Friday, September 6, 2013

PELOSI, THE DEMOCRATS AND ASSAD: THE ENEMY WITHIN

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[Video] BREAKING: Morse Supporters Remove (Steal) “RECALL MORSE” Campaign Signs in Colorado
22 States Now Fighting Federal Government to Lower Handgun Purchase Age to 18
Connecticut Senators Try to Pressure Starbucks Into Banning Guns in Their Stores
[Video] Armed Homeowner Shoots and Kills Suspect Being Pursued by Police During Crime Spree

[Video] BREAKING: Morse Supporters Remove (Steal) “RECALL MORSE” Campaign Signs in Colorado

Posted: 05 Sep 2013 03:11 PM PDT

Breaking news out of Colorado. RevealPolitics posted the above video on their Youtube channel just a little while ago. Today is the first day of voting in the recall election of anti-gun Colorado State Senators John Morse and Angela Giron. The video shows two men with some sort of hand-truck systematically removing signs that, according […]

22 States Now Fighting Federal Government to Lower Handgun Purchase Age to 18

Posted: 05 Sep 2013 11:32 AM PDT

The state of Utah is the most recent in a list of 22 states that are challenging the federal government on requiring people buying handguns from federal firearms dealers to be 21 years of age. In many states, anyone over 18 can purchase a handgun in a private transaction or be given a handgun as […]

Connecticut Senators Try to Pressure Starbucks Into Banning Guns in Their Stores

Posted: 05 Sep 2013 10:00 AM PDT

Well I guess all of our nation’s problems are solved. That must be the case for 3 of the federal lawmakers from Connecticut to have time to write letters to Starbucks and pressure on a private company on its stance of following local laws. Connecticut Senators Richard Blumenthal and Chris Murphy and Congresswoman Elizabeth Esty […]

[Video] Armed Homeowner Shoots and Kills Suspect Being Pursued by Police During Crime Spree

Posted: 05 Sep 2013 05:51 AM PDT

A suspect in several burglaries, car thefts and car jackings led police on a chase lasting over an hour yesterday morning. The suspect managed to elude police by stealing multiple vehicles in short succession. According to KCTV5, one homeowner fought off the suspect by hand, With police in pursuit, the suspect abandoned the third stolen […]

5 immigration Falsehoods from the Obama Regime...

5 Immigration Falsehoods from the White House

09/06/2013

Congress gets back to its regularly scheduled work on Monday—and there’s plenty of immigration propaganda greeting them.

The falsehoods from the White House just keep on coming, and Catholic leaders have called for clergy to preach in support of the Senate-passed immigration overhaul this Sunday.

On the White House blog, Cecilia Muñoz, assistant to the President and director of the Domestic Policy Council, laid out the Obama Administration’s take on the benefits of “commonsense immigration reform.” The blog, complete with “fact sheets” and the reposting of an animated video, made numerous claims about what the Senate-passed immigration bill (S. 744) would do for U.S. citizens and immigrants alike.

Here is how five of the White House’s latest claims stack up against the facts.

1. CLAIM: The Senate-passed bill would reduce the deficit.

FACT: It would explode the deficit.

While a properly functioning immigration system could indeed help reduce the deficit and grow the economy, the amnesty portion of the Senate bill would be extremely costly for American taxpayers, particularly in the long run. As Heritage senior research fellow Robert Rector has explained:

Amnesty and citizenship would make 11.5 million illegal immigrants eligible for Social Security, Medicare, Obamacare, and more than 80 different means-tested welfare programs such as food stamps and public housing. The average illegal immigrant is 34 years old and has a 10th-grade education. At that age, education levels would increase very little after amnesty.

Under the Senate-passed amnesty bill, each current illegal immigrant would receive more than $900,000 in government benefits over his lifetime while paying around $300,000 in taxes—a net cost of more than $600,000 to taxpayers. Even if the wages of amnesty recipients were to soar by 25 percent, the long-term costs per recipient would be more than $500,000—costs ultimately borne by the American taxpayer.

2. CLAIM: The Senate-passed bill would increase wages.

FACT: Many workers’ wages would decrease.

The wages of formerly illegal immigrants would likely increase, as Heritage has also projected, under the bill. However, many legally present workers would find their wages lower, as immigration expert George Borjas of Harvard found.

3. CLAIM: The Senate-passed bill would eliminate visa backlogs and reduce wait times.

FACT: It would overwhelm the current immigration system.

The current immigration system is slow and overly complex. Yet rather than address these problems, S. 744 would thrust millions of additional people into the system by granting amnesty to those who are in the U.S. illegally and unrealistically requiring our immigration services to first clear the backlog of those waiting to enter the country legally.

This is certainly a commendable goal. Without real reform to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, however, arbitrary mandates to clear the backlog are only likely to overwhelm the system.

4. CLAIM: The Senate-passed bill would provide a “lengthy but fair” path to earned citizenship.

FACT: Amnesty itself is inherently unfair.

Amnesty is deeply unfair to all those who waded through the complex and convoluted immigration system to come and remain here legally, and the approximately 4.4 million who at this very moment are waiting in line to come.

Indeed, amnesty comes in many forms, but in all of its variations, it discourages respect for the law, treats law-breaking aliens better than law-following aliens, and encourages future illegal immigration.

5. CLAIM: The Senate-passed bill would improve employment-based visa programs.

FACT: It would make the process worse.

Take the H-1B visa program, which allows employers to hire qualified immigrant workers to fill highly skilled positions. Through this program, employers may draw from a larger hiring pool of qualified applicants to fill vital positions. The idea is to keep jobs in America while also encouraging job creation and employment opportunities.

However, the Senate bill would impose a list of new restrictions on employers of H-1B visa recipients. These include requiring employers to pay higher wages to most H-1B workers than current U.S. workers and other requirements that would create a bureaucratic nightmare for employers and put them in legal jeopardy.

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Obama Ditherer in Chief...

Presidential Dithering

Michael Reagan | Sep 05, 2013

John Kerry put on quite a war dance in the Senate on Tuesday.

The Secretary of State, backed up by Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel and Joint Chiefs Chairman Martin Dempsey, went before the Foreign Relations Committee to urge senators to support the newly drafted resolution giving President Obama authorization to use airstrikes in Syria.

Kerry made some impressive arguments in favor of military action.

He said the evidence is undeniable that Assad’s military forces used chemical weapons to kill nearly 1,500 men, women and children in Damascus.

He said that if the United States does not act to punish Assad it will send the wrong message to every rogue regime in the world.

And at one point, cranking up the rhetoric, Kerry said, “This is not the time for armchair isolationism. This is not the time to be spectators to slaughter.”

At about this point in the proceedings, I began to wonder if Kerry’s talking points had been written by George W. Bush.

When I closed my eyes, I swear I heard the voices of Colin Powell, Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld explaining why the United States had a moral duty to invade Iraq and take out Saddam Hussein.

Kerry’s running argument with Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky about whether the Obama administration was going to go to war even if Congress didn’t give its permission brought me back to 2013 -- and reminded me how horribly President Obama’s indecisiveness has botched Syria.

Let’s say everything Kerry said the other day about Assad being responsible for the gas attack and the importance of the civilized world punishing him is true.

Let’s say President Obama is not playing some cynical political game with Congress, or trying to win points with the public, and that he knows every single claim Kerry made is absolutely true.

Then what is the president waiting for? Why in God’s holy name hasn’t Obama already kicked Assad’s butt?

Two weeks after Assad gassed his own people and crossed the president’s imaginary red line, we’re still debating in Congress and worrying if Vladimir Putin will get mad at us if we beat Russia’s favorite Middle Eastern pet.

As I said last week, President Obama should have done the same thing in Syria that President Ronald Reagan did in Libya when he had to wise-up Gadhafi about the cost of waging his terrorism campaign against the West.

My father acted the way the president of the United States should act -- decisively. He made no calls to the United Nations asking for permission to bomb Libya.

He orchestrated no debates in Congress. He acted with resolve and ordered bombs to be dropped, not coalitions to be formed or opinion polls to be taken.

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Michael Reagan

Michael Reagan, the eldest son of Ronald Reagan, is heard daily by over 5 million listeners via his nationally syndicated talk radio program, “The Michael Reagan Show.”

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