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To: chartseer who wrote (7972)	2/13/2014 3:51:53 PM
From: joseffy	Respond to of 16547

Colorado Health Exchange Director Indicted for Fraud, Theft... The director of Colorado’s health exchange has been placed on administrative leave after the state discovered she had been indicted for stealing from a non-profit, the Denver Post reports: [Christa Ann] McClure, 51, pleaded not guilty Feb. 6 in federal District Court in Montana to eight counts of theft and fraud from a nonprofit housing agency in Billings. She was indicted Jan. 16 and notified her current Denver employer, the state-sponsored health exchange, on Monday, a few days after the story broke in Montana media, Connect for Health spokesman Ben Davis said in a telephone interview. Connect for Health performed a criminal background check and checked references before hiring McClure in March, Davis said. “She was completely clean,” he said. Her position as executive director of Housing Montana of Billings, he said, made her well-qualified for her post as Connect for Health’s director of partner engagement — she was liaison with state and federal partners, such as Medicaid officials. The job pays $130,000 a year. … McClure, who has not been convicted of any charges, should have informed Connect for Health much earlier of the accusations she was facing, Davis said. McClure was released pending trial, now scheduled for June. Each of the counts in the indictment against her carry potential penalties of five, 10 or 20 years in prison and a fine of $250,000. The 12-page indictment alleges that, while serving as executive director of the federally funded Housing Montana, McClure, between 2008 and 2010, paid herself “significant sums” for consulting services, although she was already on the payroll as a full-time employee. She also made payments to her family and used federal money for personal travel, to pay family bills and to buy consulting services, the indictment alleges. She also is accused of charging homeowners for a $750 warranty that did not exist, converting a laptop for personal use, inflating the hours she was to be compensated and writing herself a $21,000 check to which she was not entitled. The indictment did not specify the total amount she allegedly embezzled.

To: chartseer who wrote (7972)	2/13/2014 10:50:43 PM
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To: chartseer who wrote (7972)	2/14/2014 9:05:01 AM
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Soros Boasts of Spending $100 Million on U.S. Immigration Reform Push ............................................................................ cnsnews.com ^ \| October 24, 2013 \| Mike Ciandella Abortion, Obamacare, gay rights get support from Immigration Reform Groups receiving Soros dollars. George Soros just loves to meddle in American politics - especially if it's in support of liberal causes. Soros's Open Society Foundation proudly claimed to have given $100 million dollars to "immigrant rights" projects in the United States. Of the $16.7 million of this money that BMI identified, at least $5,300,755, nearly a third, went to organizations that also supported other liberal causes, including abortion, gay marriage and Obamacare. With $38.9 million in revenue in 2010 alone, the National Council on La Raza ($2,410,000 in Soros funding) calls itself "the largest national Hispanic civil rights and advocacy organization in the United States." It's also one of the most blatantly liberal. La Raza focused heavily on promoting the Affordable Care Act, as well supporting same-sex marriage. It has also been outspoken critic of the Tea Party. Amnesty International ($844,088 in Soros Funding) has been decidedly anti-Israel, pro-abortion, anti-traditional marriage and campaigned for clemency for Bradley Manning (referring to him by his new female moniker, "Chelsea"). According to Amnesty, the "right" to marry someone of any gender you choose is "enshrined in international human rights standards." Throughout its website, Amnesty International refers to LGBT issues as " LGBT Human Rights," thus by default labeling traditional marriage supporters as suppressors of human rights. The Immigrant Resource Center has a strong emphasis on LGBT Immigrants, as does the group Immigration Equality. The National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health focuses more on Obamacare and abortion "rights" than it does on immigration, but still gets $100,000 from Soros. A press release for this group called the "Conscience Clause" negotiations, which were aimed to keep those morally opposed to contraception and abortifacients from having to pay for them, " a political play that will hurt Latina health." Soros has aided hundreds of left-wing groups in America since 2000 under the auspices of his Open Society Foundations. In just 10 years, he gave more than $550 million to liberal organizations in the United States. This has included money going to fund liberal agenda topics like Earth Day, gun control, government funding of student loans and even the IRS targeting of conservatives. Only a fraction of the records for the $8 billion that Soros claims to give to charities around the world is accessible through the Open Society Foundations' American 990 tax forms. Because of this, the list below is partial, and reflects only part of the $100 million that the Open Society Foundations claim to have given to U.S. immigration groups. National Council on La Raza - See more at: cnsnews.com Soros funding: $2,410,000 Immigrant Legal Resource Center Soros funding: $1,645,000 Amnesty International Soros funding: $844,088 Immigration Equality Soros funding: $301,667 National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health Soros funding: $100,000

To: chartseer who wrote (7972)	2/17/2014 5:28:37 PM
From: joseffy	Respond to of 16547

MSNBC’s Witt Apologizes After Guest Utters Lewinsky’s Name ..................................................................................... NewsBusters ^ \| 17 Feb 2014 \| Paul Bremmer MSNBC’s Alex Witt is clearly one of those journalists who wishes Bill Clinton’s Monica Lewinsky sex scandal would completely fade from memory so as not to obstruct Hillary Clinton’s potential bid for the White House in 2016. On Sunday’s edition of Weekends with Alex Witt, the host went so far as to apologize after her guest mentioned Lewinsky’s name. [Video below. MP3 audio here.] Witt was talking to Rep. David Cicilline (D-R.I.) about Sen. Rand Paul’s (R-Ky.) attempts to link Mrs. Clinton to her husband’s sexual misdeeds in the 1990s. Cicilline, a loyal Democrat, stuck up for Hillary and downplayed the importance of the scandal: I think these recent attempts to talk about President Clinton's relationship with Monica Lewinsky are an effort really to discredit... Secretary Clinton. There will be voters in the presidential election in 2016 who weren't even born during the Monica Lewinsky matter. Whoops! The congressman mentioned Monica Lewinsky’s name twice. Witt, who had not spoken Lewinsky’s name up to that point, issued an apology to her viewers: “I gotta tell you, I'm sorry we even had to mention that young lady's name – it is what it is.” Is this what it’s come to? An MSNBC host doesn’t even want to say the name of Bill Clinton’s most infamous sexual liaison anymore? Some public figures may want to minimize the importance of the Lewinsky scandal in judging Hillary (including the gentlemanly moderate, Mitt Romney), but it deserves to be part of the discussion. In this age of the supposed “War on Women,” it’s worth asking if Hillary set the best example for women by excusing not just the Lewinsky affair, but her husband’s other sexual infidelities as well. (Excerpt) Read more at newsbusters.org ...

To: chartseer who wrote (7972)	2/18/2014 4:39:01 PM
From: joseffy	Respond to of 16547

We are already seeing regiments of Obamaites prosecuting smaller and smaller business owners who invoke the First Amendment to be faithful to their religious beliefs. These include the baker who refused to bake a wedding cake for a same-sex marriage and the photographer who refused to photograph a same-sex marriage ceremony, although they were quite willing to do any other business with gay customers. The supremacist judge who ruled against the photographer and imposed a fine pompously declared it "the price of citizenship." Has kowtowing to Obama's redefinition of the First Amendment now become the price of American citizenship and of doing business in the United States?

To: chartseer who wrote (7972)	2/19/2014 4:11:27 PM
From: joseffy	Respond to of 16547

The reason Congress has not gotten to the bottom of the IRS targeting of conservatives and Tea Party movement groups is because the establishment GOP wants the IRS to hobble the Tea party just as much or more than do the Democrats. The notion that the Republican Party leadership is slow-walking the investigation of the IRS was first raised publicly by Democratic pollster and Fox News regular Pat Caddell. "The establishment Republicans want the IRS to go after the Tea Parties," Caddell told Fox News on Sunday. "When you have 71 percent who want an investigation, 64 percent who believe that it is a sign of corruption including nearly a majority of Democrats," Caddell said, "the reason is the establishment Republicans want the IRS to go after the Tea Parties. Got it?" According to Breitbart’s Leahy, Caddell said the GOP establishment is happy to have the IRS take the Tea Party down a notch. "Because the Tea Parties are an outside threat to their power hold and I'm telling you the lobbying consulting class of the Republican party and Republican leadership who have been attacking the Tea Parties, and alienating them, they want the IRS to do this," Caddell said. conservativehq.com

To: chartseer who wrote (7972)	2/21/2014 11:51:56 AM
From: joseffy	Respond to of 16547

High school censors pro-life club while promoting gay club ............................................................................................ by Jill Stanek Feb 20, 2014 lifesitenews.com On the heels of a public university censoring a pro-life club comes word of a public high school attempting the same. Intervention by pro-life attorneys helped the University of Alabama quickly see the error of its ways. I expect the same will prompt Wilson High School in Tacoma, Washington, to come to its senses as well. Wilson Students for Life has been having trouble with censorship ever since its founding last year. But when school administrators rejected two Students for Life of America posters (above and below) WSFL chose to promote its club last fall, the group turned to the Thomas More Society legal team for intervention. On February 11, the Thomas More Society sent Wilson High School principal Dan Besett a letter urging the school to reconsider, reminding it of the federal Equal Access Act, which requires school to give all student groups the same opportunities. The pro-life students had been told their posters were rejected due to a policy that states: Acceptable posters do not offend staff or students, put others down if they have a different belief/opinion, or otherwise cause disruption. Posters that promote meetings, service projects, events, are the most common at school. “WSFL’s posters, the administration maintained, would violate this policy because they promote a message rather than solely promoting the group’s meetings,” wrote TMS, noting, “Despite this policy, however, the administration has permitted the Wilson Gay Straight Alliance to hang flyers, for example, promoting homosexual relationships by showing conjoined male symbols and conjoined female symbols and stating ‘Love knows no limits,’” i.e., these (click to enlarge)… Kudos to WSFL, particularly its founder, Bryce Asberg. It takes real courage to stand up against discrimination in high school settings. Know that this is more than about your situation. You’re helping stop discrimination against the pro-life view and preborn babies in many other schools. Thank you.