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 Take Down School Shooters With ... Canned Food?  
Which of these does a better job of dropping a gunman: bullets or beans? Granted, it's a stupid question, but since when did anti-gun lefties make sense? According to one Alabama school, beans -- or any other canned food item -- make an excellent self-defense weapon. "As a result of school shootings throughout the United States and discussing with law enforcement on the best procedure to follow to keep our students safe, we are enhancing our procedure for intruders," explained administrators of W.F. Burns Middle School in a letter to parents. "The procedure will be the same as we have done in the past with the addition of arming our students with a canned food item." 'Cause nothing scares a would-be shooter like a flying can of Green Giant green beans. The officials added, "We realize at first this may seem odd" -- you don't say? -- "however, it is a practice that would catch an intruder off-guard." Here's a better idea: Arm teachers who can quickly and effectively alleviate the threat. Liberals like to talk about "common sense" reforms; that is, unless it involves putting guns in the hands of good guys. More...  -The Patriot Post 
 
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 Sharpton Attacks Hollywood Over Perceived Selma Snub 
Al Sharpton wanted "Selma" to sweep the Oscars. The film tells the story of Martin Luther King Jr.'s marches from Selma to Montgomery in 1965, and it was only nominated for Best Motion Picture, but that wasn't good enough for race-baiter Sharpton. He's calling an "emergency meeting" with his Hollywood task force to decide what to do, because, in his eyes, the Oscars are not diverse enough this year. "With all of the talent in Selma and other Black movies this year," Sharpton said, "it is hard to believe that we have less diversity in the nominations today than in recent history. ... The movie industry is like the Rocky Mountains, the higher you get, the whiter it gets." Sharpton -- who has no film criticism cred to date -- probably threatened to attack Hollywood over this issue because he wants to sway the decision, not to mention this sort of shakedown is how he makes his living-The Patriot Post 
 
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 SOTU Will Push Income Redistribution  
Barack nObama will use his State of the Union Address tomorrow to call on the Republican Congress to pass his progressive tax policies. It will not be a speech to update the legislative body on the state of the union, but to embarrass Republicans before the nation. nObama will promise tax plans that redistribute "free" stuff, calling on Congress to hike taxes so the government rakes in an extra $320 billion over 10 years and can then "give" the middle class $175 billion. Top White House aide Dan Pfeiffer said, "I think we should have a debate in this country between middle-class economics and trickle-down economics. I think, in divided government, each side should lay out their agenda, what they think is in the best interest of the country." Liberals miss that "trickle-down economics" -- their pejorative term for Reaganomics -- is based on people keeping their own hard-earned income. nObama proposes increasing the capital gains and dividend tax rate to 28%, placing a limit on how much money Americans can save for retirement -- and even taxing college saving plans to pay for his "free" community college boondoggle. So much for encouraging responsible personal finance. It's a shameful policy rooted in envy. More...  
-The Patriot Post 
 
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 nObama Goes on Offense, Will Seek 7% Budget Hike  

Congressional Republicans better take note that Barack nObama has no intention of quietly riding off into the sunset -- even if he does frequently check out and play more golf over the next two years. "I'm not going to spend the next two years on defense; I'm going to play offense," he told congressional Democrats Thursday. Part of that offense is going to be on the budget, which the White House is due to release on Feb. 2. According to officials who leaked details, nObama wants to increase spending by 7% -- clearly indicating he's not content with allowing Republicans to slow down his spending bonanza. Thanks in large part to the sequester and the stalemate in Congress since 2011, the budget deficit for the fiscal year ending Sept. 30 was $483 billion -- the smallest since 2007. Obviously, that's better than the trillion-dollar deficits of nObama's early years, and lower deficits are likely why the economy is finally showing signs of life. That means increasing spending by 7% isn't going to be good. It's up to the Republican-controlled Congress to stop nObama in his tracks. More...  -The Patriot Post 

 
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 Ryan: No Gas Tax Hike  
Some in Washington, including Republicans, have recently pushed a hike in the gas tax. What better time to gouge consumers replenish the Highway Trust Fund than when drivers are finally paying less at the pump? Well, House Ways and Means Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI) put an end to such talk, saying flatly, "We won't pass a gas tax." Ryan added that he'd love to tackle more comprehensive tax reform, saying, "We just want to make sure we have the best possible tax reform that creates jobs [and] is fair." But he also acknowledged Barack nObama stands in the way of any sensible tax policy. In related news, Ryan recently announced that he would not seek the 2016 GOP presidential nomination, despite calls for him to run. For our part, we're glad to see him running the Ways and Means Committee, as it seems he's right where he belongs. 
-The Patriot Post 
 
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 When Illegals Kill Cops  
(Lloyd Billingsley) - Rep. Ami Bera, a northern California Democrat, has invited Susan Oliver, 46, to President nObama’s State of the Union Speech. The White House is aware of the invitation, and Mrs. Oliver has a message of her own for the chief executive... “Build unity between citizens and law enforcement,” she told Richard Chang of the Sacramento Bee. “The damage is tearing people apart.” Activists, she said, try to “excite people who don’t know all the facts” and “people will do negative things just because there’s an opportunity.” Mrs. Oliver, an African American, can speak to the issue with some authority. She can also address another issue the president and his handlers prefer to avoid: the murder of American law enforcement officers by people who are not supposed to be in the country.      http://www.frontpagemag.com/2015/lloyd-billingsley/when-illegals-kill-cops/?utm_source=FrontPage+Magazine&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=aa5dcb3683-Mailchimp_FrontPageMag&utm_term=0_57e32c1dad-aa5dcb3683-156509103
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 No No-Go Zones? Really?  
(Robert Spencer) - The Leftist media and Islamic supremacist groups have been doing a victory dance ever since Saturday night, when Fox News issued an apology for statements made on the air by terror expert Steve Emerson and others about Muslim no-go zones in Britain and France...However, the apology doesn’t say what it has widely reported as saying – and there is considerable evidence that Muslim areas in both countries are a growing law enforcement and societal problem. However, Emerson was not guilty of fabrication, just of overstatement. Some of the comments on a piece in the UK’s Daily Mail about his gaffe and British Prime Minister David Cameron’s reaction to it (he called Emerson a “complete idiot”) insisted that Emerson was at least partially right: “Just shows cameron doesn’t even know what is happening in this country , as the news presenter is totally correct , its a no go zone .” “There ARE some parts of Birmingham where you darent or shouldn’t go !” “Is he far off the truth? Maybe it’s not true for Birmingham as a whole but there are certain areas where it is true. Certainly it is true of certain other Towns in the UK. Bradford, Leicester, Luton spring to mind.”       http://www.frontpagemag.com/2015/robert-spencer/no-no-go-zones-really/?utm_source=FrontPage+Magazine&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=aa5dcb3683-Mailchimp_FrontPageMag&utm_term=0_57e32c1dad-aa5dcb3683-156509103
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 Alberto Nisman’s Warning About Iran  
(Claudia Rosett) - Nisman spent the past decade seeking justice for the victims of the 1994 terrorist bombing of a Buenos Aires Jewish community center, which killed 85 people and wounded many more. Nisman compiled a massive case, accusing Iran and its Lebanese terrorist affiliate, Hezbollah, of the attack...He indicted a member of Hezbollah and a number of former high-ranking Iranians officials. And he found himself increasingly at cross-purposes with the machinations of Argentina’s President Cristina Kirchner. Last week, Nisman filed a criminal complaint almost 300 pages long, accusing Kirchner, her foreign minister Hector Timerman, and a number of others, of orchestrating a cover-up of Iran’s responsibility for the 1994 attack. A summary of the complaint, sent out last week by Nisman’s office, accused Kirchner of secretly cutting a deal with Iran to concoct a story that would exonerate Iran and its fugitives from the 1994 bombing, thus opening the way for Argentina to trade grain for Iranian oil, at the cost of “sacrificing a lengthy and legitimate quest for justice.” Nisman was due to testify Monday to Argentina’s Congress about his allegations. He never made it. On the eve of his testimony, the 51-year-old Nisman was found dead in his Buenos Aires apartment, shot in the head.   http://defenddemocracy.org/media-hit/claudia-rosett-alberto-nismans-warning-about-iran/
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 Official Outsourcing of Security to Muslim Terrorists in Benghazi   
(Ben Barrack) - If there has been a U.S. Congressman whose behavior relative to the investigation of what happened in Benghazi on September 11, 2012, has been bizarre...it’s Rep. Mike Rogers (R-MI), the recently retired congressman and former chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI). According to John Shaw, former deputy undersecretary of defense to international technology security, the security company Rogers’ wife worked for as a high-ranking official, may provide more of those answers. As Shoebat.com reported, shortly after Mr. Rogers became HPSCI Chairman in early 2011, the company she worked for (Aegis) began its work in Libya. What role Aegis played has to this point, been largely unclear. However, Shaw’s claims point to a trail of security outsourcing that ended up in the hands of February 17 Martyrs Brigade (F17MB), which provided security at the Benghazi Special Mission Compound (SMC) the night four Americans were murdered.       http://shoebat.com/2015/01/19/ex-defense-dept-official-connects-outsourcing-security-muslim-terrorists-benghazi-company-congressmans-wife-vice-chairman-board-directors/
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 House McCaul Bill Is Republicans Caving On Amnesty  
(Rick Wells) - A diversionary tactic to provide protective insulation from angry Americans will be “marked up” in the House Homeland Security Committee tomorrow and falsely promoted...as an effective piece of legislation that will fulfill Republicans’ promise to secure the border and fight Hussein nObama’s illegal amnesty. It does none of that. What it does is attempt to perpetrate yet another fraud upon the American people, with our sovereignty and surrender to illegal foreign invaders hanging in the balance. Senator Jeff Sessions (R-AL) is the preeminent patriotic voice against the lawlessness of the executive branch and the multitude of complicit and corrupt members of Congress. He issued a statement today detailing just what is wrong with the proposal and why.      http://gopthedailydose.com/2015/01/20/sen-jeff-sessions-house-mccaul-bill-is-republicans-caving-on-amnesty-surrendering-to-outlaw-Obama/
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 nObama and UN Created Terror State in Libya  
(Alex Newman) - When the nObama administration and NATO, acting under the purported “authority” of a United Nations resolution, backed al-Qaeda-linked jihadist rebels and helped overthrow the regime of Moammar Gadhafi...a former U.S. terror-war ally, Libya was supposed to have been “liberated.” Instead, it spiraled into deeper and bloodier civil war, and has now essentially become a terror state — with groups ranging from the Islamic State (ISIS) to al-Qaeda openly roaming the capital and operating training centers across large swaths of the nation under their control. Libya today, following what analysts and even former U.S. generals described as nObama “switching sides” in the terror war, also features multiple self-styled “governments” battling each other for control over the ruins and traumatized survivors. Amid the chaos, it has become open season on Christians and journalists, too. And he wanted to do the same with Syria.        http://www.thenewamerican.com/world-news/africa/item/19939-obama-and-un-created-terror-state-in-libya?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_campaign=14c00dd091-The_Editors_Top_Picks_3_12_143_12_2014&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_8ca494f2d2-14c00dd091-289778381
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 nObama’s Bergdahl Deal, Treason, High Crimes And Misdemeanors  
(Rick Wells) - After claiming that deserter Bowe Bergdahl served his country with honor and distinction, the validation of those now obviously false claims has not slow in coming...The military investigation is supposedly complete, but the Army and the nObama regime are sitting on the results, with no information of any kind as to the results or the timetable of future actions being provided. Judge Andrew Napolitano says that, given this “president’s” personal involvement, the truth may never come out. He says, “The ‘president’s’ personal, personal involvement in the trade of Sgt Bergdahl for five Taliban leaders at Gitmo is so toxic, such a hot potato, I think he prefers that we never know exactly what happened.” He indicates it is possible that the government might never decide which crime it chooses to charge him with, from missing a roll call to treason or anywhere in between.       http://gopthedailydose.com/2015/01/20/judge-napolitano-obamas-bergdahl-deal-treason-high-crimes-and-misdemeanors/
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 Israel Braces for Retaliation After Airstrike in Syria  
(investigativeproject.org) - Israel is bracing for potential attacks from Hizballah, after an airstrike in the Syrian Golan Sunday killed 11 members of the Hizballah-Iranian axis...The dead include Jihad Mughniyeh, a son of former Hizballah leader Imad Mughniyeh, Iranian General Mohamed Allahdadi and Mohammed Issa, the leader of Hizballah's operations in Syria and Iraq. In response, Major General Mohammad Ali Jafari, the commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, warned of a "destructive" retaliatory actions against Israel and called for the destruction of the Jewish state. "The Zionists should await annihilating thunderbolts," Jafari told Iranian media. While on high alert in the north, Israel deployed several Iron dome anti-missile systems on the border in case Hizballah decides to launch rockets into Israel.       http://www.investigativeproject.org/4756/israel-braces-for-retaliation-after-airstrike-in#
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 Gohmert to Have Oversight of the Bureau of Land Management  
(Bob Price) - U.S. Representative Louie Gohmert (R-TX) was appointed chairman of the House Subcommittee for Natural Resources Oversight and Investigations...This subcommittee has, among other responsibilities, oversight of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM). Gohmert received the committee chairmanship despite his recent historic challenge to House Speaker John Boehner earlier this month. “It is an absolute privilege to represent the Lone Star State, more specifically east Texas, in the capacity of subcommittee chairman of such a relevant and responsible subcommittee,” Chairman Gohmert told Breitbart Texas. “This administration has hindered the United States’ ability to produce and manage our own vast resources, but I am really looking forward to helping the federal government become more responsible.”       http://www.breitbart.com/texas/2015/01/19/gohmert-to-have-oversight-of-blm/
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 U.S. to Award Iran $11.9 Billion Through End of Nuke Talks  
(Adam Kredo) - The nObama administration on Wednesday paid $490 million in cash assets to Iran and will have released a total of $11.9 billion to the Islamic Republic by the time nuclear talks are scheduled to end in June, according to figures provided by the State Department...Today’s $490 million release, the third such payment of this amount since Dec. 10, was agreed to by the nObama administration under the parameters of another extension in negotiations over Tehran’s contested nuclear program that was inked in November. Iran will receive a total of $4.9 billion in unfrozen cash assets via 10 separate payments by the United States through June 22, when talks with Iran are scheduled to end with a final agreement aimed at curbing the country’s nuclear work, according to a State Department official. It sure seems like we are just giving and not receiving nothing in return.      http://freebeacon.com/national-security/u-s-to-award-iran-11-9-billion-through-end-of-nuke-talks/
Whiners & Sore Winners
Burt Prelutsky
 
     (burtprelutsky.com) - Sometimes when I attack urban blacks, I worry that some pinheads will fail to understand that I am not tarring all black Americans. I’m certainly not referring to those who work hard, get married and raise their children to be good citizens. Obviously, I am not referring to the likes of Thomas Sowell, Walter Williams, Allen West, Condoleezza Rice, Tim Scott, Herman Cain, David Clarke, Mia Love, Ben Carson or Jason Riley.

     The ones I have in mind are the 95% of plantation blacks who vote for Democrats year in and year out, the ones who not only know which side of their bread is buttered, but know only too well who gave them the bread they didn’t have to work for or bake for themselves.

     Democrats are like those zombies in the movies who are constantly prowling the countryside looking for brains because they have none of their own. But that doesn’t matter to black voters, who understand the deal is that so long as they vote for liberals, they’ll be fed, housed and clothed, and not only will their mob violence be tolerated, but it will be encouraged by the likes of nObama, Holder and De Blasio.

     They’re also aware of the fact that the liberal media, in collusion with academia, will promote the false narrative that these scofflaws and human sloths are being persecuted by white society, when in fact they are being coddled by white taxpayers.

     Racial bias that favors blacks has become so endemic in America that I’m wondering if the Democrats haven’t cried “Wolf!” or, rather, “Racist!” once too often for their own good. There used to be a slogan popular during the Vietnam War that asked: “What if they threw a war and nobody came?” I think it’s time to revise it to read: “What if they cried ‘Racist!’ and for once nobody cowered?”

     Recently I wrote about a friend who said he would prefer it if I referred to the Democrat Party instead of calling it the Democratic Party. In my defense, I said that “Democrat Party” looks wrong to my eye and sounds wrong in my ear.

     A few of my mutinous readers let me know they agreed with my friend, pointing out that I unintentionally give the Democrats too much credit because there’s nothing democratic about them.

     In response, I said the mistake was theirs because there’s nothing all that wonderful about democracy. I realize that sounds like heresy, but the fact is that in Venezuela, Hugo Chavez won a democratic election; in Russia, Vladimir Putin did the same; the so-called Palestinians voted for Hamas; and here in the U.S., we elected a tyrant of our own. In fact, we did it twice.

     When it comes to voting, the truth is that most people just aren’t very good at it. What’s more, Democrats, in spite of being really awful at it, are so fond of voting, they often do it twice or three times in the same election.

     In the past, while I’ve never been a booster of backstabber John Boehner or Mitch McConnell, I have usually refrained from attacking them. After all, it is just possible that the Republicans who have to deal with them on a day to day basis like them for reasons I can’t possibly imagine. The worst I’ve ever said about either of them is that they don’t speak well on camera and neither is particularly adept at presenting the GOP position on the important issues. I usually summed it up by stating that what they lacked in smarts, they failed to make up for in charm and personality.

     But that was then and this is now. I can’t ignore the fact that backstabber Boehner is so thin-skinned that simply because 25 House Republicans either voted for others to be the majority leader or merely voted “Present,” he had a hissy fit. As a result of which, he decided to punish Florida congressman Daniel Webster for opposing him, and Florida congressman Richard Nugent for supporting Rep. Webster, by removing both of them from the powerful House Rules Committee.

     So much for those who insist that backstabber Boehner lacks a backbone. Like nObama, who only sticks to his guns when opposing Republicans, never when confronted by Syria, Russia or Iran, backstabber Boehner turns into a mighty warrior when confronting conservatives. The most pathetic part of all this is that backstabber Boehner faced very little resistance by his lickspittle colleagues, and easily won re-election. So, just in case you thought there was nothing worse than a sore loser, allow me to introduce you to crybaby backstabber John Boehner, who gives new meaning to “sore winner.”

     Recently Barack nObama invited Mexico’s President Enrique Nieto to the White House. Predictably, Nieto complimented nObama on granting legal status to five million illegal aliens through an unconstitutional executive edict.

     What does it say about the swamp known as Mexico that one presidente after another urges the U.S. to accommodate millions of their fleeing countrymen? Frankly, I wouldn’t object quite so much to the influx if it were a quid pro quo arrangement in which we accepted their illiterate peasants in exchange for our own ungrateful welfare junkies, but that deal, you’ll have noticed, is never on the table.

     Shame on Rudy Giuliani and the other politicians and bureaucrats who chided the New York cops who turned their backs on Mayor De Blasio at the funerals of the two assassinated police officers. They weren’t showing disrespect to their two fallen comrades or to their families, and we all knew it. In fact, I was reminded of the All Star baseball game in St. Louis a few years back when nObama figured he wouldn’t be booed if he rode out onto the field in a convertible seated next to Cardinal legend Stan “The Man” Musial. It helped some, but he still got razzed because the Cardinal fans, Mr. Musial and the rest of us, all knew for whom the booing was intended.

     Finally, I’m going to have to work on my timing. For years, dinkyHarry Reid took great pride in pushing nObamaCare down our throats and preventing any Republican legislation bound to embarrass his Senate colleagues or the president from even reaching the Senate floor. It took a while before I began hoping and praying that the schmuck would wind up in the hospital with broken bones and a concussion.

     It finally happened, but only after the midterm elections had transformed dinky Reid from being the second most powerful man in Washington into just another cranky old geezer from an inconsequential state that was put on the map by mobster Bugsy Siegel.

     Now I’m targeting backstabber John Boehner in my prayers. Let’s see how long his luck holds out.
 
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