Foreign Policy magazine quoted government sources claiming Israel had been granted access to airfields in Azerbaijan -- along Iran's northern border.
"I think this leak today is part of the administration's campaign against an Israeli attack," Bolton claimed on Fox News.
Richmond Tea Party reports: Some of the justices, particularly Justices Sotomayor and Ginsburg, seemed to suggest that the best way to show respect to Congress was to only strike limited portions of PPACA and nothing else.
Others suggested that, to truly show deference to Congress, the Court would need to strike the entire law because, to do otherwise, would be to leave Congress with a law they never passed or even intended to pass. Justice Kennedy said that if the Court struck down the mandate, but left the rest of the law standing, "we would have a new regime that Congress did not provide for, did not consider. That, it seems to me can be argued at least to be a more extreme exercise of judicial power than . . . striking the whole."
Justice Scalia seemed to echo this view, stating that "My approach would say if you take the heart out of the statute, the statute's gone. That enables Congress. . . . to do what it wants . . . . It seems to me it reduces our options the most and increases Congress's the most."
Scalia said that there is no case where the Court has found the "heart" of a law unconstitutional and left the remainder standing, stating: http://www.richmondteaparty.com/2012/03/supreme-court-healthcare-hearing-day-3-summary/
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Liberty Log reports: The American Community Survey: A government sanctioned assault on liberty [Have you received yours?]
It sounds innocuous enough, but the internet is full of stories of overzealous Census Bureau employees harassing citizens with late night door knocks and threatening phone calls. A common thread seems to be that when citizens push back, contact a reporter or complain to their congressional representative, the Census Bureau backs down. I should also point out that unless the person at your door is escorted by an actual law enforcement representative and a court order, you the citizen are under no legal obligation to speak to them. My guess is they do not want the court fight so if you push back hard enough, albeit politely without breaking any laws yourself, they eventually get the hint.I cannot for the life of me understand why these folks think they can delve so deeply into the private lives of citizens. Why they feel it is appropriate to collect data on the living, working and driving habits of regular folks. More to the point, who do these people think they are; harassing citizens at all hours with phone calls, home visits, threatening letters and threats of legal action? The folks doing this are literally worse than collection agencies. They attempt to justify their actions by repeating the talking point that not providing the information will prevent your neighbors and community from receiving their “fair share” of federal funding. So I am supposed to allow them to invade my privacy so the government can better redistribute my money? Not to put too fine a point on it but that is simply not going to happen. [What are some of the intrusive questions? When was your home built? Do you have a flush toilet? How many vehicles are kept at your home? Which fuel is most used? What did you pay for your electricity and gas last year? What is your monthly rent, or the cost of your monthly mortgage, real estate taxes and insurance? Do you have a 2nd mortgage? Do you have serious difficulty concentrating, remembering or making decisions? Have you ever served in the Armed Forces? I for one will be contacting my representative if and when I get one of these forms.] http://libertylog.org/?p=2573
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The NYT reported: Published: August 19, 2010
The Republican Party isn’t taking on the census itself, the count of the United States population made every 10 years, but the more comprehensive American Community Survey.
But the Republican National Committee resolved this month that the Census Bureau behaves “exactly as a scam artist would, asking very personal questions,” and called the survey “a dangerous invasion of privacy,” and “overreaching and intimidating.” The committee said the Census Bureau was “spending millions of tax dollars to violate the rights and invade the personal privacy of United States citizens.”
The resolution invokes the Fourth Amendment protection against unreasonable searches and notes that the Constitution mandates a count only every 10 years — to reapportion seats in the House of Representatives. The party is demanding that the bureau either scrap the American Community Survey or make participation voluntary. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/20/us/politics/20census.html-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Free Beacon reports: After an audit of 24,355 non-Medicaid food stamp recipients in New Hampshire, the report shows 2,200 hold a primary address outside of the state. [...]-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
“We are up to a potential in that program alone of up to $41 million worth of payments that may be questionable,” said House Speaker Bill O’Brien.
The report also cites cases of incarcerated or deceased residents getting benefits, including one where the recipient may have been dead since 1983. http://freebeacon.com/nearly-10-percent-of-n-h-food-stamp-recipients-have-out-of-state-address/
Examiner asks: Last weekend in the city of Chicago alone, gangbangers slaughtered ten people and wounded another forty. The youngest fatality is only six years old. The youngest person wounded is only one-year-old. Many of the victim were pedestrians sprayed with bullets in drive by shootings. The national news has said nothing about this.
So why does one shooting in Florida warrant weeks of national news? Why has there been thousands of articles a day, for the last four days, about one single shooting?
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Great news service stories. Thank you....I especially enjoyed reading the sworn testimony of Allen Hulton with the Ayers...Obama was a foreign student, because he IS a foreigner pretending to be an American....sure hope those census folks get things turned off !!
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