*The federal government has closed a criminal probe into Arizona lawman Joe Arpaio, who styles himself as "America's toughest sheriff," and no charges will be filed, the U.S. Attorney's Office said on Friday.
The Maricopa County sheriff and his deputies have been under investigation by the U.S. Justice Department since 2008.
Last December, the department said he and his office violated U.S. civil rights laws by engaging in racial profiling of Latinos and making unlawful arrests in their bid to crack down on illegal immigrants. [So how many taxpayer dollars were spent in this politically motivated investigation?]
Arpaio is also known for outfitting county jail inmates in pink underwear, claiming the pink shorts are less likely to be smuggled out of jail and sold on the black market, and for housing inmates in a Tent City jail in Phoenix, even when Sonoran Desert summer temperatures soar to 115 degrees.
http://www.conservativerefocus.com/blog5.php/2012/09/01/obama-criticizer-and-birth-certificate-questioner-sheriff-joe-arpaio-feds-quietly-drop-investigation
President Barack Obama was a pioneering contributor to the national subprime real estate bubble, and roughly half of the 186 African-American clients in his landmark 1995 mortgage discrimination lawsuit against Citibank have since gone bankrupt or received foreclosure notices.
As few as 19 of those 186 clients still own homes with clean credit ratings, following a decade in which Obama and other progressives pushed banks to provide mortgages to poor African Americans.
The startling failure rate among Obama’s private sector clients was discovered during The Daily Caller’s review of previously unpublished court information from the lawsuit that a young Obama helmed as the lead plaintiff’s attorney.
Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2012/09/03/with-landmark-lawsuit-barack-obama-pushed-banks-to-give-subprime-loans-to-chicagos-african-americans/#ixzz25P8bdJRb
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Nikki Haley, Governor of S. Carolina said at the RNC: And, sadly, the hardest part of my job continues to be this federal government, this administration, this president.
As
I said, my parents loved that when they came to America, if you worked
hard, the only things that could stop you were the limits you placed on
yourself. Unfortunately, these past few years, you can work hard, try to
be as successful as possible, follow the rules, and President Barack
Obama will do everything he can to stand in your way.
South
Carolina recently passed one of the most innovative illegal immigration
laws in the country. What did this president - who has failed to secure
our borders and address this issue in any meaningful way - do? He sued
us.
If this President refuses to secure our borders, refuses to
protect our citizens from the dangers of illegal immigration, then
states have an obligation to take it on ourselves.
We said in South Carolina that if you have to show a picture ID to buy Sudafed and you have to show a picture ID to set foot on an airplane, then you should have to show a picture ID to protect one of the most valuable, most central, most sacred rights we are blessed with in America - the right to vote.
And what did President Obama and his National Labor Relations Board do?
They sued this iconic American company [Boeing]. It was shameful. And not worthy
of the promise of America.
And what happened? President Obama stopped us. https://mail.google.com/mail/?shva=1#inbox/1397020d13d3622b
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Some of you may know, the last time I [former campaign director to Obama, the black Artur Davis] spoke at a convention, it turned out I was in the wrong
We have a country to turn around. This week you will nominate the most experienced executive
to seek the presidency in 60 years in Mitt Romney.
He has no illusions about what makes America great, and he doesn't confuse the presidency with
celebrity, or loftiness with leadership.
Now, America is a land of second chances, and I gather you have room for the estimated 6
million of us who know we got it wrong in 2008 and who want to fix it.
Maybe we should have known that night in Denver that things that begin with plywood Greek
columns and artificial smoke typically don't end well. http://campaigntrailreport.com/2012/08/28/rep-artur-davis-gop-convention-speech-video
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The official GOP platform approved at the Republican National Convention in Tampa included tough language rejecting the United Nations “sustainability” scheme known as Agenda 21
for the threat it represents to national sovereignty, drawing praise
from conservative and Tea Party leaders across the country.
The Republican Party document also rejected any form of UN global taxes and slammed a wide range of the international body’s controversial programs. http://www.floridapoliticalpress.com/2012/08/31/gop-platform-rejects-un-agenda-21-as-threat-to-sovereignty/
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That’s weird?Back on Monday the Obama Campaign listed an “Islamic Jumah at the DNC” as an “official function” at the DNC convention in Charlotte next week.
But now it’s gone.
Gerard Direct has more on the disappearing Jumah:
Earlier this week, we posted an article about the DNC sponsoring, as an “official event” JUMAH at the DNC (watch the promotional video here).
Florida Family Association sent out an email alert on August 29, 2012 which reported the following two sub headlines:
“DNC approves Jumah for 20,000 Muslims.” “RNC adopts anti-Sharia plank at convention.” http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2012/08/democrats-drop-massive-islamic-jumah-from-official-dnc-schedule/
http://muslimbureau.com/jumahatdnc/
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A federal court on Thursday blocked a controversial new voter ID law in Texas, ruling that the state failed to show that the law would not harm the voting rights of minorities.
The three-judge panel in the historic case said that evidence also showed that costs of obtaining a voter ID would fall most heavily on poor African Americans and Hispanics in Texas.
Evidence submitted by Texas to prove that its law did not discriminate was “unpersuasive, invalid, or both,” wrote David. S. Tatel, a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, in the panel’s 56-page opinion.
The ruling will likely have political implications in the coming elections. Republicans and Democrats have been arguing over whether increasingly tough voter ID laws discriminate against African Americans and Hispanics.
Texas Attorney General Gregg Abbott said that the state will appeal Thursday’s ruling to the Supreme Court, which is the next stop in a voting rights case. [So we have a federal court who believes as Harry Reid does, that one must prove a negative. Welcome to Obama's America. There is no attempt to help them get registered nor to help pay for it, just to be sure that ANYONE can vote.] https://apps.facebook.com/wpsocialreader/me/channels/read/content/vG5Np?utm_source=redirect&utm_medium=headline&utm_campaign=gen_redirect&denyRedirect=http%3A%2F%2Fwpsocialreader.washingtonpost.com%2Ffbwapolabs%2Fme%2Fredirect%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fworld%2Fnational-security%2Ftexas-voter-id-law-struck-down%2F2012%2F08%2F30%2F4a07e270-f2ad-11e1-adc6-87dfa8eff430_story.html%3Fsocialreader_check%3D0%26denied%3D1
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Video of the day ad:
http://www.redstate.com/2012/08/30/ryans-fading-obama-posters-line-spawns-an-excellent-ad/
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Dems Giving Away Tickets to Obama's Speech
You need to be at Manuel's Tavern by noon Friday. [When one is arrogant and narcissistic enough to demand a football stadium for one's acceptance speech, one needs to fill the stadium to make it look as if there is broad support.] http://dunwoody.patch.com/articles/dems-giving-away-tickets-to-obamas-speech-9af17d66?ncid=newsltuspatc00000001
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The great Thomas Sowell: After reading Barack Obama's book "Dreams from My Father," it became
painfully clear that he has not been searching for the truth, because he
assumed from an early age that he had already found the truth — and now
it was just a question of filling in the details and deciding how to
change things.Obama did not simply happen to encounter a lot of people on the far-left fringe during his life.
As he spells out in his book, he actively sought out such people. There is no hint of the slightest curiosity on his part about other visions of the world that might be weighed against the vision he had seized upon.
His statement in "Dreams from My Father" about how white men went to Africa to "drag away the conquered in chains" betrays his ignorance of African history.
During the era of the Atlantic slave trade, most of Africa was ruled by Africans, who sold some of their slaves to white men.
But there was also no reason for him to be shooting off his mouth without knowing what he was talking about. http://news.investors.com/ibd-editorials-viewpoint/083112-624284-obama-know-it-all-no-curiosity-about-reality.htm
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President Barack Obama was greeted with fleeting applause and extended periods of silence as he offered profuse praise to soldiers and their families during an Aug. 31 speech in Fort Bliss, Texas.
His praise for the soldiers — and for his own national-security policies — won cheers from only a small proportion of the soldiers and families in the cavernous aircraft-hanger.
The audience remains quiet even when the commander-in-chief thanked the soldiers’ families, and cited the 198 deaths of their comrades in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The audience’s reaction was so flat that the president tried twice to elicit a reaction from the crowd.
“Hey, I hear you,” he said amid silence.
The selected soldiers who were arrayed behind the president sat quietly throughout the speech.
CNN and MSNBC ended their coverage of the speech before it was half-over.
The silence deepened when the president lauded his strategy of withdrawal from the war. “Make no mistake, ending the wars responsibly makes us safer and our military even stronger, and ending these wars is letting us do something else; restoring American leadership,” he said amid complete silence.
When he said demobilized soldiers would find jobs because “all of you have the skills America needs,” he got little reaction.
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