The Right Lane update 6.19.13

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CBO: 75% of Illegal Immigration Would Continue Under Senate Immigration Bill By Terence P. Jeffrey

The advocates of S. 744, the immigration bill under consideration in the U.S. Senate that would legalize many of the illegal aliens already in the United States, have argued that the proposed legislation would also secure the border and prevent future illegal immigration.  However, the cost estimate of the legislation that was released on Tuesday by the Congressional Budget Office says that the legislation would actually allow the flow of new illegal aliens into the United States to continue at a rate equal to 75 percent of the current rate of illegal immigration. This will be the case, in part, argues CBO, because of people who overstay temporary work visas that will be authorized by the bill. This revelation that 75 percent of illegal immigration would continue if the Senate immigration reform proposal were enacted is included in a section of the report headlined, “Future Unauthorized Residents.” The section is on page 23 of the 63-page report. “Unauthorized residents would find it harder both to enter the country and to find employment while unauthorized,” says the report. “However, other aspects of the bill would probably increase the number of unauthorized residents—in particular, people overstaying their visas issued under the new programs for temporary workers. “CBO estimates that, under the bill, the net annual flow of unauthorized residents would decrease by about 25 percent relative to what would occur under current law,” says the report, “resulting in a reduction in the U.S. population (including a reduction in the number of children born in the United States) relative to that benchmark of 1.6 million in 2023 and 2.5 million in 2033.’

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Nadler: 'Particularly Morally Outrageous' to Ban Late-Term Abortions By Elizabeth Harrington

Another Idiot that needs to retire – Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) said Tuesday it is “particularly morally outrageous” to ban abortions after five months of pregnancy. “It is morally outrageous, frankly,” Nadler said about the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act (H.R. 1797), a bill that would ban abortions 20 weeks post-fertilization, or five months into pregnancy. “Here we go again,” he said. “Every single year we have to go through the same nonsense with the same morally presumptuous, morally arrogant attitude that we know better. ‘We know better than women and their doctors. We know better about their health care. We know better about their moral choices in very personal decisions.’” The House is set to vote Tuesday on the bill. Pro-abortion Democrats gathered on Capitol Hill to oppose the measure. “This bill is particularly morally outrageous,” Nadler said. “It is also particularly unconstitutional.” Nadler said Republicans pushing the bill are “morally arrogant people” who have “decided that their moral outlooks are more important” than a woman’s health. This deranged rhetoric while we are finding more and more that the "Abortion Industry" kill born alive babies in attempted late term abortions.

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Poll: 54% of Americans Oppose Giving Direct Military Aid to Syrian Rebels By Ryan Kierman

According to a Gallup poll released on Monday, 54% of Americans oppose the Obama administration’s recent decision to provide military aid to Syrian rebel forces fighting to overthrow President Bashar al-Assad.  In the survey of 1,015 adults, Gallup asked, “Do you approve or disapprove of the Obama administration’s decision to supply direct military aid to Syrian rebels fighting against the government in Syria?”

The results of the poll, conducted June 15-16, showed that 54% disapproved of direct military aid to the Syrian rebels and only 37% approved. Another 9% said "don't know." In addition, for those adults “following the Syrian situation very or somewhat closely,” 51% disapproved of arming the rebels and 44% approved while 5% said they “don’t know.” For those “following the Syrian situation not too or not at all closely,” the survey showed 57% disapproved of arming the rebels and 31% approved while 13% said they “don’t know.” When viewed by political affiliation, 63% of Republicans disapproved of arming the Syrian rebels, as did 60% of Independents; for the Democrats, 42% disapproved and 51% approved. On Thursday, June 13, the Obama administration issued a press release that said, “Following a deliberative review, our intelligence community assesses that the Assad regime has used chemical weapons, including the nerve agent sarin, on a small scale against the opposition multiple times in the last year. …   The intelligence community estimates that 100 to 150 people have died from detected chemical weapons attacks in Syria to date.” Last August, concerning potential U.S. action against Syria, President Barack Obama said, “We have been very clear to the Assad regime, but also to other players on the ground, that a red line for us is we start seeing a whole bunch of chemical weapons moving around or being utilized.  That would change my calculus.  That would change my equation.” On Tuesday, June 18, Assad told the German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung that his army had not used chemical weapons, stating, "If Paris, London, and Washington had any evidence for their claims [of chemical weapons usage], they would have submitted it to the global public."

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On Voter ID, Sharpton Can’t Comprehend His Own Argument by Chris Graham

One would be hard-pressed to think of a more ignorant and borderline mentally disabled character than Al Sharpton. It’s bad enough that he talks as if he had been dealt a severe hammer-blow to the head in the days of his early infancy, but on top of that, the man’s ability to formulate a thought rivals that of beauty-pageant contestants. (Speaking of which, maybe Miss Utah is correct: maybe we do “need to try to figure out how to create education better.”)  Monday, the Supreme Court struck down Arizona’s 2004 law, the Arizona Taxpayer and Citizen Protection Act, or Prop 200, which required mainly that individuals show proof of citizenship in order to register to vote, and that a photo ID be presented at the voting booth. It is the Court’s nullification of this law that has Mr. Sharpton—excuse me—”Reverend” Sharpton proclaiming “Justice Has Prevailed“ in an op-ed for The Huffington Post.  “When the Voting Rights Act of 1965 became law,” writes Sharpton, “it solidified every American citizen’s right to vote and participate in the electoral process.”  That’s very good of Al, knowing the basics of the VRA. But the two words he seems to be unaware that he wrote are “American citizen’s.” Sharpton, in that sentence, the third sentence into his piece, cancels the entire argument upon which his protestations are based. The VRA did not solidify every person’s right to vote; it solidified every American citizen’s right to vote, just as Sharpton correctly notes.

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Bill Ayers: Try Obama for War Crimes By Greg Richter

Former Weather Underground leader Bill Ayers, who was involved in bombing the Pentagon and U.S. Capitol building in the early 1970s, says President Barack Obama should be tried for war crimes. Appearing on Real Clear Politics' "Morning Commute,"Ayers said every president enters "an office dripping with blood and then adds to it." Ayers had been asked by co-host Charlie Stone if Obama, as the sole authority for Drone use, was engaged in terrorist activity.
"Absolutely," Ayers answered.
"Do you think Barack Obama should be put on trial for war crimes?" Stone asked.
"Absolutely," Ayers responded. "Every president in this century should be put on trial" for war crimes in The Hague.
"Yes, I think these are war crimes," Ayers said. "I think they're acts of terror."
Ayers, who also is a retired professor of education, gave Obama a failing grade.
"I don't at all feel like Obama's let anybody down," Ayers said, explaining that throughout the 2008 campaign Obama consistently said "I am a middle-of-the-road, pragmatic politician." Still, Ayers likes his former Chicago neighbor personally. "He's a curious person," Ayers said. "One of the things I like about him is he's curious. He wants to know things. He asks questions. He's not just charming, he's also interested. He reads. … And I liked him personally. I mean, he's a really good guy." During his race for the White House in 2008, Obama's associations with Ayers were questioned. GOP vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin accused Obama of "palling around with terrorists," for his connections to Ayers.  Obama denied any close ties with Ayers, calling him "just a guy who lived in my neighborhood."  Ayers admitted in an interview with The Daily Beast  that some of the things said about him and Obama, such as serving on boards together and Ayers holding a fundraiser for Obama in his living room, are true. Today, I wish I knew him better and he was listening to me," Ayers told The Daily Beast.

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CBS News Equates Iranian Muslims With Tea Party by Tim Brown

Ah yes, the liberal media. Remember all the shootings and the Boston bombings and how the liberal media just ached for the culprits to be “right wing extremists” or “Tea Party” people? Turns out the suspects were liberals and Muslims. Well now CBS News comes out and is equating the Islamists who were in the running for the Iranian presidency to the Tea Party. The London correspondent Elizabeth Palmer tried to point out that “it was as if” all of the “conservative” candidates in Iran “came from the Tea Party.” Former Governor of Alaska Sarah Palin chimed in on Fox and Friends about CBS equating the Tea Party with the new Iranian President declaring:

          “Elizabeth, you just put the BS in CBS!”

“It’s things like that that people hear and see and realize how out of touch the mainstream media is,” she added. Clearly there is bias in reporting. There always has been, but still some like CBS and other outlets want us to believe that they are unbiased. CBS News anchor Scott Pelley weighed in on how he thinks CBS is different from those cable news networks like Fox News or MSNBC and that he believes they are biased, while the big three are not. Pelley attempted to paint a picture that CBS has no bias. In an interview with Deadline Hollywood, Pelley was asked, “So for you, other outlets especially the cable news networks do center on just one segment of the political spectrum in their reporting?” “Certainly,” he affirmed. “It’s no surprise. Fox is associated with the right and MSNBC is associated with the left and they’ve done that because it is a business model. It’s a strategy. They’ve decided to bite off one small part of the viewership and be happy with that 200,000 viewers, 300,000 viewers that they have. But when you are talking to 7 million viewers across the country, man you have got to represent everybody’s views and have got to give them the impression that you are being as honest as you know how to be.”

Deadline caught his ignorance of his own industry and corrected him. “While the news flow on cable may be in the hundreds of thousands, a lot of people are watching Bill O’Reilly, a couple of million a night. Same thing with Hannity.”

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Secret Service Buys Fleet Of Tractors To Protect Obama

Are we really this incompetent or just totally stupid? Somehow these must be a gift for someone. SECRET Service spooks are disguising themselves as FARMERS to protect Barack Obama from terrorist threats at the G8 summit. They have even bought a fleet of TRACTORS ahead of the US President’s arrival in Northern Ireland tomorrow for the two-day meeting. The agents’ plan is to pose as local farmers in the sprawling fields around the five-star lakeside hotel complex hosting the huge event. But locals near the Lough Erne resort reckon it will not take any potential terrorists long to spot the spooks — as their sparkling tractors are all brand new. One said: “They reckon the vehicles will let them patrol the fields around the hotel unnoticed — but they’ll stick out like sore thumbs. “It’s comedy gold really, like something out of Father Ted.”

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Islam: Protecting Women From Freedom Since 610 AD  By Audrey Russo

“Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.” ~ FDR, radio address, October 26, 1939

It’s been lauded since 9-11-01. On any given day in the West, via the agitprops of the mainstream media, or by politicos betraying their constituents. One can hear the lies about an ideology founded in blood and hate. A loathing emanating from a self-proclaimed prophet, his holy books and traditions (Quran and Hadiths). And one of his main targets was (and still is via his minions): The gentler sex…

The most egregious of propaganda campaigns is that Islam protects women. But a cursory glance at the Quran and the Hadiths proves this to be the antithesis of the truth. For your perusal, a few areas where the evidence refutes the rhetoric:

Women defile men:

– Women contaminate and defile – Quran: Sura (2:222; 4:43; 5:6)
– Women are inferior to men – Quran: Sura (2:228; 4:11; 4:176; 53:27; 37:149-155), Hadiths: Bukhari (88:219; 48:826; 72:715)/Tabari (IX:113; I:280) Bukhari (6:301; 62:58)
– A woman’s testimony is worth half that of a man – Quran: Sura (2:282); Hadith: Bukhari (5:59:462)
– Women as sex objects for men:
– Wives are to be sexually available to their husbands in all ways at all times – Quran: Sura (2:223), Hadiths: Bukhari (62:81; 7:62:132)

Women as sex slaves:

– Muslim men are allowed to take women unbelievers as the booty of war – Sura (4:24; 4:25; 23:5,6; 24:34; 33:52; 70:29-30,35)

Brutal punishment for Women:

– Lewd women should be punished with life imprisonment until death: “If any of your women are guilty of lewdness, Take the evidence of four (men) witnesses from amongst you against them; and if they testify, confine them to houses until death do claim them, or God ordain for them some (other) way.” – Quran: Sura (4:15)

More seats in Allah’s Paradise for Men than Women:

– If a man did wrong, he will go to Hell and his wife with him (even if she did no wrong) – Quran: Sura (37:22-23)
– Mohammed said most of the inhabitants if Hell are women – Hadith: Bukhari (2:28; 2:18:161; 7:62:125)

Wife-Beating:

– Men are the maintainers of women … if women do not obey their husband, they are commanded to beat them -Quran: Sura (4:34)
– Muhammad struck his favorite wife, Aisha, in the chest one evening when she left the house without his permission. Aisha narrates, “He struck me on the chest which caused me pain.” – Hadith: Muslim (4:2127)

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Doctors dump health insurance plans, charge patients less

A Kansas physician says he makes the same income and offers better quality care to his patients after he dumped all health insurance companies. Thirty-two-year old family physician Doug Nunamaker of Wichita, Kan., said after five years of dealing with the red tape of health insurance companies and the high overhead for the staff he hired just to deal with paperwork, he switched to a system of charging his patients a monthly fee plus the price of an office visit or test, CNN/Money reported. For example, under Nunamaker's membership plan -- also known as "concierge" medicine or "direct primary care" practices -- each patient pays a flat monthly fee to have unlimited access to the doctors and any medical service they can provide in the practice, such as stitches or an EKG.  For adults up to age 44, Nunamaker charges $50 a month, pediatric services are $10 a month, and for adults age 44 and older it costs $100 a month. Although Nunamaker calls the practice "cash-only," he accepts credit and debit cards for the fees and services.  Nunamaker and his partner negotiated deals for services outside the office. A cholesterol test costs the patient for $3, versus the $90 or more billed to insurance companies; an MRI can cost $400, compared with $2,000 or more billed to insurance companies.  The practice encourages patients and families to also carry some type of high-deductible health insurance plan in case of an emergency or serious illness requiring hospitalization, Nunamaker said.  Nunamaker said his annual salary is around $200,000, and he gets to spend more time with patients providing better care because he is not watching the clock and he gets to spend more time with this family. Most of Nunamaker's clients are self-employed, small business owners, or small companies that found the monthly fee and the cost of the high-deductible plan was a cheaper option, CNN/Money reported.

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Clinton: Israel Must Make Peace or Disappear

So says the America's senior Idiot - So who does Israel attack that they need to stop picking on in order to have peace? Oh that’s right, just terrorists who bomb and hate them. In a speech that will no doubt incentivize Palestinians to continue their campaign of terror and warfare against Israel, former President Bill Clinton told Israel that it would have to make peace with the Palestinians if it wanted to remain Jewish and democratic. He said that thanks to demographic changes, Israel will have to separate from the Palestinian population in order to maintain its majority. This theory has been proved false repeatedly. Israel’s demographic majority in Israel will remain strong for decades upon decades. But the goal of the left is to create pressure on Israel – the party willing to come to the negotiating table – while doing nothing whatsoever with regard to the Palestinians.

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Limbaugh: Abortion at Root of Much of America's Ills By Greg Richter

Much of the cultural and economic decay facing America can be traced to the more than 50 million abortions performed since the 1972 Roe v. Wade decision, Rush Limbaugh says.  And the current push for legal status for illegal immigrants is a result of needing to replace the aborted, Limbaugh said. "Fifty-two million taxpayers haven't been born, is the way Washington looks at it," Limbaugh said on his radio show on Friday. "They don't look at it morally. They don't look at it in any kind of cultural way or any kind of cultural impact. They just say … we have 52 million fewer people paying taxes. We gotta replace 'em. Hello, amnesty." But beyond that, abortion has had a role in destroying society, Limbaugh said.  Most people see abortion simply as a woman's right to choose, he said, but the impact has been much wider. "It's had an impact on crime. It's had a profound impact on our politics. It is at the root of our cultural rot and decay." Limbaugh said no one wants to accept responsibility for his or her actions anymore. "And I'm not talking about the women," he said. "I'm talking the overall effect of a society having literally no problem with eliminating 52 million of its citizens. That can't be good." Limbaugh noted that Americans still feel guilt over slavery, yet aren't bothered by abortion. "I think it is the cause of so much that seems to be inexplicable to people," he said. "Why are 10-year-olds shooting each other to death in Chicago? Why is our society so permissive, anything goes, the more ribald, the better? The more honorable, the more boring it is said to be."

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"The truth is, that, even with the most secure tenure of office, during good behavior, the danger is not, that the judges will be too firm in resisting public opinion, and in defence of private rights or public liberties; but, that they will be ready to yield themselves to the passions, and politics, and prejudices of the day." --Joseph Story, Commentaries on the Constitution, 1833

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