17 Reasons To Be EXTREMELY Concerned About The Second Half Of 2012
What
is the second half of 2012 going to bring? Are things going to get
even worse than they are right now? Unfortunately, that appears more
likely with each passing day. I will admit that I am extremely
concerned about the second half of 2012. Historically, a financial
crisis is much more likely to begin in the fall than during any other
season of the year. Just think about it. The stock market crash of
1929 happened in the fall. "Black Monday" happened on October 19th,
1987. The financial crisis of 2008 started in the fall. There just
seems to be something about the fall that brings out the worst in the
financial markets. But of course there is not a stock market crash
every year. So are there specific reasons why we should be extremely
concerned about what is coming this year? Yes, there are. The
ingredients for a "perfect storm" are slowly coming together, and in the
months ahead we could very well see the next wave of the economic
collapse strike. Sadly, we have never even come close to recovering
from the last recession, and this next crisis might end up being even
more painful than the last one.The following are 17 reasons to be extremely concerned about the second half of 2012....
Kicking The Can Down The Road
Has
Europe finally been saved this time? Has this latest "breakthrough"
solved the European debt crisis? Of course not, and you should know
better by now. European leaders have held 18 summits since the
beginning of the debt crisis. After most of the preceding summits,
global financial markets responded with joy because European leaders had
reached "a deal" which would supposedly solve the crisis. But a few
weeks after each summit it would become clear that nothing had been
solved and that the financial crisis had actually gotten even worse than
before. How many times do they expect us to fall for the same sorry
routine? Nothing in Europe has been solved. You can't solve a debt
problem with more debt. European leaders are just kicking the can down
the road. More debt will relieve some of the short-term pressure, but
in a few weeks it will be apparent that the underlying problems in
Europe continue to grow. Unfortunately, there is not an unlimited
amount of EU bailout money, so once all of these "financial bullets"
have been fired European leaders are going to find that kicking the can
down the road will not be so easy anymore. The truth is that the
financial crisis in Europe has not been cancelled - it has just been put
off for a few weeks or a few months.Are You A Slave Of The System?
If
you went out and took a poll of the American people on July 4th
(Independence Day) and asked them if they are free, what would the
results look like? Of course the results would be overwhelmingly
lopsided. Most Americans believe that they live in "the land of the
free" and that they are not enslaved to anyone. But is that really the
case? Slavery does not always have to involve whips and shackles. There
are many other forms of slavery. One dictionary definition
of a slave is "one that is completely subservient to a dominating
influence". I really like that definition. Today, millions of
Americans are slaves of the system and they don't even realize it. Debt
is a form of slavery, and millions of Americans having become deeply
enslaved to our debt-based financial system. When someone enslaves
someone else, the goal of the master is to reap a benefit out of the
slave. You don't want the slave to just sit there and collect dust.
Today, most Americans have willingly shackled themselves to a system
that systematically drains their wealth and transfers it to the very
wealthy. Most of them don't even realize that they have been enslaved
even as the system sucks them dry.Is Wal-Mart Destroying America? 20 Facts About Wal-Mart That Will Absolutely Shock You
America
absolutely loves Wal-Mart. 100 million customers visit Wal-Mart every
single week in this country. But is Wal-Mart good for America? That is
a question that most people never stop and ask. Most of us love
shopping in big, clean stores that are packed with super cheap
merchandise, but the truth is that Wal-Mart is destroying America in a
lot of ways. As you will see below, Wal-Mart has destroyed tens of
thousands of small businesses and countless manufacturing jobs over the
past couple of decades. Wal-Mart has become a gigantic retail behemoth
that sells five times more stuff than any other retailer in the United
States. Unfortunately, about 85 percent of all the stuff sold at
Wal-Mart is made overseas. What that is costing the U.S. economy in
terms of lost jobs and lost revenue is incalculable. But Wal-Mart is a
perfect example of where our economic system is headed. Our economy is
becoming completely and totally dominated by highly centralized
monolithic predator corporations that ruthlessly crush all competition
and that will stoop to just about anything in order to cut costs. In
the future, will we all be working for gigantic communal entities that
funnel all of the wealth and economic rewards to a very tiny elite?
That sounds very much like how communist China works, and red-blooded
Americans should want no part of that. America is supposed to be about
free enterprise and competition and working together to build up this
country, and Wal-Mart is destroying all of that.Calvin Coolidge's '150 Anniversary of the Declaration of Indepedence' Speech
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Wynton Hall
Calvin Coolidge is the only president in U.S. history to have been born on Independence Day. He is also one of the few who understood the Declaration of Independence’s spiritual moorings. “Silent Cal,” as he was called, was thought to be a quiet introvert in interpersonal communication. And this was largely true. Once, Coolidge was at a dinner party and a woman informed him that she and a friend made a bet that she could get him to say more than two words to her. Coolidge turned to her and said, “You lose.”
Still, once on the rostrum, Coolidge could deliver powerful truths marked by crystal clear language. When President Ronald Reagan was asked which presidents influenced him most, Reagan named Calvin Coolidge.
Coolidge delivered the speech excerpted below on July 5, 1926, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In it, he celebrates the 150th Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence by demonstrating the inherently spiritual nature of the American spirit, as well as the conservative essence of one nation, not under government, but under God.
Read it. You'll be glad you did.
Conservatives to Mitt: Quit Now If You Won't Fight Obamatax!
The Obama campaign has seized on remarks made by Romney adviser Eric "Etch-A-Sketch" Fehrnstrom this morning on MSNBC, to the effect that the individual mandate in Obamacare (and Romneycare) is not a tax. Fehrnstrom allowed Chuck Todd to push him off message--and re-ignited the fears that conservatives have long had about Romney's will and ability to fight. In response, conservatives--who had just coalesced around opposition to what many now call "Obamatax"--exhort: Mitt, start fighting, or give up and let someone else do it.
My Independence Day: Remembering Andrew Breitbart
The 4th of July is a time when Americans celebrate patriots past and present – those from our founding who pledged their lives, fortunes, and sacred honor to build a nation under God in which liberty and freedom would be thrive. We honor present patriots as well, who give the ultimate sacrifice for this country and its freedom. I plan to spend this Independence Day celebrating one of the bravest and most courageous patriots I have ever known.
Google Chooses Communist-Oriented ‘This Land Is Your Land’ July 4th Theme
by
Ben Shapiro
Google Chooses Communist-Oriented ‘This Land Is Your Land’ July 4th Theme
When you visit Google.com this morning, you’ll be treated to a graphic with the words “This Land Was Made For You And Me” in honor of July 4. The words are clearly a reference to Woody Guthrie’s “This Land Is Your Land.”
Obviously, this is a popular American folk tune. But “This Land Is Your Land” was originally constructed as an ode to leftism. The original 1944 lyrics included the following stanza:
Biden Thinks Job Creators Are Worthless
Once there was Dumb and Dumber. Now there is Dumbest.
Meet Mensa Joe Biden.
Incredibly, Biden said something possibly more stupid than anything he has ever said. Sure, it’s a long list, but check this out:
“[Romney believes] somehow, that those
so-called job creators will make everything okay for the rest of us. We
believe that the way to build this country is the way we always have,
from the middle out … [to] invest in the things that have always made
our economy grow: innovation, research, development, infrastructure, and
education.”
Obama Pushes DREAM Act at July 4 Naturalization Ceremony
by
Ben Shapiro
Even on July 4, President Obama can’t stop campaigning.
On the 236th anniversary of America’s declaration of independence from Great Britain, President Obama has decided to celebrate in a rather unusual way: by politicizing immigration. President Obama trotted out his teleprompter for a naturalization ceremony for military members – a beautiful event. Except that Obama couldn’t keep his yap shut about the DREAM Act:
John Roberts: Rarely Has Such a Smart Judge Written Such a Bad Opinion. by Doug Bandow
Rarely has so smart a judge written so bad an opinion
with such ill consequences for the nation. Such is the handiwork of
Chief Justice John Roberts in NFIB vs. Sebelius, the constitutional challenge to ObamaCare.
His support for the president's signature legislation has secured
plaudits from the Washington establishment, which undoubtedly will make
his stay in the nation's capital more pleasant. But his gain comes at
the cost of Americans' liberties. That Justice Roberts would abandon the
Constitution for his reputation was feared, but none expected him to do
so in such calculated fashion.ObamaCare's Now a Bigger Mess. by Michael D. Tanner
If the new health care law wasn't enough of a mess
before last week's Supreme Court decision, that ruling actually added
another layer of cost, complexity and political contentiousness to the
bill.
By striking down part of the law that required states to expand their
Medicaid programs, the court tossed a very hot potato into the laps of
state lawmakers everywhere.ObamaCare required states to increase eligibility for Medicaid to 133 percent of the poverty line, or roughly $30,000 per year for a family of four. The expansion would also make childless single men (a notoriously high-cost group) eligible for Medicaid for the first time. In all, about 40 percent of all the people projected to gain coverage under ObamaCare would do so via Medicaid.
Health Care Ruling: A Strange Constitutional Win. by Randy Barnett
Who would have thought we could win our Commerce Clause challenge while the Affordable Care Act is upheld?
Thursday, the Roberts court vindicated all of our arguments about why
the individual insurance mandate exceeded the commerce power: "The
individual mandate cannot be upheld as an exercise of Congress's power
under the Commerce Clause," wrote Chief Justice John Roberts. "That
Clause authorizes Congress to regulate interstate commerce, not to order
individuals to engage in it." Then the court went further to invalidate
the health care law's withholding of existing Medicaid funding as
coercive, thereby finding an enforceable limit on the Spending Power.Similar Problems, Similar Solutions, by Richard W. Rahn
The world financial and debt crisis can, at times, be
better understood by looking at a small entity that is suffering from
the same diseases as the major countries. The small Central
American-Caribbean nation of Belize is, in many ways, a microcosm of
Europe and the United States in that its debt has grown to a level where
it cannot be serviced without doing great damage to the rest of its
economy.
Also, the courts in Belize, like those in the U.S., give too much
deference to government, which is undermining civil liberties, the rule
of law and property rights. All too many judges succumb to the pressures
of the political branches of government.Obama's Disaster-Prone Presidency. by Gene Healy
Last week brought raging Colorado wildfires and a
massive mid-Atlantic storm that killed 13 and left three million without
power. And when hard luck and bad weather strike, a presidential visit
is sure to follow. It's part of the modern president's job to descend
upon the wounded land, ministering to the afflicted with soothing words
and truckloads of federal aid.
George W. Bush took to that role eagerly, with a record-setting
average of 129 presidential disaster declarations a year. Bush waxed
messianic in May 2007 when he manifested himself in a tornado-ravaged
Kansas burg, aiming to "lift people's spirits... and to hopefully touch
somebody's soul by representing our country... to let people know that
while there was a dark day in the past, there's brighter days ahead."Barack Obama, who shattered the single-year record for disaster declarations with 242 last year, added three more to this year's total last week, in West Virginia and swing states Colorado and Ohio.
Tuesday, July 3, 2012
Here Is Your “Hope And Change”
By
-Bowing to forign leaders.
-Taking the side of Muslims.
Obama Caught Begging For Cash…Illegally?
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It was reported on Sunday that Obama was so broken up after touring the devastation caused by the Colorado wildfires that he promptly hopped aboard Air Force One and made an 18-minute conference call to his big donors asking for cash that was described as “pleading” and “a tad worried.” Daily Beast columnist Lloyd Grove, who obtained the audio tape from an Obama donor, went on to refer to the call as “rambling[s]”…from “a dog-tired idealist.”
Why Did Roberts CHEAT To Save ObamaCare?
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Addicted to the Drug War
by Robert Leeson
The war on illegal drugs engenders corruption, terrorism, and family breakdown, weakening America while strengthening our enemies. By Robert Leeson.The post–9/11 assault on terrorist assets was organizationally impressive. As former U.S. Treasury undersecretary John Taylor documents (Global Financial Warriors, 2007), 172 countries and jurisdictions issued freezing orders, 120 countries passed new laws and regulations, and 1,400 accounts were frozen. But the stock of frozen assets (U.S. $137 million) looks meager compared to the annual flow of U.S. $380 billion generated by the illegal drug industry (about 8 percent of total international trade).
Agents of organized political violence are often beneficiaries of these illegal flows: FARC (the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia) receives $300 million a year from the sale of cocaine, and the PKK (the Turkish-based Kurdistan Workers’ Party) is believed to be responsible for most of the narcotics seized in Europe.
Obama and 'The Wealth of Nations'
by Michael J. Boskin
President Obama should put Adam Smith's "The Wealth of Nations"
at the top of his summer reading list. This was clear after listening to
his 54-minute list of economic excuses and policy proposals delivered
earlier this month on the campus of Cuyahoga Community College in
Cleveland.
At times Mr. Obama suggested that the profit motive is somehow ignoble, an opinion shared by many on the far left. But every student learns in introductory economics class that the pursuit of profits is essential to a successful economy, allocating resources to the use consumers value most.
At times Mr. Obama suggested that the profit motive is somehow ignoble, an opinion shared by many on the far left. But every student learns in introductory economics class that the pursuit of profits is essential to a successful economy, allocating resources to the use consumers value most.
What Was Roberts Thinking?
by Richard A. Epstein
The Chief Justice was neither an umpire nor a statesman. Only a lawyer.The dust has hardly settled on the Supreme Court’s decision over the Affordable Care Act (National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius, i.e. NFIB). It will take some time to pull together all the discordant threads in Chief Justice Robert’s decision, which will continue to puzzle, bemuse, please, and outrage for months and years to come. He did well on his treatment of the Medicaid extension. But on the crucial issue of the individual mandate and the taxing power, he sounds like a lawyer who is too clever by half. The point here is ironic, for without question, the Chief Justice came to his decision by self-consciously marching to the beat of two drummers: judge and statesman.
The Roberts Tango: Statesman or Umpire?
He takes on the role of the umpire judge because he claims to be a lawyer, and not a social planner, so that his decisions have to do with questions of entitlement and government power, not with wisdom and politics. It may be that Supreme Court justices are not, as Roberts has sometimes said, just umpires who call balls and strikes. But the reason that this model of strict interpretation has long had a strong appeal to the Chief Justice is that it affords him a way to resist the charge that he has led the Court in the usurpation of the functions of the democratic branches of government, by making policy as he sees fit.
Illustration by Barbara Kelley
Judicial Betrayal
TOM SOWELL
Betrayal is hard to take, whether in our personal lives or in the political life of the nation. Yet there are people in Washington — too often, Republicans — who start living in the Beltway atmosphere, and start forgetting those hundreds of millions of Americans beyond the Beltway who trusted them to do right by them, to use their wisdom instead of their cleverness.President Bush 41 epitomized these betrayals when he broke his "read my lips, no new taxes" pledge. He paid the price when he quickly went from high approval ratings as president to someone defeated for reelection by a little known governor from Arkansas.
A Strategy to Undo ObamaCare
by Keith Hennessey
Now that the Supreme Court has ruled ObamaCare's individual
mandate constitutional, the direction of American health policy is in
the hands of voters. So how do we get from here to "repeal and replace"?
Step one is electing Mitt Romney as president, along with Republican House and Senate majorities. Without a Republican sweep, the law will remain in place.
But a President Romney does not need 60 Republican senators to repeal core elements of ObamaCare. Democrats lost their 60th senate vote in early 2010 after Scott Brown took Edward Kennedy's seat. To bypass a Senate GOP filibuster and enact portions of ObamaCare, they used a special legislative procedure called reconciliation.
Step one is electing Mitt Romney as president, along with Republican House and Senate majorities. Without a Republican sweep, the law will remain in place.
But a President Romney does not need 60 Republican senators to repeal core elements of ObamaCare. Democrats lost their 60th senate vote in early 2010 after Scott Brown took Edward Kennedy's seat. To bypass a Senate GOP filibuster and enact portions of ObamaCare, they used a special legislative procedure called reconciliation.
A Hanging Curveball for Mitt
• By JEFFREY H. ANDERSON
Two days after the Supreme Court
handed down its landmark ruling on President Obama’s signature
legislation, the president delivered his weekly radio address and didn’t
utter one word about Obamacare or the ruling.
One
day later, when asked by Chris Wallace whether Obamacare “must clear
another hurdle in the November election” (which of course it must),
Obama’s Chief of Staff Jack Lew replied, “You know, Chris, one thing
that’s great about our system is that when the Supreme Court rules, we
have a final answer.”
Too Fast, Too Furious
Too Fast, Too Furious
Darrell Issa has dabbled in a conspiracy theory.
Darrell Issa has dabbled in a conspiracy theory.
House Oversight Committee chairman Darrell Issa
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Since
details about the Fast and Furious scandal first started to emerge, the
biggest question has been: Who in their right mind would think that
letting criminals walk away with guns would be a good way to fight
crime? Thus far, the only explanation seems to be this: The Justice
Department thought that tying American guns to Mexican crime scenes
would be useful in its attempts to round up cartel kingpins — useful
enough that it was worth giving guns to criminals without bothering to
track the weapons as they changed hands.
The Roberts Opinion
The Roberts Opinion
Pessimistic liberals and optimistic conservatives both get it wrong.
Pessimistic liberals and optimistic conservatives both get it wrong.
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In
2005 I was asked by the Bush administration to assist Judge John
Roberts during the Senate confirmation process for his nomination as
chief justice of the United States. Over several pressure-packed days,
and throughout the confirmation process, I felt I got to know him fairly
well. I found him to be one of the most brilliant, thoughtful, and
humorous people I’d ever met. Those qualities don’t always go together.
It was clear he was going to be a major right-of-center voice on the
Supreme Court for decades to come. So it is with a great deal of
personal interest that I have considered his opinion in Sebelius and the commentary that has followed.
The Obama Foreign Policy
The Obama Foreign Policy
There is much to criticize, but Romney must choose his points carefully.
There is much to criticize, but Romney must choose his points carefully.
Bowing low to the emporer of Japan
The
2012 election will hinge on the economy, not on U.S. foreign policy,
unless there is a major overseas crisis — an Israeli attack on Iran, an
Iranian detonation of a nuclear weapon, a Middle East war, a North
Korean attack, or something of that sort. That said, there is much to
lament in the current administration’s foreign policy. But Mitt Romney
should be careful in critiquing the status quo, given that it is full of
paradoxes and contradictions.
Mexico’s Camelot
Mexico’s Camelot
Will Mexico’s new president be able to solve the country’s daunting problems?
One of the campaign’s dominant issues was Mr. Peña’s close relationship with Televisa, the nation’s leading television network, which has a dominant market share. When he was governor of the state surrounding Mexico City, he cultivated a close relationship with the network. An arrangement whereby the state provided Televisa with tens of millions of dollars in exchange for advertising and positive news coverage has become a topic of heated debate. It has further emerged that the producers at Televisa decided to raise Mr. Peña’s profile through a marketing strategy that has been hugely successful for the network’s soap operas: the ubiquitous telenovelas.
Will Mexico’s new president be able to solve the country’s daunting problems?
Enrique Peña Nieto
Watchers
of goings-on in Mexico have long worried that the drug cartels might
grow powerful enough to start buying themselves whole political parties
and elections. But Sunday’s presidential election, which brought the
country’s traditional political oligarchy back to power, shows that the
cartels face a major contender for influence over national politics:
television networks.
The telegenic young Enrique Peña Nieto easily won the election,
bringing his Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) back to power for
the first time in twelve years. Previously, the PRI had ruled Mexico for
71 years, establishing an upper-class oligarchy in a country that until
recently was composed of a very few rich people and a huge number of
desperately poor ones.One of the campaign’s dominant issues was Mr. Peña’s close relationship with Televisa, the nation’s leading television network, which has a dominant market share. When he was governor of the state surrounding Mexico City, he cultivated a close relationship with the network. An arrangement whereby the state provided Televisa with tens of millions of dollars in exchange for advertising and positive news coverage has become a topic of heated debate. It has further emerged that the producers at Televisa decided to raise Mr. Peña’s profile through a marketing strategy that has been hugely successful for the network’s soap operas: the ubiquitous telenovelas.
Gov. Rick Scott: Florida Won't Implement Medicaid Expansion of Obamacare
Gov. Rick Scott: Florida Won't Implement Medicaid Expansion of Obamacare
The first-term Republican, who headed a healthcare corporation before running for office, also says the November election is going to be all about repealing the healthcare legislation, adding that “if we care about jobs, we have to repeal Obamacare.”
Gov. Jindal: We Need to End Obama's 'Culture of Dependence'
Gov. Jindal: We Need to End Obama's 'Culture of Dependence'
“I think this is a huge mistake for the country, certainly for the state of Louisiana,” Jindal said Monday night on Fox News’s “On the Record with Greta Van Susteren.” “We need to do everything we can to repeal Obamacare.”
Jindal, often mentioned as a possible running mate for presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney, said President Barack Obama’s healthcare plan is “not affordable” and “not sustainable” because it will end up increasing taxes and forcing the United States to borrow even more money to meet its debt obligations.
Obamacare: It’s Not Over
Obamacare: It’s Not Over
The law has never been popular with the American public.
The question of Obamacare has been declared final repeatedly and consistently. During the debate over its passage, it was always one more Obama speech from being settled once and for all. Afterward, Democrats predicted there was no way to repeal it, and its popularity was just around the corner. The court challenge was pooh-poohed as another instance of futile resistance. Now that the law has barely hung on thanks to the Roberts triple lutz, the state of the debate is said to be — as ever — over.
The law has never been popular with the American public.
Plans
haven’t yet begun for the monument to John Roberts on the National
Mall. These things take time. A location will have to be found,
somewhere between the Lincoln and Jefferson memorials. Cutting-edge
architect Frank Gehry will have to be diverted from his work on the
Eisenhower Memorial to create an appropriately convoluted design to mark
the chief justice’s twisted reasoning.
Until the groundbreaking, liberals must content themselves with
bestowing national sainthood on Roberts and with declaring the
health-care debate definitively over. It’s time for everyone to accept a
new $1 trillion entitlement profoundly affecting the direction of
American health care and focus on issues of concern to every
civic-minded American, such as: Did Mitt Romney outsource a call center as Massachusetts governor?The question of Obamacare has been declared final repeatedly and consistently. During the debate over its passage, it was always one more Obama speech from being settled once and for all. Afterward, Democrats predicted there was no way to repeal it, and its popularity was just around the corner. The court challenge was pooh-poohed as another instance of futile resistance. Now that the law has barely hung on thanks to the Roberts triple lutz, the state of the debate is said to be — as ever — over.
US: Obama’s Glamour Can’t Fix Charisma Deficit
US: Obama’s Glamour Can’t Fix Charisma Deficit – by Virginia Postrel
One thing is clear in the aftermath of the debt-limit debate: U.S. President Barack Obama has
lost his glamour. The alluring icon of hope and change has become just
another pol, derided by his supporters as well as his opponents. As one headline succinctly put it: “Obama succumbs to the ways of Washington.”US: Obama Plays Politics with Immigration
US: Obama Plays Politics with Immigration – by Rosario Marin
I
have never been a fan of Obama. I have criticized his manipulative and
divisive political decisions, especially when it comes to the Latino
community. Let’s start:First, when he was a senator he opposed immigration reform that senators Ted Kennedy and John McCain had worked on.
Second, he promised that if elected, he would implement immigration reform in his first 100 days in office, he never did.
US: Obama’s Socialist Designs
US: Obama’s Socialist Designs – by Jeffrey T. Kuhner
President’s policies are bent on shattering rule of law.President Obama is gradually transforming America into a socialist authoritarian state. This is the real meaning of his recent decision to grant backdoor amnesty to young illegal immigrants. Mr. Obama is behaving like a Latin American strongman, who asserts arbitrary power and ignores the rule of law. He is assaulting the very pillars of our constitutional republic.
Last week, the administration announced that it will stop deporting young illegal aliens. The policy shift affects as many as 800,000 illegal immigrants. Mr. Obama’s order lifts the fear of deportation. It also grants them work permits. Mr. Obama has waved his magic wand and converted the immigration status of countless aliens, flipping them from illegal to legal residents.
US: Rubio hammers Obama’s ‘no way bipartisan’ immigration action
US: Rubio hammers Obama’s ‘no way bipartisan’ immigration action – by John Gizzi
Sen.
Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) offered criticism Thursday morning of President
Obama’s recent executive action dealing with illegal immigrants beyond
the oft-heard Republican point that it was “extra-constitutional.” In
Rubio’s words, “we don’t know how many will be affected by it, whether
kids will come up and identify themselves as illegal” and that the
president’s order was in no way bipartisan.“There are many unanswered questions. How many does it affect? Are kids going to come out and identify themselves?,” Rubio said this morning at the Christian Science Monitor breakfast.
US: The 10 Largest Hispanic Origin Groups: Characteristics, Rankings, Top Counties
US: The 10 Largest Hispanic Origin Groups: Characteristics, Rankings, Top Counties – Pew Hispanic Center
Among
the 50.7 million Hispanics in the United States, nearly two-thirds
(65%), or 33 million, self-identify as being of Mexican origin,
according to tabulations of
the 2010 American Community Survey (ACS) by the Pew Hispanic Center, a
project of the Pew Research Center. No other Hispanic subgroup rivals
the size of the Mexican-origin population. Puerto Ricans, the nation’s
second largest Hispanic origin group, make up just 9% of the total
Hispanic population in the 50 states and the District of Columbia.US: Top 5 changes at the Pentagon under Obama
US: Top 5 changes at the Pentagon under Obama – by J. D. Gordon
Over
the past couple weeks some of President Obama’s most fervent fans have
openly deserted him – expressing a commonly heard frustration from his
liberal base that his popular 2008 campaign slogan “hope and change”
hasn’t amounted to much.Amber Lee Ettinger, aka the “Obama Girl” who gained notoriety through her racy YouTube video revealing her crush for then-Senator Obama — now won’t even say whom she’s voting for.
Roberto Unger, one of Obama’s professors at Harvard Law School went a step further, declaring in another YouTube video that his former student “must be defeated in the coming election.”
US: Dodging another UN bullet
US: Dodging another UN bullet – by Paul Driessen
‘The Future We Want’ offered sustained power and money grabs in name of sustainability.he Future We Want outlined a “common vision” for planetary “sustainable development,” as proclaimed by the “Organizing Partners of the Major Group of NGOs,” to guide the taxpayer-funded Rio+20 summit that ended last week in disarray and acrimony.
The activist organizations that cobbled the document together filled it with hundreds of platitudes and pseudo-solutions to global warming cataclysms, newly reconstituted as threats to resource depletion and biodiversity – and presented as standards and mandates for countries, communities and corporations.
The terms “sustainable development,” “sustainable” and “sustainability” appeared in the original text an astounding 390 times. Like “abracadabra,” these nebulous concepts were supposed to transform the world into a Garden of Eden global community, under United Nations auspices, that will use less, pollute less, and save species and planet from their worst enemy: humans.
Monday, July 2, 2012
Court’s awful ruling taxes our patients
Court’s awful ruling taxes our patients
Obamacare affirmation transforms government from big to monstrous
That’s what the Democrats told us when they rammed Obamacare down America’s throat. In a famous clip you can find on YouTube, President Obama adamantly denies to ABC’s George Stephanopoulos that the individual mandate is, in fact, a “tax.”
