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• How Accepting A Friend Request Will Soon Alter Your Credit Score
• Is The Government Stockpiling Iodine In Preparation for Fukushima Meltdown?
• NSA stands for ‘No Such Amendment’: Intelligence agency violates US Constitution
• Looks Like Weimar Germany’: The Viral Photo Out of Connecticut That’s Giving Some Gun Owners Chills
• US Government Orders 14 Million Doses of Potassium Iodide
• FedEx Sued By NYC For Illegally Shipping Cigarettes To Homes
• Happy New Year, kiss your tax breaks goodbye
• Walter E. Williams: On Government Control and Parting Company
• Barbara Bush remains hospitalized in Houston
• Common Core: The education standards program
• NEW CONTROVERSY REGARDING PHIL ROBERTSON: ‘You got to marry girls when they are 15 or 16′
• A Young Conservative Makes the Case for Preserving America’s Heritage

How Accepting A Friend Request Will Soon Alter Your Credit Score Posted: 01 Jan 2014 11:37 AM PST  Joe Polverari is the General Manager of Yodlee Interactive, a provider of financial applications that aims to make online banking more profitable. Are you only as good as the company... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Is The Government Stockpiling Iodine In Preparation for Fukushima Meltdown? Posted: 01 Jan 2014 11:27 AM PST Anthony Gucciardi, Government purchase of 14 million iodine doses points to silent Fukushima meltdown preparation. Following the revelation that The Department of Health and Human Services has... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

NSA stands for ‘No Such Amendment’: Intelligence agency violates US Constitution Posted: 01 Jan 2014 11:23 AM PST RT News For the first time in history, all three branches of American government are complicit in violating the Fourth Amendment of the US Constitution by facilitating illegal surveillance, Ray... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Looks Like Weimar Germany’: The Viral Photo Out of Connecticut That’s Giving Some Gun Owners Chills Posted: 01 Jan 2014 11:20 AM PST  World Events and the Bible WEB Notes: Those who would stand in a line are you forgetting something called the Constitution which guarantees your right to bear arms in something called... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

US Government Orders 14 Million Doses of Potassium Iodide Posted: 01 Jan 2014 11:14 AM PST  The Department of Health and Human Services has ordered 14 million doses of potassium iodide, the compound that protects the body from radioactive poisoning in the aftermath of severe nuclear... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

FedEx Sued By NYC For Illegally Shipping Cigarettes To Homes Posted: 01 Jan 2014 11:10 AM PST  New York City has sued FedEx Corp, accusing the package delivery company of illegally delivering millions of contraband cigarettes to people’s homes, violating a 2006 settlement.... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Happy New Year, kiss your tax breaks goodbye Posted: 01 Jan 2014 11:07 AM PST  Our current model of high tax rates, peppered with loads of special breaks and exemptions, has a number of significant advantages for the political class.  It allows them to hide the true... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Walter E. Williams: On Government Control and Parting Company Posted: 01 Jan 2014 11:04 AM PST  Here’s a question that I’ve asked in the past that needs to be revisited. Unless one wishes to obfuscate, it has a simple yes or no answer. If one group of people prefers strong... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Barbara Bush remains hospitalized in Houston Posted: 01 Jan 2014 10:58 AM PST  Former first lady Barbara Bush remains hospitalized with a respiratory-related issue, but her condition hasn’t changed, a spokesman for her husband’s office said Wednesday. Bush,... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Common Core: The education standards program Posted: 01 Jan 2014 10:42 AM PST  John Stossel  My TV producers asked our Facebook audience to vote for a topic they’d most like to hear discussed on my year-end show. The overwhelming winner, for some reason: the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

NEW CONTROVERSY REGARDING PHIL ROBERTSON: ‘You got to marry girls when they are 15 or 16′ Posted: 01 Jan 2014 06:32 AM PST  Duck Dynasty star Phil Robertson wades into new controversy as he advises men to marry underage girls in newly unearthed video Video of Duck Dynasty star Phil Robertson telling an audience at a... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

A Young Conservative Makes the Case for Preserving America’s Heritage Posted: 01 Jan 2014 06:25 AM PST   Jordan Long, a Heritage Foundation intern this fall, delivered the following remarks at a graduation ceremony this month. The Foundry is republishing his short speech to recognize the work of... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Insight into why Obama seems to be purging the military.

seems unlikely, maybe even far-fetched, BUT...............

For what it’s worth…..

 

When I asked my colleague the Army Colonel why he thinks Obama is doing this, the reply I received from this life-long soldier and Army leader shocked me.    Paraphrasing him, this is what he told me in a nutshell.   He said, most branches of the service routinely engage in war games and come up with strategies and tactics on how to handle every type of military conflict and scenario that can be imagined .  One of the big new battle scenarios being actively discussed in the military recently is how to handle civil unrest in the U.S. and fighting in the streets.  What will the Army do if called in to fight armed civilians in the streets of the United States?  How will that urban warfare be conducted?  Will troops be able to fire upon other American citizens when the troops take an oath to protect American citizens?   He said many in the military are discussing the very real possibility that Obama will attempt to stay in office beyond two terms.  It is being speculated that Obama will do this by declaring a state of martial law.  The easiest way to declare martial law is when there is massive civil unrest and riots throughout the U.S.  Thus, it is believed that Obama, and his regime, will intentionally create a situation of massive civil unrest.  Some believe he has already started to implement that strategy by forcing Obamacare on everyone (when the populace did not ask for it and less than 300 people in power voted for it). Perhaps the Obama Administration is not too concerned over the totally dysfunctional Obamacare web site and the additional fact that millions will be dropped from their existing insurance policies which they already had and liked.  The Obama Administration may not care if getting health care becomes more difficult and more expensive because it is all leading toward civil unrest.  It is believed by some that Obamacare will only get worse and worse, and then in 2 to 3 years when people have a very difficult time getting medical treatment for themselves or their loved ones, people will get enraged.   Moreover, it is being speculated that around the same time when the frustration levels over Obamacare are hitting a critical point in 2 to 3 years, there will be a glitch in the welfare payment (or EBT) payment system.  The tens of millions who rely on EBT handouts to sustain themselves will be cut off.  The overwhelming majority of the EBT recipients are Black.  The Obama regime will then blame the glitch on the Republicans, i.e., Republicans froze government spending which forced Obama to suspension of EBT payments. (Obama will intentionally drive spending up and up uncontrolled knowing full well that one day the Republicans will be backed into a corner and finally vote for a freeze in spending.) Obama will create heightened racial tension by telling everyone that the White Republicans are racially motivated and did this to hurt the Black community.  This manufactured racial tension, combined with  growing tensions over the then-collapsing medical coverage due to Obamacare, will result in race wars and civil unrest.  People will take to the streets.   By the way, you should know that my colleague, the Army Colonel who is telling me all this, is Black.  He specifically commented, and outwardly expressed his embarrassment, about how Blacks have become so dependent and enslaved by the welfare system and the Democrats that it would be very easy to create civil unrest and race wars merely by cutting off, or dramatically hindering, EBT payments for only a month or so.  He believes that most Blacks, who have a misguided sense of entitlement, will then take to looting stores and rioting.   Once the race wars, civil unrest, and violence becomes pervasive throughout the U.S., Obama will declare martial law and take over.  Elections can, and will, be postponed under martial law.   My colleague noted that this possibility is clearly being analyzed and discussed inside the military because such a martial law strategy is nothing new.  Tyrannical and dictatorial leaders in the past have done the martial law strategy many times.  He noted that dictators such as Stalin, Mussolini, and Hitler did basically the identical thing.  He went on to say that one of the most recent examples of this strategy was when Marcos declared martial law in the Philippines from 1972-1981 due to civil unrest.  The Philippines had democratic elections up until that time.  When martial law was declared, the Philippine constitution was suspended, its Congress dissolved, all elections were suspended, and Marcos remained in power for years beyond his elected term. The alleged terrorist bombings that occurred in the Philippines, which lead to Marcos declaring martial law, have always been questioned and never proven to be the acts of actual terrorists.   He concluded by saying that many believe this is the real reason behind the purgings of military generals.  The older members of the military, and especially its generals and leaders, tend to be more conservative and they believe in the Constitution and following the Constitution.  Thus, a tyrant and dictator needs to get rid of these military leaders before a state of martial law is declared if the rising dictator wants the military to follow along and do what the dictator says.   Due to the loss of many experienced military leaders the past few years, the military is now being run and guided more and more by younger, inexperienced leaders. The type who won't really know what to do if martial law was declared.  Moreover, he noted that there is a growing mindset throughout the military now that every soldier needs to keep quiet and just follow along with what Obama says and wants to do or you will be fired and your military career ruined.  Again, I was told this is nothing new since removing strong military leaders in advance of declaring martial law is a historically-proven element of a rising tyrant and dictator.

 

 

 

The Libtards Big Issue for 2014, other than running from O'care Fiasco!

What You Need to Know About the Left's Big Issue for 2014 01/01/2014 Do a Google News search for “income inequality” and it will remove any doubt that this is already the political issue of 2014. The left has been gearing up for months. The liberal Center for American Progress launched a new center devoted to the subject, and President Obama has been making it a centerpiece of his speeches. Get ready to hear about “fairness”—because some people make more money than others, and this isn’t fair. How can you sit by and watch this happen? What is the government going to do about it? It’s a popular argument because everyone—even Warren Buffett—wants to make more money. When someone tells you that what you’re being paid isn’t fair, it’s easy to agree. And if that someone tells you that you can march in a protest and instantly make more money—well, that’s a lot quicker and easier than working toward your next promotion. Quick and easy—that’s the allure of the left’s argument. But there are two things you should know about it. 1. It’s too good to be true.  The income inequality outrage is based on the idea that the people at the bottom of the economic ladder are stuck there indefinitely. But America isn’t “Downton Abbey”—you’re not stuck in the place where you were born. The chauffeur’s son can become…whatever he wants to be in America. This uniquely American advantage is called mobility. People can move up—and down—the income ladder. In fact, “the recent rise in income disparities has not caused a decline in upward mobility,” reported Heritage’s Rea Hederman and David Azerrad in an in-depth study of the issue. They debunked the foundation of the left’s assumptions: Standards of living have increased for everyone—as have incomes—and mobility, however one measures it, remains robust. Simply put, how much the top 1 percent of the population earns has no bearing on whether the bottom 20 percent can move up. A focus on minimum-wage workers can also be a red herring. Heritage’s James Sherk and John Ligonnote that “Over two-thirds of workers starting out at the minimum wage earn more than that a year later.” 2. It hurts people.  The left’s income inequality argument has a sad and destructive irony: If it’s made into public policy, it makes it more difficult for people to get a job and achieve their American Dream. President Obama and his allies in Congress are already pushing for a minimum wage increase in the new year. Heritage’s Sherk and Ligon are very clear when it comes to the possible consequences of doing this: It “would force employers to curtail hiring.” Less hiring. Fewer job opportunities. That does not help the men and women looking for work, who need to put food on the table and shoes on their kids’ feet. The New York Times notes, however, that the issue of the minimum wage could help liberal politicianslooking for voter turnout in the upcoming midterm election. And that’s all it is: a political ploy that manipulates Americans in the name of power. At Heritage, we’d rather fling open the gates of opportunity and let Americans run toward the jobs they want—and the future they want—with nothing holding them back. That’s what we’ll be working for in 2014. Happy New Year! Forward this to your friends who will want to be in the know about this hot debate. They can sign up for the Morning Bell here. Read the Morning Bell and more en español every day at Heritage Libertad. Quick Hits: Can you guess our most-watched video of 2013? Here’s a hint: It’s about more than a glitch. Our culture gives us plenty to question, but here are 5 reasons for optimism from the last year. Do you follow @Heritage on Twitter? If not, you might have missed these tweets from 2013! Congratulations: Football fave Tim Tebow has a new job for the new year. Print  |  Comments  |  Forward  |  Donate

Something for Your New Years Day Dinner...Set some time aside to discuss IMPEACHING OBAMA!

Na, skip it, some monkeys have already suggested discussing O'care...

You choose how to spend your own time!

PICK SIX: TIME FOR MIDTERM PREDICTIONS...?

FOX News First: Jan. 1
By Chris Stirewalt

PICK SIX: TIME FOR MIDTERM PREDICTIONS 
 
Happy New Year! You made it! And it’s an election year, that magical time when the aspirations and frustrations of 317 million Americans are extruded through the Play-Doh Fun Factory of electoral politics. You know how you always wanted to get that perfect star-shaped tube but always ended up with something that looked like a hairy caterpillar? It’s kind of like that. (This explains a great deal about Washington, by the way.)
 
So let’s get squeezing.
 
WHAT’S UP?
Voters will have a crack at all 435 seats in the House, 35 of 100 Senate seats, 36 of 50 governorships and a host of other state and local positions on Nov. 4. But what’s really at issue is control of the Senate. Republicans have twice failed to take the upper chamber despite considerable advantages. If Democrats hold the line again, President Obama will have a much easier time putting his agenda into place, especially given the new powers the Democratic majority granted itself to approve presidential appointments. If Republicans can retake the majority for the first time since 2005, Obama would devote much of his final two years in office vetoing legislation and fighting to get his nominees in place.
 
THE BASELINE
Midterm elections are generally more favorable for Republicans than quadrennial elections because Republicans are more reliable voters. The Democratic coalition depends on young and low-income voters who are harder and more expensive to mobilize without a presidential race to draw attention. All year, we’ll be tracking polls on the generic congressional ballot not because the House seems to be up for grabs, but because that’s the clearest reflection of how the partisan winds are blowing. Because of the aforementioned GOP midterm turnout advantage, Republicans can be expected to make gains if they are even close to even with Democrats in this measure. The Real Clear Politics Average shows Democrats have lost their traditional advantage in this measure and begin the year with an edge of less than a quarter point. In 2010, early polls showed Republicans in about the same place.
 
History says - Only once in the past century has a second-term president’s party made midterm gains, 1998 when Bill Clinton’s Democrats won five House seats and avoided any Senate losses. But Clinton was far more popular than Obama is now and the central issue – Clinton’s looming impeachment for lying about having sex with a White House intern – did not much inspire voters. More typical were the 2006 midterm, when the party in control of the White House saw six Senate seats and 31 House seats fall, and the 1986 midterm, when the president’s party lost five House seats and eight Senate seats, losing control of the upper chamber.
 
Timing - Armed with historical precedent, a president in the doldrums and, most significantly, deep public dissatisfaction with Obama’s health law, Republicans would appear to be in a strong position to hold the House and take the Senate. Democrats will hope that fratricidal impulses between establishment and conservative Republicans will dampen some GOP gains and that Democrats can use Team Obama’s fundraising and organization to put some Republicans on defense. The best Democratic hope is to animate base voters with narrow-cast issues like amnesty for illegal immigrants, income inequality and mandatory birth control coverage in insurance plans and then hope that Republicans are too divided to take full advantage.
 
Six the hard way - To gain control in the Senate, Republicans need to pick up six seats. Some gains, particularly the open seats in West Virginia and South Dakota, look strong for the GOP, so does the seat soon to be vacated by Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont. But where might the other three come from? An open seat in Michigan looks promising for Republicans, as may one in Iowa, depending on how the field pans out. But to get to the majority, Republicans will have to knock off sitting Democrats.
 
Class of 2008 - The election six years ago was very good for Democrats, but that means they have a lot of fat in the fire this time around. Mark Begich won in Alaska in 2008 thanks to scandal surrounding the Republican incumbent at the time and some mild pro-Obama breezes even in Sarah Palin’s home state. This time around, though, it’s looking like permafrost for Begich. Similarly, though less precariously situated are fellow freshmen Sens. Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H., Kay Hagan, D-N.C., Mark Warner, D-Va., and Mark Udall, D-Colo.
 
Last of the Dixiecrats - Control of the Senate may well come down to two adjacent Mississippi Valley states, Arkansas and Louisiana. Sen.Mary Landrieu, D-La., and Sen. Mark Pryor, D-Ark., have defied gravity for years in their bright-red states. Landrieu has shown a willingness to swat back against the president, and has suggested that she too was misled by Obama’s “if you like it” pledge about health coverage and medical care when she voted for the law. Pryor, though, seems to have been caught flat-footed. In his first ad of the cycle, Pryor literally waved a Bible at viewers and reaffirms his Christian faith. Not exactly a strong start if one feels obliged to clear that up in one of the most observantly Christian states in the nation.
 
START WITH THE STATES
Republicans hold 29 of 50 governors’ mansions and Democrats are hoping to eliminate that margin. But we’ll be paying close attention to gubernatorial races to see which way the national trend is moving and for hints about the battle for the Senate.
 
Some gubernatorial contests will be gruesome. Florida’s Charlie Crist, who flamed out as a Republican in 2010, is trying for redemption as a Democrat in what promises to be a hugely expensive mud bath for the state. Incumbent Rick Scott has deep pockets and is not going to be an easy out. Another potential slime treatment for voters is the re-election bid of Pat Quinn, the Democratic governor of struggling Illinois. Quinn won narrowly in 2010 and has seen the state slide closer to fiscal oblivion in his term. The Republican field is so far promising, including state Treasurer Dan Rutherford.   
 
Democrats will try hardest to unhorse the Rust Belt Four – Scott Walker, R-Wis., John Kasich, R-Ohio, Tom Corbett, R-Pa., and Dan Snyder, R-Mich. Those contests will have 2016 implications, particularly Wisconsin and Ohio. Some others, including the re-election bids of Susana Martinez, R-N.M., Brian Sandoval, R-Nev., and Nikki Haley, R-S.C., may have 2016 significance, too.
 
As Democrats wrestle with the possibility that they may have a weak 2016 frontrunner in Hillary Clinton, several of their incumbent governors will be running with a little more scrutiny. California’s Jerry Brown, Colorado’s John Hickenlooper and New York’s Andrew Cuomo could all be credible candidates if Hillary capsizes. Maryland’s Martin O’Malley is also adamant that he might run for president.
 
O’Malley, though, like Oregon’s John Kitzhaber, Minnesota’s Mark Dayton and a few others will have some cleaning up to do over their states’ ObamaCare rollouts. Democrats, on the other hand, will try to punish Republicans who have refused to expand the welfare insurance program, Medicaid, under ObamaCare, particularly Corbett in Pennsylvania, Scott in Florida and Paul LePage in Maine. How these issues play out in swing states will instruct 2016 candidates on how to deal with the subject.
 
MORE About Surrogates 
We’ll also be watching to see how newly re-elected Gov. Chris Christie, R-N.J., does at playing team ball. Surrogacy has not been his strong suit. Can Christie turn his term as chairman of the Republican Governors Association into a chance to not just raise his own profile but also build bridges with fellow Republicans skeptical of his status as the establishment press’ most-favored GOPer? Watch the campaign outings of Louisiana’s Bobby Jindal and Texas’ outgoing Rick Perry, as well. And if Jeb Bush is looking to knock the rust off, he’s got a doozy of a race going on in his own peninsula.
 
Democrats will also have a surrogacy test for their 2016 field, too.President Obama will be expected to raise money and stay in Washington, preferably out of sight, as Election Day draws nearer. (Red state and swing state Democrats will be chipping in greens fees to keep him on the course this summer.) But will Vice President Joe Biden be in demand on the campaign trail anywhere but deep blue states? For Biden to keep alive his claim that he could be a contender, he will need to show that someone, other than the staff members of The Onion, thinks this is a good idea.
 
Bill Clinton certainly will be in demand, but for the Big He, the questions are different. How much risk will he take in a year that promises to be tough for Democrats, especially when it means defending ObamaCare? How willing is his wife to have him out chewing up the campaign trail before she gets to unveil her re-re-reinvented self?
 
And might Hillary herself appear? The Big She could show up for a candidate that matches her new more liberal pitch and show the party’s liberal base that Hilary 4.0 isn’t triangulating. Maybe a Udall or two. Maybe Sen. Al Franken, D-Minn. Certainly some work to reinforce her leadership of the Democratic political sisterhood would set media hearts thrumming. Hey, Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, New Hampshire doesn’t happen to have an early primary, does it?
 
Bill Clinton is making a big play in Arkansas, where his longtime ally Sen. Mark Pryor is facing long odds for re-election. Pryor’s vote for ObamaCare is proving toxic and with the popular Democratic incumbent Gov. Mike Beebe term-limited from another run and his lieutenant governor under pressure to resign over campaign finance violations, it looks like Democrats might be sitting this cycle out in very conservative Arkansas.
 
PICK YOUR SIX 
All that said, it seems at the start of this election year that the most likely path for Republicans to re-capture the Senate would run through South Dakota, West Virginia, Montana, Michigan, Iowa and Arkansas. But we’re just getting started.
 
Send your six picks for the most likely Republican path toFOXNEWSFIRST@FOXNEWS.COM or tweet them to @cstirewalt – we’ll share your consensus tomorrow.
 
Happy New Year, especially for political junkies

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The Crisis of the Middle Class and American Power

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CLINTON 2016: WHEN YOU CAN'T TRUST YOUR GOVERNMENT: SUSPICION FALLS ON GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES OR CONTRACTORS (?) FOR HACKING WHISTLEBLOWER E-MAIL ACCOUNT?

One Citizen Speaking...

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CLINTON 2016: WHEN YOU CAN'T TRUST YOUR GOVERNMENT: SUSPICION FALLS ON GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES OR CONTRACTORS (?) FOR HACKING WHISTLEBLOWER E-MAIL ACCOUNT? Posted: 30 Dec 2013 02:01 PM PST The lack of trust in your government – elected officials, bureaucrats, and government contractors – now makes the government as suspect for hacking as it does state-sponsored or domestic hackers. Especially after Edward Snowden revealed some of the NSA’s hacking capabilities and official court indications that official intelligence and law enforcement agencies of the United States have crossed the line. A chilling story … State Dept. whistleblower has email hacked, deleted The personal e-mail account of a State Department whistleblower was hacked, and four years worth of messages — some detailing alleged wrongdoing at the agency — were deleted, The Post has learned. The computer attack targeted the Gmail account of Diplomatic Security Service criminal investigator Richard Higbie, his lawyer, Cary Schulman, confirmed. “They took all of his e-mails and then they deleted them all,” said Schulman. He said that hecould not prove who was responsible for the hack job, but said the attack was “sophisticated” and called the targeting of Higbie “alarming.” “Obviously, somebody is not happy with something he’s doing and wanted to get that information and also cause him an inability in the future to have ready access to that,” Schulman said. The e-mails included evidence about misconduct by top officials at the department, communications with other potential whistleblowers there, and correspondence with members of Congress who are investigating the allegations, Schulman said. They also include correspondence between Higbie and Schulman about legal strategy, the lawyer said. There are a few disturbing issues in this story that go beyond the hacking … Why was a government employee using a personal Gmail account for sensitive documents; especially one that appears to violate the security of the United States and the fact that all electronic government records need to be accessible to the government’s archivist ? Why would Google be unable to restore the deleted account from its backup files? And if not, doesn’t that pose a greater danger to the population who believe that Google has their back in the case of a data disaster? Is it possible that the loss of this data makes it unavailable to the government and therefore might thwart subpoena government requests? Why would anyone publicize the loss of critical legal data and who benefits from such a disclosure? Imagine that, the scandal involves Hillary Clinton and the State Department, how random might that be? Schulman said he could not provide details about the evidence deleted with the e-mails. Higbie has asked the FBI in Dallas, where he lives, to investigate the hacking, which occurred this month. Higbie played a key role in helping fellow whistleblower Aurelia Fedenisn, a former investigator for the department’s inspector general, reveal in June a pattern of alleged coverups by top department officials. The alleged coverups included keeping quiet separate IG investigations that found that members of then-Secretary Hillary Rodham Clinton’s security detail had engaged hookers and that the Belgian ambassador had solicited underage prostitutes. These were among a string of investigations by the service, responsible for protecting dignitaries and investigating crimes within the department, that were allegedly derailed by senior officials, including one instance of interference by Clinton Chief of Staff Cheryl Mills. Since the revelations in June, the department again mostly swept the cases under the rug. Higbie, a senior criminal investigator and the second-highest-ranking agent with the service’s Dallas office, also has an employment lawsuit against the department, alleging it retaliated against him. The hacking of Higbie’s e-mail follows a mysterious break-in at Schulman’s Dallas law firm in July, shortly after the whistleblower allegations came to light. The burglar sawed a hole through the wall from an adjoining office and stole three computers, but left behind other valuables. Although cops arrested a petty thief for the crime, Schulman said, “We feel like we’re in a movie. It’s nuts. It makes us wonder . . . . maybe we’ve got something we don’t even realize or maybe they’re worried about something.” Source: State Dept. whistleblower has email hacked, deleted | New York Post Jumping to conclusions … It is not hard to imagine that this might be another Clinton scandal in the making, where underlings and operatives will say or do anything to protect Hillary Clinton’s historic opportunity to protect her bid for the presidency in 2016. Somewhat like the Rose law firm billing records being mysteriously found in the White House – with Hillary Clinton’s fingerprints on the documents – years after they were subpoenaed by government investigators? Bottom line … I decry the erosion of trust in our government that would give rise to the suspicion that this black bag job was done for political reasons by political operatives – and that like Watergate, those operatives were operating at the highest levels of our government. Additionally, it makes me wonder about the security – as well as the sanity – of anyone who trusts sensitive documents to Google’s Gmail. Not only because we know they are algorithmically searched, but that they are not beyond casual perusal by government intelligence and law enforcement agencies. Why Google could not restore the missing data is also quite troubling as millions of users believe – possibly falsely – that their data is safe in case of an accidental deletion or data disaster. Another problem with the progressive socialist democrats. Remember this – as well as all of the lies, distortions, misdirection, and crimes committed during the first Clinton presidency. Ask yourself, are we willing to elect a known Marxist, a proven liar, and an overall contemptible person to the presidency because she is a woman? More progressive socialist democrat perfidy! -- steve

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Open Your Eyes...LOOK WHAT 2013 O'TAX INCREASES DID TO YOUR POCKETBOOK!

These 13 Tax Increases Hit in 2013 12/31/2013 It’s about time for us to uncover our eyes and take a hard look at what 2013 did to our finances. Did you feel the pinch of the 13 tax hikes that hit Americans this year? Before you review the list below, put these two on your watch list for 2014: Obamacare’s individual mandate. Beginning in 2014, it’s mandatory to purchase health insurance. If you don’t, you’ll pay a penalty that dramatically increases overtime. It starts at $95 or 1 percent of your income (whichever is greater). It rises to $325 or 2 percent of income in 2015, and $695 or 2.5 percent of income in 2016. Obamacare tax on insurance companies. If you liked seeing your premiums go up, you’ll love this new tax on health insurers—which they are most likely to pass on to you. As you start reviewing your tax information for 2013, here’s what you’re contending with.  The 13 Tax Increases of 2013  1. Payroll Tax: increase in the Social Security portion of the payroll tax from 4.2 percent to 6.2 percent for workers. This hit all Americans earning a paycheck—not just the “wealthy.” For example, The Wall Street Journal calculated that the “typical U.S. family earning $50,000 a year” would lose “an annual income boost of $1,000.” 2. Top marginal tax rate: increase from 35 percent to 39.6 percent for taxable incomes over $450,000 ($400,000 for single filers). 3. Phase out of personal exemptions for adjusted gross income (AGI) over $300,000 ($250,000 for single filers). 4. Phase down of itemized deductions for AGI over $300,000 ($250,000 for single filers). 5. Tax rates on investment: increase in the rate on dividends and capital gains from 15 percent to 20 percent for taxable incomes over $450,000 ($400,000 for single filers). 6. Death tax: increase in the rate (on estates larger than $5 million) from 35 percent to 40 percent. 7. Taxes on business investment: expiration of full expensing—the immediate deduction of capital purchases by businesses. Obamacare tax increases that took effect: 8. Another investment tax increase: 3.8 percent surtax on investment income for taxpayers with taxable income exceeding $250,000 ($200,000 for singles). 9. Another payroll tax hike: 0.9 percent increase in the Hospital Insurance portion of the payroll tax for incomes over $250,000 ($200,000 for single filers). 10. Medical device tax: 2.3 percent excise tax paid by medical device manufacturers and importers on all their sales. 11. Reducing the income tax deduction for individuals’ medical expenses. 12. Elimination of the corporate income tax deduction for expenses related to the Medicare Part D subsidy. 13. Limitation of the corporate income tax deduction for compensation that health insurance companies pay to their executives. President Obama demanded these higher taxes, but they did nothing to address the actual cause of our deficit and debt problem: too much spending. The proper way to address this problem is through reforms to entitlement programs. President Obama promised the American people a “balanced approach” of tax increases and spending cuts to reduce deficits and debt. He achieved the tax increase portion of that approach. Now Congress needs to force him to follow through on the spending cuts. Read the Morning Bell and more en español every day at Heritage Libertad. Quick Hits: Let’s make 2014 a big year for conservatives. Now is the time to press the advantage: Find out how. “How is this helping the average American that’s working 40 to 50 hours per week?” Hear how Obamacare is hitting workers at this auto dealership in Michigan. Congress had some trouble cutting spending in 2013. This video shows some of the items they “couldn’t” cut. Our Top 5 most popular images of 2013 include JFK and Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX). Is your favorite on this list? Bookmark and use this report when you need to debunk arguments against a market-driven health care system. Print  |  Comments  |  Forward  |  Donate