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2016 The turth is the gold of today
Featuring:
Toxic Words
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nObama's Real Power Plan
Any way you cut it, Barack nObama wins. The Supreme Court on Tuesday placed a stay on a key portion of the chief executive's Clean Power Plan. At the request of 27 states and coal industry monoliths, the court in a 5-4 decision signaled that it had serious concerns about nObama's plan to limit carbon emissions by legislating through regulating. The move was somewhat unusual because SCOTUS didn't wait for a ruling by a lower court. nObama's spokesman Josh Earnest responded to the temporary stay saying the EPA regulations are grounded in the nation's other environmental laws and the administration will continue to implement the regs without directly defying the court. "Even while the litigation proceeds, EPA has indicated it will work with states that choose to continue plan development and will prepare the tools those states will need," Earnest said. "At the same time, the administration will continue to take aggressive steps to make forward progress to reduce carbon emissions." Under nObama's plan, the carbon emission regulations wouldn't go into effect until 2020, but states needed to submit plans on how they were going to comply with the regs relatively soon.
nObama had to have gambled the courts would check his Clean Power Plan, but he still gets political credit on the Left for trying to implement it. Heading into the presidential election year, nObama is showing his fellow ecofascists how important it is for them to elect Democrats so they can seat leftists on courts. It's the same play as with immigration and nObama's other executive actions. -The Patriot Post
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Threat Assessment: ISIL Coming to U.S.
Director of National Intelligence James Clapper testified before the Senate Armed Services CommitteeTuesday, with an annual assessment of threats to U.S. vital interests and national security. Clapper noted that "homegrown violent extremists" will pose "the most significant Sunni terrorist threat to the U.S. homeland in 2016." He estimated this would be terrorists who are inspired by foreign terror groups, not under the direct control of those groups, similar to the Chattanooga and San Bernardino attacks in 2015. Clapper described the Islamic State as "the pre-eminent global terrorist threat," and said their "estimated strength worldwide exceeds that of al-Qaida." He noted, "In 2014, the FBI arrested nine ISIL supporters — in 2015, that number increased over five-fold." Ominously, he warned that ISIL has succeeded in making and using chemical weapons — the first terrorists group to use "chemical warfare agent in an attack since Aum Shinrikyo used sarin in Japan in 1995."
When asked by Arizona Sen. John McCain about whether he'd ever seen such diverse challenges to security, Clapper replied, "In my 50-plus years in the intelligence business, I cannot recall a more diverse array of challenges and crises that we confront as we do today." Defense Intelligence Agency Director Lt. Gen. Vincent Stewart also provided testimony and warned that ISIL would likely be capable of striking the continental U.S. within the year. "ISIL will probably attempt to conduct additional attacks in Europe, and attempt to direct attacks on the U.S. homeland in 2016."
Despite Barack nObama's assurances that "we've contained them," apparently that's not the case. -The Patriot Post
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Will Lynch Rig the Clinton Investigation?
The FBI has officially announced that it is, in fact, investigating Hilly Clinton's email subterfuge. Obviously, this creates more pressure on Clinton, just as voters head to the polls in New Hampshire. But it's also causing the pressure to mount on Attorney General Loretta Lynch to recuse herself. Lynch's Justice Department will be the arbiter of whether an FBI investigation yields an indictment, and anyone who doesn't think Lynch is a partisan hack isn't paying attention. A few months back, Barack nObama declared Hilly's whole email kerfuffle was no big deal, saying, "I can tell you that this is not a situation in which America's national security was endangered." That's a blatant lie given that a couple dozen of Clinton's 1,500 classified emails can't be released even in redacted form because the top secret information contained therein would be too damaging if made public. But given nObama's declaration, will his attorney general effectively disagree and countenance an indictment? Many Republicans don't think so and are calling for a special prosecutor. Part of the reason is Lynch's own partisan history. She gave $10,700 to Democrats between 2004 and 2008, including $4,600 to nObama's 2008 presidential campaign. And she might have a continued job in a future Clinton administration. The bottom line is, never underestimate the willingness of Democrats to circle the wagons. -The Patriot Post
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nObama's Offense is Treason,
Not 'Political Correctness'
> DR. ALAN KEYES.
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nObama's DOJ Threatens Elected Ferguson Officials
Daniel Greenfield
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San Diego Now Banishes
'Founding Fathers'
BOB UNRUH.
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FBI unable to crack San Bernardino
killers’ cell phone
Robert Spencer
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FBI Director James Comey
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Clinton Share – $130 Million For Russian
Control Of US Uranium?
Rick Wells.
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IRS Kept $4.75 Billion in Overpayments That
Taxpayers Can No Longer Claim Back
Ali Meyer.
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nObama Pushes FDA to Allow Scientists to
Create Three-Parent Embryos
MICAIAH BILGER
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Armed Social Security Recipients are
Now Targeted by nObama
Tim Brown
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Intel chief: 'We might use smart-home
devices to spy on you'
LEO HOHMANN.
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{wnd.com} ~ The nation’s top intelligence officer admitted Tuesday that the government may use information transmitted to the Internet from your washing machine, your thermostat, your television, your refrigerator or your favorite video game against you... Almost every home appliance and electronic gadget sold today is outfitted with a computer chip, constantly feeding information about their owners back to utilities, manufacturers and other data networks. James Clapper, director of national intelligence, in his annual assessment of threats given before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Tuesday, said the government considers this information fair game against people it suspects of terrorism or other crimes..
Bill & Hilly 'DecimatedBlack America'
Trey Sanchez
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Toxic Words
Thomas Sowell,
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One of these words is "entitlement." To hear some politicians tell it, we are all entitled to all sorts of things, ranging from "affordable housing" to "a living wage."
One of these words is "entitlement." To hear some politicians tell it, we are all entitled to all sorts of things, ranging from "affordable housing" to "a living wage."
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But the reality is that the human race is not entitled to anything, not even the food we need to stay alive. If we don't produce food, we are just going to starve. If we don't build housing, then we are not going to have housing, "affordable" or otherwise.
But the reality is that the human race is not entitled to anything, not even the food we need to stay alive. If we don't produce food, we are just going to starve. If we don't build housing, then we are not going to have housing, "affordable" or otherwise.
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Particular individuals or groups can be given many things, to which politicians say they are "entitled," only if other people are forced by the government to provide those things to people who don't need to lift a finger to earn them. All the fancy talk about "entitlement" means simply forcing some people to work to produce things for other people, who have no obligation to work.
Particular individuals or groups can be given many things, to which politicians say they are "entitled," only if other people are forced by the government to provide those things to people who don't need to lift a finger to earn them. All the fancy talk about "entitlement" means simply forcing some people to work to produce things for other people, who have no obligation to work.
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It gets worse. If we are all "entitled" to things, irrespective of whether we produce anything ourselves, then the question becomes: Why are some people getting so much more than others?
It gets worse. If we are all "entitled" to things, irrespective of whether we produce anything ourselves, then the question becomes: Why are some people getting so much more than others?
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People who are producing nothing can feel a sense of grievance against those who are producing much, and being rewarded for it, if our basis for receiving economic benefits is supposed to be what we are all "entitled" to, rather than what we have worked to earn.
People who are producing nothing can feel a sense of grievance against those who are producing much, and being rewarded for it, if our basis for receiving economic benefits is supposed to be what we are all "entitled" to, rather than what we have worked to earn.
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One of the most misleading uses of the notion of entitlement is to say that people who paid into Social Security for years are now entitled to the pensions they receive.
One of the most misleading uses of the notion of entitlement is to say that people who paid into Social Security for years are now entitled to the pensions they receive.
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Really? It so happens that I have put money into the same bank account for more than 20 years. But if I were to write a check for a million dollars today, it would bounce! The question is not how long you have been putting money in, but how much money you put in.
Really? It so happens that I have put money into the same bank account for more than 20 years. But if I were to write a check for a million dollars today, it would bounce! The question is not how long you have been putting money in, but how much money you put in.
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If what you have been putting into Social Security over the years is enough to pay you a $1,500 a month pension, but you were promised a $3,000 a month pension, how much are you entitled to? On what basis?
If what you have been putting into Social Security over the years is enough to pay you a $1,500 a month pension, but you were promised a $3,000 a month pension, how much are you entitled to? On what basis?
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Social Security was created back in the 1930s, during the administration of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, one of the shrewdest politicians who ever sat in the White House.
Social Security was created back in the 1930s, during the administration of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, one of the shrewdest politicians who ever sat in the White House.
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President Roosevelt understood that, if you could convince people that they were entitled to a pension under Social Security, it could become politically impossible to ever put an end to that system.
President Roosevelt understood that, if you could convince people that they were entitled to a pension under Social Security, it could become politically impossible to ever put an end to that system.
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The pensions promised exceeded what could actually be paid from the money that was put in by the recipients. But the first generation to enter Social Security would have their pensions paid by money received from the second generation, as well as its own money. The second generation would be paid with money that included what was paid in by the third generation, and so on.
The pensions promised exceeded what could actually be paid from the money that was put in by the recipients. But the first generation to enter Social Security would have their pensions paid by money received from the second generation, as well as its own money. The second generation would be paid with money that included what was paid in by the third generation, and so on.
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This is the principle behind a "pyramid" scheme, in which the first investors can get a big return on their money by simply paying them money received from subsequent investors. But it is only a matter of time before reality catches up with us, since the pyramid scheme is not actually investing any money or saving any money.
This is the principle behind a "pyramid" scheme, in which the first investors can get a big return on their money by simply paying them money received from subsequent investors. But it is only a matter of time before reality catches up with us, since the pyramid scheme is not actually investing any money or saving any money.
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That is why a private insurance company that sold annuities based on a pyramid scheme would be prosecuted for fraud, and its officials put in prison. But you can't put Congress in prison, even when that is what it deserves.
That is why a private insurance company that sold annuities based on a pyramid scheme would be prosecuted for fraud, and its officials put in prison. But you can't put Congress in prison, even when that is what it deserves.
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With the money running out in the so-called trust fund for Social Security, reality is beginning to break through the fantasies, and is closing in on us.
With the money running out in the so-called trust fund for Social Security, reality is beginning to break through the fantasies, and is closing in on us.
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No one wants to pull the rug out from under people already retired and dependent on Social Security, or on people nearing retirement age, and expecting a pension that is just not going to be there.
No one wants to pull the rug out from under people already retired and dependent on Social Security, or on people nearing retirement age, and expecting a pension that is just not going to be there.
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We can be both realistic enough, and decent enough, to rescue older people who have been victimized by political fantasies. We can pay higher taxes temporarily to rescue them. But, there is no reason to bankrupt the country by keeping the fraud going forever.
We can be both realistic enough, and decent enough, to rescue older people who have been victimized by political fantasies. We can pay higher taxes temporarily to rescue them. But, there is no reason to bankrupt the country by keeping the fraud going forever.
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Younger people can be allowed to opt out and arrange their own pension plans in the private sector, where the kind of irresponsible pyramid schemes that politicians set up are illegal.
Younger people can be allowed to opt out and arrange their own pension plans in the private sector, where the kind of irresponsible pyramid schemes that politicians set up are illegal.
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But we don't need to ruin the whole economy,
But we don't need to ruin the whole economy,
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