What’s interesting out there today?

Open Thread, what have you got?

Here’s a few to start with.

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Not one dime…….

He was right, not one dime. Try 62,000,000,000,000 dimes.

From NationalReview

“Obamacare will increase the long-term federal deficit by $6.2 trillion, according to a Government Accountability Office (GAO) report released today.

Senator Jeff Sessions (R., Ala.), who requested the report, revealed the findings this morning at a Senate Budget Committee hearing. The report, he said, “confirms everything critics and Republicans were saying about the faults of this bill,” and “dramatically proves that the promises made assuring the nation that the largest new entitlement program in history would not add one dime to the deficit were false.”

President Obama and other Democrats attempted to win support for the health-care bill by touting it as a fiscally responsible enterprise. “I will not sign a plan that adds one dime to our deficits — either now or in the future,” Obama told a joint-session of Congress in September 2009. “I will not sign it if it adds one dime to the deficit, now or in the future, period.”

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And don’t forget, Nancy Pelosi called it “the greatest deficit reduction effort in 2 decades”.

Here’s more from Senator Jeff Sessions (R., Ala.), who points out all the lies, and how Republicans were correct about it.

Good thing we had to pass it to find all this out huh?

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All this explains why Dems would whine about this.

From TheDailyCaller

“Some members of Congress apparently don’t like to be reminded about how much  debt the country continues to rack up.

During a House Financial Services Committee hearing Tuesday on the budget, two Democrats complained after  House Financial Services Committee chairman Jeb Hensarling instructed that two  monitors in the hearing room display a real-time running national debt  clock.

California Rep. Maxine Waters and Minnesota Rep. Keith Ellison both issued complaints about the  displays, according to video of the hearing.

Can’t have anyone pointing out the facts now can we?

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This one I can’t help feeling was a set-up. They were wanting to do this anyway, this just gave them a convenient excuse.

From TheLATimes

“Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials have released “several hundred” immigrants from deportation centers across the country, saying the move is an effort to cut costs ahead of budget cuts due to hit later this week.

Announcing the news Tuesday, ICE officials said that the immigrants were released under supervision and continue to face deportation. After reviewing hundreds of cases, those released were considered low-risk and “noncriminal,” officials said.

The releases took place over the last week and were an effort “to ensure detention levels stay within ICE’s current budget,” said ICE spokeswoman Gillian Christiansen, citing uncertainty caused by a budget standoff in Washington.”

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What’s interesting in the news today?

Open Thread, you decide.

Here’s a few I found interesting.

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Let’s start with a video, and some honesty for a change in the gun control debate.

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Here’s more from CNSNews

“CNSNews.com asked: From what was said today, it seems in fact that gun control hurts the African American community.

“It absolutely does, there’s no doubt about it,” Hutcherson said. “It began that way with history. You see why there was so much gun control earlier in life–in American life–because it controlled African Americans.

“Gun control is about controlling people,” he said. “We need to understand that those who need to be trained, who need to be armed is the African American community, and I don’t understand why any African American that is there in Congress right now would have the slightest thought about taking guns away from African Americans. We need them.””

While I agree with what the Rev. has to say, some have other variations of this theme that don’t sound as appealing. The idea of people being able to arm themselves for protection is fine. Taking gang members and training them to become military grade gang members isn’t as appealing. These are after all the type of people that folks are arming themselves to protect against.

From TheBlaze

“The Minister Louis Farrakhan, 79, delivered his annual Saviors’ Day sermon on Sunday. As is usually the case, the three-hour address covered a variety of topics ranging from current events to the faith leader’s contentious views on race relations. Of particular note was an economic plan he posited — one in which African Americans would come together to invest in land — and a pledge to reach out to gang leaders to ask them for assistance in protecting the Nation of Islam’s interests.”

“But the more intriguing portion of the speech focused upon gangs and efforts to seek leaders and members of these groups out for the sole purposes of protecting the Nation of Islam. Here’s how DNAInfo.com describes Farrakhan’s framing of the proposal:

Instead, Farrakhan had a different idea for how to address gun violence. In addition to sending letters to black military leaders, Farrakhan said he planned to contact the city’s gang leaders to recruit gang members to “protect” any land the Nation of Islam may buy in the future.

“All you gang bangers, we know you love to shoot, but you’re killing yourselves,” Farrakhan said.

Rather than killing one another, Farrakhan spoke directly to gang leaders, telling them, “We want to make you a defender of the territories that your nickels, dimes and dollars and hours will buy.” He continued, explaining that gang bangers have much to teach the National of Islam about self-defense, while simultaneously condemning them for needless violence.”

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The end of Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act? That’s the one Holder and Obama use to justify their attempts to block Voter ID laws in the South.

From HotAir

“The Voting Rights Act gave the federal government greater powers to prevent racial discrimination. For the past 48 years, the Justice Department has routinely monitored elections and reviewed changes to any voting rules, ranging from poll locations and hours, to registration and identification requirements and the redrawing of legislative district lines.

The issue before the Supreme Court in next Wednesday’s oral arguments in “Shelby County v. Holder” is just one part of the Voting Rights Act – Section 5 – which requires 9 states and parts of 7 others to obtain Justice Department approval, known as “preclearance,” before changing voting laws or maps.

Some of the states covered in full by the Act, like Alabama, where the plaintiff’s case originated, contend that Section 5 is an outdated burden, because racial discrimination is “scattered and limited.””

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And yes Your Honor, we can force your wife to violate her religious beliefs, if you’ll let us.

From CNSNews

“While presenting an oral argument in the U.S. District Court for the  District of Columbia last fall, a lawyer for the U.S. Justice Department  told a federal judge that the Obama administration believed it could  force the judge’s own wife—a physician—to act against her religious  faith in the conduct of her medical practice.

The assertion came in the case of Tyndale House Publishers v.  Sebelius, a challenge to the Obama administration’s regulation requiring  health-care plans to cover sterilizations, contraceptives and  abortion-inducing drugs.”

“In the face of this argument, Judge Walton asked an interesting  question. His wife, a graduate of Georgetown Medical  School, is a  physician. She has incorporated her medical practice. Does that mean,  according to the Obama administration’s argument, that the federal  government can force her to act against her religious faith in the  conduct of her medical practice?

Berwick effectively answered: Yes.”

No wonder the judge granted Tyndales request for an injunction.

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