Corruption At The FCC? TV Execs Donate To Dem Lawmaker, Get Million-Dollar Rule Exception

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Photo Credit: REUTERS / Jonathan Ernst

A single television station has been granted a significant exception to the Federal Communications Commission’s upcoming broadcast spectrum overhaul — a station whose operators made joint campaign contributions to a key lawmaker with oversight authority over the FCC.

House Energy & Commerce Committee Ranking Democrat Henry Waxman — who oversees the FCC — received more than $12,000 in campaign contributions from three television executives in danger of losing broadcast rights after their company missed a crucial agency deadline. The company was subsequently granted the sole exception to the FCC’s rule.

“The timing of the campaign donations is very suspicious,” a source at the FCC familiar with the spectrum deliberations told The Daily Caller. “It appears that you can buy special favors from the FCC worth millions of dollars by giving money to Democrats. Would the result have been the same if the company’s executives were Republican donors? I doubt it.”

In May the FCC finalized plans to hold a spectrum incentive auction, the goal of which is to free up and transition broadcast television ultra-high frequency spectrum space over to the growing mobile broadband services market.

Starting sometime in mid-2015, TV broadcasters will have the opportunity to sell spectrum back to the commission, which will then re-sell it to wireless carriers. Broadcasters choosing not to sell will be repacked (or moved to different spectrum) in order to stay in business.

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Miller Endorsed by Alaska Veterans Party

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4694373479_d6cfc7e727_zToday Joe Miller announced that the Veterans Party of Alaska has endorsed his candidacy for United States Senate.

Chairman Steve Harrison said, “The Veterans Party of Alaska wishes to recognize Joe Miller as our candidate of choice for the United States Senate . . . Joe understands that the fastest way to remove bureaucrats from being in between Veterans and quality healthcare is to give the Veterans the option to opt out of the VA system, by having the VBA pay the insurance premium [for] a carrier of the Veteran’s choice.”

Harrison also noted that Miller was the only candidate for US Senate who immediately opposed the budget deal last year that cut veterans benefits, concluding, “Alaska does not need another politician. Alaska needs a leader, therefore, the Veterans Party of Alaska is proud to endorse Joe Miller for the United States Senate.”

“I am both honored and humbled by the Veterans Party’s trust in me,” said Miller. “I look forward to working with Mr. Harrison and their membership to secure the highest quality healthcare for all our veterans, in addition to addressing other pressing issues facing our fellow vets.”

Miller has also been endorsed by Combat Veterans for Congress, General William “Jerry” Boykin, National Association for Gun Rights, Gun Owners of America, and more.

Sessions Warns of ‘Chilling’ Obama Immigration Plotting

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By Joel Gehrke.

Senator Jeff Sessions (R., Ala.) called for Americans to pressure their senators about voting against President Obama’s expected executive orders on immigration, which he described as a “chilling” plot with activists to undermine national laws.

“Recent developments suggest the president’s planned executive amnesty could be increasingly imminent and broad in scope. House Democrat Leader Pelosi — clearly one of the White House’s closest allies — has just urged the president to issue ‘the broadest possible’ executive actions,” Sessions said in a statement on Wednesday.

“Open-borders groups have grown bolder and louder in their unlawful demands, launching a campaign for the president to ‘go big,’ and demanding that he ‘stand up’ to Congress and ‘expand DACA,’” he added, citing an Associated Press report that administration officials were meeting with immigration activists and the Chamber of Commerce.

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Photo Credit: Manuel Balce Ceneta, AP

Alberto Gonzales: Obama’s time for immigration action

By Alberto R. Gonzales.

Along our southwestern border, not far from where I was born, tens of thousands of Central American children are turning themselves over to U.S. Border Patrol officers. The overwhelming majority are not criminals, drug dealers or violent offenders, rather most are escaping those threats in their home countries. Poor economic conditions, the threat of violence, and a parent’s hope for a better life are the reasons for this situation – the children are not to blame.

In spite of this humanitarian crisis and the economic burdens it creates for state and local governments, recently members of Congress failed to pass legislation to address these issues before heading home for the August recess. In response, the President announced that he will take executive action even though he previously professed publicly his power to deal with the influx of young immigrants was limited.

I support the President’s commitment to address this issue provided his actions are consistent with his duty under the Constitution to faithfully execute our laws. Determining the limits of the president’s inherent power to act in the absence of either an express constitutional or congressional grant of authority is one of the most difficult challenges in constitutional law. In part, this is because our courts have been inconsistent in defining the scope of the President’s inherent authority. (search “the courts’ abandonment of judicial review that limits Congress’s power…”)

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ABC’s Karl: Will ‘Hypocritical’ Obama Ask Dems To Return Donations From ‘Unpatriotic’ Companies Moving Overseas?

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By Brendan Bordelon.

ABC reporter Jon Karl grilled deputy White House spokesman Eric Schultz about a new report showing how many executives who pursue corporate mergers overseas to avoid onerous U.S. tax laws — a move Obama has called “unpatriotic” — have donated millions to the Democratic Party and President Obama’s former campaigns.

On Wednesday, Bloomberg reported that top Obama and Democratic donors — including an investment banker who hosted a fundraiser for the president, a co-chairman of the 2012 Democratic National Convention and a bundler who raised $200,000 for Obama’s reelection campaign — are all guilty of pursuing “corporate inversions,” which Obama has called unpatriotic and is seeking to limit through executive actions.

“Is the president going to be asking Democrats to return money contributed, or seek to return money contribution, by some these corporate inversions?” Karl asked Schultz at a Martha’s Vineyard press conference.

“No,” Schultz said simply.

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Obama Won’t Return Money From Tax Deals He Dislikes

By Richard Rubin and Annie Linskey.

President Barack Obama won’t return campaign donations to executives, advisers and directors who have profited from offshore mergers that reduce corporate taxes using a technique he has called “unpatriotic.”

Responding to a Bloomberg News report that described connections between more than 20 Obama donors and the tax-cutting transactions, White House Deputy Press Secretary Eric Schultz said the president will keep the cash.

“We are not privy to the details and have no role in any individual company’s plans,” Schultz said yesterday at a briefing on Martha’s Vineyard where Obama is vacationing. “But what the president is focused on is stopping the problem.”

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Miller Highlights Treadwell's Election Year Changing Views

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safe_image (2)Joe Miller drew contrast with fellow U.S. Senate candidate Mead Treadwell during the last statewide, televised debate before the Republican Primary Election on Tuesday. A third candidate, Dan Sullivan, declined to attend the Alaska Public Media sponsored event.

Miller is the only U.S. Senate candidate to call for Barack Obama’s impeachment. He was questioned concerning what he saw as impeachable offenses. “I think any time you have a president who stands before the nation, as he did in the State of the Union and says, ‘That if Congress does not act, I will'” that is a clear sign of abuse of power by the President. Miller also pointed out the Chief Executive threatened the same regarding amnesty. Miller further noted Obama’s numerous changes to the Obamacare law without congressional authorization, and his refusal to enforce duly enacted laws of Congress, such as the Defense of Marriage Act. The President puts himself “above the rule of law, above the Constitution, and that is impeachable,” said Miller.

Treadwell acknowledged that the President is acting in a lawless fashion regarding Obamacare, but was not willing to say he would support impeachment. Sullivan, in a previous debate, declined to support impeachment at this time.

Miller also drew contrast in the areas of climate change and the United Nations Law of the Sea Treaty (“LOST”). Both Treadwell and Sullivan have spoken in support of government action to address global warming in the past, and both have backed ratification of LOST. Miller has consistently opposed the climate change agenda (given the current inconclusiveness of the science) and adoption of LOST. Treadwell stated tonight he no longer supports government action in the area of climate change that involves new taxes, and no longer supports LOST with regards to its taxing and regulating authority.

“It has been fascinating to watch Mead Treadwell’s election year transformation, from being for the climate change agenda, to being against it; from being for the Law of the Sea Treaty, to opposing ratification; from supporting moderate and even liberal politicians, to claiming to be a bastion of conservatism,” said Miller campaign spokesman Randy DeSoto. “Beware of Establishment Republicans’ election year policy changes. Joe Miller is the only consistent conservative in this race, whose views are based on time-tested principles, not changing political winds.”

NSA Cyberwarfare Could Pick the Wrong Targets, Snowden Says

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The National Security Agency is planning to combat cyberattacks from overseas with a sophisticated yet highly risky program code-named ‘MonsterMind,’ warns whistleblower Edward Snowden.

In an interview in the September issue of Wired, Snowden said that MonsterMind software aims to identify the start of foreign attacks and block them from entering the U.S. What makes MonsterMind unique is its ability to “automatically fire back” at these attacks without human involvement, he said.

Snowden described MonsterMind as problematic, noting that cyberattacks are often routed through computers in “innocent” third countries. This raises the possibility of U.S. counter attacks against the wrong targets. “You could have someone sitting in China, for example, making it appear that one of these attacks is originating in Russia,” he said. “And then we end up shooting back at a Russian hospital. What happens next?”

The former NSA contractor also views MonsterMind as a massive threat to privacy, warning that the agency would have to get access to virtually all private communications entering the U.S. from overseas.

“If we’re analyzing all traffic flows, that means we have to be intercepting all traffic flows,” he said. “That means violating the Fourth Amendment, seizing private communications without a warrant, without probable cause or even a suspicion of wrongdoing. For everyone, all the time.”

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Krauthammer: Hillary Showing 'A Blatant Display of Clinton Inauthenticity'

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Charles Krauthammer said Wednesday on “Special Report with Bret Baier” that Hillary Clinton’s attempt to soften her criticism of President Obama’s foreign policy is a “blatant display of Clinton inauthenticity.”

Clinton on Wednesday downplayed the comments she made in an interview with The Atlantic magazine, saying she plans to hug it out with the president and reiterating their shared values. In the interview, Clinton suggested that Obama’s foreign-policy mantra of “don’t do stupid stuff” lacked sufficient depth.

Krauthammer, a syndicated columnist and a Fox News contributor, blasted Clinton for what he said was an attempt to retract her critique.

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Americans Overwhelmingly Agree About the Future of the American Dream – But It’s Not Pretty

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Though Barack Obama campaigned on being a “uniter, not a divider,” his Presidency has been defined by division, stagnation and bitterness.

However, a new survey reports that Americans are now united in one way: Nearly three-quarters of those surveyed don’t believe their children will have a better life than they do.

From the Washington Post:

When asked if “life for our children’s generation will be better than it has been for us,” fully 76 percent said they do not have such confidence. Only 21 percent did. That was the worst ever recorded in the poll; in 2001, 49 percent were confident and 43 percent not.

The responses are startlingly similar among women and men, Democrats and Republicans, rich and poor, white and Hispanic.

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Pro-Gun Rights Milwaukee Sheriff Defeats Rival after Heated Primary Draws National Attention

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A Wisconsin county sheriff whose outspoken pro-Second Amendment views turned his re-election campaign into a battle between gun control groups and the National Rifle Association emerged victorious Wednesday against his Democratic primary challenger.

According to results from Fox6Now.com, Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke Jr. garnered 52 percent of the vote to 48 percent for Chris Moews, a Milwaukee police lieutenant.

“Obviously the voters of this county, by a majority, have said they like my style,” Clarke told Fox6Now.com after declaring victory Wednesday.

Moews said Wednesday that the “voters have spoken.”

“I hope the sheriff will set politics aside, reconsider his go-it-alone approach and work collaboratively and respectfully with law enforcement and municipal leaders to truly make our community safer and stronger,” he said in a statement to Fox6Now.com.

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Planned Parenthood Suggests Minor Should "Horse Whip" Herself (+video)

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“I would say anything within the sexual world is normal as long as it’s consensual.” This is the advice of a Planned Parenthood employee. In the fourth shocking video from the pro-life group Live Action’s under cover investigation, “SexEd: Planned Parenthood’s Dangerous Sex Advice for Kids,” another clinic is exposed promoting bondage and submission, sadism and masochism. Here’s just a taste of the advice an employee at the Minneapolis-St. Paul facility gave to an under cover minor regarding her sexual adventures with her boyfriend:

“If he wants to try something that is physical, that is going to cause you harm or pain, and you’re OK with that, that’s a completely different thing that if he wants to try something to do that you’re not OK with.”

The employee admits this kind of bedroom behavior is “extreme” and “focused around pain,” yet continues to offer the minor dangerous advice. “Fifty Shades of Grey,” which by now appears to be Planned Parenthood’s favorite book, is referenced by the employee for some examples:

“Items that are used in “Fifty Shades” would be things like whips and nipple clamps.”

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