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LIBERAL DEMOCRAT WENDY DAVIS ADDS TOP-FLIGHT MANAGER
Pro-abortion Texas State Senator Wendy Davis' newly hired campaign manager in the race for Texas governor is a Democrat with a national reputation and a history-making record.
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EFFORT TO RECALL ANTI-CHRISTIAN SAN ANTONIO CITY COUNCILMAN DIEGO BERNAL BUILDS STEAM
While conservatives failed to muster the 61,000 signatures required in a tight 40-day timeframe to mandate that the anti-Christian, pro-homosexual-biased city ordinance be put up for a referendum vote, the Recall San Antonio group is making great strides to recall Diego Bernal, the District 1 San Antonio City Councilman who proposed the outrageous ordinance.
In order to recall Bernal, they need to collect the signatures of 10% of District 1's 53,000 registered voters for a total of 5,400. Currently, since September 5th, they have already secured 4,000 signatures. The final deadline to submit the signatures would be December 15, 2014 although they could be submitted far earlier, as long as they collect the signatures within a 6-month time frame. In other words, if Recall San Antonio gathers an additional 1,400 signatures from District 1 to recall Bernal by March 5, 2014, then a special election will be scheduled at that time.
To learn more, go to http://www.recallsa.com.
I will talk with Judy Castaneda, the head of RecallSA.com.
AXELROD: 'MOST PEOPLE' WILL BE ABLE TO KEEP THEIR PLANS UNDER OBAMACARE
David Axelrod offered a slightly different promise about Obamacare than has the president: While that president has repeatedly said, "If you like your plan, you can keep it," Axelrod on Monday told MSNBC that "most" will be able to stick with their plan.
"Most people are going to keep their own plan," Axelrod said in a discussion with Senator Tom Coburn (R., Okla.). "The majority of people in this country - the vast majority of people in this country - are keeping their plan."
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FLORIDA WOMAN'S INSURANCE RATE INCREASES 10X UNDER OBAMACARE
"For many, their introduction to the Affordable Care Act has been negative: A broken website, and now cancellation notices from insurance companies, followed by sticker shock over higher prices for the new plans," says a CBS reporter. "It's directly at odds from repeated assurances from the president."
Obama is quoted as saying, "If you like your insurance plan, you will keep it. No one will be able to take that away from you."
"But people across the country are finding out they're losing their existing insurance plans under Obamacare," says the reporter. "In Florida, at least 300,000 people are losing coverage."
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REAGAN'S DAUGHTER: WHY AM I LOSING MY HEALTH INSURANCE?
Former President Ronald Reagan's liberal activist daughter Patti Davis is asking just what many other people across the United States want to know - why she's losing her insurance.
"Could the president please explain why I and others are losing our health ins. plans? Wasn't supposed to happen!" Davis posted on Twitter Friday afternoon.
Could the president please explain why I and others are losing our health ins. plans? Wasn't supposed to happen!
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OBAMA: LESS THAN 4% OF HEALTHCARE.GOV VISITS RESULT IN APPLICATIONS
In his weekly address on Saturday, Pres. Obama said that Obamacare's healthcare.gov website has had 20 million visits, but there have been only 700,000 applications for health insurance.
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OBAMACARE HEALTH SITE'S BIGGEST PROBLEM: NO ONE WAS IN CHARGE
The Obamacare website launch disaster shouldn't have come as a surprise to the administration since no single official was apparently tasked with the chief responsibility for overseeing and coordinating the mammoth project, The Wall Street Journal reported Monday.
During the planning process, young policy wonks worked on the program from Bethesda, Md., while 40 miles away in Baltimore, computer experts with different bosses handled the site's hardware and software development.
Back in Washington, meanwhile, White House advisers dealt with the politics of the law, purposely delaying final decisions to avoid controversy during the 2012 presidential election, according to the Journal.
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OBAMACARE WEBSITE COMPANY HAD TIES TO OBAMA FUNDRAISING, MICHELLE OBAMA
CGI Federal, which secured a $678 million no-bid contract to build the Obamacare exchange web portal, has come under increased scrutiny for ties between senior executives and the Obama administration following the disastrous rollout of the healthcare website.
Toni Townes-Whitley, a senior vice president at CGI Federal, is a Princeton classmate of First Lady Michelle Obama, the Daily Caller reported. In addition to being college classmates, both Obama and Townes-Whitley are members of the Association of Black Princeton Alumni.
According to Federal Election Commission Records, Toni Townes-Whitley gave $500 in 2011 and 2012 to Obama's reelection, and another $1,000 to the Obama Victory Fund.
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CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY TO TEACH STUDENTS HOW TO PROMOTE, PROTECT OBAMACARE-COVERED ABORTIONS
A Washington D.C.-based private Catholic university is slated to offer a class next semester that is expected to teach students how to promote and protect abortion coverage provided under the Affordable Care Act.
The course, "Regulatory Advocacy: Women and the Affordable Care Act," is set to be taught at Georgetown Law, and it has upset staunch Catholics, according to The Cardinal Newman Society, which first reported on the new academic offering.
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PRESIDENT OBAMA IS ABOUT TO PLAY DEFENSE, FOR THREE YEARS.
President Obama is facing the abyss. It's that moment when a president's plans are overwhelmed by his problems, and he's relegated to playing defense for the rest of his White House term. Obama's agenda already lingers near death. His poll numbers have slipped to new lows. His speeches are full of alibis and accusations.
Obama hasn't reached the point of no return, but he's close. His biggest problem is the collapse of Obamacare on its launching pad as the entire country watched. And there's worse trouble ahead. More likely than not, Obamacare will be the dominant issue in the final three-plus years of his presidency. From that, there's no recovery.
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OBAMACARE PLEDGE: INFO ON APPLICATIONS 'WON'T BE USED FOR IMMIGRATION ENFORCEMENT PURPOSES'
Beginning with a speech last Thursday, President Obama is seeking to rejuvenate his administration's push to alter immigration laws and perhaps draw some attention away from the Obamacare launch debacle that has been dominating the headlines for much of October. The day following that speech, a new topic appeared on the Healthcare.gov website entitled, "What do immigrant families need to know about the Marketplace?"
While a previous entry listed the various immigration statuses that qualified for Marketplace coverage, the new entry is an extended discussion of the questions immigrants, regardless of status, might have about the insurance exchanges. Among the subtopics discussed are: "Lawfully present immigrants and private insurance," "Immigrant access to Medicaid and CHIP," and "Disclosure of immigration status."
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STAR PARKER BLASTS OBAMA OVER RACE RELATIONS
President Obama is using race as a divider in America, instead of trying to unite the nation, charges the head of a nonprofit think tank that addresses issues of race and poverty through principles of faith, freedom and personal responsibility.
"I think that race relations in America were getting better over time [before Obama's election]," said Star Parker, the founder and president of the Washington-based Center for Urban Renewal and Education, or CURE.
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MATTHEW SHEPHERD'S DEATH WAS NO HATE CRIME
Stephen Jimenez didn't set out to be the most dangerous journalist on earth.
Or, more to the point, the most dangerous gay journalist.
But Jimenez unearthed a story that few people wanted to hear. And it calls into question everything you think you know about the life and death of one of the leading icons of our age.
Matthew Shepard, college student. Killed, at 21, for being gay.
Or was he?
Jimenez's "The Book of Matt: Hidden Truths About the Murder of Matthew Shepard," out last month, challenges every cultural myth surrounding Shepard's short life and unspeakable death. After some 13 years of digging, including interviews with more than 100 sources, including Shepard's killers, Jimenez makes a radioactive suggestion:
The grisly murder, 15 years ago this month, was no hate crime.
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100 PRO-ABORTION STORYTELLING EVENTS ORGANIZED ACROSS COUNTRY
On Monday, pro-abortion groups across the country launched an organized effort to feature women telling uplifting stories of their abortions. The so-called "1 in 3" week of action will feature 100 events in 32 states, and began in Washington D.C. According to the Advocates for Youth, one in three women in the United States will at some point have an abortion.
Advocates from Washington D.C. who will lead off the event include Deb Hauser of the Advocates for Youth; Ilyse Hogue, NARAL Pro-Choice America; Andrea Gleaves, Women's Information Network; and many more. The "1 in 3" organizers will also be handing out a book: 1 in 3: These Are Our Stories. Tellingly, organizers suggest that their goal is to keep abortion "safe, legal, and affordable" - a marked change from the old pro-choice slogan from the Clinton years, "safe, legal, and rare." The organizers also want to "end the stigma" surrounding abortion.
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SODOMITE MARRIAGE MIGHT HAVE HAPPENED IN NOAH'S DAY
According to two notable experts, the Babylonian Talmud says that same-sex marriage was prevalent just before the Great Flood of Noah.
Jeffrey Satinover, who holds an MD from Princeton and doctorates from Yale, MIT and Harvard, has made the point that the Midrash Rabbah Genesis suggests such activity represented the last straw before God unleashed the floodwaters to destroy the Earth. He is backed up by Rabbi Aryeh Spero of New York.
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SEXUAL PREDATOR HONORED WITH U.S. POSTAGE STAMP
Benjamin Franklin famously quipped, "In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes."
Franklin evidently failed to envisage today's postmodern left. For the conservative, there exists at least one other certainty, and it is this: The degree to which "progressives" attack you corresponds precisely to the degree with which you challenge any among their assorted, distorted and sordid sacred cows.
What would you call a 33-year-old man who both had and axiomatically acted upon a deviant sexual appetite for underage, drug-addicted, runaway boys? (No, not Jerry Sandusky.)
What would you call a man of whom, as regards sexual preference, his own friend and biographer confessed, "Harvey always had a penchant for young waifs with substance abuse problems"?
In a recent interview with OneNewsNow.com, I called this man "demonstrably, categorically an evil man based on his [statutory] rape of teenage boys."
But you can call him Harvey Milk.
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WHITE HOUSE STOPPED PHONE TAPPING OF FOREIGN LEADERS THIS SUMMER
The release of further allegations of National Security Agency surveillance efforts caused the Spanish government to summon the U.S. ambassador Monday, and The Wall Street Journal reported that the White House ordered a halt to some eavesdropping on foreign leaders after learning of it this summer.
Quoting unidentified U.S. officials, the newspaper's website said the wiretapping of about 35 foreign leaders was disclosed to the White House as part of a review of surveillance programs ordered by President Barack Obama after NSA contractor Edward Snowden leaked classified information on the NSA's phone monitoring systems.
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PELOSI PUSHES FOR EXPANDED FEDERAL CHILDCARE BENEFITS
If Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) were to become Speaker again, she would work to pass a sweeping bill that would significantly expand federal childcare benefits.
In a sit-down interview in her office in the Capitol, the House minority leader stopped short of predicting that Democrats would regain the lower chamber in the 2014 midterm elections, but she had no hesitation in saying what she would use a majority for.
Pelosi and other Democrats have emerged from the shutdown fight with new confidence, and she vowed her party would "of course" pick up seats next year. It is the first time Pelosi has guaranteed that Democrats will cut into the GOP's majority.
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TOP CORPORATE EXECUTIVES DESCEND ON WASHINGTON TO LOBBY FOR IMMIGRATION BILL
Evangelical pastors, corporate leaders, elected Republican officials and small-government activists arrive in Washington next week to lobby lawmakers to revamp U.S. immigration policies before year's end.
The "conservative fly-in" will involve about 600 people and include personal meetings with at least 80 Republican members of Congress, said Ali Noorani, an organizer of the event and executive director of the National Immigration Forum.
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OBAMA'S VALERIE JARRETT: OFTEN WHISPERED ABOUT, BUT NEVER CHALLENGED
President Obama's aides went to extraordinary lengths to uncover the identity of a senior official who was using Twitter to make snarky comments about White House staffers. Suspicion gradually centered on Jofi Joseph, the point man on nuclear nonproliferation at the National Security Council.
So at a meeting in which everyone was in on the scam an inaccurate but innocuous news tidbit was revealed. When Joseph used his anonymous Twitter handle #natlsecwonk to broadcast the tidbit he was caught and promptly fired. He was not fired for revealing any secrets, but for making disparaging comments about thin-skinned administration players ranging from Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel.
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BOY DRESSES AS VAGRANT FOR CLASS, IS SUSPENDED
A high school student who dressed as a homeless man for a drama assignment was so convincing that he fooled school officials -- and ended up getting suspended.
It began with an assignment last month, senior Michael Bodomov, 17, said: Create a character and be that person for an entire day at Mount Lebanon High School, just outside Pittsburgh.
Bodomov hopes to attend the University of Pittsburgh next year and is still exploring whether theater and drama are his calling. Judging by his performance, he could be short-listed.
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CONSERVATIVE POWERHOUSE CALLS FOR PRIMARY CHALLENGES
A conservative powerhouse credited for organizing Ronald Reagan's huge victory in 1980 and the founding of multiple conservative organizations is calling for challenges to the elected GOP officials who may not be fully in line with the party's roots.
"If conservatives want to govern American we have to face the same reality Barry Goldwater and Ronald Reagan did when they heard the Siren song of those advocating the formation of a third party," wrote Richard Viguerie at his ConservativeHQ.com.
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CHRISTIAN EVANGELICAL ADOPTION MOVEMENT PERSEVERES AMID CRITICISM, DROP IN FOREIGN ADOPTIONS
To many Christian evangelicals, their commitment to finding homes for the world's orphans is something to celebrate - and they will, gathering at hundreds of churches across America to direct their thoughts and prayers to these children.
But the fifth annual Orphan Sunday, this coming weekend, arrives at a challenging time, and not just because the number of international adoptions is dwindling. The adoption movement faces criticisms so forceful that some of its own leaders are paying heed.
The gist: Some evangelicals are so enamored of international adoption as a mission of spiritual salvation - for the child and the adoptive parents - that they have closed their eyes to adoption-related fraud and trafficking, and have not fully embraced alternatives that would help orphans find loving families in their home countries.
Some adoption advocates in evangelical circles have angrily rejected the criticisms. But the president of the coalition that organizes Orphan Sunday, Jedd Medefind of the Christian Alliance for Orphans, has urged his allies and supporters to take the critiques to heart even though he disputes some aspects of them. Alliance partners, he says, should be eager to support a broad range of orphan-care programs and to avoid the temptation of viewing adoptive parents as saviors.
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OREGON TEACHERS CAN PACK HEAT AGAIN
They're back.
Guns in the St. Helens school district, that is.
The school board this week repealed a ban on teachers and staff members carrying concealed weapons on campus.
The ban was put in place in March, but a new set of board members decided to set it aside. Board member Ray Biggs and chairman Marshall Porter, in particular, think teachers should be able to have guns in the event of a school shooting.
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CRITICS CRY FOUL AS NFL DEFENDS NON-PROFIT STATUS
At NFL headquarters on Park Avenue in Manhattan, the daily business may span game scheduling, referee hiring or media-rights bargaining - an operation financially fueled by all 32 pro teams which collectively pay more than $250 million in annual "membership dues."
All of that revenue received by the league office - more than a half billion dollars since 2010 - is untouchable to the Internal Revenue Service.
Score? No, says the NFL's tax attorney, Jeremy Spector. He says the league office, according to U.S. tax code, is a non-profit trade association, promoting football and serving as an agent and organizer for the 32 clubs. And it's been that way since the 1940s.
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FORMER OBAMA CHIEF OF STAFF BILL DALEY JOINS CBS NEWS
The incestuous relationship between the media and the current White House continues unabated.
CBS News announced Monday that former Obama Chief of Staff Bill Daley is joining the network as a contributor:
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