Ron Paul: Nation’s Hospitals ‘Under Siege’ in Immigration Crisis

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Photo Credit: Caravanto MidnightBy Bill Hoffmann.

The ongoing crush of children illegally entering the United States has sparked a major health crisis at hospitals along the nation’s border, Ron Paul, a former Texas congressman and Republican presidential candidate, tells Newsmax TV.

“Our hospitals have already been under siege by immigrants,” Paul, an obstetrician, said Wednesday on “The Steve Malzberg Show.’

“And with these thousands, tens of thousands, who knows how many [children] . . . you’re going to see some very serious health problems . . . We’ve already overburdened many hospitals.

“In the 19th century, when we had a massive influx of immigrants, we were still cautious about diseases . . . Today, under these conditions, it just is essentially impossible to do this.”

Paul added that it appears the Obama administration is more concerned with other borders around the world than with U.S. borders.

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California Mayor Says There’s No End in Sight to Border Crisis, Concerned for ‘Safety of All’

By Monica Sanchez.

As busloads of illegal immigrants arrive in the Southern California city of Murrieta, Mayor Alan Long spoke to Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly about the brewing border crisis…

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Begich Ad Highlights Treadwell and Sullivan's 80% Problem

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Joe Miller weighed in today on Senator Mark Begich’s latest ad touting his ties to Republican Senator Lisa Murkowski. In the ad, a supporter of both senators claims that Begich and Murkowski vote together 80% of the time.

“As I’ve been saying for months, there is likely to be a significant issue in November if Republicans put forward a nominee who fails to provide significant contrast with the incumbent,” said Miller. “How, for instance, do Mead Treadwell and Dan Sullivan make the case to Alaskans that they should give up power and seniority when the wouldbe senators have already demonstrated that they’re alright with Mark Begich 80% of the time? I think it’s going to be a hard sell.”

When asked by Politico Magazine shortly before announcing his candidacy last year, Treadwell said, “I voted for Lisa Murkowski in the primary and in the general, and I think Alaskans made the right decision.”

And just a few months back Sullivan reportedly claimed in the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner that, acting as Attorney General, he spearheaded the effort to assist the write-in candidate by arguing in clear violation of State Administrative Code that lists of write-in candidates should be allowed polling places.

United Press International also reported that the non-statutory standards deployed during the 2010 vote-count in Juneau, in direct violation of Alaska Statute, came at the advise of then-Attorney General Dan Sullivan.

With Congressional Quarterly reporting earlier this year that Mark Begich voted with Barack Obama 97% of the time last year, and Murkowski 72% of the time, this new claim should come as no surprise.

Miller concluded, “I expect this to be an ungoing issue, because I just don’t believe that most Republican primary voters are going to buy my opponents’ conservative schtick when they have no problem supporting someone who is 80% with Begich and has only a 26% rating with Heritage Action, the nation’s leading conservative organization.”

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The Ten Supreme Court Decisions This Year That Will Change America

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Photo Credit: Getty ImagesWith the Supreme Court on summer recess, it’s time to review the biggest cases of the October 2013 docket. SCOTUSblog’s “Stat Pack” notes that the Court this term had a high degree of unanimity and a relative lack of 5-4 decisions. But by margins both large and small, the court issued a number of important cases.

Reasonable people can, of course, disagree about the importance of any case. In compiling my own list, I generally ranked them with two criteria in mind. First, does the case affect constitutional doctrine, either by clarifying a murky area of law or by raising or lowering a legal bar? Second, will the case have practical consequences, either by shifting billions of dollars in legal rights, or by changing standard operating procedure for government agencies or law enforcement? If a case does either or both of these things, it appears higher on the list.

Here, in reverse order, are my top ten:

10. Utility Air Regulatory Group v. EPA

This complicated set of cases dealt with the EPA’s attempt to regulate greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide as “air pollutants” under the Clean Air Act. In a 9-0 decision (at least with respect to the result), the Court held that part of what the EPA was trying to do was not permissible under the Clean Air Act, and part of it was. The Court ruled that the EPA went too far in terms of asserting statutory authority to regulate greenhouse gases and in attempting to “tailor” the statute to regulate only “major emitters” of greenhouse gases. However, the Court said that the EPA could impose carbon limits on facilities that already fall under permitting programs pursuant to other parts of the Clean Air Act. Even though the case didn’t deal with any constitutional rights, it is hugely important, because it involves billions of dollars of regulated activity and the fight over global warming (or global climate change, as it is now called). The decision ensures that industry and the EPA will continue to fight in federal court for years to come. At least the lawyers will be happy.

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Costco Removing D'Souza's "America" from Shelves (+video)

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Photo Credit: WNDOriginally published at WND.

The retail giant Costco Wholesale has issued an order to remove all copies of Dinesh D’Souza’s bestselling book America: Imagine the World Without Her from the shelves of its stores nationwide, WND has confirmed.

The book, in this mid-term election year, is a strong rebuttal of the progressive ideology behind President Obama’s policies, which have been supported by Costco co-founder and director Jim Senegal, a major Democrat donor and a speaker at the 2012 Democratic National Convention that nominated the president. A Washington Post political reporter has noted Obama’s “romance” with the nation’s second-largest retailer.

At Amazon.com, D’Souza’s book, released June 2, is ranked No. 43 overall and is the No. 3 hardcover book in Amazon’s Politics and Government section and No. 1 in the Commentary and Opinion subsection of Politics and Government.

Costco has sold more than 3,600 copies of America nationwide, with about 700 copies sold last week as D’Souza’s film by the same name opened at more than 1,000 movie theaters nationwide.

But Costco’s book department issued the “pull-order,” requiring all Costco stores nationwide to remove the book, confirmed Scott Losse, an inventory control specialist in the book department at the Costco Wholesale corporate office in Issaquah, Wash., a suburb of Seattle.

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A Story to be Proud Of

By Richard Butrick.

Ayers the Guilt Monger: “And we did enslave people for 250 years”

In the recent debate between Ayers and D’Souza on “The Kelly File”, with Ayers, former anti-Vietnam war activist and sometime mentor of President Obama, representing the leftist ashamed-to-be-an-American crowd and D’Souza, defending American exceptionalism, Ayers claimed that Americans should be ashamed of their record of 250 years of slavery.

It is not clear whether Mr. Ayers is claiming that Americans today should feel personally to blame (guilty) for slavery in America or just that the period of American history when slavery was de facto a legal institution is a shameful period of American history.

The personally-to-blame argument is silly. The Italians and Irish who immigrated to the U.S. in the 18th and 19th century and worked in factories and railroads and dams and bridges are to be blamed for slavery? And their descendants to boot?

In the 1860 census about 1/3 of all Southern families owned slaves. What about the other 2/3ds? Are they and their descendants to blame? And in the Northern states where slavery was virtually nonexistent in 1860? Are they and their descendants to blame? What about descendants of families that ran the underground railroad?

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Outrageous: Combat Troops to Receive Pink Slips While Deployed Overseas

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Photo Credit: TownHall Some members of the armed services, all of whom are currently deployed in war zones, will soon be notified by the Defense Department that they will be involuntarily discharged from the military at the end of their current tours. Why? “Budget cuts.” It’s as simple as that. Shockingly, too, hundreds of Army captains have already been handed the devastating news, according to the New York Post, and more officers are expected to get it, if they haven’t already, soon enough.

For obvious reasons, this is an outrageous and heartless way to “thank” combat veterans:

What is astonishing is that the Defense Department thought it would be appropriate to notify deployed soldiers — men and women risking their lives daily in combat zones — that they’ll be laid off after their current deployment.

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Obama Approval Highest Among Muslims

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Photo Credit: APPresident Barack Obama’s approval rating is higher among Muslims than any other religious group, a new poll says.

According to a Gallup poll released Friday that tracked responses for the first six months of 2014, 72 percent of Muslims said they approve of the president, compared with just 20 percent who disapprove.

Mormons were the least approving religious group, with 18 percent of Mormons approving and 78 percent disapproving of the president. Mormons in the past have ranked as the most conservative major religious group in the U.S.

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Those who classify as “Other non-Christian” gave the president a 59 percent approval rating, while Jewish Americans gave Obama a 55 percent approval rating and atheists or those who subscribe to no religion have a 54 percent approval rating.

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Joe Miller: The Only Anti-Amnesty Senate Candidate in Alaska (+video)

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Listen to Joe Miller address the pressing amnesty issues facing our nation. And hear Mead Treadwell state that he supports amnesty for some illegals and is opposed to voter ID requirements. Finally, listen to Joe call out Dan Sullivan for his pro-amnesty backing:

Note: Mr. Sullivan has consistently refused to answer questions regarding amnesty and English as America’s common language. He is also silent regarding voter ID requirements. Finally, he is backed by big outside pro-amnesty money.

Mr. Treadwell, as he stated in the video above, opposes voter ID requirements and supports amnesty for some illegals.

Dem. Congressman: ‘Floored Me’ to See Obama Shoot Pool Rather than Visit Border

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Photo Credit: RedState By Andrew Johnson.

At least one Democratic congressman is “very very upset” with the idea that President Obama was shooting in Denver with Colorado governor John Hickenlooper today rather than visiting the southwestern border.

“When I saw that, it just really floored me,” said Representative Henry Cuellar of Texas, who has been quite vocal in his criticism of the administration’s handling of the issue. “If he’s saying he’s too busy to go down to the border, but you have time to drink a beer, play pool, the optics and the appearance just mean he’s not paying attention to this humanitarian crisis.”

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Illegals Continue To Walk All Over Obama, Now With Obama-Themed Shoes

By Eric Owens.

Some of the illegal immigrants surging across the U.S. border from Central America and creating a growing humanitarian crisis may be wearing tennis shoes emblazoned with images in praise of President Barack Obama, according to Dennis Michael Lynch at his website, DMLDaily.

“I’ve received two sets of photos from two contacts at the border,” Lynch explains. “I cannot validate the authenticity of the pictures. But I can say the agents who sent these to me is among a handful of agents who have sent me accurate information over the past few months.”

(CREDIT FOR IMAGE ABOVE: Dennis Michael Lynch at DMLDaily)

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Photo Credit: AP / Pablo Martinez MonsivaisObama wants $3.7 billion more to tend to illegals

By Stephen Dinan.

Federal officials last week paid $584 to buy four versions of Monopoly, five packs of playing cards, a dozen beanbag tosses and other games for illegal immigrant children — a small fraction of what the Obama administration now says it will take to clothe, feed, transport, house and, yes, entertain the children surging across the border.

Government contractors stand to see a good payday after President Obama submitted a request Tuesday for an additional $3.7 billion this year to cover the costs of handling the illegal immigrant families and, most costly, the unaccompanied children from Central America who are entering the U.S. in record numbers.

“There are significant resources that are required to deal with the situation,” White House press secretary Josh Earnest said. “What we would like are some additional resources to make sure that we’re enforcing that law efficiently, both in terms of processing them through the immigration system, but also in terms of repatriating them if it’s found that they don’t have a legal basis for remaining in the country.”

Mr. Obama sent a letter to Congress detailing a request for 2014 alone: $879 million in additional funding to detain and deport illegal immigrant families, $116 million to transport unaccompanied children, and $522 million for more law enforcement both on the border and in Central America.

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Thad Cochran's Senate Enablers (Hint – Lisa Murkowski is One of Them)

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Photo Credit: APBy Senate Conservatives Fund.

Here is the complete list of Republican senators who contributed to Cochran’s campaign as well as to his super PAC.

Please contact these senators and tell them to stop funding candidates who run on liberal issues and use race-baiting tactics to get Democrats to hijack Republican elections.

GOP Senate Contributions to Cochran

Senator — Amount Given — Phone Number

Mitch McConnell (R-KY) — $60,000 — (202) 224-2541

Rob Portman (R-OH) — $40,000 — (202) 224-3353

Bob Corker (R-TN) — $30,000 — (202) 224-3344

Roger Wicker (R-MS) — $17,000 — (202) 224-6253

John Barrasso (R-WY) — $15,000 — (202) 224-6441

Roy Blunt (R-MO) — $15,000 — (202) 224-5721

John Cornyn (R-TX) — $15,000 — (202) 224-2934

Dean Heller (R-NV) — $15,000 — (202) 224-6244

Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) — $15,000 — (202) 224-6665

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Photo Credit: APThad Cochran gets lost in Senate building, winds up at Democratic event

By T. Becket Adams.

Sen. Thad Cochran, R-Miss., got lost on his way to a Senate Republican luncheon on Tuesday and ended up at the Democrats’ gathering instead, the Hill reported.

The Mississippi senator, who recently won an intensely ugly primary election against Tea Party-backed candidate Chris McDaniel, apparently forgot where he was going while navigating the halls of Congress.

“After exiting a Senate elevator on the wrong floor” Cochran re-boarded, the report notes. “He then found the right floor but turned away from the Senate GOP luncheon, a few yards from the elevator, to stroll the opposite direction, arriving at the Democrats’ weekly gathering a few hallways away.”

Cochran then entered the wrong room and chatted away with Sen. Mark Pryor, D-Ark., until someone asked the longtime Republican senator if he planned on lunching with Democrats.

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After Saying He's Not Interested in Photo-Ops, Obama Concludes Texas Trip with … a Photo-Op

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Photo Credit: AP / Jacquelyn MartinPresident Obama ended a visit to the Lone Star State with an impromptu photo-op at Franklin Barbecue in Austin, Texas, rounding out a two-day trip that included numerous speaking engagements, raising millions of dollars for Democratic candidates and complaining loudly about Republican opposition.

The president’s BBQ photo-op comes less than 24 hours after he said during a press conference Wednesday that he would not visit the U.S.-Mexico border because he’s not “interested in photo-ops.”

“Hey guys! I hear the barbecue is pretty good here. Is that true?” Obama said Thursday as he cut directly to the front of the line. “I know this is a long line. I feel real bad, but — I’m gonna cut.”

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