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Saturday, April 30, 2016
China rejects Hong Kong port call by US carrier: Pentagon
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Tech Layoffs For 2016 Projected To Be Deep: What Happens To 260,000 Highly Skilled Professionals In Their 40s And 50s?
U.S. Supreme Court rules Texas can keep enforcing voter ID law
By Bobby Blanchard, The Dallas Morning News
AUSTIN — The Supreme Court denied a request Friday to block Texas from enforcing its voter ID law into the 2016 election cycle as the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals weighs the controversial measure.
A three-judge panel ruled last year that Texas needed to fix the law, but the court allowed the state to continue to enforce it while appeals played out. The full 5th Circuit Court of Appeals will hear the case in May.
In the meantime, civil rights groups had requested that the Supreme Court vacate the order from the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals that allowed the state to continue enforcing the voter ID law. Civil rights groups raised concerns that the 5th Circuit might not rule until after the November elections.
Would someone explain to me again how requiring someone to show identification prior to voting discriminates against anyone? The fact is it doesn't and everyone knows it but it's the only way Socialists can win any elections. Not requiring ID allows multiple votes by people, non-citizens to vote and some people who are dead are still voting. I'm laughing right now but feel like crying because our country has become totally stupid!
Obamacare to surgery, STAT!
News stories of recent days suggest a stabbing pain in the wallet awaiting people who buy health coverage for 2017 through Obamacare exchanges. Friday's Tribune reported that insurers in many states will seek major premium hikes. We don't yet have Illinois figures, but it's safe to say that citizens here should prepare for a rate jolt of teeth-rattling magnitude.
All of which contrasts with President Barack Obama's victory lap in late March, when he celebrated the sixth anniversary of his signature achievement and crowed about its rousing success.
You can keep lying to everyone for a time but eventually the lie is revealed but most of us knew it already. Obama's legacy will be that of a dumbass who ruined the best healthcare system in the world! Oh and the trust of America, economy, jobs, foreign relations, housing, military, etc., etc., etc.,
Hillary Claims Innocence, But This Money Trail Says Otherwise
By Bre Payton, The Federalist
Time and time again, Hillary Clinton has claimed innocence regarding her decision to use a private, unsecured, unsanctioned email server to avoid public scrutiny of her affairs during her tenure as Secretary of State, but a source with knowledge of the matter says the Clintons are mixed up in a complicated money trail that says otherwise.
The Clintons are allegedly paying “hundreds of thousands of dollars” in legal fees for the family aide who registered the domain name for the private email server Hillary Clinton used, Monica Crowley of the Washington Times reports.
Pennsylvania GOP delegates voice strong support for Trump
By Mark Scolforo and Marc Levy, Associated Press
HARRISBURG, Pa. — A solid majority of Pennsylvania Republicans elected as delegates to the GOP's presidential nominating convention in Cleveland say they intend to vote for the candidate who won a thumping primary victory in their state — Donald Trump.
The ballot didn't tell voters which candidate the delegates support, and the 54 people who were elected can vote for whomever they want. It's an unusual system that raised the prospect that the Pennsylvania contingent could be decisive in depriving Trump of the nomination by scattering to his rivals despite his victory in the state.
That appears unlikely.
It's all over but the crying. Cruz and Kasich need to get behind Trump and stop trying to steal the nomination because it won't happen and doesn't look very presidential. They've both alienated themselves from any position in the administration for at least the next eight years.
Friday, April 29, 2016
Protests break out as Trump speaks in Southern California
By Gillian Flaccus and Amy Taxin, Associated Press
COSTA MESA, Calif. (AP) — Raucous crowds of protesters took to the streets in California as Donald Trump brought his Republican presidential campaign to conservative Orange County after sweeping the Northeast GOP primaries.
Dozens of protesters were mostly peaceful Thursday as Trump gave his speech inside the Pacific Amphitheater. After the event, however, the demonstration grew rowdy late in the evening and spilled into the streets.
At least four people were arrested and one Trump supporter had his face bloodied in a scuffle as he tried to drive out of the arena. One man jumped on a police car, leaving its front and rear windows smashed and the top dented in and other protests sprayed graffiti on a police car and the venue's marquee.
Pictured above are 3 of the protesters arrested outside the Trump Rally. They should've been protesting before the "Village Idiot" was elected, TWICE!
A path to nomination, narrow as it is, emerges for Trump
By Michael Mathes, AFP
Donald Trump's path to victory in the Republican presidential nomination race, dismissed as inconceivable by many in the run up to the primaries, is actually appearing more credible, political experts said.
Can he secure the 1,237 delegates needed to prevail and avoid a chaotic contested convention?
It is no longer a mission impossible, but he will need to thread the needle if he is to be the Republican who challenges the likely Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton in November.
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Thursday, April 28, 2016
Bill Clinton: Hillary “Negotiated A Treaty With Russia”
NYT’s Landler: Failed Libya Policy Once Seen By Aides As "Cornerstone Of...
State Dept.--Ignoring Law--Won't Defund U.N. Climate Agency for Admitting 'State of Palestine'
By Patrick Goodenough, CNS News
(CNSNews.com) – The State Department says it’s not obliged to cut off funding for the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change in response to its admission of the “State of Palestine,” since the UNFCCC is “a treaty,” not an international organization.
Sen. John Barrasso (R-Wyo.), the senator leading calls for a halt to the funding in line with U.S. law, called the argument “intentionally misleading,” and an exercise in “verbal gymnastics.”
Business as usual!
How The Abortion Industry Bought Off The Top Democratic Leader Investigating Planned Parenthood
By Mollie Hemingway, The Federalist
The top Democrat on a House committee examining Planned Parenthood’s baby organ trafficking is riddled with conflicts of interest, a new analysis shows. Rep. Jan Schakowsky, D-IL — handpicked for the committee by House Minority Leader, Nancy Pelosi — has a long history of running interference for abortionists and their allies. A history that includes plum consulting gigs for her felon husband and more than $89,000 in contributions to her campaign coffers.
Hours into the second hearing of the House Select Panel on Infant Lives on April 20, Rep. Sean Duffy, R-WI, directed witnesses to discuss a couple of pieces of evidence. One was a brochure — obtained at a national abortion conference — from a company that purchases fetal body parts. The other was from a website of a company that purchases fetal body parts, announcing financial benefits to clinics that provide fetal tissue. It is against federal law to financially benefit from the aborted baby organ trade. Some witnesses testified that the law has not been enforced in decades.
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Survey: Obamacare Disapproval Surges
By Kimberly Leonard, U.S. News and World Report
Obamacare has extended health insurance coverage to nearly 20 million Americans – but that has done little to shift the public's oppinion about the law.
According to a survey released Wednesday by the Pew Research Center, 54 percent of Americans disapprove of the 2010 Affordable Care Act compared with 44 percent who approve of the law. While approval showed a modest increase since the law's passage, disapproval has increased by 10 percentage points. The divide has also become more pronounced since July, when 48 percent of respondents said they approved of the law and 49 percent said they disapproved.
Carly Fiorina says majority of Republicans don't want President Trump
By Catherine Garcia, The Week
Carly Fiorina appeared on The Kelly File Wednesday night to defend Ted Cruz's decision to name her as his running mate, despite the fact that he is well behind Donald Trump in delegates.
"Donald Trump hasn't won this nomination yet," Fiorina said. She argued that the race is "about the soul of our party and the future of our nation," and called Trump and Hillary Clinton "virtually indistinguishable in their positions, indistinguishable in the fact they have always been insiders to this corrupt system of crony capitalism and selling access and influence."
Just shows you how out of touch all politicians are with the American Public. The entire election process is rigged. Why are we still even talking about Cruz and Kasich? Because they may actually STEAL the nomination on a second ballot at the convention. Oh and by the way, that would mean that the delegates will have to vote to betray their people and Cruz and Kasich are promoting this as an option because they can't win honestly. So what does that tell you about Cruz and Kasich? I hope none of you think that we are free in this country any longer. It's time to lift the veil and do some plastic surgery on America. It also needs a serious bowel resection.
An Alabama city now says people who violate its bathroom ordinance could face jail time
By Mark Berman, The Washington Post
In recent weeks, fights have raged in North Carolina and beyond over “bathroom bills” mandating that people use restrooms matching the gender on their birth certificates. One small city in Alabama just jumped into the fray and, in what may be a first, added what may be a new feature to its bathroom measure: jail time.
The city council in Oxford, Ala., voted Tuesday to adopt an ordinance that would make it a crime for transgender people to use a public bathroom or changing facility different from the one on their birth certificate.
The new ordinance, posted online by the Anniston Star newspaper, also says that anyone violating the ordinance could face up to six months in jail or a $500 fine.
President Obama Weighs His Economic Legacy
By Andrew Ross Sorkin, The New York Times
Two months ago, across an assembly-room table in a factory in Jacksonville, Fla., President Barack Obama was talking to me about the problem of political capital. His efforts to rebuild the U.S. economy from the 2008 financial crisis were being hit from left, right and center. And yet, by his own assessment, those efforts were vastly underappreciated. “I actually compare our economic performance to how, historically, countries that have wrenching financial crises perform,” he said. “By that measure, we probably managed this better than any large economy on Earth in modern history.”
I can sum it up in one word, "FAILURE"!
Tennessee governor signs religious counseling bill into law
By SHEILA BURKE and ERIK SCHELZIG, Associated Press
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Tennessee's Republican governor said Wednesday that he signed a bill into law that allows mental health counselors to refuse to treat patients based on the therapist's religious or personal beliefs.
"As a professional I should have the right to decide if my clients end goals don't match with my beliefs — I should have the right to say somebody else can better serve them," Gov. Bill Haslam said in a phone interview with The Associated Press. "Lawyers can do that, doctors can do that. Why would we take this one class of professionals and say you can't do that?"
The American Counseling Association called the legislation an "unprecedented attack" on the counseling profession and said Tennessee was the only state to ever pass such a law. Opponents say the legislation is part of a wave of bills around the nation that legalizes discrimination against gays, lesbians, bisexuals and transgender people.
This should go without saying. If men in the military can have facial hair and a headscarf or turban because of their religion than anyone should have the right to do or refuse anything based on religion. YOU CAN'T HAVE IT BOTH WAYS. That's called discrimination folks. This is another reason why providing birth control insurance should not be mandatory for religious reasons.
Israel’s controversial ‘roof knocking’ tactic appears in Iraq. And this time, it’s the U.S. doing it.
By Adam Taylor, The Washington Post
"Roof knocking" is a controversial Israeli military practice used in the Gaza Strip. It works on a simple logic designed to minimize civilian casualties. Occupants of a building are given a warning a few minutes before a military strike.
The first warning is generally a phone call. The second is a rocket.
The Israeli military has argued that the practice saves lives by giving occupants a chance to escape, but critics say the tactic creates confusion and can amount to psychological warfare. This week, the United States announced that it had used the tactic in Iraq.
Then don't knock just blow up all of the buildings. If there are terrorists in the building the other occupants already know it and are usually harboring them anyway. Someone is going to cry no matter what you do but majority rules and most Americans would say we need to kill all of the terrorists. If you're innocent get out of the way because you know who they are!
Tuesday, April 26, 2016
Justices protect free speech, even if unspoken
By Richard Wolf, USA Today
WASHINGTON — A New Jersey police officer demoted because his bosses mistakenly thought he was supporting the mayor's political opponent won a reprieve from the Supreme Court Tuesday.
Two lower courts had upheld Jeffrey Heffernan's demotion a decade ago for an unusual reason: He was not actually engaging in political activity, but rather picking up a campaign sign for his mother.
Because of that, they said, his action was not protected under the First Amendment.
But the Supreme Court ruled 6-2 that because the city of Paterson's motive was to prevent political speech protected by the Constitution, Heffernan's demotion from detective to patrol officer was unconstitutional, and he had the right to sue the city under federal civil rights laws.
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Trump breaks 50 percent mark in national poll
By Kyle Balluck, The Hill
Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump is above the 50-percent mark nationally for in an online tracking poll.
The billionaire businessman added 4 points to reach 50 percent in the latest NBC News/SurveyMonkey weekly poll, released Tuesday morning.
‘Historic’ changes for Louisiana food stamp program as Gov. John Bel Edwards inks executive order
By Elizabeth Crisp, The Advocare
Beginning July 1, thousands of unemployed adults in Louisiana will have to seek job search and training assistance through the state’s workforce centers to continue receiving food stamp benefits for an extended period.
Gov. John Bel Edwards on Thursday signed an executive order establishing the first work restrictions on the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program here in nearly two decades.
“This truly is important. It’s historic,” Edwards said in announcing the new initiative. “We are striking the right balance as we move Louisiana forward.”
The end of Food Stamps in America is coming soon. The program is being used for snacks, energy drinks, candy and soda and was only intended to buy the staples for people to cook at home. Milk, cheese, cereal, oats, fruit, rice, meat, etc., The only way to get people back to work and off of any form of public assistance is to force them to work for it.
New Hampshire ObamaCare Customers Exit; 45% Rate Hike Eyed
By Jed Graham, Investor's Business Daily
Minuteman Health, the lowest-cost and second-biggest participant on New Hampshire’s ObamaCare exchange, warned last week that it’s requesting a 45.2% premium hike for 2017.
The news comes as New Hampshire insurers reported an 11.7% decline in membership, down from the 55,183 signups reported by the Obama administration as of early February to 48,704 members with up-to-date payments at the start of April.
Including ObamaCare customer exits in five other states — Connecticut, Colorado, Minnesota, Oklahoma and Washington — previously reported by IBD and other news outlets, that averages out to a 14.2% decline. The six states combined had nearly 647,000 customers at latest word, down from more than 753,000.
Obama lied about everything. Obamacare did exactly the opposite of everything he said it would do or not! It will go away but has screwed up coverage and the medical insurance industry forever. Premiums, deductibles and co-payments will never go down to rates prior to Obamacare but stay at current levels and be raised even further in the future.
Napolitano: Hillary Facing Catastrophe Whether She Is Indicted or Not
By Debra Heine, PJ Media
A number of conservative politicos have predicted that scores of FBI agents could revolt if their investigation into Hillary Clinton's private email server finds overwhelming evidence of criminal wrongdoing and the Justice Department refuses to indict her. According to their theories, not only could there be mass resignations, including that FBI Director James Comey, but there could also be major leaks of unauthorized FBI investigative materials to the public.
On Friday morning, a powerful sitting senator also suggested that the FBI may leak reports of its investigation if the agency believes prosecution of Clinton was thwarted for political reasons.
Federal judge upholds North Carolina photo ID mandate
By EMERY P. DALESIO and GARY D. ROBERTSON, Associated Press
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Lawsuits challenging changes to North Carolina's election law failed to show it hampered the ability of minority voters to exercise political power, a federal judge ruled Monday in dismissing the cases.
U.S. District Judge Thomas Schroeder ruled against the U.S. Justice Department, the North Carolina NAACP chapter and named voters. They sued alleging the law was passed to discriminate against poor and minority voters in violation of the Constitution and U.S. Voting Rights Act.
While North Carolina had a sordid history of freezing black voters out of the political process, the plaintiffs didn't show that the law hampered the ability of minority voters to exercise electoral politics, Schroeder said.
This decision will spread like wildfire through the Federal Courts. It's about time someone came to their senses and said you cannot prove that Voter ID Laws discriminate against Blacks unless you also say their too stupid to get an identification card, drivers license, buy liquor, buy cigarettes, apply for government assistance, get a bank account or a ton of other things. Only the Democrats want you to believe this is true without actually saying it!
Monday, April 25, 2016
State Denies That Obama Is Doing The Opposite Of What He Previously Stat...
Clinton Gets Defensive About State Of Race, Insists 4 Times That She Is ...
Reporter to Obama: Is It Any of Your Business Whether Britain Stays in EU?
Permanent ACA Risk Adjustment Is Permanently Messed Up
By Seth Chandler, Forbes
Skeptics frequently claim that Obamacare will necessarily end in a death spiral. The demise occurs because, without medical underwriting, and without actuarially sound underwriting based on demographic factors, the insurance pool will evolve badly. It will become disproportionately populated by those with medical expenses in excess of premium revenues. This “adverse selection” will cause insurers to increase prices, which will create a positive feedback cycle. The end result of this “modified community rating” will be either a death spiral — no insurance market at all — or a “coma spiral” — the insurance market exists, but just barely.
Really!?, Really!? "You have to pass it before you can know what's in it!" from Nancy "The Old Bitch" Pelosi!
Obamacare disaster will be Obama’s enduring domestic legacy
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Unions' $15 Minimum Wage About-Face
Recent discussions within Los Angeles labor groups reveal inherent hypocrisy within the “Fight for $15” campaign. Unions paid plenty of lip service toward this effort, which would raise the minimum wage to $15. The Los Angeles City Council is considering a measure that would raise the city’s minimum wage to $15 by 2020, and this month California Governor Jerry Brown signed a law raising the state’s minimum wage to $15 by 2022. It seems that unions should be celebrating this supposed win for workers – yet union leaders are currently seeking an exemption to the $15-an-hour minimum wage for union members.
Yes, you read that correctly. Champions of the “Fight for $15” movement appear to be getting what they fought for, except now they want no part of it. Los Angeles labor leaders make the argument that, if unionized businesses are exempt from the minimum-wage law, they can have the freedom to negotiate better terms for workers (which might include lower hourly pay but other benefits, like healthcare and vacation time).
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New Obamacare Study Considers What Happens When Generous Government Subsidies End
By Brian Blasé, Forbes
A large subsidy program that has helped insurers offering Affordable Care Act (ACA) compliant coverage in the individual market expires this year. In 2017, for the first time, insurance premiums alone must cover expenses in the individual market. A new working paper released today by the Mercatus Center at George Mason University measures the importance of this subsidy program, sheds new light on insurers’ generally poor results in 2014, and discusses what likely lies ahead for the law.
The study, authored by myself, Doug Badger of the Galen Institute and Ed Haislmaier of the Heritage Foundation contains two key findings. First, insurers incurred substantial losses overall despite receiving much larger back-end subsidies per enrollee through the ACA’s reinsurance program than they expected when they set their premiums for 2014. Second, we estimate that in the absence of the reinsurance program insurers would have had to set premiums 26% higher, on average, in order to avoid losses—assuming implausibly that the overall health of the risk pool would not have worsened as a result of the higher premiums. Our findings raise serious questions about the ACA’s future, particularly when the reinsurance program ends and premium revenue must be sufficient to cover expenses.
A Nixonian Overreach By The Obama Administration?
By JOHN YOO and HORACE COOPER, Investors Business Daily
A federal judge this week slapped down another effort by the Obama administration to conceal its use of taxpayer funds. Litigation between shareholders in Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and the U.S. government has called for the revelation of documents that the White House tried to keep secret under the doctrine of “executive privilege.”
Plaintiffs contend that the federal takeover of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in 2008, and the diversion of profits from the companies to the federal treasury in 2012, carried out an unconstitutional taking of property. The Obama administration has refused to make public communications — thousands of documents — between the Treasury Department, Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA), Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and the White House, on the ground of executive privilege.
Backlash greets plans for Muslim cemeteries across US
By Denise Lavoie, Associated Press
DUDLEY, Mass. (AP) — On the site of a long-idle dairy farm, leaders of a local mosque hope to build a final resting place for about 500 Muslim families — to the dismay of many residents of this quaint town in central Massachusetts.
In arguments cemetery developers and activists decry as thinly veiled bigotry, neighbors say they fear burial practices could contaminate groundwater because Muslims traditionally do not embalm bodies and bury their dead without coffins. They also cite concerns about noise, vandalism and increased traffic on the narrow road where the cemetery would be built. One resident said he worried he would have to put up with "crazy music" like the Islamic call to prayer.
More than 500,000 boycott Target over transgender bathroom policy
By Hadley Malcolm, USA Today
A conservative Christian activist group has gained more than half a million signatures and counting from people pledging to boycott Target over its transgender bathroom policy.
The petition started by the American Family Association on Wednesday raises concerns that Target's inclusive stance on transgender rights encourages sexual predators and puts women and young girls in danger, because "a man can simply say he 'feels like a woman today' and enter the women's restroom."
The boycott has more than 503,000 signatures as of Monday morning, marking it as one of AFA's most popular campaigns.
It looks like being politically correct may be passe. Target is now the Target!
Trump, favored in five states Tuesday, now faces Cruz-Kasich alliance
By David Jackson, USA Today
WEST CHESTER, Pa. — Donald Trump looks to sweep five northeastern states Tuesday while preparing for a revamped Republican race against an extraordinary alliance between rivals Ted Cruz and John Kasich designed to stop him at the July convention.
Denouncing plans by Cruz and Kasich to avoid each other in three upcoming states, Trump said that "this horrible act of desperation from two campaigns who have totally failed" makes him even more determined to win the Republican presidential nomination.
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Ted Cruz, John Kasich Campaigns Agree to Coordinate to Stop Trump
By JESSICA HOPPER and BEN GITTLESON, Good Morning America
The campaigns for Republican presidential candidates Ted Cruz and John Kasich announced in statements tonight that each candidate will cede states in the 2016 presidential race to one another in an effort to stop GOP frontrunner Donald Trump.
Cruz's campaign manager Jeff Roe said in a statement that "to ensure that we nominate a Republican who can unify the Republican Party and win in November, our campaign will focus its time and resources in Indiana and in turn clear the path for Gov. Kasich to compete in Oregon and New Mexico, and we would hope that allies of both campaigns would follow our lead."
Kasich's campaign manager John Weaver wrote in a memo that, "We are very comfortable with our delegate position in Indiana already, and given the current dynamics of the primary there, we will shift our campaign's resources West and give the Cruz campaign a clear path in Indiana."
So delegates who vote for Cruz and Kaisch will be betrayed by the candidate they voted for? Sounds about right. They still won't be able to stop Trump. The more they mess with him the more popular he becomes.
Sunday, April 24, 2016
UN Security Council 'strongly' condemns N.Korea missile launch
The United Nations Security Council on Sunday blasted North Korea for firing what the hermit state claimed was a successful submarine-launched ballistic missile.
"The members of the Security Council strongly condemned the firing of a submarine-launched ballistic missile by the Democratic People's Republic of Korea on April 23," a UN statement read, calling it "yet another serious violation by the DPRK of United Nations Security Council resolutions."
"The members of the Security Council reiterated their serious concern... that such ballistic missile activities contribute to the DPRK's development of nuclear weapons delivery systems and increase tension in the region and beyond," the statement added.
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Man arrested, charged with threatening to bomb Trump rally
WATERBURY, Connecticut — A 20-year-old man is facing charges after authorities say he tweeted out a bomb threat during a Donald Trump rally in Connecticut on Saturday.
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Connecticut State Police say the U.S. Secret Service contacted them Saturday afternoon after they say Sean Morkys posted on Twitter, "Is someone going to bomb the trump rally or am I going to have to?"
Police say that tweet was followed by another warning a friend to have his family members leave the rally so they wouldn't get hurt.
Saturday, April 23, 2016
Clinton IT staffer refuses to testify after immunity deal
How the out-of-touch media missed Donald Trump's rise
By Eddie Scarry, The Washington Examiner
The 2016 election may be the national media's come-to-Jesus moment.
The idea that the national media is "out of touch" is a criticism that will never go away. But it has a particularly potent sting this campaign cycle due to the endless and unfailingly wrong predictions, thus far, by reporters and political commentators who right from the start said Donald Trump was a racist windbag who was going nowhere.
With each declaration that Trump was done, the opposite took effect. His popularity among Republican voters went up. His rallies got bigger. He started winning primaries.
Krauthammer: New Fox Poll of California voters 'devastating for Cruz'
Charles Krauthammer told viewers Friday on “Special Report with Bret Baier” that new Fox News poll numbers in California are “devastating for Cruz.”
The New Fox News poll shows Republican Donald Trump holding a big lead in California. Trump captures 49 percent of likely Republican primary voters. That’s more than the combined support for his two remaining competitors. Ted Cruz receives 22 percent and John Kasich 20 percent.
“That is a New York massacre,” Krauthammer said. "So if that happens – and let’s assume that Indiana and California end up where the polls are – then I don’t see how Cruz has a claim."
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Dishonoring General Jackson
In Samuel Eliot Morison's "The Oxford History of the American People," there is a single sentence about Harriet Tubman.
"An illiterate field hand, (Tubman) not only escaped herself but returned repeatedly and guided more than 300 slaves to freedom."
Morison, however, devotes most of five chapters to the greatest soldier-statesman in American history, save Washington, that pivotal figure between the Founding Fathers and the Civil War — Andrew Jackson.
"An illiterate field hand, (Tubman) not only escaped herself but returned repeatedly and guided more than 300 slaves to freedom."
Morison, however, devotes most of five chapters to the greatest soldier-statesman in American history, save Washington, that pivotal figure between the Founding Fathers and the Civil War — Andrew Jackson.
This act is meant to dishonor him and American History. He lived in Maryland, which by the way I don't think has ever been considered part of the South. He was put on the bill because he was President of the United States and for winning one of the most crucial battles in our fight against British Rule in the Battle of New Orleans. You see if everyone knew American History they would know that this man, this Andrew Jackson fella, might have guided our future to what we are today and away from being just another colony for the British.
You can continue to dishonor American History and try to put minorities in it's place but it's all American History you idiots. You can't change the past by screwing up the future. I can safely say that Andrew Jackson is more deserving of the front of any currency than the person replacing him.
North Korea fires submarine-launched missile: South Korea
By Ju-min Park, Reuters
SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea fired a submarine-launched ballistic missile on Saturday off its east coast, South Korea said, amid concerns that the isolated state might conduct a nuclear test or a missile launch ahead of a ruling party meeting in May.
The North fired the missile to the northeast from an area off its east coast at about 6:30 p.m. (0930 GMT), the South's office of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said.
North Korea will hold a rare congress of its ruling Workers' Party in early May for the first time in 36 years where its leader Kim Jong Un is expected to proclaim the country was a strong military power and a nuclear state.
Hillary Clinton’s Campaign, Cautious but Confident, Begins Considering Running Mates
By Patrick Healy, The New York Times
Hillary Clinton’s advisers and allies have begun extensive discussions about who should be her running mate, seeking to compile a list of 15 to 20 potential picks for her team to start vetting by late spring.
Mrs. Clinton’s team will grapple with complicated questions like whether the United States is ready for an all-female ticket, and whether her choice for vice president would be able to handle working in a White House in which former President Bill Clinton wields significant influence on policy.
The woman who ran Obamacare says BIG health insurance prices hikes are coming
By Dan Mangan, CNBC
Marilyn Tavenner's crystal ball didn't foresee the initial epic flop of HealthCare.gov when she actually ran the agency in charge of the website. Now, as an insurance lobbyist, she sees big jumps in Obamacare insurance premiums next year.
"I've been asked, what are the premiums going to look like? I don't know, because it also varies by state, market, or even within markets," Tavenner told the MorningConsult.com in an interview.
"But I think the overall trend is going to be higher than we saw in previous years. That's my big prediction," said Tavenner, who is now president and CEO of America's Health Insurance Plans, the industry's lobbying group.
Student loan issue may muddy Cruz's appeal to young voters
By Will Weissert, Associated Press
AUSTIN, Texas — When Ted Cruz kicked off his White House bid at Liberty University, he told the crowd "y'all can probably relate" to the $100,000-plus in student loan debt he ran up in college and paid off only a few years ago. Since then he's appealed for support from college seniors who are piled with student loans and scared about the prospects for getting out of debt.
But Cruz hasn't offered a plan to cut the cost of college and, in the Senate, opposed letting millions of Americans reduce their student loan payments. While working previously as a private lawyer in Houston, Cruz helped represent a lender who went to the Supreme Court to keep an Arizona man from avoiding interest payments on his student loans by filing for bankruptcy.
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Thursday, April 21, 2016
Laws Slashing IRS Power Are Passing, With More Coming
By Robert W. Wood, Forbes
Positive feelings for the IRS may be at a low point right now, as the nation licks its collective tax wounds. Most Americans recognize that we have to have taxes, and that someone must collect them. But that is probably where sympathy or understanding for the IRS’s role ends. A raft of scandals involving the IRS, poor and even evasive responses to Congress, bungled approaches to security, and a seeming diffidence to the public and concerned legislators have not won the IRS any friends. For Republicans, the IRS Commissioner has been a lightning rod they still grumble about impeaching.
To add insult to injury, the IRS admitting that it encourages illegals to steal Social Security Numbers makes some people wonder who the IRS works for. Republicans in particular haven’t forgotten, and they have been moving–not exactly quietly–to hit the IRS where it hurts. Two anti-IRS bills have passed the full House, which come on the heels of the House Committee on Ways and Means voting to pass four pieces of legislation to make the IRS more accountable. Will these bills actually get passed? Two have already passed the full house.
Fights break out over first gender-neutral bathroom in L.A. Unified School District
By Yanan Wang, The Washington Post
Students at Santee Education Complex, a high school in Los Angeles, thought they were settling a fraught debate in the simplest terms possible. Their campaign, launched this January, upheld a disarming message: “It’s Just a Toilet.”
Led by the Gay Straight Alliance on campus, they advocated for a multi-stall, gender-neutral restroom — the first in the Los Angeles Unified School District, the second-largest school district in the country. With a petition boasting over 700 signatures, they succeeded, and the bathroom was officially opened last week.
“All-Gender Restroom,” read a new sign on the second floor. Student activists rejoiced. “We just need to pee,” they had said, and now they could, comfortably.
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