Author: William Teach

Uber-Liberal 9th Circuit Affirms Right To Carry

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A win for the good guys, the folks who could end up using their gun to defend themselves and others (Reuters) A federal appeals court on Thursday struck down a requirement by San Diego County that residents show “good cause” to carry a concealed firearm, a ruling that could force local governments across California to […]

 

Church Of England Goes Medieval On Fight Climate Change Witchcraft

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Remember the time when people blew out of England to escape from the dominance of the Church of England? Remember how the Framers of the Constitution added a phrase to the Bill Of Rights to make sure no church would work hand in hand with The Government, because of how the Church Of England worked […]

 

Part Of Kentucky Gay Marriage Law Struck Down Due To Reciprocity

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I don’t really care about this ruling vis a vis gay marriage as much as two other interesting points it brings up (Courier-Journal) In a ruling that could open the door to gay marriage in Kentucky, a federal judge has struck down the state’s ban on recognizing same-sex unions performed in states where it is […]

 

Deranged Envirowackos Demonstrate At Oil Exec’s House

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How deranged? This deranged (Washington Free Beacon) Masked protesters carrying torches and threatening organized violence protested outside the home of an executive at a major oil pipeline company last week. Eight environmental activists gathered on the lawn of Mark Maki, a member of the Enbridge Energy Company’s board of directors and president of Enbridge Energy […]

 

House Passes Clean Debt Ceiling Hike

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Many conservatives/Republicans range from agitated to apoplectic. Liberals are crowing. The Washington Post’s uber-leftists (like the WP’s opinion pages aren’t chock full of them, has to be at least a 85-15% split) goes with this provocative headline GOP debt limit extortion is dead Because attempting to limit the insane debt increases is apparently a bad […]

 

Ted Cruz: Enviroweenies Should Love Keystone XL

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A nice bit of mental jujitsu, but Ted forgets that Keystone XL isn’t about environmentalism: it’s a cause celebre with the “climate change” cult, and they will not let go (especially as they drive their fossil fueled vehicles to the protests) (ABC News) If you love the environment, Sen. Ted Cruz says you should love […]

 

Krauthammer: Welcome To The Banana Republic

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Surely, Charles Krauthammer’s comments will be deemed raaaaacist, in order to change the subject (Fox News) Syndicated columnist and Fox News contributor Charles Krauthammer took aim at the newest ObamaCare delay on “Special Report with Bret Baier” Monday, calling it “the stuff that you do in a banana republic.” The Obama administration announced it was […]

 

Obama Put Illegal Aliens Over Legal Citizens

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In Mr. Obama’s rush to try and give relief to the children of illegal aliens, many of whom were actually brought to the US illegally, he harmed legal citizens (Daily Caller) President Barack Obama’s 2012 unilateral legalization of 500,000 young illegal immigrants helped him win the 2012 election – at the cost of splitting 500,000 […]

 

Jindal: Obamacare Is Not Compassionate

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Governor Bobby Jindal puts Obamacare in context, and finds it vastly wanting in terms of economics and jobs (Politico) The verdict is in, and it’s not good: Obamacare is rippling through the U.S. economy with vast implications for American prosperity. On Friday, we learned that the Obama economy has hit stall speed, with a paltry […]

 

NC Moral Monday Protest Organizers Tell Agitators To Bring Photo Id

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Hardcore Leftist agitators have been doing this cute little protest thing called “Moral Mondays” for months, whining about the Republican agenda. Hey, they’re welcome to do it, as long as it is peaceable. Republicans haven’t stopped them or attempted to put any kibosh on the idiocy, even though the MM folks have consistently put themselves […]

 

White House Tells Ocare Insurers To Let Consumers Change Plans

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Do you remember the old Simpsons episode where Troy McClure said “there’s The Truth, and then “the truth””? With Obamacare, there’s Deadlines, and then “deadlines” (Washington Post) The Obama administration has quietly reworked rules and computer code for HealthCare.gov to try to stem an outpouring of discontent by some Americans who have discovered that the […]

 

Rep David Schweikert (R-Ariz) Introduces “Secret Science Reform Act”

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What is it? It’s a way of forcing the Environmental Protection Agency, which has seemingly forgotten what their actual mission is, to end their secrecy in rule making (Fox News) Republican lawmakers in the House are pushing legislation that would prohibit the Environmental Protection Agency from proposing new regulations based on science that is not […]

 

Obama May Extend Time For Keeping Those “Junk” Health Plan You Like

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If the law is so bad, so poorly written, so poorly implemented, perhaps it should simply be scrapped and replaced with legislation that works (AP) The Obama administration is considering an extension of the president’s decision to let people keep their individual insurance policies even if they are not compliant with the health care overhaul, […]

 

Team Obama To Allow Immigrants With “Limited Terrorism Ties”

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Your government at work (Daily Caller) The Obama administration has issued new exemptions to a law that bars certain asylum-seekers and refugees who provided “limited material support” to terrorists who are believed to pose no threat from the U.S. The Department of Homeland Security and the State Department published the new exemptions Wednesday in the […]

 

States Look To Pass Laws To Broaden Obamacare Networks

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One of the “unexpected” results of the “Affordable” Care Act’s notion of reducing health care costs has been a restriction of in-network providers. This is where quite a few folks found out that if they like their doctor, they can’t keep their doctor. Since most people who signed up through the Exchanges were people who […]

 

Fact Checker: Obamacare Won’t Really Kill 2 Million Jobs

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Liberals, and the White House, are attempting to spin the CBO report that states that 2 million+ full time jobs will be lost thanks directly to Obamacare. They say this is not a bad thing. Do they have a point? Here’s Glenn Kessler, the Washington Post’s Fact Checker Here we go again. During the 2012 […]

 

Hooray! Here Come Obama’s “Climate Hubs”

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Yeah, OK, uh huh (NY Times) On the heels of the Senate’s passage of a long-awaited farm bill, the Obama administration is to announce on Wednesday the creation of seven regional “climate hubs” aimed at helping farmers and rural communities respond to the risks of climate change, including drought, invasive pests, fires and floods. White […]

 

Cover Oregon: Possible Criminal Fraud

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You remember Cover Oregon, right? It’s the Obamacare website that has essentially singed up zero people. All the enrollments have come via old school paper applications. The website is really still not working (not that the federal website is fully working correctly, either). Now we learn (via The Blaze) (KATU) You already know the process […]

 

Obama To O’Reilly: I’m Waiting For John Kerry’s Approval On Keystone XL

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He’s simply running the clock out, as well as highlighting his pitiful leadership skills (Fox News) President Obama told Bill O’Reilly Monday on “The O’Reilly Factor” that he was waiting to get an official recommendation from Secretary of State John Kerry before proceeding with the Keystone Pipeline. Obama also took issue with the number of […]

 

Bummer: Immigration Judges Only Have Seven Minutes To Make A Decision

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That’s probably about 5 more than is really needed. “Are you in the United States illegally? Yes? Goodbye”. But the Washington Post is Really Concerned about this “miscarriage of justice”, that illegals aren’t getting their fair time in court, that it takes, per the headline on the front page, about the same time as taking […]

 

Obamacare “Innovation Center” Testing Method Is A Mess

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I know what you’re thinking: how could an idea born from the Affordable Care Act be a problem? (NY Times) The idea seemed transformative. The Affordable Care Act would fund a new research outfit evocatively named the Innovation Center to discover how to most effectively deliver health care, with $10 billion to spend over a […]

 

Is Obama An “Imperial President”?

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There’s been quite a bit of discussion over Obama’s use of presidential authority: signing statements, executive orders, changing rules (many of which were established by his own administration), changing parts of laws, refusing to defend laws passed by the United States Congress, and generally just doing whatever he wants. The notion of Obama being an […]

 

White House: Not So Fast On that Keystone XL Pipeline, Cause “Climate Change”

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So, the President with a carbon footprint around 41K metric tons, and a Sec of State who constantly takes fossil fueled flights all over the world, and also owns several homes and multiple fossil fueled vehicles, are telling us to hold our horses on Keystone XL (Fox News) A new environmental assessment from the State […]

 

Experts Proclamin Obamacare Will Be Impossible To Get Rid Of

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Some said slavery would be impossible to get rid of. Same with other laws. Yet, we got rid of them. The web headline reads “Repealing health care law would mean higher costs”, while the Android app one reads “Health law locked in, experts say” (USA Today) Republicans may not agree with President Obama’s State of […]

 

Koch Brothers To Harry Reid: Comments Are “Beneath The Office He Holds”

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Are other Republicans paying attention, particularly elected ones? (Politico) The Koch brothers are firing back at Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid for his broadside on their political activities, with a spokesman calling Reid’s comments “beneath the office he holds.” After Reid on Thursday accused the billionaires Charles and David Koch of trying to “buy the […]

 

Stockman Considers Filing Articles Of Impeachment

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It’ll never go anywhere, but the liberal media would have an opportunity to circle the wagons and be outraged…unlike when Democrats constantly talked about impeaching George W. Bush, and John Conyers (D) even held a mock impeachment in the basement of the Capital Building (The Blaze) Just hours after he stormed out of President Obama’s […]

 

GOP 2016 Contenders Push To Decriminalize Marijuana

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This isn’t so much about legalization, but decriminalization (Washington Times) Republicans eyeing the White House in 2016 are pushing their party to change its stance and accept a softening of federal marijuana laws – a dramatic shift from the GOP’s most recent contenders who railed against the drug and questioned its medicinal value. Sen. Rand […]

 

Climate Change Is Dead Last On List Of American’s Priorities

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Surprise? This comes via The Hockey Schtick, a Wall Street Journal poll on the state of the union and what Americans care about, along with Obama’s approval rating. Here’s the chart Humorously, when Obama started yammering about “climate change” the Gore Effect kicked in, with light snow starting in D.C. And why should people care? […]