What’s interesting in the news today?

First up, Reid sees public opinion turning, so he’s gonna try to ram this thru. From TheWashingtonExaminer

“With a new poll showing falling support for the Gang of Eight comprehensive immigration reform bill, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has announced an accelerated schedule in which the Senate would take a final, up-or-down vote on passing the bill by the end of next week.”

“Reid warned his fellow lawmakers that if they want to consider amendments to the Gang of Eight bill, they need to be prepared to work virtually nonstop between now and then. “This may not be one of our normal weekends,” Reid said. “We’ve got to move forward on this legislation.””

Obama’s doing his part with some propaganda for the cause. From BarackObama.com

“As the Senate starts to debate comprehensive immigration reform, one of the groups the opposition is focusing on is the DREAMers—the children of undocumented immigrants who were brought to this country as kids and are Americans in nearly every way except for on paper.

This month, the House passed a bill that would effectively deport them.

These DREAMers’ stories show in real ways how we need to fix our broken immigration system. OFA volunteers across the country are opening up their homes for free screenings of The Dream is Now, a powerful short documentary that tells the stories of four young DREAMers.”

And this is the type of treatment those opposed can expect to receive. Some good old-fashioned union intimidation and thug tactics, including illegal aliens attempting to intimidate and terrorize a public official and his family. From TownHall

“Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach is calling for a criminal investigation after a huge mob of illegal alien supporters surrounded his private home Saturday and held a rally on his front porch.

At least 200 members of Sunflower Community Action were bussed into Kobach’s Kansas City-area neighborhood on Saturday – to protest his staunch anti-illegal alien views.”

“The secretary of state said a large number of the protesters were believed to be illegal aliens. They can be seen on video chanting in Spanish, standing on Kobach’s porch, front yard and driveway and demanding that he come outside.”

“Kobach said he’s asked local police and the county attorney to investigate the incident. He believes a number of laws were violated including terrorizing a public official.”

Sounds like something a real DoJ might be interested in. But you can bet Holder and company won’t be. They have other priorities. From USNews

“The departments of Justice and State this week are holding back-to-back LGBT events in honor of gay pride month, and as the Supreme Court prepares to deliver two landmark decisions on same-sex marriage.

On Tuesday, the Justice Department celebrated pride with speeches from Sen. Tammy Baldwin, D-Wis., the first openly gay member of the Senate, singer-songwriter and gay and lesbian activist Melissa Etheridge, and Attorney General Eric Holder, all on the theme “A Year of Firsts,” according to DOJPride.com, the official site for LGBT Employees at the department.

And on Wednesday, the State Department will follow suit with its own pride event in which Secretary John Kerry will deliver his first speech on LGBT policy and personnel issues.”

And if you’re against this immigration plan, it’s probably because you’re racist. A new govt. funded study from NYU says so. So yeah, more taxpayer-funded propaganda. 🙄 From TheDailyCaller

“Mixed-race people are more likely to be considered black by conservatives,  who are subconsciously attempting to “justify racial divisions,” said the  authors of a new government-funded study.

The report, originally released earlier this month, has begun attracting criticism from those who see political bias in the  results.

The study was conducted by graduate students and faculty in the psychology  department of New York University. Researchers asked participants to look at  pictures of mixed-race people and say whether they were black or white. The  study found that conservatives were more likely to think of a mixed-race person  as black than were liberal participants.”

Boy I gotta say, NYU loves to do the bidding of overbearing and overstepping govts huh? From TheWashingtonTimes

“Blind Chinese human rights advocate Chen  Guangcheng, who was allowed to travel to the United States after taking  sanctuary in its embassy in Beijing, says that New York University is forcing  him and his family to leave at the end of this month because of pressure from  the Chinese government.

The university denied Mr. Chen’s  allegations, which were reported Monday by The Associated Press.

Mr. Chen said in a statement to the AP  that China’s Communist Party had been applying “great,  unrelenting pressure” on NYU to ask him to leave, though he did not provide  details or evidence to back his claim.

“The work of the Chinese Communists within academic circles in the United  States is far greater than what people imagine,” he said. “Academic independence and academic freedom in the United States are being greatly threatened by a  totalitarian regime.”

Despite NYU’s claims to the contrary, they certainly have something to provide motivation. From FoxNews

“New York University has reportedly booted a blind Chinese political activist  from its campus under pressure from China over a deal to build a branch campus  in Shanghai, according to the New York  Post.“

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The ObamaPhone scam has gotten completely out of hand. A good program at one time, put on steroids and turned into just another free handout loaded with fraud by the Obama admin. And once again, James O’Keefe exposes the left. From TheDailyMail

“EXCLUSIVE: Hidden camera catches wireless company employees passing out  ‘Obama phones’ to people who say they’ll SELL them for drugs, shoes, handbags  and spending cash

• The ‘Lifeline’ free-cell-phone scheme cost  $2.2 BILLION last year alone, all of it from fees added to the phone bills of  paying customers
• The biggest beneficiary other than  low-income consumers is billionaire Carlos Slim Helu, whose TracFone has  collected $1.5 BILLION to date
• One company told MailOnline it will fire a  salesperson who laughed uproariously when a woman said she would sell her phone  to buy shoes
• Conservative firebrand James O’Keefe sent  undercover actors to pose as ‘Obama phone’ seekers aiming to sell the goods; no  one turned them down
• Legislation in Congress would remove the  cell phone component of the program, which launched in 1984 and covered only  land lines until 2008″

And yes, he’s provided the raw un-edited footage as well.

And once again, big time payback for big time campaign contributors. From HumanEvents

“While it’s true that President Obama didn’t launch the cell phone expansion of the Lifeline program, his policies have greatly increased the number of participants, since everyone in Food Stamp Nation qualifies for a free phone.  The cost of the program has more than doubled, to $1.6 billion, since the cell phone benefit was added in 2008.  It’s absolutely riddled with fraud and abuse, including individual recipients who scored multiple free telephones from the government.  And it turns out that one of the biggest companies providing these welfare phones, TracFone Wireless, is run by big Obama donors.

The Washington Free Beacon reports that TracFone Wireless CEO F.J. Pollak “has donated at least $156,500 to Democratic candidates and committees this cycle, including at least $50,000 to the Obama campaign,” while his wife Abigail has bundled over $632,000 in Obama donations during this campaign cycle.  They hosted a $40,000-per-plate fundraiser for Obama in Miami Beach this year, and they’ve made seven White House Visits.  Abigail received an appointment to the presidential “Commission to Study the Potential Creation of a National Museum of the American Latino.””

More from MyFoxDC

“A Mexican telecom mogul who holds the title of world’s richest man, and one  of President Obama’s top donors are both getting even richer from the U.S.  government program that supplies so-called “Obamaphones” to the poor.

Carlos Slim, who has an estimated net worth of $70 billion, owns a  controlling stake in TracFone, which makes $10 per phone for each device it  provides to poor Americans. The company, whose president and CEO is Frederick  “F.J.” Pollak, also makes money from extra minutes and data plans it sells to  subscribers who get phones and service through the government’s Lifeline  program. The program, which began in the mid-1980s, has exploded in the past  four years after being expanded from supplying landlines to the poor to  providing cellular phones.”

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And the House has passed a ban on abortions after 20 weeks. As you can imagine, Obama has threatened a veto, and Pelosi the good Catholic is having a fit, as are most Dems. They’re shilling for the abortion mills so as to keep the blood money flowing to their coffers. They could care less about the pain a victim of abortion suffers. Looks like it’s time for them to break out the War on Women meme again.

First, from Politico

“The vote is largely symbolic: The bill will be dead on arrival  in the Senate. And the White House has already threatened to veto the “fetal  pain” legislation, which is based on the controversial assertion that a fetus  can feel pain at that stage of development.

But Rep. Trent Franks (R-Ariz.), the bill’s sponsor, didn’t find that  discouraging. He pointed to the last time Congress passed a bill of this scope,  the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003. That bill fell short and faced court  battles before it finally became law.

“I think if you hearken back to partial-birth abortion, … everybody said,  ‘You know, it’s not constitutional; it can’t pass; it can’t go anywhere,’ and it  took time to do that, and it even had to succeed a presidential veto. But it  eventually did,” Franks said.”

And while the “If it saves even one life we should do it” meme is a great excuse for banning guns, it doesn’t extend to abortion victims. From CNSNews

“Rep. Diana DeGette (D-Colo.) would not answer why she  opposed a bill to ban late-term abortions after 20 weeks even if it  would “save one life,” a rationale regularly used by Democrats when  pushing for gun-control legislation.

On Tuesday, DeGette and Rep. Louise Slaughter (D-N.Y.), co-chairs of  the House Pro-Choice Caucus, led a press conference to oppose the  Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act (H.R. 1797), a bill that would  ban abortions 20 weeks post-fertilization, or 5 months into pregnancy.”

“Following the press conference, CNSNews.com asked DeGette, “Many  Democrats, when they were arguing for gun control in the wake of the  Sandy Hook shooting said even if this saves one life it will be worth  doing.  Why not support this bill then, if it undoubtedly will save  lives of babies that have been carried throughout 5 months of  pregnancy?”

DeGette said, “Well, this is, this is. … We already have laws in many  states of this country. This bill is blatantly unconstitutional.””

And the most pathetic attempt at justifying abortion after 20 weeks, when a baby can feel pain, goes to the Rep. from America’s abortion leader, NY. Also from CNSNews

“Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) said Tuesday it is “morally outrageous” to ban abortions after five months of pregnancy.

“It is morally outrageous, frankly,” Nadler said about the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act (H.R. 1797), a bill that would ban abortions 20 weeks post-fertilization, or five months into pregnancy.”

““Here we go again,” he said. “Every single year we have to go through the same nonsense with the same morally presumptuous, morally arrogant attitude that we know better. ‘We know better than women and their doctors. We know better about their health care. We know better about their moral choices in very personal decisions.’”

“Nadler said Republicans pushing the bill are “morally arrogant people” who have “decided that their moral outlooks are more important” than a woman’s health.”

Says the morally repulsive little man taking cash from abortion mills who shills, slanders, and lies for them to ensure his cut keeps coming.

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