CNN poll of battleground states:
Romney 51, Obama 43
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Indiana is sick and tired of illegal aliens, and sicker still of the Federal failure to do something about them.
Last year they
passed
their own version of Arizona’s immigration law – which included
mandatory E-Verify for all businesses, with penalties, verification of
immigration status when passing out state welfare benefits, and a ban on
the acceptance of Mexico’s fraud-friendly “Matricula Consular” card.
Part of the law was
blocked by a Federal judge, but the bulk remains in effect.
Part of that law also requires the state to
calculate the annual cost of illegal aliens to the state – and bill Washington, D.C. for it.
This year’s cost? $130.9 million.
Budget Director Adam Horst sent Congress a bill for the amount
Friday. Congress is not expected to act on the request, however. It’s
not like Indiana is asking to fund a
bridge to nowhere or a Chinese
wind turbine company.
http://standwitharizona.com/blog/2012/07/01/go-hoosiers-indiana-sends-congress-the-bill-for-the-cost-of-illegal-aliens/
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In the midst of a fiery floor debate over contempt proceedings for
Attorney General Eric Holder, House Oversight and Government Reform
Chairman
Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) quietly dropped a bombshell letter into the Congressional Record.
The May 24 letter to Rep.
Elijah Cummings
(D-Md.), ranking member on the panel, quotes from and describes in
detail a secret wiretap application that has become a point of debate in
the GOP’s “Fast and Furious” gun-walking probe.
The wiretap applications are under court seal, and releasing such
information to the public would ordinarily be illegal. But Issa appears
to be protected by the Speech or Debate Clause in the Constitution,
which offers immunity for Congressional speech, especially on a
chamber’s floor.
According to the letter, the wiretap applications contained a
startling amount of detail about the operation, which would have tipped
off anyone who read them closely about what tactics were being used.
Holder and Cummings have both maintained that the wiretap
applications did not contain such details and that the applications were
reviewed narrowly for probable cause, not for whether any investigatory
tactics contained followed Justice Department policy.
http://www.rollcall.com/news/darrell_issa_puts_details_of_secret_wiretap_applications_in_congressional-215828-1.html
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Florida doctors are now free to ask if you own a gun, after a federal
judge blocked a new state law which prevented doctors from asking their
patients that question. Both sides see the fight as a battle of the
first and second amendments.--
-The Governor’s office promises an appeal. Second amendment advocates
have always feared if you are asked if you own a gun,
it’ll end up in a
medical record, and that information could be used later to confiscate
the gun. [I presume we have the right to say it is none of their business.] http://www.wjhg.com/home/headlines/Florida_Doctors_Now_Free_to_Ask_About_Guns_129910078.html
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Humans cutting down forest land to farm is nothing new. However,
charging rural farmers for causing global warming is. A controversial
formula is quantifying the damage villagers have to pay for their small
scale farming. Now, the villagers are taking a stand against what they
know is wrong.
PHETCHABUN – Early one Thursday morning, a gun was pointed at Ms.
Kwanla Saikhumtung, a 34-year-old mother, because she was farming.
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/06/29/bizarre-farm-workers-threatened-at-gunpoint-for-causing-global-warming-by-harvesting-crops/
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Canada Free Press contributor Doug Hagmann has reported that a longtime friend and Department of Homeland Security official
revealed to him
“…the uppermost echelon of the DHS is actively preparing for massive
social unrest inside the United States,” and not only “…expecting and
preparing for it, they are actually facilitating it.”
According to Hagmann’s DHS source, the Obama Regime—which initiates Department agenda and dominates its thinking—
will proceed by implementing
“economic chaos, chaos through racial division and chaos through class
division, all joined by Barack Hussein Obama and his stable of unelected
czars.”
For three years, the Administration has worked to destroy the private
sector and destabilize the value of the dollar. It has injected race
and class into every argument, setting the stage for “summer riots”
organized by Regime operatives. And
when economic calamity and civil unrest are at their zenith,
“…a false flag event against Obama or his family, something that will
outrage ‘black America’ ” will be crafted, its purpose, to “…evoke the
ugliest of reactions and create racial chaos in this country that will
make the Watts riots, 1968 and the Rodney King riots pale in
comparison.”
At this juncture, the federal government will be “forced” to take a
hand for the well-being of the nation and the American public, of
course. Martial law will be declared by an appropriately “reluctant”
Barack Obama, who will offer a television persona clearly dis-inclined
to the exercise of such staggering authority.
http://www.westernjournalism.com/will-obama-attempt-to-declare-martial-law-before-november-election/
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Democrats have a record of flubs on NBC’s “Meet the Press” (
see Joe Biden —
maybe).
And Nancy Pelosi almost made one this past Sunday while trying to
wordsmith her way around the Supreme Court upholding Obamacare as a
“tax” while the Democrats work hard to say it is not and are thus
keeping to their promise of no new taxes.
That’s a hard task, as Pelosi found out. After host David Gregory
pressed her on the issue, Pelosi started talking in circles and caught
herself in an almost-awkward position. Politico
reports:
“It’s a penalty that comes under the Tax Code,” Pelosi
said on NBC’s “Meet The Press” as host David Gregory pressed her to say
whether she agreed with the Supreme Court, which deemed the law
constitutional because the fee used to enforce the individual mandate
amounts to a tax, or with President Barack Obama, who has maintained the
fee is not a tax.
“It’s a ta—; it’s a penalty for free riders,” Pelosi said, nearly uttering the dreaded T-word before cutting herself off. http://www.theblaze.com/stories/pelosi-nearly-calls-obamacare-mandate-a-tax-during-contentious-wordsmithing-on-meet-the-press/
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After being caught for the third time in as many months coordinating with the Obama campaign to attack Mitt Romney, the Washington Post finally -- in the most cowardly and slippery manner imaginable -- came clean
today regarding the provably false charge that the presumptive GOP
nominee outsourced American jobs during his tenure at Bain Capital:
Now that it's been proven Romney is only
responsible for creating American jobs and not outsourcing them, Kessler
wants us to believe the
Post's front-page hit-piece never (who us?) claimed Romney was responsible for outsourcing.
Are you going to believe Kessler, or your lying eyes? The Post's own headline:
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The
New York Times reports that Mitt Romney will visit Israel to meet with Prime Minister Netanyahu this summer, marking his fourth trip to the country:
Mr. Romney, who has pledged to “do the opposite” of the Obama
administration on matters pertaining to Israel, is also expected to meet
with Salam Fayyad, the prime minister of the Palestinian Authority;
President Shimon Peres of Israel; the American ambassador, Daniel B.
Shapiro; and leaders of the opposition Labor Party in Jerusalem. He
plans to have at least one public event in a trip that will likely last
less than two days.
http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2012/07/02/romney-trip-to-israelputs-obama-on-defensive/
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"
Western naiveté about the Middle East is hardly confined to Egypt," Klein Halevy writes.
Last year, I was part of a group of Israelis who met in
Jerusalem with Massachusetts Senator John Kerry. Mr. Kerry had just
come from Damascus with excellent news: Bashar al-Assad was ready for
peace with Israel. When one of the participants mentioned that
demonstrations had begun to challenge Mr. Assad’s legitimacy, Mr.
Kerry’s response was: All the more reason to negotiate while he’s still
in power. In other words: Israel had the golden opportunity to give up
the strategic Golan Heights to a dictator who might be deposed by a
popular revolution, which might or might not recognize whatever peace
agreement he signed.
So John Kerry, the Democratic presidential nominee in the 2004
election, left Damascus believing that Syrian strongman "Bashar al-Assad
was ready for peace with Israel." A year later, Assad would still be
killing his own people--and have come no closer to a lasting peace with
Israel.
All Israel had to do, according to Kerry, was give up land to a murderous dictator to achieve peace.
http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/glimpse-judgment-obamas-likely-second-term-secretary-state_648052.html
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