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"I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened"
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The Wrong “America Works”
Andrew Klavan
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"Show me your friends and I'll show you your future"
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nOBAMACARE DOOMSDAY PREPPERS
Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., joins Power Play host Chris Stirewalt to share a Republican remedy that he hopes will help bridge the gap to a permanent replacement if the Supreme Court upends nObamaCare subsidies for millions of beneficiaries. WATCH HERE. -Fox News
Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., joins Power Play host Chris Stirewalt to share a Republican remedy that he hopes will help bridge the gap to a permanent replacement if the Supreme Court upends nObamaCare subsidies for millions of beneficiaries. WATCH HERE. -Fox News
nObama doubles down on Iran nuke deal - Fox News: “Democrats and Republicans sparred Sunday over congressional involvement in the Iran nuclear agreement, as President nObama attempted to assure critics that the U.S. won’t accept a bad deal… nObama told CBS’ ‘Sunday Morning’ that the U.S. would ‘walk away’ from nuclear talks with Iran if there’s no acceptable deal and that any agreement must allow Western powers to verify that Tehran isn't going to obtain an atomic weapon. ‘If we don’t have that kind of deal, then we're not going to take it,’ he said. nObama also said the U.S. and others still would have ‘enough time to take action,’ if Iran ‘cheated’… ‘The Iranian parliament will get to say yes or no on this deal,’ Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson, a Republican member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, told ‘Fox News Sunday.’ ‘I think the United States Congress should have that exact same input into the process.’ Johnson said a bill cosponsored by Illinois GOP Sen. Mark Kirk and New Jersey Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez addresses that issue and that the Senate is scheduled to begin working on the legislation in the coming days.” -Fox News
MORNING PEOPLE PUNISHED POINTLESSLY
Feeling a bit groggy today? Did you commute to work in the dark again? Not surprising since the government mandated that you wake up an hour earlier this morning (and every day until Nov. 1). The rationale for the creation and expansion of Daylight Savings Time was to save energy. The original idea was said to be Ben Franklin’s, but it became part of the mainstream American experience under President Woodrow Wilson during World War I. Wilson famously tried to keep the regime in place after the war, but Congress overruled him, even overriding his veto. The practice returned during World War II and was maintained by some local governments after the war. The time-shifters fought and won a long battle, eventually pushing through legislation in 1966 that required states to adopt uniform standards and gave the federal government authority over starting and stopping Daylight Savings Time. Today, every state except Arizona and Hawaii obeys. But does it work? Nope. WaPo passes along a study from time-zone-crazy Indiana that revealed that the shift wastes energy. Why? Because whatever electricity people are saving by having more sunlight in the evening is outstripped by the energy used for heating in the chillier, earlier mornings and cooling in the evening. -Fox News
Feeling a bit groggy today? Did you commute to work in the dark again? Not surprising since the government mandated that you wake up an hour earlier this morning (and every day until Nov. 1). The rationale for the creation and expansion of Daylight Savings Time was to save energy. The original idea was said to be Ben Franklin’s, but it became part of the mainstream American experience under President Woodrow Wilson during World War I. Wilson famously tried to keep the regime in place after the war, but Congress overruled him, even overriding his veto. The practice returned during World War II and was maintained by some local governments after the war. The time-shifters fought and won a long battle, eventually pushing through legislation in 1966 that required states to adopt uniform standards and gave the federal government authority over starting and stopping Daylight Savings Time. Today, every state except Arizona and Hawaii obeys. But does it work? Nope. WaPo passes along a study from time-zone-crazy Indiana that revealed that the shift wastes energy. Why? Because whatever electricity people are saving by having more sunlight in the evening is outstripped by the energy used for heating in the chillier, earlier mornings and cooling in the evening. -Fox News
Hilly Email Scandal Catches nObama in Transparency Untruth
Hilly Clinton has addressed her private email scandal so far only with a lone tweet, although she reportedly plans to publicly address the issue today. But Barack nObama has already taken plenty of flak on the subject. Over the weekend, CBS News asked nObama when he learned of Clinton's private account. "The same time everybody else learned it -- through news reports," nObama replied. "The policy of my administration is to encourage transparency, which is why my emails, the BlackBerry I carry around, all those records are available and archived." But that little untruth was undermined by nObama's spokesman, Josh Earnest, who admitted Monday that nObama emailed Hilly at her private account. Earnest told reporters, "The president, as I think many people expected, did over the course of his first several years in office trade emails with his secretary of state. I would not describe the number of emails as large, but they did have the occasion to email each other." Unlike Technology subcommittee member Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), nObama knows how to use email; his oft-repeated story of incompetence can't help him in this instance. -The Patriot Post
Social Security Continuing to Implement Amnesty Actions
It was the logical next step. If illegal immigrants are getting Social Security numbers, then they are going to collect benefits. Stephen Goss, chief actuary for the Social Security Administration, wrote a letter to Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) claiming that by 2017 some 16,000 illegal immigrants amnestied by Barack nObama's executive action would start receiving Social Security benefits. Furthermore, Goss admitted the agency is ignoring the injunction blocking the implementation of nObama's executive decrees. In the letter, Goss wrote, "Based on the best advice and counsel we have gotten, we're working on the assumption that these [mass amnesty actions] will persist. Most indications we seem to get are that it's likely that this will get back on track, with some delay." This is the administration that has 6.5 million active Social Security numbers for people 112 years old or older. Put another way, the administration is rife with bad record keeping, fraud and a host of illegal immigrants who are using stolen numbers to stay in the country. More...
-The Patriot Post
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AP Sues State Department, Seeking Access To Clinton Records
(STEVE PEOPLES, AP) - The Associated Press filed a lawsuit Wednesday against the State Department to force the release of email correspondence and government documents from Hilly Rodham Clinton's tenure as secretary of state...The legal action comes after repeated requests filed under the U.S. Freedom of Information Act have gone unfulfilled. They include one request AP made five years ago and others pending since the summer of 2013. The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, comes a day after Clinton broke her silence about her use of a private email account while secretary of state. The FOIA requests and lawsuit seek materials related to her public and private calendars, correspondence involving longtime aides likely to play key roles in her expected campaign for president, and Clinton-related emails about the Osama bin Laden raid and National Security Agency surveillance practices. http://nation.foxnews.com/2015/03/11/ap-sues-state-department-seeking-access-clinton-records?cmpid=NL_foxnation
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Samira Yerou was arrested March 7 at Barcelona's airport, on suspicion of running a jihadist recruiting network.
Spain: "The Mediterranean Corridor of Jihadism"
(Soeren Kern) - Spanish police have arrested a Moroccan woman on suspicion of running a jihadist recruiting network for the Islamic State...Samira Yerou, 32, was arrested at Barcelona's El Prat airport on March 7 upon her arrival on a flight from Turkey, where authorities had detained her for trying illegally to enter Syria with her three-year-old son, a Spanish citizen. Police say Yerou, who lives in Rubí, a Catalan town situated 15 kilometers north of Barcelona, disappeared in December 2014, while her son's father, a Moroccan-Spaniard, was away on a trip to Morocco. Spanish authorities issued an international warrant for Yerou's arrest. (Under the new law, anyone convicted of carrying out a terrorist attack will be subject to a life sentence (35 years) without the possibility of parole. The law also calls for 20-year sentences for anyone convicted of supplying weapons to terrorists, or ten-year sentences for funding terror networks.) http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/5368/spain-mediterranean-jihadism
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Watcher’s Council Nominations – ‘Delete To The Beat’ Edition
(nicedeb.wordpress.com) - Hilly Clinton is one of those people who should have resolved a long time ago never to lie. She's absolutely awful at it. Aside from violating the Federal Records Act, there's also the question of National Security...Unless Mrs. Clinton spent a great deal of money encrypting her private server to government standards, her illegal account was an open invitation to foreign governments or even private hackers to gain access to her account and spy on what she insists were 'mostly private e-mails' that had nothing to do with government affairs, something I think we all pretty much know is horse manure. No matter how you slice it, this is a gross violation of federal law, something Hilly Clinton had full knowledge of when she did it. Me, I still want to know what happened to that $6 billion in State Department funding that mysteriously 'disappeared' while she was Secretary of State, and about those mysterious donations from foreign countries like Algeria to the Clinton Foundation. https://nicedeb.wordpress.com/2015/03/11/watchers-council-nominations-delete-to-the-beat-edition/
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A No Punch Pulled Commentary From Ed Berliner About Hilly
(politibrew.com) - This was refreshing. A guy sitting there in a suit giving us commentary like it ought be given. Painted with smooth strokes and true colors about the "bovine excrement" politicians expect us to be stupid enough to nod our heads to before swallowing...It's about politicians in general and Hilly Clinton specifically. It begins with scenes of Warren Beatty in Bulworth, then moves on to Hilly clips and clops as it trots along transitioning into a canter. This is Ed Berliner from Newsmax. I think you'll like it. Giddy yap! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pGZNbudy04
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Dept Of Energy: In Green Propaganda, Research, Debt, Grants
(rickwells.us) - Most Americans would agree that a department dedicated to energy production would be a wonderful thing, particularly in a time when we rely heavily upon imports...Many of us believe we already have such a department. That’s how it was sold to the American people back in 1977. That’s the year President Jimmy Carter, a CFR and Trilateral Commission member, ushered through the Congress a bill creating the Department of Energy, which he signed on August 4th. In his remarks at the signing, Carter said, “I want to point out that the Department can now, I think, begin to deal in a much more aggressive and effective way not only with the needs of suppliers to increase the production of oil, gas, coal, solar, nuclear powers, but also to make sure that consumers of our country are treated fairly, that prices are adequate and not excessive. Many of us look back on the oil crises as our first experience with a federal government that made declarations which didn’t quite pass the smell test. The overnight discovery that we had a dinosaur shortage and the resulting corrections made “on our behalf” didn’t add up at the time. We still haven’t run out of oil in spite of claims government propaganda to the contrary for the last forty plus years. http://www.rickwells.us/picking-our-pockets-dept-of-energy-specializes-in-green-propaganda-research-debt-grants-energy-what-energy/
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Hilly Email: It Was Huma Abedin and Cheryl Mills Executing The Plan
(theconservativetreehouse.com) - Earlier today Steve Hayes reported that Hilly aides Huma Abedin and Cheryl Mills also used the “clintonmail” personal email scheme to communicate and avoid disclosure...Now the Wall Street Journal is reporting that Huma and Cheryl were key players in the original plan to set up the communication network. A private server had obvious advantages. It would give Mrs. Clinton more control over her email, people familiar with her team’s reasoning said. Privately, aides of the former president worried that adding her account would make the system a target for hackers. They also weren’t aware she would use it for all her official correspondence. That decision has now invited the kind of relentless public scrutiny it was designed to avoid, while also maximizing Mrs. Clinton’s control over sensitive email correspondence that that she might not want to get out. Is this passing the buck or kicking the can down the road? http://theconservativetreehouse.com/2015/03/11/report-on-hillary-email-apparently-it-was-huma-abedin-and-cheryl-mills-executing-the-plan/
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Judge Hanen Orders Imperial “Pres” To Explain Why DOJ Lied
(rickwells.us) - Judge Andrew Hanen apparently isn’t impressed by an illegal alien “president” who has declared himself to be above the law and above the Congress in defiance of the Constitution...Rather than finding an excuse to acquiesce, as every one of his predecessors has done in cases involving our would-be king, Judge Hanen wants answers related to new lawbreaking on behalf of the executive branch and he’s giving them a week to come up with some. On Monday Judge Hanen ordered lawyers for the federal government to appear in his courtroom in Brownsville, TX on March 19th to explain why the Department of Homeland “Security” had extended the period of their illegal deportation reprieve and work permit process under DACA from two years to three. http://www.rickwells.us/hanen-out-justice-judge-andrew-hanen-orders-imperial-president-to-explain-why-doj-lied-to-him/
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A Set Up? – Clinton Insider Claims Leaked Email
(rickwells.us) - Ed Klein is the author of the book “Blood Feud: The Clintons vs. The nObamas,” a descriptive account of the genuine hard feelings between the Clintons and the nObamas...He details insider information which reveals the belief on the part of both of the Clintons that Hussein nObama and Valerie Jarrett are behind her current email problems which threaten to completely derail her hopes of becoming president. Ed Klein quotes his sources as reporting that Bill Clinton as believing that the White House is the source of problematic leaks, not only about Hilly, but about him as well and “what she did while she was in the State Department.” Here comes the spin and blaming others for breaking the law.
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Gowdy: Hilly Hasn’t Provided Emails From Her Flight To Libya
(gopthedailydose.com) - Republican lawmaker and overall conservative pitbull Trey Gowdy has been unwilling to simply nod along with the lies that emanate so routinely from this administration...Now, according to a report from Western Journalism, Gowdy is claiming that there are huge gaps remaining in the emails he has seen concerning Hilly Clinton’s time during her trip to Libya in the aftermath of the Benghazi terrorist attacks. On Face the Nation this past Sunday, Trey Gowdy, who chairs the House Select Committee on Benghazi, announced that no emails from Hillary were provided from the day she flew to Libya to discuss the situation as Secretary of State. “This defies credulity,” said Gowdy. http://gopthedailydose.com/2015/03/11/watch-trey-gowdy-says-hillary-hasnt-provided-any-emails-from-the-day-of-her-flight-to-libya-2/#
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Mitch McCon-nell says he will fight really, really hard this time
(redstate.com) - First and foremost, given the answers provided by Loretta Lynch during her confirmation hearing, it is a travesty that she was voted out of committee. She is clearly not a big fan of the rule of law or the rights of Americans in general rather that enhanced rights for every racial/ethnic/sexual minority with an axe to grind...Every day she is not confirmed is a day that America is safer. That her vote should even be offered as a concession is just offensive. There is precious little evidence that this drama, the children’s matinee at Failure Theater, is anything more than McCon-nell trying to show conservatives how super tough he is. If McCon-nell was really going to use the Lynch nomination as a bargaining chip he should have used it when it mattered: on the DHS bill. But he didn’t. He forfeited a chance to refuse to fund nObama’s amnesty, a position that had wide national support and he could have done so by inflicting a little temporary pain on a very unpopular and superfluous agency headquarters. Now he is now holding up a bill that most Americans support — one that allegedly will have an impact on human trafficking — for the sake of an unrelated amendment that will be used to beat the GOP. In fact, the whole story smells like something cooked up by dinky Reid and McCon-nell to give McCon-nell a little breathing room to further betray conservatives: http://www.redstate.com/2015/03/11/mitch-mcconnell-says-will-fight-really-really-hard-time/
The Wrong “America Works”
Andrew Klavan
Kevin Spacey
(city-journal.org) - Most Hollywood fictions can be relied upon to rewrite conservative truth into left-wing fantasy. In real life, the staunch Cold Warrior president John F. Kennedy is assassinated by a Communist for the sake of Communism. At the movies, Oliver Stone turns Kennedy into a peacenik killed by a vast right-wing conspiracy. In real life, a married Democratic president faces credible charges of philandering and mistreatment of women. Onscreen, Michael Douglas magically transforms him into an unmarried man of integrity excoriated by the puritanical right for falling deeply in love with an accomplished woman his own age. In real life, leftists in the news media attempt to discredit a Republican president by creating a nonsensical scandal out of the Valerie Plame kerfuffle. At the multiplex, the scandal becomes deadly real and Vice President Dick Cheney (who had nothing to do with any of it) is somehow behind it all.
We’ve all become so accustomed to this leftward rejiggering of history that watching Netflix’s TV series House of Cards can be a weird and confusing experience. On the one hand, by dramatizing the rise of a corrupt, soulless Democratic pol willing to break any law, betray any principle, and literally throw his opponents under trains to acquire power—and by showing a Republican opposition too bumbling and cowardly to oppose his ruthless machinations—the series hews so close to the facts that it can hardly be called fiction at all. But when it comes to portraying the actual nuts and bolts of day-to-day policy making, the show sometimes seems to take place in an unidentifiable political Wonderland.
In the first season, House majority whip Frank Underwood—the soulless Democrat in question, played by the wonderful Kevin Spacey—seeks serious entitlement reform in spite of opposition from Republicans. He also stands up to the teachers’ unions in hopes of improving education. One can be forgiven for wondering on which planet this is taking place.
Then, in the present third season, Underwood, now risen to the White House, seeks to reform Social Security and other entitlement programs that are “sucking this country dry,” in order to fund a program that will get people off the welfare rolls and put them to work. When I heard those ideas come out of the mouth of a Democrat, I thought for a moment I had accidentally switched to the SyFy network.
But to add to the confusion, the name of Underwood’s $500 billion job proposal is America Works. Only it’s not at all like the real America Works, which actually works, but much more like nObamanomics, which hardly works at all.
Underwood’s America Works—as Jon Hartley notes in Forbes—looks a lot like nObama’s $787 billion America Recovery and Reinvestment Act, which was supposed to create 7 million new jobs and bring the unemployment rate down below 7 percent by 2010. None of that happened. In fact, the drop in the unemployment rate didn’t really get started until Republicans finally found the guts to put an end to unemployment benefits in 2013. This they managed to do despite the fact that Democrats like nObama and Nancy Pulosi kept claiming that unemployment insurance was actually creating jobs itself. By that logic we would have reached full employment once everyone was out of work!
The real-life America Works, however, was formed in 1984 as a response to the abject failure of government attempts to end poverty. In an Autumn 2012 City Journal piece, America Works founder Peter Cove described how his experience as “a foot soldier in America’s War on Poverty,” led him to create the initiative:
We know for certain that income transfers, the preferred tactic of generations of liberals, have utterly failed to end poverty . . . . I learned that if we helped welfare clients get jobs, even entry-level jobs, they would then attend to their other needs. By contrast, if the government gave them money and other benefits, they were likely to remain dependent.
The reasons should have been obvious all along. Work maximizes a person’s capacity to achieve economic self-reliance. Work socializes people and instills a sense of personal responsibility in them. Work connects behavior and consequences. And it permits people, especially men, to obtain the admiration and respect of their spouses and children by supporting them.
America Works set itself up as a job agency for state and local welfare agencies. It took payment only when it placed clients in jobs, and the clients held those jobs for at least four months. It claims to have taken more than 300,000 people off the welfare rolls and to have inspired the 1996 Welfare Reform Act. And still, Cove reports, the initiative is viewed with suspicion by those people whose ideology—and power—requires dependency and the big government that encourages it.
I suppose it’s realistic enough that the soulless Democrat Underwood would ignore a private America Works that works in order to propose a government America Works that doesn’t work. But it would have been nice if he hadn’t further muddied the show’s muddy politics by putting a good name to bad policy.
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