What’s interesting in the news today?
Lots to talk about today. So I’ll be brief.
1. First Holder wants voting rights for felons, now he wants to fight efforts to ensure illegals can’t vote too. Or as Democrats call it, expanding their voter base.
From PJMedia “Justice Department lawyer Bradley Heard was in court today trying to stop Kansas from ensuring that only citizens register to vote. Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, relying on a United States Supreme Court opinion of last year, asked the federal Election Assistance Commission to permit him to ensure that only citizens were registering to vote.
The Election Assistance Commission said no, so Kris Kobach went to federal court. Enter Eric Holder’s Justice Department, as usual, opposing election integrity measures.”
“Despite harping about resource concerns (which apparently means that the DOJ can do nothing about corrupted voter rolls), Holder found the time and money to send Bradley Heard to a hearing in Kansas to argue against Kobach’s election integrity measures.”
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2. Meanwhile their success in immigration court is dropping. By design, just another stealth amnesty program.
From Yahoo “Nearly half of immigrants facing deportation are now winning their cases before an immigration judge, their highest success rate in more than 20 years, according to a new analysis of court data published Thursday.
The U.S. government has been losing more deportation cases each year since 2009, according to the Transaction Records Clearinghouse at Syracuse University, which collects and studies federal prosecution records.”
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3. Joe Wilson was right.
From WeaselZippers “Joe Wilson Was Right: Obamacare Recruiting Illegal Aliens To Sign Up”
“If you look at the nature of who the Obamacare navigators are, you can see who the outreach is geared toward, and it isn’t primarily the young and healthy ones that would sustain the system. Virtually none are geared toward universities or youth-oriented areas.
Most are geared toward minority and poor populations, particularly black and Hispanic populations. So what does that tell you about their orientation, or the intent to actually be a self-sustaining system?”
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4. And now we have yet another example of why the Obama admin is against background checks, and it shows why their navigators weren’t checked. They claim she was vetted though. Must have been vetted by the same people that vetted Obama.
From TheDenverPost “A director with Colorado’s health-care exchange was placed on paid administrative leave Tuesday after it was discovered she has been accused of stealing from a nonprofit housing organization she oversaw in Montana.
Christa McClure, 51 is the director of partner engagement for Connect for Health Colorado, the state program that implements the Affordable Care Act in the state.”
“The eight-count indictment against McClure was filed in U.S. District Court in Billings, Mont., in January. McClure pleaded not guilty Feb. 6 and was released pending trial, according to the Billings Gazette.”
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5. Another ObamaCare lie.
From IJReview “Along with Barack Obama’s promise of “if you like your healthcare plan, you can keep your healthcare plan,” was his declaration that “people with pre-existing conditions shouldn’t be penalized.”
Yeah, well, that was then and this is now. People with serious pre-existing diseases, precisely those Obama said the “Affordable Care Act” would help, could find themselves paying for expensive drug treatments with no help from the healthcare exchanges.”
“Those with expensive diseases such as lupus or multiple sclerosis face something called a “closed drug formulary.” Dr. Scott Gottlieb of the American Enterprise Institute explains:
“If the medicine that you need isn’t on that list, it’s not covered at all. You have to pay completely out of pocket to get that medicine, and the money you spend doesn’t count against your deductible, and it doesn’t count against your out of pocket limits, so you’re basically on your own.”
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6. Here’s some news you probably hadn’t heard from the MSM.
From CNSNews “On Feb. 7, Planned Parenthood of Illinois, Northwestern Memorial Hospital, and Northwestern Medical Faculty Foundation agreed to pay the family of Tonya Reaves, $2 million after she died from hemorrhaging from a botched abortion in 2012. Reaves received the abortion at a Planned Parenthood clinic on 18 S. Michigan Ave in Chicago, Ill.
“Planned Parenthood is a billion dollar a year baby killing business,” Day Gardner, president of the National Black Pro-Life Union, told CNSNews.com. “The money awarded to Tonya’s son is a pittance in comparison to what they are worth – $2 million dollars is just a tiny drop in a bottomless bucket. The truly sad thing is that no one can put a dollar value on the life a human being – a life snuffed out way too soon.”
“After the botched abortion took place at Planned Parenthood, Reaves bled for five and a half hours without medical treatment.
A FOIA of the 911 calls from the Planned Parenthood location where Reaves received her abortion shows that the clinic never called 911 on Reaves’ behalf, even after five and a half hours had elapsed.”
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7. This judge is obviously a Planned Parenthood supporter.
From Breitbart “A Chicago judge has issued a controversial decision to reduce a fine handed down by state health department officials to an Illinois abortion clinic for violations of cleanliness and health codes. The judge reduced the massive $36,000 fine to a mere $77.
Cook County Circuit Judge Alexander White arbitrarily reduced the fine after the Illinois Department of Health (IDPH) conducted a health inspection of the state’s abortion providers in 2011. The issuance of the fine was immediately disputed and has been coursing through the courts ever since.
The IDPH cited the clinic for such violations as storing food items in the same freezer that contained containers of fetal tissue, filthy floors, medication dispensing cups filled with crumbs of medication, recovery rooms with rusted walls, and other filthy conditions. The IDPH report also noted that one employee was re-using discarded paper towels on patients.
Worse, the IDPH charged the clinic for failing to perform CPR on a patient who soon died in its care.Judge White based his reduction of the fine on the claim that the owner of the clinic closed the facilities down and had only $77 left in the company bank account.”
What the judge ignored though was evidence that the clinic operator reopened under a new name in the same building in a matter of weeks, and even used the same website for advertising.
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8. The real War on Women.
From TownHall “Having liberals claim that someone else is waging a “war on women” is like Anteaters claiming Ladybugs are making war on ants. Not only is the Left much more unfriendly to women than the Right, liberals are actually leaving a body count behind.
1) The Party of Infanticide: The liberals’ whole “safe, legal and rare” abortion shtick has gone by the wayside and they’ve moved on to “Any reason’s a good reason.” Just this week, Iowa Democratic State Representative Beth Wessel-Kroeschell advocated aborting children to avoid “sleepless nights” and avoid “disciplinary challenges.” Even the Aztecs weren’t as zealous about sacrificing children as the modern Left has become and the carnage it’s left in its wake is comparable to any of history’s greatest monsters. More than 28 million female babies have been snuffed out since Roe v. Wade. That’s 28 million women who will never get to pretend to be a princess, ask their mother for advice or fall in love and get married. All of those poor girls were slaughtered like cattle and disposed of like garbage because of the same people who claim Republicans are waging a “war on women.”
“2) Excusing Horrible Liberal Behavior Toward Women: Ted Kennedy left a woman to slowly die in a tidal pool while he went home to sober up and plan to get away with his crime. Liberals loved him. As we speak, Massachusetts Rep. Carlos Henrique is in jail for beating his girlfriend and the New England Area Conference of the NAACP is fighting to keep him from being expelled from the state legislature. Bill Clinton has not only cheated on his wife over and over, he was credibly accused of rape by Juanita Broaddrick. That has not given a single liberal pause. Roman Polanski is a liberal filmmaker who was convicted of raping a 13 year old girl and yet liberals defend him. What was it Whoopi Goldberg said? “I know it wasn’t rape-rape. I think it was something else, but I don’t believe it was rape-rape.” The reason it wasn’t “rape-rape” in her mind is because a prominent liberal man was involved. If everyone from MSNBC to the NAACP to NOW are willing to side with men who leave women to die, men who beat their girlfriends, and rapists over the women they victimize, what does that really tell you about liberals?”
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9. In other news Democrats want the IRS to continue harassing conservative groups.
From TheHill “Senate Democrats facing tough elections this year want the Internal Revenue Service to play a more aggressive role in regulating outside groups expected to spend millions of dollars on their races.
In the wake of the IRS targeting scandal, the Democrats are publicly prodding the agency instead of lobbying them directly. They are also careful to say the IRS should treat conservative and liberal groups equally, but they’re concerned about an impending tidal wave of attack ads funded by GOP-allied organizations. Much of the funding for those groups is secret, in contrast to the donations lawmakers collect, which must be reported publicly.
One of the most powerful groups is Americans for Prosperity, funded by the billionaire industrialists Charles and David Koch. It has already spent close to $30 million on ads attacking Democrats this election cycle.”
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10. Those dastardly Koch Bros. are the worst offenders.
Oh wait, no, they’re not. Not even close.
From TheWashingtonExaminer “Charles and David Koch are the two most evil people in American politics, right? We know that because Jane Mayer proved it with her landmark “Covert Operations” tour de liberal force in 2010.
Well, it turns out that Mayer’s aim was off just a little, by like 58 slots on the all-time biggest donors in American politics list, as compiled by OpenSecrets.org.”
“So who occupies the 58 spots ahead of the Evil Koch Bros? Six of the top 10 are … wait for it … unions. They gave more than $278 million, with most of it going to Democrats.”
“In other words, the six biggest union donors in American politics gave 15 times more to mostly Democrats than the Evil Koch Bros.”
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Wandering Views 
African nations can commit virtually any crime, including genocide, with little concern from the US. But if they pass an anti-gay law…
As noted yesterday, there is nothing that the US values more than perversion.
http://news.yahoo.com/obama-warns-uganda-over-anti-gay-law-192607349.html
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My daughter is taking a class on “underserved medical communities,” which she says is fascinating. Planned Parenthood was one of the speakers and my daughter commented the woman started out defending abortion, She kept saying, “we do so many other things,” but the questions were all about PP’s abortion policy. The woman was very defensive.
So, they’re trying hard to deflect attention from the central ethical point.
PP individuals are not the enemy, and it’s important to remember that. Women who work there believe they’re doing a good work–and some areas of PP can be helpful. They’ve just got this enormous elephant in their waiting room and since it’s the biggest money earner, they have to keep hanging on to it.
Truth will out.
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1. After reading the link, i’m still left wondering who and how s/he determines citizenship. And lets face it with such a low voter participation rate why institute barriers to voting.
3. From your excerpt is the blog attempting to make black or Hispanics equivalent to illegal alien? From the link I see there is concern in the Spanish ads which mention the lack of status checking. That’s a valid concern but need not be race or ethnic specific. In Ontario, you have to prove legal provincial residency. The right would be better to express this concern without seeming to pick on minorities.
5. The AEI spokesperson uses hedge words such as “could, potentially” which makes me think he or she is basically engaging in fear mongering. Curious though wouldn’t medicare or the Bush era pharma plan, two existing programs be in charge of the medicine list and hence this fear mongering is accusing the wrong program?
7. Putting aside the nature of this business, this type of evasion of fines, fiscal responsibility, bills, etc is quite common in the business world. Accumulating EPA fines? Declare bankruptcy and re-open with a new name. Can’t pay the pension commitments you made? Declare bankruptcy and re-open with anew name. The judge may or may not be pro-choice but that’s not the deciding factor, this is the typical way bankruptcy allows for the evasion of responsibility. Now that it has occurred in a business the religious right does not appreciate perhaps they will work with labor to amend bankruptcy laws to force corporate leaders be more responsible.
8. Not sure how this townhall article proves anything. Abortion is for the most part not gender oriented (leaving out some immigrant communities). Thus even if you see abortion as murder its not a war on women but a war on humanity. The second point is a mere list of Democrats behaving badly … something Republicans are also guilty of. Not sure why Polanski is included in here — he’s a European film director.As for Whoopi’s defense, she bungled an attempt to distinguish statutory rape and rape.
9. Any non-partisan observer including me views the amount of money involved in US politics as obscene and a threat to democracy. Thus any attempt to curb the money is good. Its unfortunate its a partisan driven but at least there’s an attempt to clean some of it up.
10 Six of the biggest unions combined outspent two brothers. So six organizations representing millions of people outspent two brothers, you would hope so. Aside from that, the stats are misleading as it records all-time donations. The Koch influence is better measured since the Citizen’s United ruling. Moreover, corporations merge and change names far more often than unions and hence do not accumulate all time donations.
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Ricky — yesterday we discussed the media and how it manipulates to suit its purposes. The American gov’t whether Republican or Democrat doesn’t like the Venezuelan government. Here’s a link which analyses the American media and its response to anti-government protest.
http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/j-baglow/2014/02/constructing-venezuela-protests-photo-gallery
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5. If true, wouldn’t this affect everyone with those diseases – not just those for whom it was pre-existing? In other words, an ACA-compliant policy won’t cover drugs necessary for the treatment of all medical conditions? As Captain Jack Sparrow said, “That’s verrrry interesting.”
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HRW, I will ruin your reputation if I agree with you too much. Therefore, I will go on record to state that as much as I distrust the Yankee government, I distrust the Cuban and Venezuelan governments even more.
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