What’s interesting in the news today?
Open thread, as always.
This morning these first few are links with a brief description.
Sebelius Resigns- NYTimes
House Votes Lerner In Contempt- CNN
Deportations Cut In Half Under Obama- WashingtonExaminer
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Now these I’ll spend a little more time on.
1. Like Bob said yesterday, suckin’ the air right out.
From WashingtonExaminer “How big is ObamaCare in this year’s midterms? More than 80 percent of respondents in a new poll conducted by the Pew Research Center for USA Today said that a candidate’s stance on the troubled health law is important to them, with 54 percent saying it is “very important.” The worst news for Democrats is that among the majority of registered voters who said the law was “very important,” there were twice as many opponents as there were supporters. Overall, support for the signature Obama initiative, which pairs expanded welfare and entitlement programs with far-reaching regulations on health insurance, fell to 37 percent. That’s the lowest level since the summer after the law was passed in 2010 when incumbents’ town halls across the country erupted with ObamaCare outrage. The takeaway: The electoral climate this year is defined by ObamaCare and the forecast is getting worse for Democrats.”
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2. The number of believers in China is rising, and the govt. has taken notice.
From TheTelegraph “Communist officials in China have denied waging a “demolition campaign” against churches in the country’s most Christian regions, after reportedly ordering a dozen to be destroyed.
The churches – in the eastern province of Zhejiang – are currently facing demolition or having their crosses removed, activists claim. Other churches are said to have been ordered to make themselves “less conspicuous” by turning their lights off at night.
Local preachers accuse Party officials in Zhejiang, a wealthy coastal province, of “gross interference” in Church affairs and have urged them to abandon what they believe is an orchestrated campaign.”
“However, in a recent speech the provincial official in charge of religious affairs hinted at Communist Party discomfort at how fast congregations were growing in what is already considered China’s most Christian region. More than one million of Wenzhou’s nine million residents are thought to be practicing Protestants, according to some estimates.”
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3. This one makes me smile. 🙂
From ABC33/40 “A statement made on the floor of the state house last month in Montgomery got a loud reply this afternoon from angry parents.
State representative Alvin Holmes (D) Montgomery, said republican lawmakers would support abortion if their daughters became pregnant by black men. Holmes later said he would offer $100,000 cash to anyone who could show “a whole bunch of whites” have adopted black children in Alabama.
Today at the state house, white parents who adopted mixed race or minority children said it’s time for Holmes to ‘pay up.'”
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Wandering Views 
As usual, he nails it.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/charles-krauthammer-thought-police-on-patrol/2014/04/10/2608a8b2-c0df-11e3-b195-dd0c1174052c_print.html
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Wished I had known about the rally in Montgomery. I’d have been there. They found 100’s on-line the day Holmes made his stupid statement. Apparently Liberals believe
their own propaganda about conservatives.
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Also got a chuckle out of this piece about Hillary dodging the shoe (it was so funny when it happened to Bush, right?):
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2014/04/what-goes-around-comes-around-hillary-ducks-a-shoe.php
” … the Democrats seem unwilling to understand that, having been in power for the last five-plus years, they must expect that if someone throws shoes, it will be at them. They don’t want to acknowledge that they have been in power for a long time, and they must take responsibility for the baleful effects of their policies. Weird as it may seem, they appear to believe that they can run against themselves, indefinitely.”
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How should health care work?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLBeWXvv5AI#t=164
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On the IRS mess from the WSJ: http://tinyurl.com/kq7xloq
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And more on Mozilla:
http://www.breakpoint.org/bpcommentaries/entry/13/24975?webSyncID=5bab3ba7-995c-933b-49a4-0855c02343e9&sessionGUID=5a40b6d8-2970-e505-5c64-1a56d66a692e
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Dude.
War on Fox News?
Takedown. I almost hope this guy gets elected.
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Donna J,
It takes a gaggle of Dufuses (Dufi ?) to vote for for this Arlecchino.
(Arlecchino is nimble and adept at the same time as being clumsy and dim, and is normally the ‘messenger’ character in a comedy — the catalyst for mayhem.) Wikipedia
I had to look this up. I just learned a new word!
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