I swear - you just cannot make this stuff up! Fox News reports: Sen. Susan Collins on Wednesday blasted the Defense Department for classifying the Fort Hood massacre as workplace violence and suggested political correctness is being placed above the security of the nation's Armed Forces at home.
During a joint session of the Senate and House Homeland Security Committee on Wednesday, the Maine Republican referenced a letter from the Defense Department depicting the Fort Hood shootings as workplace violence. She criticized the Obama administration for failing to identify the threat as radical Islam. http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/12/06/military-growing-terrorist-target-lawmakers-warn/
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Redstate writes: With the Obama re-election campaign in full swing since January when ex-SEIU political director Patrick Gaspard left the White House to help run the campaign through OFA, union bosses have expectedly begun lining up their endorsements.
The American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees voted Tuesday to officially endorse President Obama in the 2012 election.
Union officials have already said they planned to spend upwards of $100 million to help Obama win reelection, so the endorsement itself is not a surprise.
In 2008, unions spent an estimated $1 billion in both hard dollar donations, as well as ‘educational outreach’ and GOTV operations. During the 2008 and 2010 election cycles, according to the National Institute for Labor Relations Research, unions spent $2.2 billion.
For those of you who are Constitution-loving Americans, with that much union money going to buy the White House again, you need to become more engaged.
For those of you who are Constitution-loving Americans, with that much union money going to buy the White House again, you need to become more engaged.
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Redstate writes: If Republicans want to make Social Security the issue, they should push for something like the Jeff Landry plan. Rep. Landry, along with Reps. Mulvaney and McClintock, have proposed a bill (HR 3551) which turns the payroll tax holiday into an opt-in system, allowing each worker to annually decide if he or she wants to continue receiving the holiday, in exchange for delaying retirement another month. This will force Democrats to stop avoiding entitlement reform.
On the other hand, if Republicans want to stay on message as supporting tax cuts, they should make the payroll tax permanent. What they shouldn’t do is play second fiddle to the Democrats on a non-offset temporary cut, while gaining nothing politically or policy-wise.
Why grant the Democrats multiple political victories for the price of one? http://www.redstate.com/dhorowitz3/2011/12/06/gop-should-launch-offensive-in-payroll-tax-fight/
Redstate writes: If Republicans want to make Social Security the issue, they should push for something like the Jeff Landry plan. Rep. Landry, along with Reps. Mulvaney and McClintock, have proposed a bill (HR 3551) which turns the payroll tax holiday into an opt-in system, allowing each worker to annually decide if he or she wants to continue receiving the holiday, in exchange for delaying retirement another month. This will force Democrats to stop avoiding entitlement reform.
On the other hand, if Republicans want to stay on message as supporting tax cuts, they should make the payroll tax permanent. What they shouldn’t do is play second fiddle to the Democrats on a non-offset temporary cut, while gaining nothing politically or policy-wise.
Why grant the Democrats multiple political victories for the price of one? http://www.redstate.com/dhorowitz3/2011/12/06/gop-should-launch-offensive-in-payroll-tax-fight/
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Zero Hedge reports: In the aftermath of the MF Global fiasco, popular anger has understandable been focused on the complete lack of any response (let alone prevention) by regulators, in this case by Goldman's Gary Gensler, currently head of the CFTC, who quite comically had to recuse himself from an MF Global investigation due to his previous ties to Jon Corzine. So today, in a unanimous vote, "The U.S. futures regulator approved on Monday a rule that puts tighter limits on how brokerage firms can use customer funds, a measure that the now-bankrupt MF Global had encouraged the agency to delay." In other words, while before commingling client accounts was assumed to be a clear violation of every logical fiduciary imperative, now it is set in stone. For real. The CFTC means it. http://www.zerohedge.com/news/cftc-votes-uninmously-make-client-money-commingling-really-illegal-time
Zero Hedge reports: In the aftermath of the MF Global fiasco, popular anger has understandable been focused on the complete lack of any response (let alone prevention) by regulators, in this case by Goldman's Gary Gensler, currently head of the CFTC, who quite comically had to recuse himself from an MF Global investigation due to his previous ties to Jon Corzine. So today, in a unanimous vote, "The U.S. futures regulator approved on Monday a rule that puts tighter limits on how brokerage firms can use customer funds, a measure that the now-bankrupt MF Global had encouraged the agency to delay." In other words, while before commingling client accounts was assumed to be a clear violation of every logical fiduciary imperative, now it is set in stone. For real. The CFTC means it. http://www.zerohedge.com/news/cftc-votes-uninmously-make-client-money-commingling-really-illegal-time
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Daily Caller writes: In a heated exchange between Sensenbrenner and Holder during Thursday’s Judiciary Committee hearing, Sensenbrenner said impeachment is one option on the table if Holder and the Justice Department continue to withhold information from congressional investigators.
Sensenbrenner didn’t specify which administration officials he thinks could face impeachment proceedings, or if Holder is among them. But he did say the drastic measure would be a last resort.
“There is really no responsibility within the Justice Department,” Sensenbrenner said. “The thing is, if we don’t get to the bottom of this — and that requires your assistance on that — there is only alternative that Congress has and it is called impeachment, where our subpoena powers are plenary and there can‘t be any type of legal immunity or privilege that can be asserted on that.” http://dailycaller.com/2011/12/08/sensenbrenner-floats-impeachment-of-obama-admin-officials-as-fast-and-furious-response/
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The Blaze reports: SEATTLE (The Blaze/AP) — The Occupy Wall Street protests are moving into the neighborhood. Finding it increasingly difficult to camp in public spaces, Occupy protesters across the country are reclaiming foreclosed homes and boarded-up properties, signaling a tactical shift for the movement against wealth inequality.
Groups in more than 25 cities held protests Tuesday on behalf of homeowners facing evictions.
In Atlanta, protesters held a boisterous rally at a county courthouse and used whistles and sirens to disrupt an auction of seized houses. In New York, they marched through a residential neighborhood in Brooklyn carrying signs that read “Foreclose on banks, not people.” Southern California protesters rallied around a family of six that reclaimed the home they lost six months ago in foreclosure. http://www.theblaze.com/stories/trespassers-occupy-wall-st-protesters-begin-taking-over-foreclosed-homes/
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The Blaze reports: New York City firefighters came to the rescue of two NYPD cops who were outnumbered and getting pummeled by 50 angry female teenagers on Tuesday.
NYPD officers made nine arrests, but two officers were hospitalized in the attack. Police also recovered a starter pistol, which may have been intended to further terrify the original female target of the mob.
The scene unfolded in New York’s Staten Island borough when a mob of 50 young females gathered outside the home of a single young girl and threatened her. Apparently, the girl had been kept home from school for several days because of repeated and vicious bullying, so the bullies came to her doorstep. http://www.theblaze.com/stories/marauding-mob-of-50-teen-aged-girls-beat-down-2-nyc-cops/
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Expose Obama writes: How much does the government fear its own citizens? So much so that guidelines for spotting potential terrorists include anyone who has more than seven days of food in his home,anyone who is missing fingers,and anyone who possesses multiple firearms or weather-proof ammunition. These criteria are so broad they put every hunter,sportsman,and extreme couponer in the United States on par with Osama bin Laden.
The Department of Homeland Security made waves in 2009,when its report on “Rightwing Extremism”assessed,“lone wolves and small terrorist cells embracing violent rightwing extremist ideology are the most dangerous domestic terrorism threat in the United States.”These terrorists would not be fundamentalist Muslims (perish the thought!) but “groups and individuals that are dedicated to a single issue,such as opposition to abortion or immigration.” http://www.exposeobama.com/2011/12/05/video-govt-says-hunters-extreme-couponers-are-potential-terrorists/
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Examiner reports on recent speech: President Obama continued, ... "This is a make-or-break moment for the middle class and all those who are fighting to get into the middle class. At stake is whether this will be a country where working people can earn enough to raise a family, build a modest savings, own a home and secure their retirement."
Rep. James Sensenbrenner asked Holder: “Tell me what's the difference between lying and misleading Congress, in this context?”
Holder's response is a bit Clintonian. “Well, if you want to have this legal conversation, it all has to do with your state of mind and whether or not you had the requisite intent to come up with something that would be considered perjury or a lie," Holder said. "The information that was provided by the February 4th letter was gleaned by the people who drafted the letter after they interacted with people who they thought were in the best position to have the information.”
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USA Today reveals: Leading scientists warned this week that climate change is accelerating, but this year's U.N. climate negotiations are poised to end without a new binding accord to reduce the world's greenhouse gas emissions. http://www.usatoday.com/weather/climate/story/2011-12-08/climate-change-talks-treaty/51750238/1?loc=interstitialskip
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Daily Caller writes: In a heated exchange between Sensenbrenner and Holder during Thursday’s Judiciary Committee hearing, Sensenbrenner said impeachment is one option on the table if Holder and the Justice Department continue to withhold information from congressional investigators.
Sensenbrenner didn’t specify which administration officials he thinks could face impeachment proceedings, or if Holder is among them. But he did say the drastic measure would be a last resort.
“There is really no responsibility within the Justice Department,” Sensenbrenner said. “The thing is, if we don’t get to the bottom of this — and that requires your assistance on that — there is only alternative that Congress has and it is called impeachment, where our subpoena powers are plenary and there can‘t be any type of legal immunity or privilege that can be asserted on that.” http://dailycaller.com/2011/12/08/sensenbrenner-floats-impeachment-of-obama-admin-officials-as-fast-and-furious-response/
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The Blaze reports: SEATTLE (The Blaze/AP) — The Occupy Wall Street protests are moving into the neighborhood. Finding it increasingly difficult to camp in public spaces, Occupy protesters across the country are reclaiming foreclosed homes and boarded-up properties, signaling a tactical shift for the movement against wealth inequality.
Groups in more than 25 cities held protests Tuesday on behalf of homeowners facing evictions.
In Atlanta, protesters held a boisterous rally at a county courthouse and used whistles and sirens to disrupt an auction of seized houses. In New York, they marched through a residential neighborhood in Brooklyn carrying signs that read “Foreclose on banks, not people.” Southern California protesters rallied around a family of six that reclaimed the home they lost six months ago in foreclosure. http://www.theblaze.com/stories/trespassers-occupy-wall-st-protesters-begin-taking-over-foreclosed-homes/
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The Blaze reports: New York City firefighters came to the rescue of two NYPD cops who were outnumbered and getting pummeled by 50 angry female teenagers on Tuesday.
NYPD officers made nine arrests, but two officers were hospitalized in the attack. Police also recovered a starter pistol, which may have been intended to further terrify the original female target of the mob.
The scene unfolded in New York’s Staten Island borough when a mob of 50 young females gathered outside the home of a single young girl and threatened her. Apparently, the girl had been kept home from school for several days because of repeated and vicious bullying, so the bullies came to her doorstep. http://www.theblaze.com/stories/marauding-mob-of-50-teen-aged-girls-beat-down-2-nyc-cops/
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Expose Obama writes: How much does the government fear its own citizens? So much so that guidelines for spotting potential terrorists include anyone who has more than seven days of food in his home,anyone who is missing fingers,and anyone who possesses multiple firearms or weather-proof ammunition. These criteria are so broad they put every hunter,sportsman,and extreme couponer in the United States on par with Osama bin Laden.
The Department of Homeland Security made waves in 2009,when its report on “Rightwing Extremism”assessed,“lone wolves and small terrorist cells embracing violent rightwing extremist ideology are the most dangerous domestic terrorism threat in the United States.”These terrorists would not be fundamentalist Muslims (perish the thought!) but “groups and individuals that are dedicated to a single issue,such as opposition to abortion or immigration.” http://www.exposeobama.com/2011/12/05/video-govt-says-hunters-extreme-couponers-are-potential-terrorists/
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Examiner reports on recent speech: President Obama continued, ... "This is a make-or-break moment for the middle class and all those who are fighting to get into the middle class. At stake is whether this will be a country where working people can earn enough to raise a family, build a modest savings, own a home and secure their retirement."
President Obama, on the offense, speaking of Republicans, ... "Their philosophy is simple: We are better off when everyone is left to fend for themselves and play by their own rules...I'm here to say they are wrong."
And, [responding] to those who want to cut taxes and regulation in the belief success will trickle down, Obama said: "Here's the problem: It doesn't work. It's never worked." [Thus his anti-capitalism, anti-what made America great beliefs are put on display for all to see.]
eated “working groups” through executive order that will “guide the unionization” over the next year. http://www.redstate.com/laborunionreport/2011/12/08/ct-gov-schemes-with-seiu-to-unionize-day-care-providers-others-without-a-vote/--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Weekly Standard focuses on the word LIE: On Capitol Hill, Attorney General Eric Holder was asked whether he lied to Congress about the Fast & Furious gun-running scanda Rep. James Sensenbrenner asked Holder: “Tell me what's the difference between lying and misleading Congress, in this context?”
Holder's response is a bit Clintonian. “Well, if you want to have this legal conversation, it all has to do with your state of mind and whether or not you had the requisite intent to come up with something that would be considered perjury or a lie," Holder said. "The information that was provided by the February 4th letter was gleaned by the people who drafted the letter after they interacted with people who they thought were in the best position to have the information.”
" You Know, 'Lying' Is Such A Complicated Concept"
[In the Clinton administration we were told to parse the meaning of the word IS. Now we must parse the word LIE. This also requires me to ask if Holder thought that President Bush LIED when he took the word of his experts when he said that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction....] http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/lying-holder-says-has-do-your-state-mind_611731.html-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
USA Today reveals: Leading scientists warned this week that climate change is accelerating, but this year's U.N. climate negotiations are poised to end without a new binding accord to reduce the world's greenhouse gas emissions. http://www.usatoday.com/weather/climate/story/2011-12-08/climate-change-talks-treaty/51750238/1?loc=interstitialskip
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