What’s interesting in the news today?
1. Here comes more overreach.
From NationalReview “Senator Jeff Sessions (R., Ala.) called for Americans to pressure their senators about voting against President Obama’s expected executive orders on immigration, which he described as a “chilling” plot with activists to undermine national laws.
“Recent developments suggest the president’s planned executive amnesty could be increasingly imminent and broad in scope. House Democrat Leader Pelosi — clearly one of the White House’s closest allies — has just urged the president to issue ‘the broadest possible’ executive actions,” Sessions said in a statement on Wednesday.
“Open-borders groups have grown bolder and louder in their unlawful demands, launching a campaign for the president to ‘go big,’ and demanding that he ‘stand up’ to Congress and ‘expand DACA,’” he added, citing an Associated Press report that administration officials were meeting with immigration activists and the Chamber of Commerce.
“It is chilling to consider now that these groups, frustrated in their aims by our Constitutional system of government, are plotting with the Obama administration to collect their spoils through executive fiat,” he said.”
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2. On a related note….
From TheHill “The Obama administration is preparing the nation’s schools to accept thousands of new students who illegally crossed the southwest border and are now awaiting trials on their possible deportations.”
“It says all children in the United States “are entitled to equal access to a public elementary and secondary education, regardless of their or their parents’ actual or perceived national origin, citizenship, or immigration status.”
The prospect of tens of thousands of children mostly from Central American countries attending school as they wait for their immigration status to be decided has the potential to be explosive after this summer’s emotional public debate about the border.”
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3. Is California about to try to force two Catholic universities to pay for abortion coverage, even after giving them approval to eliminate such coverage?
From TheSFGate “California has some of the nation’s strongest protections for abortion rights. But the recent decisions by two Catholic universities, Santa Clara and Loyola Marymount, to eliminate most abortion insurance coverage for their employees were cleared in advance by state agencies.
Now Gov. Jerry Brown‘s administration is taking another look.
The state Department of Managed Health Care is conducting “an in-depth analysis of the issues surrounding coverage for abortion services under California law,” said Marta Green, the department’s chief deputy director.
What the department is reconsidering, as first reported by California Lawyer magazine, is whether the universities are violating a 1975 state law that requires managed health plans to cover all “medically necessary” procedures. Until the current controversy arose, insurers in California had treated all abortions sought by women in their health plans as medically necessary.”
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4. Things continue to simmer in Ferguson, Missouri. Actions like these by police won’t help the public”s perception that the police are out of control and regularly harass people.
From STLToday “Wesley Lowery, a reporter with the Washington Post, was arrested Wednesday evening along with Ryan Reilly of the Huffington Post, Lowery relayed on Twitter.
He wrote that police came into the McDonald’s on West Florissant Road where the two were working, and tried “to kick everyone out.”
“Officers decided we weren’t leaving McDonalds quickly enough, shouldn’t have been taping them,” he tweeted.
“Officers slammed me into a fountain soda machine because I was confused about which door they were asking me to walk out of,” he wrote. He said that he was detained, booked, “given answers to no questions. Then just let out.”””
STL Today has been on this story from the start and offer a lot of details and a timeline of events. I recommend it.
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5. Finally some good news out of Iraq.
From StarsAndStripes “In a dusty camp here, Iraqi refugees have new heroes: Syrian Kurdish fighters who battled militants to carve out an escape route for tens of thousands trapped on a mountaintop.
While the U.S. and Iraqi militaries struggle to aid the starving members of Iraq’s Yazidi minority with supply drops from the air, the Syrian Kurds took it on themselves to rescue them. The move underlined how they – like Iraqi Kurds – are using the region’s conflicts to establish their own rule.
For the past few days, fighters have been rescuing Yazidis from the mountain, transporting them into Syrian territory to give them first aid, food and water, and returning some to Iraq via a pontoon bridge.“
““The (Kurdish fighters) opened a path for us. If they had not, we would still be stranded on the mountain,” said Ismail Rashu, 22, in the Newroz camp in the Syrian Kurdish town of Malikiya some 20 miles (30 kilometers) from the Iraqi border. Families had filled the battered, dusty tents here and new arrivals sat in the shade of rocks, sleeping on blue plastic sheets. Camp officials estimated that at least 2,000 families sought shelter there on Sunday evening.“
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Wandering Views 
I would not second guess any actions taken by police in Missouri. Unfortunately, we have a number of people who will use any excuse to steal or create mayhem. I can imagine how reporters from The Washington Post and The Huffington Post were behaving.
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John Kerry is at least as funny as Herman Munster.
http://cnsnews.com/news/article/patrick-goodenough/kerry-climate-change-biggest-challenge-all-we-face-right-now
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Ricky, when Rev. Al Sharpton shows up, you know there’s nothing but agitation and chaos.
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WRONG for once Ricky.
John Kerry is not funny! Kerry is an idiot and is dangerous because some other blockheads are going to believe him.
He doesn’t know how to deal with radical Islam, so he makes an idiotic speech.
I cry over our future.
(Not literally, but I do worry about the grandkids)
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Extra, extra, read all about it: “Today’s weather is different than yesterday’s, for the first time in the history of the earth.”
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Last winter, was one of the coldest on record. My mother, who listens to the radio more than I do, several times heard meteorologists predict that this summer would be one of the hottest on record. Someone forgot to tell the weather. It is about 54 F right now. As I remarked to my father yesterday, if this is a record hot summer, we must normally have snow in August.
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Re: #1- I wonder who is going to pay for the special teachers these immigrant children will need, since most likely few of them speak English and I doubt any of them can read it. I also read that few of them are literate in Spanish, so how long will they be in special classes teaching them enough to get to grade level?
Sorry, Mr. Obama, but there is nothing in the Constitution guaranteeing a “free and public” education for anyone, let alone illegal immigrants. Perhaps your rich, Liberal buddies can dig into their deep pockets and pay for the teachers your new guests need, rather than donating to elect more Democrats.
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From Edward Klein’s book Blood Feud. p. 50 concerning Valerie Jarrett and Obama.
“…..she believed the president needed to be pushed. He was a ditherer and vacillator. He was most comfortable explaining and lecturing and being intellectual about issues. He expected that when he explained things from his point of view, everyone would see the light and accept his superior wisdom and fall into line. He expected Bill Clinton to fall into line.”
He ran his foreign policy that way. Was likely surprised when Putin didn’t understand that we don’t do that in the twenty first century.
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What foreign policy? 😉
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Climate change — this is getting so old. Actually, it is old, as old as the earth. 🙂
The climate changes!
But it’s become a political cause, of course, sparking an almost religious fervor among those on the left. They can’t let it go now, even when the data contradicts all those chicken-little predictions of yore.
But droughts and weather change do happen and we are indeed stuck in that mess here in California. We’ve also had the warmest January – July stretch since records have been kept. 😦
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veith: “If you are worried that the U.S. is reigniting the war in Iraq, don’t be….”
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/geneveith/2014/08/our-muted-response-to-isis/
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“We ask more of law enforcement in a free society and we should. We don’t accept that everyone in a community must be under the gun because some of them committed crimes. Or, that journalists should be arrested while trying to cover that community. We have a system that allows for going after the accused while respecting everyone’s rights, scribe or no. …”
http://hotair.com/archives/2014/08/13/free-societies-require-more-of-police-than-turning-tough-situations-into-militarized-zones/
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I’m impressed by that hotair article, donna j, and the idea that it’s right to expect *more* from law enforcement officers. If you (officers) don’t want to face danger or confront hostile jerks, don’t seek that line of work. Enough with the tanks and all that stuff.
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I was raised to greatly respect police officers, & give them the benefit of the doubt in questionable circumstances. I have continued to do that throughout my adult life.
But lately I have read enough about police officers over-stepping their bounds & over-reacting. Something has changed in the way many police see the citizens they are supposed to “serve & protect”, or maybe it’s because we’re moving more toward a police state kind of situation. I don’t know which is more likely the problem, but I know something is not right.
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In 1967, the police in Detroit were initially very soft in their response to rioting. This provoked much more rioting, burning and looting in many parts of the city along with many deaths. After it was over, virtually all white citizens of Detroit moved away as quickly as they could. Then middle class blacks fled to safer places. Today, Detroit is dead.
The primary function of government is to protect citizens and their property. I feel the highest sympathy toward the police who try to protect us from an increasing number of feral citizens.
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After 9/11, police departments were flooded with offers for free equipment. Our local police were offered a tank. Well, why not? Wa the response. It was free.
When you have all that equipment plus SWAT training, won’t you use it?
They’re now trained to be aggressive, not peacemakers. You add on these school killings, and it’s no surprise trigger fingers happen.
Media trains kids not to respect authority , so they aren’t humbled when called and a kid gets killed.
In our neighborhood, the kid was carrying an airsoft gun with the orange tip removed. A high school killing had occurred the day before. Police used a microphone to call him to put down the gun from 30 yards away. Instead, he lifted it in their direction. 8 shots later, the 14 year old was dead.
Outside agitators have flocked to our community. It’s not over yet, three months later.
The kid is still dead.
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Somebody else may be dead before it’s over.
Never point a gun at somebody you don’t intend to kill.
The person on the other end assumes that is your purpose.
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