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Friday, 31 October 2014

In Newark, NJ the police will no longer respond to "minor" crimes

In the city that gave us Cory Booker the police don't want to know if you get mugged.

A newly instituted policy for city police officers may force them to deliver a less than ideal response to victims of assault and other minor crimes looking to make a complaint: Take it to court.

In an Oct. 23 memo obtained by NJ Advance Media, Chief Anthony Campos informed officers that they should refer any victim complaining about crimes such as \simple assault, criminal mischief and harassment to file complaints in municipal court, rather than compile an incident report themselves.

The strategy was instituted "in order to streamline operations and make better usage of police resources", Campos said in the memo.

It also covers disorderly persons offenses such as improper behavior and offensive language, as well as complaints about bad checks and false information provided to police.

If you come to Newark, please try to only get mugged between the hours of 8 AM and 4 PM, Monday through Friday, otherwise the courthouse won't be open for you to stagger into and file a complaint. I guess you could camp out on the steps if you're really banged up, or go home and try phoning it in tomorrow.

Welcome to the exact opposite of Rudy Guiliani's "broken windows" policy. He cleaned up New York by focusing on quality-of-life crimes, because a city that won't tolerate squeegee men is one that's obviously inhospitable to muggers, rapists, and murderers too.

But Mayor Ras Baraka has a different approach to crime. He writes letters requesting leniency for notorious gang bosses. He asks criminals not to murder people anymore, politely, of course. And he hangs up cutesy posters reminding his constituents not to commit crimes.

But what he won't do is send a cop when your car gets stolen or your house is burglarized. You gotta go to the courthouse and fill out a form for that. And somebody will get back to you. Honest.

All of which has worked out so well, violent crime in Newark is at an all-time high.

Maybe they should give you one of those posters to hang up each time you have to fill out your own police report. Or a cardboard cutout of a cop to put on your porch. And if you contribute to his re-election fund, Baraka will text one of his gangbanger buddies and ask him not to rob you again.

Your tax dollars at work.

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The return of Ten Buck Friday, and down the stretch they come!

This is it. Week Nine of a Nine Week Mission, to Seek Out new life for the Senate, to Boldly hand Harry Reid a trick instead of a treat! Last call, people!

Focusing on the Senate races is it worth ten bucks a week to you (four pounds of candy corn?) to eliminate Reid's control and give the Senate responsible leadership again?

With that in mind, these are the eight candidates we've backed to date:

Scott Brown - New Hampshire -2.2

Cory Gardner - Colorado +3.3

Bill Cassidy - Louisiana +4.5

Thom Tillis - North Carolina -1

Tom Cotton - Arkansas +5

Joni Ernst - Iowa +2.1

David Perdue - Georgia +.4

Dan Sullivan - Alaska +2.2

(All polls via Real Clear Politics)

Originally, the plan was to contribute to the race in MI, where the Dem has a double digit lead. Therefore, my recommendation is to tag one of the above with a second contribution and put your money where it may do the most good.

(If you mark your contribution as "Ten Buck Friday", they'll see if the blogosphere can give them a little bump.)

Be sure to vote this coming Tuesday. Take a friend!

And visit our fellow Ten Buck Friday bloggers:

Adrienne's Corner · Diogenes' Middle Finger · Fishersville Mike · For God, Family, and Country · Laughing Conservative · Left Coast Rebel · Mind Numbed Robot · Polination · Political Clown Parade · Proof Positive · Texas Conservative News · Theo Spark · WyBlog · Twitter #TenBuckFriday

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Previously:
The return of Ten Buck Friday, Scott Brown for New Hampshire
The return of Ten Buck Friday, Colorado needs Cory Gardner in the U.S. Senate
The return of Ten Buck Friday, help Alaska stand with Dan Sullivan
The return of Ten Buck Friday, help Bill Cassidy dump Mary Landrieu
The return of Ten Buck Friday, support Thom Tillis for U.S. Senate
The return of Ten Buck Friday, support Tom Cotton for U.S. Senate
The return of Ten Buck Friday, support Joni Ernst for U.S. Senate
The Return of Ten Buck Friday (David Perdue)

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Thursday, 30 October 2014

Yay Obamacare, NJ businesses again see double-digit health insurance premium increases

Nineteen times Barack Obama promised to lower our health insurance premiums by as much as $2500 per year.

We're still waiting.

Small businesses continue to see double-digit increases in the cost of employee health care, according to a survey released by a major business group Thursday, which found 87 percent of those polled provide coverage.

The survey by New Jersey Business and Industry Association found that health-care costs rose by 24 percent in the last year for businesses that have between one and 24 employees, and by 16 percent for those with between 25 and 49 workers.

Employers on average paid $7,416 for employee coverage and $11,352 for parent-child coverage, the survey found. They paid $15,600 on average for husband-wife coverage and $19,116 for family coverage, according to the survey.

"Employers are paying more than ever for health benefits," said Christine Stearns, NJBIA's vice president for health and legal affairs. "Eighty-five percent of companies reported their health-care costs went up over last year."

Ayup, my day job is certainly going to pay more than ever for health benefits. A whopping 21 percent more next year, bringing the per employee cost to $8,652 and family coverage to $26,640 a year. I guess that means we're above average, probably in more ways than one.

Obamacare has been an unmitigated disaster for me and the folks I work with, no doubt about it. Yet there are still die-hard liberals who insist the law is "working." Delusion runs deep, it seems. Because there is no universe where these kind of annual premium increases are sustainable for a small business. Obamacare is going to break our backs. If anyone really believes that's good for America, please tell me why.

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Lenny Luciano is running for re-election? What has he done for us?

My sample ballot came in the mail yesterday. And lo and behold, Lenny Luciano (and his excellent driving skills) is running for re-election to the Board of Chosen Freeholders. Has it been 3 years already? Wow, let's Google him to see what he's accomplished.

Uh, maybe not. Because there's not one positive news story about him. His little brushed-under-the-rug late-night car vs tree episode is all that comes up. (Plus my "where's Lenny?" post on him being awol for a crucial George-Norcross-enriching vote.)

The guy's a big fat zero. So naturally he'll be re-elected, because he's a Democrat, and the sheeple in this county wouldn't vote for a Republican if his name was Jesus Christ.

Must be nice Lenny. Schoolteacher by day, no-show Freeholder by night. Two government jobs, two pensions accruing, zero accountability, and a guaranteed lifetime sinecure.

Your tax dollars at, uh, work folks.

Here's an idea. There's a guy named Richard Leonard running against Lenny. Mr. Leonard is running what can charitably be called a stealth campaign, he's so under the radar that I've never heard of him and I follow this stuff pretty carefully. But what the heck, he might inject some much needed fresh air into Joe DiVincenzo's rubber stamp Freeholder Board. He's a Realtor, so he's got some actual private sector experience to share. Let's take a chance, vote for Richard Leonard for Freeholder.

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Wednesday, 29 October 2014

Give us your tired, your poor, your Ebola-infected masses yearning to roam free

Do you have Ebola? The Obama Administration wants you to come for a visit!

The State Department has quietly made plans to bring Ebola-infected doctors and medical aides to the U.S. for treatment, according to an internal department document that argued the only way to get other countries to send medical teams to West Africa is to promise that the U.S. will be the world's medical backstop.

Some countries "are implicitly or explicitly waiting for medevac assurances" before they will agree to send their own medical teams to join U.S. and U.N. aid workers on the ground, the State Department argues in the undated four-page memo, which was reviewed by The Washington Times.

"The United States needs to show leadership and act as we are asking others to act by admitting certain non-citizens into the country for medical treatment for Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) during the Ebola crisis," says the four-page memo, which lists as its author Robert Sorenson, deputy director of the office of international health and biodefense.

Great. Just great. Bring 'em here, and let 'em pretend to self-quarantine.

The city's first Ebola patient initially lied to authorities about his travels around the city following his return from treating disease victims in Africa, law-enforcement sources said.

Dr. Craig Spencer at first told officials that he isolated himself in his Harlem apartment — and didn't admit he rode the subways, dined out and went bowling until cops looked at his MetroCard the sources said.

Hey, flouting the rules worked for NBC's Nancy Snyderman, right?. These doctors, they're smarter than us.

But the real Poster Girl for Quarantines-R-Us is libtard CDC nurse Kaci Hickox. She's a prima donna's prima donna who'll go wherever she damn well pleases and don't you dare tell her what to do.

Hickox's lawyer insisted Tuesday that she was not under quarantine and said she was seeking time to decompress at an undisclosed location in Maine. Steven Hyman of the New York law firm McLaughlin & Stern told the Bangor Daily News that Hickox will not comply with Maine's requirements to remain under quarantine for 21 days.

"She doesn't want to agree to continue to be confined to a residence beyond the two days," Hyman told the Daily news.

Hickox's other attorney, New York civil rights lawyer Norman Siegel, called Maine's quarantine "unconstitutional."

"The conditions that the state of Maine is now requiring Kaci to comply with are unconstitutional and illegal and there is no justification for the state of Maine to infringe on her liberty," Siegel explained to the Daily News.

Here's an idea. If she's gonna be out and about, why don't we give her the job of escorting all of Obama's newly imported Ebola-infected foreigners on their jaunts around town? We can't very well keep them locked up when his own people aren't taking this thing seriously, can we?

And not for nothing, but where is "Ebola Czar" Ron Klain? He's like the invisible man, nobody's seen the guy, ever. Here's a pro tip Ron. If Chris Christie is the Voice Of Reason, you're doing it wrong.

Then again, screwing up is the hallmark of this administration. If something is bad for America, you can bet your bottom dollar they're for it. Which is why they're so gung ho to bring Ebola patients to your town. Just like all those illegal alien kids with Enterovirus D68, who knows where these foreigners will end up. It's insane. And damned scary too.

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Monday, 27 October 2014

What Hillary meant to say: "If you like your job, you can keep your job"

Here comes the spin! Last week millionaire Democrat Hillary Clinton teamed up with populist uber-leftist millionaire Elizabeth "Fauxcahontas" Warren to deliver a zinger aimed at American businesses:

"Don't let anybody tell you that it's corporations and businesses that create jobs."

She's a Statist. Statists believe only the government can create jobs. (Or Vernon Jordan, if you count creating jobs for Bill's mistresses.)

We get it, we didn't build that.

But, after enduring a weekend of ridicule (except on the Big 3 networks of course) The Hilldabeest backtracked, and blamed her "misstatement" on an internet video.

"Trickle down economics has failed. I short-handed this point the other day, so let me be absolutely clear about what I've been saying for a couple of decades," she said. "Our economy grows when businesses and entrepreneurs create good-paying jobs here in America and workers and families are empowered to build from the bottom up and the middle out — not when we hand out tax breaks for corporations that outsource jobs or stash their profits overseas."

Yeah, I can see how that mouthful could be easily confused, tongue-twisted even, into "Don't let anybody tell you that it's corporations and businesses that create jobs."

Sure thing Hill. Because, at this point, what difference does it make? We know you're a godless commie. And you know that we know that you're a godless commie. So really, stop pretending. Tell us the truth, all the time. We can take it.

The real question is, can you?

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Sunday, 26 October 2014

A vote for Rodgers, Flack, and Vezza is a vote to let Dick Codey turn Caldwell into Orange

Watch out Caldwell. Lurking in the wings behind Democrats Frank Rodgers, Stephen Flack, and Susan Vezza is the specter of State Senator and erstwhile governor Dick Codey. He didn't move his funeral home business to our town just to sit on the sidelines, and if his track record is any indication, giving him the keys to Town Hall is guaranteed to put Caldwell on the road to perdition.

Codey started out in Orange, back when it was a nice, quiet, desirable place to live. But his policies, and the crooked Democrats he maneuvered into its local government, soon ruined a once great city. Parks, a bustling downtown, and bucolic residential streets became Section 8 tenements, abandoned storefronts, and crack houses. Crime escalated. Taxes soared. Politicians went to jail. And decent people fled.

Codey fled too, leaving behind the destruction wrought by his Democratic Party rule, and he set his sights on West Orange. Again, the inevitable downfall played out as taxes rose unchecked and gangs infiltrated the schools. Once a shopping mecca, Main Street from Orange to West Orange is now a blight of pawn shops, bail bonds, check cashing, tattoo parlors, and above all, strip clubs.

Is this really what we want for Caldwell? For our kids to walk past on their way home from school?

Because Dick Codey is here. And that's what he left behind after he "helped" Orange and West Orange. In fact, it's the legacy of decades of Democratic Party rule in every major city in America. Crime. Poverty. Decay. Despair.

We don't want that kind of "help.". But Codey is already lurking around town hall, because all he needs is one more Democrat in office and he's the new King of Caldwell. Then he puts his people in place, and the trifecta of depredation is complete. His candidates will tell you they won't let that happen here. But their Party's track record belies their good intentions.

Fortunately my friends, we have a choice! We can re-elect Mayor Ann Dassing. We can elect John Cascarano and Kris Brown to the town council. Together with Council President Rich Hauser and Councilmen Pat Capozzoli and Tom O'Donnell they'll ensure our town not only stays great, but gets better. The Dassing team's record of minimal tax increases coupled with responsible fiscal management speaks for itself.

Send Codey and the Democrats a clear message. Don't let Caldwell become another Orange. On November 4th, vote Dassing, Cascarano, and Brown.

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Friday, 24 October 2014

Coeur d'Alene relents, won't force Christian ministers to officiate same-sex "weddings"

Shine a light on tyranny, and tyranny slinks away.

The city of Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, said a for-profit wedding chapel owned by two ministers doesn't have to perform same-sex marriages.

The city has been embroiled in controversy ever since the owners of the Hitching Post sued the city. They say a city anti-discrimination law threatened to force them to marry same-sex couples now that gay marriage is legal in Idaho.

The story lit up conservative and gay-rights blogs. Wedding chapel owners Donald and Evelyn Knapp said they feared jail time or fines if they declined marriage services to a same-sex couple.

Initially, the city said its anti-discrimination law did apply to the Hitching Post, since it is a commercial business. Earlier this week, Coeur d'Alene city attorney Mike Gridley sent a letter to the Knapps' attorneys at the Alliance Defending Freedom saying the Hitching Post would have to become a not-for-profit to be exempt.

But Gridley said after further review, he determined the ordinance doesn't specify non-profit or for-profit.

"After we've looked at this some more, we have come to the conclusion they would be exempt from our ordinance because they are a religious corporation," Gridley explained.

Naturally, the LGBT folks reacted with tolerance and understanding. After all, everybody deserves to live freely as they see fit, right?

Just kidding, they went into full-tilt homofascist apoplexy. The vitriol spewed by the denizens of "equality" is breathtaking to behold.

Here's some choice remarks from the gang at a site called LGBTQ Nation.

"The Christian Taliban need to stop breathing through their mouths, their breath stinks."

"Not gonna lie, I'm very surprised at this. And while I still think it's BS that a government-realized, for-profit business is given a religious exemption, I'm just going to sit on ACLU's coattails and see where this goes. Hitching Post has put itself on the line. They are now a RELIGIOUS organization in public light. So the moment that they screw up and perform a non-religious business transaction, the ACLU and the Coeur d'Alene Attorney General will be on them in an instant."

"Come on down to The Bigot Post!"

Classy. But no better than the associates of a fellow who pretentiously calls himself Joe. My. God.

"As always, anyone who uses the words 'deeply held religious beliefs' needs to be punches in their fucking face."

"Fine. Assholes are assholes. Let's just move on, and be glad that ADF does not get its test case. May their Religious Business die a quick death due to lack of Religious clientele."

"So I guess the next time I go into a commercial business and discover it decorated in crosses with a prayer bench and its menu of services and/or products printed inside a Bible, I should realize I've entered the Twilight Zone, oh, my bad, I mean a 'religious corporation' that probably doesn't want my gay dollars, right? I dunno, folks, but at some point I think there's going to be a test IRS case or a lawsuit or both. You can legally stretch your deeply held effort to discriminate as a 'for profit' business only so much, if at all."

"Look at what is happening in Houston. The attorneys are drawing back the subpoenas, but teabagistan is still claiming persecution and will soon be having a huge hate rally there."

"If they want to play martyr, they should have kept it a business and suffered the slings and arrows of their homosexual overlords. Sounds like the Unruhs took the easiest possible way out. (I'm guessing they are tax-exempt now, too. Yippee!!)"

"Homosexual overlords" pretty much sums up what this is all about. Them, inposing their depravity on us. And making sure we can't earn a living without genuflecting to their tyranny.

The homofascists will be back. They're not going to stop until Cardinal Dolan is forced at gunpoint to don rainbow plumage for Adam and Steve's Big Gay Saint Patrick's Cathedral "wedding."

Watch out for their next move, a better "test case."

I spoke to Leo, the exec director of the Idaho ACLU. He is no happier than anyone else. They are constrained by the law, and I found them to be sincere and mournful over this.

We are going to work on bringing this to the courts, Idaho has several new laws working through the system that would bring this 'Hitching Post' issue back into focus.

When I spoke to them I was also very upset, but they were gracious and empathetic and they are not willing to accept this ...they just need the right legal framework, one where it is not just a fight against this couples' First Amendment rights.

Clearly the First Amendment means nothing to the homofascists. The "free exercise" of religion is anathema to their licentiousness, because it holds up a standard to which they cannot adhere. And so religious beliefs must be ridiculed, and ultimately eradicated, lest some hypothetical gay couple feel uncomfortable walking past a church.

The Hitching Post is hardly the only wedding venue in Coeur d'Alene, let alone the state of Idaho, or these United States of America. Homosexuals could ignore it, and go about their business freely and unobtrusively. Just imagine, the Knapps live in peace, and homosexuals exercise their misguided, but alas Constitutional right to "marry" surrounded by like-minded people who want their business. Everybody wins!

That's what I call "tolerance."

And, for one last thought, I'll say again what I always say when the homofascists start screaming about "discrimination." Pull your cater-to-me-or-else crap with a Muslim cleric or Islamic business. Let us know how that works out for you. That is, if you manage to leave with your head still attached.

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The return of Ten Buck Friday, Scott Brown for New Hampshire

Week eight of a Nine Week Mission, to Seek Out new life for the Senate, to Boldly send Harry Reid empty handed back to Searchlight!

Those of us who are paying attention have seen positive trends on the majority, if not all, of our Ten Buck Friday candidates. In the words of that noted political analyst, Han Solo: "Don't get cocky!"

Focusing on the Senate races is it worth ten bucks a week to you (a paperback book and a biscotti?) to eliminate Reid's control and give the Senate responsible leadership again?

With that in mind, this week we look to the Senate seat in New Hampshire. Can you contribute just $10 to Senate candidate Scott Brown?

Real Clear Politics has Brown down by 1.6 (up 3 points from a week ago) but rates the race as a toss up.

You can contribute to Scott Brown here. Good luck and Godspeed, Scott!

(If you mark your contribution as "Ten Buck Friday", they'll see if the blogosphere can give them a little bump.)

Be sure to visit our fellow Ten Buck Friday bloggers:

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Previously:
The return of Ten Buck Friday, Colorado needs Cory Gardner in the U.S. Senate
The return of Ten Buck Friday, help Alaska stand with Dan Sullivan
The return of Ten Buck Friday, help Bill Cassidy dump Mary Landrieu
The return of Ten Buck Friday, support Thom Tillis for U.S. Senate
The return of Ten Buck Friday, support Tom Cotton for U.S. Senate
The return of Ten Buck Friday, support Joni Ernst for U.S. Senate
The Return of Ten Buck Friday (David Perdue)

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Thursday, 23 October 2014

Richard Stockton State College wants to add an Atlantic City casino to their campus

Their students already enjoy the five-star amenities of Galloway Township's Seaview Resort. Now the ivory tower geniuses at Richard Stockton State College believe a shuttered Atlantic City casino is just the thing to round out their Leisure Studies department.

Richard Stockton College may buy one of the now shuttered Atlantic City casinos, according to a published report.

The Press of Atlantic City reports that Mayor Don Guardian said Wednesday at an economic forum that Stockton is interested in purchasing the former Atlantic Club or the Showboat.

A Stockton representative confirmed to the Press of Atlantic City that the college is interested but said, "There is nothing firm" at this point.

Stockton has 8,570 full - and - part-time undergraduate and graduate students, according to its website. Stockton is located in Galloway Township in Atlantic County, about 13 miles from Atlantic City.

So, after a long day on the links at Seaview, students can head to AC for some gambling, and maybe a show. All for the low, low price of $12,568 dollars per year.

Homework? Nah, they don't got no time for homework! Party on dudes!

Stockton is a state school, subsidized by our tax dollars. Meanwhile, our roads are crumbing and people are going hungry. But, yeah, let's buy a casino and really bring the Animal House experience to life!

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Wednesday, 22 October 2014

Religious liberty dies in California, churches are forced to pay for elective abortions

Feminism's holy sacrament of abortion will not be denied.

The California Department of Managed Health Care hath decreed that all employers, including churches, must pay for elective abortions in their health insurance plans.

A coalition of pro-life groups is challenging the mandate.

A campaign against the state of California mandating abortion coverage in insurance plans is intensifying. Several complaints have been filed with the federal government to keep it from violating what Christian legal groups consider American's fundamental rights and go against their religiously held beliefs and conscience.

The Department of Managed Health Care has ordered all employers, including churches and other religious organizations such as colleges and universities, to pay for elective abortions in their plans.

Alliance Defending Freedom and Life Legal Defense Foundation are representing seven California churches who object to the coverage, alleging the mandate violates federal law. One of the churches being represented is Dr. Jim Garlow's Skyline Church in San Diego, which does not want be forced into funding the practice of abortion through its health care coverage.

Casey Mattox, an attorney with the Christian legal group, Alliance Defending Freedom, argues that the Golden State has gone too far by trouncing the liberties that they hold dear.

"Forcing a church to be party to elective abortion is one of the most unimaginable assaults on our most fundamental American freedoms," Mattox asserts.

Mattox argues that there is no way California should be allowed to bypass federal law and end up getting away with forcing churches to fund a practice that the Bible specifically teaches against.

Christianity is under attack by a tyranny more insidious than anything George III could have dreamed of. Homofascists now demand church-sanctioned "weddings." HHS mandates coverage for contraceptives, abortifascients, and sterlizations. And here the State of California goes one better, requiring their 30 pieces of silver for infanticide.

Appealing to Obama's HHS is pointless. They're obviously delighted with California's regulations, and their only question is how to extend mandatory elective abortion coverage to all 57 states.

Religious liberty's only hope lies with the U.S. Supreme Court.

Alas, given SCOTUS' recent abominable 6-3 decision against Texas abortion law in Whole Woman's Health v Lakey, it appears that both Chief Justice Roberts and Justice Kennedy have gone over to the Dark Side. They're apparently reluctant to place any "undo burden" on a woman's "right" to murder her unborn child.

I can easily see them agreeing that paying for her own abortion is indeed an "undo burden."

America has lost her moral compass. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us.

UPDATE 22 Oct 2014 16:00:
According to this analysis, "the law" is on California's side.

First, the California abortion mandate is a law of general applicability. This means no violation of the First Amendment: Under U.S. Supreme Court precedent, religious freedom doesn't matter.

But Hobby Lobby! Nope. HL is a limited cased based on the Religious Freedom Restoration Act. The RFRA only applies to federal law, not state.

Since California could care less about religious freedom, we don't have an RFRA-type law.

But Obamacare forbids states from discriminating against policies that don't provide abortion coverage. True. Alliance Defending Freedom and Life Legal Defense Foundation are on the case.

Go get them, guys, but as the story says, good luck with that.

The Obama Administration is pro-abortion. More, it has amply demonstrated it won't enforce laws or regulations with which it disagrees. Thus, I would be very surprised if Obamacarians brought its fellow ideological travelers in California to heel.

So sue! Sure. But I have two words for you: "Ninth Circuit."

Bottom line: California has crossed the post-Christian bridge into the anti-Christian era.

The Obama Administration has too.

So have most courts, particularly the Ninth Circuit.

I don't expect these churches to find legal relief short of the Supreme Court. And that will take years.

Ugh.

So I say, "disobey." Refuse to offer abortion coverage.

Dare California to put ministers and priests in jail.

We are all martyrs for Christ. Let us be martyrs for the unborn too.

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Monday, 20 October 2014

Idaho city threatens to arrest Christian ministers who refuse to perform same-sex "weddings"

Houston's homofascist lesbian mayor has a kindred spirit in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. And that means yet another assault on religious liberty.

Two Christian ministers who own an Idaho wedding chapel were told they had to either perform same-sex weddings or face jail time and up to $1,000 in fines, according to a lawsuit filed Friday in federal court.

Alliance Defending Freedom is representing Donald and Evelyn Knapp, two ordained ministers who own the Hitching Post Wedding Chapel in Coeur d'Alene.

"Right now they are at risk of being prosecuted," attorney Jeremy Tedesco told me. "The threat of enforcement is more than just credible."

The wedding chapel is registered as a "religious corporation" limited to performing "one-man-one-woman marriages as defined by the Holy Bible."

However, the chapel is also a for-profit business and city officials said that means the owners must comply with the local nondiscrimination ordinance.

That ordinance, passed in 2013, prohibits discrimination based on sexual orientation and it applies to housing, employment and public accommodation.

City Attorney Warren Wilson told The Spokesman-Review in May that the Hitching Post Wedding Chapel likely would be required to follow the ordinance.

"I would think that the Hitching Post would probably be considered a place of public accommodation that would be subject to the ordinance," he said.

He also told television station KXLY that any wedding chapel that turns away a gay couple would in theory be a violation of the law "and you're looking at a potential misdemeanor citation."

Wilson confirmed to Knapp in a telephone conversation that even ordained ministers would be required to perform same-sex weddings, the lawsuit alleges.

"Wilson also responded that Mr. Knapp was not exempt from the ordinance because the Hitching Post was a business and not a church," the lawsuit states.

And if he refused to perform the ceremonies, Wilson reportedly told the minister that he could be fined up to $1,000 and serve up to 180 days in jail.

Remember when Liberty meant something?

Liberals love to harp on the "separation of church and state" when it suits their (often nefarious) purposes. No religion in the public square! Unless it's a Christian minister ordered at gunpoint to perform a same-sex "wedding." Then, party on dudes!

The state will compel you to sin. The state will compel you to celebrate sin.

And they'll subpoena your sermons if they think you're complaining about that.

This is not America. We were a nation founded by people seeking religious freedom, people who fled government oppression of their beliefs and rites. They came to these shores to be left alone, to be free from persecution.

Now the government they created to guarantee their freedom has become the oppressor, cloaking its thuggery in the guise of "equality." The homofascists use that word, but it does not mean what they think it means. This new tyranny is the antithesis of the Founders vision. And its goal is to ensure that every last vestige of religious liberty is eradicated, because homosexuals believe they are "more equal" than anyone else.

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Friday, 17 October 2014

The return of Ten Buck Friday, Colorado needs Cory Gardner in the U.S. Senate

Week seven of a Nine Week Mission, to Seek Out new life for the Senate, to Boldly shuttle Harry Reid back to irrelevance!

Focusing on the Senate races is it worth ten bucks a week to you (a six-pack and some beef jerky?) to eliminate Reid's control and give the Senate responsible leadership again?

With that in mind, this week we look to the Senate seat in Colorado. Can you contribute just $10 to Senate candidate Cory Gardner?

Real Clear Politics has Gardner up an average of 3.0 points over Obamabot Mark Udall, and rates the state as a toss up.

You can contribute to Cory Gardner here. Good luck and Godspeed, Cory!

(If you mark your contribution as "Ten Buck Friday", they'll see if the blogosphere can give them a little bump.)

Be sure to visit our fellow Ten Buck Friday bloggers:

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Previously:
The return of Ten Buck Friday, help Alaska stand with Dan Sullivan
The return of Ten Buck Friday, help Bill Cassidy dump Mary Landrieu
The return of Ten Buck Friday, support Thom Tillis for U.S. Senate
The return of Ten Buck Friday, support Tom Cotton for U.S. Senate
The return of Ten Buck Friday, support Joni Ernst for U.S. Senate
The Return of Ten Buck Friday (David Perdue)

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Thursday, 16 October 2014

To Democrats, asking "did you vote for Obama" is worse than "when did you stop beating your wife"

Barack Obama, he's like kryptonite to Democrats.

First it was Alison Lundergan Grimes in Kentucky, dodging her obvious Obama sycophancy at every turn.

Now Georgia's Michelle Nunn won't dare admit what we all know.

Another Democratic Senate candidate has refused to say whether she voted for President Obama: This time it was Michelle Nunn in Georgia.

The same question has tripped up other red-state Democrats on the campaign trail. On two occasions over the past week, Kentucky's Alison Lundergan Grimes has been panned for her refusal to answer the question, twice citing the "sanctity of the ballot box" as her reason for keeping mum.

Nunn was approached by a tracker who asked her if she voted for the president in 2008 or 2012. Nunn did not respond and kept walking towards the venue she was headed to. In the video captured, a member of her entourage faces the tracker and asks, "Would you leave her alone?"

And yesterday, Barack Obama did the unprecedented — he canceled a fund-raising trip to New Jersey — ostensibly to coordinate an Ebola response strategy with his Cabinet. The thing is, Obama has never canceled a fund-raiser before. Remember when he took off for Vegas to party with Beyonce while 4 Americans died in Benghazi? Nothing gets in the way of this guy having a good time. Nothing.

So I gotta wonder, did Cory Booker back-channel a not-so-subtle hint that he'd handle the fund-raiser on his own thanks-very-much and maybe Barry could stay in Washington and act presidential, because really, being photographed hanging out with him while people are dying does look rather awkward.

Yeah, I'd lay even money on that one. Jeff Bell is inching up on Senator Twitter, and now's not the time to remind voters that Cory's a 100% hard-core Obamabot.

Over on Long Island, the message isn't even subtle. Barack Obama is persona non grata.

Local Democrats are second-guessing President Obama's decision to roll into Long Island Thursday for his first fund-raiser there just three weeks before Election Day.

It's generally friendly territory, but Obama's appearance still has the potential to roil local races.

The event's overall goal has been slashed from $1 million to $500,000, said one Democratic source, who griped it was "not helpful" to local Democrats for Obama to show up now.

"It's sort of like a Columbus Day sale, several days later," said the source.

Two Democratic congressional candidates — Rep. Tim Bishop and Nassau DA Kathleen Rice — are skipping the event at the Garden City Hotel.

Sorry Dems, you own this turkey. His policies are on the ballot November 4th. And that means you're in for a rude awakening.

As of today, 10 Senate races are rated toss-ups by Real Clear Politics, where the ratings are based on poll averages. Of those 10 seats, seven are held by Democrats and three by Republicans, while each party holds 46 seats rated either "likely" or "leaning." If we rule out any unexpected meltdowns in one of those "likely/leaning" races, we see that the odds of a Republican takeover are roughly 2-to-1: The GOP must get to 51 seats to control a Senate majority; 46 seats are more or less locked up for them; and of the 10 "toss-ups," 70% are held by Democrats, who are more that twice as vulnerable of losing half of those 10.

Keep it up GOP. Ask every Democrat you meet, "did you vote for Obama?" Get it on tape. Hilarity, and a Senate majority, will ensue.

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Wednesday, 15 October 2014

What idiot thought it was a good idea to expose the president to Ebola?

Your president "shook hands with, hugged, and kissed Ebola nurses."

"I want to use myself as an example just so people have sense of the science here. I shook hands with, hugged and kissed, not the doctors, but a couple of the nurses at Emory because of the valiant work that they did in treating one of the patients."

You know, nurses like the two who are now sick and dying.

I can't believe anybody thought this was a good idea. Here you have one of the deadliest viruses in the world, and you have the president of the United States. Yeah, by all means, let's see if he can't get infected!

Because, um, science. All hail science! And let's hope that vaccine thing works out. Soon.

And for the record, I'm being sincere here. I wouldn't wish Ebola on my worst enemy. Or Barack Obama.

When I posted this link on Facebook, one of my friends replied, "If I had to guess, Joe Biden."

Well, yeah, that certainly meets the definition of "idiot."

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Tuesday, 14 October 2014

Sorry, you can't find out how much Obamacare will cost in 2015 until after the election

The Obamacare website is hiding 2015 premium increases until November 15th.

Because if you know what it'll cost, you won't vote to re-elect Democrats.

Those planning to purchase health insurance on the Obamacare exchange will soon find out how much rates have increased - after the Nov. 4 election.

Enrollment on the Healthcare.gov website begins Nov. 15, or 11 days after the midterm vote, and critics who worry about rising premium hikes in 2015 say that's no coincidence. Last year's inaugural enrollment period on the health-care exchange began Oct. 1.

"This is more than just a glitch," said Tim Phillips, president of free-market Americans for Prosperity, in a Friday statement. "The administration's decision to withhold the costs of this law until after Election Day is just more proof that Obamacare is a bad deal for Americans."

Robert Laszewski, president of Health Policy and Strategy Associates, said in a Monday column in USA Today that "when it comes to a lack of openness and transparency about Obamacare, this administration has no peer."

If the premiums were going down you can bet they'd be telling you. Loudly.

Even so, details about cost increases are trickling out in states with pivotal Senate contests: Alaska, Iowa and Louisiana. All three states are wrestling with double-digit premium hikes from some state insurance companies on the exchange.

The most dramatic increases are underway in Alaska, where the state insurance division has cleared double-digit rate hikes for two insurers, Premera Blue Cross and Moda Health. Premera's premiums will rise by 35 to 40 percent.

The Iowa insurance commissioner approved last week premium increases for three insurance carriers: Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield, CoOpportunity Health and Coventry Health. Two of those insurers will implement double-digit hikes ranging from 11.9 to 19 percent, the Des Moines Register reports.

The issue is also resonating in the Louisiana Senate race, where Democratic Sen. Mary Landrieu is seeking re-election against Republican Rep. Bill Cassidy. Documents filed with the Louisiana Department of Insurance show some insurers are anticipating double-digit rate hikes, according to the New Orleans Times-Picayune.

"Premiums have gone up by 53 percent for the average Louisiana policyholder and many of these policies will again see double-digit increases," Mr. Cassidy said. "It's unfair to Louisianans who have to balance their budgets and their businesses."

Obamacare, it's so great, you're forced to buy it. Sight unseen! With only half the time to sign up that they gave you last year. Because that clunky website is working now. Honest.

Hey, remember when Obama promised to cut your premium by $2,500 per year? Let me know how that's workin' out for you.

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Monday, 13 October 2014

Why is NJ road construction more costly than anywhere else? Uh, "utilities"

It costs $2 million dollars a mile to build roads in New Jersey. That's 8 times the national average, and almost 3 times more than Massachusetts, the next most costly state.

Why?

Uh, "utilities." Because no other state has those, or something.

The Reason Foundation says New Jersey spends just over $2 million per state-controlled mile on construction, maintenance and administration, triple the roughly $675,000 spent by the next-highest state, Massachusetts, and more than eight times the national average of $162,200. Its pavement conditions nevertheless rank poorly, too, with the state's only positive ranking being the nation's fifth-lowest fatality rate.

"It's just bad deals that have been made by politicians who get political donations from unions. Project labor agreements and prevailing wage artificially inflate the costs of road work," said Daryn Iwicki, state director for Americans for Prosperity. "New Jerseyans need answers as to why we do the things that we do here."

The reasons don't lie solely with the higher costs for union labor, said Sen. Paul Sarlo, D-Bergen, the chief operating officer for Joseph M. Sanzari Inc., a major North Jersey general construction company. The state's dense population, high costs for acquiring land and the expenses for relocating utilities are major factors, he said.

"That doesn't happen in many states, in open areas. When you open up a road, there's so many more utilities," Sarlo said. "Digging on a street in Union City is a lot different than digging on a street out in Sussex County. Let's be honest with one another."

Honest? Only NJ has utilities? C'mon, that's so ridiculous a reason I feel dumber for having read it. There are "utilities" everywhere, even in Wyoming. Honest.

If we were being honest with one another we'd acknowledge the union stranglehold on even the smallest project.

Sen. Gerald Cardinale, R-Bergen, says costs are pushed higher by requirements such as the state's prevailing wage law. That's been on the books for more than a century and sets standards, such as salaries, benefits and overtime, for public construction projects.

"What actually happens with prevailing wage is you get a number of work rules and other factors coming into the process which raise the cost," he said. "There are studies which have shown that those raise the cost about 40 percent. That's not a small amount of money, and that causes us to get less bang for our buck."

And, if we were being honest with one another we'd definitely mention the econut-inspired hoops all construction jobs have to jump through.

The Sierra Club sues every time somebody tries to fix up a doghouse. Their lawyers are first on the scene whenever a road is built, gumming up the works with inane injunctions on behalf of turtles, pigeons, or worms. Try to cut down a tree and they'll complain about the loss of termite habitat. Think about paving over part of a swamp and they're out there advocating for the mosquitoes.

All that litigation, and the paperwork required to overcome it, is what really drives up construction costs. For example, even after the state obtained all the necessary permits for raising the Bayonne Bridge, environmental activists sued to invalidate them.

Time is money, and nobody wastes our time quite like the econuts.

And of course, while they're standing around waiting for the latest set of redundant environmental studies to be approved, the all-union construction crew is earning top dollar day after non-productive day.

It's almost as if the unions and the environmentalists are in cahoots, along with the politicians they've bought and paid for, to drag out every project for as long as possible, because then everybody's fees can really ramp up. You really couldn't envision a more perfect confluence of corruption if you tried, and we all know that corruption and New Jersey are practically synonymous.

There, now we're being honest with one another.

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Saturday, 11 October 2014

NJ Senate candidate Jeff Bell calls out the Takers, cue the liberal outrage machine!

Jeff Bell reminded Democrats why they're the party of government dependency, and they really don't like it when they hear the truth. Because it's not as if they've elevated pandering to an art form or anything, right?

In an interview with the Asbury Park Press editorial board, Bell said the reason he trails Booker with women voters isn't because of his socially conservative views, but because of the "the rise in single women."

"Single mothers particularly are automatically Democratic because of the benefits," Bell said in the interview. "They need benefits to survive, and so that kind of weds them to the Democratic Party."

Bell went on to say that unmarried women without kids also tend to vote Democratic.

"If you take married women, they aren't that different from married men. So it's really a problem with the decline in marriage rates. The Democrats do benefit from that," he said.

Sandra Fluke, please call your office…

I mean really, how could anyone object to Bell's statement? Every Democrat since FDR has made it his mission in life to ensure the government handout gravy train is never derailed. LBJ's Great Society was explicitly created to keep Blacks voting Democrat "for the next 200 years."

You're just not supposed to mention that in polite company.

Hence, the Star-Ledger is outraged!

Which reminds us of Mitt Romney's 47 percent moment. Remember when he argued that people were not voting Democratic because they preferred where the party wanted to take this country, or rejected the Republican vision, but because they are paid off with benefits?

Bell's comment also fits the Republican attitude that it is single mothers -- not the men who fail to support them -- who are the problem in this country.

Whack that straw man! Single mothers aren't "the problem." Policies which keep single mothers dependent on the government, there's the problem.

Alas, to a liberal it's never been the Democratic Party's legacy of failing to solve society's ills (has anyone seen Camden lately?) That's always someone else's fault. Nor can they bring themselves to mention Booker's unremarkable record as mayor of Newark, where he spent most of his time enriching his cronies while the murder rate soared. Nope, the Real Problem is that Jeff Bell exposed the culture of dependency for what it is, bribery, and that makes him "anti-woman," as if he wouldn't promote economic policies that might actually result in women (and men) being better off.

Maybe they don't want a candidate who would only make their daily struggles more difficult. Harping on the gold standard, Bell's big issue, doesn't exactly strike a chord with women who can barely feed their families.

Sheesh. I'll grant you economics is hard (which is probably why all those guys at the Ledger went into journalism). But try to keep up. We're now in the sixth year of a presidency that has done nothing but make everyone's daily struggles more difficult. Obama is printing money like it's going out of style; more dollars chasing fewer goods means prices keep rising (have you heard what hamburger costs these days?); and with a regulatory climate that destroys good-paying jobs wages have remained stagnant.

Cory Booker wants to continue those policies. Because they include free birth control. Which, come to think of it isn't working, otherwise we'd have fewer single mothers.

We're now in the 51st year of the vaunted War on Poverty. Guess what? Poverty won. Einstein said the definition of insanity is to keep doing the same thing while expecting the result to be different. So I'll ask you, who's really going to help single mothers? The guy endorsing the same-old, same-old? Or the guy with new ideas?

Jeff Bell for U.S. Senate. Because Cory Booker (and the Star-Ledger) want to keep you poor and stupid.

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Friday, 10 October 2014

The return of Ten Buck Friday, help Alaska stand with Dan Sullivan

Week six of a Nine Week Mission, to Seek Out new life for the Senate, to Boldly Beam Harry Reid back to the planet he came from!

Focusing on the Senate races is it worth ten bucks a week to you (3 gallons of gas?) to eliminate Reid's control and give the Senate responsible leadership again?

With that in mind, this week we look to the Senate seat in Alaska. Can you contribute just $10 to Senate candidate Dan Sullivan?

Real Clear Politics has Sullivan up an average of 4.7 points over Obamabot Mark Begich, and rates the state as a toss up.

You can contribute to Dan Sullivan here. Good luck and Godspeed, Dan!

(If you mark your contribution as "Ten Buck Friday", they'll see if the blogosphere can give them a little bump.)

Be sure to visit our fellow Ten Buck Friday bloggers:

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Previously:
The return of Ten Buck Friday, help Bill Cassidy dump Mary Landrieu
The return of Ten Buck Friday, support Thom Tillis for U.S. Senate
The return of Ten Buck Friday, support Tom Cotton for U.S. Senate
The return of Ten Buck Friday, support Joni Ernst for U.S. Senate
The Return of Ten Buck Friday (David Perdue)

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Thursday, 09 October 2014

NJ Medical Board revokes late-term abortionist Steven Chase Brigham's license

It's good to know that some things are beyond the pale even for the ultra-liberals in New Jersey. Steven Chase Brigham fancied himself as a cross between notorious late-term abortionists George Tiller and Kermit Gosnell, and he has the dead babies in his freezer to prove it.

Yesterday his medical license was finally revoked.

The state's physician disciplinary board tonight revoked the license of Steven C. Brigham, a controversial doctor accused of skirting state rules by starting the process of late-term abortions with five women in his South Jersey office, and ordering them to drive to his Maryland clinic where the procedure was finished.

Finding several counts of gross negligence, deception and official misconduct against him, the state Board of Medical Examiners also ordered Brigham to pay $140,000 in penalties. At a future hearing, the board will decide how much of the state's court costs he will be ordered to pay; the tab is expected to exceed $500,000.

The board suspended Brigham's license in 2010 after the Attorney General's Office argued he used the two-state process to evade New Jersey's requirement that terminating pregnancies must take place in a hospital or licensed health care facility after 14 weeks. Brigham did not have hospital privileges at the time and is not an obstetrician or a gynecologist.

From his main office in Voorhees, Brigham inserted a device, Laminaria, to expand his patients' cervixes, and administered a shot of Digoxin to cause "fetal demise." At his instruction, his patients later drove to drive to a clinic in Elkton, Md. where the fetus would be surgically removed would by another doctor in consultation with Brigham.

Brigham was not licensed to practice medicine in Maryland, but his lawyer said he thought he was following Maryland law that allowed its doctors to consult with out-of-state physicians.

Totally on the up and up, right? Because his shill in Maryland was 87 years old and had never actually performed an abortion. No sane person would let these 2 clowns perform any other surgery, why let them kill babies? Oh, right, emanations of penumbras and stuff.

Brigham's attorney Joseph Gorrell described his client as a devoted physician who felt compelled to fill the void for late-term abortion services after George Tiller, a family doctor in Kansas, was shot to death in May 2009. Tiller had been the only physician east of Colorado willing to perform late-term abortions in the country.

What a humanitarian!

And if a poor immigrant woman happens to die in the process, hey, abortion is like a feminist sacrament or something and it can't be restricted no matter what.

So for more than 20 years Steven Chase Brigham botched abortion after abortion, and left a trail of misery in at least 8 states. Because that's Women's Health Care!

No one wants to admit it, but Brigham's operation is far from unique. It's the norm for how abortionists do business. They're cold-hearted killers, working in the shadows, because what they do is too hideous to be seen in the light of day. And sadly, far too many "pro-choice" Americans don't really want to know the gory details of their "choice" anyway. To them it's all hearts and flowers and rainbows and grrl power. Feminist dogma glosses over the very real and very dead baby whose life isn't considered worth remembering and besides who are we to intrude on a woman's right to not be inconvenienced by motherhood?

Yesterday the forces of darkness were dealt a blow. It's a small victory, but I'll take it. Meanwhile, pray for the innocent victims of abortion, 55 million souls, consigned to Purgatory through no fault of their own.

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Wednesday, 08 October 2014

More Americans than ever say Obamacare is harming them, and Obama is a failure too

Who you gonna believe, Obamabot propaganda, or your own lyin' eyes?

Over a quarter of Americans now say Obamacare has personally hurt them, according to a Gallup poll released Wednesday.

Twenty-seven percent of Americans say the health-care law has hurt them, up from 19 percent in May. The percentage saying Obamacare has helped still lags behind, up to 16 percent from 10 percent earlier this year.

Count me among the 27%. Obamacare is costing my family more money, for crappier coverage, with daily hassles over formerly routine stuff like prescription renewals. My doctor hates it too.

Apparently that's not a bug.

According to the Obama administration, however, this is what the public can expect when Obamacare is working as intended. The White House has repeatedly declared victory on Obamacare; the health-care law's new chief, Health and Human Services secretary Sylvia Burwell, is calling for the public to "move beyond the politics," she told The Washington Post this week.

If you like getting screwed, you can keep getting screwed…

As always, a majority of Americans oppose the health-care law on principle. Fifty-three percent of those polled disapprove of the health-care law, while just 41 percent approve.

You know ~~what~~ who else the public hates? Obama.

A clear majority of Americans describe President Obama's tenure as a "failure" according to a new poll released Monday.

The survey from IBD/TIPP indicates that 53 percent of adults in the United States now characterize Obama's presidency as a "failure," while 41 percent chalk it up as a success. Half of the people who live in states won by Obama see his tenure negatively, as do 59 percent of those aged 25-44 years old.

There's that "41 percent" figure again. Who are these deluded Obamabots?

Xbox-playing basement dwellers, and Lena Dunham fan-grrls!

Some of the key groups remain solid in their support of the president, though. More than three-quarters of voters aged 18-24 see Obama's presidency as a success, as do 54 percent of single women.

Hey, sooner or later the slackers are gonna have to find a job. And then, uh oh, the only jobs left are part-time.

Starting this year, the United States' working population will face three major employment disincentives resulting from the very benefits the Affordable Care Act (ACA) provides: (1) an explicit tax on full-time work, (2) an implicit tax on full-time work for those who are ineligible for the ACA's health insurance subsidies, and (3) an implicit tax that links the amount of available subsidies to workers' incomes.

A new study published by the Mercatus Center at George Mason University advances the understanding of how much these ACA taxes will reduce overall employment, and why. It concludes that the reduction will be nearly double that projected by previous analyses. Labor markets ultimately will reduce weekly employment per person by about 3 percent — translating to roughly 4 million fewer full-time-equivalent workers.

No wonder the Obots are so enamored with raising the minimum wage. It's all they'll ever earn, at whatever crummy job they manage to slither into. Hey, elections have consequences dontcha know, and not to put too fine a point on it, but you idiots voted for this shit.

You know, before it's too late, we should raise the voting age back to 21 and repeal the Nineteenth Amendment. Responsible government might ensue.

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Tuesday, 07 October 2014

In 1995 Jersey City Mayor's Chief of Staff said "all white people have a little Hitler in them"

Since he wants to be our next governor, I think it's only fair to point out that Steven Fulop hires the nicest people.

Jersey City Mayor Steve Fulop's chief of staff gave a speech at a Chicago college nearly 20 years ago in which he "repeatedly" used a homophobic slur, called the Pope the "anti-Christ" and said that "all white people have a little Hitler in them," according to a contemporaneous newspaper account.

Muhammed Akil, who was about 25 at the time, was speaking at Northwestern University at an African Mind Liberation Conference held by the school's black student alliance, according to copies of the Daily Northwestern obtained by The Jersey Journal.

A story in the student newspaper of South Illinois University says he gave a similar talk there in 1998.

The initial Daily Northwestern story about Akil's speech ran on Nov. 14, 1995, under the headline, "FMO speaker decries whites." FMO refers to For Members Only, the university's black student alliance.

According to the Daily Northwestern, Akil was speaking on the topic "Decoding White Supremacy: Reading Destructive Images." He slammed white representations of Jesus, calling them the "fa---t Jesus," the paper reported. He repeatedly called gay people "fa---ts" and blasted Abraham Lincoln as a "wolf in sheep's clothing," according to the paper.

He also told the crowd that "all white people have a little Hitler in them," the paper said.

Akil holds a powerful position at City Hall, where all the city's department heads report to him. He earns $120,544 annually, one of the highest salaries for a civilian city worker.

But of course none of that matters, because Mr. Akil is a Democrat, and Black, and Muslim. Only white guys can be racist; it says so in the textbook for Grievance Mongering 101.

Besides, Mayor Fulop claims Akil has "evolved." He has gay friends now!

Paula Deen, please call your office.

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Monday, 06 October 2014

SCOTUS affirms the homosexual war on Christianity, declines to hear any same-sex "marriage" cases

By choosing to Do Nothing today, the Supreme Court has escalated the homosexual war on religious freedom. The same-sex "marriage" juggernaut is now cleared to run roughshod over Christians nationwide.

Many if not most observers expected the Supreme Court to take at least one of the cases for which review was sought in which the issue of whether same-sex marriage bans were constitutional was squarely presented.

None of the Supreme Court's decisions in DOMA or the Prop. 8 litigation decided that issue.

But the Supreme Court did not take any of the cases, leaving in place Court of Appeals decisions that seem to clear the way for same-sex marriages in numerous states.

Like the man said, "if you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice."

Jonathan Adler writes that the Supreme Court might still take a case in the future, but I don't see how that is realistic considering how expansive the pending cases were in terms of geography. In the states for which review was sought there will be marriages undertaken, a complicating factor if the court were to rule in the future that same-sex marriage bans were not unconstitutional.

Which means that in at least 30 states now, refusal to embrace same-sex "marriage" on religious grounds is punishable as a matter of law. And it's only a matter of time before religious freedom is eradicated nationwide.

"You can practice your religion," they'll say. Except you can't earn a living while practicing it. That there is the antithesis of Freedom and a crime against Liberty. No Founding Father would have countenanced such a result.

Yet here we are, at the mercy of militant homosexuals, an intolerant minority if I ever saw one, dictating de facto fascism under the guise of "equality."

Wanna bet the polygamists aren't salivating right now, with the pederasts and incest-obsessed in tow? Licentiousness is all the rage, and if you cling to some outdated notion of morality it's you who has the problem because the law is no longer on your side.

You know what's coming. Catholic priests who refuse to perform same-sex ceremonies will be subject to fines and vilification, because the homofascists hate them even more than they resent the odd Christian baker, florist or photographer. Adam and Steve want to sashay down the aisle at Saint Patrick's Cathedral, and woe unto him who stands in their way.

Our First Amendment — "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion" — was intended to give equal stature to all religions. Alas in our now, ahem, "enlightened" age, up is down, right is wrong, left is right, and only approved religions that comply with the diktats of homosexuality are still permissable.

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Friday, 03 October 2014

The return of Ten Buck Friday, help Bill Cassidy dump Mary Landrieu

Week Five of a Nine Week Mission, to Seek new life for the Senate, to Boldly Throw Out clueless Harry Reid and his equally clueless supporters!

Focusing on the Senate races is it worth ten bucks a week to you (a matinee and a small box of popcorn?) to eliminate Reid's control and give the Senate responsible leadership again?

With that in mind, this week we look to the open Senate seat in LA. Can you contribute just $10 to Senate candidate Bill Cassidy in his race against Mary Landrieu (D-Washington, DC)?

Real Clear Politics has Cassidy up 1.3 points on the average, and rates the state as a toss up.

You can contribute to Bill Cassidy here. Good luck and Godspeed, Bill!

(If you mark your contribution as "Ten Buck Friday", they'll see if the blogosphere can give them a little bump.)

Be sure to visit our fellow Ten Buck Friday bloggers:

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Previously:
The return of Ten Buck Friday, support Thom Tillis for U.S. Senate
The return of Ten Buck Friday, support Tom Cotton for U.S. Senate
The return of Ten Buck Friday, support Joni Ernst for U.S. Senate
The Return of Ten Buck Friday (David Perdue)

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Thursday, 02 October 2014

State-run media circling the drain, MSNBC has lower ratings than reruns of "Shark Tank"

For the past 3 months reruns of "Shark Tank" beat out every show on MSNBC. Oh, and Fox News is still #1.

No one would say the summer of 2014 suffered any shortage of breaking news.

From the crisis in Ferguson, Mo., to the cultural impact of Robin Williams' and Joan Rivers' sudden deaths and all the way up to recent round-the-clock coverage of U.S. strikes on ISIS, cable news has been heavily occupied. The last three months have been so big, Fox News Channel just clocked its first quarter with the most-watched primetime across all of cable in more than a decade — even besting USA and ESPN.

The average 1.79 million viewers between 8 p.m. and 11 p.m., Monday through Friday, gave FNC its first quarter atop the dial since the Iraq War broke out in 2003.

CNN's gains from the comparable quarter last year were modest, but they were still gains. Its 186,000 adults 18-49 in primetime (8-11 p.m.) marked a 4 percent improvement and even outpaced MSNBC — now back in third place. MSNBC, still holding slight second-place edge in total viewers, was down 21 percent in the key demo compared to last year. Pulling just an average 150,000 adults 25-54 in primetime, it meant quarterly lows for Chris Hayes, Rachel Maddow and Lawrence O'Donnell in the key demo.

The wondrous anomaly of Shark Tank encores also continues. With the ABC reality competition in heavy off-net rotation on CBNBC, those repeats are outperforming much of cable news and ranking No. 14 in primetime where adults 25-54 are concerned — besting every telecast on MSNBC.

Can you guys hear me laughing? 'Cause I'm rolling here. The Obamunist preenings of Rachel Madcow & Co. draw fewer viewers than reruns of a show devoted to naked capitalism. That's gotta hurt.

Then, in a burst of schadenfreude synchronicity, we see that Pinch Sulzberger's Pravda is sacking another 100 reporters.

The New York Times Co. said Wednesday it plans to cut about 100 newsroom jobs through buyouts, and perhaps layoffs, to cut costs and shift more resources to digital news products.

The company, whose advertising revenue fell 4% year-over-year in the most recent quarter, will offer buyouts to employees at its editorial and business operations. If not enough employees take the offer, it will resort to layoffs.

"The job losses are necessary to control our costs and to allow us to continue to invest in the digital future of The New York Times, but we know that they will be painful both for the individuals affected and for their colleagues," said newspaper publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr. and company CEO Mark Thompson in a note to the staff.

Except, their "digital future" isn't looking too good either.

They also announced that the company will shut down NYT Opinion, a recently launched mobile app for opinion content, because it wasn't getting enough subscribers.

Folks aren't willing to pay for Obamunist claptrap emailed to them 24x7? Well sure, it's available for free on MSNBC, and we've already seen how well they're doing…

If only there was a news outlet that was successful, one the Times could emulate, and maybe cash in on millions of new subscribers. I wonder if Carlos Slim has Rupert Murdoch's phone number?

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Wednesday, 01 October 2014

Look out, Climate Change is causing a shift in the Earth's gravity, and Guam might tip over!

Rep. Hank Johnson, please call your office.

According to the European Space Agency, Climate Change is altering the Earth's gravitational field, which, if we're not careful, could quite possibly disrupt the balance of, well, everything.

Gravity — yes, gravity — is the latest victim of climate change in Antarctica. That's the stunning conclusion announced Friday by the European Space Agency.

"The loss of ice from West Antarctica between 2009 and 2012 caused a dip in the gravity field over the region," writes the ESA, whose GOCE satellite measured the change. Apparently, melting billions of tons of ice year after year has implications that would make even Isaac Newton blanch.

To be fair, the change in gravity is very small. It's not like you'll float off into outer space on your next vacation to the Antarctic Peninsula.

We've gotta watch out! And Do Something, Dammit!. Because even minute changes in gravity could be problematic for a small, precarious island like Guam.

In a discussion regarding a planned military buildup on the Pacific island, [Rep. Hank] Johnson [D-Ga.] expressed some concerns about the plans to Adm. Robert Willard, head of the U.S. Pacific fleet.

"My fear is that the whole island will become so overly populated that it will tip over and capsize," Johnson said. Willard paused and replied, "We don't anticipate that."

Who knew Climate Change could be so dangerous?

As for the melting sea ice, it's reappearing elsewhere, faster than it's been melting.

So Guam is probably safe. For now.

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