What’s interesting in the news today?
1. The president king has spoken. Who needs a legislature when you can just rule by executive order.
From TheNYPost “On Thanksgiving eve, the Obama administration dumped reams of mind-numbing ObamaCare regulations into the Federal Register — including yet more unilateral rewrites of the Affordable Care Act.
Dropping the rules as most Americans were busy preparing for the holiday made a mockery (again) of President Obama’s promise to have “the most transparent administration in history.” The stunt has even worked to keep most of the media from reporting on the rules.
Yet the changes these regulations make in the health care law are substantial.
For one, the president is redefining what health plans are “adequate” for larger employers (100-plus workers) to offer under the Affordable Care Act. He’s also “asking” insurers to pay for new benefits — while warning that, if they don’t, they may be forced to.
Under the Constitution, Obama lacks any authority to make such changes to the health law, or any law. Only Congress has that power. But he’s doing it, and not for the first time.”
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2. He’s ignoring the courts as well, because those laws and rules are for the little people.
From TheDailyCaller “The Obama administration said that it is withholding all of the thousands of pages of documents related to the White House’s coordination with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) during the IRS conservative targeting scandal.
Secretary of the Treasury Jacob Lew, Obama’s former White House Chief of Staff, took the documents that were set to be released and now refuses to ever turn them over. His rationale? Lew cannot release information about improper disclosures of confidential taxpayer information because that would be an improper disclosure of confidential taxpayer information.
The Daily Caller reported that the Treasury Department’s inspector general found nearly 2,500 pages of documents that chronicle investigations into the confidential taxpayer information that the White House exchanged with the IRS.”
So he won’t disclose the information he has and was given illegally because it contains private data. Which is exactly why he had no business seeing it in the first place. Talk about a jedi mind trick. These are not the documents you’re looking for……
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3. Someone is finally standing up to the king. But it’s sadly not Republicans in Congress.
From MyWayNews “Texas is leading a 17-state coalition in suing over the Obama administration’s recently announced executive actions on immigration.
Many top Republicans have denounced President Barack Obama’s unilateral move designed to spare as many as 5 million people living illegally in the United States from deportation.
But Texas Gov.-elect Greg Abbott took it a step further Wednesday, filing a lawsuit in federal court in the Southern District of Texas. Texas is joined by 16 other, mostly southern and Midwestern states, including Alabama, Georgia, Idaho and Indiana.
Under Obama’s order, announced Nov. 20, protection from deportation and the right to work will be extended to an estimated 4.1 million parents of U.S. citizens and legal permanent residents who have lived in the U.S. for at least five years and to hundreds of thousands more young people.”
“The lawsuit raises three objections: that Obama violated the “Take Care Clause” of the U.S. Constitution that limits the scope of presidential power; that the federal government violated rulemaking procedures; and that the order will “exacerbate the humanitarian crisis along the southern border, which will affect increased state investment in law enforcement, health care and education.”
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4. Here’s how he plans to handle the influx of illegals already here, and the many more on the way.
From Breitbart “Incoming Senate Budget Committee chairman Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) has discovered plans by President Barack Obama to open a new immigration facility to process his executive amnesty action in Northern Virginia, where the federal government has plans to hire a whopping 1,000 new immigration employees.
“It has just been discovered today that the Obama Administration is now opening a new USCIS facility in Crystal City, Virginia for the purpose of immediately implementing the President’s imperial immigration decree,” Sessions said in a statement. “They are in the process of hiring 1,000 full-time staff to quickly approve applications for the President’s illegal amnesty, which will provide work permits, photo IDs, Social Security, and Medicare to illegal immigrants—all benefits rejected by Congress. This action will mean that American workers, their sons, their daughters, their parents, will now have to compete directly for jobs, wages, and benefits with millions of illegal immigrants.”
Sessions said the creation of this facility is proof Obama doesn’t care about Americans or U.S. laws.
“This facility is a clear symbol of the President’s defiance of the American people, their laws, and their Constitution,” Sessions said. “He is hiring federal employees to carry out a directive that violates the laws Congress has passed in order to foist on the nation laws Congress has repeatedly refused to pass.”
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5. What it is it with this guy and protecting black panthers who commit criminal acts?
From TheFreeBeacon “The communist and racist New Black Panther Party plotted to bomb St. Louis’ Gateway Arch and assassinate local law enforcement officials, but the Justice Department so far has limited its prosecution of the group to an indictment of two members on minor gun charges.
The soft treatment for activities that normally would have brought federal terrorism charges appears to be part of efforts by Attorney General Eric Holder and the Justice Department to “go soft” on the racist group, according to former Justice official J. Christian Adams.
“I have always been perplexed why these guys get special treatment,” said Adams, who worked in the Justice Department Civil Rights Division and noted a similar conciliatory legal treatment of New Black Panther Party members in a 2008 case of voter intimidation by the group in Philadelphia.
Justice Department spokesman Marc Raimondi declined to comment on the Black Panther bomb plot and would not say whether additional charges in the case are pending.
In the earlier case against the Panthers, voter intimidation charges were dropped by the Justice Department against the Panthers, and charges were downgraded against one group member, King Shabazz, in what critics say was an effort to show official favoritism toward the group.”
There has to be charges coming, right?
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Wandering Views 
Sigh.
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Thoughts on the latest police incident, this one in NYC? This one’s disturbing (they all are, but in Ferguson the original narrative was sufficiently discredited that I could understand the grand jury’s decision).
But the full video capture in this one — along with the pettiness of the crime — appears to be a much stronger case that police used excessive force. It would be good if some of the arguments the grand jury based its decision on could be made public.
Here’s Krauthammer’s initial take:
“It looks like they at least might have indicted him on something like involuntary manslaughter at the very least,” Krauthammer, a syndicated columnist and Fox News contributor, said. “The guy was unarmed, and the crime was petty as they come. He was selling loose cigarettes, which in and of itself is almost absurd that somebody has to die over that.”
“From looking at the video,” he added, “the grand jury’s decision here is totally incomprehensible.”
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/12/03/krauthammer-decision-not-to-indict-nypd-officer-totally-incomprehensible/
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And I really like Ben Carson — a lot (not for president, but perhaps for a cabinet position of, maybe-possibly, as VP).
But he needs to get better at handling interviews.
I can’t remember what he said, but his response to a question in a CNN interview I was listening to in the car one night driving home from work caused me to wince. And, sure enough, the interviewer jumped all over him & he was effectively cornered, trying to defend his answer that (as I recall) used some pretty over-the-top language. I knew what he meant, but he said it in a way that was just overstated and clumsy. (I believe he’d called something “the worst” thing since slavery, or something to that effect, which just left listeners like me saying “Huh? Really?”)
I thought, he needs some quick mentoring in how to finesse routine media interviews so foot doesn’t enter mouth. There’s a way to deliver strong messages without doing that.
” … he’s entering into a pool of sharks and he needs some swimming lessons pronto.”
http://hotair.com/archives/2014/12/04/ben-carson-may-not-be-ready-for-prime-time/
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AJ here, too lazy to sign in….
I didn’t watch the whole video, I just couldn’t. 😦
But you can clearly hear him telling police he can’t breathe. And the officer choking him had his face less than a foot away from Garner’s mouth, so he clearly heard him too.
And none of this would have happened if it wasn’t for nanny state liberals and yet another stupid law. There was never a need to arrest this guy, and even if you agree with the stupid law, issuing a citation would have been sufficient.
The mayor is an idiot. He supports the people who are causing serious hardship for merchants and employers in his city. They’ve shut down the tunnels and bridges out numerous times. This is the height of shopping time in the city, but who’s gonna travel in if they can’t get back out? It’s hard enough with regularly traffic, this is crippling. Most won’t bother.
All this over a couple of smokes. It’s idiocy.
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