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Senator Durbin vs. The Constitution

BY LOREN HEAL

 

07/01/2013

US Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) is starting to realize that maybe, in the 21st century, bloggers and Twitter users deserve the same level of First Amendment protection as other journalists. 

Unfortunately, the definition of "journalist" the Senator prefers misses the mark, revealing in the process his desire to control the information received by the public.

Part of the trouble Mr. Durbin runs into when he talks about these issues is the difference between free expression and defense of sources -- the right not to incriminate someone else. Durbin contends that while some people should be able to keep their sources secret, others should not.

The media informs the public and holds government accountable. Journalists should have reasonable legal protections to do their important work. But not every blogger, tweeter or Facebook user is a “journalist.” While social media allows tens of millions of people to share information publicly, it does not entitle them to special legal protections to ignore requests for documents or information from grand juries, judges or other law enforcement personnel.

The arrogance of a government official declaring who is and who is not fit to inform the public is rather striking. In the era of the democratization of information, setting up a protected journalist class as distinct from ordinary citizens is everything that's wrong with Washington elitism.

To declare that journalists should have "reasonable legal protections" leaves open on one hand the definition of reasonableness, and on the other hand denies those protections to other citizens. 

Durbin says that the media "holds government accountable," but the major media in the US have been highly protective of the Obama administration and Mr. Durbin's policy positions. The corporate media needs competition from amateurs; everyday citizen journalists with smart phones and a twitter account to keep them honest. 

By setting up protections for employees of the corporate media, Durbin is saying that the corporations themselves deserve greater First and Fifth Amendment protection than ordinary people.

And what does Durbin think is the definition of a journalist?

A journalist gathers information for a media outlet that disseminates the information through a broadly defined “medium” — including newspaper, nonfiction book, wire service, magazine, news website, television, radio or motion picture — for public use. This broad definition covers every form of legitimate journalism.

Durbin's definition misses the mark, in part because he attempts to make an exhaustive list of media, and also because of the arbitrary limitations he imposes within that list. He chooses media that are overwhelmingly filled by his political allies, leaving the impression that he wants to retain the unlevel playing field.

Technology changes too quickly to categorize certain media as journalism, and other media as not journalism.

The real trouble is trying to define "journalist" in the first place, when that really isn't the question.  Just as not all people who write things for the public are journalists, on Mr. Durbin's terms, not all journalists have sources to protect.  

The real question is, "What is a reporter?"

According to the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, a reporter is:

A person who represents, at the time he is gathering information, that the information is being gathered for the purpose of disseminating it to the public.

As long as the source knows that the goal is making the information public, the method of transmission, professional status, size of audience, type of content, or frequency of publication should not matter. The source should be protected.

Whether someone is a "journalist" is irrelevant, since journalism is profession, not an activity. Yes, professional journalists are entitled to First and Fifth Amendment protection, but so is everyone else. 

The protection is not for the reporter. The protection is for the source.

Similarly, a "shield" law should apply to everyone equally, not just to professionals. Along with the Fifth Amendment protection against self-incrimination, no citizen, or at least no reporter as defined above, should be forced to identify the source of a piece of information, whether that source is a government agent or their own religious conscience. Listing a source can give credibility, but no one should be forced to do it.

There is no good way to make a distinction between a paid journalist and a volunteer one. Is someone who is just starting a media business an amateur, or just an unestablished professional?

Citizens should not have to prove to the government an attempt to profit, or having done so, before claiming the right not to incriminate sources or share information.

Durbin wants to separate people who work for "media outlets" from freelancers who post things on Facebook and Twitter. But that's a distinction without a difference. Professional journalists often post their findings on social media. The source's right not to self-incriminate should not depend on the medium a reporter uses to relay some piece of information the source provided.

Trying to separate social media posts from those on a "news website" is a fool's errand. It can't be done, and we wouldn't like the results if it could be done.

Perhaps Mr. Durbin's prejudice against new media is motivated by exchanges like this interview with Chicago-based blogger Rebelpundit.

Rebelpundit: There is a large contingent of Communist Party USA, anarchists, international socialist groups here today that you just spoke to...

Durbin: How do you know that?

Rebelpundit: Because I've filmed them all day, and you just spoke to them, so I'd like to ask about your participation, why you decided to come out today?

Durbin: Well let me just say something, because [pause] I believe in the Constitution. Do you believe in it?

Rebelpundit: Because you believe in the Constitution you decided to come out to a rally full of communists and socialists?

Durbin: And you know why?

Rebelpundit: Why?

Durbin: Because we have freedom of speech in America, and that's why you can record this and not be arrested.

RebelPundit: You think I should be arrested?

Durbin: No, not at all, you have a right to your constitutional rights, and I do, too.

(Why was RebelPundit's arrest even an issue? Durbin implied that, but for the law, the blogger would be hauled off to jail.)

Senator Durbin is correct that a federal shield law would lend clarity to reporters under federal subpoena. But the shield law Durbin will probably try to create would protect only the professional news media largely friendly to him, not amateurs or those with a small audience or niche topic. It would be far better simply to recognize that the First and Fifth Amendments protect not just our speech, but our silence as well.

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Hillary Clinton and Obama’s Lies on Benghazi — Too Many to Count, but Let’s Try Hillary Clinton testifies on Benghazi, October 22, 2015. (Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty) PRINT ARTICLE    EMAIL ARTICLE ADJUST FONT SIZEAA by DEROY MURDOCK October 29, 2015 2:00 PM People died. Hillary lied. Obama lied, too. They lied early. They lied often. They lied deliberately. They lied about the slaughter of four Americans in Benghazi, Libya, at the hands of al-Qaeda-tied terrorists. They lied, but not to protect vital national secrets or flummox America’s enemies. They lied to get reelected. And they lied directly, knowingly, and repeatedly to the American people. Although I am a confirmed and consistent critic of Hillary and Obama, I long had cut them some slack regarding their first comments about the Benghazi attack. Thanks to the fog of war, I thought, they could not be blamed if they initially misattributed this deadly onslaught to a mob inflamed about an incredibly amateur Internet video that dissed the Prophet Mohammad. If they innocently got it wrong in, say, the first twelve hours after the assault began, they might deserve a grudging pass — at least for those early announcements. RELATED: Hillary’s Breathtaking Mendacity Alas, I was unjustifiably generous toward Hillary and Obama. Instead, I should have been profoundly cynical. As FactCheck.org chronicled on Friday, and L. Gordon Crovitz detailed in the Wall Street Journal on Monday, Clinton issued a statement on the attack at 10:32 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time on September 11, 2012. It read, in part: “Some have sought to justify this vicious behavior as a response to inflammatory material posted on the Internet. The United States deplores any intentional effort to denigrate the religious beliefs of others.” But that was a lie. At 11:12 p.m., just 40 minutes later, Hillary e-mailed her daughter, Chelsea, with the truth: “Two of our officers were killed in Benghazi by an al Qaeda-like group.” Hillary’s e-mail was addressed to “Diane Reynolds,” Chelsea’s code name. This smoking e-mail surfaced during Hillary’s October 22 hearing before the House Select Committee on Benghazi. At 11:49 p.m., Hillary contacted Libyan president Mohamed Magariaf, also with the truth: “There is a gun battle ongoing, which I understand Ansar [al] Sharia is claiming responsibility for.” This group is al-Qaeda’s Libyan franchisee. RELATED: What Hillary Knew The next day, September 12, 2012, Hillary resumed her public lies: “Some have sought to justify this vicious behavior, along with the protest that took place at our embassy in Cairo yesterday, as a response to inflammatory material posted on the Internet,” she said in a speech at the State Department. “America’s commitment to religious tolerance goes back to the very beginning of our nation. But let me be clear — there is no justification for this, none.” Echoing Hillary’s lie du jour, Obama chimed in with his own lie that day: “Since our founding, the United States has been a nation that respects all faiths,” he declared in the Rose Garden. “We reject all efforts to denigrate the religious beliefs of others. But there is absolutely no justification to this type of senseless violence. None.” Obama’s press secretary, Jay Carney, lied even more explicitly that day: “We have no information to suggest that it was a planned attack.” Hillary toggled back to private-truth mode at 3:04 p.m., when she phoned Hisham Qandil, prime minister in Egypt’s Islamist Muslim Brotherhood government. She told him: “We know the attack in Libya had nothing to do with the film. It was a planned attack — not a protest. Based on the information we saw today, we believe that the group that claimed responsibility for this was affiliated with al-Qaeda.” RELATED: The Benghazi Hearings Confirm Yet Again What a Brazen Liar Hillary Is “You can’t be square with the American people,” Representative Jim Jordan (R., Ohio) said about Hillary’s initial statements on Benghazi. “You tell your family it’s a terrorist attack, but not the American people. You can tell the president of Libya it’s a terrorist attack, but not the American people. 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Whatever embers of credibility either of these reprobates may have possessed were extinguished with the ice water of Hillary’s testimony last Thursday. Obama’s and Hillary’s lies about the Benghazi massacre confirm, once and for all, that they are twin moral vacuums. They deserve all of the scorn, disrespect, and rejection that such a disgraceful distinction demands. EDITOR’S NOTE: This article has been amended since its original publication. — Deroy Murdock is a Manhattan-based Fox News contributor and a media fellow with the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace at Stanford University. Did you like this? VIEW COMMENTS 

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Al-Qaeda attacked the embassy in Benghazi because Obama  was using it  to send weapons to isis.  This is the reason for the lies  and why Obama refused to send help.

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BREAKING: Obama Promises “Refugees” $4.3 Billion… But Then Does Unthinkable To Veterans

 

It has been said by some that President Barack Obama’s administration cares more for illegal immigrants and Muslim refugeesthan the veterans who fought and sacrificed for our country. It now appears that there is some evidence to support such a notion, unthinkable as it may be.

According to the Military Times, the Department of Veterans Affairs informed Congress this summer that it would be facing a $2.6 billion shortfall in its budget for the year.

 

Meanwhile, according to Breitbart, the Obama administration has agreed to spend roughly $419 million more on humanitarian aid for Syrian refugees.

Though the VA claimed the shortfall was due to “extraordinary efforts” to care for veterans, it’s more likely due to poor planning, incompetence and a mismanaged, bloated bureaucracy.

“We are going to do the right thing for veterans and be good stewards of taxpayer dollars,” VA Deputy Secretary Sloan Gibson told the House VA Committee. “But to succeed, we need the flexibility to use funds to meet veterans needs as they arise.”

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Sloan added that if the VA didn’t get what they were asking for, “We will have to start denying care to some veterans,” furlough workers and cancel programs.

Noticeably absent from the threatened victims of VA cuts were the salaries and bonuses enjoyed by VA administrators.

“I have come to expect a startling lack of transparency and accountability from VA over the last years,” said committee chair Jeff Miller. “But failing to inform Congress of a multibillion-dollar funding deficit until this late in the fiscal year … is disturbing on an entirely different level.”

White House spokesman Josh Earnest, meanwhile, stated that hundreds of millions of dollars were needed to provide refugees with health care, drinking water, food and shelter.

Earnest also said that the United States has now committed to spending more than $4.5 billion to provide aid and comfort to refugee camps around Syria and the broader region.

So while the VA is facing a budget shortfall of its own making and threatening to cut care for veterans if its demands for more money aren’t met, the left hand of the administration is doling out cash to Syrian refugees halfway around the world.

 

 

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The Caliph of ISIS, The Leader Of Al Qaeda and Arafat Have 1 Scary Thing In Common: Obama.

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Tell it to the French you butcher.


OBAMA: ISIS IS NOT GETTING ‘STRONGER,’ WE HAVE ‘CONTAINED’ THEM

by JEFF POOR13 Nov 20159,467

Friday on ABC’s “Good Morning America,” President Barack Obama seemingly downplayed the threat of ISIS in an interview with ABC’s George Stephanopoulos that aired on Friday’s broadcast of “Good Morning America.”

Stephanopoulos asked Obama if ISIS was gaining in strength, to which Obama denied they were.

“I don’t think they’re gaining strength,” Obama responded. “What is true is that from the start, our goal has been first to contain and we have contained them. They have not gained ground in Iraq, and in Syria they’ll come in, they’ll leave, but you don’t see this systemic march by ISIL across the terrain.”

“What we have not yet been able to do is to completely decapitate their command and control structures,” he admitted. “We’ve made some progress in trying to reduce the flow of foreign fighters .

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As I write, Paris is under curfew for the first time since the German occupation, and the death toll from the multiple attacks stands at 158, the vast majority of them slaughtered during a concert at the Bataclan theatre, a delightful bit of 19th century Chinoiserie on the boulevard Voltaire. The last time I was there, if memory serves, was to see Julie Pietri. I'm so bloody sick of these savages shooting and bombing and killing and blowing up everything I like - whether it's the small Quebec town where my little girl's favorite fondue restaurant is or my favorite hotel in Amman or the brave freespeecher who hosted me in Copenhagen ...or a music hall where I liked to go to hear a little jazz and pop and get away from the cares of the world for a couple of hours. But look at the photographs from Paris: there's nowhere to get away from it; the barbarians who yell "Allahu Akbar!" are there waiting for you ...when you go to a soccer match, you go to a concert, you go for a drink on a Friday night. They're there on the train... at the magazine office... in the Kosher supermarket... at the museum in Brussels... outside the barracks in Woolwich...

Twenty-four hours ago, I said on the radioapropos the latest campus "safe space" nonsense:

This is what we're going to be talking about when the mullahs nuke us.

Almost. When the Allahu Akbar boys opened fire, Paris was talking about the climate-change conference due to start later this month, when the world's leaders will fly in to "solve" a "problem" that doesn't exist rather than to address the one that does. But don't worry: we already have a hashtag (#PrayForParis) and doubtless there'll be another candlelight vigil of weepy tilty-headed wankers. Because as long as we all advertise how sad and sorrowful we are, who needs to do anything?

With his usual killer comedy timing, the "leader of the free world" told George Stephanopouloson "Good Morning, America" this very morningthat he'd "contained" ISIS and that they're not "gaining strength". A few hours later, a cell whose members claim to have been recruited by ISIS slaughtered over 150 people in the heart of Paris and succeeded in getting two suicide bombers and a third bomb to within a few yards of the French president.

Visiting the Bataclan, M Hollande declared that "nous allons mener le combat, il sera impitoyable": We are going to wage a war that will be pitiless.

Does he mean it? Or is he just killing time until Obama and Cameron and Merkel and Justin Trudeau and Malcolm Turnbull fly in and they can all get back to talking about sea levels in the Maldives in the 22nd century? By which time France and Germany and Belgium and Austria and the Netherlands will have been long washed away.

Among his other coy evasions, President Obama described tonight's events as "an attack not just on Paris, it's an attack not just on the people of France, but this is an attack on all of humanity and the universal values we share".

But that's not true, is it? He's right that it's an attack not just on Paris or France. What it is is an attack on the west, on the civilization that built the modern world - an attack on one portion of "humanity" by those who claim to speak for another portion of "humanity". And these are not "universal values" but values that spring from a relatively narrow segment of humanity. They were kinda sorta "universal" when the great powers were willing to enforce them around the world and the colonial subjects of ramshackle backwaters such as Aden, Sudan and the North-West Frontier Province were at least obliged to pay lip service to them. But the European empires retreated from the world, and those "universal values" are utterly alien to large parts of the map today.

And then Europe decided to invite millions of Muslims to settle in their countries. Most of those people don't want to participate actively in bringing about the death of diners and concertgoers and soccer fans, but at a certain level most of them either wish or are indifferent to the death of the societies in which they live - modern, pluralist, western societies and those "universal values" of which Barack Obama bleats. So, if you are either an active ISIS recruit or just a guy who's been fired up by social media, you have a very large comfort zone in which to swim, and which the authorities find almost impossible to penetrate.

And all Chancellor Merkel and the EU want to do is make that large comfort zone even larger by letting millions more "Syrian" "refugees" walk into the Continent and settle wherever they want. As I wrote after the Copenhagen attacks in February:

I would like to ask Mr Cameron and Miss Thorning-Schmidt what's their happy ending here? What's their roadmap for fewer "acts of violence" in the years ahead? Or are they riding on a wing and a prayer that they can manage the situation and hold it down to what cynical British civil servants used to call during the Irish "Troubles" "an acceptable level of violence"? In Pakistan and Nigeria, the citizenry are expected to live with the reality that every so often Boko Haram will kick open the door of the schoolhouse and kidnap your daughters for sex-slavery or the Taliban will gun down your kids and behead their teacher in front of the class. And it's all entirely "random", as President Obama would say, so you just have to put up with it once in a while, and it's tough if it's your kid, but that's just the way it is. If we're being honest here, isn't that all Mr Cameron and Miss Thorning-Schmidt are offering their citizens? Spasms of violence as a routine feature of life, but don't worry, we'll do our best to contain it - and you can help mitigate it by not going to "controversial" art events, or synagogues, or gay bars, or...

...or soccer matches, or concerts, or restaurants...

To repeat what I said a few days ago, I'm Islamed out. I'm tired of Islam 24/7, at Colorado colleges, Marseilles synagogues, Sydney coffee shops, day after day after day. The west cannot win this thing with a schizophrenic strategy of targeting things and people but not targeting the ideology, of intervening ineffectually overseas and not intervening at all when it comes to the remorseless Islamization and self-segregation of large segments of their own countries.

So I say again: What's the happy ending here? Because if M Hollande isn't prepared to end mass Muslim immigration to France and Europe, then his "pitiless war" isn't serious. And, if they're still willing to tolerate Mutti Merkel's mad plan to reverse Germany's demographic death spiral through fast-track Islamization, then Europeans aren't serious. In the end, the decadence of Merkel, Hollande, Cameron and the rest of the fin de civilisationwestern leadership will cost you your world and everything you love.

So screw the candlelight vigil.

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SHOCK: Obama Travels to Muslim Nation Hours After Paris Attack, Makes STUNNING Announcement

President Barack Obama’s reaction to the Paris terrorist attacks that killed 129 innocent civilians has been less than stellar. First, he refused to call the acts Islamic terrorism during his remarks shortly after they occurred.

Now, he’s spending time in Europe’s biggest Muslim nation — Turkey. While there, the president said that he remains committed to helping nations take in Syrian refugees even as investigators in France consider the fact that Islamic State members may have posed as “refugees” and aided in the attack.

 

“The United States is the largest provider of humanitarian assistance to displaced persons and refugees,” Obama said at the G20 conference in Antalya, Turkey, according to Breitbart.

“(It) stands shoulder to shoulder with Turkey, Europe and others in trying to help those who need help right now, even as we hope to reduce the flow of migrants because of the situation inside Syria.”

So as far at the White House is concerned, the Paris attacks and civilian deaths changed nothing. While Obama said he would continue to import Syrian refugees — the United States has pledged at least 10,000 will come in, and likely more — others in Congress have moved to stop the influx.

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Republican presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas released a statement after the Friday attacks advocating a stop — at least temporarily — to migrants from Syria.

“We need to immediately declare a halt to any plans to bring refugees that may have been infiltrated by ISIS to the United States. We need to redouble our efforts to prevent ISIS agents from penetrating our nation by other means,” Cruz said in a statement.

“Such steps, however, are defensive reactions to an enemy that will continue to try to attack us until they succeed once again. We must immediately recognize that our enemy is not ‘violent extremism.’ It is the radical Islamism that has declared jihad against the West.

“It will not be appeased by outreach or declarations of tolerance. It will not be deterred by targeted airstrikes with zero tolerance for civilian casualties, when the terrorists have such utter disregard for innocent life.”

That’s what true leadership sounds like — something Barack Obama is clearly unwilling to provide.

Please like and share on Facebook and Twitter if you like Sen. Ted Cruz’s way of dealing with Syria a lot better than President "

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As France grapples with the implications of allowing hundreds, possibly thousands of ISIS radicals into its country as immigrants and “refugees” in the wake of last week’s massive terror attack on Paris, the Obama administration has continued to cover up the Islamic threads that run through two recent terror attacks on U.S. soil while doubling down on the importation of more Muslim refugees.

Rep. Bob Goodlatte, R-Va., chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, has called a hearing for Thursday at 9 a.m. to examine the Syrian refugee crisis and its impact on national security while Speaker Paul Ryan is seeking to hold a vote on whether to implement a temporary “pause” in Syrian refugee resettlement.

Ryan’s proposal ignores the fact that it’s more than just Syria that is sending Muslim refugees to America. The United Nations has sent more than 110,000 to America from the jihadist hotbed of Somalia since the early 1990s. Many more have come from Afghanistan, Bosnia, Iraq, Iran, Uzbekistan, Burma and other Muslim countries.

Hundreds of Muslim immigrants have already been charged and convicted of providing material support to terrorist organizations, or attempting to launch their own attacks here on U.S. soil (see list at end of this article of recent cases).

Obama wants to import 85,000 foreign refugees in fiscal 2016, including 10,000 from Syria, with those numbers being ramped up further in 2017.

This comes amid repeated warnings by the FBI that it cannot screen Syrian refugees and that it is already chasing 1,000 active ISIS investigations in all 50 states.

But the FBI has also been less than transparent about attacks that have already occurred on U.S. soil.

The 24-year-old Muhammad Abdulaziz, who gunned down five U.S. servicemen in Chattanooga earlier this summer and the Nov. 4 knife attack by 18-year-old Faisal Mohammed against students at a California college were both carried out by devout Muslims who showed signs of allegiance to the Islamic State. But the public may never know the full details behind these crimes because the FBI has refused to release all its reports.

Investigators have said Abdulazeez was a “homegrown violent extremist” but have not offered details about what motivated the attack that began at a military recruiting center and ended when Abdulazeez was shot to death by police who followed him to the reserve center. The young Muslim came to the U.S. as an immigrant from Kuwait with is parents at the age of 6, attended U.S. schools, obtained an engineering degree and became a naturalized citizen before his family said he became more religious and took the lives of four U.S. Marines and a sailor.

“We’re still trying to make sure we understand Abdulazeez, his motivations and associations, in a really good way,” FBI Director James Comey told reporters during a visit to Nashville’s FBI field office last Friday.

“Sometimes the way we investigate requires us to keep information secret. That’s a good thing. We don’t want to smear people.”

Author and activist Pamela Geller, who was herself targeted for an ISIS-inspired beheading plot last spring at a Muhammad cartoon contest in Dallas, said Abdulaziz is not unlike the more than 100,000 Muslims who emigrate to the U.S. every year. Many of them get radicalized well after they arrive and settle down into their new life as American citizens.

“What he (Comey) means is that he doesn’t want to smear or insult Muhammad or Islam. Sharia in America,” Geller wrote Monday.

“Our boys were slaughtered in the homeland, and Obama’s FBI is protecting the murderous ideology behind the savagery,” she said. “How much longer is America going to put up with this treason?”

Obama plans to bring 85,000 refugees to America in fiscal 2016 and 100,000 in 2017. Well over half of the nearly 200,000 refugees will come from Muslim-dominated countries where jihadists flourish, such as Somalia, Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, Democratic Republic of Congo, Bangladesh, Sudan and Yemen.

But Shariah-compliant Muslims don’t just come to the U.S. as refugees from these countries. Many come on student and work-related visas from Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Turkey, Indonesia and other Islamic countries.

In the U.C.-Merced campus stabbings of four students by fellow student Faisal Mohammed, police found a print out of the trademark ISIS flag and a two-page radical manifesto with “vague references to Allah,” police said. He planned to behead his victims, commandeer a gun and go on a shooting spree, but that was all foiled by one brave construction worker who confronted him.

Below is a sampling of more than 20 cases of terrorist plots against the U.S. by Muslim immigrants that have received little to no national media coverage over the last two years. All of the below terrorists and suspected terrorists would have passed through the federal government’s vaunted “vetting” process for refugees, asylum seekers and other types of immigrants:

An immigrant from Muslim-dominated Bangladesh, who applied for and received U.S. citizenship, tried to incite people to travel to Somalia and conduct violent jihad against the United States. He was arrested in Texas in 2014In July 2015, a Cuban immigrant inspired by Islamic extremists plotted to explode a backpack bomb filled with nails on a beach in Key West.An immigrant from Ghana, who applied for and received U.S. citizenship, pledged allegiance to ISIS and plotted a terrorist attack on U.S. soil. He attacked an FBI agent with a large kitchen knife when the agent was searching his home in June in Staten Island, New York. The search was connected to an investigation stemming from the weekend arrest of Munther Omar Saleh, a 20-year-old U.S. citizen charged with conspiring to provide material support to ISIS, CNN reportedAn immigrant from Sudan living in northern Virginia, who applied for and received U.S. citizenship, tried to join ISIS and wage jihad on its behalf after having been recruited online. He pleaded guilty in federal court in June 2015 to providing material support to ISIS and his friend, according to court records, is now a member of the Islamic State fighting force in Syria.A Muslim refugee couple from Bosnia, along with their five relatives living in Missouri, Illinois and New York, were charged in February 2015 with sending money and supplies, and smuggled arms, to ISIS and other terrorist organizations in Syria and Iraq.A Muslim immigrant from Yemen, who applied for and received U.S. citizenship, along with six other men living in Minnesota as members of refugee families, were charged in April 2015 with conspiracy to travel to Syria and to provide material support to ISIS.A Somali refugee with lawful permanent resident status, along with four other Somali nationals, were charged July 23, 2014, with leading an al-Shabaab terrorist fundraising conspiracy in the United States, with monthly payments directed to the Somali terrorist organization.A Kazakhstani immigrant with lawful permanent resident status conspired to purchase a machine gun to shoot FBI and other law enforcement agents if they prevented him from traveling to Syria to join ISIS. He and two others from Uzbekistan, both living in Brooklyn, were charged in February 2015 with providing material support a foreign terrorist organization.Two female immigrants, one from Saudi Arabia and one from Yemen, one of whom applied for and received U.S. citizenship, allegedly swore allegiance to ISIS and pledged to explode a propane tank bomb on U.S. soil. They were arrested in April 2015 during an FBI undercover raid on their house in Queens, New York.A Uzbek man in Brooklyn allegedly encouraged other Uzbek nationals to wage jihad on behalf of ISIS, and raised $1,600 for the terror organization. The arrests were announced in February and April 2015.The Boston Bombers were invited in as asylum seekers. The younger brother applied for citizenship and was naturalized on Sept. 11, 2012. The older brother had a pending application for citizenship.A Moroccan Muslim who came to the U.S. on a student visa was arrested and charged in April 2014 with plotting to blow up a university and a federal court house.Six Members of Minnesota’s Somali-American refugee community have recently been charged with trying to join ISIS. The Washington Times reported that “the effort [to resettle large groups of Somali refugees in Minnesota] is having the unintended consequence of creating an enclave of immigrants with high unemployment that is both stressing the state’s safety net and creating a rich pool of potential recruiting targets for Islamist terror groups.”An Uzbek refugee living in Boise, Idaho, was arrested in 2013 and charged with providing support to a terrorist organization, in the form of teaching terror recruits how to build bombs to blow up U.S. military installations. He was convicted in August 2015.A teenage American citizen living in York, South Carolina, whose family emigrated from Syria, was sentenced in April 2015 for plotting to support ISIS and rob a gun store to kill members of the American military.A Muslim immigrant from Syria living in Ohio, who later applied for and received U.S. citizenship, was accused by federal prosecutors of planning to “go to a military base in Texas and kill three or four American soldiers execution style.”A college student who came to America as a refugee from Somalia, who later applied for and received U.S. citizenship, attempted to blow up a Christmas tree lighting ceremony in Oregon. He was sentenced in October 2014 to 30 years in prison.An immigrant from Afghanistan, who later applied for and received U.S. citizenship, and a legal permanent resident from the Philippines, were convicted Sept. 25, 2014 for trying to “join Al Qaeda and the Taliban in order to kill Americans.”An Iraqi immigrant, who later applied for and received U.S. citizenship, was arrested in May 2015 for lying to federal agents about pledging allegiance to ISIS and his travels to Syria.Two Pakistani-American brothers living in New York, who later applied for and received U.S citizenship, were sentenced in June 2015 to decades-long prison sentences for plotting to detonate a bomb in New York City.An immigrant from Muslim-dominated Yemen, who later applied for and received U.S. citizenship, was arrested in September 2014 in Rochester, New York, for allegedly trying to join ISIS. He was also charged with attempting to illegally buy firearms to try to shoot American military personnel.An immigrant brought here by his family from Kuwait at age 6, and who was later approved for U.S. citizenship, carried out the jihadist attack that recently killed four U.S. Marines and a sailor in Chattanooga on July 16, 2015, using an AK-47 semi-automatic weapon against unarmed military men.

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The muslim dictator of the united  states  Obama saports isis.

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I wonder after how much replying on messages from yourself you realize that these blogs are too long to be copied unformated into this forum for anyone to read completely. It is also very annoying to have to scroll past 15 headers before the actual blog starts. Since you haven't reacted on the blogs it does not trigger any discussion, nor gives it an incentive to read.

You want repsonse try this format:
Bold over the top conservative militairy statement.
link 1 with blog backing it up
link 2 with blog backing it up
link 3 with blog backing it up
link 4 with pretty girls instead of Paul Ryan

Closing statement requesting action from your reader.

Btw, the one by by Mark Steyn from November 13, 2015 is really spot on from my european perspective, however not complete. The radical islamist that we see in Europe are almost all from non-integrated, un-employed young people who we have put in seggerated connunitaties lowering their chances fro integration, participation and purpose. Terror gives them purpose.

In a sense the same dynamics as addiction comes into play. Some interesting thoughts on that line of reasoning: https://www.ted.com/talks/johann_hari_e … n_is_wrong

Give people purpose and you eradicate extremists. Islaming out as Mark puts it, will just prevent integration, increase segregation and extremism. Not something I am looking forward too. Integration is key i.m.h.o. Something we realized 20 years too late.

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I am truly sorry about the way I post. I have a lot of trouble copy pasting with my phone.  My phone will only copy the entire  page.
I  do spend a lot of time cleaning up the post and would be able to do a better job if the game would allow me to edit after I post it.

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“Is Barack Obama delusional?”

That’s how Bill O’Reilly led his Fox News show last night, addressing Obama’s press conference in Turkey in which the president defended his disastrously ineffective policies for dealing with the rapidly metastasizing terror army ISIS which, after last week’s hellish Paris attacks, vows Washington, D.C., is next.

After the commercial break, O’Reilly started in again: “Is President Barack Obama delusional about ISIS? Joining us now from Washington, Charles Krauthammer. Is he?”

Responded Krauthammer, a Pulitzer-winning columnist and former psychiatrist: “Judging from the press conference, there are several explanations for that appalling performance; the kindest is that he’s delusional.”

Krauthammer explained: “He said on Friday that ISIS was not gaining in strength, [though] even his own Dianne Feinstein said essentially it’s a delusion. Of course it’s gaining in strength. … But the reason that ‘delusion’ is the kindest [explanation], is I think the more likely explanation is, he knows that opposition is weakening, he knows that ISIS is strong and that it’s a threat, but in the end, he doesn’t think it matters. He’s never thought the war on terror was important or existential. …”

O’Reilly: “But how can you say that he doesn’t understand that millions of people – millions of people – are either dying, being dislocated, being tortured, being wounded … and you still, Charles Krauthammer, say he doesn’t care? It doesn’t mean anything to him?”

Krauthammer: “There’s a difference between millions of people suffering and an existential threat to the West, which is what it is, and which is what he denies.”

A little later in Fox’s primetime lineup, former CIA operative Mike Baker, a guest on “Hannity,” described Obama’s actions and attitude with regard to radical Islam as “surreal.”

Then Hannity, in an exchange with psychology expert Dr. Gina Loudon about the Paris terror attacks, observed: “Some good people have a hard time grasping that these people could go into a crowded theater and start shooting innocent men, women and children. That’s just evil, in our time. This president’s not recognizing, won’t recognize – it’s pathological that he won’t recognize radical Islam.”

“It’s absolutely pathological,” responded Loudon. “And it’s not just pathological; it’s stupid and it’s dangerous.”

“Delusional.” “Surreal.” “Doesn’t care.” “Pathological.” “Stupid.” “Dangerous.” That’s America’s 44th president they’re talking about.

For the past seven years, sane Americans have been trying to explain Obama, evoking various hypotheses – including the possibility that he’s a genuine sociopath, that is, without conscience.

Fox pundit, long-time ABC News personality and Pulitzer-winning columnist George Will described “Barack Obama’s intellectual sociopathy – his often breezy and sometimes loutish indifference to truth.”

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Here’s a typical description of “sociopathy,” so let’s see how it fits: “Sociopaths are often well-liked because of their charm and high charisma, but they do not usually care about other people. They think mainly of themselves and often blame others for the things that they do. They have a complete disregard for rules and lie constantly. They seldom feel guilt or learn from punishments.” Seems like a pretty good fit, but let’s continue.

One veteran forensic psychiatrist I know – an expert witness in thousands of court cases, whose expertise is sizing up criminal/antisocial people and determining what makes them tick – has described Obama to me in terms of “malignant narcissistic personality disorder.” The modifier “malignant” signifies the version of “narcissistic personality disorder” that may cross over into criminality, he explained.

He reviewed with me a list of some of the major symptoms of NPD, comparing them with Obama’s behavior as president. Among the key markers: 1) a grandiose view of one’s achievements (everything with Obama is “historic”), 2) an utter inability to handle criticism (almost everyone criticizing Obama or his policies is attacked as selfish, “partisan” or racist), and 3) lack of genuine empathy (Obama’s designation of the apocalyptic Paris terror attacks as a “setback” in his foreign policy was reminiscent of his televised speech on the day of the Fort Hood terror attack. With the entire nation reeling in shock and yearning for strong, reassuring words from their commander in chief, Obama instead engaged in small talk and an inane “shout-out” for two full minutes before even mentioning that the worst terrorist attack on American soil since 9/11 had just occurred hours earlier.)

Here’s how psychiatrist M. Scott Peck, M.D., explains people like Obama in his classic best-seller, “People of the Lie”:

Malignant narcissism is characterized by an unsubmitted will. All adults who are mentally healthy submit themselves one way or another to something higher than themselves, be it God or truth or love or some other ideal. They do what God wants them to do rather than what they would desire. “Thy will, not mine, be done,” the God-submitted person says. They believe in what is true rather than what they would like to be true.

… In summary, to a greater or lesser degrees, all mentally healthy individuals submit themselves to the demands of their own conscience. Not so the evil, however. In the conflict between their guilt [i.e., conscience] and their will, it is the guilt that must go and the will that must win.

The reader will be struck by the extraordinary willfulness of evil people. They are men and women of obviously strong will, determined to have their own way. There is a remarkable power in the manner in which they attempt to control others.

With the catastrophic Obama-era decline of America now threatening to spin entirely out of control, many are again straining to understand what on earth is really going on inside Obama’s mind:

Some, as previously mentioned, cite the disturbing degree to which Obama manifests full-blown symptoms of narcissism and/or sociopathy.Some cite his barely disguised Marxist worldview (Fox pundit Monica Crowley recently said on the radio, “Obama’s not a Democrat. He’s a Marxist revolutionary”), with its obsession with radical redistribution of wealth and power. Marxism, by definition, justifies as “moral” not merely lying, but ruthless suppression of dissent, violence and tyranny – as long as these measures advance the glorious (though delusional) utopian cause. “Exhibit A” for this point would be the entire 20th century.Some cite Obama’s childhood and upbringing. His Marxist-atheist-alcoholic-bigamist Kenyan father abandoned him, his Islamic stepfather raised him as a Muslim in Indonesia, his mother essentially abandoned him, and his most influential mentor as a young teenager was Frank Marshall Davis, a card-carrying member of the Communist Party USA, a pornographer and admitted sexual abuser of minors.Some cite Obama’s religious background – his 20-year affiliation with his “spiritual mentor,” the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, who preached raw hatred of America, capitalism and white people, and whose “black liberation theology” gospel amounts to Afro-centric Marxism dressed up with cherry-picked Bible verses.Some cite his background in “Chicago politics” – a euphemism for wall-to-wall corruption and criminality. Indeed, the state of Illinois, where a staggering total of four recent governors – Otto Kerner, Dan Walker, George Ryan and Rod Blagojevich – have gone to prison for corruption, remains a political cesspool to this day, as confirmed by a study from the University of Illinois at Chicago’s political science department. Obama is a product of this legendarily corrupt “Chicago machine” and played the game ruthlessly while rising in the ranks there.Some cite Obama’s education, the most important part of which, by his own admission, came via Saul Alinsky. During the 2008 campaign, Obama said of his years steeped in the Chicago Marxist’s revolutionary “community organizing” methods: “It was that education that was seared into my brain. It was the best education I ever had, better than anything I got at Harvard Law School.”

So, let’s take stock: abandonment by his father, early Muslim training, toxic teen influences, hardcore Marxist indoctrination and Alinsky training, drug abuse (“Choom Gang”), association with criminals (Tony Rezko) and terrorists (William Ayers), racist religious affiliation (Jeremiah Wright), extreme political ambition, and probable mental illness/disorder. Quite a cocktail that forms the current U.S. president’s worldview and sensibilities.

The question is not whether Obama is delusional or not – that is undeniable. The question is, in what frame of rneference is he delusional – the narrow one Krauthammer cites, regarding Obama’s denial that radical Islam poses an existential threat to America and the world? Or the wider context of the rest of life? For when we widen our scope, we are forced to acknowledge that Obama gravitates toward evil and delusion not just with regard to the jihad threat, but in virtually every area: He wants to force 15-year-old girls to shower naked with boys who delusionally believe they’re girls. He intentionally allows our nation to be overrun with illegal aliens and legal “refugees” from cultures that hate America (today’s headline says of the Syrian refugees already in the U.S., 2,098 are Muslims and 53 are Christians). He annually releases tens of thousands of convicted criminal illegal aliens – we’re talking murderers, rapists and drug-dealers – back onto American streets. He’s a radical proponent of what can only be called infanticide, the “aborting” of fully formed, full-term healthy human babies.

In every area, Obama demonstrates an unfortunate affinity for that which normal people would describe as destructive, corrupt, evil.

Whether this is because Obama is evil at his core, or whether there’s a decent person locked up inside but who has been traumatized and brainwashed – a Manchurian president, programmed not by exotic far-off communist brainwashers, but by a nonstop sequence of corrupting influences throughout his life – is not ours to know.

Ultimately, the question is largely academic. Whatever the ultimate explanation of Obama’s delusional presidency, he demonstrates at every turn a remarkable attraction for that which is destructive and corrupting to human life, that is, “evil.” And he is dragging America – and increasingly the world – through hell in search of it, which he somehow, however inexplicably, sees as good.

The muslim dictator of the united  states  Obama saports isis.

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Obama  is isis.
Obama created isis.
Obama and Hillary used the muslim brotherhood  to create isis.
The military in Egypt  wisely removed the Muslim Brotherhood,   if they had not , then. Egypt would have become another  isis  state.
Unfortunately for the United States  Obama has menney Muslim Brotherhood members in his administration.
   There are 57 muslim countries,  and not one of these countries are taking in these so called refugees.
    There are a lot of different diseases in the middle east and Africa. The United States and Europe are going to get not only isis with theses so called refugees,  but also these diseases.

The muslim dictator of the united  states  Obama saports isis.

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More rubbish, I didn't bother reading it, you've already shown your bias, time you got a life haha. lol

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhY9Zxv1-oo

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President Obama who quietly removed an anti-slavery provision from the TPP in June while he was publicly attacking the Confederate flag as a “symbol of slavery.”

“The provision, which bars countries that engage in slavery from being part of major trade deals with the U.S., was written by Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.),” the Huffington Post reported in May. “At the insistence of the White House, Menendez agreed to modify his language to say that as long as a country is taking ‘concrete’ steps toward reducing human trafficking and forced labor, it can be part of a trade deal.”

The muslim dictator of the united  states  Obama saports isis.

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It’s Operation Fast and Furious 2.0!

The very same government thugs who claim that forcing you to register your firearms will protect you -- can’t even keep track of their own.

This time it’s President Obama’s General Services Administration, or better known as simply the “GSA.”

The GSA is tasked with transferring retired combat gear and weapons from federal agencies to local police forces. 

But it turns out they’ve LOST hundreds of weapons!

You read that right.  Another one of Obama’s federal agencies that can’t keep track of its firearms has been exposed.

We’re talking about a plethora of firearms ranging from pistols to rifles and grenade launchers have gone unaccounted for, meaning they could be in the hands of violent criminals and terrorists right now. 

I believe Obama is arming  terrorist in the united states and Mexico.
  Obama has control of the military  and the justice system,  so no help for the citizens there. The one thing that is frustrating Obama are the citizens that have guns.

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Link?

In fact... general rule: providing links as context for whatever you're talking about is generally helpful in making sure everyone's on the same page about what you're talking about.

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www.NationalGunRights.org/

The last paragraph in  my post  is my opinion on what  Obama is doing. The rest of the post is from Brown the president of the National Gun Rights.

The muslim dictator of the united  states  Obama saports isis.

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Frome the C.T.  Conservative Tribune.
shocking new report out of Ohio revealed that the GOP has tried to illegally purge voters from the rolls if they haven’t voted in three consecutive elections, possibly in an attempt to thwart Donald Trump’s election.

According to MSNBC, the purge mostly affected minority voters, a group with which Trump has done rather well. Over 40,000 voters were purged alone in Cuyahoga County, where Cleveland is located.

Ohio, a winner-take-all state, went to Ohio’s governor, John Kasich, earlier this spring.

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Didn't Trump have a TV show called "You're Fired!"

Now he suddenly cares about jobs?  Really?

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Xeno wrote:

Didn't Trump have a TV show called "You're Fired!"

Now he suddenly cares about jobs?  Really?

So a businessman who cares about jobs cannot fire incompetent employees? Also, a reality TV show I think you are talking about is The Apprentice, in which participants, afaik, are basically running through an application and work-based assessments in order to find out which lucky candidate gets to be Trump's new apprentice. Being on TV, the participants probably had some kind of reward for their time (because I believe that the people on the show, and I could be wrong as I never watched it, were professionals with a fair amount of experience in the industry and would probably not be ok not earning money for the period of time needed to shoot the show). If they didn't get any payment for being on the show, the participants would have already known that.

So to conclude, a reality TV show and firing staff doesn't mean someone doesn't care about providing jobs. Both the reality show and his business model are two unrelated topics in as far as providing jobs goes. A better argument would looking at foreign manufacturing vs local manufacturing, which is the basis of Trump's employment policies anyway.

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TWO STATES IN THE MIDDLE OF AMERICA "

  

 

 

 

 

 

Illinois & Oklahoma : 
  
I thought these two states made for an interesting contrast. 

The first part is about Illinois and the second part is about Oklahoma ! 
  
PART 1 - Illinois 
  
"A State with No Republicans"! 
  
Some interesting data on the 'state' of the State of Illinois ... 

There are more people on welfare in Illinois than there are people working. 

Chicago pays the highest wages to teachers than anywhere else in the U.S.  

Their average pay is $110,000/year. Their pensions average 80-90% of their income. 

Wow, are Illinois and Chicago great or what?

Be sure to read till the end.  I've never heard it explained better. 

Perhaps the U.S. should pull out of Chicago ? 
  
Body count:
In the last six months, 292 killed (murdered) in Chicago . 
221 killed in Iraq ; AND Chicago has one of the strictest gun laws in the entire US. 
  


 

Here's the Chicago chain of command: 
  
President: Barack Hussein Obama.
Senator: Dick Durbin.
House Representative: Jesse Jackson Jr.
Governor: Pat Quinn.
House leader: Mike Madigan.
Atty. Gen.: Lisa Madigan (daughter of Mike).
Mayor: Rahm  Emanuel.
All of the leadership in Illinois are 100% Democrats.
  
Thank you for the combat zone in Chicago .
Of course, they're all blaming each other.
Can't blame Republicans; there aren't any!
  
Let us get ALL the facts out while we are at it: 
  
The Chicago school system is rated one of the worst in the country. 

Can't blame Republicans; there aren't any! 
  
The State pension fund is $78 Billion in debt; the worst in the country.
Can't blame Republicans; there aren't any! 
  
Cook County ’s ( Chicago ) sales tax is 10.25% -- highest in country.

Can't blame Republicans; there aren't any! 
  
This is the political culture that Obama comes from in Illinois .  And he is/was going to 'fix' Washington politics for us? 
  
George Ryan is no longer Governor; he is in prison. 
  
He was replaced by Rob Blagojevich who is also in prison. 
  
And Representative Jesse Jackson Jr. resigned and he and his wife were both in prison. 
  
The Land of Lincoln , where our Governors and Representatives make our license plates.  
  
As long as they keep providing entitlements to the population of Chicago ,

nothing is going to change, except the state will go bankrupt before the country does. 
  
"Anybody who thinks he can be happy and prosperous by letting the Government take care of him better take a closer look at the American Indian." 
  
Don't forget Detroit , another great example of a Democratic empire.  


 With all the bad news, there may still be hope, so let's go to: 
  


 

PART  2- Oklahoma 
  
OKLAHOMA - may soon have plenty of new residents! 
  
THIS IS REALLY INTERESTING, AND TRUE...  PLEASE READ IT! 
  
Oklahoma is the only state thatObama did not win even one county in the last election... 

While everyone is focusing on Arizona 's new law, look what Oklahoma has been doing!!!   
  
Oklahoma law passed, 37 to 9, an amendment to place the Ten Commandments on the front entrance to the state capitol. 

The feds in D.C., along with the ACLU, said it would be a mistake.  But hey, this is a conservative state, based on Christian values... HB 1330 so guess what... Oklahoma did it anyway. 
  
Oklahoma recently passed a law in the state to incarcerate all illegal immigrants andship them back to where they came from unless they want to get a green card and become an American citizen.  They all scattered.  HB1804.  This was against the advice of the Federal Government, and the ACLU -- they said it would be a mistake but guess what...  Oklahoma did it anyway.   


 


Recently OK passed a law to include DNA samples from any and all illegals to the Oklahoma database, for criminal investigative purposes. Pelosi said it was unconstitutional - SB1102. Guess what... Oklahoma did it anyway.   
  
Recently Oklahoma passed a law, declaring Oklahoma as aSovereign state, not under the Federal Government directives.  Joining Texas , Montana , and Utah as the only states to do so. 
  


 

More states  are likely to follow: Louisiana, Alabama, Georgia, the Carolinas, Kentucky, Missouri, Arkansas, West Virginia, Mississippi and Florida.  Save your confederate money; it appears the South is about to rise up once again.  HJR 1003 
  
The federal Government has made bold steps to take away our guns. Oklahoma, a week ago, passed a law confirming people in this state have the right to bear arms and transport them in their vehicles.  I'm sure that was a setback for the criminals.  The Liberals didn't like it, but... Guess what...  Oklahoma did it anyway.   
  
Just this month, the state has voted and passed a law that ALL drivers' license exams will be printed in English and only English and no other language.  They have been called racist for doing this, but the fact is that ALL of the road signs are in English only. If you want to drive in Oklahoma , you must read and write English. Nothing could be more simple. By the way, the Liberals don't like any of this either. Guess what... who cares... Oklahoma is doing it anyway. 
  


 


  

 

 

 

 

 

 



 

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an overwhelming vote Thursday, the House of Representatives approved an appropriations package that includes an increase of more than $600 million for the government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to improve its missile defenses.

Considering that this is the Obama administration, with a president and secretary of state who negotiated a deal with an Iranian government sworn to Israel’s destruction a deal that will allow it to achieve nuclear weapons — and the missiles to deliver them — that’s going to be money the Jewish state needs.

So, naturally, Obama’s against it.

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Waiting for him to come off his hinges now that he's on his last six months.

The core joke of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is that of course no civilization would develop personal computers with instant remote database recovery, and then waste this technology to find good drinks.
Steve Jobs has ruined this joke.

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So here we are, the Supreme Court failed to come to a decision, so the lower court decision ordering Obama to deport millions of people stands, and Obama says he won't lift a finger, and nobody in Congress is going to stop the President from violating the law. 

It is becoming a question of what you can get away with, which is why Hitler formed the Sturmabteilung: to get away with murder.

The core joke of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is that of course no civilization would develop personal computers with instant remote database recovery, and then waste this technology to find good drinks.
Steve Jobs has ruined this joke.