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Wednesday, March 4, 2015

Her expression looked as if she'd eaten something bad

March 04, 2015 House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi , Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu 0 Comments
Pelosi Exits Chamber Before Netanyahu 

By Joel Gehrke, Mar. 3, 2015, NationalReview.com  


House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.) made her lack of enthusiasm for Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu’s speech apparent throughout the remarks, applauding half-heartedly and then quickly exiting the chamber after the speech, before Netanyahu did.

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Saturday, February 14, 2015

Que pasa?

February 14, 2015 Amnesty , House Judiciary Chairman Bob Goodlatte 0 Comments
Rep. Goodlatte: Executive Amnesty Contains ‘Sneaky’ Path To Citizenship

By Joel Gehrke, Feb. 13, 2015, NationalReview.com

President Obama’s recent executive orders on immigration include provisions that “place potentially hundreds of thousands of unlawful immigrants on a path to citizenship,” a top Republican revealed after a staff-level briefing from U.S. Customs and Immigration Services.

“Your Department’s recent changes to this deferred action program seem to be a sneaky attempt to place potentially hundreds of thousands of unlawful immigrants on a path to citizenship,” House Judiciary Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R., Va.) wrote in a Friday letter to Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson.

The key is that DHS allows the illegal immigrants who enroll in the deferred action program established by Obama’s orders to apply for advanced parole status.

“As you know, when an individual receives advance parole, upon return to the United States the individual can then be eligible to adjust to lawful permanent resident (LPR) status,” Goodlatte writes to Johnson.

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Sunday, December 14, 2014

Intra-party bait and switch

December 14, 2014 Joel Gehrke , John Boehner 0 Comments
GOP Rep: House Leaders Made False Promise To Get My Crucial Vote

Joel Gehrke, Dec. 12, 2014, National Review

Stutzman was one of the last Republicans to cast his ballot in favor of a rule allowing the House to vote on the cromnibus. National Review Online reported that Stutzman backed the rule at the last minute after leadership told him that they would pull the bill, once the rule was passed, and replace it with a short-term continuing resolution favored by rank-and-file conservatives. With the last-minute help of Stutzman and outgoing representative Kerry Bentivolio (R., Mich.), leadership won the vote 214–212.

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Thursday, December 4, 2014

Already?

December 04, 2014 Barack Obama , Executive Order 0 Comments
Sessions: House GOP Is On The Verge Of Breaking 2014 Campaign Promises

Joel Gehrke, Dec. 2, 2014, National Review

“The executive amnesty language is substantially weaker than the language the House adopted this summer, and does not reject the central tenets of the President’s plan: work permits, Social Security and Medicare to 5 million illegal immigrants — reducing wages, jobs and benefits for Americans,” Sessions said in the statement expressing his dissatisfaction with the results of a House Republican conference meeting today.

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Thursday, November 13, 2014

Opening post-election move

November 13, 2014 Barack Obama , Executive Order 0 Comments
Obama Starts Taking Executive Action on Immigration?

Joel Gehrke, Nov. 10, 2014, National Review

President Obama used his executive authority to increase the availability of visas for Chinese workers and students, a move that immigration hawks regard as a signal that his promised executive orders regarding immigration are coming soon.

“Obama announced a new plan Monday to extend Chinese student visas to five years and business and tourist visas to 10 years, saying the move will boost jobs in the United States,” USA Today noted.

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Wednesday, November 5, 2014

Just 2 more yrs. left

November 05, 2014 Attorney General Eric Holder , Barack Obama 0 Comments
'Election Eve Dump': Eric Holder Releases Fast And Furious Documents That Got Him Cited For Contempt

Joel Gehrke, Nov. 4, 2014, National Review

Justice Department officials provided House investigators with thousands of documents related to Operation Fast and Furious that President Obama had previously claimed were exempt from congressional review.

In an “election eve dump,” as House Oversight and Government Reform Committee chairman Darrell Issa (R., Calif.) put it, DOJ handed over 64,280 pages of documents, a release that is still only a partial fulfillment of the committee’s request.

“This production is nonetheless a victory for the legislative branch, a victory for transparency, and a victory for efforts to check Executive Branch power,” Issa said of the release.

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Saturday, October 18, 2014

About time!

October 18, 2014 Democratic Party , Joel Gehrke 1 Comments
Elbert Guillory: Bear-Killer, Gadfly, Statesman--Urges Blacks To Dump Democratic Party

Sen. Elbert Guillory
By Joel Gehrke, Oct. 15, 2014, Nationalreview.com

Opelousas, La. — To kill a bear in single combat, you’ve just got to avoid its claws and teeth. That’s the first lesson Republican state senator Elbert Guillory, famous for urging black voters to join him in leaving the Democratic party, imparted over lunch at the kind of Louisiana restaurant that has crawfish enchiladas on the menu.

“Get in close,” inside of the paws and under its chin, he advises anyone confronted with such a challenge. The 70-year-old Guillory, wearing a three-piece suit and working on a cup of gumbo, doesn’t look like a bear-killer, but he offers this tactical advice without a hint of self-consciousness.

Guillory likes telling stories, especially the one in which a bear attacks while he and his then-young son camped in western Maryland years ago. Guillory says he killed it with a large knife.

This particular story is less surprising coming from someone looking, this election season, to wrestle a different kind of animal. Guillory wants to drive a wedge between African Americans and Louisiana’s vulnerable incumbent, Senator Mary Landrieu. Guillory has endorsed Representative Bill Cassidy (R., La.) for senator, and, though Democrats have had a lock on the African-American vote for decades, he hopes to help Cassidy receive 15 percent of it in November.

“Unfortunately, the black community over the last few decades, as a community, we have put all our eggs in one basket,” Guillory tells National Review Online. “For me, it’s not so much about helping Cassidy as it is helping my community. If I can get a United States senator who understands the issues and will address those issues, then I will have been successful for Louisiana.”

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Tuesday, September 2, 2014

Funded, organized, motivated

September 02, 2014 Iraq , ISIS 0 Comments
Terrorists’ Handbook: In Rhetoric And Tactics, ISIS Sounds Like An Al-Qaeda Manual
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By Joel Gehrke, Aug. 29, 2014, Nationalreview.com

President Obama may not have a strategy for defeating the Islamic State, but the Islamic State has a strategy for the U.S. In fact, that strategy is set out, in part, in an al-Qaeda manual recently translated for the benefit of the U.S. military.

A guerrilla war proceeds in phases, according to Abd al-Aziz al-Muqrin’s A Practical Course for Guerrilla War, a strategic and tactical guide to mujahideen intent on establishing “a pure Islamic system free from defects and infidel elements.” It was written after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

The first phase is “attrition (strategic defense),” the time for carrying out attacks, “spectacular operations, which will create a positive impact.” The terrorists use the attacks as a recruitment tool and a morale boost for potential jihadis.

Phase two is the time of “relative strategic balance,” when the jihadis build an army to hold territory that has been wrested from the incumbent regime. “There the mujahidin will set up base camps, hospitals, sharia courts, and broadcasting stations, as well as a jumping-off point for military and political actions,” al-Muqrin writes.

The third phase, a time of internal discord and political upheaval for the “collaborationist” regime, is “decisive.” The terrorists use their conventional army to launch dramatic assaults.

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Sunday, August 24, 2014

But they got away it...

August 24, 2014 Hostage Exchange , Joel Gehrke 0 Comments
Feds: Obama Broke Law With Bergdahl Swap

Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl hostage exchange
Source:  www.usatoday.com / AP 
By Joel Gehrke, Aug. 21, 2014, Nationalreview.com

President Obama violated a “clear and unambiguous” law when he released five Guantanamo Bay detainees in exchange for Army Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl, the Government Accountability Office reported Thursday.

“[The Department of Defense] violated section 8111 because it did not notify the relevant congressional committees at least 30 days in advance of the transfer,” the GAO report said. “In addition, because DOD used appropriated funds to carry out the transfer when no money was available for that purpose, DOD violated the Antideficiency Act. The Antideficiency Act prohibits federal agencies from incurring obligations exceeding an amount available in an appropriation.”

The GAO rejected the idea that the action was legal and sidestepped the Obama team’s suggestion that the law is unconstitutional.

“It is not our role or our practice to determine the constitutionality of duly enacted statutes,” the report says. “In our view, where legislation has been passed by Congress and signed by the President, thereby satisfying the bicameralism and presentment requirements in the Constitution, that legislation is entitled to a heavy presumption in favor of constitutionality.”


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Friday, May 23, 2014

Nancy Pelosi blames George W. Bush for Veterans Affairs --What took her so long?

May 23, 2014 George W. Bush , Joel Gehrke 0 Comments
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi
By Joel Gehrke, May 22, 2014, Washingtonexaminer.com

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., repeatedly put the blame for the Veterans Affairs scandal on former President George W. Bush, while arguing that her party has worked hard for veterans in recent years.

Pelosi took a shot at Bush while saying that the scandal is a high priority for Obama. "He sees the ramifications of some seeds that were sown a long time ago, when you have two wars over a long period of time and many, many more, millions more veterans," she told reporters during her Thursday press briefing. "And so, I know that he is upset about it."

The Democratic leader never mentioned Bush by name, but she alluded to him early and often in the press briefing.

"Maybe when we go into war, we should be thinking about its consequences and its ramifications," Pelosi said while discussing the scandal. "You would think that would be a given, but maybe it wasn't. And so, we go in a war in Afghanistan, leave Afghanistan for Iraq with unfinished business in Afghanistan. Ten years later, we have all of these additional veterans. In the past five years, two million more veterans needing benefits from the VA. That's a huge, huge increase."

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Tuesday, April 15, 2014

Ron Paul Group To Defy IRS --Refuses to turn over donor list, says IRS has habit of "mistakenly" releasing info.

April 15, 2014 1st Amendment , Campaign for Liberty 0 Comments
By Joel Gehrke, Apr. 15, 2014, Washington Examiner

Ron Paul's nonprofit Campaign for Liberty will fight the Internal Revenue Service's demand that it reveal its donor list to the agency, despite having already been fined for refusing to do so.

"There is no legitimate reason for the IRS to know who donates to Campaign for Liberty," Megan Stiles, the communications director at Campaign for Liberty, told the Washington Examiner in an email on Tuesday. "We believe the First Amendment is on our side as evidenced by cases such as NAACP v. Alabama and International Union UAW v. National Right to Work. Many 501(c)(4) organizations protect the privacy of their donors in the very same way as Campaign for Liberty. For some reason the IRS has now chosen to single out Campaign for Liberty for special attention. We plan to fight this all the way."

Ron Paul suggested that the group will refuse to pay the IRS fine in an fundraising email to supporters about the agency's request for information.

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