.@KattyKayBBC and I had a great time doing this! Huge thank you to @TheAtlantic. pic.twitter.com/PCef68mWt8
— Claire Shipman (@ClaireShipman) April 15, 2014
Public Safety Alert: #BPD investigating 2 unattended backpacks found in the area of Boston Marathon Finish Line.
— Boston Police Dept. (@bostonpolice) April 15, 2014Public Safety Alert: #BPD asking pedestrians & motorists to avoid the area in and around the Boston Marathon Finish Line.
— Boston Police Dept. (@bostonpolice) April 15, 2014#BPDPublicSafetyAlert: Boylston St has been closed & MBTA Green Line service temporarily suspended. Community members asked to avoid area.
— Boston Police Dept. (@bostonpolice) April 15, 2014#BPDPublicSafetyAlert: #BPD Bomb Squad still on scene in the area of Marathon Finish Line investigating call for 2 unattended backpacks.
— Boston Police Dept. (@bostonpolice) April 15, 2014#BPDMediaAdvisory: For officer safety - media outlets are discouraged from showing any live video of backpacks found near Finish Line.
— Boston Police Dept. (@bostonpolice) April 15, 2014#BPDPublicSafetyAlert: #BPD confirming a male suspect in custody in connection to the unattended backpacks found at the Finish Line.
— Boston Police Dept. (@bostonpolice) April 16, 2014#BPDMediaAdvisory: The BPD Bomb Squad is still on scene. Live video of the area is prohibited & discouraged until the scene is cleared.
— Boston Police Dept. (@bostonpolice) April 16, 2014#BPDPublicSafetyAlert: BPD confirming that the unattended bags at the Finish Line have been disrupted for precautionary reasons.
— Boston Police Dept. (@bostonpolice) April 16, 2014On April 15, 2013, their lives intersected. One year later, they returned to the scene http://t.co/mrgyiucLBp pic.twitter.com/1e9cUzsgjh
— The Boston Globe (@BostonGlobe) April 16, 2014PHOTOS: Behind the scenes of the Boston Marathon finish line photo shoot
http://t.co/vIIFMdCuhY pic.twitter.com/ELVUI4IqAs
— The Boston Globe (@BostonGlobe) April 16, 2014Limbaugh is 1 of several right-wingers blaming @MaxBlumenthal for Overland Park shootings. Silence from establishment Liberals is deafening.
— Rania Khalek (@RaniaKhalek) April 15, 2014Sandra Fluke ordeal taught us @msnbc & @thinkprogress would rush to our defense when Limbaugh attacks. Just not for @MaxBlumenthal I guess.
— Rania Khalek (@RaniaKhalek) April 15, 2014For 2 days rightwing Israel supporters have blamed @MaxBlumenthal 4 white supremacy. And for 2 days liberal outlets have been silent.
— Rania Khalek (@RaniaKhalek) April 16, 2014.@MaxBlumenthal has "finally achieved his great dream. Inspiring the murder of Jews": http://t.co/duaIgr4WXa cc. @RSMcCain
— Donald Douglas (@AmPowerBlog) April 15, 2014
@AmPowerBlog here's an inconvenient truth for you asswipe. Your a middle aged man who writes a blog. You couldn't possibly be more pathetic
— Con Assassin (@ConAssassin) April 15, 2014
.@ConAssassin That'd be "you're."
— Donald Douglas (@AmPowerBlog) April 15, 2014
Well, well well. A perfectly even distribution of racist attitudes across both major political parties, with Republicans being very slightly less racist than Democrats. These data points came, incidentally, from a 2002 UC Berkeley project...
Man, the truth about #DemocratParty murderous anti-Semitism and hate really driving depraved leftists insane! #JewishCommunityCenter
— Donald Douglas (@AmPowerBlog) April 15, 2014Well, so another Leftist wacko snapped, huh? Oooops, here's some "inconvenient truth" for you Leftist trolls, slithering around the threads....Yep. Frazier Glenn Miller follows a long line of leftist, Democrat cowards and murderers.
~ Nidal Hasan - Ft Hood Shooter: Registered Democrat and Muslim.
~ Aaron Alexis, Navy Yard shooter - black liberal/Obama voter
~ Seung-Hui Cho - Virginia Tech shooter: Wrote hate mail to President Bush and to his staff, registered Democrat.
~ James Holmes - the "Dark Knight"/Colorado shooter: Registered Democrat, staff worker on the Obama campaign, #Occupy guy,progressive liberal, hated Christians.
~ Amy Bishop, the rabid leftist, killed her colleagues in Alabama, Obama supporter.
~ Andrew J. Stack, flew plane into IRS building in Texas - Leftist Democrat
~ James J. Lee who was the "green activist"/ leftist took hostages at Discovery Channel - progressive liberal Democrat.
~ Jared Loughner, the Tucson shooter - Leftist, Marxist.
~ Ohio bomb plot derps were occupy Wall St leftists.
~ Harris and Klebold, the Columbine Shooters - families registered Democrats and progressive Leftists.
~ Bill Ayers, Weather Underground bomber - Leftist Democrat.
~Lee Harvey Oswald, Socialist, Communist and Democrat - killed Kennedy...
~ Leon Czolgosz, Leftist/anarchist - killed W. McKinley, 25th president - a Republican.
~ Charles Guiteau, psychopath, felt he was "owed" something, killed Garfield, 20th president - a Republican.
and on and on and on....the Left is chock full o' nuts...
Why are all mass murderers Democrats?
— Todd Kincannon (@Todd__Kincannon) April 15, 2014Fred Phelps, Westboro Baptist church, committed far left nutball and life long member of the Democrat party who ran for governor of Kansas three times under the Democrat banner...Heh.
Here again we see the bloody carnage of the hard left ginning up their base to kill. Last year, SPLC member tried to kill Family Research Council president Tony Perkins. And now yesterday’s passover slaughter in Kansas. The vicious left aligned with the jihad force incited follower Glenn Miller to murder. Mr. Miller himself, a proud Ku Klux Klan leader and avowed antisemite, found inspiring words from the one Jew he likes–Max Blumenthal. His rants were filled with the antisemitic tripe of Walt and Mearsheimer, John B. Judis and other realists and leftists, whose writings are filled with the same disdain for “neo-conservatives” who are always described as “warmongering.”Remember, modern anti-Semitism is virtually an entirely left-wing phenomenon, growing in tandem with global communism's campaign for the elimination of Israel. See Ben Cohen, "The Ideological Foundations of the Boycott Campaign Against Israel."
Prosecutors said Monday that they would file hate-crime charges against a white supremacist accused of killing three people outside a Jewish Community Center and at a nearby retirement community in a suburb of Kansas City, Mo.Yes, the Ku Klux Klan, which is a Democrat Party fraternal organization going back to the Reconstruction era. Klan Democrats voted against the Civil Rights Act of 1964, because they reviled blacks, and their top Senate cyclops still served into the 21st century. The Democrat/KKK/Party remains the party of exterminationist Jew-hatred.
Speaking at a news conference on Monday in the suburb of Overland Park, Kan., the authorities said that the charges would be filed against Frazier Glenn Miller, 73, of Aurora, Mo., who had spoken and written frequently over the years about his hatred for Jews, blacks, immigrants and others.
Prosecutors declined to say when Mr. Miller, who is also known as Frazier Glenn Cross, will be formally charged, but said the case would be presented to a grand jury.
“We believe this to be a hate crime,” the Overland Park police chief, John Douglass, said. “We believe his motivation was to attack a Jewish facility.”
The Southern Poverty Law Center, a civil rights organization that tracks hate groups, said Mr. Cross was the founder and grand dragon of the Carolina Knights of the Ku Klux Klan...
Today the greatest threat to the Jewish people comes not from stray neo-Nazis but from Islamist terror and a genocidal theocracy in Iran that seeks nuclear capability. But whether focused on the remnants of old threats or the peril from the new, Jew hatred remains an unfortunate fact of life. While the crime that took place in Kansas City should not distort our view of American society or cause us to forget that barriers to acceptance of Jews have been almost totally erased, it should serve as a reminder that Jew hatred is far from dead.Very far.
oh hai Liberal Jews.....a DEMONcrat shot up two Jewish facilities killing three and @WhiteHouse lip zipped.
Thanks for your vote.
— Honkey Tonk Infidel (@lidsamy) April 14, 2014A man opened fire outside a Jewish Community Center and a nearby retirement community in a suburb of Kansas City, Mo., on Sunday afternoon, killing three people before he was taken into custody.The Times mentions that Miller "made several unsuccessful runs for public office," although specifically omitting that he first ran as a Democrat in South Carolina's gubernatorial primary in 1984. (More at the link, FWIW.)
The man, who was identified as Frazier Glenn Cross of Aurora, Mo., in Johnson County booking records. He was charged with first-degree murder and was scheduled to appear in court Monday afternoon.
The suspect, 73, is a former Ku Klux Klan leader with a history of anti-Semitism and racism, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center, a civil rights organization that tracks hate groups. It identified him as Frazier Glenn Miller, 73, commonly known as Glenn Miller, and said he was the founder and grand dragon of the Carolina Knights of the Ku Klux Klan.
The shootings took place in Overland Park, Kan., a major suburb located just across the state line from Kansas City, Mo. Overland Park is the second-biggest city in Kansas and has a population of about 170,000.
A doctor and his 14-year-old grandson were killed in the parking lot at the Jewish Community Center of Greater Kansas City and a woman was killed a short time later in a parking lot at Village Shalom, a senior living community about a mile away, the police said.
Mr. Miller was taken into custody on Sunday afternoon at a local elementary school near Village Shalom, the police said. In video taken by KMBC, a local television station, the suspect yelled “Heil Hitler!” while sitting in a police car.
The Southern Poverty Law Center said it sued Mr. Miller in the 1980s for intimidating African-Americans, and he has had several run-ins with the law since then. He served six months in prison after he was held in criminal contempt for violating the terms of the court order that settled that lawsuit. He also served three years in federal prison for weapons charges and for plotting robberies and the assassination of the center’s founder, Morris Dees. As part of his plea bargain, he testified against other Klan leaders in a 1988 trial.
The police said it was too early in the investigation to determine whether the attacks were a hate crime...
Cliven Bundy can go shove it and get his stupid fucking cows off public land. You have no right to use federal land. #BundyRanch
— Sterling Richmond (@dirtycommunist) April 13, 2014#bundyranch Dear Govt. Put a few in BuckTooth Billy and his sister/wife for me will ya slaughter those crackers like the pigs they are
— Kim (@intheshadows850) April 13, 2014Can I join SWAT just for a week or two for #bundyranch I want to pop some 'woods
— Kim (@intheshadows850) April 13, 2014I mean, if you really look at the facts of the case at the heart of his dispute with the Bureau of Land Management over grazing fees he's refused to pay for the last 20 years - Cliven Bundy has long enjoyed the benefit of Federal Resources without actually meeting the requirements for access to those resources.It's much more complicated than that, but should any American family stand up against federal power, leftists will be first out of the gate to have them crushed --- murdered even --- for resisting the all-powerful collectivist state.
The issue has been litigated in court, more than once, and Bundy has lost each time on the merits of his case. He is NOT ENTITLED to access to this land. It doesn't belong to him. In fact that land Belongs to ME and to every other citizen of the United States. That's MY Land that his cows have been grazing on for 20 years and he OWES ME and the rest of the American People for it.
Cliven Bundy is a God Damn [Corporate] Benefits Dead Beat and a THEIF. He's a Moocher! A Lazy Taker!. He should pay the frack up, or else face jail. I mean isn't that how all those good Americans on Fox News like Eric Bolling are constantly telling us about people who Improperly take Federal Benefits!
Hundreds of the Bundy family neighbors have been pushed out of ranching, a profession and culture the families shared with generations of their ancestors, by the federal government slowly restricting more and more of the usage of federal lands. The Bundy family has held on—but holding on meant ignoring the rule of law, as much as they would argue that the federal government has ignored the rule of law. After years of federal overreach and corruption—especially from federal agencies restricting public lands or effectively taking the value out of privately-held lands to protect tortoises, spotted owls, and ponds a bird might someday land in—many Americans are boiling and looking for an instance to stand against. The Bundy ranch has filled that role for many. Stated concerns over this being a new Waco or Ruby Ridge have come from the family. The federal government clearly views the armed Bundy supporters with concern—as evidenced by reports of government snipers being nearby and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) issuing a no-fly zone for three miles surrounding the Bundy ranch.Be sure to RTWT. Sounds as if the Bundy family may have bitten off more than they could chew.
Many folks are applying the 'rule of law' standard differently on Bundy Ranch than they do on immigration.
— Brandon Darby (@brandondarby) April 13, 2014To clarify: Many on both right and left are being inconsistent on the importance of 'rule of law.'
— Brandon Darby (@brandondarby) April 13, 2014"I know it's the law but ..." -- what many leftists say about immigration, what many on the right say about Bundy ranch.
— Brandon Darby (@brandondarby) April 13, 2014I personally side with Bundy Ranch on some aspects, some I do not. Complexity exists. @Steve_McKasson
— Brandon Darby (@brandondarby) April 13, 2014Passover, which begins on Monday night, is the festival of freedom.Keep reading.
The holiday reminds us of the brutal enslavement of the Jews by Pharaoh and the Egyptians. We recall their midnight flight from Egypt, pursued by the mighty Egyptian army, and God’s miraculous rescue of the Jews at the shores of the Red Sea. We remember how Moses led them for 40 years in the desert, and taught them what it means to be a nation, and what it means to be free.
We repeat the story of enslavement, flight, redemption and freedom each year at Passover, because our sages wanted to ensure that we never forget the value of freedom, and remain vigilant in our fight for it.
In Israel, where our freedom is physically threatened, most Jews understand and live by the lessons of Passover.
But something is happening to the Jews in America.
More and more, every day we see American Jews embracing intellectual bondage. We see American Jewish leaders embracing the intolerant, who seek to constrain freedom, and shunning those who fight for freedom and the rights of Jews and other threatened peoples and groups.
To a large degree, this rejection of the lessons of the Exodus among the American Jewish community reflects the growing intolerance and tyranny of the political Left, to which most American Jews pledge their allegiance.
With increasing frequency, leftist groups and leaders in the US are openly acting to deny freedom of expression to their political and ideological foes, and to destroy the lives of people who oppose their dogma.
For instance, last week we saw the growing tyranny of gay activists. Under assault from homosexual thought police, the Mozilla Corporation of Firefox browser fame fired its CEO Brendan Eich because he once contributed $1,000 to a campaign to block the legalization of homosexual marriage in California.
Eich’s firing was only the latest assault by gay rights bullies on private citizens who oppose their goals. The aim of these assaults is to silence all opposition to their agenda using the tools of social ostracism and intellectual terror...
We are in a new Inquisition. Self-appointed censors try to stamp out any idea or word that they don't wish to be aired – in the pursuit of a new race, class, gender and environment orthodoxy.Torquemadas. Heh, I love that.
Hounding out people with different views is seen by the Left as a necessary means to achieve its supposedly noble goals – just like the Spanish Inquisitioners who claimed God was on their side as they went after religiously “incorrect” Jews, Muslims and heretics.
Unfortunately, the Obama administration has been part of the problem, not part of the solution. Its appointees used the once-impartial IRS against conservatives. They monitored Associated Press reporters. They denied that the NSA was eavesdropping on average citizens. They arbitrarily chose not to enforce laws they didn't like.
The president bragged of using “a pen and phone” to circumvent the legislative branch, and urged his supporters to “punish our enemies.” The attorney general calls Americans who have different views from his own on matters of affirmative action “cowards.”
All of that them/us rhetoric has given a top-down green light to radical thought police to harass anyone who is open-minded about man-caused global warming, or believes that gay marriage needs more debate, or that supporting Israel is a legitimate cause, or that breaking federal immigration law is still a crime and therefore “illegal.”
Our civil liberties will not be lost to crude fascists in jackboots. More likely, the death of free speech will be the work of the new medieval Torquemadas who claim they destroyed freedom of expression for the sake of “equality” and “fairness” and “saving the planet.”
Shame on Subaru of Wichita...for Having Unbeatable Prices! pic.twitter.com/Ea3O4yQTw1
— Subaru of Wichita (@ridehomehappy) March 14, 2014Hey @TwitchyTeam: The Shame On Saga continues. They move their banner, we have a dance party: https://t.co/AjrsLUUlLi
— Subaru of Wichita (@ridehomehappy) April 11, 2014
And anyone still saying he's a "deadbeat" neither understands the story or ranching, for that matter http://t.co/CPW3upHbUu #BundyRanch
— Dana Loesch (@DLoesch) April 12, 2014
Zeituni Onyango, President Obama’s illegal alien aunt, died this week of cancer and other complications. I hope she rests in peace. America, however, should be up in arms.More.
Auntie Zeituni is an enduring symbol of all that is wrong with this country’s immigration “policy” — or rather, its complete lack of a coherent, enforceable system of laws and rules that puts the national interest first. She was a beneficiary of the welfare state run amok, enabled by bipartisan fecklessness. To the bitter end, she bit the hand that fed her with predictable ingratitude and metastatic entitlement.
Zeituni’s 14-year illegal overstay is a reminder that our temporary visa program is an abysmal joke. Like millions of foreign students, business people and tourists to this country, Auntie Zeituni obtained a short-term visitor visa in 2000. It had an expiration date. She was supposed to go back to Kenya in two years after traveling here with her son, who had been accepted at a college in Boston.
But like millions of other “temporary” visa overstayers, Auntie Zeituni never went home. And despite billions spent on homeland security and immigration enforcement, no one ever went looking for her to kick her out of the country after her time was up.
Auntie Zeituni had no job skills, no special talent, no compelling reason to keep her here in America as an asset to our culture or our economy. She didn’t value the American Dream. She was a dependency nightmare. She collected $700 a month in welfare benefits and disability payments totaling $51,000. Somehow, Auntie Zeituni also drummed up money to apply for asylum and finagled her way into both federal and state public housing in Boston.
She contributed nothing to this country. The only “work” she did was gaming the system, complaining about her lot and blaming everyone else for her problems while they subsidized her 14-year illegal overstay.
Auntie Zeituni’s ridiculous asylum application and what happened afterward are reminders that our asylum and deportation systems are appalling jokes. Auntie Zeituni’s bogus request was rejected by the immigration court system. A judge ordered her to return to Kenya in 2003. She appealed. She lost. A judge again ordered her to leave in 2004.
But Auntie Zeituni never went home. Like an estimated 700,000 other deportation absconders, she evaded the judicial order for nearly a half-dozen years and continued to feed at the government trough. When the Bush administration had the chance to put the pedal to the enforcement metal in 2008, they caved. Pandering to pro-amnesty forces, Bush officials issued a 72-hour cease-and-desist order to all fugitive apprehension teams to spare Obama embarrassment over his auntie right before Election Day.
As an Immigration and Customs Enforcement source told me at the time: “The ICE fugitive operations group throughout the U.S. was told to stand down until after the election from arresting or transporting anyone out of the U.S. This was done to avoid any mistakes of deporting or arresting anyone who could have a connection to the election, i.e., anyone from Kenya who could be a relative. The decision was election-driven.” Such stand-down non-enforcement orders are standard operating procedure in Washington.
Auntie Zeituni’s illegal activity and ingratitude were rewarded time and time again...
The WINNER is........ @_JessicaDavies congratulations we will be seeing you in Salt Lake City. pic.twitter.com/Cs9JtR2vLV
— Hot Shots (@hsc) April 11, 2014Coordinated action by well armed and equipped units at key locations in Eastern Ukraine. Massive escalation of destabilisation strategy.
— Carl Bildt (@carlbildt) April 12, 2014MOSCOW — Trouble flared in eastern Ukraine on Saturday as pro-Russian gunmen occupied a police headquarters in a small city north of Donetsk and attacked government buildings in several nearby towns.
To Ukrainian officials it looked like the beginning of a replay of the Crimea takeover by Russia, which began with men in unmarked uniforms storming the regional parliament, then spreading their control throughout the peninsula...
@AmPowerBlog If you support this madness unfollow me now pic.twitter.com/uQpr4vBqMK
— Erasmus Longfellow (@SandyEgoCali) April 12, 2014.@SandyEgoCali I like @PatDollard. He's an American patriot.
— Donald Douglas (@AmPowerBlog) April 12, 2014@ampowerblog Bye Bye
— Erasmus Longfellow (@SandyEgoCali) April 12, 2014.@SandyEgoCali DLTDHYOTWO!
— Donald Douglas (@AmPowerBlog) April 12, 2014
#Obama will not be outdone by #putin #BundyRanch #tcot #militia pic.twitter.com/9BQgDizyqM
— Mike Gacek (@GaceMike) April 12, 2014
Many Americans have been watching with great consternation the ongoing struggle between the Federal Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and the U.S. Marshals against Cliven Bundy and his family. There are no signs of either side relinquishing its position. Many onlookers have been informed that this dispute is over protecting the desert tortoise. But it is nothing of the sort. In fact, the reality of the dispute goes far underneath what is being talked about. The more appropriate source of the dispute is ground water as well as surface water – this is a war over water.And see Dana Loesch, "The Real Story Behind The Bundy Ranch Harassment":
Cliven Bundy and his family claim that they can trace their family ownership back to around the 1870s on their current property in Clark County. This is well before any federal offices such as the EPA, BLM, or water management were created. This corresponds with the Homestead rights that were established during the Lincoln administration in 1862 to entice people to settle the western frontier and expand the U.S. agricultural enterprises. This 19th-century policy was meant to encourage and support settlement by families like the Bundys. Now, over 150 years later, what seemed to be borderless country surrounding small-town Bunkerville in Nevada is an inhospitable petri dish for the experiments of growing federal regulations.
The Bundy Ranch “VO” is now the last large cattle ranch standing in Clark County. According to an anonymous source who has lived in Nevada for thirty-five years, the other major ranches in Clark County have been driven out of existence for one reason or another by the BLM and the Feds. It is claimed that the BLM are masquerading as conservationists, using their federal power to wield the final blow to reclaim the settlement rights they once honored to settlers like the Bundys...
By now you’re familiar with the standoff between the federal government, i.e. the Bureau of Land Management, and 67 year-old rancher Cliven Bundy. (If not, check the backstory and my radio interview with him here.) The BLM asserts their power through the expressed desire to protect the endangered desert tortoise, a tortoise so “endangered” that their population can no longer be contained by the refuge constructed for them so the government is closing it and euthanizing over a thousand tortoises. The tortoises, the excuse that BLM has given for violating claims to easements and running all but one lone rancher out of southern Nevada, is doing fine. In fact, the tortoise has lived in harmony with cattle in the Gold Butte, Clark County Nevada for over a hundred years, or as long as Cliven Bundy’s family has lived on the land as ranchers. In fact, the real threat to it is urbanization, not cattle.More at iOWNTHEWORLD, "Feds to Stand Down at Bundy Ranch."
A tortoise isn’t the reason why BLM is harassing a 67 year-old rancher. They want his land...
BREAKING: Dozens of police/swat in stand-off like situation w protestors. Protestors now have rifles and guns highly visible. No violence.
— Matt Finn FNC (@MattFinnFNC) April 12, 2014@foxnews #BundyRanch pic.twitter.com/cClavHDwrs
— Matt Finn FNC (@MattFinnFNC) April 12, 2014This is a photo of PATRIOTS! #BundyRanch pic.twitter.com/7LI4gUOx52
— Jeremy Daugherty (@JDOGanonymous) April 12, 2014Feds Issue Statement On #BundyRanch Surrender Indicating Law Enforcement Told Them To Back Off Over Fear Of Violence http://t.co/AmrVkBCSaE
— Patrick Dollard (@PatDollard) April 12, 2014#BundyRanch Another good pic of #BLM & #protesters pic.twitter.com/ozURTSrWxf
— Mike Gacek (@GaceMike) April 12, 2014#BundyCattle has been released! #BundyRanchLIVE - Dual Video Coverage #BundyRanch... http://t.co/ymJu9O8YvD
— Wayne Dupree ★彡 (@WayneDupreeShow) April 12, 2014Bundy gets 500 head of cattle back. pic.twitter.com/9eR5B6UIUr
— Stephen Wilson (@GR8_2B_alive) April 12, 2014#BundyRanch Love how all the libbies are super bummed that freedom and liberty won today. They are really angry & hateful trolls. We won!
— KJoy (@Kjoyfully1) April 12, 2014Rachel Maddow is very upset that Sebelius resigned yesterday. http://t.co/367qbMvB7D
— NRSC (@NRSC) April 11, 2014
Tweeted by a "Proud Democrat" ==> https://t.co/qkp5E8UFn8 pic.twitter.com/JhcDv3IVUT
— Michelle Malkin (@michellemalkin) April 12, 2014
PRINCETON, NJ -- With the open enrollment period for obtaining health insurance through a federal government exchange now over, Americans' views on the broader healthcare law remain more negative than positive. Currently, 43% approve and 54% disapprove of the law, commonly known as "Obamacare." The approval figure is a bit higher than Gallup's estimates since last November, but disapproval is essentially unchanged.Well, if the law's been working better, and website all "fixed," seems we'd be seeing some improvement in those numbers. Not yet, though. Not yet. And given Pew's findings yesterday of 8-1 Republican voter disapproval of the law, it's going to be tough sledding for the idiot Democrats come fall.
Democrats in races that will help determine control of the Senate are rapidly burning through their campaign cash, whittling away their financial advantage over Republican opponents as they fend off attacks from conservative groups, according to figures released through Friday.The funniest thing is how Democrats are actually outraising Republicans, all the while demonizing the Koch brothers (and in some case, taking their money).
The spending on both sides underscores the critical role that outside conservative groups are playing as Republicans try to retake the Senate. In state after state, organizations like Americans for Prosperity, the nonprofit linked to the conservative billionaires David H. and Charles G. Koch, have kept Democrats on the defensive with a barrage of negative ads while establishment-backed Republican candidates raise money and navigate their way through primaries.
In Alaska, the Democratic incumbent, Senator Mark Begich, spent about as much money as he raised during the first three months of the year, while Dan Sullivan, a Republican candidate and former state attorney general, increased his fund-raising and substantially narrowed Mr. Begich’s advantage in cash on hand.
In Montana, Senator John Walsh, a Democrat, spent almost three-quarters of the money he raised since January, ending with about $700,000. Representative Bruce Braley of Iowa, the likely Democratic nominee for Senate, spent over 60 percent of the cash he raised.
Senator Mary L. Landrieu, Democrat of Louisiana, spent only about a third of what she collected through the end of March. But last month, Ms. Landrieu reserved $2.7 million of advertising time, according to strategists tracking both parties’ television spending, which will cut deeply into the $7.5 million she reported at the beginning of April.
“The spending totals so far show that a lot of Democratic candidates find themselves on the run,” said Brad Dayspring, a spokesman for the National Republican Senatorial Committee.
Democratic strategists say their candidates have faced a historic early onslaught of outside spending — about $33 million in all, most of it from Koch-linked groups — without squandering their coffers and while staying, for the most part, ahead of or even with their Republican rivals in the polls.
In the five battleground races where both candidates have reported their totals — Alaska, Colorado, Louisiana, Montana and North Carolina — Democrats reported a combined $25.2 million in cash on hand, compared with $12.1 million for Republicans. The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee had $22 million, compared with $15.9 million for the Republican committee...
WILLOWS, Calif. -- Investigators combing through the wreckage of the fiery Northern California crash that killed 10 people, including five high school students, said they do not yet know what caused the driver of a FedEx truck to veer across a freeway median and hit the students' bus head-on.More.
California Highway Patrol Lt. Scott Fredrick said it remained unclear whether the FedEx driver – who officials said was among those killed – had fallen asleep, if his freight truck had some type of mechanical failure or if it was involved in separate collision that preceded the fiery crash.
Fredrick said CHP investigators were being assisted by the National Transportation Safety Board, which sent a team that arrived about 10 a.m. Friday. Investigators would use “sophisticated surveying and mapping equipment,” along with 3-D diagramming, to reconstruct what led up to the crash, he said.
Fredrick said investigators would also consider roadway and weather conditions at the time. But he and others cautioned it could take up to six months for the CHP to complete its report.
If a liar RTs a lie... RT @WhiteHouse: RT @ezraklein: Kathleen Sebelius is resigning because Obamacare has won http://t.co/2H73CMXjKQ
— Voting Female (@VotingFemale) April 11, 2014
WASHINGTON — President Obama said Friday that he was nominating his budget director, Sylvia Mathews Burwell, to lead the Department of Health and Human Services, as the administration tries to move beyond its early stumbles in carrying out Mr. Obama’s health law.More.
If confirmed by the Senate, Ms. Burwell would succeed Kathleen Sebelius, whose five-year tenure was marred by the disastrous rollout of the federal insurance marketplace that is a centerpiece of the law. Ms. Sebelius’s legacy, though, may well depend on whether Ms. Burwell and her successors can elevate public opinion of the law to a level matching programs like Medicare.
One last miscue for #Sebelius -- "unfortunately a page is missing" in binder with farewell remarks
— Ed Henry (@edhenryTV) April 11, 2014Perfect! @Sebelius is missing a page of her farewell speech! Too Much!!
— Jim Hoft (@gatewaypundit) April 11, 2014
Back in the USA: @ggreenwald & @laurapoitras honored with Polk Awards http://t.co/Ndl8ztGkrf pic.twitter.com/ZTx24gurtN
— Democracy Now! (@democracynow) April 11, 2014
In looking ahead to this fall’s elections, Republicans are more likely than Democrats to view a candidate’s position on the Affordable Care Act as very important to their vote. A new national survey finds that 64% of Republican registered voters say a candidate’s stance on the health care law will be very important in their voting decision, compared with 52% of Democrats and 45% of independents.Don't swallow the left's bullshit. The law remains a massive cluster-k. Democrats are going to be crushed at the polls. The writing's on the wall.
The new national survey by the Pew Research Center and USA TODAY, conducted April 3-6 among 1,010 adults, finds more continue to disapprove (50%) than approve (37%) of the 2010 health care law. Last month, the balance of opinion was similar – 53% disapproved of the law, while 41% approved.
Six-in-ten (60%) voters who oppose the health care law say that a candidate’s stance on the health care law will be very important to their vote, compared with about half (48%) of voters who support the law.
NEW YORK -- Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras, two American journalists who have been at the forefront of reporting on documents leaked by former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden, will return to the United States on Friday for the first time since revelations of worldwide surveillance broke.Also at the Daily Dot, "NSA reporters Greenwald and Poitras to brave U.S. return Friday." And at NYT, "Polk Award for Snowden Coverage Draws 2 to U.S."
Greenwald and Poitras, currently in Berlin, will attend Friday’s Polk Awards ceremony in New York City. The two journalists are sharing the prestigious journalism award with The Guardian’s Ewen MacAskill and with Barton Gellman, who has led The Washington Post’s reporting on the NSA documents. Greenwald and Poitras interviewed Snowden last June in Hong Kong as he first revealed himself.
In an interview with The Huffington Post, Greenwald said he’s motivated to return because “certain factions in the U.S. government have deliberately intensified the threatening climate for journalists.”
“It’s just the principle that I shouldn’t allow those tactics to stop me from returning to my own country,” Greenwald said.
Greenwald suggested government officials and members of Congress have used the language of criminalization as a tactic to chill investigative journalism.
In January, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper suggested that journalists reporting on the NSA documents were acting as Snowden’s “accomplices.” The following month, Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Mich.), chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, claimed that Greenwald was selling stolen goods by reporting stories on the NSA documents with news organizations around the world. Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y.) has called for Greenwald to be prosecuted.
Greenwald said the government has not informed his legal counsel whether or not he could face any potential charges, or if he's been named in any grand jury investigation tied to the NSA disclosures.
This is beyond horrible. Did you see this @AmPowerBlog? http://t.co/JWPgeR2D6k
— Bossy & Proud of It (@lamblock) April 11, 2014WASHINGTON -- In the end, Kathleen Sebelius was able to resign as secretary of Health and Human Services during a high point, when the administration had just announced that 7.5 million Americans had signed up for insurance through the Affordable Care Act exchanges.More.
But that moment came only after six months of battering and blame over the botched roll-out of the healthcare.gov website. The enduring image of her five-year tenure as head of the huge agency is likely to be as the silver-haired woman sitting alone at a congressional hearing table, peering over reading glasses as she faced what often seemed to be an inquisition.
Even when President Obama held a victory rally of sorts last week in the Rose Garden, announcing that sign-ups had edged over the original goal of seven million, Sebelius was assigned a front-row seat but wasn't called to join in the camera shot or thanked by name in the president's remarks.
Fairly or not, some in the administration hold her responsible for an IT debacle that has dented Obama's legacy, raised questions about his competence and put Democratic candidates in peril in November. A USA TODAY/Pew Research Center Poll released Thursday showed the danger ahead: A majority of Americans now say the Affordable Care Act will be "very important" in their decision who to support in the midterm congressional elections. Those motivated voters disapprove of Obamacare by 2-1.
#BREAKING: @AP reporting that #HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius to resign #fnpolitics #breakingnews #foxnews pic.twitter.com/SLFcJtRc1Q
— Bret Baier (@BretBaier) April 10, 2014Health And Human Services Secretary Resigning After Troubled Obamacare Rollout http://t.co/8Cwok5WqVD pic.twitter.com/wFIyaHBbJd
— BuzzFeed News (@BuzzFeedNews) April 10, 2014
