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To: The1Stockman who wrote (5269)9/7/2013 9:41:02 PM
From: joseffy  Respond to of 16547
 
Mediocrities are recruited on the basis of either their partisanship, loyalty or demonstrated past lightness—an Eric Holder, Joe Biden, Susan Rice, Timothy Geithner, Chuck Hagel, etc.



To: The1Stockman who wrote (5269)9/8/2013 11:06:49 AM
From: joseffy  Respond to of 16547
 
What Happens When You Can't Believe A Thing The President Says?
  • Health insurance premiums for a family would be $2,500 lower by the end of his first term in office. They were actually about $3,000 higher.
  • The Obama administration was not responsible for proposing the budget sequester idea. Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward challenged this claim and forced the administration to backtrack.
  • Money from the nearly $800 billion stimulus package would be spent on “shovel-ready projects” and unemployment would drop to 5.3 percent by the end of his first term. The president later conceded the projects weren’t as shovel ready as he had hoped and unemployment was 7.9 percent.
  • There was nothing Obama could do about Benghazi. Subsequent revelations and congressional testimony have shown just how disengaged or disinterested the administration was.
  • The Justice Department told a judge that Fox News reporter James Rosen was a “co-conspirator” and a security threat? The DOJ later apologized and tried to make amends with Washington reporters.
  • That Attorney General Eric Holder didn’t know about the Fast and Furious gun-running program? Investigators have found documents confirming that he did have knowledge.



To: The1Stockman who wrote (5269)9/8/2013 11:24:51 AM
From: joseffy  Respond to of 16547
 
The Pelosi Doctrine: We Have to Enter Syria’s Civil War to Find Out What’s In It



To: The1Stockman who wrote (5269)9/9/2013 5:28:37 PM
From: joseffy  Respond to of 16547
 
The Latest Evidence of Voter Fraud — and Discrimination
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By Hans A. von Spakovsky....9/9/2013
nationalreview.com

Obama-administration officials and their liberal camp-followers who routinely claim there is no reason to worry about election integrity because vote fraud is nonexistent suffered some embarrassing setbacks last week.

Federal law requires states to clean up their voter rolls. In 2009, the Obama Justice Department dismissed, with no explanation, a lawsuit filed by the Bush administration asking Missouri for such a clean-up. It has since taken no action against any other state or jurisdiction since it has an unofficial policy of not enforcing this requirement. But private parties are starting to force changes.

In Mississippi last Wednesday, the American Civil Rights Union won a significant victory for election integrity when a federal judge approved a consent decree in which Walthall County agreed to finally clean up its bloated voter-registration list. The county has more registered voters than the Census says it has eligible voters. The ACRU sued the county (which went for Romney in 2012) under Section 8 of the National Voter Registration Act (NVRA), which requires election officials to maintain accurate voter rolls through a regular program that removes ineligible voters.

Walthall County will have to remove felons, noncitizens, decedents, and voters who have moved away from its registration list. As part of the consent decree, the county agreed to start checking its voter list against other state and federal records maintained by the Mississippi DMV, the state departments of vital records and corrections, the local court and local tax authority, the Social Security Administration, and the Department of Homeland Security. The county must also notify local and federal law-enforcement officials when it finds individuals who registered or voted illegally, such as felons and noncitizens. The ACRU has a second suit still pending against Jefferson Davis County, Miss. (which went for Obama in 2012).

This is the first time in the 20 years that the NVRA has been in force that a conservative group has sued to enforce Section 8, while liberal advocacy groups have filed many cases to try to stop election officials from cleaning up their registration lists, a practice which they foolishly label “voter suppression.”

In North Carolina recently, mounting a criticism of the state’s new voter-ID law, former secretary of state Colin Powell claimed there was no voter fraud. The Voter Integrity Project (VIP), a local citizens’ group concerned with election integrity, released a report on Wednesday that it finally obtained from the North Carolina Board of Elections “after repeated requests.” The report shows that there were 475 cases of election fraud that the Board “believed merited a referral” to prosecutors between 2008 and 2012. The fraud included double voting, impersonation and registration fraud, and illegal voting by noncitizens and felons. Not all of this fraud would have been stopped by voter ID, but there are certainly people willing to engage in fraud and we need to take a comprehensive approach to protect the security of the voting and election process.

As VIP also points out, the report raises the important question of why local district attorneys in North Carolina have been “so negligent in prosecuting” these referrals. That is no surprise to us – we detailed in our book Who’s Counting? How Fraudsters and Bureaucrats Put Your Vote at Risk how reluctant local prosecutors often are to prosecute election-fraud cases because of the potential political costs (like, say, being accused of voter suppression).

Finally, last Tuesday, lawyers for Arnold Davis, the retired Air Force major and resident of Guam who was told he could not register to vote for a plebiscite because he was not a “native inhabitant,” filed a brief in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in his voting-rights lawsuit. NRO previously outlined the details of the blatant racial discrimination being practiced by the territorial government of Guam against those residents who are not members of the Chamorro racial group, whom the government considers the native inhabitants of the island.

The brief, filed by Doug Cox of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher along with Christian Adams and the Center for Individual Rights, argues that the district-court judge made a fatal error when she dismissed the case, holding that it was not “ripe” for adjudication because Mr. Davis had not suffered an injury since the plebiscite had not yet been scheduled. As the brief points out, the lower-court ruling by Judge Frances M. Tydinco-Gatewood, who calls herself “a daughter of Guam and its first Chamorro woman judge” in her official biography, “ignores Supreme Court and Ninth Circuit authority holding that the denial of the right to register to vote is itself” an injury. Not only is Davis’s claim “ripe for adjudication now, but his injuries are compounded every day,” the brief argues.

Can anyone imagine a federal court in Mississippi telling black voters that they suffered no injury when they were refused registration because an election had not yet occurred? The reaction condemning such an outrageous ruling would have been swift and massive – yet Judge Tydinco-Gatewood’s ruling making this exact argument passed almost without notice in the national press.

The lawyers for Davis are asking the Ninth Circuit to strike down the “impermissible voting requirement so that all other eligible Guamanians can fully participate in the process of determining their Territory’s future without being subjected to racial discrimination,” rather than remanding the case to Tydinco-Gatewood. Such action is appropriate because prior Supreme Court decisions directly confirm “that such a race-based voting qualification is an affront to the United States Constitution.”

Given the error-ridden analysis of the district court judge and the prior case law that is directly on point, this should be a slam-dunk win for Davis. Eric Holder and his Justice Department are nowhere to be found in this case, and he never said a word about this real example of modern Jim Crow when he visited Guam last year.







To: The1Stockman who wrote (5269)9/10/2013 10:17:24 PM
From: joseffy  Respond to of 16547
 
Blue-collar laborers rebel at AFL-CIO’s embrace of progressives

By Cheryl K. Chumley The Washington Times Tuesday, September 10, 2013



The AFL-CIO needs to stick with representing workers and stop trying to take on social causes for the far left, said the union head for the International Association of Fire Fighters.

Harold Schaitberger, who presides over the IAFF, said there is “great value” in aligning with political groups — but only as a secondary mission, he told The Hill. And the AFL-CIO’s recent push to bring in environmental groups and progressive-minded organizations to the union cause is leading the IAFF to express concerns about politics becoming the priority, over the representation of members.

“To say that we are going to grow this labor movement by some kind of formal partnership, membership, status, place in this federation, I am against. This is the American Federation of Labor. We are supposed to be representing workers and workers’ interests,” Mr. Schaitberger said in The Hill. “We are not going to be the American Federation of Progressive and Liberal Organizations.”

He’s not alone in that view. Union members from the construction sector have been especially vocal against bringing environmental groups into the AFL-CIO family, viewing them as the enemy in the Keystone XL pipeline fight.

“Does that mean we are going to turn energy policy of the AFL-CIO over to the Sierra Club? I have concern about that, as well as I should,” said Terry O’Sullivan, president of the Laborers’ International Union of North America, in The Hill report. “I grew up in the movement to do one of two things. We support anything that’s good for another union brother or sister, or we keep our mouths shut. That seems that has changed along the way.”

AFL-CIO President Richard L. Trumpka, however, said unions have hit “a crisis” and membership rolls need a big boost.

“None of us are big enough to change that crisis,” he said Sunday during the AFL-CIO’s 2013 convention. “None of us are big enough to change the economy and make it work for everybody. It takes all progressive voices working together.”

Read more: washingtontimes.com



To: The1Stockman who wrote (5269)9/11/2013 2:29:15 PM
From: joseffy  Respond to of 16547
 

CURVEBALL: WOMAN BEHIND CASE FOR SYRIA STRIKE FIRED FOR LYING




To: The1Stockman who wrote (5269)9/11/2013 4:05:04 PM
From: joseffy  Respond to of 16547
 
Who funds Syrian rebel advocate O’Bagy and the Syrian Emergency Task Force? You do
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09/09/2013 by Charles C. Johnson
dailycaller.com


The Syrian Emergency Task Force, the pro-rebel lobbying outfit that employs widely quoted intervention advocate Elizabeth O’Bagy as its political director, receives funding from the U.S. Department of State and related government contractors.


In an exclusive interview with The Daily Caller earlier last week, O’Bagy explained how she got paid. O’Bagy has been roundly condemned for working for a pro-Syrian lobbying group at the same time she was casting the Syrian rebels in a positive light. She works as an analyst at think tank the Institute for the Study of War.

“Most of the contracts that I’ve been a part of through the Task Force have been through CSO, which is the Conflict and Stabilization Office[sic],” O’Bagy told The Daily Caller. O’Bagy was likely referring to the Bureau of Conflict and Stabilization Operations, a State Department-funded organization.

“My salary comes from the Institute for the Study of War. I don’t get a salary from working with the Task Force,” O’Bagy said. “I get paid contracting fees for very specific contracts.”

How much she makes is “completely dependent on the contract,” says O’Bagy. “Usually, they [the SETF] kind of write in a specific fee. So it’s not a percentage of the contract, but it’s like I get, just off the top of my head, like two thousand dollars to help implement this project. And then I just get that standard contracting fee. And I actually get a 1099.”

State Department contracting firms like “ARK [Access Resources Knowledge], Chemonics, Creative [Associates International]—a number of the big contractors” set up the contracts and pay the Syrian Emergency Task Force, O’Bagy told TheDC.


With each contract, O’Bagy made more money. This revelation raises serious questions about her incentives to support American involvement in Syria.

Both Secretary of State John Kerry and Senator John McCain cited O’Bagy’s work in the push for military action but did not disclose her ties to the rebel groups.


When asked about the potential conflict of interest, O’Bagy said she was working for the Syrian people.

“Frankly I mean the humanitarian crisis is just so horrific that I honestly could not spend significant amounts of time there without trying to contribute to the humanitarian situation in one way or another and that’s just kind of me as a human being. I literally could not go there without trying to use my knowledge for the betterment of these various humanitarian aid programs,” she told TheDC.

O’Bagy, whose Georgetown MA/PhD focuses on Arab women’s issue, explained that the work had been helpful to her dissertation, which she has written but not yet defended.

While John McCain has called her “doctor,” she isn’t one
technically. “You can call me doctor, if you want,” O’Bagy said. She graduated Georgetown in 2013. The U.S. government has spent over a $1 billion on aid to the Syrian rebels, with nearly half going to the Department of State, which is used for “institution building,” and the other half going to USAID, which is used for diaspora community relations.

Read more: dailycaller.com



To: The1Stockman who wrote (5269)9/11/2013 4:11:05 PM
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Kerry and McCain quoted O’Bagy but did not disclose her ties to the rebel groups.