The debate is over, the impasse is broken, the Republicans have caved, and Obama has been handed a huge victory in the fight over total funding for the Department of Homeland Security, including a provision to proceed with executive amnesty.
The House has approved the “clean” bill to fully fund DHS.
Buried amid the avalanche of news coverage of Bibi Netanyahu’s speech to Congress was an agreement by House Speaker John Boehner that could forever alter the landscape of American political power.
The Republican-led House, following the cue of Boehner and others in the GOP leadership, has just given up the fight against authorizing money for President Obama’s executive amnesty as part of the bill to fund the Department of Homeland Security.
The New York Daily News reports that Boehner addressed his deeply divided caucus Tuesday morning, arguing that the issue affecting millions of illegal immigrants is now in the hands of the courts, and that Congress should move on with other business. (Read more about Republicans bowing to Obama’s immigration HERE.)
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Photo Credit: APBy Garth Kant. The deal President Obama is about to offer “doesn’t block Iran’s path to the bomb, it paves its path to the bomb,” declared Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to one of many thunderous standing ovations Tuesday morning before a joint session of the U.S. Congress.
He delivered a forceful argument lasting 40 minutes [read the full transcript of the speech HERE and see the video below] against the agreement the Obama administration is striking with Iran over its nuclear program, insisting it has two major flaws:
It leaves Iran with a vast nuclear program; and
It would lift all restrictions on Iran in about a decade.
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And, to yet another roaring standing ovation, the Israeli leader thundered, “If Iran wants to be treated like a normal country, let it act like a normal country.”
Netanyahu said any deal must do three things:
Stop Iran’s aggression against neighbors in the Mideast;
Stop Iran’s support of terrorism around the world; and
Stop Iran from “threatening to annihilate my country, Israel, the one and only Jewish state.”
Netanyahu made clear Israel would act alone to stop Iran from getting nuclear weapons, if necessary. (Read more from “Netanyahu Goes Nuclear” HERE.)
Netanyahu Openly Sides with Obama’s GOP Critics During Speech
By Stephen Collinson. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned Tuesday that a proposed agreement between world powers and Iran was “a bad deal” that would not stop Tehran from getting nuclear weapons — but would rather pave its way to getting lots of them and leave the Jewish State in grave peril.
In a dramatic address to the U.S. Congress at what he said was a “fateful” crossroads of history, Netanyahu openly sided with President Barack Obama’s Republican critics and sparked an immediate and furious reaction from the White House, as relations between Washington and Israel spun into their deepest chasm for many years.
“We have been told that no deal is better than a bad deal. Well this is a bad deal. It is a very bad deal. We are better off without it,” Netanyahu said, building a case that Iran was not just bent on developing nuclear weapons but was determined to “gobble” up defenseless countries in a wider play for dominance in the Middle East.
“We are being told that the only alternative to this bad deal is war. That is just not true. The alternative to this bad deal is a much better deal,” Netanyahu said to deafening cheers in the House of Representatives chamber, while issuing a firm warning that Israel would stand alone if necessary to defend the existence of the Jewish people.
The response from the White House was swift and did not even try to disguise anger at Netanyahu, who has been locked in a public tussle with Obama for almost his entire administration and has stepped up his criticism as talks between world powers and Iran on a deal reach a crucial final stage. (Read more about Netanyahu warning Congress about the deal with Iran leading to an Iranian nuclear bomb HERE)
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By Conn Carroll. White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest confirmed Monday that President Obama is “very interested” in the idea of raising taxes through unitlateral executive action.
“The president certainly has not indicated any reticence in using his executive authority to try and advance an agenda that benefits middle class Americans,” Earnest said in response to a question about Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) calling on Obama to raise more than $100 billion in taxes through IRS executive action.
“Now I don’t want to leave you with the impression that there is some imminent announcement, there is not, at least that I know of,” Earnest continued. “But the president has asked his team to examine the array of executive authorities that are available to him to try to make progress on his goals. So I am not in a position to talk in any detail at this point, but the president is very interested in this avenue generally,” Earnest finished. (Read more about Obama considering another illegal executive action HERE)
House Republicans Vow to Continue the Battle Against Immigration Measures
By Nick Timiraos. House Republican leaders vowed Sunday to keep trying to block President Barack Obama ’s immigration measures as they continue to struggle over how to keep funding the Homeland Security Department.
Last week’s messy one-week extension of the agency’s funding exposed deep divides within the Republican Party over how to fight the administration’s actions without shutting down parts of the government.
“There’s an element within our party…which is absolutely irresponsible,” said Rep. Peter King (R., N.Y.) on ABC’s “This Week” on Sunday. He lashed out at conservative Republicans for their willingness to jeopardize national security funding. “They have no concept of reality,” he said.
Support for a one-week funding patch came together late Friday after a separate three-week short-term spending bill pushed by House Speaker John Boehner (R., Ohio), was defeated by his conservative flank. Funding for the agency had been set to expire at midnight. (Read more from this story HERE)
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The Obama Democrats have an audacious scheme for winning future elections. They just plan to import 5 million non-citizens and credential them as voters who will, in gratitude, vote Democratic.
The way this devious formula works is stunningly simple. Just get the new Republican Congress (under Speaker John Boehner and Sen. Mitch McConnell) to pass a full-funding bill for Homeland Security without any exception for the funding of Obama’s illegal executive amnesty, which will allow Obama to give work permits, Social Security numbers and driver’s licenses to 5 million illegal aliens.
Once the 5 million so-called undocumented persons are given those valuable documents, there is no way to stop them from voting. That conclusion is drawn from the testimony of voting experts such as Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, who told the U.S. House Oversight Committee on Feb. 12, “It’s a guarantee it will happen.”
Kobach’s warning was reinforced by testimony before the same committee by Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted, who noted that the 5 million non-citizens would receive the “same documents that federal law requires the states to recognize as valid forms of identification for voter registration.” And once an alien registers to vote, Kobach said, it is “virtually impossible” to remove him from the voter rolls.
A third witness, Hans von Spakovsky, suggested that Social Security numbers issued to the 5 million illegal aliens should contain a code (such as “N” for non-citizen) that would instantly reveal their ineligibility to vote. But that simple fix would happen only if the Obama administration sincerely wants to keep them from voting, which I doubt. (Read more about the Democrats using illegal aliens votes HERE)
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On The Joe Miller Show several days ago, a former college Political Science teacher, columnist Lester Jackson, explained that our country is in crisis. Dr. Jackson said we’re nearing tyranny “if we’re not already there.” He cited a number of problems including the fact that we effectively have one political party. This is a critical issue as “democracy presupposes an opposition party.”
But Dr. Jackson’s recurrent theme was that “liars must be defeated by any means possible.” He noted that “lying” is a hallmark of modern politicians like Alaska’s Senator Lisa Murkowski. Dr. Jackson explained that one of the reasons these liars hate politicians like Senator Ted Cruz is because he forces them into votes that makes them go on the record on issues like amnesty. That creates problems in their efforts to lie to their constituents about their true views.
Dr. Jackson also noted that Senator Cruz has effectively called his colleagues corrupt, pointing out the influence of K Street on their voting.
As to how to defeat liars, Dr. Jackson admitted that you can’t get them all. But he believes conservatives have to use any lawful means at their disposal to get rid of such chameleons. He cited William F. Buckley, Jr. in suggesting that conservatives should even vote for a Democrat over a lying RINO as the damage that a junior Democrat can do is far less than a senior Republican.
When asked whether he is advocating for a third party, Dr. Jackson responded with a chuckle that we don’t even have a second party but went on to say that the GOP started as a third party and that such a movement is imperative today.
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Climate models can be good tools for predicting future sea ice levels — unless, of course, they are completely wrong.
In the case of Antarctica, the climate models were dead wrong, according to a new study by Chinese scientists published in the journal Cryosphere. The study found that most climate models predicted Antarctic sea ice coverage would shrink as the world warmed and greenhouse gas levels increased.
The opposite happened. Most climate models analyzed in the study predicted Antarctica would shrink between 1979 and 2005, but instead south pole sea ice levels increased during that time. Going a step further, sea ice levels have only increased since 2006, hitting all-time highs for sea ice coverage in September of last year.
“For the Antarctic, the main problem of the [climate] models is their inability to reproduce the observed slight increase of sea ice extent,” researchers wrote in their study.
“Both satellite-observed Antarctic [sea ice extent] and [satellite measured] Antarctic [sea ice volume] show[s] increasing trends over the period of 1979–2005, but [climate models’] Antarctic [sea ice extent] and [sea ice volume] have decreasing trends,” researchers added. “Only eight models’ [sea ice extent] and eight models’ [sea ice volume] show increasing trends.” (Read more about the Antarctic Sea ice HERE)
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Photo Credit: Personal Liberty So now we know that a lot of foreign governments – many of them with very shaky records on human rights — have given a ton of money to Bill and Hillary Clinton’s foundation. Is anyone surprised? More to the point, is anyone really bothered by it?
At least one top-ranking Republican is. Reince Priebus, chairman of the Republican National Committee, says that “The latest revelations about the Clinton Foundation’s shady deals are disqualifying.” And by “disqualifying,” he means they should be enough to keep Hillary from getting her party’s nomination to be the next President of the United States.
Fat chance that will happen. Nevertheless, a bunch of questions are being asked about the millions of dollars that countries like Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar, Oman and U.A.E. poured into the Clinton Foundation, much of it while Hillary served as Secretary of State.
The RNC chairman declared, “No one in their right mind, Democrat or Republican, can think the foundation receiving foreign government donations while Hillary Clinton served as Secretary of State, and in violation of its ethics agreement with the Obama Administration, is acceptable.” And he added, “This is symptomatic of the Clintons’ obsession with raising cash at all costs.”
The foundation was created in 2001 when Bill Clinton left office. Originally called the William J. Clinton Foundation, it changed its name to the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Foundation when Hillary resigned as Secretary of State. Since its formation, the foundation has raised a staggering $1.6 billion, with much of the money coming from foundations, corporations and foreign governments. (Read more about the Clinton Foundation’s donors HERE)
Photo Credit: WNDGlobally known evangelist Franklin Graham says President Obama is so sympathetic to those of the Muslim faith, he’s actually endangering Jews and Christians, opening the doors for them to be persecuted in the United States.
“We’re going to see persecution in this country because our president is very sympathetic to Islam, and the reason I say that … is because his father was a Muslim, gave him a Muslim name, Barack Hussein Obama,” Graham said in an interview on “The 700 Club” on the Christian Broadcasting Network.
“His mother married another Muslim man. They moved to Indonesia. He went to Indonesian schools. So, growing up, his frame of reference and his influence as a young man was Islam. It wasn’t Christianity; it was Islam.”
Graham’s remarks aren’t much of a surprise to those who listen to him frequently. He’s been an outspoken critic of Obama’s presidential policies and has decried what he’s characterized as a curious White House reach-out to Muslim groups, such as the Muslim Brotherhood. (Read more about Obama bringing persecution to Christians HERE)
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Christian supporters of Israel see Tuesday’s address to Congress by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as more than just a political speech . . .
With the Feast of Purim and Netanyahu’s speech converging in the same week, there are lessons to be drawn from history, they say.
Purim celebrates Queen Esther’s brave intervention to stop a plot that, if allowed to go forward, would have led to a genocide against the Jews . . .
Netanyahu’s speech Tuesday will occur on the biblical Fast of Esther – the same day Mordecai told Queen Esther of Haman’s evil plot to kill the Jews and pleaded for her to approach the king of Persia on Israel’s behalf . . .
Could Congress be Israel’s modern-day Esther? Is Netanyahu, a modern-day Mordecai, pleading with America’s legislative body, the one that most directly represents the American people, to intervene in the situation by asking the “king” to foil the scheme of the ant-Semitic Haman, who in this case is the Iranian regime? (Read more about the showdown with Iran HERE)
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Is Jesus like a tattoo artist? One group thinks so, and it’s going to court to get its message out.
JesusTattoo.org, a Christian website using a “modern parable” that depicts Jesus as a tattoo artist, asked to advertise their website on a Texas High School’s stadium jumbotron. When the district denied their request last year, the religious group sued, claiming discrimination in Little Pencil v. Lubbock Independent School District.
A federal appeals court will hear the case Tuesday, and the national religious legal group, Alliance Defending Freedom, has taken up representing JesusTattoo.org. ADF Legal Counsel Matt Sharp, who worked extensively on the case, told The Daily Caller News Foundation that this case is part of a trend of contentious religious speech cases they are seeing in schools.
Sharp told TheDCNF that ADF wants to set a precedent to protect this speech in schools nationwide.
“All of these are part of a larger effort to make sure that religious speech can’t be targeted and censored simply because a government official finds it offensive,” he told TheDCNF. ”The courts have consistently held that even local principals are required to follow the first amendment in every regard.” (Read more about the Jesus tattoo website suing HERE)
