Why Isn't the Obama Administration Suing 'Sanctuary Cities'?

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The Justice Department is preparing a lawsuit against Arizona’s new immigration law, likely to be filed next week. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told a South American interviewer last week that the Obama administration opposes the law because “the federal government should be determining immigration policy.” The idea that the administration seeks to uphold federal sovereignty in matters pertaining to immigration is hard to swallow.

U.S. law prohibits public universities from providing in-state tuition rates for illegal immigrant students, yet ten states currently allow undocumented students to pay in-state tuition. Numerous “sanctuary cities” deliberately subvert federal immigration policy by preventing local law enforcement and other officials from inquiring as to the immigration status of residents. Some have gone even further by providing undocumented immigrants with local forms of identification.

President Obama immediately voiced opposition to the Arizona law, which enforces federal law at the state level, but has made no rhetorical or legal challenge to state laws that work against federal immigration policy. Such pro-illegal immigrant practices existed well before January 2009, but Obama did not campaign on the need to abolish them for the sake of restoring immigration policy to the federal domain. In fact, when asked in a presidential debate whether he would “allow [sanctuary] cities to ignore the federal law regarding the reporting of illegal immigrants,” he refused to condemn sanctuary cities, commenting only briefly on the need for “comprehensive immigration reform.”

The notion that immigration policy should be handled at the federal level is a legitimate one, but it is difficult for the Obama administration to oppose Arizona’s law on these grounds since it has not lifted a finger in opposition to state-level policies that favor illegal immigrants.

A different agenda is at work here...

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Europe spurns Obama's plea for more spending

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Obama has sought to use the upcoming meeting of the Group of 20 global finance ministers in Canada this weekend as a rallying cry for more fiscal stimulus. He argues that cutting government spending now risks undermining a fragile recovery in debt-soaked Western economies.

Since Obama issued his call to focus on growth, German Chancellor Angela Merkel called budget cuts "urgently necessary," and European Central Bank President Jean-Claude Trichet said stronger public finances are part of a "policy which we would call confidence-building."

In the most striking contrast, the United Kingdom on Tuesday unveiled a budget that will slash real spending in many government departments by 25% over four years...

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Data turns Keynes upside down

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U.K. takes a page out of Ronald Reagan's economic recovery book
Lord Keynes must be rolling in his grave as the U.K. takes a page out of Ronald Reagan's economic recovery book. An emergency budget has been introduced that leans mostly on spending cuts to reduce the deficit.

Bloomberg reports that economists see the spending cuts as spurring growth... [snip]

Memo to Obama...please read Mr. Reagan's speeches.

He said the same thing 20 years ago In fact, it worked so well that the media had to drop the term "Reaganomics." Although, it must be noted that President Reagan was an unabashed patriot who fervently believed in individual liberty and freedom as opposed to soft tyranny, dependency and the welfare state...

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Business leaders say Obama's economic policies stifle growth

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The chairman of the Business Roundtable, an association of top corporate executives that has been President Obama's closest ally in the business community, accused the president and Democratic lawmakers Tuesday of creating an "increasingly hostile environment for investment and job creation."

Ivan G. Seidenberg, chief executive of Verizon Communications, said that Democrats in Washington are pursuing tax increases, policy changes and regulatory actions that together threaten to dampen economic growth and "harm our ability . . . to grow private-sector jobs in the U.S."...

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White House Unveils Plan to Fight Homelessness

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The Obama administration released a strategy Tuesday to abolish homelessness among the most vulnerable citizens within a decade.

The White House unveiled "Opening Doors," a "Federal Strategic Plan to Prevent and End Homelessness," which combines the leadership resources of Congress, state and local officials...

[Right. And he's also said that he intends to replace oil for energy create a world without nukes.

Again and again the President of the United States says the most ludicrous , inane - impossible - things, and the professional media says nothing.

BTW: where're we getting the money for this gracious plan?]

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CBS Touts Grayson’s Push for Legally Mandated Paid Vacation, Looks to Europe for Guidance

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[Looks to imploding Europe for guidance. These folks ability to continue their delusions in the face of objective evidence to the contrary (Greece, Spain, Portugal, Italy - they're defaulting like domino's) is unbelievable. Worse, we've a political party in control continuing to accelerate us to the very same cliff... ]

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Spain's government increasingly isolated over labour reforms

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Spain's Prime Minister, Jose Luis Rodriquez Zapatero, looked increasingly isolated after crucial labour reforms only just won enough votes to pass through parliament. The measures, which will ease hiring and firing regulations seen as essential to lift Spain out of the recession, won preliminary approval only after Spain's opposition parties agreed to abstain in Tuesday's vote... [snip]

The labour market reforms, which will make it easier to dismiss workers and will simplify contracts, have angered Spain's main unions, who have called a general strike in September in protest...

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[We need not even know history {as consistent as it is}, but only admit what current events are proving yet again. We've been warned....]

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The Latest Thievery: Best Friends

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There's a great moment in the 1993 movie "Searching for Bobby Fischer." (Snip) Kingsley complains that her decision "just makes my job harder." "Then your job's harder," she responds. As the father of a 7-year-old myself, that scene comes to my mind all the time. Most recently, when I read a profoundly depressing story in the New York Times about how "some educators and other professionals who work with children" don't think kids should have best friends...

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Liberal Group Threatens Lawsuit Against McDonald's If It Doesn't Stop Giving Toys to Children

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The Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI), a liberal consumer advocacy organization, has announced it will sue McDonald’s unless the fast-food franchise stops using toys to market its “Happy Meals” to children.

“This morning, CSPI notified McDonald’s that we will file a lawsuit against the company unless it stops using toys to beguile young children,”

said Executive Director Michael F. Jacobson, Ph.D...

[Last I checked, parents decided when/where their children ate {and all other decisions on their behalf}.

There was a time, not too long ago, when such was considered Yankee marketing innovation. In our increasingly fascistic society it's now evidently criminal.]

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POLL: 72% of GOP Voters Say Republicans In Congress Out of Touch With Their Base

A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 72% of Republican voters continue to believe that GOP members of Congress have lost touch with the party base throughout the nation over the past several years. Twenty-one percent (21%) disagree and say they've done a good job representing Republican values.

This high level of skepticism among GOP voters is basically unchanged since just after Election Day 2008 and in surveys since then.

By contrast, 61% of Democratic voters think their representatives in Congress have done a good job of representing Democratic values over the past several years. Only 29% believe Democrats in Congress have lost touch with Democratic voters throughout the nation.

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A Good Night for Conservatives

So argues the Examiner's David Freddoso, who posted this recap:

• In Utah, Mike Lee narrowly won the GOP nomination for Senate after a campaign marked by acrimony and dirty tricks. Lee had the backing of conservative Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C.
• Rep. Bob Inglis, R-S.C., who had sought compromise legislation on global warming and voted to censure fellow South Carolina Rep. Joe Wilson, R-S.C., was defeated by prosecutor Trey Gowdy.
• Tim Scott, R, who was backed by the Club for Growth, crushed the son of the late Sen. Strom Thurmond in last night’s runoff to get the GOP nomination in the state’s coastal first district. He stands to become the first black Republican in Congress since 2002.
• Jeff Duncan, R, another Club for Growth candidate, won the runoff and the nomination in the third district that had been vacated by Rep. Gresham Barrett, R.
• Barrett, meanwhile, lost his primary for governor against state Rep. Nikki Haley, R, who, like all the other winners mentioned above, is now a prohibitive favorite for the fall.

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Why Won't Obama Waive the Jones Act?

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Five years ago, in the midst of another crisis in the Gulf of Mexico, the Bush administration waived the Jones Act, easing the way for foreign vessels to move in U.S. waters and between ports. The decision came with the administration under duress for its handling of Hurricane Katrina. Today the Obama administration faces a different set of challenges with the Gulf oil spill cleanup. But unlike his predecessor, President Obama has declined to suspend the law, even temporarily. Obama's decision has turned into a public relations headache for an administration already reeling from its oversight of the oil spill, yet still he refuses to lift it...

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Most Experts Consulted by Obama Administration on Offshore Drilling Were Not Informed of Moratorium--And Now Oppose It

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TSA Union to Distribute Leaflets at Airport

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Informational pickets from the union representing security screeners at Indianapolis International Airport are expected today to begin passing out leaflets outside the passenger terminal. The union that has limited rights to represent the 40,000 employees nationwide of the Transportation Security Administration is trying to win full recognition for collective bargaining. And the union is calling on Congress to confirm former Hoosier and FBI Deputy Director John Pistole as the next top administrator of the TSA.

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GOP SPONSOR may withdraw support for campaign finance bill

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Rep. Mike Castle (Del.), one of just two Republican sponsors of a sweeping campaign finance bill, is so upset about late changes to the measure he is considering withdrawing his support and voting against it.

“The exemptions are getting bigger and bigger. I don’t think they are even done yet.”

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Flashback: Media Promoted Military Criticism of President Bush

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During Bush's tenure, active duty generals that spoke out against administration policy were portrayed as courageous whistleblowers. Retired generals were treated as ever-wise sages of military policy. None were scrutinized as McChrystal, pictured right, has been in the hours since Rolling Stone released its article.

The most prominent active duty general to earn the media's affection was Gen. Eric Shinseki, current Secretary of Veterans Affairs (to the media's delight). He insisted in 2003 that, contrary to Defense Department policy as iterated by Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, the United States would need to send "hundreds of thousands" of troops to Iraq during the initial invasion. The media ate it up...

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Most In Military Will Say McChrystal 'Was Right'

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Contessa Brewer got a lot more than she was likely looking for when she interviewed Col. Jack Jacobs [ret.] this afternoon about the McChrystal situation. The MSNBC host wanted to focus on the impropriety of McChrystal publicly airing his criticisms of Pres. Obama and others in the chain of command.

But the Medal of Honor recipient went out of his way—twice—to add an inconvenient truth: that when it comes to the substance of the criticism, most in the military think McChrystal "was right"...

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Pakistani PM ignores US warning on Iran gas deal

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Islamabad - Defying a warning from Washington, Pakistan's prime minister promised Tuesday to go ahead with a plan to import natural gas from Iran even if the U.S. levies additional sanctions against the Mideast country...

[They're siding with one of many 'strong horses' emerging in the power vacuum created by Obama's conveyed weakness.]

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