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 Democrats Exploit Train Wreck to Derail Republicans 

Regarding the Philadelphia train crash, the blood of the seven dead was not dry on the tracks before Democrats attempted to convert this tragedy into political capital. Congress was deliberating Amtrak funding and, in keeping with Rahm Emmanuel's maxim to "never let a good crisis go to waste," Democrats immediately asserted that the crash was related to an "infrastructure failure." nObama's White House mouthpiece Josh Earnest got in on the act, saying, "The president has been a leading advocate ... for investing in our infrastructure." He added, "Unfortunately, we have seen a concerted effort by Republicans for partisan reasons to step in front of those kinds of advancements." According to investigators, the train was traveling over 100 mph, or twice the posted track speed. Notably, this was very similar to the crash in Spain last year, when another train was traveling into a leftward turn at twice the posted track speed. Fortunately, Republicans have not (yet) bowed to Demo tactics, and Amtrak, which is as inefficient and bankrupt as the Post Office, has not yet received even more taxpayer funds. Isn't $1 billion a year enough?  -The Patriot Post 

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 Congress Takes NSA Hot Potato  

The NSA's mass metadata collection efforts have come to a head. Last week, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals ruled the program violated the Patriot Act, despite the NSA claiming Section 215 authorized it. Indeed, Rep. James Sensenbrenner (R-WI), primary author of the original Patriot Act, said, “That program is illegal and based on a blatant misinterpretation of the law." But the law is up for renewal by June 1, so Congress has to act. The House on Wednesday voted 338-88 to pass the USA Freedom Act, which specifically ends bulk data collection. That sets up a fight with the Senate, where Republicans are more eager to actually authorize the NSA's phone metadata program. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McCon-nell warned the House bill would put undue limits on intelligence collection and said the Senate won't vote on it. House Speaker backstabber John Boehner promised not to let the Patriot Act expire because it's "critically important to keep Americans safe." But the fundamental debate is how much power the government needs to do that. How much Liberty do we give up for security?   -The Patriot Post 

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 UVA Dean Sues Rolling Stone Over Rape Story  

It's devilishly hard for someone in America to successfully sue a publication for libel. Not only does the plaintiff have to convince the court that what was published was false and caused harm, but the plaintiff also has to prove that the publication acted with malicious intent. In response to Rolling Stone's grossly irresponsible false report on a supposed rape on the University of Virginia campus, the college's Associate Dean of Students Nicole Eramo filed a $7.5 million suit against the magazine and the author of the story, Sabrina Rubin Erdely. Based on the complaint, it appears Eramo has a case. She alleges Erdely never attempted to get documents that would have disproven "Jackie's" story. And the reporter hid her work by using pseudonyms to describe people in the story she didn't talk to and dismissed concerns by a Rolling Stone copy editor who wondered why Erdely didn't talk to the accused. The complaint alleges even Jackie was uncomfortable with how the magazine portrayed Eramo. But Erdely was trying to fit this story into a template, the one she used in the past when writing about rape — a template that produced several factually challenged stories. As Jonah Goldberg wrote last month, journalistic ethics are "all based on a very simple rule: Tell the truth." More...  -The Patriot Post 

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 The Left's Twisted Concern for Premature Black (Voter) Deaths 

"Blacks die sooner than whites. How many votes has this cost Democrats?" So headlined The Washington Post over the weekend. It's not so much that black lives matter, you see, as black votes matter to Democrat politicians.

          Writing in the Post, University of Massachusetts at Amherst Professor Dean Robinson takes a look at the research of Javier Rodriguez, Arline Geronimus, John Bound and Danny Dorling, four university professors who attempt to calculate how different election outcomes might have been if the voting-age blacks who died between 1970 and 2004 had lived and voted (Democrat).

          According to Robinson, "Rodriguez and colleagues estimate that excess deaths among blacks totaled 2.7 million between 1970 and 2004, that 1.74 million would have been of voting age, and that 1 million would have voted in the 2004 election. Combining excess mortality with the consequences of felon disenfranchisement, they find that about 1 in 7 blacks (15 percent) did not have the opportunity to vote in 2004 for one of these two reasons." 

          While the study authors conclude the 2004 presidential election would not have turned out different, they assert the "[o]utcomes of 7 senate and 11 gubernatorial races could have been reversed."  -The Patriot Post 

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 US Senate Votes to Advance nObama's Secret Bill  

(americanactionnews.com) - The Senate voted to advance President nObama's Trade Promotion Authority bill this afternoon by a vote of 65 - 33. The Problem? Hardly anyone, including those voting on it, has read the bill... The text of this piece of legislation is held under lock and key in the basement of the US Capitol. The only people who can see it are members of Congress and some of their staff.       http://americanactionnews.com/articles/us-senate-votes-to-advance-secret-bill-hardly-anyone-has-read

 Top House Republican unveils nObamacare replacement  

(Philp Klein) - House Budget Committee Chairman Rep. Tom Price, R-Ga., on Wednesday unveiled a plan to repeal President nObama's healthcare law and replace it with an alternative... The move is the latest effort by Republicans to show that they have a vision for reforming the healthcare system beyond merely undoing nObamacare. With Republicans taking over the Senate, a looming Supreme Court decision, and the 2016 campaign heating up, there has been increased pressure on the GOP to offer alternatives. Price, an orthopedic surgeon who in January took over the budget panel from Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., has been one of the leading voices on healthcare policy among Republicans.       http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/top-house-republican-unveils-obamacare-replacement/article/2564446?utm_campaign=Conservative%20Inbox:%20Top%205&utm_source=Conservative%20Inbox:%20Top%205%20-%2005/14/15&utm_medium=email

 Alan Colmes: FBI should 'absolutely' investigate Clinton 

(Barbara Boland) - "She's got to answer questions. She's got to stand up and answer to the press," said liberal radio show host Alan Colmes about presidential candidate Hilly Clinton... Hilly Clinton promised that the Clinton Foundation would stop accepting foreign donations, but she has not followed through on that promise, pointed out Fox host Bill Hemmer. "The FBI might want to look into this statement that there was not a conflict of interest between her work as secretary of state and any money that went to the Clinton Foundation," said Colmes.       http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/alan-colmes-fbi-should-absolutely-investigate-clinton/article/2564445?utm_campaign=Conservative%20Inbox:%20Top%205&utm_source=Conservative%20Inbox:%20Top%205%20-%2005/14/15&utm_medium=email

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 Nuclear Plant Fire North of NYC Brings Back Relicensing Concerns  

(Clark Mindock) - A sheen of oil and chemicals wound down the Hudson River toward New York City this week after Saturday’s fire and explosion in a nuclear power plant transformer 40 miles upstream from the nation’s largest metropolitan center. Awkward timing... The explosion came as the plant’s owner, Entergy Corp., is lobbying federal lawmakers and agencies for relicensing to keep the facility open, with some New York lawmakers mounting a fight against the bid. For opponents of the Indian Point plant’s continued operations, like Rep. Nita Lowey(D-N.Y.), Saturday night’s explosion provided an opportunity to once again question the wisdom of keeping the power plant going. Oh  my gosh, should we close down the trains also?     http://www.opensecrets.org/news/2015/05/nuclear-plant-fire-north-of-nyc-brings-back-relicensing-concerns/?utm_source=CRP+Mail+List&utm_campaign=9ab46aacc1-Newsletter_5_14_15&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_9df8578d78-9ab46aacc1-210943657

(Michael Warren) - Ryan is the chairman of the House Ways andMeansCommittee, which makes the memento all the more fitting. For decades, the concept illustrated by Laffer’s curve—that raising the rate of taxation past a certain point actually lowers revenue... has been the organizing principle of the Republican policy of lowering taxes by cutting marginal rates. Republicans aren’t ready to abandon that idea in spirit, but as the 2016 presidential election nears, there are signs of some divides within the party about what’s a priority—and what isn’t—when it comes to tax reform. Ryan himself is pretty direct about where he sees the debate over taxes. Recently, a reporter in Washington asked him if lowering individual and corporate tax rates is still a top priority for him. “Yes,” he said immediately. Has interest in lowering rates waned? “No,” he said just as quickly. Is the goal to push the top marginal rate down below 30 percent? “Absolutely,” he said.     http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/taxes-and-gop-candidates_941097.html?utm_source=newsletters&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=JVL+5_14_15

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 Where Did the Islamic State Come From?  

(Elliot Friedland) - Last summer the Islamic State shocked the world with its lighting conquests of swathes of Iraq and Syria... But the group is much older than that. It has its roots in Al-Qaeda and the global jihadist movement that developed from the 1980s onwards. What is now the Islamic State began as a group called Jamaat al-Tahwid wa-i-Jihad (JTWJ), founded in 1999 by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, who first became a jihadi in Afghanistan.  Zarqawi was killed by a United States airstrike in 2006. http://www.clarionproject.org/analysis/where-did-islamic-state-come

 Leaders of the Lynch Mob  

(Matthew Vadum) - Leaders of the “Black Lives Matter” movement are obliquely endorsing killing cops and rioting as legitimate forms of political activism as the radical community organizers of the so-called Black Spring ramp up political violence and civil unrest... For example, on-the-record statements by Twitter stars DeRay Mckesson, 29 and Johnetta Elzie, 26, are all over the Internet. Mckesson and Elzie are influential activists who have become legacy-media darlings by using social media to push their racial-grievance agenda. Both of these community organizers bounce between reverence for nonviolent action and a refusal to condemn violent activism, which this writer would argue is tantamount to endorsing violent activism.       http://www.frontpagemag.com/2015/matthew-vadum/leaders-of-the-lynch-mob/?utm_source=FrontPage+Magazine&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=201ae684af-Mailchimp_FrontPageMag&utm_term=0_57e32c1dad-201ae684af-156509103

 Where in the World Is hanoi John Kerry?  

(Daniel Greenfield) - hanoi John Kerry returns from his latest Russian visit bearing two baskets of potatoes and a t-shirt... The t-shirt, given to him by Foreign Minister Lavrov, might as well say, “I wasted my time in Russia and all I got was this shirt.” It’s a diplomatic success only in relation to hanoi Kerry’s previous humiliations such as the time that Russia’s adeptly slimy foreign minister kept him waiting for a week before returning his call while the State Department spokeswoman announced to the world that hanoi Kerry was “ready to talk whenever Foreign Minister Lavrov can find the time.” The Putin regime enjoys humiliating the United States, but even it seems to have tired of degrading hanoi Kerry who ruins their fun by failing to realize what is going on. Instead hanoi Kerry has become a nonentity; a forgotten messenger boy. It’s a fitting purgatory for the formerly tireless leftist activist in the Senate.       http://www.frontpagemag.com/2015/dgreenfield/where-in-the-world-is-john-kerry/?utm_source=FrontPage+Magazine&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=201ae684af-Mailchimp_FrontPageMag&utm_term=0_57e32c1dad-201ae684af-156509103

 "Breaking the Silence" Report Isn't Journalism. It's Propaganda  

(Matti Friedman) - Last week, a report by an Israeli group called Breaking the Silence made headlines in the U.S., Britain, and most of Europe, becoming one of the week’s biggest international stories... The subject was the Gaza war of 2014. The headline in theWashington Post was representative: New report details how Israeli soldiers killed civilians in Gaza: “There were no rules.” This report is worth dwelling on because there will be more rounds of fighting in Gaza, and more reports like this one, and more reporting of this kind—and because, for all observers of the Israel-Palestinian conflict, it is important to understand the sources of information that shape our thinking.       http://mosaicmagazine.com/observation/2015/05/the-latest-breaking-the-silence-report-isnt-journalism-its-propaganda/

A Nation of Illegals

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     (burtprelutsky.com) - Living in California as I do, I have long been aware of the myriad of problems that illegal aliens (aka undocumented immigrants; hard-working people who do the jobs Americans won’t do; future Democrats) bring with them. But until I read a speech delivered by Heather MacDonald, a Thomas W. Smith Fellow at the Manhattan Institute, my knowledge barely scratched the surface.

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     For instance, under the Secure Communities program, when an illegal alien is booked into a local jail, an automatic alert is sent to the folks at Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), so that ICE agents can pick him up and start deportation proceedings. Although I have a problem with deportation, which only sticks a criminal across a line in the sand at the border, and would prefer to see him jailed, there are about 300 jurisdictions, including New York and California, that refuse to cooperate.

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     But even without these so-called sanctuary cities and states, in 2012, 400,000 illegal aliens were arrested, but only 19% of them were deported, while half of the 81% who were not exiled soon committed another crime.

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     The reason that the problem has only gotten worse in the decades since Reagan got gulled by the Democrats into signing the amnesty in the mid-80s is because the various presidents and Congress had no real stake in the outcome. The Democrats saw illegal aliens as millions of potential votes, while Republicans, representing farm and other business interests, saw a constant flow of cheap labor. It’s only society at large that pays the price of being flooded with low-skilled, basically illiterate, foreigners. The fact that we continue to offer citizenship to babies born on our turf to people who have no business being here merely compounds the problem, and makes a mockery of what citizenship is supposed to mean. It’s worth noting that these babies, innocent though they are, happen to be the only people in America allowed to directly benefit from the commission of a crime.

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     Something I was unaware of was that the majority of those identified as “long term English learners,” or, in other words, people who don’t know how to speak our language were born in the United States. In fact, according to Ms. MacDonald, 30% of the long-termers in the nation are third generation Americans.

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     In the past, whether parents originally came over from Germany, Italy, Russia, China, Japan, Egypt or Argentina, their children, let alone their grandchildren or great-grandchildren, were becoming doctors, judges, lawyers, accountants, architects, police officers and scientists. But even the slow learners quickly learned the difference between “is,” “are” and “were.”

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     ♦ We are still welcoming educated foreigners. Unfortunately, they tend to be technical workers being brought over from India by the likes of Silicon Valley and Disney in order to undercut the wages of Americans already doing the job.

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     ♦ As you may have noticed, the liberals are looking to have it both ways when it comes to the rioters in the big cities. So far as schmucks like nObama and Sharpton are concerned, the vandals are expressing long-time grievances against a racist society. But when Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake decides to defend her order to the city’s cops to stand down while the thugs burned homes, cars and businesses, it was because they were just a bunch of high school kids with a smattering of outside agitators.

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     If those are the troublemakers, stop talking about underlying causes and longstanding resentments. Then it all comes down to young jackasses who just enjoy burning and breaking things, and anarchists, who also enjoy burning and breaking things.

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     Let us remember that when it came to granting suffrage to 18-year-olds, liberals told us that if they were old enough to go to war, they were old enough to vote. At the time, I granted that was a good argument for allowing young soldiers to vote, but it fell apart when applied to those still living at home and collecting a weekly allowance. Likewise, as a defense for vandalism, it fails to hold water. If you’re old enough to be running loose in the streets without parental supervision, you’re old enough to pay the consequences. And when you’re a Balti-moron destroying the lives of your elders, the consequences should involve jail time and just possibly getting your head conked by a billy club.

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     ♦ In other news, I’m getting annoyed with all the controversy over the means by which murderers are sent off to meet their Maker. The way the louts have gone from opposing electric chairs and hangings to firing squads and chemical cocktails, you would think they were all residing on Death Row. The truth is that those opposed to executing the vilest members of the human race will never be satisfied.

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     In the beginning, those who objected to lawful executions based their objection on the misinterpretation of the Commandment against killing, arguing that the State has no more right to kill than the individual. When people started to catch on that the actual translation from the Hebrew prohibits murder, not state-authorized executions, the self-righteous busybodies had to change their tactics. They then made it their mission to make executions such a rarity that they could then trade on the use of the word “unusual,” as it appears in the Eighth Amendment’s prohibition of “cruel and unusual punishment.”

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     About 10 years ago, when many of the same people argued that Terri Schiavo should be taken off life support, they insisted, as if they knew, that being deprived of food and water wouldn’t cause the 41 year old woman to experience the least bit of pain. I admit I was skeptical at the time, no matter Mrs. Schiavo’s cognitive state, but if starvation is agreeable to the other side, I am more than willing to deprive the sadists and serial killers on Death Row of food and drink for as long as it takes.

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     Because, I confess, providing the monsters with a painless death is the least of my concerns, I would prefer to make them listen to nObama’s six State of the Union addresses. Unless I miss my guess, by the middle of number four, they’ll be begging for the noose or even for Old Sparky.

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     ♦ Sen. Bernie Sanders, the so-called Independent from Vermont, who hasn’t had an opinion in 70 years that wasn’t in line with either the DNC or the Communist Party of the United States, launched his presidential campaign by attacking the big money in American politics.

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     Predictably, the man who has spent his entire political career living up to his initials only mentioned the Koch brothers. Not a word about George Soros, Tom Steyer or the Clintons.

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     ♦ As for the Kochs, in their pathetic attempt to prove they’re not the heartless ogres dinky Harry Reid has labeled them, they have decided they will no longer ask potential employees if they have criminal records. In a nation in which 40% of the adults lack full time employment, and a majority of them lack a rap sheet, is that the best that these two titans of conservatism can do?

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     Is it any wonder that liberals are going to keep booting us in the rump as long as rich dopes like Mrs. Koch’s little boys, Charles and David, are going to walk around with “Kick Me” signs on their backs?

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