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Cantor: children of illegal immigrants should get U.S. citizenship
Post Date: 2013-02-11 06:49:38 by A K A Stone
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(Reuters) - A top U.S. Republican lawmaker said on Sunday he would support granting citizenship to children who are in the country illegally in a sign that conservatives who oppose immigration amnesty will be playing defense as Congress takes on immigration reform in the coming months. Representative Eric Cantor, the No. 2 Republican in the House of Representatives, said Congress could make quick progress on immigration if lawmakers agreed to give citizenship to children - an idea he opposed when it came up for a vote in 2010 as the DREAM Act. "The best place to begin, I think, is with the children. Let's go ahead and get that under our belt, put a win on the board," Cantor ...
Explosive Fed. Mandate Killing Thousands of Red Snapper
Post Date: 2013-02-10 19:34:15 by A K A Stone
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MOBILE, Ala. (WPMI) A federal mandate to remove old, abandoned oil and gas rigs in the Gulf of Mexico is blowing up a lot more than just the rigs. Undercover video obtained by Local 15 shows thousands of pounds of dead fish, mostly red snapper, floating to the surface after one of the controversial demolitions in the Gulf. “Good Lord,” marine scientist Dr. Bob Shipp said, when Local 15 showed him the video. “As a scientist, I think it’s abominable.” Shipp said the demolitions are frequent, sometimes three a week in the Gulf, but are seldom video-taped. Shipp also sits on the Gulf Fisheries Management Council, and has been a strong opponent of the demolitions. ...
Winter Storm Buries Northeast; Leaves 10 Dead, 700,000 Powerless
Post Date: 2013-02-10 13:57:40 by Hondo68
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A pedestrian and a car make their way through a severe winter storm in Somerville, Massachusetts February 9, 2013. A blizzard pummelled the Northeastern United States, killing at least one person, leaving hundreds of thousands without power and disrupting thousands of flights, media and officials said.New Englanders were digging out from 3 feet of snow and stranded motorists were still being reached by emergency crews early Sunday after one of the biggest blizzards in a generation left at least 10 people dead and over 700,000 without electricity across the northeast.Connecticut, Rhode Island and Massachusetts bore the brunt of the howling winter storm's fury on Saturday, with the ...
Will the Boy Scouts Move Their Tents Toward Sodom?
Post Date: 2013-02-10 09:23:04 by A K A Stone
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The Boy Scouts of America (B.S.A.), which only last summer confirmed its policy that kept homosexuals from joining, has now been debating the possibility of ending its ban on gay membership in the organization. On Wednesday, the organization announced that it is delaying its vote on the issue until May.1 The proposal, if passed in May as it is currently written, would take a sort of “middle ground” on the issue: the decision to admit openly gay members to the Boy Scouts would be left to individual troop leaders. Of course, leaving the decision up to individual troops would essentially be a non-answer from the Boy Scouts of America. What’s more, it would essentially serve as ...
Rand Paul speaks to thousands during anti-abortion rally 1/25/2013 (Enters Culture War)
Post Date: 2013-02-06 23:38:38 by A K A Stone
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Rand Paul speaks to thousands of attendees at an anti-abortion rally on the Washington Mall in Washington DC.
Marco Rubio "I bet you didn't realize there's actually a Tupac song that mentions Bob Dole and Bill Clinton"
Post Date: 2013-02-06 23:34:20 by A K A Stone
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Marco Rubio "I bet you didn't realize there's actually a Tupac song that mentions Bob Dole and Bill Clinton".
BREAKING: Obama to hand over drone documents ahead of Brennan hearing
Post Date: 2013-02-06 20:19:36 by A K A Stone
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Washington (CNN) - Amid new controversy over his administration's targeted killing of American citizens, President Barack Obama has yielded to demands from Congress to turn over to them classified Justice Department legal advice justifying the policy. The president's move comes on the eve of confirmation hearings Thursday for his CIA director-nominee John Brennan, and complaints from senators - including several Democrats - about secrecy surrounding the drone policy. An administration official who spoke on the condition of not being named said, "Today, as part of the President's ongoing commitment to consult with Congress on national security matters, the president ...
Obama’s War on the Troops
Post Date: 2013-02-06 13:40:42 by calcon
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Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta will recommend to Congress that military salaries be limited to a 1 percent increase next year due to “budget uncertainties” related to sequestration, CNN reports: Panetta will recommend to Congress that military salaries be limited to a 1 percent increase in 2014. The Pentagon has calculated that the Labor Department’s 2014 Employment Cost Index is expected to be above 1 percent but wants to still cut back on pay because of “budget uncertainties,” a department official told CNN. In 2013, a 1.7 percent increase was approved, based on the index, which has been the basis for military pay for the last several years. Three Pentagon ...
Buchanan: The GOP obsession
Post Date: 2013-02-06 11:20:56 by mininggold
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By: Patrick J. Buchanan 2/5/2013 02:01 AM If last week’s hearing for Chuck Hagel raised questions about his capacity to be secretary of defense, the show trial conducted by his inquisitors on the tribunal raised questions about the GOP. Is the Republican Party, as currently constituted, even capable of conducting a foreign policy befitting a world power? Or has it learned nothing and forgotten nothing since George W. Bush went home and the nation rejected John McCain for Barack Obama? Consider the great foreign issues on the front burner today. Will the Japan-China clash over islets in the South China Sea, now involving warplanes and warships circling each other, lead to a ...
18 charged in $200 million credit card fraud ring
Post Date: 2013-02-05 15:37:26 by yukon
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18 charged in $200 million credit card fraud ring NEW YORK | Tue Feb 5, 2013 9:56am EST (Reuters) - Prosecutors on Tuesday charged 18 people with fraud for allegedly creating and using thousands of fake identities to ring up hundreds of millions of dollars in credit card purchases. The 18 people were the ringleaders of a massive credit card fraud scheme that lasted nearly 10 years, according to a criminal complaint. The Federal Bureau of Investigation was in the processing of making arrests on Tuesday morning. The 18 people were located in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Connecticut. "The arrests today are the result of an investigation into a sophisticated, organized ...
Rand Paul says Navy sniper was hero
Post Date: 2013-02-05 12:33:24 by calcon
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(CNN) – Sen. Rand Paul rushed to show support Tuesday for slain Navy sniper Chris Kyle after Paul's father, former Rep. Ron Paul, drew criticism for asserting a political opinion in a Tweet about Kyle's death. "Chris Kyle was a hero like all Americans who don the uniform to defend our country. Our prayers are with his family during this tragic time," Rand Paul, R-Kentucky, told Breitbart.com. The younger Paul's statement came after Ron Paul, the libertarian firebrand and three-time presidential candidate, wrote on Twitter that "Chris Kyle's death seems to confirm that 'he who lives by the sword dies by the sword.' Treating PTSD at a firing ...
APNewsBreak: Effort building to change US pot laws
Post Date: 2013-02-04 22:08:13 by calcon
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APNewsBreak: Effort building to change US pot laws SEATTLE (AP) - An effort is building in Congress to change U.S. marijuana laws, including moves to legalize the industrial production of hemp and establish a hefty federal pot tax. While passage this year could be a longshot, lawmakers from both parties have been quietly working on several bills, the first of which Democratic Reps. Earl Blumenauer of Oregon and Jared Polis of Colorado plan to introduce Tuesday, Blumenauer told The Associated Press. Polis' measure would regulate marijuana the way the federal government handles alcohol: In states that legalize pot, growers would have to obtain a federal permit. Oversight of marijuana ...
Texas 6th graders design flags for a new socialist nation
Post Date: 2013-02-04 21:10:09 by A K A Stone
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AUSTIN – You know America is changing when leftists have even infiltrated Texas schools. socialistflagAccording to the website txcscopereview.com, a lesson plan for 6th graders in government schools reads as follows: Notice socialist/communist nations use symbolism on their flags representing various aspects of their economic system. Imagine a new socialist nation is creating a flag and you have been put in charge of creating a flag. Use symbolism to represent aspects of socialism/communism on your flag. What kind of symbolism/colors would you use? Texas legislators looked none too kindly on this revelation as they questioned the curriculum’s creators at a recent hearing. ...
McCain: Don't filibuster Hagel
Post Date: 2013-02-04 20:25:27 by Ferret Mike
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Sen. John McCain appears to have cleared the way Monday for Chuck Hagel to be the next secretary of defense. The Arizona Republican, who has been a prominent voice in the debate over Hagel, said Monday he would oppose any attempt to filibuster the nomination, likely dooming any attempt by Senate conservatives to sustain a protracted procedural fight to delay Hagel’s confirmation. “I do not believe that we should filibuster,” McCain told POLITICO. “To vote against is entirely the judgment of each individual senator, but a filibuster I think would be inappropriate.” Asked if he would vote for cloture if a filibuster were mounted, McCain answered, “Yes.” ...
E-mails show Senate and GOP plotted in secret to redraw districts [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2013-02-04 20:18:11 by Ferret Mike
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TALLAHASSEE — Florida legislative leaders appear to have authorized staff members to use private email accounts and had "brainstorming meetings" with Republican Party consultants to attempt to draw favorable political districts, despite a constitutional ban on such coordination. The allegations arise from a lawsuit challenging the Senate and congressional redistricting that include emails showing how top aides to House Speaker Will Weatherford, Senate President Don Gaetz and several Gaetz consultants were in frequent contact with operatives who drafted and analyzed maps. Redistricting takes place every decade to redraw legislative and congressional district boundaries to ...
Ron Paul tweets about SEAL sniper’s death: ‘He who lives by the sword dies by the sword’
Post Date: 2013-02-04 15:32:38 by A K A Stone
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Ron Paul ✔ @RonPaul
"Chris Kyle's death seems to confirm that "he who lives by the sword dies by the sword." Treating PTSD at a firing range doesn't make sense"
Kyle and a friend were both killed by a veteran struggling with PTSD while working with him at a gun range on Saturday.
The former Marine, Eddie Ray Routh, turned his weapon on the other two men and shot them at close range, according to news accounts.
Kyle was the author of the best-selling “American Sniper,” which detailed his time as a record-holding SEAL sniper.
Paul has a long history of being opposed to American military intervention abroad.
Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2013/02/0 ...
Marines to Invade South Carolina (Ridgeland, Jasper County)
Post Date: 2013-02-04 14:20:23 by Hondo68
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Marines and sailors will invade Jasper County, South Carolina, this week, The Island Packet reported on Sunday. The 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit will train in the town of Ridgeland, the county seat, in preparation for “deployment to Mediterranean and African shores,” 2nd Lt. Gerard R. Farao told the newspaper. The training will be coordinated with local, county and state agencies and officials, including the Ridgeland police and fire departments, a Marine Corps news release states. Residents are warned “training could take place at any time” this week in the town and they will “likely see and hear military vehicles and possibly see aircraft” along with ...
Vast Oil Reserve May Now Be Within Reach, and Battle Heats Up
Post Date: 2013-02-04 09:21:20 by A K A Stone
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FELLOWS, Calif. — Secure in this state’s history and mythology, the venerable Midway-Sunset oil field near here keeps producing crude more than a century after Southern California’s oil boom. Many of its bobbing pump jacks are relatively short, a telltale sign of the shallowness of the wells and the ease of extracting their prize. But away from this forest of pump jacks on a flat, brown landscape, a road snakes up into nearby hills that are largely untouched — save for a handful of exploratory wells pumping oil from depths many times those of Midway-Sunset’s. These wells are tapping crude directly from what is called the Monterey Shale, which could represent the ...
TheDC’s Jamie Weinstein: 10 questions for Rand Paul’s foreign policy speech
Post Date: 2013-02-04 09:18:43 by A K A Stone
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Kentucky Republican Sen. Rand Paul, who has not been coy about the fact he is considering a 2016 presidential run, will lay out his foreign policy vision in a speech at the Heritage Foundation on Tuesday. The speech, entitled “Restoring the Founders’ Vision of Foreign Policy,” comes on the heels of a trip by Paul to Israel, where he sought to demonstrate his pro-Israel bona fides. But questions still remain about what role Paul thinks America should play in the world, given his libertarian orientation. Hopefully his speech Tuesday will clearly delineate what a Paul presidency might look like in terms of foreign relations. To help him do that, below are 10 questions that it ...
Texas man arraigned on murder charges in shooting of "American Sniper"
Post Date: 2013-02-03 22:55:47 by yukon
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Texas man arraigned on murder charges in shooting of "American Sniper" Sun Feb 3, 2013 2:53pm EST (Reuters) - The man accused of gunning down former U.S. Navy SEAL Chris Kyle, a prominent military sniper, and a second man at a Texas shooting range has been arraigned on two counts of capital murder, the Texas Department of Public Safety said on Sunday. Eddie Ray Routh, 25, was accused of killing Kyle, 38, and Chad Littlefield, 35, a neighbor of Kyle, on Saturday afternoon at the Rough Creek Lodge, about 50 miles southwest of Fort Worth, the department said. "They were shot at close range," said department spokesman Sergeant Lonny Haschel said. Kyle, considered one of ...
Massachusetts GOP reaching out to Romneys for a Senate run?
Post Date: 2013-02-03 16:37:34 by Ferret Mike
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Casting about for a viable GOP candidate for the Senate seat being vacated by Sen. John Kerry, Massachusetts Republicans are looking to two key members of Team Romney who dramatically raised their national profiles during last year’s presidential contest: Ann Romney, the wife of the candidate, and Taggart “Tagg” Romney, the candidate’s oldest son. The Boston Herald reported Saturday that party leaders are talking about Mrs. Romney, even though she has expressed no interest in the seat and has never run for public office. A special election will be held June 25 to replace Mr. Kerry, who is leaving to take over as secretary of state in the Obama administration. Mrs. ...
Former Navy Seal sniper Chris Kyle shot dead at Texas gun range
Post Date: 2013-02-03 15:10:37 by Ferret Mike
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US military's most prolific sniper wrote bestselling memoir on his four tours in Iraq and was known for helping veterans with PTSD Chris Kyle and fellow war veteran Chad Littlefield were killed Saturday afternoon. Photograph: Paul Moseley/AP A former Navy Seal who went on to write a bestselling book chronicling his life as the US's most prolific marksman has been shot dead at a gun range in Texas. Police said Sunday that the body of Chris Kyle was found by officers responding to an incident at the Rough Creek Lodge in Glen Rose the previous evening. Chad Littlefield, a 35-year-old friend of the war veteran and author, was also killed at the scene. In a statement, Sergeant ...
NJ School Implements 'No Cursing' Rule But Only for Girls
Post Date: 2013-02-03 14:50:19 by Ferret Mike
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A teacher who organized the campaign says that while males weren't asked to take the vow, they have been asked not to swear when girls are near. Female students at a Catholic high school in northern New Jersey have taken a “no-cursing” pledge at the request of school administrators, though some question why no such demand was made of male students. Lori Flynn, a teacher who organized the campaign at Queen of Peace High School in North Arlington, told The Record of Woodland Park there is no double-standard. She says that while males weren't asked to take the vow, they have been asked not to swear when girls are near. Flynn says school officials want “ladies to act ...
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