Poll Shows GOP Standing Tough On Border Most Important Issue

By William Teach August 1, 2014 – 8:34 am

Is it?

(Breitbart) Polling data compiled by Tea Party Patriots and provided exclusively to Breitbart News shows that a majority of Republican voters think Republicans standing strong on immigration is more important than repealing Obamacare, getting to the bottom of the Benghazi or IRS scandals—or anything else for that matter.

When asked by TPP’s pollster which issue they think is the important for Republicans in Congress to deal with, 34.6 percent of GOP voters said stopping the flow of illegal immigrants across our southern border. Stopping Obama’s “illegal overreach” with executive power came in a distant second with 24 percent of GOP voters saying that’s the most important, while 23 percent saying repealing Obamacare is the most important and just 7.2 percent say the IRS scandal is the most important issue and 2.8 percent say the Benghazi scandal is most important. A total of 8.4 percent of GOP voters said they don’t know or refused to answer.

The poll was conduced with 1,000 likely GOP voters on Thursday, July 24 via a combination of cell phones and landlines nationwide, with a margin of error of 3.2 percent.

I do have to wonder how much of this is simply related to the current illegal immigrant issue, and if this would have been different a few months ago. And, if it will be different a few months from now, when there will surely be some other crisis that replaces this one.

On the bright side, the NY Times is apparently very upset over the “Rebellion inside the GOP”

Conservatives in the House rebelled against their leadership on Thursday to scuttle an emergency spending measure that addressed the migrant crisis at the southern border, pushing the issue to a showdown on Friday as lawmakers prepared to leave for a five-week recess. The unexpected turmoil offered a coda to the dysfunction that has gripped the Capitol for much of the year.

The failure of the comparatively modest Republican border bill, coupled with the Senate’s own inability to even bring a Democratic alternative to a vote, emphasized how the prospects of a broad immigration overhaul — which at the beginning of the 113th Congress held great bipartisan promise — have ground to a crashing halt.

William Kristol noted several good reasons to kill the bill, one of which is that Senate Democrats wouldn’t take it up and Obama threatened to veto it. John Boehner will give it one more try today. Perhaps Ted Cruz’ anti-deferred action bill will get a vote?

Unfortunately, GOP leadership, squishy and Dem-lite as always, just doesn’t get it. Instead of going with squishy methods, get tough. Stand on Law. Ignore the idiots using personal invective and ask them to put forth exactly what they want to pass and why. Put Democrats on the defensive, force them to defend amnesty for illegals/law breakers. Republicans should listen to the people who vote for them.

No one should possibly think this crisis just happened, not with the mid-terms coming up. This issue is a way to change the dynamics away from Obamacare, the stagnant economy, and Obama over-reach, and paint Republicans as heartless and worthless. And, if Republicans give in to Democrats, that will keep Republicans and Conservatives home on election day.

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Satanists Use Hobby Lobby Ruling For Democrat Style Purposes

By William Teach August 1, 2014 – 7:53 am

This is an interesting turn of events. Who knew that Satanists have the same positions on abortion as Democrats?

(ABC News) A group of Satanists are using the Supreme Court’s Hobby Lobby decision to promote their own political initiatives — which are the polar opposite of the Christian craft store giant.

The Supreme Court ruling allows Hobby Lobby to opt out of providing contraceptives to employees on the basis of their religious beliefs. Now, The Satanic Temple plans to cite the verdict as justification for the protection of their own beliefs. (WT-gotta admire the media’s continued ability to fail to represent the ruling properly)

The Satanic Temple, a religious group based in New York but with followers across the country, is using the ruling to fight informed consent laws which mandate that women considering abortions must be given state-approved literature about the procedure.

“We should only have to review medical or scientific information based solely on fact and not politicized,” said Jex Blackmore, the head of the Detroit chapter of The Satanic Temple. “Some of that state-drafted information is medical in nature [but] it’s just that it’s written in a very biased format.”

The group announced the initiative last week and have provided a form letter intended to enable women to opt-out of receiving the pamphlets distributed under the informed consent laws. They contend that the informed consent pamphlets run counter to their religious beliefs. Women are able to print off the opt-out form, fill it out and hand it to their doctor. If the doctor still gives them the state-mandated forms in spite of the letter, The Satanic Temple says it will file a lawsuit on their behalf.

Huh. So Satanists are upset by informed consent laws when it comes to abortion. So are Democrats, who have been fighting informed consent laws since they were passed, and are very upset over them. In fact, Senate Democrats have recently begun pushing a bill that would wipe out all State level informed consent laws, along with virtually every pro-life law. Seems that Democrats are more hard cored in favor of abortion than Satanists.

When it comes to fighting any lawsuits that The Satanic Temple brings forward regarding informed consent laws, it appears that the devil is truly in the details.

“It really puts the conservative Christians and the anti-contraceptive Catholics in a bind: They’re going to have to argue that a religious group should lose a RFRA claim that is on par with the Hobby Lobby claim,” Hamilton said.

“The courts cant pick and choose between beliefs.”

An interesting point. Of course, they haven’t actually made a case as to how the informed consent pamphlets violate their religious beliefs. There’s nothing in this article, nor any other articles I’ve perused, that explain that position, which would be necessary to sue. They really do not make a case on their website. Unless they’re saying that politics is against their religion? According to their press release, this is based on the notion that “The Satanic Temple believes that the body is inviolable — subject to one’s own will alone.” Wouldn’t that mean that the baby should be accorded the same will over their body?

However, at the end of the day, it looks more like this is really about fundraising, nothing more, nothing less, for the Satanic Temple. Kinda like with Democrat emails: give us money.

Crossed at Right Wing News.

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Say, Why Does Hamas Store Its Weapons In Civilian Areas?

By William Teach July 31, 2014 – 3:12 pm

Good question. The Washington Post finally deigns to notice what most other people already know, in their own unique fashion

Why Hamas stores its weapons inside hospitals, mosques and schools

To many observers, one of the most troublesome facts of the Gaza Strip conflict — which has killed around 1,340 Palestinians, many of them civilians, and 56 Israeli soldiers — has been Israel’s apparent willingness to strike civilian institutions such as mosques, schools and hospitals. On Wednesday, following a strike on a school while its inhabitants slept, killing 20 people and wounding dozens more, a United Nations official said Israel had violated international law. “I condemn in the strongest possible terms the serious violation of international law by Israel forces, said U.N. official Pierre Krähenbühl. “This is an affront to all of us, a source of universal shame. Today the world stands disgraced.”

Israeli military officials, for their part, say the reality of the strikes is substantially more complicated and claim Hamas’s maintenance of military operations inside civilian institutions precipitate such attacks.

“Hamas chooses to use these protected areas for military purposes in order to shield itself from IDF strikes,” the Israeli Defense Forces said this week. “And to draw international condemnation of Israel if the IDF is forced to respond.”

This is followed by a rehash of how Hamas is hiding weapons within hospitals, mosques, and UN schools. If you thought that WP writer Terrance McCoy was going to condemn Hamas, you’d be wrong. The article is about as vanilla and “just the facts, Ma’am” as one will see in today’s liberal media.

For years, Hamas has “planned carefully for a major Israeli invasion,”according to a Washington Institute for Near East Policy report. In addition to an elaborate tunnel system, there was the “integral use of civilians and civilian facilities as cover for its military activity; schools, mosques, hospitals, and civilian housing became weapons storage facilities, Hamas headquarters, and fighting positions … IDF imagery and combat intelligence revealed extensive use of civilian facilities.”

Whatever its plan, the outcome of this practice is indisputably devastating — both in Palestinian lives lost and Israel’s standing in the international community. As images of death and tragedy clog news outlets, international condemnation of Israel mounts. Which, according to the Israeli military, is exactly what it predicted would happen.

Interestingly, Hamas’ use of civilians and civilian property as shields rarely elicits condemnation from the liberal media nor liberals. When it does happen, there is usually some sort of “oh, but, you know, those Israeli’s are mean, too” accompanying said condemnation. There is a false moral equivalence created, when it is Hamas, a terrorist group, which is at fault.

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If All You See…

By William Teach July 31, 2014 – 1:00 pm

…is a wonderful, wonderful carbon friendly big city full of like minded Warmists, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Maggie’s Farm, with a post on open borders.

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Is The List Of Warming Excuses Actually 29?

By William Teach July 31, 2014 – 10:57 am

I have it set at 14. The Hockey Schtick says it’s 29

1) Low solar activity 

2) Oceans ate the global warming [debunked] [debunked] [debunked]

3) Chinese coal use [debunked]

4) Montreal Protocol 

5) What ‘pause’? [debunked] [debunked] [debunked] [debunked]

8) Faster Pacific trade winds [debunked]

9) Stadium Waves

10) ‘Coincidence!’

11) Pine aerosols

12) It’s “not so unusual” and “no more than natural variability”

13) “Scientists looking at the wrong ‘lousy’ data” http://

14) Cold nights getting colder in Northern Hemisphere

(Rest below the fold)

15) We forgot to cherry-pick models in tune with natural variability [debunked]

16) Negative phase of Interdecadal Pacific Oscillation

17) AMOC ocean oscillation

18) “Global brightening” has stopped

19) “Ahistorical media”

20) “It’s the hottest decade ever” Decadal averages used to hide the ‘pause’ [debunked]

21) Few El Ninos since 1999

22) Temperature variations fall “roughly in the middle of the AR4 model results”

23) “Not scientifically relevant”

24) The wrong type of El Ninos

25) Slower trade winds [debunked]

26) The climate is less sensitive to CO2 than previously thought [see also]

27) PDO and AMO natural cycles and here

28) ENSO

29) Solar cycle driven ocean temperature variations

We can certainly expect plenty more if the Pause continues. Of course, we are all missing one important one in our lists: “shut up”. Yes, Warmists use that as an excuse. Oh, and then there’s the ever popular “the science is settled”.

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Obama Pulls Normal Schtick: Mocks Republicans Before Asking For Their Help

By William Teach July 31, 2014 – 8:38 am

By the way, will Obama be required to pay for the full use of Air Force One, since he really had no official, presidential duties event on the schedule? His supposed events were strictly partisan. Shocking!

(CNS News) As President Barack Obama accuses Republicans of wasting taxpayer money on a lawsuit against him, Obama himself is traveling all over the country at taxpayer expense, eating barbecue, raising money, and indulging his inner celebrity before adoring crowds.

“We love you! We love you!” the people shouted in Kansas City on Wednesday. “Thank you,” Obama replied, as he launched into a partisan speech, criticizing Republicans for blocking his liberal “opportunity agenda” and listing all the things he’s done on his own:

“So some of the things we’re doing without Congress are making a difference, but we could do so much more if Congress would just come on and help out a little bit, Obama said.

“Just come on. Come on and help out a little bit. Stop being mad all the time. (Applause.) Stop just hating all the time. Come on. (Applause.) Let’s get some work done together,” said the president who has shown no inclination to negotiate with Congress, even when he’s in Washington.

He actually said “hatin'”. Seriously. Twitchy referred to him as “President Beiber“. Of course, Obama gives us plenty of reason to be mad, considering his clear violations of law and Constitution.

That’s right, Obama is constantly threatening to veto what the GOP led House passes. And Obama and his White House minions always seem to forget that the House has passed numerous bills, quite a few which are economic, that languish without a vote, nor even a committee hearing, in the Democrat led Senate

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For Democrats, It’s Impeachment 24/7

By William Teach July 31, 2014 – 8:04 am

Here are a few points from the Republicans articles of Impeachment for Obama

  • Article XXIV: Spying on American Citizens, Without a Court-Ordered Warrant, in Violation of the Law and the Fourth Amendment
  • Article XXVI: Announcing the Intent to Violate Laws with Signing Statements
  • Article XXVII Failing to Comply with Congressional Subpoenas and Instructing Former Employees Not to Comply
  • Article XXVIII: Tampering with Free and Fair Elections, Corruption of the Administration of Justice

Seems rather ominous, eh?

Anyhow, here’s Nate Silver on the subject

House Speaker John Boehner said Tuesday that Republicans have no plans to impeach President Obama, and that all the impeachment talk was driven by Democrats hoping to stir up their base.

Boehner’s statement isn’t literally true: There have been mentions of impeachment around the edges of the GOP and by some Republican members of Congress. But on the whole, Democrats are spending a lot more time talking about impeachment than Republicans.

Consider, for example, the Sunlight Foundation’s Capitol Words database, which tracks words spoken in the House and Senate. So far in July, there have been 10 mentions of the term “impeachment” in Congress and four others of the term “impeach.” Eleven of the 14 mentions have been made by Democratic rather than Republican members of Congress, however.

Impeachment chatter has also become common on cable news. On Fox News this month, Sarah Palin, the former Alaska governor, called for Obama’s impeachment, for instance. But for every mention of impeachment on Fox News in July, there have been five on liberal-leaning MSNBC.

All in all, it has been Democrats who have the ones mostly discussing impeachment. There was a brief flurry of blog posts from Conservatives immediately after Sarah Palin brought the issue to the forefront with two Facebook posts. Democrats have been fundraising (successfully) like crazy off the notion. Liberal media types have been running rampant with opinion pieces. The Washington Post has two breathless op-eds by Dana Milbank and E.J. Dionne running on their web front page this morning. The Hill also noticed that Democrats just can’t stop talking about impeachment. Even the White House is pushing the meme.

Let’s ask the relevant question: if it was a Republican president acting in such a lawless manner, would high ranking Democrats be pushing for actual impeachment proceedings? They never would have considered this, right?

(Daily Caller) In a speech on the floor of the House Wednesday, Texas U.S. Rep. Sheila Jackson-Lee claimed that Democrats never sought to impeach President George W. Bush.

Not only is that claim false, but Jackson-Lee actually co-sponsored a 2008 bill to do just that and spoke in at least one House committee hearing in support of the effort.

In 2008, former Ohio U.S. Rep. Dennis Kucinich, a prominent opponent of the Iraq war, introduced a bill titled ”Impeaching George W. Bush, President of the United States, of high crimes and misdemeanors.”

Jackson Lee and 10 other Democrats co-sponsored it.

Hmph. Say, remember when John Conyers held his little fake impeachment trial in the Capital basement? Twice? And all the left wing groups, such as After Downing Street, World Can’t Wait, and so many others, that pushed impeaching Bush? Oh, and then there’s this, which the Daily Caller forgot to mention

(Democrats.com) By a bipartisan vote of 251-166, the full House of Representatives sent Dennis Kucinich’s 35 Articles of Impeachment to the Judiciary Committee.

That means Chairman John Conyers now has the power to decide whether to hold impeachment hearings – or not.

Those points at the beginning of the post come directly from Kucinich’s Articles of Impeachment named in the above excerpt.

Crossed at Right Wing News.

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Rabbi brings warnings of climate change to Kansas churches

By William Teach July 30, 2014 – 5:07 pm

The Cult Of Gore continues to infiltrate real religion

(Kansas City.com) Rabbi Moti Rieber travels the politically red state of Kansas armed with the book of Genesis, a psalm and even the words of Jesus to lecture church audiences, or sermonize if they’ll let him, about the threat of global warming.

“My feeling is that I’m the only person these people are ever going to see who’s going to look them in the eye and say, ‘There’s such a thing as climate change,’” Rieber said. “I’m trying to let them know it’s not irreligious to believe in climate change.”

He is at the vanguard of religious efforts — halting in some places, gathering speed elsewhere — to move the ecological discussion from its hot-button political and scientific moorings to one based on theological morality and the right thing to do.

Of course, it’s not about any sort of disbelief in science. Skeptics understand that climate change happens. We disagree over causation, as well as solutions. Is it any wonder religion and morality are dying out when religious leaders attempt to push far left political issues?

He’s not the only one mixing theology of stewardship with hardcore politics

Led by an Episcopal priest, Sally Bingham, the organization is a network of 15,000 churches across 41 states, including some of the most conservative in the country. Members often begin with promoting green technology in a church — efficient light bulbs and solar panels — before turning to the morality of environmental stewardship.

Maybe they should worry more about preaching the Gospel.

Her effort is not alone. The United Methodist Church promotes a Green Church Initiative. A core mission of the Episcopal Church is “to safeguard the integrity of creation and sustain and renew the life of the Earth.”

In May, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops urged the Environmental Protection Agency to draft new carbon-pollution rules for power plants. For years, the leader of the 300-million member Christian Orthodox faith — Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, known as the “Green Patriarch” — has declared planet stewardship a spiritual duty.

It’s bad enough that Warmists ruin real environmental concerns by putting them under the banner of “climate change”: now we have religious leaders mixing religion with “climate change”. Turn they’ll wonder what happened to all their parishioners, and why there’s been such a loss of morals.

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If All You See…

By William Teach July 30, 2014 – 1:00 pm

…is an island being destroyed by too much carbon pollution, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Political Clown Parade, with a post outraged at Obama’s EID message.

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Taxpayers Foot Bill For Students Climahypocrisy Trip

By William Teach July 30, 2014 – 10:49 am

Another day, more Warmists being hypocrites

(Washington Free Beacon) The National Park Service (NPS) is spending $140,368 to fly 10 students to Sydney, Australia so they can experience a “climate change journey.”

The government announced last week they are paying for the group to attend the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s World Parks Congress (WPC), a global conference on conservation this Fall.

The funding will go towards “youth engagement” at the conference, which will feature a “Responding to Climate Change Stream” and a “Climate Change Journey” initiative. Ten students will be selected from Colorado State University (CSU) and universities in Sao Paulo, Brazil and Bamako, Mali to attend.

So, not only will they be taking long fossil fueled trips to complain about fossil fuels, but they will be joined by citizens of other countries, all on the taxpayer dime.

“The NPS will partner with CSU to invite students from around the world to participate in the WPC and take a Climate Change Journey,” the grant announcement said. “Journeys are identified pathways that young people may follow to fully engage in a particular topic related to climate change.”

The “journey” involves attending sessions on climate change, including a “hope” session and one on “perceptions,” which will examine climate change skeptics.

So, spreading awareness and ways to jail skeptics, but nothing on making changes in their own lives.

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