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"I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened"
 
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It's All Bad News for nObamaCare
Alan Caruba
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"Show me your friends and I'll show you your future"
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 FEDS APPROVED AMNESTY FOR 100,000 BEFORE JUDGE HALTED 
Stephen Dinan
reports: “The administration processed about 100,000 applications for amnesty for so-called Dreamers under some of the expanded rules President nObama announced last year, lawyers told a Texas judge late Tuesday, in a move that could complicate their claim that they have halted all action under the amnesty. Mr. nObama’s Nov. 20 announcement offered a number of different benefits to illegal immigrants, including expanding eligibility for his 2012 amnesty for Dreamers and boosting the amount of time he was granting an amnesty form deportation and permits for legal work from two years to three years. While the administration hadn’t begun collecting applications under the expanded eligibility, it had awarded tens of thousands of three-year permits to applicants who had qualified as Dreamers under the original rules from 2012.”  -Fox News 
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 NOT JUST BIBI: PRESSURE GROWS TO NIX DEAL ON IRAN   NUKES 
Reuters: “U.S. Secretary of State Hanoi John Kerry flies to Riyadh this week to try to reassure King Salman that any nuclear deal with Iran will be in Saudi interests, despite the kingdom's fears that it may boost Tehran's backing for Shi'ite Muslim groups in the region. … While the main critics of the U.S. push for a nuclear deal with Iran are Israel and Congressional Republicans, Sunni Muslim powerhouse Saudi Arabia is also concerned that an accord would allow Iran to devote more cash and energy to Shi'ite proxies in Syria, Iraq, Lebanon and Yemen, escalating conflicts. ‘The Saudis fear nObama will give the Iranians a deal whatever the cost because it is important for his legacy and that Iran will get a certain regional status in exchange for an agreement,’ said one diplomat in the Gulf.”
          Words that Hurt - “Mr. Hanoi Kerry fancies himself a shrewd statesman on the global stage. But, in truth, history only remembers for his failure to beat former President George W. Bush in the 2004 presidential election. Unless, of course, he strikes a deal with Iran that leads to the annihilation of Israel. Then he will finally be remembered for something else.” – Charles Hurt writing in his column for today -Fox News 
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 WALKER BACKS LATE-TERM ABORTION BAN 
Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel: “Gov. Scott Walker on Tuesday embraced a move to ban abortion after 20 weeks after repeatedly declining to spell out where he stood on the issue in last year's re-election campaign. Wisconsin Right to Life has touted as its top priority legislation that has yet to be introduced that would prevent women from seeking abortions in most cases after 20 weeks. Walker said in last year's campaign he opposed abortion, but refused to say whether he supported banning the procedure after 20 weeks…In a Tuesday letter, he addressed specific legislation head on. ‘As the Wisconsin legislature moves forward in the coming session, further protections for mother and child are likely to come to my desk in the form of a bill to prohibit abortions after 20 weeks,’ his letter said. ‘I will sign that bill when it gets to my desk and support similar legislation on the federal level. I was raised to believe in the sanctity of life and I will always fight to protect it.’ The letter was on Walker's campaign letterhead and released by the Susan B. Anthony List, an anti-abortion group.”  -Fox News 
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 KOCHS COME OUT AGAINST ‘CORPORATE WELFARE’ AT EX-IM   BANK 
The Hill: “Koch Industries told lawmakers to oppose reauthorizing the Export-Import Bank in a letter sent to Congress on Tuesday and obtained by The Hill. Philip Ellender, president of government and public affairs at Koch Companies Public Sector, wrote in the letter that ‘the Ex-Im bank is yet another example of the government intervening in the market to pick winners and losers.’ ... Congress must reauthorize the Bank before June 30 or it will shut down. Many hard-line conservatives oppose the bank, calling it tantamount to ‘corporate welfare’ and ‘cronyism.’”

          Bank broadside offers clue to network backing - WaPo: “Freedom Partners president Marc Short singled out former Florida governor Jeb Bush, Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida, Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky and Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas for backing the phase-out of the bank, a federal entity that provides loans to U.S. companies doing business overseas.”  -Fox News 
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 ORANGE YOU GLAD I DIDN’T SAY BANANA? 
Did you know about the war on knock-knock jokes? NPR examined the history and evolution of knock-knock jokes, or as they were originally known, “do you know” jokes, e.g. “Do you know Arthur?” “Arthur who?” “Arthurmometer!” Pun haters at the start of the 20th century believed that such drivel couldn’t last. Not only did it last but intensified with the knock-knock format in the 1930s. Central Pennsylvania seems to have been the epicenter of the boom, with special credit belonging to radio station WKBO in Harrisburg, which marked the selection of Frank Knox as the 1936 Republican vice presidential nominee a day of the jokes. Get it? Knox-Knox. Clubs of knock-knock lovers, musical numbers and appearances in movie scripts followed as craze intensified, as did the corresponding loathing among sophisticates. In time, the jokes receded to being mostly kids’ stuff, as they provide a great formula for young jokesters who are learning about comedic timing. When they were gone from mainstream life, the haters could finally greet Miss Zellitsover at the door. You know… Gladys Zellitsover.  -Fox News 
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 California lawyer proposes ballot measure to execute gays  
(news.yahoo.com) - A California lawyer has submitted a referendum proposal to outlaw homosexuality in the famously liberal western US state, on pain of execution...The proposal -- unlikely to advance, as it requires over 360,000 signatures to proceed -- was submitted by attorney Matthew McLaughlin to the California Attorney General's office last week.        http://news.yahoo.com/california-lawyer-proposes-ballot-measure-execute-gays-191800967.html
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 Media Cheerleading for nObamacare Victory at Supreme Court  
(Roger Aronoff) - While the media continue to spin the King v. Burwell case as an existential threat to President nObama’s signature health care legislation, we at Accuracy in Media continue to expose how flawed those supposed “reforms” have been...Yet the media blindly and obstinately defend nObamacare as an administration success. A recent Washington Post editorial even suggests that the Supreme Court, which heard arguments for this case on March 4, should avoid tearing “apart a law that has slowly but surely found its footing.” The idea that nObamacare—a job-killing law that is unaffordable and unworkable, coupled with more than 20,000 pages of added regulations causing perverse effects on the marketplace—has “surely found its footing” is part of a false narrative created jointly by pro-administration advocates and a media willing to justify the burdensome restrictions this has placed on the American people.       http://www.aim.org/aim-column/media-cheerleading-for-obamacare-victory-at-supreme-court/?utm_source=AIM+-+Daily+Email&utm_campaign=email030615&utm_medium=email
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 Much to Fear in Possible Iran Deal  
(Peter Brookes) - Putting both countries’ politics aside (talk about heavy-lifting!), Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s address to Congress was essential – if for no other reason than it threw a spotlight on an issue hiding in diplomatic darkness...Few probably realized, especially outside Washington, D.C., that while Netanyahu was speaking to Congress, Secretary of State Hanoi John Kerry was in Montreux, Switzerland, trying to cut a deal with Iran’s Foreign Minister Javad Zarif on Tehran’s nuclear program. Indeed, Team nObama and Team Ayatollah had hoped to reach an agreement on nukes before the end of the month possibly without the public, perhaps even congressional, scrutiny that such an historic deal should unquestionably get. Netanyahu changed that – and we should be thankful he did.       http://www.aim.org/guest-column/much-to-fear-in-possible-iran-deal/?utm_source=AIM+-+Daily+Email&utm_campaign=email030615&utm_medium=email
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 EPA Rules Would Hurt Economy, Threaten States’ ‘Sovereignty’  
(Rob Longley) - The Environmental Protection Agency’s plan to tighten rules governing the nation’s water and air quality would have a crippling effect on state and local economies and send consumer energy prices soaring...the attorneys general of two rural states told a House panel last week. The hearing held by the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform focused on the EPA’s proposals to amend three of its regulations. The first would mandate reductions in emissions at coal-fired power plants and similar facilities; the second would require reductions in ozone, or smog, levels; and the third would clarify the types of waterways controlled by the EPA under the Clean Water Act.       http://pjmedia.com/blog/ags-to-congress-epa-rules-would-hurt-economy-threaten-states-sovereignty/
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 Michigan Town passes sharia resolution against ‘islamophobia’  
(pamelageller.com) - The Michigan Taylor City Council unanimously approved a resolution Tuesday that supports a campaign against sharia under the guise of “hate based on religion.” Islamic supremacism as law...Jihadists are conducting a genocide against Christians across the world and US politicians are passing resolutions prohibiting criticism of genocide, gender apartheid, creed apartheid, misogyny and Islamic Jew-hatred. Islamic supremacists are embedding themselves in school boards, town councils, etc., to impose Islam on secular American society. Embedded Muslims and their well-paid stooges in local governments are passing resolutions to impose the sharia — to prohibit criticism of Islam and jihad. Councilman Alex Garza, who offered the Islamic supremacist resolution, previously devoted himself to Rashida Tlaib, the first Muslim woman to serve in the Michigan Legislature, and only the second Muslim woman in history to be elected to any state legislature in America. Garza is an nObama goosestepper who worked for as an Field Director for Organizing for America – Michigan, President nObama’s campaign.       http://pamelageller.com/2015/03/michigan-town-council-passes-sharia-resolution-against-islamophobia.html/
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 On Iran, the White House Should Respond Seriously to Netanyahu  
(Alan M. Dershowitz) - Contrary to what critics have claimed, war is not the only alternative to the deal with Iran currently being considered by Washington. Now, Alan Dershowitz argues...the nObama administration is obliged to answer the Israeli prime minister’s proposals for a better deal: The decision to accept or reject a deal with Iran over its nuclear-weapons program may be the most important foreign-policy issue of the 21st century. Many members of Congress, perhaps most, agree with the prime minister of Israel rather than with the president of the United States on this issue. . . . Perhaps the president can persuade Congress to support this deal, but [his administration] must engage with, rather than ignore, our duly elected representatives of the people. . . .       http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/5326/netanyahu-iran-proposal
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 Facing an Existential Threat: Christians Living in Islamic Lands  
(Jack Kerwick) - In spite of what Barack nObama would have us believe, he was as much in tune to Benjamin Netanyahu’s address to Congress this week as was anyone and everyone else in the world...But exclusive focus on American/Israeli and Israeli/Islamic relations threatens to blind us to the fierce, unrelenting oppression with which Christians throughout the world are routinely forced to reckon courtesy of their Islamic neighbors. Throughout the Islamosphere in Africa and the Middle East, men, women, and children have been subjected en masse to unspeakable acts of cruelty. Jihadists, while pillaging and burning homes and churches, have laid waste to whole communities. Families have been destroyed as husbands and fathers were bludgeoned, beheaded, and burned to death; wives and mothers raped, beaten, and starved; young boys forced to convert to Islam and take up arms on behalf of their captors; and young girls enslaved and sold off to become either wives to grown men or human missiles—i.e. suicide bombers.   http://www.frontpagemag.com/2015/jack-kerwick/facing-an-existential-threat-christians-living-in-islamic-lands/?utm_source=FrontPage+Magazine&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=b7ea720923-Mailchimp_FrontPageMag&utm_term=0_57e32c1dad-b7ea720923-156509103
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 He Can’t Negotiate Iran Treaty Alone, Senate Must Advise And Consent  
(rickwells.us) - Greta Van Susteren notes that both she and Hussein nObama attended and taught at law schools and both studied the same United States Constitution. She offers him a refresher in recognition of his failure of act in accordance with its mandates...She says, “Article 2, section 2, clause 2 includes the treaty clause, which empowers the President to propose and negotiate agreements between the United States and other nations, which become treaties after, yes after, the advice and consent of a super-majority of the U.S. Senate.” She points out, “That means the ‘president’ has no power to make a deal solely with Iran, solely alone, he can’t do that. Presidents are not kings, they’re not dictators, and under our Constitution the President of the United States has broad powers but by no means absolute powers.” The Senate is 'We the People'.       http://www.rickwells.us/in-case-constitutional-expert-obama-forgot-he-cant-negotiate-iran-treaty-alone-senate-must-advise-and-consent/
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 JW claims E-mail Was Government Issue and Then Cover-up  
(nicedeb.wordpress.com) - Tom Fitton of Judicial Watch was on The Kelly File, Thursday night, to talk about his group’s years-long efforts to get Hilly Clinton’s emails from the State Department. Six+ years of document requests had turned up nothing... “It was notable,” Fitton said. “So notable that we filed additional lawsuits just to make sure they didn’t have an out not to give us the material.” He said they ended up dismissing one lawsuit after the State Dept told them that they had searched her office and didn’t find anything. “They had an obligation to tell us,” Fitton declared. “They’re not only lying to us, they’re messing with the courts – and this is a seven year cover-up. The administration knew this from the beginning. As soon as she began using this email account – and it’s not a private email account. It was a government account that was disguised and hidden from the American people.”
More from The Kelly File, last night with Ed Henry and Judge Napolitano:
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 The new government bourgeoisie  
(Daniel Bongino) - The Hilly Clinton email saga is an outrageous story. This is not a story about email etiquette, it’s a story about the new government bourgeoisie...The new government bourgeoisie are a class of high-ranking government officials who operate by a separate and distinct set of rules. The rules they live by are not the rules the rest of America lives by. They are not the rules the rest of the federal workforce lives by either. If, during my time as a Secret Service agent ensuring her security, I had purchased a private email server and conducted all of my official government business on it, I likely would have been immediately terminated. It’s not a coincidence that trust in government is at a near all-time low. Working Americans understand that there are two different Americas; one for the connected insider-class, and one for the “little people.”
It's All Bad News for nObamaCare
Alan Caruba
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     (factsnotfantasy.blogspot.com) - On Wednesday, March 4, the Supreme Court will hear the King v. Burwell case. It is likely to deliver a death blow to nObamaCare when the decision is announced in a few months. About the only good thing nObamaCare demonstrated is that the federal government should be kept from taking over sectors of the nation’s economy that are working just fine without it.

     Health care expert Edmund Haislmaier and legal expert, both of The Heritage Foundation, provided an explanation of the case. “The question before the Supreme Court is whether the nObama administration overstepped its authority in issuing an IRS ruling that conflicts with the nObamaCare statute. The statute allows payment of nObamaCare subsidies only to individuals who obtain coverage ‘through an Exchange established by a State.’”
 
     nObamaCare got such a cold reception nationwide that 34 States refused to set up an exchange, forcing the feds to do it. Those exchanges distributed subsidies to individuals participating in them, but the nObamaCare statute “seemingly did not authorize subsidies in such cases.” Suffice to say that nObamaCare health insurance is considerably more costly than what one could have previously purchased on one’s own; thus the need for the subsidies gambit. 
 
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     The February edition of Health Care News, published by The Heartland Institute was filled with articles attesting to the failure of nObamaCare. Here are a few excerpts from them.
     Devon M. Herrick, Ph.D., a health economist and senior fellow at the National Center for Policy Analysis, noted “nObama touts the claim (that) millions more people are now covered under health care insurance policies through employer plans. However, research has shown exchange subsidies will cause employers to drop coverage…Mandatory benefits are not free; workers bear the cost in the form of lower wages.” 
 
     Dr. Herrick added, “nObama said (in his State of the Union speech that) ‘in the past year alone about ten million uninsured Americans finally gained the security of health coverage,’ but he neglected to mention roughly 6 million were coverage through Medicaid expansion and many of them were finding it difficult to find doctors willing to work for the paltry fees state Medicaid programs pay doctors for treatment.”
 
     An article by Matthew Glans, a Heartland senior policy analyst, noted that “The Health and Welfare Committee of the Tennessee Senate voted on February 5 to reject a bill that would have allowed Gov. Bill Haslam to expanded Medicare under the Affordable Care Act.” 
 
     Kenneth Artz reported that “A new study by the Office of Inspector General for the Department of Health and Human Services found half of all providers listed in Medicaid managed-care plans are not available to new Medicaid patients, either because they are not at the listed location or aren’t accepting new Medicaid patients.” Feeling ill? “For doctors who are accepting new Medicaid patients, the average wait time to get an appointment is two weeks, with close to 25% of patient having waits of one month or longer.”

     Tom Steward, writing for the Minnesota Bureau of Watchdog.org, contributed to Health Care News noted that “In a significant victory for religious liberty and economic freedom, the American Manufacturing Company received a permanent federal exemption from provisions of the Affordable Care Act that contradict the owner’s religious convictions.”
 
     Sean Parnell, the managing editor of Health Care News, reported that “Rhode Island officials predicted up to 100,000 residents would use the state-created exchange established under the Affordable Care Act to buy health insurance in 2014. Data from the state show only 27,961 people enrolled during the 2014 open-enrollment period, a number that declined throughout the year as many enrollees failed to pay their first premium or later dropped coverage.”
 
     nObamaCare is on critical care because it could die at any time. Not surprisingly, three Republicans, John Kline, Paul Ryan, and Fred Upton, chairmen respectively of the House Committee on Education and Workforce, Ways and Means, and Energy and Commerce, have put together a plan to address the likelihood that the Supreme Court decision will put an end to nObamaCare.
 
     As they said in a recent Wall Street Journal commentary, “If the court rules against the administration, as any fair reading of the law would demand, millions of individuals and families will hit a major roadblock. They’ll be stuck with health insurance designed by Washington, D.C., that they can’t afford.”
     “What we propose is the off-ramp out of nObamaCare toward patient-centered health care. It has two parts: First, make insurance more affordable by ending Washington mandates and giving choice back to the states, individuals and families. And, second, support Americans in purchasing the coverage of their choosing.”
 
     What a unique idea! Let people choose the health care plan they want and that they can afford. That’s the way it used to be before the Affordable Care Act was passed entirely by Democrat votes because the GOP would not support it. That’s why Congress is controlled by the GOP these days. And that’s why this nation will return to the free marketplace.
 
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