Obama
to Visit Mosque, Host Muslim Leaders on July 4th - See more at:
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White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest announced today that President
Obama will be visiting a Washington D.C. area Mosque on the morning of July 4th
as a goodwill gesture to Muslim Americans. The name and location of the
Mosque are currently being withheld for security reasons.
The President has long been
criticised for being sympathetic towards Muslims and has even been accused of
secretly being Muslim himself. His announcement to visit a Mosque on the
morning of America’s most patriotic holiday will likely add to this criticism.
According to Earnest, following his
visit to the Mosque, the President will host the traditional White House July
4th cookout. Several influential Muslim leaders have been invited to
attend the cookout, as a further gesture of goodwill.
White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest announced
today that President Obama will be visiting a Washington D.C. area
Mosque on the morning of July 4th as a goodwill gesture to Muslim
Americans. The name and location of the Mosque are currently being
withheld for security reasons.
The President has long been criticised for being sympathetic towards Muslims and has even been accused of secretly being Muslim himself. His announcement to visit a Mosque on the morning of America’s most patriotic holiday will likely add to this criticism.
According to Earnest, following his visit to the Mosque, the
President will host the traditional White House July 4th cookout.
Several influential Muslim leaders have been invited to attend the
cookout, as a further gesture of goodwill.
- See more at: http://nationalreport.net/obama-visit-mosque-host-muslim-leaders-july-4th/#sthash.3gdkgepI.dpuf
The President has long been criticised for being sympathetic towards Muslims and has even been accused of secretly being Muslim himself. His announcement to visit a Mosque on the morning of America’s most patriotic holiday will likely add to this criticism.
- See more at: http://nationalreport.net/obama-visit-mosque-host-muslim-leaders-july-4th/#sthash.3gdkgepI.dpuf
Anti-Catholic full-page ad in the New York Times today
By Ed Lasky
The Hobby Lobby decision has ignited liberals and unleashed their prejudice. And this ad is shameful.
The New York Times has a full-page ad in its print edition today that should elicit protests around the nation (but likely won’t).
Here is a copy from the website of the Freedom From Religious Foundation that wrote and paid for the ad http://ffrf.org/news/news-releases/item/20870-ffrf-s-full-page-ad-in-new-york-times-to-protest-hobby-lobby-ruling:
The photo of the woman at top is that of Margaret Sanger-idol of the pro-choice movement (and the founder of Planned Parenthood) who -- this has been all but erased from the panegyrics to her greatness -- was a proponent of eugenics. She was, in the words of Arina Grossu a “racist, eugenicist extraordinaire” whose role in pushing these Nazi-like laws resulted in more than 60,000 sterilizations of vulnerable people, including people she considered ‘feeble-minded”, “idiots” and “morons.” She also spoke to KKK women’s groups.
But what is worse is this line from the ad: “All-male, All-Roman Catholic Majority on Supreme Court Puts Religious Wrongs over Women’s Rights.”
Anti-Catholicism apparently is no problem for this group. Should there be a religious test for public office or the highest court of the land? Such a religious test was specifically rejected in Article VI, paragraph 3 of the US Constitution.
But in the Age of Obama respect for the Constitution and the law -- and the views and beliefs of religious people -- are attacked routinely with nary a complaint from liberals.
Unless, of course, the group happens to be Muslim.
The New York Times has a full-page ad in its print edition today that should elicit protests around the nation (but likely won’t).
Here is a copy from the website of the Freedom From Religious Foundation that wrote and paid for the ad http://ffrf.org/news/news-releases/item/20870-ffrf-s-full-page-ad-in-new-york-times-to-protest-hobby-lobby-ruling:
The photo of the woman at top is that of Margaret Sanger-idol of the pro-choice movement (and the founder of Planned Parenthood) who -- this has been all but erased from the panegyrics to her greatness -- was a proponent of eugenics. She was, in the words of Arina Grossu a “racist, eugenicist extraordinaire” whose role in pushing these Nazi-like laws resulted in more than 60,000 sterilizations of vulnerable people, including people she considered ‘feeble-minded”, “idiots” and “morons.” She also spoke to KKK women’s groups.
But what is worse is this line from the ad: “All-male, All-Roman Catholic Majority on Supreme Court Puts Religious Wrongs over Women’s Rights.”
Anti-Catholicism apparently is no problem for this group. Should there be a religious test for public office or the highest court of the land? Such a religious test was specifically rejected in Article VI, paragraph 3 of the US Constitution.
But in the Age of Obama respect for the Constitution and the law -- and the views and beliefs of religious people -- are attacked routinely with nary a complaint from liberals.
Unless, of course, the group happens to be Muslim.
You know government has gotten completely
out of control when they punish you for saving WATER FROM THE SKY on
your own property.
And that's precisely what happened to Gary Harrington in Medford, Oregon.
Gary was convicted of collecting rainwater and snow runoff on his own property, and has now started a 30 day jail sentence (and will have to pay a $1500 fine).
In case it's not clear, you guys, the dude is in jail for saving RAINWATER. There's a law that dates back to 1925 which prevents people like me and you from having "illegal resevoirs" on our own property in Oregon. Oregon's Water Resources Department claims that Gary is "diverting water" from streams running into the Big Butte River. But here's the thing - he's just collecting it, and collecting any snow melt that happens on his own property. That's all he's doing.
The government apparently believes it has exclusive ownership over RAIN AND SNOW.
So the next time a liberal tries to tell you that government isn't overstepping its boundaries, remember this story.
And start collecting rain and snow. BECAUSE YOU SHOULD BE FREE TO DO SO.
An Oklahoma congressman says he was denied access to a Health and Human Services housing facility for unaccompanied minors in his own state.
Oklahoma Republican Rep. Jim Bridenstine revealed Wednesday that he was not allowed to view an HHS facility housing approximately 1,200 unaccompanied illegal immigrant minors at Ft. Sill, Oklahoma, on Tuesday.
“There is no excuse for denying a Federal Representative from Oklahoma access to a federal facility in Oklahoma where unaccompanied children are being held,” Bridenstine said in a statement.
According to Bridenstine's office, an HHS official told the congressman he could schedule an appointment for July 21. The congressman took issue with the wait.
“Any Member of Congress should have the legal authority to visit a federal youth detention facility without waiting three weeks,” he said.
Bridenstine subsequently followed up with HHS Deputy Director of the Office of Public Affairs, Ken Wolfe, requesting to view the facility.
“What are they trying to hide?” Bridenstine wrote in an email, released by his office, to Wolfe. “Do they not want the children to speak with Members of Congress? As a Navy pilot, I have been involved in operations countering illicit human trafficking. I would like to know to whom these children are being released.”
...Now it’s time for Congress to fight back and reassert its constitutional mandate against an imperial president who has already promised to exacerbate his open border policy.
Here are some immediate steps Republicans in the House can take:
By David Rutz House Democrats with financial ties to
a union representing Internal Revenue Service workers have gone to
great lengths to defend the IRS during the investigation into its
targeting of conservative groups, a new Washington Free Beacon video shows.
The National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU) has long given almost exclusively to Democratic Party candidates. Meanwhile, the Democratic recipients on committees investigating the scandal have used their platforms to do everything from apologizing to acting commissioner John Koskinen for being treated rudely by Republicans to blaming the targeting on budget cuts.
Ranking member of the House oversight committee Rep. Elijah Cummings (D., Md.) was overcome with emotion June 23 while thanking Koskinen for his testimony on Lois Lerner’s missing emails and having to “go through this hell” for the agency. Cummings received $2,000 from the NTEU in 2012 and another $1,000 for 2014, according to Open Secrets.
...In total, the union donated $391,062 to House Democrats in 2012, compared to $23,000 for House Republicans. So far for the 2014 cycle, it has given $66,300 to House Democrats and just $3,000 to House Republicans.
Popular fast food chain Burger King has waded into the contentious cultural debate over homosexuality with the creation and sale of its first-ever gay pride burger.
Known as the Proud Whopper, the beef-burger is being sold at only one Burger King location in downtown San Francisco, California, though it has gained national attention.
Tucked inside rainbow-colored packaging, text on the inside of the wrapper reads, “We are all the same inside,” according to USA Today.
Burger King, a sponsor of San Francisco’s Gay Pride Parade, said that the decision to make a definitive statement on homosexuality was rooted in the company’s brand identity — and its new slogan, “Be your way.”
“It showcases who we are as a brand,” Fernando Machado, senior vice president of global brand management, told USA Today. “It shows how we, as a brand, believe in self-expression.”
...According to a report in The Wall Street Journal, DHS just awarded a $190 million contract to US Investigations Services LLC, a firm accused of “methodically defrauding the government” while carrying out background checks on candidates for sensitive positions.
One of USIS’s most famous clients: NSA leaker Edward Snowden.
Apparently, being accused by the Justice Department of defrauding the federal government is not justification enough to put USIS on the list of suspended firms. In June, the DoJ did just that:
....Last week, the administration released the memo. It consists of 40 highly blacked-out pages, the conclusion of which is that the president can order the CIA to kill Americans who are present in foreign countries and who, in the opinion of high-level government officials, pose a threat to Americans and may be difficult to arrest.
The memorandum acknowledges that it is unprecedented in its scope and novel in its conclusion, and requires predicting what courts will do if they review it. Lawyers often predict for their clients what courts will do, and thus from their predictions, extrapolate advice for their clients. However, history has recorded no memo before this one that has advised a president in writing that he is free to kill an American who is not engaging in violence.
The logic of the memorandum states that Americans overseas who join organizations that promote acts of terrorism are the equivalent of enemy soldiers in uniform in wartime. It follows, the memo argues, that because Congress has authorized the president to kill foreign terrorists when they are in foreign lands, he can kill Americans there, as well.
Conveniently, the memorandum never mentions the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution, which famously commands that if the government wants the life, liberty or property of any person, it can only do so via due process. Due process requires a jury trial with its attendant constitutional protections. The only recognized exceptions to this requirement are the individual and collective right to immediate self-defense. Since natural rights trump all positive law, a cop can kill a bank robber who is shooting at him, and soldiers can kill enemy soldiers who are about to shoot at them. At the root of the recognized exceptions to the requirement of due process is the active violence of the perpetrator, such that due process is impossible and such that the threat to life is clear, present and immediate.
The persons killed pursuant to this secret memo were all Americans. One, Anwar al-Awlaki, the stated target of the memo, was not engaged in combat or armed or on a battlefield when he was killed. He did not wear the uniform of an enemy army, and he was not engaged in active violence at the time of his killing. He was in a car in the desert in Yemen driving to meet his 16-year-old American son. He had been under continuous surveillance by 12 American and four Yemeni intelligence agents for the 48 hours preceding his killing by a CIA drone. The drone that killed him was soon followed by drones that killed his son and two other Americans.
This week marks the anniversary of America’s birth as a free nation, when we fought a war against a tyrant and seceded from his kingdom. We thought we had banished tyranny from our shores. We thought we had ratified a Constitution that would compel the government to respect our natural rights. We thought we had established a society based upon the rule of law.
We were wrong. We have gone from an inherited tyrant to an elected one. I have never heard President Obama say this, but it seems logical that if he thinks he can lawfully kill Americans abroad, he also thinks he can kill us here.
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And that's precisely what happened to Gary Harrington in Medford, Oregon.
Gary was convicted of collecting rainwater and snow runoff on his own property, and has now started a 30 day jail sentence (and will have to pay a $1500 fine).
In case it's not clear, you guys, the dude is in jail for saving RAINWATER. There's a law that dates back to 1925 which prevents people like me and you from having "illegal resevoirs" on our own property in Oregon. Oregon's Water Resources Department claims that Gary is "diverting water" from streams running into the Big Butte River. But here's the thing - he's just collecting it, and collecting any snow melt that happens on his own property. That's all he's doing.
The government apparently believes it has exclusive ownership over RAIN AND SNOW.
So the next time a liberal tries to tell you that government isn't overstepping its boundaries, remember this story.
And start collecting rain and snow. BECAUSE YOU SHOULD BE FREE TO DO SO.
Congressman Denied Entry to HHS Facility Housing Unaccompanied Minors
By Caroline MayAn Oklahoma congressman says he was denied access to a Health and Human Services housing facility for unaccompanied minors in his own state.
Oklahoma Republican Rep. Jim Bridenstine revealed Wednesday that he was not allowed to view an HHS facility housing approximately 1,200 unaccompanied illegal immigrant minors at Ft. Sill, Oklahoma, on Tuesday.
“There is no excuse for denying a Federal Representative from Oklahoma access to a federal facility in Oklahoma where unaccompanied children are being held,” Bridenstine said in a statement.
According to Bridenstine's office, an HHS official told the congressman he could schedule an appointment for July 21. The congressman took issue with the wait.
“Any Member of Congress should have the legal authority to visit a federal youth detention facility without waiting three weeks,” he said.
Bridenstine subsequently followed up with HHS Deputy Director of the Office of Public Affairs, Ken Wolfe, requesting to view the facility.
“What are they trying to hide?” Bridenstine wrote in an email, released by his office, to Wolfe. “Do they not want the children to speak with Members of Congress? As a Navy pilot, I have been involved in operations countering illicit human trafficking. I would like to know to whom these children are being released.”
Are We Strangers in Our Own Land?
By Daniel Horowitz...Now it’s time for Congress to fight back and reassert its constitutional mandate against an imperial president who has already promised to exacerbate his open border policy.
Here are some immediate steps Republicans in the House can take:
- Pass Rep. Randy Weber’s (R-TX) bill, the Illegal Entry Accountability Act of 2014, which would suspend aid to Mexico, Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador until Congress determines that sufficient action is taken to keep their citizens from flooding into the U.S.
- Change the statutes regarding children of illegal immigrants from Central America and treat them like migrants from Mexico who must be returned to their country of origin within 48 hours. Congress should bar DHS from transferring them to HHS and instead proceed immediately to repatriation.
- Bar DHS or HHS from using commercial transportation to transport illegal aliens to reduce risk of spread of contagious diseases. Congress should also demand an immediate report from CDC on the public health threat posed by the new influx of illegals over the border.
- Most importantly, Congress must reassert control over the power of the purse and use the budget process, particularly the bills appropriating funds for DHS and the HHS, to stop Obama’s lawlessness. They should cut salaries of top DHS officials until the double-layered fence is complete, pursuant to the Secure Fence Act of 2006.
The Democrats Provide the IRS the Best Defense Money Can Buy
The National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU) has long given almost exclusively to Democratic Party candidates. Meanwhile, the Democratic recipients on committees investigating the scandal have used their platforms to do everything from apologizing to acting commissioner John Koskinen for being treated rudely by Republicans to blaming the targeting on budget cuts.
Ranking member of the House oversight committee Rep. Elijah Cummings (D., Md.) was overcome with emotion June 23 while thanking Koskinen for his testimony on Lois Lerner’s missing emails and having to “go through this hell” for the agency. Cummings received $2,000 from the NTEU in 2012 and another $1,000 for 2014, according to Open Secrets.
...In total, the union donated $391,062 to House Democrats in 2012, compared to $23,000 for House Republicans. So far for the 2014 cycle, it has given $66,300 to House Democrats and just $3,000 to House Republicans.
Fans and Foes React to Burger King’s New Gay Pride Burger: ‘How about a Second Amendment Whopper?’
By Billie HallowellPopular fast food chain Burger King has waded into the contentious cultural debate over homosexuality with the creation and sale of its first-ever gay pride burger.
Known as the Proud Whopper, the beef-burger is being sold at only one Burger King location in downtown San Francisco, California, though it has gained national attention.
Tucked inside rainbow-colored packaging, text on the inside of the wrapper reads, “We are all the same inside,” according to USA Today.
Burger King, a sponsor of San Francisco’s Gay Pride Parade, said that the decision to make a definitive statement on homosexuality was rooted in the company’s brand identity — and its new slogan, “Be your way.”
“It showcases who we are as a brand,” Fernando Machado, senior vice president of global brand management, told USA Today. “It shows how we, as a brand, believe in self-expression.”
Firm that vetted Snowden fails up, is awarded new government contract
By Noah Rothman...According to a report in The Wall Street Journal, DHS just awarded a $190 million contract to US Investigations Services LLC, a firm accused of “methodically defrauding the government” while carrying out background checks on candidates for sensitive positions.
One of USIS’s most famous clients: NSA leaker Edward Snowden.
USIS was able to win the contract because regulations require agencies to follow strict procurement procedures unless a bidder has been suspended or barred by the government from contracts. Despite questions about its work on background checks, USIS was never blocked from federal work.One US official said that the government is obligated “by law and policy” to accept the lowest bid on service contracts unless the firm in question has been suspended or barred from applying for government contracts.
Apparently, being accused by the Justice Department of defrauding the federal government is not justification enough to put USIS on the list of suspended firms. In June, the DoJ did just that:
The DOJ accused USIS of receiving millions of dollars that it otherwise would not have received had the government been aware that the background investigations had not gone through the quality review process required by contract.The phrase “good enough for government work” comes to mind.
Through a software known as “Blue Zone,” USIS was able to quickly make an electronic “Review Complete” notation without fully going through the mandated review process, DOJ said.
From an inherited tyrant to an elected one
By Judge Andrew Napolitano....Last week, the administration released the memo. It consists of 40 highly blacked-out pages, the conclusion of which is that the president can order the CIA to kill Americans who are present in foreign countries and who, in the opinion of high-level government officials, pose a threat to Americans and may be difficult to arrest.
The memorandum acknowledges that it is unprecedented in its scope and novel in its conclusion, and requires predicting what courts will do if they review it. Lawyers often predict for their clients what courts will do, and thus from their predictions, extrapolate advice for their clients. However, history has recorded no memo before this one that has advised a president in writing that he is free to kill an American who is not engaging in violence.
The logic of the memorandum states that Americans overseas who join organizations that promote acts of terrorism are the equivalent of enemy soldiers in uniform in wartime. It follows, the memo argues, that because Congress has authorized the president to kill foreign terrorists when they are in foreign lands, he can kill Americans there, as well.
Conveniently, the memorandum never mentions the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution, which famously commands that if the government wants the life, liberty or property of any person, it can only do so via due process. Due process requires a jury trial with its attendant constitutional protections. The only recognized exceptions to this requirement are the individual and collective right to immediate self-defense. Since natural rights trump all positive law, a cop can kill a bank robber who is shooting at him, and soldiers can kill enemy soldiers who are about to shoot at them. At the root of the recognized exceptions to the requirement of due process is the active violence of the perpetrator, such that due process is impossible and such that the threat to life is clear, present and immediate.
The persons killed pursuant to this secret memo were all Americans. One, Anwar al-Awlaki, the stated target of the memo, was not engaged in combat or armed or on a battlefield when he was killed. He did not wear the uniform of an enemy army, and he was not engaged in active violence at the time of his killing. He was in a car in the desert in Yemen driving to meet his 16-year-old American son. He had been under continuous surveillance by 12 American and four Yemeni intelligence agents for the 48 hours preceding his killing by a CIA drone. The drone that killed him was soon followed by drones that killed his son and two other Americans.
This week marks the anniversary of America’s birth as a free nation, when we fought a war against a tyrant and seceded from his kingdom. We thought we had banished tyranny from our shores. We thought we had ratified a Constitution that would compel the government to respect our natural rights. We thought we had established a society based upon the rule of law.
We were wrong. We have gone from an inherited tyrant to an elected one. I have never heard President Obama say this, but it seems logical that if he thinks he can lawfully kill Americans abroad, he also thinks he can kill us here.
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