Dr. Obama's Prescription: More Troops for Ebola than Islamic State

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Photo Credit: BreitbartYou think Ebola is scary now, just wait until Doctor Obama gets through with it.

Declaring the deadly viral epidemic a national security threat, the president who invented Obamacare is dispatching our military to West Africa. Into the jungled Hot Zone he plans to send some three thousand U.S. troops trained to fight soldiers of war and enemy combatants.

No hedging, hemming or hawing. That’s 3,000 sets of boots on the ground.

Nearly twice as many as the president will admit he is committing to combat the Islamic State group in Iraq.

Of course, that does not count the number of boots on the ground that will be dispatched into Iraq after one of our courageous fighter pilots gets shot down or has to eject over enemy territory.

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Photo Credit: AFP / Zoom Dosso You think Ebola is scary now, just wait until Doctor Obama gets through with it.

By AFP.

A second deployment of United States troops arrived in Liberia on Sunday as part of an eventual mission of 3,000 soldiers helping its beleaguered health services battle the Ebola outbreak.

The contingent will be focused on training local health workers and setting up facilities to help Liberia and its neighbours halt the spread of the epidemic, which has left more than 2,600 dead across west Africa.

“Some American troops came soon this morning. They arrived with tactical jeeps,” a source at Roberts international airport, near Monrovia, told AFP.

The source was unable to give the size of the unit, which arrived in one aircraft, but the US has already announced it was planning to send 45 troops over the weekend.

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Louisiana School System Says Educating Illegal Immigrant Children Will Cost $4.6 Million

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Photo Credit: TownHallThe cost of educating illegal immigrant children who are residing in the United States will cost one school district in Louisiana almost $5 million, according to the Louisiana Department of Education. State Superintendent of Education John White crunched the numbers in response to a request from Senator David Vitter (R-LA).

According to White:

The Jefferson Parish School System estimates the total cost associated with educating these students to be $4.6 million. The district will receive an estimated $2.2 million toward this cost through the state funding formula based on the October 1 enrollment count adjustment (533 students x $4,261 per student). The other affected districts are calculating their estimated costs and will report them to the state next week.

In addition to normal cost of sending a child into the public school system, these aliens often need additional aid to address the language barrier. White noted that to serve the 533 illegal immigrants, the district would need to hire several additional English as a Second Language teachers.

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Happy Birthday: The Keystone XL Pipeline Battle Turns Six

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Photo Credit: Daily Caller Capitol Hill lawmakers are celebrating the Keystone XL pipeline’s sixth birthday this year by (once again) urging the White House to speedily approve the pipeline.

On Thursday night the House passed a slew of energy-related legislation aimed at boosting oil and natural gas production as well as approving Keystone. This came after a bipartisan group of 45 senators sent a letter to President Obama to make a decision on the pipeline after more than six years of delays…

Six years ago today, the Canadian pipeline company TransCanada applied for a Presidential Permit to build a massive pipeline that would eventually carry 830,000 barrels of oil sands per day from remote areas of Alberta, Canada to refineries on the U.S. Gulf coast.

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In Heated Midterm Contests, GOP Candidates Explore a Move to the Middle

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Photo Credit: WNDIn a midterm election year in which the political climate and map of battleground states clearly favors Republicans, many GOP candidates are nevertheless embracing some Democratic priorities in an effort to win over skeptical voters.

The shift is evident in some of the most contentious Senate and gubernatorial races — in traditional swing states as well as decidedly conservative ones such as Alaska and Arkansas — where Republican nominees have endorsed increases to the minimum wage, legalizing medical marijuana or granting in-state college tuition to some illegal immigrants.

Even on social issues, an area where the GOP traditionally has hewed to the wishes of its evangelical Christian base, many Senate hopefuls have backed same-sex marriage or over-the-counter access to birth-control pills.

Buoyed by President Obama’s deep unpopularity, the Republican Party is positioned to reclaim a national governing majority for the first time in nearly a decade by winning control of the Senate. But Republicans have little margin for error, and most key races remain tossups.

That’s in part because many of those same polls show that voters favor Democrats on several issues, including pocketbook economic concerns and women’s reproductive health issues. This has led many Republican candidates to take steps — some only in recent weeks — to project a more moderate image and try to inoculate themselves from attacks portraying them as extremists.

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Texas Clinics Say Goodbye to Planned Parenthood

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Photo Credit: TownHallPlanned Parenthood continues to lose momentum in the state of Texas. Planned Parenthood Association of Hidalgo County, now named Access Esperanza Clinics, has ended its partnership with Planned Parenthood. Patricio C. Gonzales, CEO of Access Esperanza, explained the significant move:

“Changing our name and affiliation allows our agency to apply for state health programs and make low-cost services more available for thousands of our low-income women, men and teens,” said Patricio C. Gonzales, CEO of Access Esperanza, in a letter posted on the group’s website, where she added that it was “a difficult but practical solution.”

In summary, renouncing its association with Planned Parenthood now gives Access Esperanza the opportunity to receive government funds.

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Tax Refunds Will be Cut for ACA Recipients

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Photo Credit: Tim Boyle, Getty ImagesA significant benefit of the Affordable Care Act is the opportunity to receive money-saving tax credits up front to cut the overall cost of HEALTH INSURANCE, but now hundreds of thousands of consumers could owe back some of that money next April.

Those affected took advance payments of the premium tax credit for HEALTH INSURANCE. Some married couples could owe $600 or $1,500 or $2,500 or even more. It might feel like a raw deal for some who are already suffocating under the escalating costs of HEALTH INSURANCE.

“Health insurance is confusing enough, and now they’re adding the complexities of the Tax Code,” said Lorena Bencsik, a member of the Michigan Association of CPAs and owner of Prime Numbers in Ferndale.

When you file that 2014 tax return next year, the Internal Revenue Service will compare your actual income for the year with the amount you estimated when applying for exchange-based health insurance under the HEALTH INSURANCE LAW.

The next open enrollment period begins Nov. 15. But notices were sent this week to some consumers whose incomes don’t match up to such things as 2012 tax return information.

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Top-Level Turnover Makes it Harder For DHS to Stay On Top of Evolving Threats

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Photo Credit: Jim Watson / AFP / Getty ImagesAn exodus of top-level officials from the DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY is undercutting the agency’s ability to stay ahead of a range of emerging threats, including potential terrorist strikes and cyberattacks, according to interviews with current and former officials.

Over the past four years, employees have left DHS at a rate nearly twice as fast as in the federal government overall, and the trend is accelerating, according to a review of a federal database.

The departures are a result of what employees widely describe as a dysfunctional work environment, abysmal morale, and the lure of private SECURITY COMPANIES paying top dollar that have proliferated in Washington since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.

The department’s terrorism intelligence arm, for example, has cycled through six directors during the Obama administration, decimating morale and contributing to months-long delays in releasing intelligence reports, according to interviews and government reports.

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The Making Of An Anti-American President

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Photo Credit: im41.comBarack Obama, in his own mind, is incapable of formulating scenarios in which the United States, as a capitalist-based western democracy, succeeds.

If narcissism explains Obama’s personal behavior, his relationships with others, and his self-centered decision-making process, then the nexus of Marxism-Leninism, Black Nationalism, and Islam defines him politically–philosophies antithetical to the survival of the Constitution and the American republic.

Frank Marshall Davis was introduced to Barack Obama by his maternal grandfather, Stanley Dunham, who was a close friend of Davis and saw him as a potential role model and father-figure for his grandson. Davis was also a US Communist Party member (number 47544) and became Obama’s mentor in Hawaii during the 1970s, right up until Obama left for college at Occidental, which he attended on a scholarship, one likely reserved for foreign students. That would explain why he roomed and associated with foreign students and, incidentally, may not have registered with Selective Service.

In a PBS “Frontline” documentary called “The Choice 2012,” former Obama roommate Sohale Siddiqi stated, “I didn’t consider him American. He seemed like an international individual.”

Dr. John Drew was a contemporary of Obama at Occidental College and himself a Marxist. Drew was already a well-known campus communist when Obama was introduced to him as “one of us.” Drew claims that Obama “was a Marxist-Leninist in his sophomore year of college from 1980 to 1981.”

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Ted Cruz: Democrats 'Have Become an Extreme Party'

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Photo Credit: APThursday will go do as a “dark day” in Senate history, with Senate Democrats blocking GOP legislation addressing the Islamic State (ISIS) and President Obama’s threat of executive amnesty.

“Unfortunately the Senate Democrats have become an extreme party,” Cruz said in an interview backstage at the Liberty Political Action Conference (LPAC) in Alexandria, Virginia. “They have become a party that has abdicated their responsibilities. Under Harry Reid and the Senate Democrats, we have a do-nothing Senate. There are over 350 bills the House of Representatives has passed and they’re all sitting on Harry Reid’s desk. He will not allow a vote on them.”

The interview with Cruz aired on Breitbart News Saturday on Sirius XM Patriot.

Cruz has introduced two pieces of legislation designed to protect Americans both from U.S. citizens who join the terrorist organization ISIS and from President Obama’s amnesty. The ISIS bill would revoke U.S. citizenship from any American who joins ISIS, a concept that enjoys support from almost everyone in politics, including former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH). But when Cruz sought unanimous consent to bring the bill up for debate and a vote, Senate Democrats—through Sen. Mazie Hirono (D-HI)—blocked it.

“So the legislation I introduced was to address this crisis we’re facing with ISIS. ISIS is the face of evil,” Cruz told Breitbart News. “They are crucifying Christians, they are beheading children, they are beheading American journalists—and they have pledged to take jihad back to America to murder Americans here at home. There are roughly 100 Americans fighting alongside ISIS who have taken up arms in jihad against America.”

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Doctors: 'Irresponsible' to Send Troops to 'Combat' Ebola

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Photo Credit: WNDBy CHELSEA SCHILLING.

A real-life horror story is playing out in Africa as Ebola spreads, and President Obama’s decision to send 3,000 troops to Liberia to combat the virus could very well put Americans at risk of contracting the deadly illness at home, some health experts say.

According to the World Health Organization, at least 4,985 people have contracted Ebola and at least 2,461 have died. Several doctors have fallen ill with Ebola, and two of them have died. New reports indicate a Doctors Without Borders staff member has contracted the virus in Liberia and will be evacuated to France for treatment.

“You can see that these doctors, who are highly trained people, got themselves infected,” said Dr. Lee Hieb, former president of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons. “So sending troops into an area, if they’re dealing one-on-one with a patient, they’re not going to be able to protect themselves very well. It’s not easy to [prevent transmission], because you get tired and you get careless and you make some simple mistakes. All it takes is one virus particle.”

Dr. Hieb said quarantine measures should be taken to control the outbreak and prevent Ebola from coming to America.

“You don’t get Ebola from Europe,” she told WND. “You get Ebola from Africa. And it’s a really simple formula: Don’t let people fly to America if they’ve been to areas where there’s an outbreak. When there’s an outbreak, stop air [traffic] flow.”

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Photo Credit: WNDObama using Ebola to turn military into social workers?

By AARON KLEIN.

In committing an estimated 3,000 U.S. forces to join INTERNATIONAL Ebola relief efforts in West Africa, President Obama seems to be fulfilling the plans of highly influential progressive groups who seek to transform the American military into more of a social-work organization.

In 2012, the major league of progressive groups with deep ties to the Obama administration got together to produce a comprehensive, 96-page report titled the “2012 Unified Security Budget.” It offered recommendations for reforming the U.S. military during Obama’s second term in OFFICE.

The progressive groups drew up extensive road maps recommending the use of the U.S. military to combat “global warming,” aid in disease PREVENTION in Africa, fight global poverty, remedy “injustice,” bolster the United Nations and increase “peacekeeping” forces worldwide.

Already during his first term, Obama utilized some of the specific recommendations of an earlier military budget paper produced by the same groups.

The 2012 Unified Budget report makes clear the stated objective of transforming the U.S. Armed Forces into an operation that emphasizes conflict resolution, INTERNATIONAL military cooperation via the U.N. and diplomacy.

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