Author: William Teach

Support For Amnesty Bill Supposedly Snowballs Ahead Of Today’s Scheduled Vote

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This should really brighten up your Monday (The Hill) Immigration reform has gotten a new burst of life as a growing number of Senate Republicans have embraced the 1,000-page-plus legislation, setting up President Obama for a big victory this week. [WATCH VIDEO] The sudden surge in Republican support has been a pleasant surprise for Senate […]

 

Big Carbon Footprint Obama To Release “Climate Change” Plan Tuesday

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What he’s doing is creating a plan that will regulate by executive fiat (remember when Obama and Dems used to rail against Bush taking executive action?) that will harm the lower and middle classes (Washington Post) President Obama will announce Tuesday in a speech at Georgetown University that he plans to regulate greenhouse-gas emissions from […]

 

Warmists Really Excited About Chinese Plan To Possibly Execute Polluters

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Really excited. Here’s Grist’s John Upton There are carrot and stick approaches to tackling pollution. China is reaching for the stick. The country announced Wednesday that it is willing to impose the harshest possible penalty on polluters. From Reuters: Chinese authorities have given courts the powers to hand down the death penalty in serious pollution […]

 

Weekly Address: We Need To Give Amnesty Because (Mumble Garble)

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Has anyone ever given a real reason to legalize the illegals that isn’t a strawman or based on feelings? Don’t expect Obama to be the first (White House) Hi everybody. Right now, the United States Senate is debating a bipartisan, commonsense bill that would be an important step toward fixing our broken immigration system. The […]

 

National Research Council Pushes Carbon Tax

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This is the same NRC that has pushed to create one sided “climate change” education standards, despite there being a 15+ year pause in warming, which the models haven’t predicted, and even fail when the models are applied in hind-sight. Oh, and the NRC relies on public grant money. They have a vested interest in […]

 

Could There Be 70 Votes For Gang Of 8 Amnesty Bill?

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This whole thing is designed to push squishy Republicans over into the “OK, we’ll give them legal status immediately but you promise to Do Something later about the border so we’ll vote yes” category (Politico) The Senate Gang of Eight edged closer to supermajority support on its immigration bill with Thursday’s breakthrough agreement on border […]

 

Obama Readying Emission Limit Plan To Deal With Hotcoldwetdry

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Alternate headline: Obama readying plan to artificially raise your electricity costs and the costs of everything else by executive fiat (NY Times) President Obama is preparing regulations limiting carbon dioxide emissions from existing power plants, senior officials said Wednesday. The move would be the most consequential climate policy step he could take and one likely […]

 

Senators Closing In On Super Duper Mega-Awesome Bipartisan Border Security Compromise

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….that’s all really a load of mule fritters, but the Associated Press writers make it seem like they’re closing in on one of the most historic pieces of legislation ever! (WRAL) White House-backed immigration legislation is gaining momentum in the Senate, where key lawmakers say they are closing in on a bipartisan compromise to spend […]

 

Bummer: Action On Climate Change Comes In Dead Last In UN Sponsored Vote

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Some funny “climate change” news for you this Tuesday morning, as The View From Here tells it (via Watts Up With That?) Back in March of this year, the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) announced an “innovative initiative” in which participants from around the world are invited to vote on what the priorities should be […]

 

HHS Dictates What Forms Of Payment Insurers Will Take

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Does anyone remember, during the time when the Democrat controlled House and Senate were looking to pass Obamacare, if the notion that the legislation made any determination as to what forms of payment would be required to purchase health insurance was mentioned? Yeah, me neither (NJ.com) The U.S.Department of Health and Human Services last week […]

 

Obama’s Run Around With Toy Guns On Father’s Day

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If Barack tried this at a school run by one of his unhinged supporters he would most likely be suspended, and possibly have the police called on him (Daily Caller) Wishing Americans a happy Father’s Day, the White House tweeted a picture of President Obama and one of his daughters playing with toy water pistols. […]

 

Menendez: GOP Path To White House Requires Amnesty Bill

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Just what we need, electoral advice from a Democrat (Politico) Sen. Robert Menendez says Republicans need to accept a pathway to citizenship in immigration reform, or they’ll never take back the White House. Discussing the debate over border security measures in the bill, the New Jersey Democrat who chairs the Senate Foreign Relations Committee decried […]

 

Washington Post: Eric Holder’s Kind Of An Awesome AG, Isn’t He?

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Unsurprisingly, the authors of the letter to the editor served under Holder Eric Holder has been an excellent attorney general We were disappointed to read David Ignatius’s June 9 op-ed column, “A mediocre attorney general,” purporting to represent the views of a number of unnamed Washington lawyers about Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr.’s tenure. […]

 

Washington Post: If You Don’t Support Amnesty, It’s Cause You’re Scared

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And probably a raaaaacist, too boot. So says Robert Kagen of the left leaning Brookings Institute. Immigration reform can prove U.S. strength and security The debate over immigration will tell us a lot about the state of the national psyche. How do Americans feel about themselves and their nation? Are they confident or insecure? Do […]

 

Where Have All The Liberals Gone Regarding The Surveillance State?

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That’s what super partisan Dana Milbank wants to know (Washington Post) Where have all the liberals gone? President Obama, who as a Democratic senator accused the Bush administration of violating civil liberties in the name of security, now vigorously defends his own administration’s collection of Americans’ phone records and Internet activities. Senate Democratic leader Harry […]

 

Pandering To Keystone XL Foes, Obama Said To Soon Release His Climate Measures

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In other words, hold onto your wallets, as Obama speaks to people whom which he wants to provide open wallets (Bloomberg) With his administration under pressure from environmentalists to reject the Keystone XL pipeline project, President Barack Obama plans to unveil a package of separate actions next month focused on curbing U.S. greenhouse gas emissions. […]

 

Rubio: We Need The Illegals Legalized In Order To Pay For Border Security

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Byron York noted that Rubio stated that he should have been more artful in his comments to Univision, where he stated that the illegals would be legalized before any sort of border security. I wonder how he’ll walk this one back, via Byron (Washington Examiner) Why is it necessary to legalize the roughly 11 million […]

 

Hooray! Spying On All Americans Stopped Halted Terrorist Threats

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So says the head of the NSA (NY Times) The director of the National Security Agency told Congress on Wednesday that “dozens” of terrorism threats had been halted by the agency’s huge database of the logs of nearly every domestic phone call made by Americans, while a senator briefed on the program disclosed that the […]

 

Rubio Works To Stop Illegals From Getting Federal Benefits…Wait, What?

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How many times have you heard Marco Rubio’s commercial where he proclaims “And then they don’t qualify for any federal benefits. This is an important point. No federal benefits, no food stamps, no welfare, no Obamacare”? And said this in interviews. And written it. But, now he’s trying to get it in place? Because there […]

 

Gore Says Obama Needs To Get Serious On Dealing With Hotcoldwetdry

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Alternate headline: Man with massive “carbon footprint” and lots of money at stake says other man with largest “carbon footprint” in the world needs to Do Something about no statistically significant warming in 15+ years (Politico) Add Al Gore to the chorus of environmentalists who say it’s time for President Barack Obama to get serious […]

 

NY Times Says Surveillance Is A Threat To Democracy

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OK, OK, we know that this is a Republic, but it is a democratic Republic, part of the Democracy political model. And we do have to give them style points for going against Obama and other Democrats on this issue. (NY Times) A new Washington Post-Pew Research Center poll found that a majority of Americans […]

 

Bummer: NY Times Admits To 15 Year Pause In Global Warming

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Then attempts to cover up for the utter failure of the Warmists models (NY Times) As unlikely as this may sound, we have lucked out in recent years when it comes to global warming. The rise in the surface temperature of earth has been markedly slower over the last 15 years than in the 20 […]

 

Marco Rubio: Illegal Alien Legalization Before Border Security

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Remember how Rubio continues to yammer on about border security, making it the focal piece of his shamnesty push to conservatives and Republicans, as you hear his commercial on the radio (they haven’t played it on TV for awhile) for the umpteenth time? How you’ll read about him trying to make the border provisions better? […]

 

Horror! CO2 Emissions Rise Could Doom World To 9 Degree Rise

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All hail the computer model!!!!! (Washington Post) Global emissions of carbon dioxide from energy use rose 1.4 percent to 31.6 gigatons in 2012, setting a record and putting the planet on course for temperature increases well above international climate goals, the International Energy Agency said in a report scheduled to be issued Monday. The agency […]

 

Mukasey: If You Don’t Give Up Your Privacy The Terrorists Win

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Ever since the NSA programs were revealed we’ve seen a steady stream of Big Government elitists coming forward and telling us things like “everything’s OK, it’s no big deal”. And “we’re not listening to your phone calls.” And “it’s called protecting Amerika.” Things like “we have to do everything and anything necessary.” And here’s Michael […]

 

Lawmakers: Nope, We Haven’t All Been Briefed On NSA Spying Programs

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As the UK Guardian continues to release information on the NSA programs (such as Boundless Informant), Obama and his team attempt to deflect attention away, including say “hey, they’re just modest encroachments on privacy, liberty, your 4th Amendment rights”. DNI James Clapper whined about the “rush to publish“. And then there was the notion that […]

 

Oh, Noes, Earth’s Alarm Bells Are Ringing!!!!!!

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Unsurprisingly, the two op-ed authors, Michael Oppenheimer and Kevin Trenberth…you remember, Kevin, right? He’s the one who wrote the email which said “we can’t account for the lack of warming at the moment and it is a travesty that we can’t”, among others…start out by forgetting to actually mention science. But, you know, alarm bells […]

 

NY Times: Congress Can Stop The Privacy Abuse

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The question is, will Mr. Obama and his team go along with any plans to stop the over-broad fishnet surveillance of the US citizenry? Here’s the Times’ editorial board . Over the last three years, several measures were introduced in Congress that would have helped reduce or eliminate the abuses of communications surveillance revealed this […]

 

Climahysteric Of The Week: Google’s Eric Schmidt

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Alternate headline: Guy whose company uses a ton of energy complains about Other People using energy. (Register) Google chairman Eric Schmidt has a low opinion of climate-change skeptics and global-warming deniers. “You can hold back knowledge, but you cannot prevent it from spreading,” Schmidt told his audience at his company’s “How Green Is the Internet? […]

 

Obama’s “Let’s Have A Debate” Defense

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The Politico’s Josh Gerstein explains what that means The Obama administration has a familiar refrain on the surveillance of Americans’ telephone records: the president and his team are eager to have the debate. Eager, that is, only after others have brought the tactics to light and the administration has spent years employing them. On Guantanamo […]