Too much unconstitutional over-spending is never enough.

2015-05-18 (5775 Air 29)
Alan Caruba _TEA Party News Network_
Obummer's economic disaster
graphs of economic data

2015-05-18 (5775 Air 29)
John Lofgren _TEA Party Tribune_
Keynesian beauty contet reveals con artists sell "stimulus"

2015-05-18 (5775 Air 29)
_Pest Management Professional_
Orkin, Terminix release dueling Mosquito cities lists
Houston TX Chronicle
Nick Sanchez; News Max
Rollins/Orkin
Vicky Gan: CityLab
"Orkin...   1.   Atlanta, GA;   2.   Chicago, IL;   3.   Washington, DC;   4.   Detroit, MI;   5.   Houston, TX;   6.   Raleigh – Durham, NC;   7.   Boston, MA;   8.   Dallas – Fort Worth, TX;   9.   Charlotte, NC;   10.   Nashville, TN;   11.   Memphis, TN;   12.   Grand Rapids/Kalamazoo/Battle Creek, MI;   13.   Miami/Fort Lauderdale, FL;   14.   Richmond – Petersburg, VA;   15.   Minneapolis/St.   Paul, MN;   16.   New York, NY;   17.   Cleveland/Akron, OH;   18.   Greenville/Spartanburg, SC, Asheville, NC;   19.   Albany/Schenectady/Troy, NY;   20.  Knoxville, TN...   Terminix...   1.   Goodland, KS;   2.   Safford, Az;   3.   Bowling Green, OH;   4.   Petoskey, MI;   5.   Glenwood Springs, CO;   6.   Myrtle Beach, SC;   7.   Bemidji, MN;   8.   Shawnee, OK;   9.   Paragould, AR;   10.   London, KY...   Mosquito bites can transmit West Nile virus (WNV) and [Eastern equine encephalitis, St. Louis encephalitis, and West Nile fever/encephalitis... Highlands J virus] (swelling of the brain), as well as a relatively new virus in the United States called chikungunya virus...   [malaria, yellow fever, dengue fever, heart worms...]   Crews may also take the fight to the enemy, spraying pesticides, deploying natural predators such as bats and mosquitofish, or trapping mosquitoes using carbon dioxide."
mosquito predators
iFAS: mosquitoes and disease transmission in Florida

2015-05-18 (5775 Air 29)
John Hutchinson & Ash Tulett _WND_
what is causing people around the world to hear mysterious "trumpet blasts" in the sky for a decade?
London Daily Mail
Joe Kovacs: World Net Daily: is it tectonic plates? HAARP? or trumpet blasts from God?

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2015-05-19

2015-05-19 (5775 Sivan 01)
John Blosser _News Max_
Obummer regime seeks to end immigration law enforcement
Caroline May: Breitbart
Stephen Dinan & Ben Wolfgang: Washington DC Times
"The Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) commented, 'If the recommendations of the task force were put in place and no state and local enforcement or information sharing was permitted, all remaining vestiges of immigration controls would cease to exist' in the U.S.A., Breitbart News noted.   'The [Obummer regime] has systematically gutted most interior and perimeter responsibility.   This administration won't enforce the laws nationally and won't tolerate it locally.'...   Rosemary Jenks, government relations manager at NumbersUSA, a lobby group in favor of strict immigration caps, told the Times, 'Somehow in this world if you're an illegal alien, then you can't be punished for being an illegal alien.   If you're so worried about your legal status, or your illegal status, don’t put yourself in a place or a situation where you're going to get picked up by the police.'"
Washington DC Times
Breitbart
Jessica Vaughan: Center for Immigration Studies

2015-05-19 (5775 Sivan 01)
Laura Ingraham
another case of Americans training the H-1B guest-workers by whom they are being displaced
Mitchell Schnurman: Dallas TX Morning News: Fossil sells out its USA citizen STEM workers
"Fossil is replacing its tech staffers with cheaper labor provided by a firm in India.   It makes financial sense, the company says, but it raises questions about a profitable enterprise adding to the decline of the American middle class...   It's a common practice that's been growing for [25 years].   Much larger, richer companies, such as the Walt Disney Company, are doing the same thing.   But that doesn't make it any less jarring.   How do we grow a strong middle class when great companies are off-shoring and out-sourcing their high-skilled, high-paying white-collar jobs?...   Fossil broke the news to its tech departments last month.   It has hired an Indian firm, Infosys, to handle technical support and will lay off most tech workers.   Fossil officials wouldn't say how many will be let go.   One employee, speaking on the condition he not be identified, said it's about 100.   Another said it's closer to 200 in all.   And they're not leaving until the end of July, August or September.   Infosys needs time for the transition, and Fossil employees have extra work to do: train their Indian replacements...   Infosys calls these 'knowledge transfer sessions', and they'll be video-taped and used to train Infosys workers in India, [Red China], the Philippines and the Czech Republic.   Robben said those outposts would handle the majority of Fossil's technical support.   Infosys will also station workers at Fossil locations...   A typical IT salary in India is about $6K a year, Hira said.   In the last 6 years, the U.S.A. has lost hundreds of thousands of high-paying jobs to overseas locations, he said.   Infosys also has foreign guest workers with H1-B visas.   The company was granted over 6K H1-Bs in 2013, the most of any employer, Hira testified at a Senate hearing in March.   H1-B workers must be paid the 'prevailing wage', but that's often at least $20K less than their American counterparts, he said.   The guest-worker programs are not supposed to hurt U.S. workers, but loop-holes are so big that the Indian government calls the H1-B 'the out-sourcing visa'..."
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.   Over 2,589,226 H-1B visas have been issued from FY1990 to FY2014 according to the State Department annual reports.

2015-05-19 (5775 Sivan 01)
_Free Republic_
as Floridian STEM workers are being displaced, Marco Rubio demands more cheap, young, pliant, low-skilled foreign guest-workers with questionable ethics
Rachel Stoltzfoos: Daily Caller

2015-05-19 (5775 Sivan 01)
Laura Ingraham
"maternity tourism"/"anchor-baby" case grows with arrest of Orange county CA lawyer
Joel Rubin: Los Angeles CA Times
"In March, scores of federal agents raided properties associated with three alleged operators, who typically bring pregnant Chinese women into the country on tourist visas so their children will be born U.S. citizens...   After searching apartment complexes in Los Angeles, Orange and San Bernardino counties where operators were suspected of housing pregnant women, authorities named several people as material witnesses in the case and barred them from leaving the country.   Four of the witnesses hired Liang to represent them.   In early April, 2 of them -- a husband and wife -- fled back to [Red China], evading detection by purchasing tickets shortly before take-off through a Chinese travel company, according to court records...   Days later, another of the witnesses represented by Liang was caught at LAX trying to board a nonstop flight to China with her husband and infant child.   Suspecting that Liang was involved in the efforts to flee, federal agents sought help from the remaining witness, a woman identified in court records by her initials D.L., authorities said.   The woman approached Liang for help in getting out of the U.S.A. and agreed to pay $6K for the job, court records show.   She made video and audio recordings of several telephone and in-person conversations with Liang, in which he pressed her for payment and stressed the need to keep his involvement a secret..."

2015-05-19 (5775 Sivan 01)
Laura Ingraham
Dave Brat: on guest-work visas, immigration, "fast track"/"trade promotion authority" and the Trans-Pacific Partnership (mp3)

2015-05-19 (5775 Sivan 01)
Katie Pavlich _Town Hall_
illegal aliens given priority by Obummer's unconstitutional and illegal amnesties over legal immigrants already in line

2015-05-19 (5775 Sivan 01)
Maggie Ybarra _Washington DC Times_
6 Chinese professors indicted for stealing technological trade secrets from USA companies
Cheryl K. Chumley: World Net Daily
Laura Ingraham
Andrew Grossman: Wall Street Journal
"...U.S. technologies to [Red China's] universities and companies.   A grand jury has charged Chinese co-conspirators Hao Zhang, 36, Wei Pang, 35, Jinping Chen, 41, Huisui Zhang, 34, Chong Zhou, 26, and Zhao Gang, 39, with stealing technology -- such as presentations, design lay-outs and other documents marked as confidential and proprietary -- from California company Avago Technologies and Massachusetts company Skyworks Solutions..."

2015-05-19 (5775 Sivan 01)
Ian Hanchett _Breitbart_
Pinal county AZ sheriff Paul Babeu: Obummer does not think illegal aliens who commit violent crimes should be deported

2015-05-19 (5775 Sivan 01)
Thomas Sowell _Jewish World Review_
"just asking"
Town Hall
"In a recent panel discussion on poverty at Georgetown University, [president Barack Hussein Obummer] gave another demonstration of his mastery of rhetoric -- and disregard of reality...   Since free speech is guaranteed to everyone by the First Amendment to the Constitution, there is nothing to prevent anybody from asking anything from anybody else.   But the federal government does not just 'ask' for money.   It takes the money it wants in taxes, usually before the people who have earned it see their pay-checks.   Despite pious rhetoric on the left about 'asking' the more fortunate for more money, the government does not 'ask' anything.   It seizes what it wants by force.   If you don't pay up, it can take not only your pay-check, it can seize your bank account(s), put a lien on your home and/or put you in federal prison.   So please don't insult our intelligence by talking piously about 'asking'.   And please don't call the government's pouring trillions of tax dollars down a bottomless pit 'investment'..."

2015-05-19 (5775 Sivan 01)
Barbaraaa Hollingsworth _Cybercast News Service_
non-leftists blame GOP losership for not stopping the left's "fundamental transformation of USA"
"Republicans are not keeping the campaign promise they made to voters in 2014 [nor their oaths of office to uphold the constitution]...   conservative and Tea Party leaders charged in an open letter to congress on Monday...   voters who gave them a landslide victory last November have much higher expectations for them, such as ending executive branch over-reach and restoring the constitutional balance of power...   The GOP's clear mandate is to 'end [ObummerDoesn'tCare]; stop executive amnesty [of illegal aliens]; hold the executive branch accountable for its abuses of power and its national security failures both foreign and domestic; and put the interests of the United States of America and Americans first.'   However, instead of wielding its power as a co-equal branch of government to stop illegal immigration during the first 132 days they controlled both houses of congress, Republicans wound up funding [Obummer's unconstitutional and illegal] executive amnesty and jeopardizing national security by failing to address the security risks posed by illegal immigration...   The signatories also called out the Republican leadership for failing to repeal Obamacare, passing a budget that will increase the federal deficit by $500G over the next 2 decades [instead of balancing the budget and paying down the federal government debt], and undermining their own 'faith-based agenda' by not nullifying two District of Columbia laws that violate DC residents' religious liberties.   Nor has the new Republican majority stepped up to provide needed congressional oversight into a number of [Obummer regime] scandals, including Benghazi, the Internal Revenue Service's targeting of conservative groups and its highly controversial refugee resettlement program, the letter noted.   'Best oversight efforts to date have, surprisingly, been done by an effective outside group, Judicial Watch, who has no sub-poena or constitutional power!'...   A new Gallup poll found that Americans' approval of the Republican-controlled congress after 5 months is just 19%.   According to Gallup, 73% of Republicans disapprove of the way congress is doing its job..."

2015-05-19 (5775 Sivan 01)
Paul Greenberg _Jewish World Review_
stereotypes

2015-05-19 (5775 Sivan 01)
Walter E. Williams _Cybercast News Service_
the true black tragedy
Jewish World Review
Town Hall
"Today the overwhelming majority of black children are raised in single female-headed families.   As early as the 1880s, three-quarters of black families were 2-parent.   In 1925 New York City, 85% of black families were 2-parent.   One study of 19th-century slave families found that in up to three-fourths of the families, all the children had the same mother and father.   Today's black illegitimacy rate of nearly 75% is also entirely new.   In 1940, black illegitimacy stood at 14%.   It had risen to 25% by 1965, when Daniel Patrick Moynihan wrote 'The Negro Family: The Case for National Action' and was widely condemned as a racist.   By 1980, the black illegitimacy rate had more than doubled, to 56%, and it has been growing since.   Both during slavery and as late as 1920, a teenage girl raising a child without a man present was rare among blacks..."

2015-05-19 (5775 Sivan 01)
Rich Lowry _Jewish World Review_
the rail fantasy
News Max
"...The system was slated for profitability in the 1970s, after a brief period of public subsidy.   Not surprisingly, the profitability has never come, and the subsidy has never ended.   All told, the [tax-victims] pour about $1G into it a year.   Amtrak's unionized employees made on average more than $90K a year in wages and benefits as of a couple of years ago.   Outside of the Northeast and a few other places, it serves uneconomical routes that account for the bulk of its losses (although congress insists on those routes for political reasons).   Amtrak can't even sell food and drink to a captive audience at a profit.   It loses $80M a year on its food service, perhaps as much as $7M of that lost to simple theft..."
Ira Stoll: News Max
Richard W. Rahn: Washington DC Times

2015-05-19 (5775 Sivan 01)
Stuart Rothenberg _Jewish World Review_
why it is a mistake to dismiss Bobby Jindal

2015-05-19 (5775 Sivan 01)
Cal Thomas _Jewish World Review_
journalists vs. commentators vs. political operatives in media
Town Hall
Washington DC Times

2015-05-19 (5775 Sivan 01)
Lenore Skenazy _Jewish World Review_
slapping the "child a buse" label on decent, loving parents

2015-05-19 (5775 Sivan 01)
Dennis Prager _Jewish World Review_
why some people hate Pamela Geller
Town Hall
"Reason 1: The left hates those who confront evil.   The first and most important reason is a rule of life that I wrote about in a recent column explaining the left's hatred for Israeli prime-minister Benjamin Netanyahu: Those who don't fight evil hate those who do.   This is a defining characteristic of the American left.   That is why the left loathed president Ronald Reagan for labeling the Soviet Union an "evil empire...   Reason 2: Moral confusion...   neither Christianity nor Mormonism produces evil that needs to be fought.   The Muslim world, however, is producing tens of thousands of murderers and millions more sympathizers; and those who criticize Islam and confront Islamism are hated because those who don't fight evil hate those who do...   Reason 3: Lack of courage..."

2015-05-19 (5775 Sivan 01)
David Shribman _Jewish World Review_
political transition in USA: parties and positions of the citizenry frequently fail to align especially when it comes to trade and immigration.

2015-05-19 (5775 Sivan 01)
David Limbaugh _Jewish World Review_
GOP needs to return to the right
Cybercast News Service
News Max
Town Hall

2015-05-19 (5775 Sivan 01)
Mark J. FitzGibbons _Conservative HQ_
why non-leftists need to maintain awareness of the 4th amendment
"The Fourth Amendment is getting attention that it's not gotten before, and by popular will, it will be defined in how it is interpreted and implemented.   Unless conservatives participate and act to define it, it will be defined by liberals and/or libertarians.   From NSA spying to publicized abuses by armed federal agents and even some local police, people are afraid and are speaking out.   That's good.   The debate is leading to federal legislation and even constitutional amendments in states to rein in lawless government investigations.   The Fourth Amendment is one of the most important arrows in the quiver against bullying big government.   It was created in response to attacks on business, religious freedom, and critics of government.   It is quintessential American law over government.   Conservatives have a window to influence how the Fourth Amendment will be defined in ways that protect freedoms, yet maintain security, just as the Founders envisioned the purposes of government..."

2015-05-19 (5775 Sivan 01)
Susan Jones _Cybercast News Service_
3.7M airport security badges have been issued; what could go wrong?

2015-05-19 (5775 Sivan 01)
_Fox_
Mike Rowe: to be successful, don't fear the honest but dirty work

2015-05-19 (5775 Sivan 01)
Patrick J. Buchanan _Cybercast News Service_
who is at fault?
Town Hall
"As Middle America rises in rage against 'fast track'[/'trade promotion authority'] and the mammoth [ObummerTrade] deal known as the Trans-Pacific Partnership...   Now it is true that, while Nixon and Reagan won 49-state land-slides and gave the GOP five victories in six presidential contests, the party has fallen upon hard times.   Only once since 1988 has a Republican presidential nominee won the popular vote.   But was this caused by following this writer's counsel?   Or by the GOP listening to the deceptions of its Davos-Doha-Journal wing? &nnbsp; In the 1990s, this writer and allies in both parties fought NAFTA, GATT and MFN for [Red China].   The Journal and GOP establishment ran with Bill and Hillary and globalization.   And the fruits of their victory?   Between 2000 and 2010, 55K U.S. factories closed and 5M to 6M manufacturing jobs disappeared.   Columnist Terry Jeffrey wrote that, since 1979, the year of maximum U.S. manufacturing employment, 'The number of jobs in manufacturing has declined by 7.231M -- or 37%.'...   Beginning in 1991, traveling the country and visiting plant after plant that was shutting down or moving to Asia or Mexico, some of us warned that this economic treason against America's workers would bring about political retribution.   And so it came to pass.   Since 1988, a 'free'-trade Republican Party has not once won Pennsylvania, Michigan, Illinois or Wisconsin in a presidential election.   Ohio, the other great Midwest industrial state, is tipping.   The Reagan Democrats are gone...   Since the early 1990s, we have run $3G to $4G in trade deficits with [Red China].   Last year's was $325G, or twice [Red China's] defense budget.   Are not all those factories, jobs, investment capital and consumer dollars pouring into [Red China] a reason why Beijing has been able to build mighty air and naval fleets, claim sovereignty over the South and East China seas, fortify reefs 1K miles south of Hainan Island, and tell the U.S. Navy to back off?...   Does the Journal think our $11T in trade deficits since 1992 represents a pro-growth policy?   On immigration, this writer did campaign on securing the border in 1991-92, when there were 3M illegal aliens in the United States.   But the Bush Republicans refused to seal the border.   Now there are 11M to 12M illegal immigrants and the issue is tearing the party apart.   Now everybody is for 'secure borders' [except for the 'leadership'].   We did urge a 'moratorium' on legal immigration, such as America had from 1924 to 1965, to assimilate and Americanize the millions who had come.   The Journal Republicans called that xenophobia.   Since then, tens of millions of immigrants, here legally and illegally, mostly from the Third World, have arrived.   Economically, they consume more in tax dollars than they contribute.   Politically, most belong to ethnic groups that vote between 70% and 90% Dem/Red/leftist.."

2015-05-19 (5775 Sivan 01)
_Conservative HQ_
CHQ readers strongly oppose the Unpatriotic Act -- want 4th amendment to be enforced on governments
"The Patriot Act is the frontline in the war between citizens and their rights under the Fourth Amendment to be free from government intrusion into their private affairs and government's insatiable appetite for information merged with the growth of the technology to acquire that information.   As the reauthorization of the Patriot Act moves through Congress three separate approaches have emerged; some, like senator Mike Lee, support the 'USA Freedom Act', a version of which passed the House in a bipartisan vote of 338-88; others, led by senator Rand Paul, support the 'Fourth Amendment Preservation and Protection Act'.   Other Republicans, such as senators Marco Rubio and Mitch McConnell support a [dirty] renewal of the Patriot Act..."

2015-05-19 (5775 Sivan 01)
_Conservative HQ_
Marco Rubio leaves GOP, joins party of stupid evil... or does he?
"...It is axiomatic in politics that the establishment media will promote the most [left-leaning, least] electable Republican during the primaries and then turn on that candidate in the Fall once the GOP nomination has been secured.   Secondly, and more importantly, what is it that Rubio and Stephanopoulos have talked about in past interviews? &bsp; The main topic of several of Rubio's past interviews with Stephanopoulos has been -- you guessed it -- [reprehensible immigration law perversion]..."

2015-05-19 (5775 Sivan 01)
John Gizzi _News Max_
Jim Martin of "60 Plus" continues struggle to repeal death tax
"Along with legendary singer and '60 Plus' national spokesman Pat Boone, Martin -- a former U.S. Marine, congressional staffer, and reporter -- has long stressed the threat the estate tax poses for the middle class.   The tax is now a 40% levy on estates over $5.34M and it is indexed for inflation)..."

2015-05-19 (5775 Sivan 01)
Armstrong Williams _News Max_
Iran is reaching critical mass
Town Hall
"The time is past due for the White House to finally take to heart the threat of an Iranian nuclear weapon and get serious about changing Tehran's behavior."

2015-05-19 (5775 Sivan 01)
_News Max_/_AP_
Obummer DoS plans release to congress of some redacted Clinton e-mail messages... next January
Katie Pavlich: Town Hall

2015-05-19 (5775 Sivan 01)
Stephen Dinan _Washington DC Times_
House GOP demand corrupt Obummer IRS investigate Clintons Foundation

2015-05-19 (5775 Sivan 01)
_News Max_/_Bloomberg_
broad coalition rallies to defeat Obummer on "fast track"/"trade promotion authority" and Trans-Pacific Partnership

2015-05-19 (5775 Sivan 01)
Dan Weil _News Max_
Stephen Moore: Obummer has it all wrong on poverty

2015-05-19 (5775 Sivan 01)
Adelle Nazarian _Breitbart_
now hiring: Saudi Arabia seeking executioners as beheading rates soar
Washington DC Times/Yahoo/Agence France Presse

2015-05-19 (5775 Sivan 01)
_Fox_/_AP_
former security guard indicted for discretionary enforcement; maybe Barack Hussein Obummer, Eric Holder, Jeh Johnson & Alejandro Mayorkas should be indicted, too

2015-05-19 (5775 Sivan 01)
Laura Ingraham
DHS targeting man learning to be a tractor-trailer driver
Fox
"The Fox 9 Investigators have learned that a Minnesota man who the Department of Homeland Security says has the 'operational capacity' to carry out a terror attack, is now studying to get his Class A Commercial Drivers License that would allow him to drive semi-trucks.   If he passes a second FBI background check, he could even haul hazardous materials.   Amir Meshal has lived in Minnesota since 2012, and is currently attending school at Interstate Truck Driving School in South St. Paul, Minn.   Meshal has already completed 80 of 160 hours of classroom instruction.   The $4K tuition paid for by the state Workforce Program.   When the Fox 9 Investigators went to the school last week, he was learning to back up trucks.   Last June, a Bloomington mosque, Al Farooq, kicked Meshal out and had him ticketed for trespassing...   Meshal is also on the TSA no-fly list...   Meshal has been on the FBI's radar since 2007, when the FBI arrested Meshal in Kenya, as he was leaving an Al Qaeda training camp in Somalia.   For three months, Meshal who is a U.S. citizen, was held in rendition, shuttled between secret prisons in Kenya, Somalia and Ethiopia, enduring hours of intense interrogation...   Despite Meshal's history, and even though he's on the 'No Fly List', Meshal was able to pass an FBI background check when he got his certification to drive a school bus..."

2015-05-19 (5775 Sivan 01)
Michael Wessel _Politico_
I have read Obummer's Trans-Pacific Partnership deal; people are right to be concerned
"'You need to tell me what's wrong with this trade agreement, not one that was passed 25 years ago.', a frustrated [president Barack Hussein Obummer] recently complained about criticisms of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP).   He's right.   The public criticisms of the TPP have been vague.   That's by design—anyone who has read the text of the agreement could be jailed for disclosing its contents.   I've actually read the TPP text provided to the government's own advisors, and I've given the president an earful about how this trade deal will damage this nation.   But I can't share my [specific] criticisms with you."

2015-05-19 (5775 Sivan 01)
Lawrence Meyers _Town Hall_
Uber's fate is in the hands of California jury

2015-05-19 (5775 Sivan 01)
Lawrence Meyers _Town Hall_
it is difficult to continue to support the war in Iraq after Obummer unilaterally surrendered it

2015-05-19 (5775 Sivan 01)
Katie Pavlich _Town Hall_
some protestors in Ferguson were paid by leftist "Organize Missouri"
Jessica Chasmar: Washington DC Times
"'On May 14, protesters, upset with not being paid their promised checks for protesting, protested outside MORE, Missourians Organizing For Reform and Empowerment, an ACORN organization which had received funding through George Soros to fund the protests.'...   This is far from the first time protestors have been paid to show up 'for the cause'.   In fact the woman behind similar ordeals like Occupy Wall Street, Lisa Fithian, is a professional agitator and organizer who is paid by a number of [leftist] organizations to stir unrest in communities all over the country."

2015-05-19 (5775 Sivan 01)
Matt Vespa _Town Hall_
judge struck down DC's "carry" law because "good reason" provision is unconstitutional
Washington DC Times

2015-05-19 (5775 Sivan 01)
Robert Knight _Town Hall_
how the left plays the election law race card

2015-05-19 (5775 Sivan 01)
Arthur Schaper _Town Hall_
US senate election contet heats up in California

2015-05-19 (5775 Sivan 01)
Susan Stamper Brown _Town Hall_
an open letter to president Barack Hussein Obummer

2015-05-19 (5775 Sivan 01)
Bill Murchison _Town Hall_
rise up for free speech

2015-05-19 (5775 Sivan 01)
Joseph Curl _Washington DC Times_
those top 0.01% income Clintons
"In fact, the couple that says they left the White House 'dead broke' made nearly as much as the NFL's top quarterback, Tom Brady ($31M) and a good bit more than Mitt and Ann Romney ($21.7M)...   The cash poured in after Hillary left the State Department.   She delivered 51 speeches and banked nearly $12M (a whopping $230K average per speech).   Husband Bill gave 53 speeches and pulled in the other $13M...   For each of the four years Hillary served, Bill made more than $5M in foreign speeches.   But in 2014, after she left office, Bill netted just $2.2M from international speeches.   All told, Bill gave more than 215 speeches during his wife's time in office, earning nearly $50M.   He delivered speeches in Russia, China, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, the United Arab Emirates, Panama, and India, among others.   Not surprisingly, the tech industry and so-called 'green' companies put up most of the cash for domestic speeches..."

2015-05-19 (5775 Sivan 01)
Alex Swoyer _Breitbart_
Jim Jordan noted that the Export-Import Bank is an exmple of crony socialist corporate illfare

2015-05-19 (5775 Sivan 01)
Judson Phillips _Washington DC Times_
with "Republicans" like these, who needs Dems?

2015-05-19 (5775 Sivan 01)
Victor Davis Hanson _National Review_
Iraq

2015-05-19 (5775 Sivan 01)
Laura Ingraham
Bob Baer: ISIL/ISIS/Daesh/IS/caliphate is something like I've never seen in the Middle East; we have to do more to counter them (mp3)

2015-05-19 (5775 Sivan 01)
Rachel Marsden _Town Hall_
fewer publicity stunts, more results needed against ISIL/ISIS/Daesh/IS/caliphate
As Michael Savage asked: Why wasn't the ISIL/ISIS/Daesh/IS/caliphate victory parade outside of the city after they conquered Ramadi... strafed by A-10s and/or UAVs or B-1s or F-22s or F-35s?

2015-05-19 (5775 Sivan 01)
Douglas Ernst _Washington DC Times_
ISIL/ISIS/Daesh/IS/caliphate took USA-supplied tanks, armored personnel carriers, trucks, artillery and other weapons, ammunitions after Iraqi forces fled Ramadi
Breitbart
"A Pentagon spokesman, colonel Steve Warren, estimated that a half dozen tanks were abandoned, a similar number of artillery pieces, a larger number of armored personnel carriers and about 100 wheeled vehicles like Humvees..."

2015-05-19 (5775 Sivan 01)
Stephen Dinan _Washington DC Times_
federal judge ordered release of Hitlery Rotten Clinton's e-mail messages on a rolling basis

2015-05-19 (5775 Sivan 01)
Michael W. Chapman _Cybercast News Service_
Mike Huckabee: gays won't stop until there are no more churches or synagogues

2015-05-19 (5775 Sivan 01)
Ali Meyer _Cybercast News Service_
Obummer regime issued 184 major regulations costing $80G annually
"A major rule is 'generally defined as having an expected economic impact of at least $100M per year'...   'The cost of just these 184 rules is estimated by regulators to be nearly $80G annually, although the actual cost of this massive expansion of the administrative state is obscured by the large number of rules for which costs have not been fully quantified.', it added.   In addition, the number of major new regulations in Obummer's first 6 years is twice as many as in [Shrub's] first 6 years.   From 2001 to 2006, the [Shrub regime] issued 75 major regulations.   From 2009 to 2014, the [Obummer regime] issued 184 major rules, which is 145% more than Bush."

2015-05-19 (5775 Sivan 01)
_WND_
Jerusalem seeking room for the dead
"...Israeli burial organization has teamed with a cutting-edge construction firm to bore deep under a mountain... 22K crypts, arranged floor to ceiling in 3 tiers..."

2015-05-19 (5775 Sivan 01)
Joseph Farah _WND_
do you want a communist USA?
"The idea of a communist America -- big C or small -- was once the stuff of movie fantasies like 'Red Dawn' [about a Soviet+Cuban invasion].   Not any longer.   Not since the Democratic Party mainstream establishment began to embrace essentially the same political agenda as the Communist Party USA, founded as an arm of the Soviet Union before its fall, as well as the Socialist Party USA.   Today, the thought of socialism is no longer categorically rejected by a significant percentage of Americans, while communism, despite its genocidal history, no longer [reminds us] of gulags, tyranny and re-education camps."

2015-05-19 (5775 Sivan 01)
Morgan Brittany _WND_
did NYC ever truly climb back out of its late-1960s/1970s sewer?

2015-05-19 (5775 Sivan 01)
Bill Federer _WND_
small, libert-respecting government cultivates heroes and adventurers

2015-05-19 (5775 Sivan 01)
Jerry Newcombe _WND_
is the atheist population increasing rapidly?
"...He [Byron Johnson] said, 'There are these on-going reports by the media that indicates religion is declining.   Most of the secular media is looking for something that shows that religion is declining...   so that's why you hear all these reports about the growth of atheism.'..."

2015-05-19 (5775 Sivan 01)
Star Parker _WND_
Marco Rubio lacks that Reagan magic, but still does well in polls

2015-05-19 (5775 Sivan 01)
Greg Corombos _WND_
Benghazi revelations make Hitlery Rotten Clinton look even worse
"On Monday, Defense Intelligence Agency [DIA] documents demanded by Judicial Watch revealed terrorists planned to attack the U.S. consulate in Benghazi on 2012 Sept. 11, for multiple symbolic reasons and the United States government was well aware of weapons transfers taking place from Libya to Syrian rebels...   What remains a mystery is whether the United States [government] was actively involved in the weapons transfers or simply aware of what was happening between other groups.   Former CIA Deputy Director Michael Morrell denies that the U.S. [government] was engaged in the transfers but told the Fox News Channel he could not comment on whether the CIA was tracking the weapons..."

2015-05-19 (5775 Sivan 01)
_WND_
Obummer DoJ planning to unleash paid "community organizers" against USA cities
"...Critics, including Cheryl K. Chumley, author of _Police State USA_, charge such actions are less about 'saving innocent lives' and more about 'creating a social justice movement that's likely to clamp police from doing their jobs even while it federalizes the nation's forces'.   The [oath-breaker Loretta Lynch's DoJ] also announced $163M in grants...   A list of grants awarded by the Justice Department in 2013 indicate federal funding has been and will continue to be directed toward activist groups described by critics as 'racial agitators'...   Matthew Vadum, an expert in left-wing activist groups and the author of _Subversion, Inc._, warns such federal funding invariably finds its way into the hands of [leftist] activists who personally profit from increased community tensions...   'After attacking police as stupid, racist, vicious and thuggish almost non-stop throughout his presidency, now he suddenly cares about police officers and the communities they serve.   Now he wants to throw millions of [tax-victim] dollars at ACORN-like groups and professional left-wing agitators whose calling in life is to generate civil unrest.   This means that people like the president's point man on race relations, riot organizer Al Sharpton, will get his hands on lots of government money.   This money won't actually help anyone except for the often-violent Saul Alinsky-inspired community organizers who have been living high off the hog ever since one of their own took up residence in the White House.'...   Civil-rights activist reverend Jesse Lee Peterson, author of _Scam: How the Black Leadership Exploits Black America_, argues... 'The $163M will not go to fix inner city issues; the bulk of the money will be used to pay off [Barack Obummer's] political cronies.   [Obummer] knows the money won’t be used to rebuild the black community -- the only thing it will do is empower his far-left political allies.   This is an example of redistribution of wealth.   ACORN, Al Sharpton's National Action Network, the NAACP and corrupt black churches will benefit from this plan.'...   Larry Elder, author of _Dear Father, Dear Son_, believes one of the most overlooked aspects of the president's task force is its focus on Baltimore as an example to follow..."

2015-05-19 (5775 Sivan 01)
_WND_
USA: 4 cancer charities run by 1 family are all scams; conned donors out of $187M
David FitzPatrick & Drew Griffin: CNN
William Bigelow: Breitbart
"...The Cancer Fund of America is run by James Reynolds i.   His son James Reynolds ii is the CEO of the Breast Cancer Society.   Another charity, the Children's Cancer Fund of America, is run by Rose Perkins, the ex-wife of the elder James Reynolds.   He's also the CEO of the fourth charity, Cancer Support Services...   the charities spent about 97% of donations they received either on private fundraisers or on themselves.   Only 3%, she says, went to help actual cancer patients [compared with the 6% of the Clintons Foundation which goes to actual charity]..."

2015-05-19 (5775 Sivan 01)
John Hayward _Breitbart_
Hitlery Rotten Clinton told reporters she will consider answering questions from them some day

2015-05-19 (5775 Sivan 01)
_WND_
Bobby Jindal issued religious freedom executive order

2015-05-19 (5775 Sivan 01)
Leo Hohmann _WND_
communist icon Angela Davis lets cat out of the bag on flood of "refugees" into Europe, UK and USA
"...Davis encouraged the refugees in Germany to cultivate 'a culture of resistance' focused on community organizing...   The U.S.A. takes in more United Nations refugees than any other country at about 70K per year.   But refugees are increasingly becoming politically active, as evidenced by their meeting with a professional Marxist organizer like Davis...   last year a group of Somali women demanded that the county commissioners of Hennepin county stock the local food pantry with halal meat in accordance with Islamic dietary laws.   Somali refugees in Seattle demanded better access to government-subsidized housing...   Davis was arrested, charged, tried and acquitted of conspiracy in the 1970 armed take-over of a Marin county court-room, in which four people died.   Davis was closely tied to the Black Panther Party through her involvement in the civil rights movement in the late 1960s.   She visited Cuba after her release from prison in the early 1970s and declared it a racism-free society..."

2015-05-19 (5775 Sivan 01)
Laura Ingraham
Dave Brat: Marco Rubio & Paul Ryan refuse to debate their globalist ideology (transcript, audio)

2015-05-19 (5775 Sivan 01)
Laura Ingraham
GOP base is the strongest -- when it comes to elections -- that it's been in decades
Sean Trende & David Byler: Real Clear Politics
"A positive score then means that the Republican Party is stronger while a negative score means the Democratic Party is stronger.   We ran the scale back to the founding of the Republican Party in 1856.   The average score is -4 and the median is -6, suggesting that over time the parties have been pretty evenly matched.   The low score for the Republicans came in 1936, when they hit a bottom of -119.   Their strongest performance was 108 in 1866 (post-Reconstruction, their strongest performance was 79 in 1920).   The standard deviation was 45.6 -- in plain English, that means when a party rises above 45 it can be thought of as doing unusually well, and when it rises above 90 or so it is doing exceptionally well.   About 60% of the results fall between -30 and 30.   Before the 2014 elections, the parties were pretty close to parity: The index stood at 7.98.   This indicated an insignificant advantage for the Republicans, although it placed them well above their post-World War II average of -20.   It goes without saying that Republicans improved upon their showing in the 2014 elections.   Their 54 Senate seats represent the second-best tally for the party since 1928.   Their 247 House seats is the most the party has won since 1928, although when combined with the popular vote percentage, it drops to the second-highest since then (in 1946, the party did slightly better).   At the state level, the GOP’s share of governorships is the ninth-highest since Reconstruction, and the third-highest in the post-war era (1996 and 1998 were higher).   The party's showing in state legislatures is the highest since 1920, the ninth-highest ever, and the third-highest since the end of Reconstruction.   Overall, this gives the Republicans an index score of 33.8.   This is the Republican Party's best showing in the index since 1928, and marks only the third time that the party has been above 15 in the index since the end of World War II."

2015-05-19 (5775 Sivan 01)
John Nolte _Breitbart_
48 reasons to distrust & despise the media

2015-05-19 (5775 Sivan 01)
Ian Hanchett _Breitbart_
Robert Gates: Obummer regime does not have a strategy at all in the Middle East

2015-05-19 (5775 Sivan 01)
Thomas D. Williams _Breitbart_
ISIL/ISIS/Daesh/IS/caliphate influence increasing in Northern Africa

2015-05-19 (5775 Sivan 01)
Mary Chastain _Breitbart_
Belgian court convicted 7 women for their actions in support of ISIL/ISIS/Daesh/IS/caliphate
Canada arrested 10 suspected of planning to join ISIL/ISIS/Daesh/IS/caliphate
Denmark paid illfare to 32 jihadis who are in Syria

2015-05-19 (5775 Sivan 01)
Charlie Spiering _Breitbart_
Obummer regime says their ISIL/ISIS/Daesh/IS/caliphate strategy is working

2015-05-19 (5775 Sivan 01)
Robert Tracinski _Federalist_
why does the left kowtow to misanthropic & misogynistic Islam?

2015-05-19 (5775 Sivan 01)
Christopher Chantrill _American Thinker_
the leftists' thug agenda

2015-05-19 (5775 Sivan 01)
Him Hoft _GateWay Pundit_
expense list reveals over 80 organizations & individuals were getting paid to protest

2015-05-19 (5775 Sivan 01)
Matthew Vadum _Front Page Magazine_
rent-a-mobs/rent-a-riots exposed

2015-05-19 (5775 Sivan 01)
Anita Singh _London Telegraph_
botanist claims to have found a contemporary image of William Shakespeare

2015-05-19 (5775 Sivan 01)
Melissa Clyne _News Max_
NASA claims that 20K-year-old Larsen B Antarctic ice shelf may disappear by 2020

2015-05-19 (5775 Sivan 01)
_WikiPedia_
1828-05-19: president John Quincy Adams signed the tariff of 1828 into law, protecting wool manufacturers in the United States of America
Harmonic Life
First Thoughts
GeneAll

2015-05-19 (5775 Sivan 01)
_Popular Archaeology_
U of Leicester: most Europeans descend from a handful of Bronze Age forefathers
Atlantic Bronze Age (wikipedia)
Bronze Age Europe (wikipedia)
Europe Late Bronze Age map (2013-10-09; wikipedia; creative commons; by Xoil)

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2015-05-20

2015-05-20 (5775 Sivan 02)
Laura Ingraham
as highly-skilled Floridians are displaced, Marco Rubio wants even more cheap, young, pliant foreign labor with questionable ethics
Rachel Stoltzfoos: Daily Caller
"About a month before Disney broke the news, this worker got the very highest rating you can get from management in a performance review, received a raise and was told to expect a promotion.   And just a week or two before the announcement, Disney announced record-breaking profits for the company... '20 years of hard work, technical skill building, fostering relationships, a bachelor's degree in IT, guided me to a coveted position as an IT engineer at Disney.'... A 10% bonus was dangled as a reward for those who cooperated fully and maintained a great attitude. The office was soon flooded with the foreign workers, most of whom were fresh out of college. In the first phase, the foreign worker sat next to the American worker in 'knowledge transfer sessions', and videotaped everything they said and did, and then reviewed the tapes with the American worker to ensure accuracy. In the second phase, the guest-worker began working alongside the American worker, who was supposed to oversee and critique them. And in the last 30 days the guest-worker completely took over the American worker's job, while the American worker sat by and watched, tasked only with keeping them from making serious mistakes."
Rachel Stoltzfoos: Daily Caller: displaced US workers sue DHS over work-permit expansion for spouses of H-1B visa grantees
Rachel Stoltzfoos: Daily Caller: Fossil fired American tech workers, imported cheap foreign labor
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.   Over 2,589,226 H-1B visas have been issued from FY1990 to FY2014 according to the State Department annual reports.

2015-05-20 (5775 Sivan 02)
David North _Center for Immigration Studies_
looking behind a seemingly bland USCIS decision
"Tuesday's announcement that USCIS would 'temporarily suspend premium processing for all H-1B Extensions of Stay petitions' is like the proverbial onion -- you have to peel away the layers to find the significance of what sounds like a bland reshuffling of work-loads.   The decision was made so that agency staff can pass judgment (probably 95%+ favorable) on H-4s seeking [Obummer's unconstitutional and illegal] employment authorization.   Layer One.   At first blush, this looks like a 'ladies first' ruling.   Why? Because H-1Bs are a largely male work force (mostly in the IT industries) and the group of H-4s who will get the employment authorization documents are primarily their spouses, though a few may be children.   So the men will be mildly inconvenienced while the women will get the big benefit of being able to work 'legally'...   the primary beneficiaries of this policy are the corporate giants that employ the husbands -- if the wives can get jobs, then there is less pressure on the [corporate executives] to raise the wages of the husbands...   A foreign worker who does not get his H-1B authorization extended right away might be forced, under some circumstances, to postpone or eliminate overseas travel plans.   No government agent, not in this administration anyway, will swoop down on him and deport him because he has an out-of-date visa.   The suspension of the extensions is unlikely to hurt anyone.   Layer Two.   On closer examination this is a medium-sized move to expand the U.S. labor force, at a time when millions of residents (citizens and green card holders) are looking for work [and employment/population ratios are extremely low]...   But what if the employer pays the fee and does not get the rapid H-1B extension the company paid for? Well, Uncle Sam will give the company its money back..."
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.   Over 2,589,226 H-1B visas have been issued from FY1990 to FY2014 according to the State Department annual reports.

2015-05-20 (5775 Sivan 02)
Mark Krikorian _Center for Immigration Studies_
has the amnesty-first crowd blinked?

2015-05-20 (5775 Sivan 02)
Susan Jones _Cybercast News Service_
Dem/Red/leftist congress-critter Jared Polis called for celebrating Obummer's unconstitutional and illegal actions with the aim of achieving a time when there are more illegal aliens in the USA than citizens and legal visitors

2015-05-20 (5775 Sivan 02)
Penny Starr _Cybercast News Service_
Zoe Lofgren (D-Sili Valley): reporting serous felonies committed by illegal aliens should be entirely voluntary

2015-05-20 (5775 Sivan 02)
Mark Krikorian _Center for Immigration Studies_
zombie "temporary" immigration and refugee and amnesty programs which refuse to die
"...So [the Obummer regime is] going to issue work permits (and [Socialist Inecurity numbers (SINs)] and driver's licenses and travel permits and EITC welfare) to Liberian illegal aliens in response to a crisis which passed before the amnesty's registration period even finished...   CAIR is demanding TPS amnesty for illegal aliens from Yemen.   Representative Alan Grayson is urging TPS for Venezuelan illegals.   The government of Pakistan requested (but did not receive) TPS for its illegals in the U.S.A. in 2011, and the Philippines for its illegals in 2013..."
Discover the Networks: Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR)

2015-05-20 (5775 Sivan 02)
Michelle Malkin _Jewish World Review_
_Who Built That_: Maglite's Tony Maglica is a torch-bearer of the American Dream
Cybercast News Service
Town Hall
"In our home, we try to instill a life lesson for our kids best summed up in Latin: Nihil boni sine labore.   It means, 'Nothing good achieved without hard work.'   Few people I've met in my lifetime embody this motto better and more brilliantly than Tony Maglica, inventor of the iconic Maglite flashlight.   The spry 84-year-old founder and CEO of Mag Instrument still traverses his 450K-square-foot factory floor dozens of times over the course of his 12-hour workday, six days a week, beginning at the crack of dawn and ending after most of his 800 employees have clocked out.   I visited his Ontario, CA, head-quarters while doing research for my new book, _Who Built That: Awe-Inspiring Stories of American Tinkerpreneurs_...   The owner of 200 other patents, Tony the tireless tinkerpreneur showed me an empty lab room where he had been developing new, revolutionary incandescent bulb parts..."

2015-05-20 (5775 Sivan 02)
Terence P. Jeffrey _Cybercast News Service_
the Obummer-Boehner-McConnell fast track to a poorer USA

2015-05-20 (5775 Sivan 02)
Jonathan Tobin _Jewish World Review_
the Catholic pope's "better angels of peace"
"...But if, as JWR contributor Tom Gross pointed out in the Weekly Standard, most of the Italian press reported that the pope actually said, 'you could be an angel of peace', that puts the exchange in a very different light.   That led Gross to claim those mainstream media outlets that spread the original story did so because they are prejudiced against Israel and for the Palestinians.   Gross is on to something there since media bias on the Middle East is real.   But before we file this story away as merely another example of this problem, let's put it in context..."

2015-05-20 (5775 Sivan 02)
Clifford D. May _Jewish World Review_
the summit that wasn't
Washington DC Times
Dublin Ireland News

2015-05-20 (5775 Sivan 02)
Kathleen Parker _Jewish World Review_
hateful "trigger warnings", "safe zones", protection against "unpleasant thoughts", colleges, and the "swaddled generation" vs. free and open public debate

2015-05-20 (5775 Sivan 02)
Lyndsi Frandsen _Jewish World Review_
5 ways to avoid your children believing their "entitled"

2015-05-20 (5775 Sivan 02)
Gary Bauer _Jewish World Review_
gotcha questions for Dems/Reds/leftists
Washington DC Times

2015-05-20 (5775 Sivan 02)
Stephen Carter _Jewish World Review_
Americans should bet on elections
"Election wagers are legal in many jurisdictions.   Some $150M was bet on the recent election in the UK.   One needn't be a book-maker to guess that U.S.A. wagering would be many times that amount.   As recently as 2012, it was possible for Americans to make on-line bets on U.S. elections in over-seas markets, but the federal government's law-suit against Ireland-based Intrade in 2012 -- which led to the firm's collapse months later -- largely put an end to that practice.   That suit, brought by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, rested on the contention that Intrade was in effect selling options contracts outside an approved exchange.   But the larger fear when it comes to betting on election results is corruption.   The annals of the 19th century judiciary are rich with prosecutions for the practice, including a Pennsylvania case in which the court ruled that voters could bet on primary but not general elections..."

2015-05-20 (5775 Sivan 02)
Jeff Jacoby _Jewish World Review_
unpatriotic act's most controversial section being expunged

2015-05-20 (5775 Sivan 02)
John Stossel _Jewish World Review_
Dr. Capitalism

2015-05-20 (5775 Sivan 02)
Bernard Goldberg _Jewish World Review_
what if Rush Limbaugh anchored Fox's presidential coverage?

2015-05-20 (5775 Sivan 02)
David Ignatius _Jewish World Review_
a tragic re-play in Ramadi
"...The CentCom briefing proved grossly overoptimistic.   According to field reports compiled by a consulting firm, the extremists began Friday with a car bomb attack in Albu Diab, north of the city, that was a 'likely diversion tactic'.   As Iraqi troops rushed north, the insurgents sent a wave of at least 4 car bombs into the city center.   They did their work.   The government defense lines broke.   Given that the Islamic State's drive to capture Ramadi has been predicted for weeks, why didn't U.S. and Iraqi planners reinforce the garrison there?   Why didn't coalition forces fight harder to control Camp Blue Diamond, a former U.S. military base on the northwest edge of the city?   Why didn't the coalition add troops to protect Ramadi's provincial version of the Green Zone in the center of the city?   Why were ISIL/ISIS/Daesh/IS/caliphate fighters allowed to capture new stores of Iraqi weapons and liberate scores of their compatriots in Ramadi's jails -- adding new arms and men at a strike?..."

2015-05-20 (5775 Sivan 02)
Daniel John Sobieski _American Thinker_
Obummer snatched Ramadi defeat from Shrub victory

2015-05-20 (5775 Sivan 02)
Peter Brookes _Political Mavens_
Obummer's party was not at the top of Gulf states' popularity list

2015-05-20 (5775 Sivan 02)
Neil Steinberg _Political Mavens_
Rahm Emanuel's zenith of cynicism

2015-05-20 (5775 Sivan 02)
Gosia Wozniacka _Cybercast News Service_
attack against liberty: Oregon floats travel tax of $0.015/mile
Breitbart

2015-05-20 (5775 Sivan 02)
Terence P. Jeffrey _Cybercast News Service_
1.773M USA children educated at home; up 61.8% in 10 years
Susan Berry: Breitbart

2015-05-20 (5775 Sivan 02)
Melanie Hunter _Cybercast News Service_
Milwaukee county WI sheriff David Clarke: it is a myth that police kill black males in greater numbers than anyone else
Cheryl K. Chumley: World Net Daily
Caroline May: Breitbart
"...between 2009 and 2012, the majority of those who died at the hands of police were white males.   Specifically, 61% or 915 of 1,491 people who died from police use of force were white males, while 32% or 481 were black males, Clarke noted...   The same report cited FBI data showing that 'of the 56,259 homicides from 2009 to 2012, 19K (33.8%) were killings of black males'.   In comparison, '481 (2.5%) [deaths of black males] were the result of police use of force'.   'Private citizens killed a quarter more black males in justifiable homicides than did police use of force.', the report said.   'Black-on-black crime is the elephant in the room...'..."

2015-05-20 (5775 Sivan 02)
Patrick Goodenough _Cybercast News Service_
Iran's ayatollah declares that inspectors will not have access to nuclear sites, nor engineers, nor scientists

2015-05-20 (5775 Sivan 02)
_WND_
32 state governments "struggle" to balance budgets
"A majority of states are making cuts, tapping reserves or facing shortfalls despite an [excruciatingly slowly] improving national economy and stock markets at record levels [propped up by wave after wave of 'quantitative easing', i.e. debasing the money supply]..."

2015-05-20 (5775 Sivan 02)
Laura Ingraham
Ted Cruz's straw-poll conundrum
Jim Geraghty: National Review

2015-05-20 (5775 Sivan 02)
Laura Ingraham
Scott Walker impressed on capitol hill
Matthew Boyle: Breitbart

2015-05-20 (5775 Sivan 02)
Steven Shorrock _Fox_
can HR re-gain workers' trust?
"At Ceridian [a sad, puny, but highly profitable remnant of super-computing giant Control Data Corp.], we have seen our employee engagement scores increase substantially through a disciplined and transparent employee engagement process.   The first step to establishing an employee engagement program (and regaining trust through it) is to have open and honest communication with the employee population...   For instance, every 6 months at Ceridian we perform a broad employee engagement survey of all employees.   HR works with each department to and does several employee reach-outs to drive employee participation in the survey.   After the survey results are tabulated, HR reviews the results with the senior executives to identify and develop programs for the areas that are the most important for the employees.   The programs that we develop are specific (i.e. explicitly address items identified by the survey), actionable (vs. vague or general commitments) and measurable.   It's important that we be able to determine our progress as we work towards our engagement targets..."

2015-05-20 (5775 Sivan 02)
Laura Ingraham
Benghazi committee sub-poenas Clinton aide Sidney Blumenthal
Manchester Guardian/Reuters
Breitbart
Fox
"More than 2 years ago, a set of e-mails sent by Blumenthal to Hillary Clinton while she served as secretary of state were posted on the internet by a hacker who called himself Guccifer.   Blumenthal did not work for Clinton when she was secretary of state and sent those emails as a private individual.   The e-mails included detailed private intelligence reports on events in Libya sent to Blumenthal by Tyler Drumheller, a former senior CIA officer.   Some of the e-mails were sent around the time of the Benghazi attacks and discussed information Drumheller's sources gave him about the attack.   On Tuesday, the New York Times published a handful of emails showing that Clinton had passed on some of the private intelligence reports to aides and other State Department personnel.   The messages show that at least one of the private intelligence reports made its way to a recipient who appears to have been Christopher Stevens, the US ambassador to Libya who was killed by militants during the 2012 September 11, Benghazi attacks..."

2015-05-20 (5775 Sivan 02)
Ian Tuttle _National Review_
the corrupt leftist Ruth Bader Ginsburg isn't even pretending to be impartial

2015-05-20 (5775 Sivan 02)
Matthew Boyle & Garrett Reno _Breitbart_
House Republicans build fire-wall against Obummer's "fast track"/"trade promotion authority" and secret trade package
"What's more, the whole Obamatrade process is shaping up as almost identical to the 'Gang of Eight' [a.k.a. 8 Gangsters] amnesty fight 2 years ago: The same open borders supporting elites are pushing it, it’s going to pass the senate but not with as much support as proponents originally claimed, Ryan is going to try to force House Republicans to support it, and House Republicans are organizing a quiet but numbers-heavy resistance against it.   The only question is: Can House Republicans opposed to [ObummerTrade] get enough members together to stop Ryan's elitist agenda?   At this time, it sure looks like the cavalry has arrived.   In an exclusive interview with Breitbart News, House Freedom Caucus chairman representative Jim Jordan (R-OH) confirmed he is strongly opposed to the [ObummerTrade] deal as it stands now..."

2015-05-20 (5775 Sivan 02)
Alex Swoyer _Breitbart_
congress may limit former presidents' federal government benefits

2015-05-20 (5775 Sivan 02)
Michael Patrick Leahy _Breitbart_
Matt Bevin holds slim 83-vote lead in KY GOP gubernatorial primary

2015-05-20 (5775 Sivan 02)
Caroline May _Breitbart_
Center for American Regress celebrates electoral implications of Obummer's unconstitutional and illegal amnesties for illegal aliens
"'In Florida during the 2012 presidential election, for example, these [illegal alien voters] would have comprised 70% of the margin of victory; in North Carolina, they would have represented one-third of the margin of victory'...   arguing that every month nearly 69K Latinos and 16K Asian Americans become old enough to vote or 4M new potential voters from 2012-2016..."

2015-05-20 (5775 Sivan 02)
_Breitbart_
corrupt Hitlery Rotten Clinton hired illegal alien as "Latino OutReach Director"

2015-05-20 (5775 Sivan 02)
Lucas Tomlinson _Fox_
no major review under-way on strategy to defeat ISIL/ISIS/Daesh/IS/caliphate

2015-05-20 (5775 Sivan 02)
Mark J. FitzGibbons _Conservative HQ_
senator Mike Lee's e-mail privacy bill won't stop government grabbing your e-mail messages
"...Section 3 of the actual text of [S356], however, allows for judgeless administrative subpoenas to obtain those [e-mail messages], which are private property even if lacking some 'privacy' because they are shared by private parties, but not the government.   So, the government really doesn't need to obtain a warrant from a judge to obtain [e-mail messages].   Instead, attorneys general and various state bureaucracies, plus the DEA, NSA, EPA, EEOC, SEC, FTC, etc. can issue their own judge-less warrants without oath and affirmation before a neutral judge or magistrate, and without probable cause, yet get our [e-mail messages].   The Fourth Amendment is not [only] about preventing 'general warrants', of course.   A warrant for searches or seizures is a judicial act, wrote 17th century English jurist Matthew Hale in his _History of Pleas of the Crown_, first published in 1736 after his death.   In a confidential memo before the 1763 Wilkes trial of which you write brilliantly in your recent book, chief-justice Pratt wrote to William Pitt that abolishing the secretary-of-state warrants might cancel a weapon necessary to national security.   If compelled, Pratt warned, he would never the less rule on secretary warrants, and that he would come out decisively against them.   (Source: William J. Cuddihy 1791 _The 4th Amendment: Origins and Original Meanings_ pg602.)   Chief-justice Pratt ruled that lord Halifax's warrants were 'unconstitutional, illegal...absolutely void', and wrote, 'No precedents, no legal determinations, not an act of parliament itself is sufficient to warrant any proceeding contrary to the spirit of the constitution.'   He then struck down warrants issued by secretary-of-state lord Halifax, which were authorized by parliament and had been used for 80 years.   Those were the precursors to today's judge-less administrative warrants, which too have been used for 80 years in violation of the separation of powers inherent in the Fourth Amendment, and in violation of the requirements of oath and affirmation, and probable cause.   Only judges may hear oaths necessary to issue warrants, which seemed clear to sir Matthew Hale and chief-justice Pratt, and thus was clear to the adopters of the Fourth Amendment.   Utah attorney-general Sean Reyes announced that his office would no longer issue these administrative subpoenas, saying, 'The wholesale writing yourself a note to go after that stuff without any check is too dangerous and the potential for abuse becomes too dangerous.'   He's right; they are dangerous."
S356

2015-05-20 (5775 Sivan 02)
_Conservative HQ_
big business executives lost the argument for the crony socialist Export-Import Bank, so they've started issuing threats
"Boeing, based in Chicago, might move some [more] manufacturing offshore if congress doesn't extend the bank's charter beyond June 30, the Financial Times reported May 17...   Russell Stokes, president of General Electric Company's transportation division, has visited law-makers' offices to push them to reauthorize the bank, said Jessica Taylor, a spokeswoman for the unit.   [GE was a pioneer off-shorer and active promoter of off-shoring and cross-border body-shopping via H-1B, L-1B, E-3 and other visas.]   The company might lose an Angola locomotive deal valued at as much as $350M and perhaps billions of dollars in future exports if Congress doesn't extend the bank's charter, she said.   Taylor said about 1,800 jobs at GE, its suppliers and local businesses in 12 states are at risk without the bank's financing...   Senator Mike Lee of Utah, representative Jim Jordan of Ohio and other Republican law-makers joined Hensarling in urging colleagues to end what Jordan called [crony socialism] by allowing the bank's charter to expire...   At the press conference, Lee urged lawmakers to 'end the perks and privileges that go to the wealthy and the well-connected'.   Critics say the bank primarily helps the biggest U.S. [corporations' executives] rather than [those of] smaller companies more likely to need assistance...   With John Cornyn, the senate's second-ranking Republican, actively looking to join with Democrats to engineer the reauthorization of the Ex-Im Bank and Roll Call's Matt Fuller reporting that House majority-leader Kevin McCarthy could be changing his mind from willing to let the bank's authorization expire to advocating it's reauthorization, conservatives should carefully parse exactly what the Republican establishment says and be prepared to act when they abandon the conservative position in favor of the Big Business cronyism that remains the hallmark of their tenure as the majority in Congress."
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.   Over 2,589,226 H-1B visas have been issued from FY1990 to FY2014 according to the State Department annual reports.

2015-05-20 (5775 Sivan 02)
Terence P. Jeffrey _Cybercast News Service_
3 years after he pulled troops out of Iraq, Obummer declares repelling invaders of Iraq a "national emergency"

2015-05-20 (5775 Sivan 02)
Rob Natelson _Cybercast News Service_
today's US government is far different from the one authorized by the constitution
"Fortunately, during the ratification debates some advocates of the Constitution did clarify the document by listing for the public certain designated activities that would remain outside the federal sphere.   One reason the Constitution was ratified was that the general public relied on these representations...   several sources confirming this list.   One example is an enumeration that appeared in the Pennsylvania Gazette on 1787 Dec. 26, which is reprinted in volume 2 of the _Documentary History of the Ratification of the Constitution_ at page 650..."
the enumerated powers of state governments

2015-05-20 (5775 Sivan 02)
Lauren Gambino & Hannah Devlin _WND_
same-sex "marriage" study retracted due to fake data
Manchester Guardian
Town Hall (video)
Mark Regnerus: National Review
"Green, a professor of political science at Columbia university, said he has now come to the conclusion that, while hundreds of California residents were canvassed for the study, follow-up surveys on which the results were predicated may have been fabricated by his co-author, Michael LaCour...   The claims came after a group of researchers were unable to replicate the study’s findings.   David Broockman, a graduate student at Stanford university; Joshua Kalla, a graduate student at the university of California, Berkeley; and Peter Aronow, an assistant professor at Yale university, found a series of statistical errors in the data that raised questions about the integrity of the study..."

2015-05-20 (5775 Sivan 02)
Leo Hohmann _WND_
Communist Corpse teaches students to sympathize with terrorist organization Hamas, that Jerusalem should be divided
"One group, Boston-based Americans for Peace and Tolerance headed by Charles Jacobs, released a 27-minute documentary film last month that derides Hobert's project as an 'attempt to indoctrinate' rather than educate...   the program was added to the [Communist Corpse]-approved list of curricula and received Race to the Top funding from the U.S. Department of Education...   Hobert admits on camera in [APT's] documentary that his mission in designing 'Whose Jerusalem?' goes beyond educating students.   He hopes to turn them into activists.   Hobert believes in 'educational, civil disobedience, where students are learning about the Middle East, and they're putting pressure on our government to create a Palestinian state [in addition to the existent and historical one of Palestine=Gaza Strip]', he told Qatar-owned Al Jazeera TV in 2012 March...   Hobert said he has had a 30-year passion for teaching 'conflict-resolution'...   The six role players are Likud, Labor, Fatah, Hamas, the Arab league, which represents the countries around Israel, and the quartet made up of the USA, UN, Russia and European Union.   'Those are the 6 role plays and in each you get 4 pages of confidential instructions.   As you try to divide Jerusalem, each of those groups would be one table with 10 students around it.', Hobert said.   'It's neat...'...   Hamas is on the U.S. State Department's list of designated foreign terrorist organizations.   The Islamic terrorist group has in its charter a call for the elimination of the state of Israel, meaning it wants a 'one-state' solution to the Arab-Israeli conflict...   Schools going global with support of UN..."
Discover the Networks: Fatah
Discover the Networks: Hamas

2015-05-20 (5775 Sivan 02)
Erik Rush _WND_
the brazenness of DC corruption
"Obummer throws away 10 years' worth of U.S. military gains -- and one of the rather predictable outcomes is a mere 'setback'.   The back story that's never told is the fact that such mischaracterizations were perpetrated deliberately, in order to advance the Islamist agenda in the region..."

2015-05-20 (5775 Sivan 02)
Jack Cashill _WND_
Malik Obama's million dollar manuscript

2015-05-20 (5775 Sivan 02)
Greg Corombos _WND_
let's start by exporting our liberties: senator demands religious freedom factor into U.S. trade agreements

2015-05-20 (5775 Sivan 02)
Caroline May _Breitbart_
senator Jeff Sessions rips "fast track"/"trade promotion authority" and the Trans-Pacific Partnership
"'Truth: Every trade agreement negotiated by the President and foreign governments is accompanied by implementing legislation which necessarily supersedes existing law.   Proponents of fast-track are relying on semantics: the trade agreement itself will not supersede existing law, but the fast-tracked legislation implementing the trade agreement will.   What's more, the Trans-Pacific Partnership -- which would be fast-tracked by TPA -- will give jurisdiction to international tribunals to settle disputes between parties to the agreement...   Truth: If congress gives the executive 5-year fast-track authority, the senate will cede its ability to amend any future legislation implementing any yet-unseen global trade and regulatory pact; cede its ability to control debate over that pact; and cede its ability to subject that pact to the 67-vote threshold required for treaties, as well as the 60-vote threshold required for important legislation.   Proponents of fast-track suggest the negotiating objectives somehow bind the administration; this is false.   The negotiations on the Trans-Pacific Partnership are nearly complete and have been on-going for years, long before any negotiating objectives will have been suggested.   Moreover, the negotiating objectives are vague and lack any meaningful enforcement mechanisms -- particularly enforcement from senators and representatives not on the revenue committees.   Congress will be giving up the only leverage it has: the ability to amend legislation or to refuse to cut-off debate.   No fast-tracked deal has ever been defeated, regardless of whether fast-track have been ignored, overlooked, or violated by the Executive...   Truth: By eliminating its own powers of review and amendment, congress would dramatically shift the carefully calibrated balance of power between congress and the president.   Fast-track would ensure that the president has complete discretion over the drafting of international agreements congress has never even seen...   Truth: A fast-tracked trade deal has never been blocked.   By denying members any opportunity to slow debate, mobilize the public by seeking extra time, amend the deal, or seek a better deal, fast-tracked legislation is always ratified no matter how flawed.   The train will have left the station once fast-track is adopted.   Without any possibility of a 60-vote, let alone 67-vote, threshold in the senate, this final check will have been removed.   Additionally, the revenues and rules committees have exclusive control over enforcement, eliminating the ability of rank-and-file members to hold the administration accountable for violations.   Those saying congress can just vote down a bad trade deal ignore the unbroken cycle of history...   Truth: Even if Congress declines to implement a trade agreement, the President’s signature will already be on it, opening the U.S.A. up to judgments before an international arbitration body known as the International Center for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID), or perhaps even before the WTO.   An offshoot of the World Bank, ICSID exists to hear disputes between international companies and foreign governments, at all levels.   Congress ratified a 1965 treaty which stipulated that any ICSID awards will be binding as if awarded by a U.S. court, and the Vienna Convention -- which the State Department generally considers customary international law -- states that the president's signature on the agreement obligates the U.S.A. not to frustrate the purpose of a trade agreement.   As such, the president's signature alone could put many U.S. industries and localities at risk, not to mention binding congress' ability to pass future laws without significant international consequences...   Truth: Fast-track offers no protection against delegations of power or authority to international tribunals should congress adopt the implementing legislation of any future fast-tracked deal.   This is particularly relevant when considering the TPP, which has promised to set up an international commission to make changes to the TPP in the future.   The Living Agreement section of TPP calls for the creation of this new body, known as the Trans-Pacific Partnership Commission, and TPP's implementing legislation could well cede important congressional power to this new international body as it did with the WTO.   The overview of the TPP provided to members of congress when they view the TPP's text states that the amendment and accession processes will be similar to those of the WTO, suggesting that congress will indeed be removed from the process after the agreement's initial implementation.   The Ministerial Conference of the WTO, for instance, has the power to amend the agreement or to add new countries to the agreement simply with a two-thirds vote (not a unanimous one), and the WTO's implementing legislation makes these changes binding on the U.S.A. without any additional congressional approval.   At the very least, congress will not know the truth until it has seen the TPP's implementing legislation—which will not happen until Congress has already promised to fast-track TPP...   Truth: Fast-track includes negotiating objectives to remove barriers to services that could easily be used by the Administration to justify the expansion of foreign worker programs.   There is also an entire chapter on Temporary Entry in TPP, which could be used to facilitate the admission of more temporary foreign workers [guest-workers] into the United States.   Even if immigration or temporary entry prohibitions were included in fast-track, the negotiating objectives laid out by fast-track are not binding on the administration.   If any future trade deal, TPP or otherwise, contains language that paves the way for more foreign workers, members will be powerless to strike the offending provision.   Additionally, the living agreement provision allows for subsequent amendments to the trade agreement after its initial implementation, creating an altogether new avenue for changes to foreign worker programs.   Finally, the president has refused to foreclose the possibility of using executive actions or side agreements to facilitate foreign worker expansions, as he did with South Korea as part of the recent South Korean trade deal.   In short, fast-track creates broad new avenues for the White House to bring in more foreign workers—whether in the light of day, or behind closed doors no one can open -- while giving up for 6 years the meaningful ability of congress to do anything about it...   Truth: Fast-track is a mechanism to effectively pre-approve the speedy movement of global trade pacts through congress.   Congress is more than capable of passing trade agreements without a fast-track and has done so in the past...   Truth: The Congressional Research Service has said TPP's living agreement provision is unprecedented.   In essence, the provision allows the agreement to be subsequently amended after initial implementation by its member states, and also allows new member countries to join.   TPP could well cede vast swaths of regulatory authority to a foreign body and expose Americans to the rulings of a new un-elected and unaccountable global commission...   Truth: TPP legislation fast-tracked through Congress will likely contain a provision pursuant to the living agreement clause which would delegate vast regulatory authority to the new TPP Commission.   The TPP Commission will be established under TPP with broad powers to oversee the implementation and amendment of the trade agreement.   Further, TPP's implementing legislation would likely mirror the implementing legislation of the World Trade Organization in 1994.   Under that legislation, amendments to the WTO or domestic adoption of WTO interpretations or rules only requires the bare minimum of reporting requirements by the administration -- no additional vote from congress is required.   Indeed, as the history of the WTO reflects, countries have been able to join the WTO as a matter of course without any additional input from congress; more than that, countries have even been able to join WTO without the approval of executive branch representatives of the United States, as WTO only requires the consent of two-thirds of member nations to add new countries to the agreement.'"

2015-05-20 (5775 Sivan 02)
Kipp Jones _Breitbart_
"anti-censorship show" will go on, after Neil LaBute agrees to cancel a set "offensive to Muslims"

2015-05-20 (5775 Sivan 02)
Caroline May _Breitbart_
37 MS-13 gangsters were indicted in Charlotte, NC
"While all 37 alleged gang members have been indicted on racketeering conspiracy charges, 22 of them are charged with additional crimes including those violent felonies Rose indicated.   As the U.S. Attorney's Office detailed, MS-13 is a criminal gang organization that originated in Los Angeles with membership largely comprised of immigrants and decedents of immigrants from Central America..."

2015-05-20 (5775 Sivan 02)
Mike Adams _Town Hall_
a queer leftist alliance against free speech
"...It involves 3 basic steps: Interject [the topic] into every discussion on every conceivable topic.   Ban those who refuse to affirm [your opinion on the topic] from the discussion.   In the process, reaffirm your commitment to free speech and the importance of open debate and dialogue [and your disgust at the other side's 'incivility', 'hatefulness', 'harmfulness', 'flat-earthiness'...]..."

2015-05-20 (5775 Sivan 02)
Matt Vespa _Town Hall_
civil asset forfeiture

2015-05-20 (5775 Sivan 02)
Ted Nugent _WND_
save a rhino, eat a rhino
"...The hunters got the excitement and the trophy, the native peoples got the precious meat, and the landowners got a piece of the pie from licenses sold.   Regional economies also got a boost in revenues from the licenses, permits, trophy fees, hotels, food, travel, supplies, tourism, guides, butchers and taxidermists.   White rhino numbers went from a few hundred animals to more than 20K in a short time and continue to thrive..."

2015-05-20 (5775 Sivan 02)
Alan Caruba _TEA Party News Network_
Dems and RINOs holding the voters in contempt

2015-05-20 (5775 Sivan 02)
Charlie Spiering _Breitbart_
Obummer to Coast Guard grads: my "climate change" hysteria fueled rise of Boko Haram and ISIL/ISIS/Daesh/IS/caliphate
more of Obummer's fevered ranting
"In 2015 February, the president argued that the media 'absolutely' over-stated the threat of terrorism compared to more long-term problems such as 'climate change'..."

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2015-05-21 (5775 Sivan 03)
Stephen Dinan _Washington DC Times_
attorneys for 26 states asks for court order for Obummer to provide evidence he has complied with previous injunction to top work on amnesties of illegal aliens, that deportations have continued
"Texas asked a federal judge Wednesday to consider imposing a fine on the [Obummer regime] lawyers who misled the court over [president Obummer's unconstitutional and illegal] amnesty [of illegal aliens], filing papers saying the Justice Department is still trying to hide details of how Homeland Security botched the rollout of the program.   Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, who is leading the law-suit trying to stop [Obummer's unconstitutional a nd illegal] amnesty [of illegal aliens], also said the misleading and other errors -- including approving 2K amnesty applications even after Judge Andrew S. Hanen issued an injunction -- cry out for the court to baby-sit the administration, including making them prove that the illegal immigrants really are sending back their wrongly-issued works permits..."

2015-05-21 (5775 Sivan 03)
John Miano _Center for Immigration Studies_
update on law-suit over "work permits" for spouses of H-1B visa recipients
"This hearing was not on the merits of the case -- whether DHS is permitted by law to grant work authorization to H-4 visa holders -- but rather whether implementation of the new regulations (which are scheduled to go into effect next week) should be put on hold until the lawsuit is resolved.   Normally, each party spends 15 minutes answering the judge's questions.   I was answering questions for 45 minutes.   One thing is clear: The case is being taken seriously by the court..."
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.   Over 2,589,226 H-1B visas have been issued from FY1990 to FY2014 according to the State Department annual reports.

2015-05-21 (5775 Sivan 03)
Dan Cadman _Center for Immigration Studies_
"US citizens" with no allegiance to the USA
"Visitors to this Center's web-site or to NumbersUSA or Breitbart or any number of other sites know that the issue of 'birth-right citizenship' -- citizenship acquired at birth without regard to the immigration status of your parents -- has been garnering a lot of attention in recent weeks, including a House of representatives hearing on the matter.   (See here, here, and here.)...   So what does a foreign intelligence agency -- say, the Russian Federal Security Service or the [Red Chinese] Ministry of State Security -- do if it wants to infiltrate its agents into the fabric of American society?   Well, why bother with fake identities?   Why not just take advantage of youngsters who are the products of the thriving business of 'birth tourism'?   These children have the advantage of citizenship at birth even if they feel no particular allegiance to this foreign land.   Can anyone doubt the willingness of these or other intelligence agencies to pressure the parents of such children, or to take an active role in their upbringing, to mold them to their particular needs?..."

2015-05-21 (5775 Sivan 03)
David North _Center for Immigration Studies_
US and Red Chinese governments collaborate against Chinese EB-5 abuser

2015-05-21 (5775 Sivan 03)
Jessica Vaughan _Center for Immigration Studies_
Obummer regime seeks to end immigration law enforcement
"...The 'decoupling' recommendation is just plain ridiculous on many levels.   For one thing, I'd like to see the list of what the task force considers to be 'non-serious' crimes, and then defend that definition to a victim of such a crime.   But more importantly, how does it help reduce crime and increase trust when DHS enforcement agencies are prohibited from communicating with state and local criminal justice agencies?   The result of that scenario is that deportable criminals get to stay here and keep committing crimes and the public can't trust law enforcement agencies to enforce laws that help keep them safe..."

2015-05-21 (5775 Sivan 03)
"cradle of freedom" _Free Republic_
is the H-1B visa a modern form of indentured servitude?

2015-05-21 (5775 Sivan 03)
Oliver Lane _Breitbart_
in Sweden, elderly residents evicted to make room for "asylum seekers"
"...Sweden is, per capita, the largest importer of asylum seekers in Europe, with 8,365 asylum applications per million citizens in 2014, compared to just 494 in the United Kingdom..."

2015-05-21 (5775 Sivan 03)
Victor Davis Hanson _Jewish World Review_
think like a leftist!... or else!
National Review
Town Hall
"...When news organizations, judges or Americans in general do not think or speak in the correct fashion, then elite [leftists] believe they must do whatever is necessary to silence them -- while making themselves exempt from their own agendas..."

2015-05-21 (5775 Sivan 03)
Cal Thomas _Jewish World Review_
power-mad politicians who apparently believe their shifting philosophy is not receiving the worship they believe it is due
Town Hall

2015-05-21 (5775 Sivan 03)
Froma Harrop _Jewish World Review_
motorcycle gangs vs. clubs
"For answers, I consulted James F. Quinn, a University of North Texas sociologist who has studied the Bandidos and other outlaw biker 'clubs'.   Many of the members came out of the military [after WW2] with skills of war and low tolerance for ordinary civilian life.   [They became acquainted with motorcycles during the war because they were used by couriers and some Nazi officers.   Motorcycles were developed in the 1870s by Daimler Benz, a spin-off by former employees of Otto & Companie, just as BMW was founded by August Otto, son of Nicolaus.   The Bandidos] borrow their imagery from the old Western outlaws, having traded horses for motorcycles.   Billy the Kid would be a model biker.   They engage in drug trafficking, prostitution, extortion and the like.   But so do cartels and other powerful organized crime syndicates.   (Texas law enforcement considers the Bandidos a Tier 2 threat, with Tier 1 reserved for the cartels.)...   As most of us know, the outlaw bikers have little in common with the [CEO]/lawyer/teacher/retiree motorcyclists dressing the part on weekends.   My only complaint on meeting many biker couples headed to the annual motorcycle rally in Sturgis, South Dakota, was that they hogged the washing machines at Motel 6..."

2015-05-21 (5775 Sivan 03)
Jack Harrop _Jewish World Review_
pampered academics are the privileged class... or at least many of them believe they should be privileged

2015-05-21 (5775 Sivan 03)
Bill Gertz _Jewish World Review_
Paris air show targeted by terrorists & spies; US Army urged to prepare for war in Asia; Osama bin Laden on "climate change"
Washington DC Times

2015-05-21 (5775 Sivan 03)
David Ignatius _Jewish World Review_
are inter-agency turf battles with hampering USA's fight against ISIL/ISIS/Daesh/IS/caliphate?

2015-05-21 (5775 Sivan 03)
Leonid Bershidsky _Jewish World Review_
in trying to flee Soviet-dominated past, many in Ukraine throw-in with neo-Nazis
National Post

2015-05-21 (5775 Sivan 03)
Robert Emmett Tyrrell ii _Jewish World Review_
prince Charles letters released
Town Hall
"Now Britain's Supreme Court has ordered that the letters be released to the public...   I cannot for the life of me discern why The Guardian sought these letters in the first place; or, for that matter, why prince Charles objected to making them public..."

2015-05-21 (5775 Sivan 03)
J.T. Young _Jewish World Review_
omens from the continuing GHWBush-Clinton-Shrub-Obummer economic depression
Washington DC Times
Real Clear Politics
"Since 1932, there have been six occasions when the nation’s annual real gross domestic product has fallen within a year of a presidential election. In five of those — 2008 (-0.3%), 1991 (-0.1%), 1980 (-0.2%), 1975 (-0.2%), and 1932 (-12.9%) -- the party in power lost the White House in the next election. Only Harry S. Truman survived, largely because 1947's 1.1% fall was part of the overall World War 2 retrenchment [and the huge shift in man-power]..."

2015-05-21 (5775 Sivan 03)
judge Andrew P. Napolitano _Jewish World Review_
what if...
Town Hall
Washington DC Times

2015-05-21 (5775 Sivan 03)
Ann Coulter _Jewish World Review_
is Yebbie Booosh mentally impaired?
World Net Daily
Town Hall
"We went to war at such break-neck speed after 2001/09/11, that, before the invasion, I was able to write approximately 30 columns about it, give five dozen speeches on it, discuss it on TV a hundred times and read 1,089 New York Times editorials denouncing the 'rush to war'.   So I remember the arguments...   Our argument was: There were lots of reasons to get rid of Saddam Hussein, and none to keep him...   [LOTS of REASONS...]   The correct answer is..."

2015-05-21 (5775 Sivan 03)
Mike Hayden _Washington DC Times_
the chasm between the security and intelligence agencies vs. the rest of the Obummer regime
"One way of looking at the federal government is that part of it is permanent and another part of it is transient.   The transient government comprises those elected officials and political appointees who change when administrations change.   There are exceptions (like Bob Gates staying on at Defense), but presidents work hard to fill as many positions as the law allows with folks beholden, loyal and like-minded.   After all, elections matter and these political appointees reflect that constitutional process...   The permanent government brings with it fact-based expertise and experience, both of which are virtues unless they become so dominant as to foster stagnation.   The transient folks bring a political legitimacy along with a vision and energy for change that stimulates [both progress or regress or] recklessness...   This is more about the lack of a shared worldview.   And it is about the time horizons within which each is operating..."

2015-05-21 (5775 Sivan 03)
Bassem Mroue _Washington DC Times_/_AP_
ISIL/ISIS/Daesh/IS/caliphate has over-run historical Palmyra ruins
"Rami Abdurrahman of the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the extremists overrun the archaeological site, just to the southwest of the town itself, shortly after midnight Wednesday.   The ruins at Palmyra are one of the world's most renowned historic sites and there were fears the extremists would destroy them as they did major archaeological sites in Iraq.   The UNESCO world heritage site is famous for its 2K-year-old towering Roman-era colonnades and other ruins and priceless artifacts.   Before the war, thousands of tourists a year visited the remote desert outpost, a cherished land-mark referred to by Syrians as the 'Bride of the Desert'..."

2015-05-21 (5775 Sivan 03)
Dave Boyer _Washington DC Times_/_AP_
Obummer claims Tunisia as Arab success story
"Faced with an expanding threat from the ISIL/ISIS/Daesh/IS/caliphate across the Middle East and North Africa, [president Barack Hussein Obummer] is meeting Thursday with the newly elected president of Tunisia to support its shift to democracy.   [Obummer] is meeting at the White House with Tunisian president Béji Caïd Essebsi, who was elected in December..."

2015-05-21 (5775 Sivan 03)
Stephen Dinan _Washington DC Times_/_AP_
Rand Paul argued for 10 hours against unpatriotic act, and NSA snooping on every American
Conservative HQ
Laura Ingraham
Alex Pappas: Daily Caller
Cheryl K. Chumley: World Net Daily

2015-05-21 (5775 Sivan 03)
Matthew Boyle _Breitbart_
Ted Cruz lauds Rand Paul for opposing tyranny, supporting liberty
Cruz, who doesn't entirely agree with Paul on National Security Agency (NSA) bulk data collection as contained in the PATRIOT Act's Section 215, came to the floor to applaud Paul's big move for liberty.   'I thank the senator from Kentucky.', Cruz said when he took the floor.   'I would note he and I agree on a great many issues, although we don't agree entirely on this issue, but I want to take the opportunity to thank the senator from Kentucky for his passionate defense of liberty.   His is a voice that this body needs to listen to...   [The Obummer regime] routinely violates the constitutional liberties of American citizens, routinely violates the Bill of Rights.'..."

2015-05-21 (5775 Sivan 03)
Matthew Boyle _Breitbart_
Rand Paul: I achieved my aim

2015-05-21 (5775 Sivan 03)
Matthew Boyle _Breitbart_
senate losership shut down debate, bans amendments; McConnell running senate just like the dictatorial soul-brother Harry Reid

2015-05-21 (5775 Sivan 03)
_Washington DC Times_
13 things leftists want to ban

2015-05-21 (5775 Sivan 03)
_Conservative HQ_
stop Nasty Pelosi? let's stop John Boehner and Mitch McConnell first
"Setting aside the fact that there was no Democratic 'victory' in the Mississippi Special Election of May 12 -- in a field of 13 candidates running in a [free-for-all primary] the 1 lone Dem/Red/leftist got a few tenths of a point more than the leading Republican, meaning something like 83% of voters voted for a Republican versus the 17% that voted for the Dem.   This sets-up a June 2 run-off where the Dem will be vaporized in a district Mitt Romney won by 25 points, unless the NRCC moves in and snatches defeat from the jaws of victory, but Simms' e-mail did get us thinking.   Who is the greatest threat to liberty and American exceptionalism?   The powerless Nancy Pelosi who presides ineffectively over the smallest Democratic House minority in over 80 years, or Republican speaker John Boehner and Republican senate majority-leader Mitch McConnell who have worked tirelessly to stymie conservative efforts to stop [Obummer's unconstitutional and illegal] executive amnesty for illegal aliens, refused to use the constitutional power of the purse to thwart [Obummer's] far-left agenda, surrendered congressional power to a lawless president on the Iran deal and Trade Promotion Authority and personally attacked conservatives who objected?   And more to the practical point of what Mr. Simms might do with the money, were one to respond to his pitch, ponder this -- in 2014 October the GOP ran over 10K ads promising to stop [Obummer's] amnesty order.   GOP Senate candidates ran 35K ads on [ObummerDoesn'tCare] in 2014 October alone, and thousands of ads promising to cut spending, end crony government deals for insiders, cut-off government funds for abortion and a host of other items on the conservative agenda -- and none of it has happened.   The ads were, quite bluntly, well-crafted lies -- and everyone on the inside of the Republican establishment knew it...   Yet none of these promises square with how the GOP [losership] has actually conducted themselves once they gained the majority in congress...   What is needed in congress more than anything is not another empty vessel for the lies pedaled by the Republican [losership], but more principled limited government constitutional conservatives who will stop Boehner and McConnell in their head-long rush to surrender what is left of constitutional government and American exceptionalism to [Obummer] and his far-left secular liberal allies.   We just hope district-attorney Trent Kelly, the Republican in the Mississippi 1st District Special Election, measures up."

2015-05-21 (5775 Sivan 03)
_Conservative HQ_
it is not only NSA which violates the 4th amendment
"...[senator Jeff Sessions said], 'a local district attorney can obtain the same type of information in a routine criminal case.   He issues a grand-jury sub-poena for phone records, which requires only a showing that the records are relevant to an investigation.   The subpoena could require the production of much more detailed information than is acquired under section 215 [of the Unpatriotic Act], such as names and addresses of the callers.   Indeed, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency [DEA] and Internal Revenue Service [IRS] can obtain telephone call records and bank records with an administrative sub-poena without even a prosecutor's approval, much less approval by a judge.   The [thoroughly corrupt] Supreme Court has [since the days of prohibition] held this [anti-constitutional] process constitutional...'..."

2015-05-21 (5775 Sivan 03)
Maggie Ybarra _Washington DC Times_
FBI admitted no major cases were cracked using Unpatriotic act unconstitutional warrantless snooping

2015-05-21 (5775 Sivan 03)
Susan Jones _Cybercast News Service_
Obummer plans to bring Muslim refugees from Burma/Myanmar & Bangladesh to the USA

2015-05-21 (5775 Sivan 03)
Patrick Goodenough _Cybercast News Service_
Iran theocracy's notion of a snap/surprise inspection would require 24 days' advance notice

2015-05-21 (5775 Sivan 03)
Hans von Spakovsky _Cybercast News Service_
another of DC's relentless attacks on the 2nd amendment right to own and carry arms has been slapped down by a federal court

2015-05-21 (5775 Sivan 03)
Patrick Goodenough _Cybercast News Service_
Syria tops the list of countries where minorities are most at risk of mass killings or genocide

2015-05-21 (5775 Sivan 03)
Penny Starr _Cybercast News Service_
Tony Perkins: USA's problems are spiritual

2015-05-21 (5775 Sivan 03)
Laura Ingraham
6 reasons free-traders should oppose "fast track"/"trade promotion authority" and the Trans-Pacific Partnership
Conservative Review

2015-05-21 (5775 Sivan 03)
Laura Ingraham
Red China threatens US surveillance plane over Red Chinese artificial island scam sites in international waters
Jim Sciutti: CNN
"CNN was aboard the P-8A Poseidon, America's most advanced surveillance and submarine-hunting aircraft, and quickly learned that the [Red Chinese] are themselves displeased by the U.S. push-back...   Convair B-36 Peacemaker...   North America B-45...   Boeing E-3 Sentry AWACS...   Lockheed U-3 Dragon Lady...   SR-71...   SR-71A BlackBird...   P-8A Poseidon..."

2015-05-21 (5775 Sivan 03)
Laura Ingraham
Japanese prime-minister Shinzo Abe reveals some of their reasons for wanting Trans-Pacific Partnership
Curtis Ellis: Hill
"Earlier trade agreements with Chile and Singapore and South Korea all expanded the number of foreign workers allowed into the U.S.A.   After reading the text of the TPP agreement in the basement of the capitol, senator Jeff Sessions (R-AL) stated his concerns that the president could use TPP to advance his immigration agenda...   Shinzo Abe of Japan explicitly told us that TPP is about creating 'a new economic sphere in which people goods and money will flow freely in the Asia-Pacific region'...   The prime minister's words were neither accidental nor arbitrary -- they come right out of the Treaty of Rome, which established the European Economic Community, today's European Union, based on the free flow of people, goods and money...   The common market was established as an open-ended project, while the TPP is, according to the USTR, a 'living agreement' that can be updated 'to address trade issues that emerge in the future as well as new issues that arise with the expansion of the agreement to include new countries'.   Like the EU, the Trans-Pacific Partnership allows other countries to join -- without re-negotiating the pact or approval by the U.S. congress.   (The [Obummer regime] has said [Red China] could become a member of TPP.)...   We should believe [Barack Hussein Obummer] when he says it will have enforceable rules on labor, energy and the environment.   We should believe him when he says it will enable him to 'write rules for the world's economy'..."

2015-05-21 (5775 Sivan 03)
Sarah Westwood _WND_
Hitlery Rotten Clinton e-mail messages show Sidney Blumenthal helped fabricate Benghazi rationalizations
Washington DC Examiner

2015-05-21 (5775 Sivan 03)
Guy Benson _Town Hall_
Hitlery Rotten Clinton e-mail messages contain sensitive information, trace story of attack on US consulate at Benghazi

2015-05-21 (5775 Sivan 03)
Joseph Farah _WND_
condemnation of behavior, refusal to facilitate it, do not equal denial of rights

2015-05-21 (5775 Sivan 03)
Esme Murphy _WND_
Muslims used federal government-backed student loans to join ISIL/ISIS/Daesh/IS/caliphate
WCCO CBS Minneapolis MN
John Hayward: Breitbart
Fox 9 News Minneapolis MN
The Wall Street Journal
"Investigators say both Hamza Ahmed, 19, and Hanad Musse, 19, used more than $1K from federal student loan accounts for plane tickets to Turkey and Greece.   Prosecutors say they were really going to Syria to join ISIL/ISIS/Daesh/IS/caliphate...   The U.S. Attorney's Office won't say where the 7th defendant, who was arrested in California, is right now."

2015-05-21 (5775 Sivan 03)
Leo Hohmann _WND_
terrorist, posing as "refugee", arrested by police
"Police arrested 22-year old Abdelmajid Touil, who faces terrorism and murder charges for his alleged involvement in planning the attack on the National Bardo Museum in Tunisia.   Touil, a Muslim, had arrived in Sicily aboard a boat with 90 other migrants one month before the attack, according to a Milan police official.   Tunisian authorities have already arrested more than 20 others accused of carrying out the massacre..."

2015-05-21 (5775 Sivan 03)
Lee Stranahan _Breitbart_
"Twin Peaks" restaurant melee started as political meeting of Texas Confederation of Clubs and Independents (CoC&I)
"...However, it's not clear that everyone who attended the CoC&I meeting had criminal connections.   As the Gang Threat Assessment report pointed out, even the Bandidos have recruited members with no criminal history in an attempt to clean up their reputation...   'If 30 guys were fighting who were the other 140 that were arrested?   The Christian Ministries, the Veterans Clubs, and everyone else who attended a COC meeting aimed at keeping bikers safe, biker legislation, and scheduling biker events?   So now your local motorcycle minister is locked up on a $1M bond.'   A look at the Texas Confederation of Clubs and Independents website and events calendar does show a group that's focused on legislative issues and elections.   The CoC&I site has an entire page dedicated to National, State and Local Happenings with links to various political calls to action and events.   That page features a photo of a U.S. Marine standing at attention with a group of bikers and a photo an eagle over an American flag with the motto 'Don't tread on me.   I refuse to allow my civil servant to run my life.'..."

2015-05-21 (5775 Sivan 03)
Andre Walker _Breitbart_
UKIP slams David Cameron's failed policies and broken promises as immigration continues to soar through record highs

2015-05-21 (5775 Sivan 03)
Tom Fitton _Breitbart_
Judicial Watch filed 7 more law-suits to expose Hitlery Rotten Clinton e-mail scandal
"official Washington has sputtered outrage but has taken no strong steps to ensure accountability for Hillary Clinton's and the [Obummer regime's] brazen lawlessness..."

2015-05-21 (5775 Sivan 03)
Matt Vespa _Town Hall_
51% of Dems/Reds/leftists pretty much want to destroy the first amendment (no more free press, no more petition for redress of grievances, no more free practice of religion, but an established religion of leftism)

2015-05-21 (5775 Sivan 03)
Jackie Gingrich Cushman _Town Hall_
the cost of a free republic

2015-05-21 (5775 Sivan 03)
Carl Jackson _Town Hall_
black racism fatigue will hurt Dems/Reds/leftists in 2016

2015-05-21 (5775 Sivan 03)
Steve Chapman _Town Hall_
our crazy treatment of the mentally ill

2015-05-21 (5775 Sivan 03)
Mark Nuckols _Town Hall_
we made the correct decision to invade Iraq

2015-05-21 (5775 Sivan 03)
Laura Hollis _Town Hall_
human nature, public policy, and entrepreneurship
"If there is one thing that most failed policy initiatives (not to mention entire political and economic systems) have in common, it would have to be the refusal to acknowledge human nature..."

2015-05-21 (5775 Sivan 03)
Katie Pavlich _Town Hall_
illegal alien charged with child molestation and pornography, allowed to work with children, thanks to Obummer's unconstitutional and illegal amnesty

2015-05-21 (5775 Sivan 03)
Ed Morrissey _Hot Air_
same-sex "marriage" fanatics are turning "social justice" warriors in a continuing war against free speech
Stella Morabito: Federalist
Ed Morrissey: Fiscal Times

2015-05-21 (5775 Sivan 03)
_Fox_
another wave of HR technology continues to worsen an already dysfunctional job market
"[the privacy haters] IBM acquired Kenexa, [privacy hater] Oracle bought Taleo and SuccessFactors was acquired by [privacy hater] SAP.   With those acquisitions, founders and early employees left and innovation died...   big data collection and interpretation...   HTML5, 'social authentication' and flat, optimized UI design..."

2015-05-21 (5775 Sivan 03)
Penny Starr _Cybercast News Service_
Joel C. Rosenberg: judgement is coming to USA for the murdered 57M babies

2015-05-21 (5775 Sivan 03)
Michael W. Chapman _Cybercast News Service_
Matthew McConaughey warns grads not to fall into the entitlement trap

2015-05-21 (5775 Sivan 03)
Patrick Goodenough _Cybercast News Service_
Israel's new deputy-foreign-minister Tzipi Hotovely/Hutubeli: this land is ours... all of it
Manchester Guardian
Tamar Pileggi: Times of Israel
Herb Keinon & Greer Fay Cashman: Jerusalem Post
Hezki Ezra & Cynthia Blank: Israel National News/Arutz Sheva
YNet News/Ha Deshuth
"'Many times it seems that in our international relations, more than emphasizing the rightness of our cause, we are asked to use arguments that play well diplomatically.', she told ministry employees. 'But at a time when the very existence of Israel is being called into question, it is important to be right... We need to return to the basic truth of our right to this land... this country is ours, all of it. We didn't come here to apologize for that.'   Hotovely said the world understands Israel's security needs, but arguments based on justice and morality always trump those dealing with security concerns... 'More than they want a state of their own, they want to throw us out of our own. In the deepest sense possible this is a negative ethos.', she said, quoting Ben-Ami... [cited the 11th-century Bible commentator Rashi Rabbi Shelomo Yitzhaki/Shlomo ben Yitzchak/Solomon ben Isaac] the land belongs to God, and that he gave it to whom he desired."

2015-05-21 (5775 Sivan 03)
Terence P. Jeffrey _Cybercast News Service_
Hitlery Rotten Clinton had "leadership/ownership/stewardship of this country's Libya policy from start to finish"

2015-05-21 (5775 Sivan 03)
Alex Griswold _Daily Caller_
leaked e-mail messages confirm Hitlery Rotten Clinton had highly sensitive info on her home-brew e-mail server

2015-05-21 (5775 Sivan 03)
Elizabeth Dias & David Goldman _Time/_AP_
Ted Cruz spoke with non-leftist pastors
"'The modern Democratic Party has become so radical, so extreme, that they have determined that their devotion to mandatory gay marriage in all 50 states trumps any allegiance to religious liberty under the First Amendment.', Cruz told the ball-room.   'We've got an obligation, as this conference recognizes, to be watchmen on the wall.'   The Watchmen on the Wall briefing is sponsored by the Family Research Council to connect pastors with policy and legislation.   The group has more than doubled in size since the last year—there are now more the 38K Watchmen pastors in the U.S.A., up from 16K in 2014, according to the Family Research Council.   Last year, the group told TIME it wanted to grow the Watchmen to 40K pastors by 2015 in advance of the 2016 election.   Cruz's father Rafael, a pastor with strong conservative evangelical ties, introduced him -- 'hopefully the next president of the United States'...

2015-05-21 (5775 Sivan 03)
Joseph Farah _WND_
what if one or both of the Clintons were indicted?

2015-05-21 (5775 Sivan 03)
Alan Keyes _WND_
for security's sake, federal goverenment must earn US citizens' trust

2015-05-21 (5775 Sivan 03)
_WND_
after Los Angeles CA raised minimum wage to $15/hour, local employers pursue automation
Conservative Tribune in Defense of Western Civilization

2015-05-21 (5775 Sivan 03)
_WND_
as Iranians continue to call for eradication of Israel and USA, now try to claim that Israel's willingness to defend itself is a threat of initiation of force
Times of Israel

2015-05-21 (5775 Sivan 03)
Bill Gertz _Washington DC Times_
US Army told to get toughter with Red China, quit deferring to US Navy

2015-05-21 (5775 Sivan 03)
Alex Swoyer _Breitbart_
Orrin D. Hatch: I don't know full what's in the Trans-Pacific Partnership deal, but I object to anyone else finding out befor related votes
"However, senator Orrin Hatch (R-UT) objected to Warren's push to make the deal transparent.   'One concern I've heard from the opponents of trade promotion authority is the trade agreements currently under discussion have been negotiated behind closed doors.   That would be renewing TPA. Congress would be enabling, even encouraging further secrecy.', Hatch argued."
Either he's totally incoherent, or the reporters totally misheard him.

2015-05-21 (5775 Sivan 03)
Daniel Pipes _Washington DC Times_
ISIL/ISIS/Daesh/IS/caliphate attacks on the West
"...Unlike al Qaeda (whose model we are more familiar with), which communicates intensely with its agents and directs their moves in detail, ISIS is not primarily in the business of organizing elaborate plots to strike Western infidels.   Rather, it aims to control territory in the Middle East (such as in Libya, Yemen, Syria and Iraq).   It calls Western Muslims to move to Syria; attacks in the West are only a fall-back, primarily promoted by smuggling its members across the Mediterranean to Europe..."

2015-05-21 (5775 Sivan 03)
Brian W. Walsh & Virginia Sloan _Washington DC Times_
shining a light on 10M improper criminal prosecutions: misdemeanor defendants, denied counsel, plead guilty

2015-05-21 (5775 Sivan 03)
Rick Berman _Washington DC Times_
another over-reach by unconstitutionally appointed NLRB
"The new rules provide union organizers with more personal information (including phone numbers, home and email addresses) to press, prod and harass those employees who want nothing to do with them.   It's not a popular move: National polling shows 85% of Americans support employees being able to refuse having their personal information revealed to union organizers.   Meanwhile, the new rules provide another wrinkle to make it easier for union solicitors to capture dues-paying members.   Under the previous rules, it took an average of 38 days from the filing of an organizing petition to the holding of the election.   The new rules shorten the campaign to as few as 13 days..."

2015-05-21 (5775 Sivan 03)
Brennan Weiss _Washington DC Times_
OECD: USA and other developed countries are losing out in trade deals as economic inequality rises
But they totally ignore economic mobility, present no longitudinal studies.2015-05-21 (5775 Sivan 03)
J. Robert Smith _American Thinker_
big government always fails to bring liberty and prosperity, but then maybe it's not intended to do so; we merely need to refrain from propping it up

2015-05-21 (5775 Sivan 03)
Stephen Bryen & Shoshana Bryen _American Thinker_
Iran's back door to enrichment

2015-05-21 (5775 Sivan 03)
Allen C. Stover _American Thinker_
helping jihadis become martyrs

2015-05-21 (5775 Sivan 03)
Raheel Raza _TEA Party Tribune_
confronting the brutal Muslims who abuse women

2015-05-21 (5775 Sivan 03)
Doug Short _Advisor Perspectives_
Conference Board leading economic index (LEI) increased to 122.3 in April
NASDAQ
"Coincident Economic Index increased to 112..."

2015-05-21 (5775 Sivan 03)
Jake Ellison _WND_
U of WI & U of CO at Denver: some bacteria used to process sewage, have been found to re-assemble pharmaceuticals
San Francisco CA Chronicle
Brian Bienkowski: Environmental Health News
"When researchers tested wastewater before and after treatment at a Milwaukee-area treatment plant, they found that two drugs -- the anti-epileptic carbamazepine and antibiotic ofloxacin -- came out at higher concentrations than they went in...   'It's a large amount of pharmaceuticals that we [wastewater treatment plant researchers] look at, it's not a trend that the plants generate higher compound concentrations.', she said.   'It's very specific compounds.'...   'Things like advanced oxidation, UV disinfection coupled with peroxide, different membrane processes...   these remove a large majority of these compounds.', she said..."

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