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 The Front Page Cover 
"I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened"
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Featuring:
Count on California 
to Always Make the Wrong Choice 
Bob Dane
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"Know who you are standing with"
"Show me your friends and I'll show you your future"
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 nOBAMA’S INCOMPLETE IRAQ STRATEGY 
President nObama opened the door to increased criticism in just one sentence.  After saying Monday that the U.S. does not yet have ‘a complete strategy’ for attacking ISIS and training the Iraqis and adding that he’s waiting for a ‘finalized plan’ from the Pentagon, critics pounced. Here’s House Speaker backstabber John Boehner’s response to what he labeled the president’s ‘shocking admission.’
          The administration was quick to try to narrow the president’s comments to training Iraqi Sunnis, but clearly his words were taken as a much broader statement. And senior military officials speaking to Fox took issue with President nObama’s claim that he was waiting for options from the Pentagon. ‘What the f--- was that? We have given him lots of options, he just hasn’t acted on them,’ one official told Fox News.
          Tonight on Special Report, we’ll speak exclusively with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McCon-nell about Iraq strategy, his recent NSA legislative loss and what he thinks can still get done in this Senate session.” – Bret Baier 
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 NYT HITS RUBIO… AGAIN 
Last week it was he and his wife’s moving violations of the 1990s. This week, the NYT is digging all the way down into Sen. Marco Rubio’s personal finances. They found a 44-yeare-old man who’s spending sometimes outran his income but who has found great success in the last few years. Not a big deal, but the Times loads up the story with lots of warning words with a strong suggestion that Rubio is reckless.
          The good news for Rubio is that this a clear sign that he is seen as a real threat to Hilly Clinton. A candidates is not going to get this kind of coverage from the Democrats’ paper of record otherwise. And as these stories rain down, conservatives will instinctively rally to his defense. As was the case most famously with former Gov. Sarah Palin, R-Alaska, establishment press pieces can cause conservative support to surge. It’s a badge of honor, and as Rubio did on the traffic ticket hit piece, good for a fundraising burst.
          The downside is that some of it sticks. The $80,000 pleasure boat purchase and risky – he would presumably say optimistic – financial moves will add up to something in the minds of voters. This is worrisome for Rubio because he is looking, in part, to present himself to establishment donors as a more electable alternative to Jeb Bush. Conservatives will dismiss the story out of hand. GOP elites actually read the Times.
          The other top rival for blocking Bush’s march to the nomination, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, R-Wisc., has been living with the NYT seemingly sorting through every facet of his life since 2011, as the paper has shown a near-obsession with his activities in Madison. Walker knows, as Rubio is learning now, playing the victim to press mistreatment has its downsides. Calling attention to negatives is seldom helpful.  
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 Kohl’s candidate Walker hits Hilly on ‘dead broke’ anniversary -Walker has a blog post today reminding voters about Clinton’s comments a year ago today about being “dead broke” while raking in millions: “As a middle-class parent with two kids in college, I know every day Americans are genuinely concerned about America’s opportunity gap. Unlike Clinton, most folks could only dream of earning $300,000 for a fraction of a day’s work. And while Clinton has certainly amassed a fortune talking about her government-knows-best philosophy on the paid-speaking circuit, those of us in the middle class know that approach just doesn’t work in real life.”  -Fox News  
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 SANDOVAL WON’T RUN FOR dinky REID’S SEAT 
After months of mulling, Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval will not run for Senate. The second-term Republican was long sought by his party to seek the seat being vacated by the retiring Senate Minority Leader dinky Harry Reid. But Nevada Public Television’s Jon Ralston got the statement from Sandoval: “My heart is in my responsibilities as Governor and continuing a New Nevada…For these reasons I will not seek the United States Senate seat that will be available in 2016.” The top Republican contender now will likely be Rep. Joe Heck. dinky Reid’s designated Democratic successor is former state Attorney General 
Catherine Cortez Masto.  -Fox News  
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 LIES OUR OVERLORDS ARE TELLING US  
(Judge Andrew Napolitano) ~ Last week, Republicans and Democrats in Congress joined President Barack nObama in congratulating themselves for taming the National Security Agency’s voracious appetite for spying... By permitting one section of the Patriot Act to expire and by replacing it with the USA Freedom Act, the federal government is taking credit for taming beasts of its own creation. In reality, nothing substantial has changed. Under the Patriot Act, the NSA had access to and possessed digital versions of the content of all telephone conversations, emails and text messages sent between and among all people in America since 2009. Under the USA Freedom Act, it has the same. The USA Freedom Act changes slightly the mechanisms for acquiring this bulk data, but it does not change the amount or nature of the data the NSA acquires.        http://www.wnd.com/2015/06/lies-our-overlords-are-telling-us/
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 It's the left that excels in violence  
(Erik Rush) ~ I must say that I wasn’t altogether surprised at the reaction of some on the left to my last column in this space. In it, I stated that while the political left routinely portrays those on the right as being potentially violent and dangerous... ironically, their actions are forcing those who value liberty into a position so objectionable that one day violence may be the only option left open to them. Anyway, a few of the more prominent left-wing propaganda mills characterized my piece as advocating for the murder of liberals, which of course it did not. In context, all of this really goes back to the reason our nation’s founders opted to go to war to secure the liberties that had been usurped by the British Crown. For those not familiar with the concept of war, it typically involves killing a lot of people. My rationale for extrapolating the current scenario in America along those lines lay in having analyzed several sets of circumstances identical to ours in terms of leftist activism.        http://www.wnd.com/2015/06/its-the-left-that-excels-in-violence/
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 Teachers Union Caught Using Tax Dollars to Fund Tax Hike Campaign 
(Warner Todd Huston) ~ This is one of my preeminent examples of why there should never, ever be such a thing as a union for a government employee–ANY government employee... A teachers union in Colorado has been caught red handed using tax money to fund a campaign to urge lawmakers to raise taxes. This is the single best reason to be rid of government employee unions. The fact is, they are entirely un-democratic and blatantly un-American. The story comes to us form ColoradoPeakPolitics, but it is a tale that could just as easily come from New York, Illinois, or any other state bedeviled with grasping, anti-American public employee unions.        http://wizbangblog.com/2015/06/10/outrage-teachers-union-caught-using-tax-dollars-to-fund-tax-hike-campaign/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Wizbang+%28Wizbang%29
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 North Korea's Serious New Nuclear Missile Threat  
(Peter Huessy) ~ North Korea appears to have made significant progress in extending its capability as a nuclear-armed rogue nation, to where its missiles may become capable of hitting American cities with little or no warning... What new evidence makes such a threat compelling? North Korea claims to have nuclear warheads small enough to fit on their ballistic missiles andmissiles capable of being launched from a submerged platform such as a submarine. Shortly after North Korea's April 22, 2015 missile test, which heightened international concernabout the military capabilities of North Korea, U.S. Secretary of State hanoi John Kerry urged China and our regional allies to restart the 2003 "six-party talks" aimed at eliminating nuclear weapons from the Korean peninsula and reining in North Korea's expanding nuclear missile program.       http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/5914/north-korea-nuclear-missile
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 nObama's Backtracking On Promise To ONLY Lift Nuclear-Related  
(Jeff Dunetz) ~ Throughout the P5+1 negotiation process President nObama, Secretary of State hanoi Kerry and all those speaking for the Administration have promised that if a deal is made, the only Iranian sanctions that will be lifted were those imposed with the purposed of eliminating their nuclear weapons program... In fact the famous "fact sheet" distributed on April 2, the day the framework deal was announced said The April 2 fact sheet they circulated stated "U.S. sanctions on Iran for terrorism, human rights abuses, and ballistic missiles will remain in place under the deal." According to the Associated Press that promise like many made since nObama took office in 2009, has been tossed out the window. From the very beginning of the article, the AP is clear what's going on, that the U.S. is going to roll back the non- nuclear sanctions: Per the report the sanctions that were imposed on Iran to block money laundering and ballistic missile development will also be rolled back. Twenty-three out of twenty-four of the currently sanctioned Iranian banks will get their "get out of jail free cards" and will be allowed to do business with the west, including the Big Kahuna of sanctioned banks crucial Central Bank of Iran (CBI).       http://yidwithlid.blogspot.com/2015/06/obamas-backtracking-on-promise-to-only.html?utm_source=The+Lid+List&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=3bc4d16ba0-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_term=0_597b72c01c-3bc4d16ba0-291705165&goal=0_597b72c01c-3bc4d16ba0-291705165
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 Israel-Created Computer Virus Spied On Iran Nuke Talks  
(Jeff Dunetz) ~ Who created the computer virus used to spy on the P+5 talks with Iran? According to the Moscow-based cybersecurity firm Kaspersky Lab ZAO (via the Wall Street Journal) it was Israel who placed the bug in the three luxury European hotels hosting the nuke talks... Apparently when Kaspersky Lab ZAO analyzed a bug found in its own network last year it was similar to a virus though to be used by Israeli spies. The firm "checked millions of computers world-wide and three luxury European hotels popped up. The other hotels the firm tested—thousands in all—were clean."  After additional analysis the cybersecurity sleuths realized the three bugged hotels were the ones hosting the P+5 talks.       http://yidwithlid.blogspot.com/2015/06/wsj-report-israel-created-computer.html?utm_source=The+Lid+List&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=3bc4d16ba0-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_term=0_597b72c01c-3bc4d16ba0-291705165&goal=0_597b72c01c-3bc4d16ba0-291705165
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 Putin’s New Russia Reeks of the Old Soviet Union  
(Christopher s. Carson) ~ In addition to its other internal problems, Russia has a new one: the flight of its intellectuals to foreign countries. This week, 31-year old Zhanna Nemtsova, the eldest daughter of murdered Putin critic Boris Nemtsov and herself a successful journalist, left Russia for safer pastures in Europe... She wrote a “farewell letter” which was published inVedomosti, a liberal business journal. Ms. Nemtsova made the point that the danger of the Putin regime is not simply direct acts of violence perpetrated by paid agents of the president, but rather indirect state violence, whipped up by state propaganda, in the fertile soil of the large Russian population influenced by such propaganda. Ms. Nemtsova even coined a new, rather useful term for the phenomenon — “information terror.”     http://www.frontpagemag.com/2015/christopher-s-carson/putins-new-russia-reeks-heavily-of-the-old-soviet-union/?utm_source=FrontPage+Magazine&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=79988504e2-Mailchimp_FrontPageMag&utm_term=0_57e32c1dad-79988504e2-156509103
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 Media’s Strategy on Immigration: Don’t Talk About It  
(Ann Coulter) ~ I’m impressed by the coolness and steadiness of our media in suppressing any news about immigration. It’s as if they’ve built a triple-layer fence with border guards around immigration topics. And guess what? Their fence is working!... How many thousands of news stories have there been on Ferguson, ISIS, Chris Christie’s “Bridgegate” or men becoming women? But the media will never tell you about Mexicans gang-raping a lesbian in Richmond, California, an Indian immigrant in San Francisco importing 12-year-old girls he bought from their parents for sex, or three children being beheaded by Mexicans in Baltimore. Don’t Americans have a right to know about the cultures flooding into our country?         http://www.frontpagemag.com/2015/ann-coulter/medias-strategy-on-immigration-dont-talk-about-it/?utm_source=FrontPage+Magazine&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=79988504e2-Mailchimp_FrontPageMag&utm_term=0_57e32c1dad-79988504e2-156509103
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 Megyn Kelly Slams ‘Smears’ Coming From Liberal Blogs  
(Billy Hallowell) ~ Fox News host Megyn Kelly on Wednesday hit back at liberal blogs and websites that she said have been running with inaccurate narratives surrounding her coverage of the situation in McKinney, Texas... Kelly said liberal bloggers have unfairly made it seem as though she was defending Cpl. Eric Casebolt, the former McKinney police officer who grabbed a 15-year-old girl and threw her to the ground in a filmed incident that has made national headlines. At the center of these claims was Kelly’s brief on-air comment that the teenage girl “was no saint either,” though she repeatedly called the events shown in the video “brutal” throughout her coverage of the matter,as Mediaite reported.       http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2015/06/11/megyn-kelly-decries-smears-coming-from-liberal-websites-and-reveals-why-she-decided-not-to-remain-silent-this-time/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_term=Firewire&utm_campaign=Firewire%20-%20HORIZON%206-11-15%20FINAL
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 Favors to foundation donors stretch back to Hilly Clinton’s Senate  
(Kelly Riddell) ~ Hilly Rodham Clinton’s efforts to provide favors to major donors to her husband’s global charity or her own political career stretch back far earlier than her tenure as America’s top diplomat... dating to the time she served as a U.S. senator and had the power to earmark federal funds and influence legislation, records show. For instance, Mrs. Clinton introduced a bill when she was New York’s junior senator that allowed a donor to the Clinton Foundation to use tax-exempt bonds to build a shopping center in Syracuse, New York, public records show. She also went to bat for Freddie Mac, working to defeat legislation that would have subjected the mortgage giant to tougher regulations before the housing bubble burst and led to a major recession. That same year, Freddie Mac donated $50,000 to $100,000 to her husband’s charity, originally called the William J. Clinton Foundation records show.        http://www.1776coalition.com/featured-content/hillary-scratching-backs-while-a-senator?advD=1434,74101
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Count on California 
to Always Make the Wrong Choice 
Bob Dane
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     (immigrationreform.com) ~ Californians had better take their state’s “economic recovery” and budget “surplus” with a grain — make that a pound — of salt. A current excess of cash means Governor Jerry Brown has several billion to burn, although he doesn’t mention the state is facing almost $200 billion in long-term, unfunded pension liabilities.  Admittedly, budgets and debt are two different things but the common denominator is that both have to be paid back. I might have $50 left in my pocket at the end of the month but it doesn’t mean I don’t also own $30,000 worth of credit card debt.
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     Yes, things have turned around for the Sunshine State. Several years ago California had a crushing deficit of about $26 billion.  As the recession abated and California raised taxes, the state now has cash to spend and the question is how to spread it around.
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     A reasonable and prudent legislature might (1) rebate several billion back to taxpayers because, after all, that body raised taxes and is now sitting on those revenues, or (2) it might save the money for a rainy day…like when the pension liabilities come knocking or, (3) it might invest in infrastructure such as schools, roads or bridges.
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     Ah, but the California Legislature has a much better idea.  The California Senate Appropriations Committee passed SB-4 to give health care to illegal aliens — 2 million of them — and the lawmakers want to use a big chunk of California’s surplus for that purpose.
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     California State Senator Ricardo Lara, a Democrat who introduced the bill, said it will cost about $400 million to $800 million annually. Others, including Breitbart News have estimated the cost at $1 billion per year based on data from the non-partisan California Legislative Analyst’s office.
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     Given that nothing in California is non-partisan and this issue involves illegal aliens — a population that is notoriously under-counted when it comes to extending benefits — double that estimate.
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     While Federal law prohibits illegal aliens from receiving federal subsidies under the Affordable Care Act, California is very good at getting around federal laws to help illegal aliens. SB-4 requires the state to apply for a federal waiver to offer “unsubsidized” healthcare to illegal aliens through Covered California. Once the state gets a waiver, health care subsidies will be provided, not by federal subsidies, but by state taxpayers because the Legislature is betting Gov. Brown wants to pay.  (Brown is currently “non-committal.”) But, if California is denied a waiver, the Legislature has a workaround for that also; in that instance, they intend to create a separate state exchange just for illegal aliens, again paid by state taxpayers.
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     So then, in addition to the existing sanctuary policies, anti-detainer legislation, in-state tuition and a bevy of other benefits and protections California extends to illegal aliens, the state will have added yet another massive incentive that will fuel additional flows of illegal aliens, costing taxpayers even more in health care, education and incarceration.
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     California has a knack for creatively side-stepping laws to accommodate its large population of residents who also side-stepped laws…immigration laws.  This has set in motion a perpetual cycle of incentives, need and state-sponsored gratification.
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It is not sensible, sustainable or ethical but, by golly, it sure is California.
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