Showing posts with label National Review. Show all posts
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Thursday, July 2, 2015

Depends on what you mean by "email"

July 02, 2015 Brendan Bordelon , Hillary Clinton Email Scandal 0 Comments
Proof: Despite Denials, White House Aides Knew About Hillary’s Private E-Mail Account 

By Brendan Bordelon, Jun. 30, 2015, National Review

New Hillary Clinton e-mails released late Tuesday night by the State Department reveal that, despite denials to the contrary, top Obama-administration officials were aware, within the first nine months of President Obama’s first term, of then–secretary of state Hillary Clinton’s use of a private e-mail server to conduct government business. 

The White House has not said when President Obama and his lieutenants first learned of Clinton’s use of a private e-mail server, noting only that they became aware in August 2014, after Republican lawmakers got hold of the information, that it could become a political problem. 

But e-mails from 2009 show that chief of staff Rahm Emanuel and senior adviser David Axelrod understood at the time that Clinton used a private e-mail account and server for official business. Indeed, top officials were forced to explicitly ask Clinton aides for her e-mail address.

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Thursday, June 18, 2015

Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) Leading The Charge

June 18, 2015 Conservative Republicans , House Speaker John Boehner 0 Comments
Conservative Republicans Put GOP Leadership On Notice

By Joel Gehrke, Jun. 17, 2015, National Review

When a group of House conservatives voted last week to kill a trade bill favored by President Obama, House Speaker John Boehner and other GOP leaders who support the measure steamed. Representative Mick Mulvaney (R., S.C.) celebrated the revolt as a coming-of-age moment for rebel backbenchers. “Yesterday will be the day that we look back at as the day that conservatives finally started getting organized in the House,” he wrote in a note to the Spartanburg Tea Party. 

Led by Representative Jim Jordan (R., Ohio), a platoon of conservatives demanded that Boehner agree to a series of concessions in exchange for their support for so-called Trade Promotion Authority (TPA), legislation that would give President Obama wider latitude to negotiate free-trade agreements. When GOP leadership ignored them, Jordan and his allies tried to kill the bill on a procedural vote — a rare step made more surprising by the lawmakers’ general support for free trade. It was the boldest attempt yet from the recently formed House Freedom Caucus, which Jordan chairs, to counteract Boehner’s perceived tendency to wilt in the face of Democratic pressure.

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Monday, June 15, 2015

"Closest Thing To A Jew" In the WH?

June 15, 2015 Jews , National Review 0 Comments
On Jewish Matters--Comparing Obama With His Predecessors

By Josh Gelernter, Jun. 13, 2015, National Review

On Jewish matters, comparing Obama with his predecessors. Last week, President Obama said that he is “the closest thing to a Jew that has ever sat” in the Oval Office. Which means, he said, that when people say he’s “anti-Israel,” “it hurts.” Since taking office, Mr. Obama has said many noxious things.

Mostly overlooked was something he said at a meeting with Senate Democrats early this year: that he understood why the senators were opposing his deal with Iran, because (according to the New York Times) “he understood the pressures that senators face from donors and others.” Needless to say, Obama was referring to the so-called Israel lobby, and to the general notion that support for Israel comes not from conviction, but from rich Jewish power-brokers.

New Jersey senator Bob Menendez — who has opposed Obama over Cuba as well as Israel and Iran — stood up and told the president that he was out of line; Menendez said he took “personal offense” at Mr. Obama’s remark. (Menendez was later indicted by Eric Holder’s Justice Department.)

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Saturday, May 30, 2015

Will SCOTUS Stop Obama?

May 30, 2015 Amnesty , Candidate Barack Obama 0 Comments
Obama Is Suspending the Law Designed to Deter Illegal Immigration 

By Ian Smith, May 29, 2015, National Review

A key part of the Fifth Circuit’s decision to keep the freeze on President Obama’s amnesty programs was the 25-page dissenting opinion written by the panel’s lone Obama appointee. Not only does it point to how the bloc-voting liberal justices of the Supreme Court will ultimately treat the case, it almost wholly focuses on the threshold issue of “prosecutorial discretion”: an executive-branch power that, if expanded to include mass grants of amnesty, would remove the last vestige of authority that Congress and the courts have in preventing immigration anarchy at our nation’s southern border. 

The “essential point of disagreement” that Judge Stephen Higginson had with Judge Hanen’s lower-court opinion has to do with the characterization of the president’s amnesty programs. How DAPA and DACA are categorized is crucial for both sides. Obama’s attorneys contend that the programs are mere exercises of “prosecutorial discretion” on the part of the president.

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Saturday, May 9, 2015

Pay Or No Appearance?!?

Pay Or No Appearance?!?

May 09, 2015 Al Sharpton , MSNBC 0 Comments
National Review Scoop: Al Sharpton Trades Airtime on MSNBC Show for Donations

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Saturday, April 4, 2015

Presto chango!

April 04, 2015 Hans A. von Spakovsky , House Oversight and Government Reform Committee 0 Comments
Making The Lois Lerner Problem Disappear

By Hans A. Von Spakovsky, Apr. 3, 2015

On March 31, Ronald Machen, the outgoing U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, wrote Speaker John Boehner to inform him that the Justice Department would not present Lois Lerner’s contempt citation to a federal grand jury. The letter explaining his decision is an exercise in misdirection — the kind of misdirection that magicians use to fool an audience. 

Why? Because at no point in his detailed, seven-page legal analysis does Machen mention the most important point demonstrating that Lois Lerner did, in fact, waive her Fifth Amendment right. Lois Lerner made two abbreviated appearances before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee — one on May 22, 2013, the other on March 5, 2014.

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Wednesday, January 14, 2015

France didn't listen

January 14, 2015 Ian Tuttle , Immigration 0 Comments
The Troubling Math Of Muslim Migration

Ian Tuttle, Jan. 13, 2015, National Review

Consider: Said and Chérif Kouachi — the brothers responsible, along with a third accomplice, for the Charlie Hebdo murders — were native Frenchmen whose parents hailed from Algeria. So was Farid Benyettou, the man who drew Chérif Kouachi to radical Islam. So was Mohammed Merah, who shot seven people dead, including three children at Jewish day school, in Toulouse and Montauban in March 2012.

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Tuesday, January 6, 2015

Corrupting the message and the dream

January 06, 2015 John Fund , Martin Luther King 0 Comments
Martin Luther King Jr.’s Heirs Seem More Interested In Money Than In His Message

John Fund, Jan. 5, 2015, National Review

Selma still works because filmmaker Ava DuVernay was able to construct phrases that conveyed King’s oratory without using his actual words. King, Inc., is controlled by King’s surviving children and holds the copyright to King’s speeches. It has so aggressively enforced its legal rights as to make it almost impossible to use those speeches without paying a hefty fee. Film rights to King’s speeches have been licensed to Steven Spielberg’s DreamWorks.

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Sunday, December 21, 2014

RINOs rise against "outliers"

December 21, 2014 Andrew C. McCarthy , Mike Lee 0 Comments
The Knives Come Out For Senators Cruz And Lee

Andrew C. McCarthy, Dec. 20, 2014, National Review

But it gets better: The miffed senators huff that, because Cruz and Lee unexpectedly gave the majority leader weekend time to fill, Reid used it to move forward with a number of controversial Obama nominees to the federal bench and high executive-branch posts — nominees Republicans claim they had shrewdly planned to stall. You’re to believe these nominees got confirmed later in the week because Cruz and Lee, former Supreme Court clerks and highly accomplished lawyers, got outfoxed on parliamentary procedures.

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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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Wednesday, December 10, 2014

Elijah Cummings Savages Gruber: 'Stupid, Absolutely Stupid'

December 10, 2014 Affordable Care Act , Elijah Cummings 0 Comments


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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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Monday, November 24, 2014

He's knows he's unimpeachable

November 24, 2014 Barack Obama , Executive Order 0 Comments
National Review: I Dare You to Impeach Me

Stanley Kurtz, Nov. 21, 2014, National Review

It isn’t what the Founders had in mind, but “I dare you to impeach me” is being normalized as both a governing strategy and a political tactic. We stand on the threshold of a new era of post-constitutional governance, not simply because of the sweeping executive order on immigration President Obama announced last night, but because of what Hillary Clinton just said about it. Waving aside the cautious stance she’s adopted since stepping down as Secretary of State, Hillary swiftlyendorsed Obama’s executive action. The contrast with her waffling on the issue of drivers licenses for illegal immigrants in 2008 is striking.

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Wednesday, November 19, 2014

Bye, bye Mary

November 19, 2014 Bill Cassidy , Jim Geraghty 0 Comments
Senate Democrats Vote To Reject Keystone, Elect Bill Cassidy In Runoff

Jim Geraghty, Nov. 18, 2014, National Review

Keep in mind, most of her colleagues voted “no” even with the implied-but-never-quite-explicitly-stated threat of a presidential veto! And they still wouldn’t vote to give Mary Landrieu an alleged “accomplishment” before the runoff! Why are they so disinclined to help her out? What, does she owe them money? Do they owe her money?

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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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Tuesday, November 11, 2014

Showdown

November 11, 2014 Amnesty , Barack Obama 0 Comments
Sheriffs Plan Massive Gathering in Washington To Oppose Executive Amnesty

Ryan Lovelace, Nov. 10, 2014, National Review

Sheriff Thomas M. Hodgson of Bristol County, Mass., sent a letter to organize a meeting of sheriffs in Washington, D.C., on December 10, two days before the existing government-funding bill expires, to meet with congressmen and encourage them to take action to secure the border.

“Never before in our nation’s history has it been so important for the American sheriffs to stand united and speak with one voice to secure our nation’s borders,” Hodgson wrote. “Senator Jeff Sessions, Senator David Vitter and other members of Congress have agreed to join us at the Capitol to demand immediate action to secure our borders as the first step in achieving legitimate immigration reform in the future. Several sheriffs have agreed to work in a spirit of cooperation to assist in recruiting at least 200 sheriffs to travel to Washington, D.C. for this historic meeting and press conference with members of Congress.”

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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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Thursday, July 17, 2014

--All of it?!

July 17, 2014 9/11 , Illegal Immigration 0 Comments
Ex-Border Patrol Deputy Chief: ‘All of the Good That Was Done after 9/11 Has Been Reversed Singlehandedly’

 By Ryan Lovelace, Jul. 16, 2014, Nationalreview.com

Former national deputy chief of the U.S. Border Patrol Ronald Colburn tells National Review Online that the Obama administration has undone all of the progress made at America’s southern border since 9/11.

“We’re back to a pre-9/11 situation basically, and this administration did that in the past five years,” he says. “All of the good that was done after 9/11 up to now has been reversed singlehandedly.”

Colburn, who spent more than 30 years working for U.S. Customs and Border Protection, says the resulting national-security risk has to do with the “clutter” of people at the border. He says all of the gains made since 9/11 came as a result of reducing the number of people crossing the border.

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Thursday, April 24, 2014

John Paul Stevens: Fix 2nd Amend to Remove 'Any Limits' on Gov't Power--A Nat'l Gun Ban Would Be OK --The end game

April 24, 2014 2nd Amendment , ABC News 0 Comments


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Saturday, April 19, 2014

United States of SWAT? Military-style Units From Government Agencies Are Wreaking Havoc On Non-Violent Citizens

April 19, 2014 BLM , Bundy Ranch Stand-Off 0 Comments
By John Fund, Apr. 18, 2014, National Review

Regardless of how people feel about Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy’s standoff with the federal Bureau of Land Management over his cattle’s grazing rights, a lot of Americans were surprised to see TV images of an armed-to-the-teeth paramilitary wing of the BLM deployed around Bundy’s ranch.

They shouldn’t have been. Dozens of federal agencies now have Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) teams to further an expanding definition of their missions. It’s not controversial that the Secret Service and the Bureau of Prisons have them. But what about the Department of Agriculture, the Railroad Retirement Board, the Tennessee Valley Authority, the Office of Personnel Management, the Consumer Product Safety Commission, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service? All of these have their own SWAT units and are part of a worrying trend towards the militarization of federal agencies — not to mention local police forces.

“Law-enforcement agencies across the U.S., at every level of government, have been blurring the line between police officer and soldier,” journalist Radley Balko writes in his 2013 book Rise of the Warrior Cop. “The war on drugs and, more recently, post-9/11 antiterrorism efforts have created a new figure on the U.S. scene: the warrior cop — armed to the teeth, ready to deal harshly with targeted wrongdoers, and a growing threat to familiar American liberties.”

The proliferation of paramilitary federal SWAT teams inevitably brings abuses that have nothing to do with either drugs or terrorism. Many of the raids they conduct are against harmless, often innocent, Americans who typically are accused of non-violent civil or administrative violations.

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