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Former Ambassador: Benghazi “Stand Down” Order Came from
Obama
Ann
Wagner, a former US ambassador and current congresswoman from Missouri,
was interviewed about what the protocol would be for a “stand down” order in
the event of a consulate being under attack, and she answered what many have
suspected already: that’s an order that would come from Obama himself. This
is one of the reasons that the Obama administration has essentially refused to
provide details about where Obama was at or what he was doing during the
attack. This is because we know exactly what he was doing — ignoring the cries
for help for political reasons. Being wrong about policy is one thing. But
ignoring the screams of those who work for you because you’d rather them die
than accept that your foreign policy is creating more terrorists is a level of
treason rare, even for the most despotic tyrants.
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CBO: Public Debt Will Hit 73 Percent of GDP
Many
Democrats pointed to the Congressional Budget Office's revised deficit figures
as proof that the national debt is not as large of a threat as previously
feared. But a closer look at America's debt reveals a much different — and
alarming — reality. In mid-May, the CBO said the federal deficit in
fiscal 2013, which ends in September, will be $642 billion, down from the $1
trillion-plus of the previous four years.
"We
don't have an immediate crisis in terms of debt," President Obama said in
an interview with ABC News. "In fact for the next 10 years it's going to
be in a sustainable place." But
"after years of bipartisan overspending, public debt today — that's the
money that the federal government owes to domestic and foreign investors — is
almost 90 percent higher than at the onset of the financial crisis in
2008," according to Veronique de Rugy, a senior research fellow at the
Mercatus Center at George Mason University. "It climbed by $1 trillion
between December 2011 and December 2012 alone to its current level of $12.03
trillion."
Public
debt is now 75 percent of GDP, the highest level since 1950 — and that doesn't
include debt the government owes to Social Security and other accounts. But the
worst is yet to come. The CBO projects that the public debt is scheduled to
grow to $19 trillion by 2023, or 73.6 percent of projected GDP — up from 36
percent as recently as the end of 2007. But if Congress reverses the spending cuts
forced through sequestration, the public debt will rise to 83 percent of GDP,
the CBO projects. By 2023, the federal government is expected to spend $823
billion a year on interest payments, up from $223 billion today.
Interest payments plus entitlement programs such as Social Security, Medicare,
and Medicaid will account for 75 percent of the federal budget, and other
programs will "gradually be squeezed out," de Rugy writes for Reason
magazine. She concludes: "Congress should circumvent these
scenarios by acting now to cut spending and reduce future entitlement
obligations. No level of taxes can address the phenomenal fiscal imbalance that our
country is facing now and into the future. "History will not judge the
debt-denialists kindly."
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DOJ Finally Goes Insane: Uses Federal Power To Force
School To Allow Girl To Use Boys’ Restroom
by Mark Horne
The
DOJ has forced a school district to allow a girl to use the boys restroom
because the girl calls herself a boy. “The student was born a girl but “has
identified as a boy from a young age,” according to the Department of Justice,
which reached a settlement with the public school district in Arcadia, an
affluent LA suburb. Under the deal, the district must not only change the student’s
restroom privileges and make similar accommodations on overnight trips.
It also must institute a host of measures to ensure transgender students are
treated as whatever gender they consider themselves to be.”
This
is the “T” in the “GLBT” we hear about. The girl is allegedly “transgender.”
So
what if a girl identifies herself as a boy? I’m pasty white. So are my
children. If one of them “identifies as an African American from a young age”
does that mean he is “transracial” and can sue any college that doesn’t give
him minority preferences? Are all colleges required to affirm his “transracial identity” and treat him as
an African American? How is transgender any different? It
isn’t! Every single Liberal adult reading these words knows that he or she is
lying, transparently and stupidly lying, to go along with this pretense. A girl
is a girl is a girl. She should use a girl’s restroom. That’s just biology.
That’s just humanity. You don’t
get to choose what you are. You don’t get to bully other people to
conform to your fantasy reality (and any parents who encourage their child to
expect this, hate their child).
Also,
being bullied because you are perceived as different in some way is no excuse
at all for inventing "transgender" rules. Nothing justifies this obvious piece of fiction
and fantasy being enforced by the courts. No science. No civil rights law.
Nothing. It is just stupidity at
the point of a gun. The DoJ had zero authority for this tyrannical and perverse move in the
1964 Civil Rights Act. They just did it anyway. If any African American
wants to see the Civil Rights Act preserved he should be outraged by this
appeal to it to justify fantasy coercion. It makes it into a joke. It makes
Martin Luther King into a dirty joke. It makes a mockery of human life.
Again,
there are girls and there are boys, there are women and there are men. And,
in this case, yes, they are just born that way. A boy or girl can no more
“identify” as the opposite sex than he or she can identify as a bird or a
planet.
I
should be horrified by how evil all this is, but I can’t get past the stupidity
part. Is some Liberal going to write in the comments (as usually happens when
I address homosexual issues) that my ranting just shows how irrational belief
in God is? Right. Because if I were an atheist it would suddenly make complete sense to say that girls can
be boys by saying so and vice versa. Just get rid of the superstitions of the
past and suddenly we will all see that a boy is really a girl “inside” and
needs to use the girl’s restroom. God is a delusion and that girl is really a
boy.
Give
me a break.
Christians
watch the Department of Justice and, if we ever had any doubts that modern
liberal unbelievers are just stupid people trying desperately to make
themselves more stupid, those doubts all scatter in the face of this
monstrosity. And
you expect us to accept your expertise on the definition of marriage? Maybe
after your hallucinations go away. Why would anyone think that the leaders of this kind of society have any brains
when they do and say such stupid things? The Western World is run by idiots.
Raving, stupid, morons.
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NBC Is Developing a Hillary Clinton Miniseries
By Josef Adalian
NBC
is giving Hillary Clinton the miniseries treatment, tapping Diane Lane (Man of Steel) to play the former
senator and first lady in a four-hour project in development at the network. Peacock chief Bob Greenblatt
announced the project Saturday morning at the network's portion of the TV
Critics Association press tour as part of an ambitious miniseries slate the
network hopes will give it a much-needed ratings boost. Oscar-nominated writer
Courtney Hunt (Frozen River) is writing the project, which NBC
said will examine "Clinton’s life as a wife, mother, politician and
cabinet member from 1998 to the present. The script will begin with Clinton
living in the White House as her husband is serving the second of his two terms
as president." There's no word yet on when the project will
air, though Greenblatt indicated it run before a possible Clinton announcement
about running for president. Given TV's relatively speedy turnaround
time with projects, it's also possible the network is looking to get out in front
of director James Ponsoldt's Rodham, a
feature biopic of Clinton which has yet to cast its lead.
Wow!
Wouldn't any Presidential hopeful give anything to have this free Promo for
their presidential run!
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MUSLIMS SECOND LARGEST GROUP OF ILLEGAL ALIENS IN NYC
The US is home to more than 11
million undocumented workers, and there are an estimated 2 million migrants
working in New York. They are taxi drivers, domestic workers, restaurant, retail
and construction staff. They are paid far less than the city’s minimum wage of
$7.25 an hour and they are often mistreated by their employers. Their lives may undergo major changes if the
US House of Representatives approves an immigration bill, passed by the Senate
last month, which offers a 13-year path to citizenship for undocumented
migrants, but also reinforces border security and enables businesses to check
workers’ social security numbers, under the E-verify program.
The
program would make “every single undocumented person one click away from being
notified or deported”, according to Monami Maulik, executive director of Desis
Rising Up and Moving (Drum), an organization of low-wage south Asian immigrants
in Jackson Heights, Queens, which has 2,000 members. “Our members … and many
others in immigrant communities are really disappointed with this legislation.
It’s turning out to be more and more repressive, harsher measures,” she said.
“So we are following it very closely.” After
Latinos, she added, south Asians are among the second-largest undocumented
population in New York.
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Planned Parenthood and Others Could Have Access to
Citizens' Information Through Obamacare's Federal Data Hub
As
the Obama administration frantically tries to enlist the help of organizations
to promote the Affordable Care Act, Planned Parenthood could be one of several
groups with access to citizens’ sensitive information in the Federal Data Hub. According
to The Illinois Typepad Review, if the organization is granted
funding through the Department of Health and Human Services’ $54 million in navigator grants, the nonprofit will have access
to Obamacare’s Federal Data Hub. The database contains citizens’
information collected from the Treasury Department, Internal Revenue Service,
Department of Homeland Security and Department of Justice, and includes Social
Security numbers. Though these navigators have yet to be named, Planned Parenthood is
likely to be one. Navigators would assist Americans with enrollment in
Obamacare’s exchanges and inform them about the subsidized insurance, according
to HHS. Officials from organizations receiving navigator grants are required to
take an online course about how the law works. Planned Parenthood has already
signed on to promote the healthcare law and some affiliates will apply for HHS’
navigator grants, the news outlet stated last month. The deadline to apply
for the funding was June 7, but the agency has yet to announce all the
organizations receiving the awards.
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Four in Five Americans Face Near-poverty, No Work Under
Obama - While race is becoming less of
an issue
Economic
Recovery? Gaining on Employment
Numbers? Lifting the poor out of poverty? Phony scandals according to Obama. Four out of five U.S. adults struggle with
joblessness, near-poverty, or reliance on welfare for at least parts of their
lives, a sign of deteriorating economic security and an elusive American dream. Survey
data exclusive to The Associated Press point to an increasingly globalized U.S.
economy, the widening gap between rich and poor, and the loss of good-paying
manufacturing jobs as reasons for the trend. The findings come as President
Barack Obama tries to renew his administration's emphasis on the economy,
saying in recent speeches that his highest priority is to "rebuild ladders
of opportunity" and reverse income inequality. Like more speaches will
help? How about action and leadership?
As nonwhites approach a numerical majority in the U.S., one question is how public programs to lift the disadvantaged should be best focused — on the affirmative action that historically has tried to eliminate the racial barriers seen as the major impediment to economic equality, or simply on improving socioeconomic status for all, regardless of race. Hardship is particularly growing among whites, based on several measures. Pessimism among that racial group about their families' economic futures has climbed to the highest point since at least 1987. In the most recent AP-GfK poll, 63 percent of whites called the economy "poor." "I think it's going to get worse," said Irene Salyers, 52, of Buchanan County, Va., a declining coal region in Appalachia. Married and divorced three times, Salyers now helps run a fruit-and-vegetable stand with her boyfriend but it doesn't generate much income. They live mostly off government disability checks. "If you do try to go apply for a job, they're not hiring people, and they're not paying that much to even go to work," she said. Children, she said, have "nothing better to do than to get on drugs."
As nonwhites approach a numerical majority in the U.S., one question is how public programs to lift the disadvantaged should be best focused — on the affirmative action that historically has tried to eliminate the racial barriers seen as the major impediment to economic equality, or simply on improving socioeconomic status for all, regardless of race. Hardship is particularly growing among whites, based on several measures. Pessimism among that racial group about their families' economic futures has climbed to the highest point since at least 1987. In the most recent AP-GfK poll, 63 percent of whites called the economy "poor." "I think it's going to get worse," said Irene Salyers, 52, of Buchanan County, Va., a declining coal region in Appalachia. Married and divorced three times, Salyers now helps run a fruit-and-vegetable stand with her boyfriend but it doesn't generate much income. They live mostly off government disability checks. "If you do try to go apply for a job, they're not hiring people, and they're not paying that much to even go to work," she said. Children, she said, have "nothing better to do than to get on drugs."
While
racial and ethnic minorities are more likely to live in poverty, race
disparities in the poverty rate have narrowed substantially since the 1970s,
census data show. Economic insecurity among whites also is more pervasive than
is shown in the government's poverty data, engulfing more than 76 percent of
white adults by the time they turn 60, according to a new economic gauge being
published next year by the Oxford University Press. The gauge defines "economic
insecurity" as a year or more of periodic joblessness, reliance on
government aid such as food stamps or income below 150 percent of the poverty line.
Measured across all races, the risk of economic insecurity rises to 79 percent.
Marriage
rates are in decline across all races, and the number of white mother-headed
households living in poverty has risen to the level of black ones. "It's
time that America comes to understand that many of the nation's biggest
disparities, from education and life expectancy to poverty, are increasingly
due to economic class position," said William Julius Wilson, a
Harvard professor who specializes in race and poverty. He noted that despite
continuing economic difficulties, minorities have more optimism about the
future after Obama's election, while struggling whites do not. "There
is the real possibility that white alienation will increase if steps are not
taken to highlight and address inequality on a broad front," Wilson said.
Nationwide,
the count of America's poor remains stuck at a record number: 46.2 million, or
15 percent of the population, due in part to lingering high unemployment
following the recession. While poverty rates for blacks and Hispanics are
nearly three times higher, by absolute numbers the predominant face of the poor
is white. More than 19 million whites fall below the poverty line of $23,021
for a family of four, accounting for more than 41 percent of the nation's
destitute, nearly double the number of poor blacks.
Sometimes
termed "the invisible poor" by demographers, lower-income whites
generally are dispersed in suburbs as well as small rural towns, where more
than 60 percent of the poor are white. Concentrated in Appalachia in the East, they are
numerous in the industrial Midwest and spread across America's heartland, from
Missouri, Arkansas and Oklahoma up through the Great Plains. Buchanan County,
in southwest Virginia, is among the nation's most destitute based on median
income, with poverty hovering at 24 percent. The county is mostly white, as are
99 percent of its poor. More than 90 percent of Buchanan County's
inhabitants are working-class whites who lack a college degree. Higher
education long has been seen there as nonessential to land a job because
well-paying mining and related jobs were once in plentiful supply. These days
many residents get by on odd jobs and government checks. Salyers' daughter, Renee Adams,
28, who grew up in the region, has two children. A jobless single mother, she
relies on her live-in boyfriend's disability checks to get by. Salyers says it
was tough raising her own children as it is for her daughter now, and doesn't
even try to speculate what awaits her grandchildren, ages 4 and 5. Smoking
a cigarette in front of the produce stand, Adams later expresses a wish that
employers will look past her conviction a few years ago for distributing
prescription painkillers, so she can get a job and have money to "buy the
kids everything they need." "It's pretty hard," she said.
"Once the bills are paid, we might have $10 to our name."
Higher
recent rates of unemployment mean the lifetime risk of experiencing economic
insecurity now runs even higher: 79 percent, or 4 in 5 adults, by the time they
turn 60. By race, nonwhites still have a higher risk of being economically insecure,
at 90 percent. But compared with the official poverty rate, some of the biggest
jumps under the newer measure are among whites, with more than 76 percent
enduring periods of joblessness, life on welfare or near-poverty. By 2030, based on the current trend of
widening income inequality, close to 85 percent of all working-age adults in
the U.S. will experience bouts of economic insecurity. "Poverty is no longer an issue of
'them', it's an issue of 'us'," says Mark Rank, a professor at Washington
University in St. Louis who calculated the numbers. "Only
when poverty is thought of as a mainstream event, rather than a fringe
experience that just affects blacks and Hispanics, can we really begin to build
broader support for programs that lift people in need." The
numbers come from Rank's analysis being published by the Oxford University
Press. They are supplemented with interviews and figures provided to the AP by
Tom Hirschl, a professor at Cornell University; John Iceland, a sociology
professor at Penn State University; the University of New Hampshire's Carsey
Institute; the Census Bureau; and the Population Reference Bureau.
Among
the findings:
—For the
first time since 1975, the number of white single-mother households living in
poverty with children surpassed or equaled black ones in the past decade,
spurred by job losses and faster rates of out-of-wedlock births among whites.
White single-mother families in poverty stood at nearly 1.5 million in 2011,
comparable to the number for blacks. Hispanic single-mother families in poverty
trailed at 1.2 million.
—Since
2000, the poverty rate among working-class whites has grown faster than among
working-class nonwhites, rising 3 percentage points to 11 percent as the
recession took a bigger toll among lower-wage workers. Still, poverty among
working-class nonwhites remains higher, at 23 percent.
—The
share of children living in high-poverty neighborhoods — those with poverty
rates of 30 percent or more — has increased to 1 in 10, putting them at higher
risk of teenage pregnancy or dropping out of school. Non-Hispanic whites
accounted for 17 percent of the child population in such neighborhoods,
compared with 13 percent in 2000, even though the overall proportion of white
children in the U.S. has been declining. The share of black children in
high-poverty neighborhoods dropped from 43 percent to 37 percent, while the
share of Latino children went from 38 percent to 39 percent.
—Race
disparities in health and education have narrowed generally since the 1960s.
While residential segregation remains high, a typical black person now lives in
a non-majority black neighborhood for the first time. Previous studies have
shown that wealth is a greater predictor of standardized test scores than race;
the test-score gap between rich and low-income students is now nearly double
the gap between blacks and whites.
Going
back to the 1980s, never have whites been so pessimistic about their futures,
according to the General Social Survey, a biannual survey conducted by NORC at
the University of Chicago. Just 45 percent say their family will have a good
chance of improving their economic position based on the way things are in
America. The divide is especially evident among those whites who self-identify
as working class. Forty-nine percent say they think their children will do
better than them, compared with 67 percent of nonwhites who consider themselves
working class, even though the economic plight of minorities tends to be worse.
Although
they are a shrinking group, working-class whites — defined as those lacking a
college degree — remain the biggest demographic bloc of the working-age
population. In 2012, Election Day exit polls conducted for the AP and
the television networks showed working-class whites made up 36 percent of the
electorate, even with a notable drop in white voter turnout.
Last
November, Obama won the votes of just 36 percent of those non-college whites,
the worst performance of any Democratic nominee among that group since
Republican Ronald Reagan's 1984 landslide victory over Walter Mondale. Some
Democratic analysts have urged renewed efforts to bring working-class whites
into the political fold, calling them a potential "decisive swing voter
group" if minority and youth turnout level off in future elections. "They
don't trust big government, but it doesn't mean they want no government,"
says Republican pollster Ed Goeas, who agrees that working-class whites will
remain an important electoral group. His research found that many of them would
support anti-poverty programs if focused broadly on job training and
infrastructure investment. This past week, Obama pledged anew to help
manufacturers bring jobs back to America and to create jobs in the energy
sectors of wind, solar and natural gas. "They feel that politicians are
giving attention to other people and not them," Goeas said.
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Caught! Immigration bill shackles border agents Bars them
from considering race or ethnicity 'to any degree'
by Aaron Klein
A
truckload of young Hispanic men is spotted by a U.S. Border Patrol agent
rumbling down a dusty road a mile north of the Mexican border toward El Paso,
Texas. How should the agent respond?
Under
the immigration-reform bill currently under consideration by Congress, Border
Patrol agents or any other law-enforcement officer who stops such a vehicle to
demand identification might be found in violation of the law. The
legislation bars all federal law-enforcement officers, including border agents,
from using race or ethnicity “to any degree” while making routine or
spontaneous law-enforcement decisions, a review of the legislation has found. The bill further calls for the Homeland
Security Department to collect data on immigration enforcement activities to
determine the existence of racial profiling.
The data would be utilized to issue future guidelines to
officers regarding the use of race or ethnicity during routine enforcement. The
bill states that “in making routine or spontaneous law enforcement decisions,
such as ordinary traffic stops, Federal law enforcement officers may not use
race or ethnicity to any degree, except that officers may rely on race and
ethnicity if a specific suspect description exists.” The bill defines
federal law-enforcement officers as any “officer, agent, or employee of the
United States authorized by law or by a Government agency to engage in or
supervise the prevention, detection, investigation, or prosecution of any
violation of Federal law.” The definition includes U.S. Customs and
Border Protection agents. It is clear that immigration enforcement
officials are singled out by the new directives. The legislation refers specifically to
border-security agents with another clause that states “in enforcing laws
protecting the integrity of the Nation’s borders, Federal law enforcement
officers may not consider race or ethnicity except to the extent permitted by
the Constitution and laws of the United States.”
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