Putin has attacked Ukraine and making mad eyes at the Baltic (Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia) in an attempt to reassemble the old Soviet Union.  China is making land demands on Japan and the Philippines.  Kim Jong Un is still playing with nuclear fire, and the Iranian Mullahs have thoughts of hegemony in the Middle East.  Iraq is in turmoil, Turkey is going Islamist, the European is both going broke (a bad thing) and starting to have its own TEA Party movement (ok, a GREAT thing – but not for Obama), Al Queada is uprising in the failed states of Somalia and Yemen, and the Taliban is just tapping its foot in Afghanistan in waiting out Obama’s “end of the good war” deadline even as they are tapping out the competition in Pakistan.  And let’s not forget the failing state to our south, Mexico, where no one seems to know who is in charge – the Federales, the drug lords, or the under siege citizens.

And with all of these major rolling catastrophes, the Obama Administration, in full Nanny mode, thinks this is worth of UN action?  

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After all, taxes just shovels money from one set of folks to a different set of folks.  And Saul Alinsky was all about, in “hiding” Socialism, moving the stuff from the Haves to the Have Nots.  The purpose was always to obtain the power to make that happen.  Kinda looks, with the premier Alinskyite devotee in the highest place and a cadre of Socialists  (aka Progressives) running Congress, they hit the jackpot:

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From Heritage:

So, if you have a Bronze plan in a four person family, your total family deduction could be

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For decades, I have been sounding the alarm about the ever-increasing menace Islam is posing to America and our way of life. Apathy, political correctness, and massive Islamic lobbying have successfully prevented the public from truly grasping the pervasive Islamic assault.

Freedom of speech, a right greatly cherished by a free people, is an area where Islamic forces are attacking with great effectiveness.

Individuals who dare to voice the truth about Islam, its barbaric sharia laws, and its savage practices are subjected to harassment, threatened with and subjected to ruinous lawsuits. Businesses and organizations with the slightest deviation from the Islamic dictates face boycotts and the loss of media advertising sponsors.  

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Most of you heard about the rancher in Nevada, Cliven Bundy, that is in a battle with the BLM (Federal Bureau of Land Management) over land that his family has used for grazing since the 1880 and the BLM’s pushing out ranchers in Clark County to “protect the desert tortoises” that are on the protected list.

Sidenote: the BLM has admitted to euthanizing hundreds of those same “protected species” due to “budget cuts”

He believes he has the right to use that land, the BLM says no (the Federal Government actually owns most of the land in Nevada and claims to own that land as well).  Things have escalated over the last week with between 3 – 5 thousand people reportedly streaming into the area to defend the Bundy ranch as the BLM brought in over 200 heavily armed agents, helicopters and snipers.  Yesterday it was announced that an agreement was made and that the BLM left.

Er, not so much.  Folks from NH have headed west to join the other protectors at the Bundy ranch, including Jerry Delemus.  His wife Sue emailed me an update earlier today and it doesn’t seem that the Feds have pulled back:  

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For years, Ed Naile of CNHT has toiled in the vineyards of Voter Fraud here in NH.  Sure, the soil here is rocky (lots of NH Democrats), the weather is erratic (first the Repubs govern, and then the Dems try to rule), but the season seems to be never ending (i.e., “the never ending campaigning”) – but he is finally getting traction and a lot of the Professional Vote Stealers (“PVSs”, Democrat political operators) and their enablers (the owners of the “voter fraud nests” that put up the PVSs for a month or two until they skedadle out of State to their next gig).  A good shot of “fertilizer” helped his crops when James O’Keefe and his merry band of pranksters showed how easy it would be here in the First in the Nation Primary State to pull off voter fraud.  As a result, we got a valid Voter ID law – wanna vote, show us your mug!

And STILL, NH Democrats keep saying that there is no such thing as Voter Fraud – a made up problem that has no basis in reality.  Why wouldn’t say that – look what it did for them this past November!  So, as Allahpundit said “I did not see this coming”; the most popular Democrat President living, Bill Clinton, now thinks that picture ID to vote is not a bad idea!

With 34 states now requiring some form of identification at the polls, former president Bill Clinton and civil rights leader Andrew Young on Wednesday endorsed the idea of adding photos to Social Security cards as a way to prevent voter suppression…Clinton and Young, a former mayor of Atlanta, expressed concern that the voter ID laws could discourage poor and minority voters from showing up at the polls, which would circumvent the intent of the Voting Rights Act. 

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“Elijah Cummings and Lois Lehrner sitting in a tree…” – OK, maybe only in a political sense.  It is clear that we know that the IRS became politically weaponized against Conservative groups but who knew that the main Democrat who was supposed to provide non-partisan oversight was actually in cahoots with Lois Lerner!  Steve wrote about Democratic Ranking Member Elijah Cummings actually working with the IRS to target Conservatives here and now, more has come out (emphasis mine):

New IRS emails released by the House Oversight Committee show staff working for Democratic Ranking Member Elijah Cummings communicated with the IRS multiple times between 2012 and 2013 about voter fraud prevention group True the Vote. True the Vote was targeted by the IRS after applying for tax exempt status more than two years ago. Further, information shows the IRS and Cummings’ staff asked for nearly identical information from True the Vote President Catherine Engelbrecht about her organization, indicating coordination and improper sharing of confidential taxpayer information.  

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Tolerance and Judgement are not opposing idea.

From an interview by The Blaze with Charles Murray on his new book “The Curmudgeon’s Guide to Getting Ahead: Dos and Don’ts of Right Behavior, Tough Thinking, Clear Writing, and Living a Good Life,” (emphasis mine):    

Question: One of the contrarian aspects of your book is that you actually argue for judgmentalism, with which you draw a clear distinction from intolerance. Explain.

Murray: Making judgments is part of being human. The only way you can go through daily life without making judgments is if you deliberately refuse to think about what’s before your eyes. Being judgmental is not only OK; we have a moral obligation to make the best judgments we can. Having done that, however, the next step is not to try to make laws enforcing our judgments about right and wrong. It is appropriate to be tolerant of behaviors of which we may disapprove, but which should be left as individual choices that people may make in a free society.  

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