Impeach Holder if He Won’t Appoint IRS Special Prosecutor

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Photo Credit: YouTubeAttorney General Eric Holder should be impeached if he refuses to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate the IRS tea party-targeting scandal, Sen. Ted Cruz demanded Thursday.

The Texas Republican, who has sounded the call for a special prosecutor in the scandal before, made his case for possible impeachment on the Senate floor, ripping into Holder for not standing up to President Barack Obama.

“It saddens me to say that the U.S. Department of Justice under Attorney General Eric Holder has become the most partisan Department of Justice in the history of our country,” Cruz said, blasting its lead investigator on the IRS issue, Barbara Bosserman, as a “partisan” donor who gave over $6,000 to the president’s two election campaigns. He also noted IRS Commissioner John Koskinen has contributed over $100,000 to Democrats.

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Could The Tea Party Be Taking Over The Senate? If So, Make Room For This Alaskan

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Photo Credit: Western Journalism Following House Majority Leader Eric Cantor’s upset primary loss to Tea Party-backed challenger Dave Brat, many conservatives have become even more emboldened in their effort to replace establishment politicians with candidates more aligned with their ideological views.

Joe Miller, a U.S. Senate hopeful in Alaska, has earned the support of Tea Party activists over the past several years. This week, he also received the overwhelming support of the Alaska Republican Assembly.

According to recent reports, AKRA members voted “by a super-majority” to endorse Miller in the upcoming primary election.

“The bar for endorsement by the AKRA is high,” said Ron Johnson, vice president of the assembly. “A Republican candidate must receive the vote of two-thirds of the voting members at the endorsement convention.”

Reports indicate that only four of the 72 current state candidates received the required level of support…

Johnson, who described AKRA as “the Republican wing of the Republican Party,” said that through its activism and endorsement of candidates like Miller, the assembly “works to develop and promote true conservative Republican candidates for public offices.”

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Vet Could Lose Home For Displaying Small US Flag In Front Yard Because It Violates Home Display Rules

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Photo Credit: Melanie Conner / Getty Images A veteran could lose his home because of a small American flag he has placed in a flower pot in front of his home.

Larry Murphree explained that his homeowners’ association in the Sweetwater community wants him to remove the flag because it violates home display rules. Furthermore, he is facing $8,000 in fines if he doesn’t take it out of his flower pot.

“I want it to go away. It’s such a minor little thing and they keep coming after me,” Murphree told WAWS. “They just sent me a letter that says I owe them around $8,000 and they put a foreclosure lien on my house.”

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Clintons Struggle in Discussing Wealth as Hillary Tests 2016 Waters

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Photo Credit: Fox News Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has not announced she’s a candidate for the 2016 presidential election, but should she run, a remark made during an interview with ABC’s Diane Sawyer may be cemented as the first gaffe of her campaign:”We came out of the White House not only dead broke but in debt,” she said.

The comment backfired in a bad way, lighting up the Twitterverse and making it onto the night time television comedy shows. “I still get emotional just thinking about it,” “The Daily Show’s” Jon Stewart said, wiping an imaginary tear from his eye with a $20 bill.

Clinton tried to walk it back earlier this week during an interview with PBS’s Gwen Ifill. “My inartful use of those few words doesn’t change who I am, what I’ve stood for my entire life, what I stand for today,” she said.

But that same day, her husband may have accidently worsened the damage while praising $500 “Shinola” wrist watches made in Detroit. “I bought 14 of them…” he told an interviewer. “…in two different runs I bought five at Christmas and nine when I was there, and I just give them away and hope that I’ll make you more customers.”

Americans know that post-presidential families have tremendous earning potential. With Hillary’s added drawing power as a former senator and secretary of State,she can command $225,000 for a speech. That’s what the University of Las Vegas will pay Clinton to headline its fundraising gala next October.

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Marijuana: Oregon and Alaska Could Be Next to Legalize Recreational Use

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Photo Credit: Steve Dipaola / REUTERSIf marijuana advocates have their way, the number of states where recreational pot is legal could double this year.

On the November ballot in Oregon and Alaska are measures allowing the sale of recreational marijuana to adults. If those initiatives pass, the two states would join Colorado and Washington in legalizing cannabis.

Meanwhile, Florida voters will decide on a constitutional amendment legalizing the use of marijuana for medical purposes. That would make it the 24th state, plus the District of Columbia, to legalize medical marijuana.

In Oregon Thursday, supporters of marijuana legalization turned in 145,000 signatures – far more than the 87,213 valid signatures of registered voters necessary to qualify as a ballot initiative.

“The Control, Regulation and Taxation of Marijuana and Industrial Hemp Act strictly regulates marijuana sales and possession,” according to New Approach Oregon, the advocacy group that submitted signatures to the Oregon secretary of state. “It legalizes the use of marijuana by adults only and taxes marijuana and its products to generate money for education, public safety, drug treatment, and drug prevention.”

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Watch: Missouri Teachers Teach America How to Solve School Shootings with Real Gun Control

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Photo Credit: YouTubeThe Missouri legislature has given teachers the green light to carry guns in school. Now that carrying a gun is an option, educators from 10 different districts are getting trained in the ways of safe and responsible gun use.

One might call it “real gun control.”

Shield Solutions, a gun-training center, is teaching two staff members — volunteers — from each district how to use the elementary Glock 19 semi-automatic pistol. The fee is $17,500.

Interestingly, the gun trainers punish mistakes with physical training, akin to push-ups or other common exercises, when the volunteers fail to hit intended targets and hit “innocent” ones instead.

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Pelosi to Meet Illegal Minors at Border

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Photo Credit: GettyBy Lauren French.

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi will travel to the southern border of the U.S. on Saturday to be briefed by Customs and Border Protection on the flood of unaccompanied minors entering the country.

The California Democrat will also meet with a group of children held at the South Texas Detention Facility.

“The humanitarian crisis unfolding across our nation’s southern border demands Congress come together and find thoughtful, compassionate and bipartisan solutions,” Pelosi said. “We must ensure our laws are fully enforced, so that due process is provided to unaccompanied children and the safety and well-being of unaccompanied children is protected. We must also work to address the root causes of the problem.”

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Photo Credit: Weekly Standard Key Chairman Blames Obama’s Lack of Enforcement for Killing Immigration Reform

By Fred Barnes.

Immigration reform is deader than ever in 2014 and the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee says President Obama is to blame.

By refusing to halt the current “surge” of illegal immigration, Rep. Bob Goodlatte of Virginia said Thursday, Obama has made it “extremely difficult” to pass any reform of the immigration laws. Enforcement at the border must be “the leading component” of reform legislation, he said, but it isn’t happening.

Instead, the president has created a broad new exception to immigration law to permit tens of thousands of young immigrants to cross the U.S. border with Mexico and stay in this country. But he lacks the constitutional authority to make this change in the law unilaterally, Goodlatte said.

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Poll: Only 40% of “Solid Liberals” Say they Often Feel Proud to be American

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Via WaPo, so that’s why lefties in my Twitter timeline were cheering when Germany scored on the U.S. today.

No, I’m kidding. They didn’t cheer. They just said we had it coming and shook their heads sadly.

Interesting wrinkle: This result seems largely immune from partisanship. In lots of political polls you can predict how Democrats and Republicans will tilt based on their feelings about who’s in the White House. If that were true here, you’d see liberals proud to be citizens of an Obama-led America and conservatives embarrassed. Instead we get the opposite. Patriotism (or lack thereof) transcends Hopenchange. Even more interesting is the “honor and duty” result. Normally when you ask a poll question loaded with virtuous phrases like that, respondents are eager to signal their assent. Not here. In fact, only among the two conservative groups tested do honor and duty as core values reach as high as 55 percent. Huh.

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Supreme Court Rules Obama’s Recess Appointments Violated the Constitution

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Photo Credit: Daily Signal By Elizabeth Slattery.

Today, in a blow to the Obama administration, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 9-0 that President Obama’s “recess appointments” to the National Labor Relations Board violated the Constitution in NLRB v. Noel Canning.

Art. II, section 2, clause 3 of the Constitution allows the president to “fill up all Vacancies that may happen during the Recess of the Senate.” On Jan. 4, 2012, President Obama made several recess appointments even though the Senate had been convening “pro forma” sessions every three days. These appointments were challenged in a labor dispute before the NLRB, and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit struck them down as unconstitutional.

Today, the Court, in an opinion by Justice Stephen Breyer, held the president may make recess appointments to existing vacancies during intrasession (breaks during a session of Congress) and intersession (breaks between sessions of Congress) recesses of a “sufficient length.” The Court determined the vacancy need not occur during the recess, which upholds the broad practice dating back to the presidency of James Madison.

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Photo Credit: REUTERS / JONATHAN ERNSTSupreme Court Unanimously Rejects Obama Recess Appointments

By Ed Morrissey.

The Supreme Court dropped a huge bomb on the Obama administration, unanimously rebuking the President for arrogating to himself the determination of when Congress is in session for the purpose of making recess appointments. According to reports on the opinion, the court may have taken a middle path on what a recess actually is, toning down one appellate court ruling that only allowed for recess appointments between formal sessions:

The US Supreme Court today limited a president’s power to make recess appointments when the White House and the Senate are controlled by opposite parties, scaling back a presidential authority as old as the republic.

The case arose from a political dispute between President Obama and Senate Republicans, who claimed he had no authority to put three people on the National Labor Relations Board in January 2012 when the Senate was out of town.

He used a president’s power, granted by the Constitution, to “fill up all vacancies that may happen during the recess of the Senate.” But the Republicans said the Senate was not in recess at the time the appointments were made, because every three days a senator went into the chamber, gaveled it to order, and then immediately called a recess.

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Surprise: Parents Don’t Support Common Core

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Photo Credit: TownHall Parents with school-aged children have a growing disdain for the Common Core State Standards, a new Rasmussen report found.

Just 34% of American Adults with children of elementary or secondary school age now favor requiring all schools nationwide to meet the same Common Core education standards. That’s an 18-point drop from 52% in early November of last year.

The Common Core website claimed it is a myth that “adopting common standards means bringing all states’ standards down to the lowest common denominator.” Parents and school teachers, however, are still incredulous. Principals in Hawaii even predicted a 30 percent drop in math and reading scores in the wake of the standards implementation.

A state with very low academic standards, such as West Virginia, may very well improve its system by adopting Common Core. At the same time, however, a state with high academic excellence, such as Massachusetts, will almost undoubtedly be hampered.

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