LANGUAGE
Friday, November 1, 2013
Cruz and Carson in 2016
The presidential election of 2016 will be a defining moment for the nation and for the Republican Party.
Not so for the Democratic Party. There’s no controversy among Democrats about what America should be and what their party is about. Big government, welfare state socialism, and secular humanism.
The only question about who the Democratic presidential candidate will be is which welfare state socialist, secular humanist they will nominate.
The picture for Republicans is more complex and this makes Democrats happy. They see Republican Party intraparty dissension as division and weakness which, in their view, can only help Democrats.
Key issues divide Republicans both about principles – what is America about? – and political strategy – what are the best tactics for electing candidates and advancing the party agenda?
More @ Townhall
Appeals Court Rejects Obamacare Contraception Mandate
A federal appeals court struck down Obamacare's controversial birth control mandate, declaring that requiring contraception coverage in employee health plans is unduly burdensome for business owners who oppose birth control on religious grounds.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia ruled 2-1 Friday in favor of Francis and Philip Gilardi, the Roman Catholic owners of Ohio-based Freshway Foods and Freshway Logistics, who argued that the provision in the new healthcare law would violate their religious freedom, The Hill reports.
"The burden on religious exercise does not occur at the point of contraceptive purchase; instead, it occurs when a company's owners fill the basket of goods and services that constitute a healthcare plan," wrote Judge Janice Rogers Brown in the court's decision.
Had the plaintiffs refused to comply with the law, they would have faced a $14 million fine.
More @ Newsmax
Ted Cruz's father: Send Obama 'back to Kenya'
Barack Obama’s links to Kenya run deep in his family history.
Obama’s wife, Michelle, in fact, called her husband “a Kenyan” and referred to “his home country in Kenya.” Kenyans also have referred to Obama as “a fellow Kenyan” and a “son of the soil of this country.”
Before Obama was elected, it was fairly common to find references in the media to the former Illinois senator as born in Kenya.
The Kenyan government, as well, in 2009 commissioned a cultural museum in Kenya to “honour the birthplace of President Obama.”
Even Obama’s own literary agency billed him as “born in Kenya” as late as 2007 to promote the sale of his book “Dreams from My Father.”
More @ WND
TSA agent shot dead at LAX
A gunman walked into Terminal 3 at Los Angeles International Airport Friday morning and opened fire at a security checkpoint, killing a Transportation Security Administration officer and wounding at least three other people, law enforcement sources tell CBS News.
The gunman “took an ‘assault rifle’ out of a bag and began to open fire into the terminal,” according to Patrick Gannon, the airport’s chief of police.
“He proceeded into the screening area and went past the screeners into the airport itself. Police tracked the individual through the airport and successfully took him into custody,” said Gannon at a news conference.
Law enforcement sources told the Los Angeles Times that the gunman was a TSA employee at LAX.
The gunman “took an ‘assault rifle’ out of a bag and began to open fire into the terminal,” according to Patrick Gannon, the airport’s chief of police.
“He proceeded into the screening area and went past the screeners into the airport itself. Police tracked the individual through the airport and successfully took him into custody,” said Gannon at a news conference.
Law enforcement sources told the Los Angeles Times that the gunman was a TSA employee at LAX.
More with video @ WND
Former Secret Service Agent Warns On Scandals: “It’s worse than people know; I’m not trying to scare you either.”
Former Secret Service agent Dan Bongino, who is running for Congress in Maryland, appeared on the Glenn Beck Program Thursday to discuss why he chose to run for elected office.
“We’re at a very dangerous point,
Glenn,” Bongino began. “We’re in a lot of trouble. The president sees
government — and I think it’s because of his lack of experience, and
maybe community organizing in the past — as like this shiny new toy. And
for all the disagreements I had with Clinton, Carter, and Bush, there
were always limits. There was that line you just didn’t cross — we cross
that seemingly every day…”
Bongino said that we’re “lost in the
scandals,” from the IRS targeting conservative organizations to
Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius “shaking down”
the healthcare industry, among others.
“It’s to the point where these scandals
in and of themselves [that] would be huge, backbreaking scandals are
just lot (lost) in the ‘scandal fog’ of this administration,” he said in
disbelief. “It’s worse than people know; I’m not trying to scare you
either.”
More @ The Blaze
Justice and State departments blocking access to survivors of Benghazi attack
The Justice and State departments are now citing a year-old FBI investigation and a future criminal prosecution to block access to survivors of last year’s Benghazi terror attack.
In an Oct. 28 letter to Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C.,the State Department’s Assistant Secretary for Legislative Affairs, Julia Frifield, refers to "significant risks" and "serious concerns about having the survivors of the attack submit to additional interviews."
Graham has been asking since last year for the FBI’s transcripts of interviews with State Department and CIA survivors who were evacuated to Germany after the Sep.11 attack on the U.S. consulate.
He and other Republicans believe the transcripts will show the survivors told the FBI it was a terrorist attack and made no mention of a video or anti-U.S. demonstration at the consulate.
This intelligence was likely available to the president, his national security team and U.N.
Ambassador Susan Rice, who five days after the assault blamed it on an anti-U.S. demonstration and inflammatory video.
"You can't hide behind a criminal investigation," Graham told reporters during a news conference on Capitol Hill. "That's not a good reason to deny the Congress witness statements 48 hours after the attack."
More @ Fox
Top Hospitals Opt Out of Obamacare
Which Top Hospitals Take Your Health Insurance Under Obamacare?
The Obama Administration has been claiming that insurance companies will be competing for your dollars under the Affordable Care Act, but apparently they haven't surveyed the nation's top hospitals.
Americans who sign up for Obamacare will be getting a big surprise if they expect to access premium health care that may have been previously covered under their personal policies. Most of the top hospitals will accept insurance from just one or two companies operating under Obamacare.
"This doesn't surprise me," said Gail Wilensky, Medicare advisor for the second Bush Administration and senior fellow for Project HOPE. "There has been an incredible amount of focus on the premium cost and subsidy, and precious little focus on what you get for your money."
More @ US News
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