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Al Sharpton Owes More Taxes
Al Sharpton's nonprofit, the National Action Network, isn't the only organization of his that owes hundreds of thousands of dollars in unpaid taxes. An investigation by National Review shows that every for-profit enterprise the race baiter has started is on the financial rocks because of -- you guessed it -- taxes. The state has shut down his businesses. Liens were placed against him for owing tens, sometimes hundred of thousands of dollars. He is constantly late when he files his taxes for NAN. A former aide of Sharpton's, Carl Redding, told National Review, "What he's doing is negligent. … Absolute power corrupts absolutely. I believe that Sharpton has become so powerful it's diluting everything about him. The African-American community doesn't trust Sharpton anymore. He's living in a fantasy world if he thinks he has credibility." Sharpton has become a man wearing a borrowed Rolex. And he's supposed to be the shining spokesman for blacks in this nation? More…
-The Patriot Post 
HILLY TO BE QUEEN OF QUEENS?
As Hilly Clinton prepares to make her official announcement of a second presidential run, Campaign Carl Cameron reports that a docking station for the mother ship will soon be revealed: “Clinton insiders say she’s now leaning toward putting her national headquarters in Long Island City in the New York City borough of Queens, and they could move in within two months.”
Hypotheticals - In latest Quinnipiac poll, voters in the swing states of Pennsylvania, Ohio and Florida were asked about matchups between Hilly Clinton and potential Republican nominees. In Ohio, Gov. John Kasich pulls into a statistical tie with 43 percent to Hilly’s 44 percent of the vote. Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush was in a statistical tie with Clinton in his home state, 43 percent to 44 percent. Sen. Marco Rubio lags behind by 10 points, 39 to 49 percent. -Fox News
O’Malley drills nObama from the left - In a NYT op-ed, Former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley, D-Md., writes against President nObama’s decision to allow drilling along the Atlantic coast: “To allow drilling off the Atlantic Coast is to willfully forget Deepwater’s awful lesson even as the economic, environmental and public health consequences continue to reverberate in communities along the gulf.” -Fox News
As Hilly Clinton prepares to make her official announcement of a second presidential run, Campaign Carl Cameron reports that a docking station for the mother ship will soon be revealed: “Clinton insiders say she’s now leaning toward putting her national headquarters in Long Island City in the New York City borough of Queens, and they could move in within two months.”
Hypotheticals - In latest Quinnipiac poll, voters in the swing states of Pennsylvania, Ohio and Florida were asked about matchups between Hilly Clinton and potential Republican nominees. In Ohio, Gov. John Kasich pulls into a statistical tie with 43 percent to Hilly’s 44 percent of the vote. Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush was in a statistical tie with Clinton in his home state, 43 percent to 44 percent. Sen. Marco Rubio lags behind by 10 points, 39 to 49 percent. -Fox News
O’Malley drills nObama from the left - In a NYT op-ed, Former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley, D-Md., writes against President nObama’s decision to allow drilling along the Atlantic coast: “To allow drilling off the Atlantic Coast is to willfully forget Deepwater’s awful lesson even as the economic, environmental and public health consequences continue to reverberate in communities along the gulf.” -Fox News
WHY ARE REPUBLICANS CATCHING DEMS’ VACCINE WOES?
Katherine Miller in BuzzFeed: “But who are these people pandering to? What part, exactly, of the Republican coalition so opposes mandatory requirements that, in the context of a measles outbreak, vaccination is a compromise issue? Because here’s the truth: This is largely a liberal fringe issue. The people not vaccinating their kids against the diseases once declared defeated don’t live in South Carolina or Indiana or a particularly conservative part of Ohio or Florida. That isn’t where people are contracting the whooping cough… No, the strongholds are in places like Newport Beach, Santa Monica, and Marin County, California. The affluent, the educated, the enlightened, the ones who believe in purity and science — people in liberal enclaves are the ones rejecting one of the 20th century’s major scientific achievements.
[Marin [Calif.] Independent Journal: “At Greenwood School in Mill Valley, 61 percent of the kindergartners are partially or completely unvaccinated, according to state figures. At San Geronimo Valley Elementary in San Geronimo, 58 percent of the kindergarten children are partially or completely unvaccinated.”]
"Now, as of 2011, 19 states had “philosophical” exemptions — the way you might oppose designated hitter, except in this instance, you oppose a medical professional immunizing your child from rubella, and cool, that works. Many of those states, with a fair amount of exceptions like Texas and Louisiana, conjure the image of people hiking in fleeces. California, Vermont, Washington state, Maine, New Mexico, Colorado. These are states where one can oppose vaccination for personal reasons.
Katherine Miller in BuzzFeed: “But who are these people pandering to? What part, exactly, of the Republican coalition so opposes mandatory requirements that, in the context of a measles outbreak, vaccination is a compromise issue? Because here’s the truth: This is largely a liberal fringe issue. The people not vaccinating their kids against the diseases once declared defeated don’t live in South Carolina or Indiana or a particularly conservative part of Ohio or Florida. That isn’t where people are contracting the whooping cough… No, the strongholds are in places like Newport Beach, Santa Monica, and Marin County, California. The affluent, the educated, the enlightened, the ones who believe in purity and science — people in liberal enclaves are the ones rejecting one of the 20th century’s major scientific achievements.
[Marin [Calif.] Independent Journal: “At Greenwood School in Mill Valley, 61 percent of the kindergartners are partially or completely unvaccinated, according to state figures. At San Geronimo Valley Elementary in San Geronimo, 58 percent of the kindergarten children are partially or completely unvaccinated.”]
"Now, as of 2011, 19 states had “philosophical” exemptions — the way you might oppose designated hitter, except in this instance, you oppose a medical professional immunizing your child from rubella, and cool, that works. Many of those states, with a fair amount of exceptions like Texas and Louisiana, conjure the image of people hiking in fleeces. California, Vermont, Washington state, Maine, New Mexico, Colorado. These are states where one can oppose vaccination for personal reasons.
-Fox News
Bushworld 3.0 - The Hill: “Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush has hired two experienced Republican communications operatives to advise his political action committee and potential 2016 presidential campaign. Danny Diaz and Jon Downs will become advisers to Bush’s Right to Rise PAC, an organization that could serve as the precursor to his official bid. They will likely join a campaign organization should he choose to run…Diaz was a top communications adviser to Sen. John McCain’s [R-Ariz.] campaign for the presidency in 2008, and he worked on the 2004 reelection effort of former President George W. Bush. Downs is an ad creator who has worked for Sen. Dan Sullivan [R-Alaska] and Sen. Ted Cruz [R-Texas] and is known for aggressive spots.”
[Choosing up - The Houston Chronicle reports that Bush’s new hires mean the end of the relationship between the presidential campaign of former Texas Gov. Rick Perry and Terry Nelson, the former political director for George W. Bush who is a partner of Diaz and Downs at the firm FP1 Strategies.]
“I think many candidates are at the point now where we’re starting to assess political support financial support, build a team. I am doing all those things as well. Certainly my name recognition isn't what the other candidates is because I haven't been in politics my whole life.” – Former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina on “The Kelly File” Watch here.
[Choosing up - The Houston Chronicle reports that Bush’s new hires mean the end of the relationship between the presidential campaign of former Texas Gov. Rick Perry and Terry Nelson, the former political director for George W. Bush who is a partner of Diaz and Downs at the firm FP1 Strategies.]
“I think many candidates are at the point now where we’re starting to assess political support financial support, build a team. I am doing all those things as well. Certainly my name recognition isn't what the other candidates is because I haven't been in politics my whole life.” – Former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina on “The Kelly File” Watch here.
-Fox News
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nObama's mad dash to the finish line
(David Limbaugh) - President nObama has no intention of heeding the call of American voters to curb his statist agenda. That’s not what extreme ideologues do, and that’s not what he did after his party’s shellacking in the 2010 congressional elections...In fact, despite what conciliatory bones he may have thrown the Republicans after those elections, he doubled down on his agenda. Having done that, he still won re-election in 2012. Even if the 2014 elections were a referendum on his policies, as he said they would be and I believe they were, he doesn’t have to worry about another election for himself. So as far as he’s concerned, there’s no reason to put on the brakes now. This isn’t speculation, for nObama has already reaffirmed his commitment to accelerate his quest to fundamentally change America by expanding the power and scope of the federal government more than he already has. http://www.wnd.com/2015/02/obamas-mad-dash-to-the-finish-line/
(David Limbaugh) - President nObama has no intention of heeding the call of American voters to curb his statist agenda. That’s not what extreme ideologues do, and that’s not what he did after his party’s shellacking in the 2010 congressional elections...In fact, despite what conciliatory bones he may have thrown the Republicans after those elections, he doubled down on his agenda. Having done that, he still won re-election in 2012. Even if the 2014 elections were a referendum on his policies, as he said they would be and I believe they were, he doesn’t have to worry about another election for himself. So as far as he’s concerned, there’s no reason to put on the brakes now. This isn’t speculation, for nObama has already reaffirmed his commitment to accelerate his quest to fundamentally change America by expanding the power and scope of the federal government more than he already has. http://www.wnd.com/2015/02/obamas-mad-dash-to-the-finish-line/
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MB Political Party Formed in US to Establish Sharia
(Tim Brown) - With Barack nObama in office, you knew this was eventually going to be true. Just prior to the dissolving of the Muslim Brotherhood as a political party in Egypt and the declaration of the group to be a terrorist organization last year...the Muslim Brotherhood decided start flexing their muscles in the United States. Last year, the US Council of Muslim Organizations (USCMO), an open Muslim Brotherhood front group, began to build a political party straight out of Barack nObama’s stomping grounds of Chicago, Illinois. Now, it’s in full swing. The organization that established the political framework is composed of the designated terror group Hamas-CAIR (Council on American-Islamic Relations) and six other terrorist tied organizations. The groups involved in the USCMO are as follows: http://barbwire.com/2015/02/03/muslim-brotherhood-political-party-formed-us-establish-sharia/
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nObama’s Shadow Visa Network
(Matthew Vadum) - President nObama is running a massive illegal operation that has issued 5.5 million work permits never authorized by Congress, according to a disturbing new report from the nonpartisan Center for Immigration Studies...The report comes as Congress prepares to vote today on legislation that would reverse some of nObama’s executive overreaches that reward illegal aliens with lawful status for breaking the nation’s immigration laws. The report also comes as Republicans grapple with profoundly disturbing comments made by the president’s nominee to replace Attorney General Eric Holder. Loretta Lynch, currently U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of New York, said at her confirmation hearing last week that she believes illegal aliens possess the same legal right to work in the U.S. as American citizens possess. This is tantamount to a promise to refuse to enforce the immigration laws of the United States and an in-your-face demonstration that Lynch isn’t qualified to carry out parking ticket prosecutions in Flatbush, let alone head up the U.S. justice system. http://www.frontpagemag.com/2015/matthew-vadum/obamas-shadow-visa-network-1/?utm_source=FrontPage+Magazine&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=497f5694de-Mailchimp_FrontPageMag&utm_term=0_57e32c1dad-497f5694de-156509103
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nObama: Stop Overinflating Importance of Terror Groups
(Sara Noble) - Barack nObama wants us to stop over-inflating the threat of ISIS and other terror groups. I’m serious, that’s what he said. Specifically, he told CNN’s Fareed Zakaria... “We should stop ‘over inflating’ the importance of terror groups as if ‘They are an existential threat’ to the United States.” In fact, terror groups are an existential threat to the United States. I wonder if one of his family are hold by ISIS, would he feel the same. http://www.independentsentinel.com/obama-stop-overinflating-importance-of-terror-groups-as-if-theyre-an-existential-threat/
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Former Judge Reveals How Shariah Court in Texas Operates
(conservativetribune.com) - Although more than a dozen states have made efforts to ban the use of Sharia Law in US courts, or any other foreign code of law for that matter, there still remains a danger of Sharia creeping into our US justice system...It was recently revealed that a religious non-profit group had established a Sharia Law tribunal in the Dallas area to serve Muslims with family and business disputes. According to Fox News, the Islamic Tribunal states that “The courts of the United States of America are costly and consist of ineffective lawyers. Discontent with the legal system leads many Muslims in America to postpone justice in this world and opt for an audience on the Day of Judgment.” Fox legal analyst and former Judge Andrew Napolitano recently joined the hosts of Fox and Friends to discuss the potential legal ramifications of such Sharia tribunals in the US. http://conservativetribune.com/shariah-court-texas/?utm_source=feedblitz&utm_medium=FeedBlitzEmail&utm_content=936184&utm_campaign=0
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nObama’s Plan to Appease Cuba Just Backfired
(conservativetribune.com) - President Barack nObama recently bent over backwards to reach out a friendly, helping hand to the communist Castro regime in Cuba, most likely due to his socialist upbringing and background...However, nObama’s plan to appease the communists is backfiring, as it not only has minimal support in Congress, but isn’t even trusted by the Cuban dictators either. According to Western Journalism, Cuban leader Raul Castro is making outrageous demands and concessions from nObama in order to proceed with “normalization” efforts. http://conservativetribune.com/obama-appease-cuba-backfired-statement-castro/?utm_source=feedblitz&utm_medium=FeedBlitzEmail&utm_content=936184&utm_campaign=0
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Al-Arian to be Deported Wednesday
(investigativeproject.org) - Sami Al-Arian, a member of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ)'s governing board during the 1990s, will be deported from the United States Wednesday, a Tampa radio station reports...WUSF, a public radio affiliate at the university where Al-Arian worked as a tenured computer science professor, cites Al-Arian associates who say he is headed to Turkey. Al-Arian agreed to leave the country as a condition of his 2006 plea agreement for conspiring to provide goods or services to the PIJ, which President Clinton first named as a terrorist organization in a 1995 executive order. http://www.investigativeproject.org/4768/report-al-arian-to-be-deported-wednesday
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Unlike nObama, No Empty Talk From Jordanian King
(Rick Wells) - America’s “president” follows up ISIS barbarism with claims of standing shoulder to shoulder against the enemy, empty proclamations of outrage and rounds of golf...Jordan King Abdullah is expected to be much more sincere and much more aggressive in his response to horrific brutality of our common enemy. Jordan promised punishment and revenge and we have every reason to believe that it will soon be forthcoming. Edward “Skip” Gnehm is a former U.S. Ambassador to Jordan who is very familiar with the King and members of the Jordanian government, saying the barbaric burning alive of their pilot is something that will be felt personally by everybody in the small nation. After a brief interruption, Ambassador Gnehm makes his point that if it was an attempt to divide Jordan out of the coalition, ISIS made a huge mistake. He points out that back in 2005 public opinion within the nation was running about 80 percent in support of al-Qaeda and in opposition to the United States. Al-Qaeda then bombed hotels and weddings which turned public opinion dramatically, down into the low 30’s, with the people “totally supporting the government taking drastic action. And I predict that that will be the reaction in Jordan today,” says the Ambassador. http://www.rickwells.us/unlike-obama-empty-talk-jordanian-king-promises-punishment-revenge-isis-murderers-will-huge/
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William Kristol – Reflections from Israel
(tikvahfund.org) - Weekly Standard editor William Kristol spoke with Israeli alumni of Tikvah Fund programs in Jerusalem last month about his life in the arena of American politics. The first half of the conversation was largely autobiographical...He talks about his upbringing—including his Jewish upbringing—as the child of Irving Kristol, “the godfather of neoconservatism,” and the legendary historian Gertrude Himmelfarb. How did he go from being a professor of political philosophy to the vice president’s chief of staff? What did he learn from his time in government? The second half of the event gave Kristol a chance to assess the astounding crises and contentious debates in America and the world. What will happen with the new Republican Congress? What can be done about the economic stress facing the American middle class? What kind of problem is immigration? How will the Obama administration’s foreign policy be remembered? And what does this all mean for Israel? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FDm5wkzqMs
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The Daily Caller reported that “In addition, fully 41% of all American babies are currently born out of wedlock. By way of comparison, in 1960 73% of all American children” lived in a traditional married household. An earlier Pew Research Center study, announced in August 2013, depicted mothers as the main provider in 40% of American households with children. Jennifer Marshall, Director of the DeVos Center for Religion and Civil Society at the Heritage Foundation, noted that 25% of “households with children under 18 are supported by a single mother.” Their median income was $23,000 and 44% are never-married moms. “More than a third of these single mothers aren’t working at all—meaning they are much more likely to depend on government welfare.”
Babeu To Congress – Only 44% Border Operational Control
(Rick Wells) - While Hussein nObama and his minions make proclamations that a border he has never laid his own eyes on is more secure than it’s ever been, people who really know and who have no reason to try to hide the truth are disputing his false claims...Sheriff Babeu noted in his prepared text that his county is the number one area for drug and human trafficking into the United States in the entire country, so he is qualified to address the issues. He cited statistics that show between 87,915 and 127,285 illegals were captured annually in his sector alone, figures which do not include the amount of illegals who successfully entered the United States without being apprehended. Of the ones who were caught, Babeu states that between 17 and 30 percent were criminals who already had a record for crimes they previously committed within the United States. http://www.rickwells.us/babeu-congress-44-border-operational-control-30-border-crossers-caught-already-u-s-criminal-record/
Supreme Court Malfeasance
Alan Caruba
(factsnotfantasy.blogspot.com) - Over the course of its history the Supreme Court has made some very bad decisions and the decision to declare abortion legal ranks high among them. On January 22, 1973, in Roe v. Wade the Court interpreted the due process clause of the 14th Amendment to extend a right of privacy to a woman’s decision to have an abortion prior to the third trimester of pregnancy.
There have been 57.5 million abortions since 1973—42 years—when the decision became the law of the land. In all the wars America has fought, going back to the Revolution, the total of those killed in combat as of September 2014 was 1,343,812.
The casualties of the Supreme Court’s decision about unborn Americans reveal the wide gap between the morality, as opposed to the legality, of the Court’s decision.
Now the Court has taken on cases that will determine the legality of same-sex marriage and here again the morality of sanctioning this definition of marriage is a world apart from the morality of marriage occurring exclusively between a man and woman as has been the norm since the earliest history of mankind.
Marriage has always been understood as the critical cornerstone of a healthy functioning society. It has always been understood that children raised by a mother and father are a benefit to society while those deprived of this union are frequently subject to problems of one sort or another.
In the United States, however, many of the traditional morals that served the interest of society have been abandoned since around the middle of the last century. The gap between liberals and conservatives has widened.
One result was recently announced in a Pew Research Center study that found that less than half of all American children now live in a two-parent household with two married heterosexual parents who are, in fact, their own parents.
What all these statistics add up to is a nation in which traditional marriage is under attack while living together unmarried or having children as a single mother have become accepted at an alternative lifestyle.
Now we are being told that America should abandon the concept of legal citizenship and accord it to anyone who crosses the border. This isn’t how an orderly society or sovereign state is defined. It is a definition of anarchy.
As the Supreme Court gets ready to hear the same-sex marriage case, the rest of us are wondering why a tiny minority of society should be granted a right that no society in history has ever imparted.
How small is it? In September 2014 the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released a report that men who have sex with men (gay and bisexual) comprise about 2% of the U.S. population. When you add in lesbians the number moves up to about 3%.
The CDC tracks such things because “In 2010, among persons newly infected with HIV, 63% were men have sex with men (MSM) and among persons living with HIV, 52% were MSM.” According to the CDC it is contracted primarily through anal sex. Despite federal spending to combat AIDS, between 2008 and 2010 “new infections increased 22% among young (aged 13-24) gay and bisexual men and 13% among gay and bisexual men overall” regardless of age.
So the nation has been experiencing a holocaust of murdered fetuses thanks to the Supreme Court’s ruling and now we are supposed to abandon the ancient definition of marriage to accommodate a tiny minority of those who engage in sex with the same gender. If justification for that can be found in the Constitution, then it can be interpreted in any manner to degrade our society and the nation.
Same-sex marriage is an issue that President Obama said was “America at its best” in his State of the Union speech. Seven years earlier, campaigning to become President, he said that marriage was “a sacred union” and was “between a man and a woman.”
I don’t care that a number of states have already extended a legal status to same-sex marriage. I don’t care that it applies to a very small number of Americans. They can have “civil unions” that resolve any legal issues, but “marriage”? No.
Just as I say no to those who want to strip the practice of religion from any public ceremony or remove the saying of prayer in our schools, I will say no to those who want to remove the moral pillars that have served our society and all societies over the millennia.
We can only hope that enough of the current Supreme Court justices feel that way too.
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