VA instructs the VFW and a Private Funeral Home that they may not present the option of prayer to familieshttp://www.reuters.com/article/2011/06/28/idUS245137+28-Jun-2011+PRN20110628
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American Spectator writes:Judicial Watch discovered that the Obama administration is flouting the will of Congress by giving federal taxpayer money to ACORN.
Obama's Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)
gave a $79,819 grant to the largest branch of the ACORN tree, ACORN Housing Corp. (AHC). AHC filed papers last year legally changing its name to Affordable Housing Centers of America (AHCOA). It's the same old organization with a brand new ACORN-free name.
Worse yet, the grant funds a political agitation and indoctrination program.
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(CNSNews.com) - Former Army Gitmo prosecutor Kyndra Rotunda told CNSNews.com that some prisoners at Guantanamo Bay have asked to stay there in U.S. custody rather than be released to return to their home countries.
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The Detroit News writes: Michigan's ban on using race and gender as a factor in admission to public colleges and universities was overturned today by a federal appeals court, which said the voter-approved measure harms minorities and is unconstitutional.
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Detroit News: Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette said today he will appeal a court ruling that overturned the Michigan Civil Rights Initiative, which bans the use of race and gender preferences in college admissions and government hiring and contracting.
Schuette said he will make a formal request for a rehearing with the appeals court, a move that will keep the civil rights initiative — known as Proposal 2 — in place at least temporarily.
"MCRI embodies the fundamental premise of what America is all about: equal opportunity under the law," Schuette said in a statement. "Entrance to our great universities must be based upon merit, and I will continue the fight for equality, fairness and rule of law."
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Fox News writes: Recent questions about Media Matters' activities stem from a campaign against Fox News that founder David Brock described in an interview this year as "guerilla warfare and sabotage." By its own admission, the group is conducting "opposition research" against certain executives and producers. It also features a link on its website called "Drop Fox" which helps users contact advertisers and urge them to boycott the
network.
"The terminology that they're using .... is very dangerous if you're trying to keep your tax-exempt status," said
Jordan Sekulow, director of policy and international operations for the American Center for Law and Justice.
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The Columbus Dispatch reports: A federal appeals court in Cincinnati handed President Barack Obama a major victory yesterday when a Democrat-appointed judge and a Republican-appointed judge combined to uphold last year's controversial health-care law. In a 2-1 decision, a panel of the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that Congress has the authority to not only require Americans to buy health insurance but impose financial penalties on people who refuse to get insurance.
http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/national_world/stories/2011/06/30/court-upholds-obamas-health-mandate.html
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National Review reports: Look for the Marco Rubio buzz to continue. In an interview with
National Review Online, he says that he will take to the Senate floor for his second speech this week — and this time he will have President Obama in his crosshairs.
Rubio tells us that he will respond to Obama’s recent press conference, where the president reveled in class-warfare bluster. “Quite frankly, I am both disappointed for our country and shocked at some of the rhetoric,” he says. “It was rhetoric, I thought, that was more appropriate for some left-wing strong man than for the president of the United States.” “When does it start to get better?” Rubio asks. “When does the magic of this president start to happen?”
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/270862/rubio-blasts-obama-left-wing-strong-man-robert-costa
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One News Now reports: Texas has passed a bill defunding Planned Parenthood, making it the seventh state to do so. The bill sends $47 million in tax funds to other organizations that provide medical services to poor women.
Jonathan Saenz of
Liberty Institute calls Monday's vote in Austin a "defining moment" in Texas for the pro-life movement.
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The New Republic writes: Ryan Grim has been doing a great job at the
Huffington Post tracking how Senate Democrats are starting to consider the constitutional option when it comes to the debt ceiling. The constitutional option, what Chait
calls the “Zeitlin Option,” is for Obama to instruct Treasury to ignore the debt ceiling and continue to honor the government’s obligations to creditors and to fund appropriations and entitlements, arguing that the debt ceiling is unconstitutional under the 14
th amendment. In
a piece from today, Grim writes that Chuck Schumer thinks this option “is a strategy worth considering should a debt-ceiling deal remain elusive.”
Grim then explains the legal issues surrounding a possible suit to stop the President from exceeding the debt limit:
Legal scholars, however, argue that the courts couldn’t get involved because no party would have standing to sue. In order to have standing, a plaintiff needs to demonstrate that they have been harmed. Only Congress would have a plausible complaint, and the Senate would not agree to go along with such a suit. http://www.tnr.com/blog/jonathan-chait/91211/congress-really-could-not-stop-obama-ignoring-the-debt-ceiling
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National Journal writes: Each day for the last three months, NATO has issued a classified order dividing the ongoing air war in Libya—uhh, let’s call it “mission”—into offensive and defensive operations.
The latter category is America’s job, and it is huge. It includes Suppression of Enemy Air Defenses, which consists mainly of U.S. jets “loitering” in Libyan air space to watch for surface-to-air missiles that might threaten the “offensive” part of the mission: the French, British, Canadian, Norwegian, and Danish planes attacking Muammar el-Qaddafi’s forces.
The United States is also supplying most of NATO’s intelligence-gathering, surveillance, and reconnaissance capability in Libya, along with air-to-air refueling for NATO strike forces. By NATO’s own evidence, President Obama was somewhat disingenuous in claiming at his Wednesday news conference that U.S. forces were not “carrying the lion’s share of this operation.” U.S. planes, in fact, “represent the majority of aircraft within the theater, and they have done so from the beginning,” NATO spokesman Tony White told
National Journal on Thursday. “The U.S. role continues to be fundamental to the mission” and is “supremely important in every strike sortie.”
http://nationaljournal.com/how-obama-has-perfected-the-art-of-not-saying-war-20110701?page=1
Go Blue! I had a 3.89 in high school and was a scholar athlete...but was told I wouldn't get in to Michigan. MAN would I have been MAD AS HELL to learn that someone less qualified got my spot just because he or she had a different ethnic background. We are living in the 21st century, people!!! ARGHHH!!!
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