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News/Politics 1-22-15

What’s interesting in the news today?

1. So I guess Obama and Sharpton will now hold a joint press conference to apologize to the Ferguson PD, Officer Wilson, and the rest of the country for their unnecessary race-baiting, right?

From TheNYTimes  “Justice Department lawyers will recommend that no civil rights charges be brought against the police officer who fatally shot an unarmed teenager in Ferguson, Mo., after an F.B.I. investigation found no evidence to support charges, law enforcement officials said Wednesday.

Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. and his civil rights chief, Vanita Gupta, will have the final say on whether the Justice Department will close the case against the officer, Darren Wilson. But it would be unusual for them to overrule the prosecutors on the case, who are still working on a legal memo explaining their recommendation.

A decision by the Justice Department would bring an end to the politically charged investigation of Mr. Wilson in the death of 18-year-old Michael Brown. The Missouri authorities concluded their investigation into Mr. Brown’s death in November and also recommended against charges.”

“But a broader Justice Department civil rights investigation into allegations of discriminatory traffic stops and excessive force by the Ferguson Police Department remains open. That investigation could lead to significant changes at the department, which is overwhelmingly white despite serving a city that is mostly black.”

So they have no evidence, but they’ll keep doing what they do. Which is to attack police and divide the country.

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2. So is this Boxer’s going away present to herself and family? And remember folks, she’s on the Ethics Committee.

From CapitolCityProject  “Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Cali.), who recently announced her plans to retire from the Senate after 2016, appeared to use her position as a high-ranking public official to financially benefit close family members — including her son and husband to the tune of hundreds of thousands of dollars since 2008 — through her campaign committee and leadership PAC.

Boxer, who is currently serving her fourth and final term as a California senator and serves as the chairwoman on the Senate Select Committee on Ethics, paid out over $300,000 combined to her son’s company and husband’s law firm over the span of the 2008, 2010, and 2012 election cycles.

On top of setting up contracts and paying her son’s and husband’s firms, Sen. Boxer also reimbursed herself through her leadership PAC for expenses totaling tens of thousands of dollars, according to reports.

Boxer’s campaign committee, Friends of Barbara Boxer, reimbursed the senator a total of $35,657 during the 2010 election cycle for travel expenses. That same year Boxer’s leadership PAC, PAC for a Change, reimbursed her $500 for a venue rental used to host a fundraiser. In 2012, her campaign committee reimbursed the senator $3,389 for travel expenses and meals.”

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3. The House Immigration plan is a joke. Spends 10 billion, deports no illegals, and reduces the border fences.

From TheWashingtonExaminer  “Critics including Republican Sen. Jeff Sessions are slamming a House GOP border security plan set for debate Wednesday, claiming it will spend $10 billion on new equipment and border security tricks, but not send one single illegal home.

Sessions, the influential Center for Immigration Studies, and the head of the association of former Border Control agents all slammed the H.R. 399 being marked up in the House Homeland Security Committee today as unfocused on the No. 1 issue: U.S. sanctuary to illegals.

The bill, however, is geared to handling the tight security of the actual border, not how illegal immigrants are handled once they cross in. Several related pieces of immigration reform legislation are expected to be addressed by the House.

“As long as sanctuary cities, welfare, education, and jobs and principally lack of enforcement and enabling by the federal government, are made available to the undocumented alien, we will not be able to secure the physical border,” said Zack Taylor, chairman of the National Association of Former Border Patrol Officers.”

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More from TheDailyCaller  “The new border bills drafted by Republican leaders require the actual removal of at least 66 miles of weak border fencing between laborers in Mexico and employers in the United States.

The border bills also only require for the construction of 27 miles of effective double-layer fencing along the 2,000-mile border.

 “It is a remarkable that the direction of our progress is going backwards, from a goal of building 700 miles of double-layer border fencing [in 2006] to only 27 miles [in 2015],” said a Hill staffer who opposes the leaders’ bills.”

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4. How long until this happens here?

From LifeSiteNews  “Richard Page, a 68-year-old British Justice of the Peace and evangelical Christian, has been condemned by the country’s highest legal authorities, suspended, and subjected to a day-long re-education session to rid him of the dangerous belief that a child would be better off being adopted by a family with a mother and a father than by a same-sex couple.

Page sat on a family court tribunal last summer to consider a social worker’s recommendation that a foster child be adopted by a gay couple. “I raised some questions in private with the other judges, including that I thought that because a baby comes from a man and a woman it made me think the child would be better off with a father and a mother than with single-sex parents. The other judges didn’t agree at all,” he told LifeSiteNews.

Worse, the other judges complained. A review committee concurred, suspended him from the bench and recommended he be kicked off the lowest rung of the judiciary (but which handles 90 percent of all criminal crime, plus youth and family cases).

“They said I had a closed mind because of my Christian beliefs,” he said. “They said I could not put my Christian beliefs above the rights of single-sex couples. They said I had to open my mind. But I think when you order someone to open their mind, then you are the one with a closed mind.”

In the end, the Lord Chancellor, cabinet minister Chris Grayling, and the Chief Justice John Thomas, decided to issue a reprimand and a day-long re-education order. “Mr. Page, while sitting in Family Court,” it stated in part, “was found to have been influenced by his religious beliefs and not by evidence.” The pair rated his behavior “a serious misconduct” and added, “Mr. Page should have recused himself from the matter.””

Re-education? How commie like. 🙄

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5. When it does come, I bet I know which states will lead the way…..

From Time  “Two California lawmakers backed by the family of a woman who drew national attention by choosing to end her life after an aggressive and debilitating cancer diagnosis are set to introduce a new right-to-die bill on Wednesday.

The End of Life Option Act would allow doctors to prescribe lethal doses of medications to terminally ill patients with six months or less to live, the San Jose Mercury News reports. Two state senators are pushing the bill with the support of Brittany Maynard’s family.

Maynard was living in the San Francisco Bay Area when she and her husband moved to Portland, Ore., to take advantage of the state’s Death With Dignity law, in a widely publicized story that the bill’s authors say could be a tipping point in support for medically assisted suicide. Oregon, Washington and Vermont have such laws, but attempts to pass similar legislation in California have failed before.”

All the “progressive” ones of course.

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13 thoughts on “News/Politics 1-22-15”

  2. On “Stonewalled” —

    http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2015/01/the-attkisson-file.php

    ” … It is easily one of the most important political books published last year. … I have been puzzled by the dearth of attention the book has received in the conservative media, even following the filing of Attkisson’s lawsuit against the Obama administration earlier this month. In the lawsuit Attkisson and her family assert explosive claims against the Obama administration based on the monitoring of her computers as revealed in the book. …”

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  7. I had wanted to chime in a few days ago about the “libertarian” stuff being mentioned in here, and what seemed to me to be a few misunderstandings, but I’ll go with this instead:

    Why is there even a Republican party at all? The headline reads:

    “Abortion bill dropped amid concerns of female GOP lawmakers”

    http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2015/01/21/abortion-bill-in-flux-as-female-gop-lawmakers-raise-concerns/

    Republican lawmakers, you stink.

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  8. I’ll say it. They suck.

    They refuse to uphold even the most basic of the party’s so-called “principles.”

    Ignoring the demands of voters with regard to the borders and immigration/amnesty is yet another example.

    More on the story Solar linked, and much more on why they suck.

    http://thefederalist.com/2015/01/22/why-everyone-should-be-terrified-by-the-gops-abortion-bill-debacle/

    “And yet somehow the Republicans managed to make a disaster of passing the bill. Instead of passing the legislation and sending it to the Republican-controlled Senate, the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act was pulled at the last minute and replaced with a bill that bans taxpayer funding of abortion.

    What in the h-e-double-hockey-sticks just happened? It takes a special combination of incompetence and cowardice to miss an easy lay-up like this, but apparently the new Republican Congress has it in spades.

    Even if you’re not one of the majority of Americans who want to protect these children in the womb, this debacle should concern you. Here are a few reasons why.

    If Republicans can’t pass wildly popular legislation protecting innocent unborn children, what’s going to happen when they face difficult legislative battles? It’s best to view this as a very simple test for House Republicans. A test they failed miserably.

    In an essay at National Affairs, Michael Needham looks at the contrast between the grassroots and party establishment. He talks about the fight over the reauthorization of the Export-Import Bank, a fund for corporate welfare. The establishment fought against the grassroots tooth and nail in order to keep the bank. There have been similar fights over agriculture subsidies and Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac’s influence in the housing market. The moneyed interests fight against the conservative insurgents — and the donor class usually wins.”

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  9. Haha, yeah, I had that word typed out, AJ, but deferred to decorum. I’m glad you said it, ’cause it’s true. And the comment you provided is right on. We had the sweep in 2010, then the thing last year. Big disappointments. I wish Christians would quit voting for this mess and giving it momentum.

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  10. On the subject of libertarianism (so-called) and modern conservatism, I’d like to recommend this 6 minute video. I think it helps show how we can be subjects of our time, and attach more significance to political labels than actual ideas.

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