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Watch President Tom Fitton today released the following statement in
response to accusations by First Lady Michelle Obama of widespread voter
suppression in the 2012 presidential election. Appearing on the
Tom Joyner Radio Show, Ms. Obama said, “Voter suppression was in full force in so many states all over this country.”
“Mrs. Obama’s accusations about minority
vote suppression are racially divisive and show a dangerous disregard
for the truth. We are aware of no evidence of actual voter
suppression. If Mrs. Obama has some, it should be disclosed.
“The fact is that
early exit polls
reflected a pro-Obama turnout by minorities that in some key states
actually exceeded numbers seen during his historic election in 2008. As
MSNBC reported, ‘Non-white voters delivered a wake-up call to
Republicans Tuesday night. Turning out in droves for Obama, Latino
voters alone split 71% for Obama compared to Mitt Romney’s 27%. High
voter turnout by minorities reflected a huge demographic shift that
Republicans ignored at their own peril.’
“Voter ID requirements are widely supported and are no impediment to voting.
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Seven Secretaries of State have released a statement criticizing
First Lady Michelle Obama for her false claim that Republicans engaged
in voter suppression in the November election:
“Unfortunately the First Lady’s comments continue the baseless
attacks that have been made upon those leaders who are simply taking
reasonable steps to protect the security and integrity of elections.
This past election speaks for itself.
In Arizona, a state that has a photo ID requirement, Hispanic voter
turnout was the highest in the state’s history. In Georgia, African
American turnout has remained high in each election after the state
adopted its photo ID requirement in 2006. In Kansas, another state with
a photo ID requirement, a minuscule .07 percent of voters neglected to
bring their IDs to the polls and all were given provisional ballots and
opportunity to provide photo identification later.
http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2012/12/14/seven-secretaries-of-state-criticize-michelle-obama-for-claiming-gop-voter-supression-occurred-in-the-2012-election/
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The US Supreme Court has been asked to step in and make sure the
military cannot detain US citizens indefinitely without charge or trial
as guaranteed in this year’s National Defense Authorization Act, or
NDAA.
Attorneys representing the plaintiffs in the case of
Hedges, et al. v. Obama
filed an emergency motion with the Supreme Court on Wednesday asking
the top justices in the United States to stop a White House-ordered stay
that ensures US citizens can be locked up without due process [
pdf].
http://rt.com/usa/news/supreme-court-ndaa-indefinite-016/
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Israeli and Jewish officials in Denmark on Wednesday warned Jews to
avoid openly wearing religious symbols and dress when moving about
Copenhagen amid rising anti-Israeli sentiment.
“We advise Israelis who come to Denmark and want to go to the
synagogue to wait to don their skullcaps until they enter the building
and not to wear them in the street, irrespective of whether the areas
they are visiting are seen as being safe,” Israel’s ambassador to
Denmark, Arthur Avnon, told AFP.
[Does anyone recall what happened in Germany?] http://patdollard.com/2012/12/denmark-government-warns-jews-it-is-no-longer-safe-for-them-to-wear-religious-symbols-in-public/
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Thorbjorn Jagland, chairman of the Nobel Peace Prize Committee, said
today that President Obama “really ought to consider” returning his
Nobel Peace Prize Medal immediately, including the “really nice” case it
came in.
Jagland, flanked by the other four members of the Committee, said
they’d never before asked for the return of a Peace Prize, “even from a
damnable war-criminal like Kissinger,” but that the 10% drawdown in US
troops in Afghanistan the President announced last week capped a period
of “non-Peace-Prize-winner-type behavior” in 2011. “Guantanamo’s still
open. There's bombing Libya. There's blowing bin Laden away rather than
putting him on trial. Now a few US troops go home, but the US will be
occupying Afghanistan until 2014 and beyond. Don’t even get me started
on Yemen!”
[Perhaps in the future the Committee should wait until someone actually earns the prize before giving it to him. Empty promises should not suffice.] http://www.thefinaledition.com/article/nobel-committee-asks-obama-nicely-to-return-peace-prize.html
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In a secret government agreement granted without approval or debate from
lawmakers, the U.S. attorney general recently gave the National
Counterterrorism Center sweeping new powers to store dossiers on U.S.
citizens, even if they are not suspected of a crime, according to a news
report.
Whereas previously the law prohibited the center from storing data
compilations on U.S. citizens unless they were suspected of terrorist
activity or were relevant to an ongoing terrorism investigation, the new
powers give the center the ability to not only collect and store vast
databases of information but also to trawl through and analyze it for
suspicious patterns of behavior in order to uncover activity that could
launch an investigation.
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/12/gov-dossiers-on-us-citizens/
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A veteran Democratic lawmaker believes the nation will go along with
stronger gun control laws if President Obama “exploits” the Newtown,
Conn., tragedy and nudges
Congress to action.
Rep. Jerrold Nadler,
who represents portions of New York City, said he was encouraged by
Mr. Obama’s statement on Friday afternoon that the mass shooting, which
claimed the lives of 20 young children, requires “meaningful action”
by
Congress, but hopes those words turn into concrete legislation.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/dec/14/dem-lawmaker-get-gun-control-obama-must-exploit-sh/
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Union Protesters' Attack Hits Local Employer With $35K Tent Destruction
Union
protesters caused at least $35,000 in damage when they trampled and
sliced up two tents on the Michigan Capitol lawn during protests against
right-to-work legislation this week.
The company that owned those tents could also now face higher insurance rates because of the vandalism.
http://www.michigancapitolconfidential.com/18070
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Speaker John Boehner has proposed allowing tax rates to rise for the
wealthiest Americans if President Barack Obama agrees to major
entitlement cuts, according to several sources close to the talks.
It
is the first time Boehner has offered any boost in marginal tax rates
for any income group, and it would represent a major concession for the
Ohio Republican. Boehner suggested hiking the Bush-era tax rates for top
wage earners, including those with annual incomes of $1 million or more
annually, beginning Jan. 1, two sources said.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ That’s a plausible idea, if the country’s agenda is economic growth and
prosperity. But that is not the agenda of President Obama and his party.
By taking more money away from “rich”people and by spending more money
on “stimulus projects,” the President is able to control more wealth
that is currently in possession of private individuals, and then
re-distribute that wealth to people whom he believes are deserving of it and spend it on things that are important to him.
For Dean, it seems that a recession is an acceptable means to the
intended end: government control of private wealth. In this scenario, it
doesn’t matter so much that working individuals and families often lose
jobs, careers, and homes in recessions. Those are unfortunate things,
sure, but when the goal is government control of the economy, personal
prosperity ceases to be a priority.
If this sounds far too conspiratorial, consider the report last week
about the President’s squabble with non-profit charities. In a December
13
th news story, the Washington Post reported that the Obama
Administration was leveling a threat to the leaders of high-profile
charity groups: either publicly support the President’s tax hike plan,
or face the possibility that the President will seek to reduce tax
deductions for charitable contributions.
We’re talking here about long-standing, reputable groups like the
American Red Cross, United Way, the Salvation Army, and World Vision.
And yes, if charitable donors couldn’t deduct the amount they donate
from their income taxes, they probably wouldn’t donate as much – which
would hurt charitable groups. But again, the goal of the Administration
is controlling private wealth, and the prosperity of private individuals
and organizations is not a priority.
http://townhall.com/columnists/austinhill/2012/12/16/in-washington-the-goal-is-control-of-private-wealth-n1468062/page/full/
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Hollywood has responded to the rampage at a Connecticut elementary
school by pulling back on its offerings, and one star says the
entertainment industry should take some responsibility for such
violence.
Jamie Foxx, one of the industry's biggest stars, said Saturday as he
promoted Quentin Tarantino's upcoming ultra-violent spaghetti
Western-style film about slavery, "Django Unchained," that actors can't
ignore the fact that movie violence can influence people.
"We cannot turn our back and say that violence in films or anything
that we do doesn't have a sort of influence," Foxx said in an interview
on Saturday. "It does."
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Do you think California Democrat Senator Barbara Boxer is pro-gun? No, I don’t think so, either.
But Barbara Boxer used her influence to secure an elusive concealed carry permit from California.
Or how about New York Democrat Senator Chuck Schumer?
Schumer himself is reported to possess a New York concealed handgun
permit, and both U.S. Senators regularly employed armed guards for their
personal protection.
Just because a politician recognizes that being armed makes THEM
safer, doesn’t mean they support YOUR right to keep and bear arms.
Read more at Ammoland.com:
http://www.ammoland.com/2011/08/17/political-elite-with-concealed-carry-permits-a-symptom-of-only-ones-not-support-for-gun-rights/#ixzz2FJRElxW6
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