Thursday, June 20, 2013
Evangelical Group Misleads on Funding Source for Immigration Ads
Via Matthew
In a story Thursday at The Christian Post, the Evangelical Immigration Table denied that left-wing billionaire George Soros provided funding for the EIT's recent advertising in support of the Senate's immigration reform. The article specifically pushes back on reporting done by myself and my colleague Matthew Boyle. Unfortunately, EIT's denials fail to address the crux of our reporting.
Breitbart News has reported that the Evangelical Immigration Table, whose members have taken a leading role in pushing for the Schumer-Rubio immigration bill, doesn't legally exist. We have also reported that the ads the group claims are "paid for by the Evangelical Immigration Table" were actually purchased by the National Immigration Forum, an organization which has received millions of dollars from George Soros' Open Society Institute.
More @ Breitbart
Fighting Terrorism by Arming Terrorists
Via Ryan
The only Republican to vote against the bill rebuked his colleagues. “This is an important moment,” Rand Paul said. “You will be funding, today, the allies of al-Qaeda. It’s an irony you cannot overcome.”
The Obama administration appears to be moving toward arming rebels in Syria, though the White House has only publicly confirmed an increase in the “scope and scale” of its military support.
The only Republican to vote against the bill rebuked his colleagues. “This is an important moment,” Rand Paul said. “You will be funding, today, the allies of al-Qaeda. It’s an irony you cannot overcome.”
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The Syrian intervention John McCain and the Clintons want would be a war for Islamism, not democracy.
By one estimate,
seven of nine key rebel combatant groups are Islamist. “As the civil
war has dragged on, the rebels have become more Islamist and extreme,”
the Economist reports. Thus the administration’s decision to
arm only the non-Islamist rebels may soon resemble O.J. Simpson’s search
for the “real killers.”
Arms shipments approved by the Obama administration have
already ended up in the hands of jihadists in Libya. “The weapons and
money from Qatar strengthened militant groups in Libya,” reported the New York Times, “allowing them to become a destabilizing force since the fall of the Qaddafi government.”
Operation Fast and Furious meets American foreign policy.
More @ The American Conservative
House votes to let states run drug tests on food stamp applicants
Via Billy
The House late Wednesday voted to give states the authority to conduct drug testing on people applying for food stamps under the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP).
By voice vote, members approved the idea as an amendment to the farm bill. The amendment was proposed by Rep. Richard Hudson (R-N.C.). Hudson said the proposal would help ensure SNAP benefits go to needy families and children.
"If adopted, this amendment would join a list of good-government reforms contained in the farm bill to save taxpayer money and ensure integrity and accountability within our nutrition system," Hudson said.
"From preventing lottery winners from receiving food stamps, to closing
loopholes and preventing illegal immigrants from receiving benefits, I
commend the chairman and ranking member on the work done to reform the
food stamps program in the farm bill."
The House late Wednesday voted to give states the authority to conduct drug testing on people applying for food stamps under the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP).
By voice vote, members approved the idea as an amendment to the farm bill. The amendment was proposed by Rep. Richard Hudson (R-N.C.). Hudson said the proposal would help ensure SNAP benefits go to needy families and children.
"If adopted, this amendment would join a list of good-government reforms contained in the farm bill to save taxpayer money and ensure integrity and accountability within our nutrition system," Hudson said.
More @ The Hill
Senate Agreement to Bolster Border Security
ABC News has confirmed that the Senate “Gang of Eight” and other members have reached an agreement to strengthen border security provisions in their bill that they hope will deliver the 70 crucial votes needed for the measure.
According to a high-ranking Senate aide, a formal announcement is expected to be introduced on the Senate floor this morning, but no immediate vote is expected. As of now, no news conference on the deal is scheduled either.
A second Capitol Hill source tells ABC News the agreement will include a major border build up, with a key change being a nearly doubling of border agents, completion of 700 miles of fence, and a specific plan for border security, which must all be fully implemented before green cards are available to undocumented immigrants.
More @ ABC
Who Are The Real Traitors?
Via WiscoDave
“We’ve slipped away from a true republic. Now
we’re slipping into a fascist system where it’s a combination of
government, big business and authoritarian rule, and the suppression of
the individual rights of each and every American citizen.
When it comes
to any significant differences on foreign policy, economic intervention,
the Federal Reserve, a strong executive branch, a welfarism mixed with
corporatism, both parties are very much alike. The major arguments in
hotly contested presidential races are mostly for public consumption to
convince the people they actually have a choice.”
– Ron Paul
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“I’m neither traitor nor hero. I’m an American.” – Edward Snowden
“If ye love wealth better than
liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest
of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms.
Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set
lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.” - Samuel Adams
There are weeks that change the course of
human history. There are weeks when people must choose sides. There are
weeks that expose the real American traitors. There is no middle ground
in this debate. You are either on the side of freedom, liberty, truth,
transparency and the U.S. Constitution or you are on the side of
mindless obedience, oppression, deception, corruption and tyranny.
A
courageous young Millennial named Edward Snowden has risked his life and
his future to expose the illegal, surreptitious surveillance programs
being conducted by the United States government in clear violation of
the 4th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. The NSA, with the
full knowledge of Barack Obama and Congress, has been covertly
collecting phone and internet records on millions of Americans with the
full cooperation of Verizon and other mega media/data corporations. Our
owners have been using the U.S. Constitution to wipe their asses.
The 4th
Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is so unambiguous that any
intelligent politician, bright journalist or fifth grader in Miss
Sabatini’s history class could interpret its meaning and intention. Our
founding fathers believed in truth, clarity and simplicity. The
traitorous sociopaths in control of our government today believe in
obfuscation, ambiguity and complexity.
More @ Zero Hedge
Right rips Rubio as Republican immigration votes slip away
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) is feeling the heat as potential GOP allies are now turning against his immigration reform bill.
Republican colleagues who were previously viewed as possible “yes” votes are keeping their distance from the 1,075-page measure.
On Wednesday, conservative activists ripped Rubio and Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) — both sponsors of the bipartisan immigration measure — at a Capitol Hill rally.
The rally underscored the mounting opposition to the immigration reform bill among both grassroots conservatives and GOP senators.
Potential Senate Republican backing for the legislation has begun to evaporate because of deep skepticism over its border-security and enforcement provisions.
More @ The Hill
Teleprompter: To make sure Obama “doesn’t wander off and give up the game.”
MSNBC anchor Chris Matthews, who famously said he felt a thrill up his leg listening to Barack Obama speak in 2008, is now blaming a lackluster speech Wednesday by the U.S. president in Berlin on the sun.
“I think a lot of the problem he had today was the late afternoon sun in Berlin ruined his use of the teleprompter and so his usual dramatic windup was ruined,” Matthews said moments after the address. “I think he was really struggling with the text there.”
Online commenters are having a field day with Matthews’ remark, with comments such as, “Five years into his presidency, even sychophants like Chris Matthews know they can no longer blame Bush. So starting here, starting now, it becomes official: It’s the sun’s fault.”
More @ WND
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