Author: William Teach

Trey Gowdy Blasts National Parks Director Over Barrycades

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And well he should have (The Blaze) During a U.S. House hearing concerning the closure of national parks and monuments during the partial government shutdown, Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.) scolded the director of the National Park Service for treating “pot-smoking” demonstrators in the Occupy movement with more respect than the nation’s war veterans. Gowdy relentlessly […]

 

Bummer: Only One In Eight Swing State Voters Back Amnesty

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Wait, wait, we aren’t supposed to call it amnesty, because allowing illegals to live here illegally is “de facto amnesty“, according to Marco “John McCain Lite” Rubio. The thing is, as soon as this budget fight concludes, Democrats, and some Republicans, are most likely going to turn back to “comprehensive immigration reform” (Daily Caller) Only […]

 

Fact Checker: Three Pinocchio’s For Factually True Statements On Obamacare

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Facts are apparently false. Here’s the Washington Post’s fact checker, Glenn Kessler, giving it the old college try to protect the “Affordable” Care Act, something many, many liberals, and ultra squishy “Republicans” who spend more time bashing Republicans than Democrats, have tried before “The president has exempted over 1,200 groups, including members of Congress, from […]

 

Why’s Obamacare Website So Glitchy? For One Thing, They Don’t Want You To Know The Costs

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Essentially, those running healthcare.gov mandated planned incompetence. (Forbes) A growing consensus of IT experts, outside and inside the government, have figured out a principal reason why the website for Obamacare’s federally-sponsored insurance exchange is crashing. Healthcare.gov forces you to create an account and enter detailed personal information before you can start shopping. This, in turn, […]

 

Wash Post: “Obamacare Save My Family!!!!!”

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I’m waiting for the opinion piece “Obamacare killed my family when my employer dropped my hours to part time and dropped our coverage” Obamacare saved my family from financial ruin House Speaker John Boehner and his tea party friends shut down the U.S. government because of people like me. I am the mother of an […]

 

Shutdown Theater: Obama Takes Down Visitor Logs

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Not that they’ve been completely transparent on those to start with (Daily Caller) The White House has taken down online White House visitor logs and blamed Congress. The logs, which were posted beginning in December 2009 “as part of President Obama’s commitment to government transparency,” are the latest victims of a partial government shutdown that […]

 

Pisgah Inn Reopens After Winning Injunction Against NPS

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They fought the Spite House, and the Spite House did not win. Unfortunately, most of the other businesses along the Blue Ridge Highway are still closed, because (NMP) “make them feel the pain” Obama continues his hissy fit (Blue Ridge Now) Despite the government’s official stance that they remain closed, the Pisgah Inn’s concessionaire has […]

 

Eight Elected Democrats Arrested At Illegal Immigration Rally

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Remember when we were told that the Park Service gave the rally a permit because it was about Free Speech? 1st Amendment stuff? What about the part where they were not “demonstrating peaceably”? (Politico) Nationwide demonstrations calling for comprehensive immigration reform culminated with a rally in Washington on Tuesday to forcefully press lawmakers to overhaul […]

 

Bummer: Ocean Warming Has Slowed Down By 50%

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Don’t you hate when people do science? (The Hockey Schtick) The currently-favored excuse du jour for no statistically-significant global warming over the past 20 years is that the oceans “ate the man-made global warming.” However, a 2012 paper published in Nature Climate Change torpedoes this notion, finding the global oceans started warming at least 135 […]

 

Surprise: Obama Admin. Refuses To Release Enrollment Numbers Till November

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I’m thinking they’ll report the numbers sometime between the 27th and 29th (Jake Tapper) The Obama administration is not planning on releasing enrollment numbers on Obamacare until November, senior administration officials said Monday, as they continued to insist that delays with the healthcare.gov website were entirely the result of high volume. “We will release monthly […]

 

Obamacare Will Impact 800,000 New Jersey Residents

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“If you like you insurance plan, you can keep it” continues to ring hollow (NJ.com) : Hundreds of thousands of New Jerseyans opened the mail last week to find their health insurance plan would no longer exist in 2014 because it does not cover all the essential benefits required by the Affordable Care Act. The news […]

 

Shutdown Theater: DOJ Takes Down Amber Alert Website

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Remember, one park ranger told the Washington Times that “We’ve been told to make life as difficult for people as we can”. We’ve seen this time and time again during Shutdown Theater. Now, the Obama/Holder highly politicized, partisan, and unequal justice DOJ goes a step further (NBC LA) Instead of showing critical missing children bulletins, […]

 

“Affordable” Care Act Follies: “I Was Laughing At Boehner Until The Mail Came”

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Will the “Affordable” Care Act end up helping some Americans? Sure. Even the worst written law will help some people. The ACA will surely help illegal aliens. It’ll also help those with pre-existing conditions. Not only can they not be denied coverage, but they supposedly can’t be charged more than healthy people (though the example […]

 

Rick Perry To California: “we don’t judge success on the number of people we have on public assistance.”

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Texas Governor Rick Perry continues his tour to swipe jobs and companies from Blue States, having recently gotten into it with Maryland Commissar, er, Governor Martin O’Malley. Now… (SFGate) Texas Republican Gov. Rick Perry, on a tour aimed at pushing “red state” tax and business policies to drive growth, said Friday that a major economic […]

 

Boehner Slams Obamacare Website “Scheduled Maintenance”

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No website is perfect. Things happen. My host, Dreamhost, has certainly had their share of issues over the years, from minor annoyances to huge outages. Of course, they, like all sorts of giant individual websites, like CNN, Fox News, Youtube, etc, rarely go down, especially for “planned maintenance”. Obamacare? (The Hill) Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) […]

 

Arizona Gov’t, Businesses Fight To Re-open Grand Canyon

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However, Obama’s Department Of Making Americans Feel The Pain have said “nope” (Fox News) With the partial suspension of U.S. government services showing no signs of ending, tourists will continue to be turned away from the Grand Canyon, despite a push by Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer and local businesses to reopen the state’s signature national […]

 

Washington Post: Republicans Owe Capitol Police A Paycheck And Apology After Shooting

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Apparently this will become a meme (at least for me) as the sorta-shutdown continues, with the Washington Post Editorial Board sipping the sweet sweet kool-aid of demagoguery. Remember, they aren’t “rabid partisans“, same as Senator Dianne Feinstein. This one gets even more non-rabidly partisan In shooting near Capitol, government workers rush into danger (Two paragraphs […]

 

Washington Post: Republican Shutdown Means US Is Threatened By Terrorists

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Yesterday the Editorial Board of the Washington Post said they weren’t partisan, but, hey, those Republicans were failing America. Today, they ask why Obama is playing games with closing monuments and stuff Republicans hate national security Government shutdown puts U.S. security at risk IF HOUSE Republicans have had an obsession to rival their hatred of […]

 

Washington Post: Republicans Are Failing America Or Something

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There’s all sorts of fun bomb throwing materializing in the mostly Liberal media, both from journalists/opinion writers and nutty Democrats. You have wacky Joan Walsh blaming it all on raaaaacism. Crazy Alan Grayson says the GOP has literally been drinking on the job. Womb Whisperer Andy Sullivan talks about the “nullification party“. Ezra Klein wonders […]

 

“Affordable” Care Act Starts Today, Now We Find Out Who’s Right And Who’s Wrong

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President of the Democrat Party Barack Obama says that his signature law will have “glitches” for at least several months. Who’s shocked? (Fox News) The sales pitches for and against ObamaCare have all been made. It’s now up to Americans to judge whether the law works as advertised, as the so-called insurance “exchanges” launch Tuesday. […]