What’s interesting in the news today?
The Obama admin continues to refuse to enforce the laws they dislike.
From WeaselZippers “Chris Crane, president of the ICE Council, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents’ union, said that the President has effectively told ICE agents that they can no longer enforce the law, even as that applies to illegal aliens who have committed other crimes. He noted that while there has been investigation of the scandals of the IRS and Benghazi, “there has been no investigation into the President’s lawless activities with regard to immigration enforcement”.
“You can be in the country illegally, you can have an extensive criminal history, you can have multiple criminal convictions for serious offenses, and there is nothing that we can do to touch you,” Crane said. He pointed out that the numbers from the administration seeming to indicate “record deportations” were in fact falsely inflated. The numbers included mostly illegal aliens caught at the border, into the numbers of those deported from the interior, thereby juicing the numbers. Nothing the President says matches what he has been done, says Crane.
The ICE union has repeatedly asked for a meeting at the White House. But despite meeting with all manner of other groups on the issue, including illegal alien groups, the President has still refused to meet with the ICE union.
‘We are completely ignored,” Crane said, ‘The President will not respond to us…He gave some speeches where he called ICE agents “terrorists”. He said we went into neighborhoods and terrorized children, babies, nursing mothers, purposely tore apart families. So this President, I think, brings with him a real dislike, at the very least, for ICE agents and officers, and the mission we perform. I think there’s a real misunderstanding about what we do, and for that reason he has absolutely refused to let us be a part of any conversation.”
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The UN says the President is probably violating international law with his drone program. That’s impossible, don’t they know he’s a Peace Prize winner. 🙄
From TheGuardian “Drone strikes by US may violate international law, says UN
Report says CIA attacks led to civilian deaths and casualties and says US protocols are ‘hurdle to transparency'”
“A United Nations investigation has so far identified 33 drone strikes around the world that have resulted in civilian casualties and may have violated international humanitarian law.”
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The Catholic church has filed a new lawsuit against the Obama admin.
From CNSNews ” The Archdiocese of Washington, D.C., is arguing in a new lawsuit that the Obama administration is engaged in a “conscious political strategy to marginalize and delegitimize” Catholic “religious views on contraception by holding them up for ridicule on the national stage.”
At issue in the lawsuit is whether the administration can force the archdiocese to secure a third-party administrator for its self-insurance plan who will provide sterilizations, contraceptives and abortion-inducing drugs at no cost to church employees at some of the archdiocese’s separately incorporated subunits.”
“Lawyers representing the archdiocese filed a memorandum with U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson on Sept. 24, pointing to actions and statements made by Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius to demonstrate that the administration is deliberately targeting the Catholic Church for its religious views.”
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Young folks who supported the President’s re-election are gonna get rewarded for their loyalty. Just like the unions were.
From TheWashingtonExaminer “Young people in 45 states will see their health insurance premiums increase under Obamacare because the law relies on the money they pay into the system to offset the cost of caring for older enrollees, according to a new study.
Virginia leads the pack, as individuals aged 27 and under will see their health insurance premiums jump by 252.5 percent — $416.55 — according to the Heritage Foundation’s Center for Data Analysis.
Virginians under the age of 50 will see their premiums jump by an even greater percentage, rising from $228 to $991.03.”
You’ve earned it kids! 🙄
Now remember this next election.
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And last one from me today. Sen. Ted Cruz has been hammered in the press for standing on principle and actually doing what the voters that elected him wanted. The press and Dems despise the man, but his constituents have quite a different opinion.
From YahooNews “Republican U.S. Senator Ted Cruz, a favorite of the conservative Tea Party movement, returned home to a rousing welcome in Texas on Saturday after his attempt to derail Obamacare with a shutdown of the federal government led to sharp criticism of his tactics as reckless and futile.
“After two months in Washington, it’s great to be back in America,” Cruz joked in speaking to a crowd of about 750 people in a packed downtown San Antonio hotel ballroom.
Cruz was greeted with an eight-minute standing ovation in an appearance organized by the Texas Federation of Republican Women. People in attendance, many of them wearing red to show their support for keeping Texas a conservative-leaning state, lined up to greet him.”
Harry Reid and John McCain were hardest hit by the news. 🙂
LOVE IT!
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Wandering Views 
Obama treats international like all other laws.
He ignores them if they’re inconvenient..
If you have an agreeable Senate, you can do that.
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The Media keeps harping on the the low poll numbers of certain members of congress. What they don’t get is that a congressmen in Texas or Alabama or Kentucky doesn’t care what the rest of the country thinks of them. They’re not the people who elected them.
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“I consider it part of my responsibility as President of the United States to fight against negative stereotypes of Islam wherever they appear.”
President Barack Hussein Obama, in a speech in Cairo, 2009.
This is evidently what Jefferson, et al had in mind when they wrote the Constitution.
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Nowhere has same sex marriage been approved by the people. It’s always decreed by some court.
From Drudge:
“Same-sex weddings have begun in New Jersey, which has become the 14th state to recognize nuptials between gay partners. Weddings were held in several cities and towns across the state in the first minutes of Monday morning, as soon as a court order requiring the state to recognize gay marriage went into effect.
Later in the morning, Gov. Chris Christie New Jersey Gov. ordered his administration to withdraw an appeal of a state Supreme Court ruling allowing gay marriages.”
http://www.my9nj.com/story/23742231/with-celebrations-nj-has-1st-gay-marriages
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I’m talking to myself today. 😦
“In June 2012, a Gamaa Islamiya member named Hani Nour Eldin received a visa and participated in ‘high-level” meetings at the White House and State Department along with a group of his fellow Egyptian parliamentarians. Gamia Islmiya, or the Egyptian Islamic Group, is a State Department-designated terrorist organization. Eldin himself was arrested in 1993 on terrorism charges after a shootout erupted between Gamaa Islamlya members and security officials at an Egyptian mosque. Yet he somehow secured a visa and was welcomed at 1600 Pensylvania Avenuye.”
From The Brotherhood by Erick Stakelbeck
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Has the Supreme Court ruled on the rights of private businesses to not do same sex weddings if they go against their religious conscience? TO me this is one the biggest threats to our religious liberty.
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“I do not believe that we are going to heaven together, but I do believe we may go to jail together.” From Dr. Mohler’s address at BYU (Brigham Young University)
http://www.albertmohler.com/2013/10/21/a-clear-and-present-danger-religious-liberty-marriage-and-the-family-in-the-late-modern-age-an-address-at-brigham-young-university/
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