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<title><![CDATA[ The Quiet Place  by Sarah Stewart]]></title>
<link>http://ilovechildrensbooks.wordpress.com/2013/06/18/the-quiet-place-by-sarah-stewart/</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jun 2013 05:13:20 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Nettie</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[A young girl immigrates from Mexico to America in the 1950&#8242;s.  Her transition&#8211;sometimes]]></description>
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<p>A young girl immigrates from Mexico to America in the 1950&#8242;s.  Her transition&#8211;sometimes difficult, sometimes wonderful&#8211;is told through letters back home to her beloved Aunt Lupita.  Beautifully told and drawn by husband/wife team Small and Stewart.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Senate kills amendments to toughen border security, visa oversight in immigration reform bill | WashingtonExaminer.com]]></title>
<link>http://wwlee4411.com/2013/06/19/senate-kills-amendments-to-toughen-border-security-visa-oversight-in-immigration-reform-bill-washingtonexaminer-com/</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jun 2013 04:44:33 +0000</pubDate>
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<p>They don&#8217;t want secure borders.  They want as many possible future <a class="zem_slink" title="Democratic Party (United States)" href="http://www.democrats.org/" target="_blank" rel="homepage">Democrats</a> as possible so they can subvert the Constitution and run the country the way they want.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[The Old America is Gone]]></title>
<link>http://aretheykidding.wordpress.com/2013/06/19/the-old-america-is-gone/</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jun 2013 04:22:39 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>aretheykidding</dc:creator>
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<p>I got this in my email this evening &#8212; and he states his thoughts and the current state of our union very well&#8230;.</p>
<p>This provocative article by a Jewish Rabbi from Teaneck, N.J. is far and away the <span style="text-decoration:underline;">most succinct and thoughtful explanation of how our nation is changing</span>. The article appeared in The Israel National News, and is directed to Jewish readership. 70% of American Jews vote as Democrats. The Rabbi has some interesting comments in that regard.<br />
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<b>Rabbi Steven Pruzansky is the spiritual leader of Congregation Bnai Yeshurun in Teaneck, New Jersey</b></p>
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<p>&#8220;The most charitable way of explaining the election results of 2012 is that Americans voted for the status quo &#8211; for the incumbent President and for a divided Congress. They must enjoy gridlock, partisanship, incompetence, economic stagnation and avoidance of responsibility. And fewer people voted.</p>
<p>But as we awake from the nightmare, it is important to eschew the facile explanations for the Romney defeat that will prevail among the chattering classes. Romney did not lose because of the effects of Hurricane Sandy that devastated this area, nor did he lose because he ran a poor campaign, nor did he lose because the Republicans could have chosen better candidates, nor did he lose because Obama benefited from a slight uptick in the economy due to the business cycle.</p>
<p>Romney lost because he didn&#8217;t get enough votes to win.</p>
<p>That might seem obvious, but not for the obvious reasons. Romney lost because the conservative virtues &#8211; the traditional American virtues – of liberty, hard work, free enterprise, private initiative and aspirations to moral greatness &#8211; no longer inspire or animate a majority of the electorate.</p>
<p>The simplest reason why Romney lost was because it is impossible to compete against free stuff.</p>
<p>Every businessman knows this; that is why the &#8220;loss leader&#8221; or the giveaway is such a powerful marketing tool. Obama&#8217;s America is one in which free stuff is given away: the adults among the 47,000,000 on food stamps clearly recognized for whom they should vote, and so they did, by the tens of millions; those who &#8211; courtesy of Obama &#8211; receive two full years of unemployment benefits (which, of course, both disincentives looking for work and also motivates people to work off the books while collecting their windfall) surely know for whom to vote. The lure of free stuff is irresistible.</p>
<p>The defining moment of the whole campaign was the revelation of the secretly-recorded video in which Romney acknowledged the difficulty of winning an election in which &#8220;47% of the people&#8221; start off against him because they pay no taxes and just receive money &#8211; &#8220;free stuff&#8221; &#8211; from the government.</p>
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<div>Almost half of the population has no skin in the game - they don&#8217;t care about high taxes, promoting business, or creating jobs, nor do they care that the money for their free stuff is being borrowed from their children<br />
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<div>They just want the free stuff that comes their way at someone else&#8217;s expense. In the end, that 47% leaves very little margin for error for any Republican, and does not bode well for the future.It is impossible to imagine a conservative candidate winning against such overwhelming odds. People do vote their pocketbooks. In essence, the people vote for a Congress who will not raise their taxes, and for a President who will give them free stuff, never mind who has to pay for it.</p>
<p>That engenders the second reason why Romney lost: the inescapable conclusion that the electorate is ignorant and uninformed. Indeed, it does not pay to be an informed voter, because most other voters &#8211; the clear majority – are unintelligent and easily swayed by emotion and raw populism. That is the indelicate way of saying that too many people vote with their hearts and not their heads. That is why Obama did not have to produce a second term agenda, or even defend his first-term record. He needed only to portray Mitt Romney as a rapacious capitalist who throws elderly women over a cliff, when he is not just snatching away their cancer medication, while starving the poor and cutting taxes for the rich.</p>
<p>During his 1956 presidential campaign, a woman called out to Adlai Stevenson: &#8220;Senator, you have the vote of every thinking person!&#8221; Stevenson called back: &#8220;That&#8217;s not enough, madam, we need a majority!&#8221;<br />
Truer words were never spoken.</p>
<p>Obama could get away with saying that &#8220;Romney wants the rich to play by a different set of rules&#8221; &#8211; without ever defining what those different rules were; with saying that the &#8220;rich should pay their fair share&#8221; &#8211; without ever defining what a &#8220;fair share&#8221; is; with saying that Romney wants the poor, elderly and sick to &#8220;fend for themselves&#8221; &#8211; without even acknowledging that all these government programs are going bankrupt, their current insolvency only papered over by deficit spending.</p>
<p>Similarly, Obama (or his surrogates) could hint to blacks that a Romney victory would lead them back into chains and proclaim to women that their abortions and birth control would be taken away. He could appeal to Hispanics that Romney would have them all arrested and shipped to Mexico and unabashedly state that he will not enforce the current immigration laws. He could espouse the furtherance of the incestuous relationship between governments and unions &#8211; in which politicians ply the unions with public money, in exchange for which the unions provide the politicians with votes, in exchange for which the politicians provide more money and the unions provide more votes, etc., even though the money is gone.</p>
<p>Obama also knows that the electorate has changed - that whites will soon be a minority in America (they&#8217;re already a minority in California) and that the new immigrants to the US are primarily from the Third World and do not share the traditional American values that attracted immigrants in the 19th and 20th centuries. It is a different world, and a different America. Obama is part of that different America, knows it, and knows how to tap into it. That is why he won.</p>
<p>Obama also proved again that negative advertising works, invective sells, and harsh personal attacks succeed. That Romney never engaged in such diatribes points to his essential goodness as a person; his &#8220;negative ads&#8221; were simple facts, never personal abuse &#8211; facts about high unemployment, lower take-home pay, a loss of American power and prestige abroad, a lack of leadership, etc. As a politician, though, Romney failed because he did not embrace the devil&#8217;s bargain of making unsustainable promises.</p>
<p>It turned out that it was not possible for Romney and Ryan &#8211; people of substance, depth and ideas &#8211; to compete with the shallow populism and platitudes of their opponents. Obama mastered the politics of envy – of class warfare &#8211; never reaching out to Americans as such but to individual groups, and cobbling together a winning majority from these minority groups. If an Obama could not be defeated &#8211; with his record and his vision of America , in which free stuff seduces voters &#8211; it is hard to envision any change in the future.</p>
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<div>The road to Hillary Clinton in 2016 and to a European-socialist economy &#8211; those very economies that are collapsing today in Europe &#8211; is paved.For Jews, mostly assimilated anyway and staunch Democrats, the results demonstrate again that liberalism is their Torah. Almost 70% voted for a president widely perceived by Israelis and most committed Jews as hostile to Israel. They voted to secure Obama&#8217;s future at America&#8217;s expense and at Israel&#8217;s expense &#8211; in effect, preferring Obama to Netanyahu by a wide margin.</p>
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<div>A dangerous time is ahead. Under present circumstances, it is inconceivable that the US will take any aggressive action against Iran and will more likely thwart any Israeli initiative. The US will preach the importance of negotiations up until the production of the first Iranian nuclear weapon &#8211; and then state that the world must learn to live with this new reality.But this election should be a wake-up call to Jews. There is no permanent empire, nor is there an enduring haven for Jews anywhere in the exile. The American empire began to decline in 2007, and the deterioration has been exacerbated in the last five years. This election only hastens that decline. Society is permeated with sloth, greed, envy and materialistic excess. It has lost its moorings and its moral foundations. The takers outnumber the givers, and that will only increase in years to come.</p>
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<div>The &#8220;Occupy&#8221; riots across this country in the last two years were mere dress rehearsals for what lies ahead &#8211; years of unrest sparked by the increasing discontent of the unsuccessful who want to seize the fruits and the bounty of the successful, and do not appreciate the slow pace of redistribution.If this election proves one thing, it is that the Old America is gone. And, sad for the world, it is not coming back.&#8221;</p>
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<p><b><i>The problems we face today are there because <span style="text-decoration:underline;">the people who work for a living are outnumbered by those who vote for a living.</span></i></b></p>
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<title><![CDATA[Amnesty? Guaranteed. Border Security? NOT SO MUCH]]></title>
<link>http://commonsensepost.com/2013/06/19/amnesty-guaranteed-border-security-not-so-much/</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jun 2013 04:15:23 +0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Mainstream News Media Pushes Senate Immigration Bill, CBO: It would help economy]]></title>
<link>http://unaffiliatedparty.org/2013/06/18/cbo-senate-immigration-bill-would-help-economy-yahoo-news/</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jun 2013 04:02:50 +0000</pubDate>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>The mainstream news media is out in full force pushing a recently released CBO report as great news proving that the Senate&#8217;s immigration reform would be great news for our economy. Go ahead check ABC, CBS, and NBC news to catch the spin, even the White House is joining in. What they fail to stress is the following finding of the report&#8230; <strong>&#8220;CBO said average wages would decline through 2025 as a result of the bill, and that unemployment would go up slightly.&#8221;!!!! </strong></em></p>
<p><em>OUR REAL UNEMPLOYMENT RATE is already horrible, college graduates are struggling to find jobs after shelling out for an education, and of course more workers, especially lower skilled, will only serve to lower the wages of actual law abiding Americans. Have you noticed how the news media sellouts are all brushing this finding aside so they can skew the news in their favor? How difficult is this too understand? Check out an AP report below to see what I&#8217;m talking about.</em></p>
<p>WASHINGTON (Associated Press) — Sweeping immigration legislation moving toward a vote in the Senate would boost the economy and reduce federal deficits, the Congressional Budget Office said Tuesday, at the same time it would bestow legal status on an estimated 8 million immigrants living in the United States unlawfully. In an assessment that drew cheers from the White House and other backers of the bill, Congress&#8217; scorekeeping agency said the measure would reduce federal red ink by $197 billion across a decade, and $700 billion in the following 10 years as increased taxes paid to the government offset the cost of government benefits for newly legal residents.</p>
<p>The White House quickly issued a statement saying the report was &#8220;more proof that bipartisan commonsense immigration reform will be good for economic growth and deficit reduction.&#8221;</p>
<p id="yui_3_8_1_24_1371611831207_255">&#8230; Not all the forecast was as favorable, though. CBO said average wages would decline through 2025 as a result of the bill, and that unemployment would go up slightly.</p>
<p>One critic quickly seized on the impact on pay. &#8220;It&#8217;s going to raise unemployment and push down wages,&#8221; Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., said of the bill. He added: &#8220;The impact will be harshest for today&#8217;s low-income Americans. Meanwhile, the 21 million Americans who can&#8217;t find full-time work will have an ever harder time getting a job and supporting their families.&#8221;</p>
<p>Read the Rest @ <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/cbo-senate-immigration-bill-help-economy-010711853.html">CBO: Senate Immigration bill would help economy &#8211; Yahoo! News</a>.</p>
<p>Related Articles @<a title="Read related article" href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/jun/18/cbo-immigration-bill-saves-197-billion/" target="_blank">CBO: Immigration bill only stops 25 percent of illegal immigration</a><br />
<a title="Read related article" href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2013/06/18/immigration-cost-estimate-deficit/2435647/" target="_blank">Illegal immigration Reduction Only 25%</a><br />
<a title="Read related article" href="http://www.cbo.gov/sites/default/files/cbofiles/attachments/s744.pdf" target="_blank">Read the CBO&#8217;s report here</a></p>
<p><em>Finally, The CBO fails to realize one thing about those expected increased tax revenues. Since when does our government not find a way to simply spend those new tax revenues? As if that newly legalized population won&#8217;t require increased entitlement spending. Not only that, but the CBO&#8217;s report also states, &#8220;In particular, the budgetary effects of S. 744 would depend significantly on: the number of people who would choose to work and the income they would earn; the number of additional residents would be eligible for federal benefit programs and the rates at which they would take up benefits; and other factors.&#8221; </p>
<p>Finally, as far as the CBO&#8217;s accuracy on estimating costs goes, remember it&#8217;s Affordable Care Act estimates?&#8230; <a title="Read related article" href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/theapothecary/2012/07/27/cbo-obamacare-will-spend-more-tax-more-and-reduce-the-deficit-less-than-we-previously-thought/" target="_blank">LINK<br />
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<title><![CDATA[MALKIN: The amnesty mob vs. America]]></title>
<link>http://rare.us/story/malkin-the-amnesty-mob-vs-america/</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jun 2013 04:01:17 +0000</pubDate>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You can try to put &#8220;conservative&#8221; lipstick on the lawless amnesty mob. In the end, however, it&#8217;s still a lawless mob. The big government/big business alliance to protect illegal immigration got a lot of mileage using foolish Republicans Marco Rubio and Paul Ryan as front men. But the true colors of the open-borders grievance-mongers always show through.</p>
<p>After America said no to a pork-filled security-undermining amnesty bill in 2007, the No Illegal Alien Left Behind lobbyists changed their overtly thuggish tactics. They put down their upside-down American flags, stopped wearing their commie Che Guevara T-shirts and cloaked their radical &#8220;Aztlan&#8221; aspirations in the less divisive rhetoric of &#8220;reform&#8221; and &#8220;opportunity.&#8221;</p>
<p>It was all just an act, of course. Inevitably, the mask has slipped. Over the weekend, illegal alien protesters descended on the private residence of Kansas Secretary of State and immigration enforcement lawyer Kris Kobach. As Twitchy.com reported on Saturday, 300 amnesty activists marched into Kobach&#8217;s neighborhood and barged up his driveway and right onto his doorstep. It&#8217;s how the Alinskyite &#8220;community organizers&#8221; roll.</p>
<p>Shouting into a bullhorn and waving their fists from his front porch, the property rights-invaders dubbed Kobach &#8220;King of Hate&#8221; for his work representing border security activists and federal customs enforcement agents who are fighting the systemic sabotage of immigration law. Thankfully, Kobach, his wife and their four young daughters were not home at the time.</p>
<p>But the aggrieved amnesty demanders are not done yet. And Kobach is not the only one in their crosshairs.</p>
<p>After tea party activist turned Kansas state representative Amanda Grosserode condemned the mob action publicly on Facebook, racist insults and threats littered her page. Roberto Medina Ramirez wrote: &#8220;I&#8217;ll give her something to be disgusted about!&#8221; Doris Lynn Crouse Gent chimed in: &#8220;OMG! Maybe her drive should be next.&#8221; Matt S. Bashaw echoed the call: &#8220;Maybe her house should be next.&#8221; Facebook user Jude Robinson also ranted on Grosserode&#8217;s page: &#8220;Since Kobach steals taxpayer money spreading hate around the country, he deserves what he gets.&#8221;</p>
<p>Dennis Paul Romero left this message for Grosserode: &#8220;(N)azi kkk and she is proud of it.&#8221; A user writing as &#8220;Paul-says Fckmarkzuck&#8221; left death threats under Romero&#8217;s comment: &#8220;Gotta start killing all the Nazis. Politicans (sic), bankers, and priests. Cops, lawyers, and Judges. ASAP.&#8221; The same user added: &#8220;Just another b*tch that needs to die off already.&#8221;</p>
<p>The radicals of Occupy Kansas posted an inflammatory photo of Grosserode with the race-baiting caption: &#8220;Kansas State legislator Amanda Grosserode says she is &#8216;disgusted&#8217; by Hispanic protesters.&#8221; Grosserode wasn&#8217;t disgusted by their ethnicity. She was disgusted by their actions. No matter. Race/ethnic card: activated.</p>
<p>Gina Long pounced: &#8220;(S)he is stupid and doesn&#8217;t like brown people.&#8221; So did Diana Bauer: &#8220;Ah, poor Ms Grosserode; sorry that you find our Constitution so difficult to stomach. Or is it only whites that have the right to freedom of speech.&#8221; One Lupe Ramirez left his own message for Grosserode: &#8220;We are starting our fundraising and campaign to unseat you. Do you not realize how many Hispanics are in Kansas. You no longer live in Dorothy&#8217;s Kansas. You cannot represent your state, you don&#8217;t even know who they are.&#8221;</p>
<p>Grosserode isn&#8217;t backing down. She told me Tuesday that she will remain &#8220;vigilant&#8221; and has given local law enforcement a heads-up. The conservative mom and lawmaker notes sadly that &#8220;there are some who would say that when you are in elected office that you should expect this kind of thing. I would disagree. No one deserves threats nor threats to their home and family.&#8221;</p>
<p>But the amnesty vigilantes have no respect for borders, let alone private front porches, in their quest for another massive federal illegal alien bailout. They have no respect for law-abiding U.S. workers. They have no respect for law-abiding foreigners applying to get into our country the right and proper way.</p>
<p>As they besiege Capitol Hill this month demanding more rights and payoffs, take note: These groups do not stand for the American dream. They are a nightmare conglomeration of George Soros-funded social justice operatives, transnationalists and La Raza militants who detest U.S. sovereignty. National People&#8217;s Action, which spearheads progressive &#8220;direct actions&#8221; at the private homes of their political foes and led the march on Kobach&#8217;s home, is a &#8220;community organizing&#8221; nonprofit based in &#8212; you guessed it &#8212; Chicago.</p>
<p>NPA&#8217;s past shakedowns have involved busing in protesters and schoolchildren (using public school buses) to invade the private property of their victims and intimidate their families. They relish their brass knuckles with this anthem:<br />
Who&#8217;s on your hit list NPA?<br />
Who&#8217;s on your hit list for today?<br />
Take no prisoner, take no names.<br />
Kick &#8216;em in the (a&#8211;) when they play their games.</p>
<p>As I first reported in 2004, NPA is funded by the Tides Foundation, the Ben and Jerry&#8217;s Foundation, and the MacArthur, Ford and Rockefeller foundations. It&#8217;s also funded by your tax dollars. My research found that the Department of Housing and Urban Development, the Environmental Protection Agency and the Massachusetts Department of Education had all given tens of thousands of dollars in grants to NPA members for left-wing activism, identity politics and illegal-alien benefits.</p>
<p>Rubio, Ryan and other Republicans who&#8217;ve made common cause with these welfare-state goons have betrayed fundamental principles of limited government and the rule of law. They&#8217;ve allied themselves with the mob. There&#8217;s nothing, not one thing, &#8220;conservative&#8221; about mass illegal alien amnesty. It&#8217;s the complete Chicago-ization of America.</p>
<p><em>Michelle Malkin is the author of &#8220;Culture of Corruption: Obama and his Team of Tax Cheats, Crooks and Cronies&#8221; (Regnery 2010). Her e-mail address is malkinblog@gmail.com.</em></p>
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<title><![CDATA[Mark Levin vs. Paul Ryan On Immigration Reform]]></title>
<link>http://thedailyblogreport.wordpress.com/2013/06/19/mark-levin-vs-paul-ryan-on-immigration-reform/</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jun 2013 03:11:29 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>thedailyblogreport</dc:creator>
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<p>According to The Right Scoop news service, Mark Levin goes head-to-head with Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wisconsin), a supporter of the current immigration reform proposal.</p>
<p>RealClearPolitics Video Log</p>
<p>Read more about:  <br /><a href='http://currentpoliticaltrends.com/2013/06/18/commentary/mark-levin-vs-paul-ryan-on-immigration-reform/'>Mark Levin vs. Paul Ryan On Immigration Reform</a></p>
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<title><![CDATA[Toxic shock: California allows up to one thousand times more glyphosate in drinking water than needed to cause breast cancer in women]]></title>
<link>http://whitebuck.wordpress.com/2013/06/18/toxic-shock-california-allows-up-to-one-thousand-times-more-glyphosate-in-drinking-water-than-needed-to-cause-breast-cancer-in-women/</link>
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<description><![CDATA[Not only has glyphosate (herbicide for GMOs) been found to promote breast cancer cell proliferation]]></description>
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<p>Here&#8217;s the startling truth, with documented proof, of California&#8217;s campaign to make excuses for Monsanto while allowing its own population to be poisoned via the drinking water:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.naturalnews.com/040808_glyphosate_breast_cancer_drinking_water.html">Toxic shock: California allows up to one thousand times more glyphosate in drinking water than needed to cause breast cancer in women</a>.</p>
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<link>http://andrewoneill79.wordpress.com/2013/06/19/httpwww-elegran-comedge201306could-immigration-reform-bolster-new-york-citys-real-estate-market/</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jun 2013 02:29:14 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>andrewoneill79</dc:creator>
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<p>Immigration reform</p>
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<title><![CDATA[US pork producer Smithfield Foods to be sold to China for $4.72 billion - and this is just the beginning]]></title>
<link>http://whitebuck.wordpress.com/2013/06/18/us-pork-producer-smithfield-foods-to-be-sold-to-china-for-4-72-billion-and-this-is-just-the-beginning/</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jun 2013 02:27:45 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>whitebuck</dc:creator>
<guid>http://whitebuck.wordpress.com/2013/06/18/us-pork-producer-smithfield-foods-to-be-sold-to-china-for-4-72-billion-and-this-is-just-the-beginning/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[The largest pork producer in the U.S. is being sold to China. Now most of your pork will be raised o]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The largest pork producer in the U.S. is being sold to China. Now most of your pork will be raised on China-produced GMO feed materials laced with heavy metals. Yum!</p>
<p><a href="http://www.naturalnews.com/040805_China_Smithfield_Foods_food_safety.html">US pork producer Smithfield Foods to be sold to China for $4.72 billion &#8211; and this is just the beginning</a>.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Senate rejects border fence]]></title>
<link>http://rare.us/story/senate-rejects-border-fence/</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jun 2013 01:35:39 +0000</pubDate>
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<guid>http://rare.us/story/senate-rejects-border-fence/</guid>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Senate rejected an amendment to the immigration bill on Friday that would have required the completion of 700 miles of border fencing before illegal immigrants could be granted citizenship.</p>
<p>In a 53 to 39 vote, the Senate voted against the amendment proposed by South Dakota Republican Sen. John Thune.</p>
<p>The amount of border security in the comprehensive immigration reform bill penned by the bipartisan Gang of Eight has been an issue for a number of Republicans on both the House and Senate side.</p>
<div id="pmad-in2">Republicans are working to craft proposals that would increase the amount of border security required to allow for a pathway to citizenship for illegal immigrants.</div>
<p>In a statement after the vote, Thune said building the fence would have been a “tangible demonstration that Congress and this administration are serious about border security.”</p>
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<link>http://aladdinandthelamp.wordpress.com/2013/06/19/ankara-embassy-interview/</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jun 2013 01:30:12 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>aladdinandthelamp</dc:creator>
<guid>http://aladdinandthelamp.wordpress.com/2013/06/19/ankara-embassy-interview/</guid>
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<title><![CDATA[A Fact-Based Immigration Discussion]]></title>
<link>http://unaffiliatedparty.org/2013/06/18/a-fact-based-immigration-discussion/</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jun 2013 01:26:47 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Mr. Blacksheep</dc:creator>
<guid>http://unaffiliatedparty.org/2013/06/18/a-fact-based-immigration-discussion/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[By Thomas Sowell One of the many sad signs of our times is the way current immigration issues are di]]></description>
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<p>One of the many sad signs of our times is the way current immigration issues are discussed. A hundred years ago, immigration controversies were discussed in the context of innumerable facts about particular immigrant groups. Many of those facts were published in a huge, multi-volume 1911 study by a commission headed by Senator William P. Dillingham.</p>
<p>That and other studies of the time presented hard data on such things as which groups’ children were doing well in school and which were not, which groups had high crime rates or high rates of alcoholism, and which groups were over-represented among people living on the dole.</p>
<p>&#8230; Nevertheless, many of our current discussions of immigration issues focus on immigrants in general, as if they were abstract people in an abstract world. But the concrete differences among immigrants from different countries affect whether their coming here is good or bad for the American people.</p>
<p>&#8230; “Comprehensive immigration reform” means doing everything all together in a rush, without time to look before we leap, and basing our policies on abstract notions about abstract people.</p>
<p>Read the Rest @ <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/article/350034/fact-based-immigration-discussion-thomas-sowell">A Fact-Based Immigration Discussion &#124; National Review Online</a>.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Boehner Seeks To Reassure House GOP On Immigration]]></title>
<link>http://wtgcdfy.wordpress.com/2013/06/19/boehner-seeks-to-reassure-house-gop-on-immigration/</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jun 2013 01:25:09 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>wtgcdfy</dc:creator>
<guid>http://wtgcdfy.wordpress.com/2013/06/19/boehner-seeks-to-reassure-house-gop-on-immigration/</guid>
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<p>House Speaker John Boehner.<br />
 Susan Walsh/AP</p>
<p>Faced with the threat of mutiny for what seems like the umpteenth time during his speakership, John Boehner moved to mollify fellow Republicans Tuesday, saying immigration legislation&#8230;<br />
Read More&#8230; <a href="http://wp.me/p3xh6T-exv" rel="nofollow">http://wp.me/p3xh6T-exv</a></p>
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<link>http://rajivthind.wordpress.com/2013/06/19/racial-pride-and-racism/</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jun 2013 01:09:04 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Rajiv</dc:creator>
<guid>http://rajivthind.wordpress.com/2013/06/19/racial-pride-and-racism/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[** Before we begin, here&#8217;s a picture of human race in the Garden of Eden&#8230;. ** Note: I ha]]></description>
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<p><strong>Before we begin, here&#8217;s a picture of human race in the Garden of Eden&#8230;.</strong></p>
<p>**</p>
<p><a href="http://rajivthind.files.wordpress.com/2013/06/adam-n-eve.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image" id="i-622" alt="Image" src="http://rajivthind.files.wordpress.com/2013/06/adam-n-eve.jpg?w=190" /></a></p>
<p><strong>Note</strong>: I had that picture saved from 2006-7. Please let me know if you can find the website where this picture appears for proper attribution.</p>
<p>**</p>
<p><strong>Introduction: </strong>It is June and the middle of winter in Christchurch, New Zealand. Today it is cold, dark and rainy which is a very good day for thoughtful reflection in a warm library. Despite some free time on my hand I am overwhemlmed with Blogging ideas. I already have a post in draft on Philip Roth&#8217;s Portnoy&#8217;s Complaint, and another one on Internet Hyperconnectivity.</p>
<p>But having read and commented on <a href="http://redclayandroses1.wordpress.com/2013/06/18/i-am-not-a-black-woman-one-white-womans-perspective-on-the-progress-we-have-made-regarding-racism-and-seeing-color/#comments"><strong>a delightful post by S.k. Nicholls</strong></a>, I feel obliged to post my published letter on the issue of race. The occasion of this letter was Christchurch&#8217;s annual <strong>White Pride</strong> rally. However, it isn&#8217;t just <strong>&#8220;I am proud of my White Race&#8221;</strong> rally but their message also goes on to imply, <strong>&#8220;And, by the way, Your Shitty non-White Race sucks and threatens my White Race.&#8221;</strong></p>
<p>I find lots of ironies in modern RACISM. Due to political correctness&#8211;because it is fashionable and <strong>politically advantageous</strong> to speak out against <strong>generic</strong> &#8220;Racism&#8221;&#8211; we only hear about WHITE AGAINST COLORED PEOPLE RACISM. But in the modern world racism and xenophobia are far more complex than this <strong>generic</strong> kind.</p>
<p>I find it ironical that probably most of modern racism is <strong>Intraracial Racism</strong>, that is, &#8220;colored&#8221; people hating other &#8220;colored&#8221; people, and &#8220;white&#8221; people hating other  &#8220;white&#8221; people. But here I give you my letter that questions the very idea of generic race and racism</p>
<p>**</p>
<div id="hd"><strong>RACIAL PRIDE </strong></div>
<div>1 April 2013 (The Christchurch Press)</div>
<div>© 2013 Fairfax New Zealand Limited. All Rights Reserved.</div>
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<div>*</div>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">I was amused by the storm in a tea cup caused by our local Right Wing Resistance (RWR) group&#8217;s rally plans. I don&#8217;t see anything wrong about being proud of one&#8217;s skin colour &#8211; black, brown, white, tanned, pale or freckled as it might be. Although the very idea of a single &#8220;white&#8221; or &#8220;European&#8221; race has always been contentious.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">When first Europeans &#8211; whose skin pigmentation ranged from ultra-pale northerners to quite swarthy Mediterraneans &#8211; began emigrating to North America some of them had their European or white race questioned. The Irish, the Italians and the Poles were considered people of inferior racial make-up by the white Anglo-Saxon Protestant establishment.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Such inter-white racism continues to this day and other vicious categories such as &#8221;white trash&#8221; and &#8221;trailer trash&#8221; have been created by other whites to assert their superiority.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Furthermore, I myself generally adhere to the center and right of center end of political spectrum. For RWR to say that right and white are two sides of the same coin is simply incorrect. Besides, this white equals right assertion could leave many whites livid and outraged who staunchly lean leftward and don&#8217;t have a single right bone in their being.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">I suggest that in order to avoid confusion, first, RWR should elaborate as to what they consider to be &#8221;white&#8221; or &#8221;European&#8221; race. Second, they should change their proud organisation&#8217;s name to White Right Wing Resistance or WRWR. As they say, call spade a spade.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph"><strong>RAJIV THIND</strong></p>
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<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jun 2013 00:43:48 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[&#8220;My theory is that everything went to hell with Prohibition, because it was a law nobody could]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;My theory is that everything went to hell with Prohibition, because it was a law nobody could obey. So the whole concept of the rule of law was corrupted at that moment. Then came Vietnam, and marijuana, which clearly shouldn’t be illegal, but is. If you go to jail for ten years in Texas when you light up a joint, who are you? You’re a lawbreaker. It’s just like Prohibition was. When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society.&#8221;<br />
- Orson Welles</p>
<p>Illegal because:</p>
<p>1: Hemp was the number one crop to make plastic with and the petrochemical industry took over.<br />
2: The yellow journalism that the media mogul William Randolph Hearst pushed. He had a personal stake in seeing that paper be made from trees and not hemp.<br />
3: Harry j anslinger and the pre curser to the DEA.<br />
4: The prison industrial complex</p>
<p>NO LOGICALLY JUSTIFIABLE REASON!<a href="http://whitebuck.files.wordpress.com/2013/06/hemp-140_n.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-2458" alt="Hemp - 140_n" src="http://whitebuck.files.wordpress.com/2013/06/hemp-140_n.jpg?w=500&#038;h=338" width="500" height="338" /></a></p>
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<link>http://whitebuck.wordpress.com/2013/06/18/over-20-seals-who-killed-osama-bin-laden-now-dead-secrets-of-the-fed/</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jun 2013 00:33:56 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>whitebuck</dc:creator>
<guid>http://whitebuck.wordpress.com/2013/06/18/over-20-seals-who-killed-osama-bin-laden-now-dead-secrets-of-the-fed/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Ruthie Jen: This should read: OVER 20 SEALS WHO NEVER KILLED OSAMA BIN LADEN AS THE STORY WAS MADE U]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ruthie Jen: This should read: OVER 20 SEALS WHO NEVER KILLED OSAMA BIN LADEN AS THE STORY WAS MADE UP NOW DEAD! Reposting now with correct new title!</p>
<p><a href="http://www.secretsofthefed.com/over-20-seals-who-killed-osama-bin-laden-now-dead/">Over 20 SEALs Who “Killed Osama Bin Laden” Now Dead – Secrets of the Fed</a>.</p>
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<link>http://whitebuck.wordpress.com/2013/06/18/u-s-food-stamps-in-puerto-rico-costing-you-2-billion-dollars-off-the-grid-news/</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jun 2013 00:32:32 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>whitebuck</dc:creator>
<guid>http://whitebuck.wordpress.com/2013/06/18/u-s-food-stamps-in-puerto-rico-costing-you-2-billion-dollars-off-the-grid-news/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Inconceivable, Shocking and Another Of The Many, Criminally Traitorous Acts Committed By Our Governm]]></description>
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<p><a href="http://www.offthegridnews.com/2013/06/17/us-food-stamps-in-puerto-rico-costing-you-2-billion-dollars/?fb_source=pubv1">U.S. Food Stamps In Puerto Rico Costing You 2 Billion Dollars &#124; Off The Grid News</a>.</p>
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<link>http://whitebuck.wordpress.com/2013/06/18/more-than-half-of-senators-ditch-classified-nsa-intel-briefing-to-head-home/</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jun 2013 00:30:35 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>whitebuck</dc:creator>
<guid>http://whitebuck.wordpress.com/2013/06/18/more-than-half-of-senators-ditch-classified-nsa-intel-briefing-to-head-home/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[More Than Half of Senators Ditch Classified NSA Intel Briefing to Head Home Less than half (47) of U]]></description>
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<p style="margin-top:10px;">More Than Half of Senators Ditch Classified NSA Intel Briefing to Head Home</p>
<p>Less than half (47) of US Senators attended a classified briefing on Thursday afternoon, instead choosing to head home for the weekend. The briefing was with &#8220;with James Clapper, the Director of National Intelligence, Keith Alexander, the head of the National Security Agency (NSA), and other officials.&#8221;</p>
<p>Wow.</p>
<p>The list who did not attend the Senate briefing has not been made public.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.breitbart.com/InstaBlog/2013/06/16/More-Than-Half-of-Senators-Ditch-Classified-NSA-Intel-Breifing-to-Head-Home">More Than Half of Senators Ditch Classified NSA Intel Briefing to Head Home</a>.</p>
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<link>http://brightnewsday.com/2013/06/19/immigration-bill-could-cut-deficits-by-175-billion-cbo/</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jun 2013 00:23:01 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>brightnewsday</dc:creator>
<guid>http://brightnewsday.com/2013/06/19/immigration-bill-could-cut-deficits-by-175-billion-cbo/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[A bipartisan Senate bill that would create a path to legal status for many of the 11.5 million undoc]]></description>
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<link>http://thebsbblog.wordpress.com/2013/06/19/whats-the-holdup-on-immigration-reform/</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jun 2013 00:15:23 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Blood, Sweat and Berries</dc:creator>
<guid>http://thebsbblog.wordpress.com/2013/06/19/whats-the-holdup-on-immigration-reform/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Last Tuesday, the United States Senate voted “overwhelmingly” to begin a debate on the overhaul of c]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Last Tuesday, the United States Senate voted “overwhelmingly” to begin a <a title="Obama Backs Bill to Overhaul Immigration as Debate Is Set &#124; NY Times" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/12/us/politics/with-senate-set-to-vote-obama-makes-immigration-pitch.html?pagewanted=all&#38;_r=0" target="_blank">debate</a> on the overhaul of current immigration policy. I love how a word like “overwhelmingly” can be used to describe a vote simply to <i>allow</i> a bill to be debated. So that’s great. Overwhelming bipartisan support to allow a discussion to begin. But where exactly does that leave us in regards to new immigration policy?</p>
<p>Nowhere.</p>
<p>The Senate is just now beginning what will be a month-long debate on the issue—with any eventual success there simply being the first step before sending the bill to the House. But the positive is that there <i>is</i> support to at least debate the bill. The majority of policymakers agree that the current system is broken. The difference, as always, comes down to how to fix it. An outline of the current proposal can be found <a title="Details of the Senate immigration bill &#124; Boston.com" href="http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/2013/06/12/details-the-senate-immigration-bill/5YYSzKefRFIfiB8ud4e8RN/story.html" target="_blank">here</a>.</p>
<p><a title="Senators aim to unveil immigration bill Tuesday &#124; Yahoo! News" href="http://news.yahoo.com/senate-immigration-plan-creates-complex-road-citizenship-003217897.html" target="_blank"><img class="size-full wp-image-174 aligncenter" alt="immigrationreform" src="http://thebsbblog.files.wordpress.com/2013/06/immigrationreform.jpg?w=450&#038;h=299" width="450" height="299" /></a></p>
<p>On the Republican side, concern is that the bill won’t provide strong enough border security. More left-leaning groups like the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) claim that the current border setup already threatens civil and human rights, and that further bolstering it would only exacerbate the issues.</p>
<p>The second significant debate point is the issue over what government benefits are accorded to illegal immigrants. The new bill would allow for a path to citizenship for even illegal immigrants, albeit an arduous one. A large majority of applicants would be facing a process of at least ten years. Under the current provisions, these immigrants would be classed as “registered provisional immigrants” upon payment of a fine and a successful application. This classification would allow them to travel and work in the United States, while still being ineligible for most government benefits. Only then, after ten years in provisional status, could immigrants seek a green card and the right to permanent residency.</p>
<p>Even when things seem black and white, there’s always grey area. Or rather, one side sees it white, one black. But regardless of where the extremes fall and what may eventually arise as a compromise bill, the fact is that the discussion has begun. And where people are talking, we can hope one day for a resolution.</p>
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<p><em>-David</em></p>
<p><em>David Wilson graduated from the University of Texas in 2006. Since then he has gone wherever the wind blows him, living in Europe, China, and the States, and traveling extensively throughout the rest of the world. When he’s not on the move, you can find him obsessing over latte art, playing piano, or trying to bleach his hair in the sunshine. Follow him on <a title="David Wilson &#124; Twitter" href="https://twitter.com/daveyssuitcase" target="_blank">Twitter</a>.</em></p>
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<link>http://thedailyblogreport.wordpress.com/2013/06/19/cbo-immigration-reform-will-reduce-deficit/</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jun 2013 00:11:31 +0000</pubDate>
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<guid>http://thedailyblogreport.wordpress.com/2013/06/19/cbo-immigration-reform-will-reduce-deficit/</guid>
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<p>The Congressional Budget Office said Tuesday that the Senate Gang of Eight’s immigration bill will significantly reduce the federal budget deficit in its first two decades if it becomes law.<br />
In the first ten years, the immigration bill would reduce the federal deficit by $  175 billion,&#8230;<br />
Read more about:  <br /><a href='http://currentpoliticaltrends.com/2013/06/18/congress/cbo-immigration-reform-will-reduce-deficit/'>CBO: Immigration reform will reduce deficit</a></p>
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<title><![CDATA[VIDEO  Boehner hears 70 House GOP Says NO to Immigration Bill Without House GOP Support]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Boehner calls Senate&#8217;s current immigration plan &#8216;laughable June 17, 2013 by Matthew Boyl]]></description>
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<strong>Boehner calls Senate&#8217;s current immigration plan &#8216;laughable</strong><br />
June 17, 2013 by Matthew Boyle</p>
<p><em><strong>House Speaker John Boehner put to rest rumors that he may break what is informally called the “Hastert Rule,” an unwritten guideline that a majority of the majority party should be needed to bring a bill to the House floor, in order to pass a version of amnesty like the “Gang of Eight” bill currently moving through the Senate.</strong><br />
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A source with direct knowledge of these matters told Breitbart News that Boehner has decided to abide by the Hastert Rule in regards to immigration reform. “No immigration bill will be brought to the floor for a vote without a majority of the Republican conference in support,” the source told Breitbart News on Monday.</p>
<p>Around Washington, conservatives have worried that Boehner may back down from conservative principles on immigration and support the Gang of Eight bill. They fear he may rush the bill to the floor if the Senate passes it and try to move it through the House with a majority of Democratic votes. </p>
<p>Even though those rumors continue to fly, signs now indicate that Boehner will not break the Hastert Rule and will only bring a bill to the floor with the support of the majority of Republicans.</p>
<p>Reports from Ryan Lizza at The New Yorker and David Drucker at the Washington Examiner appear to support the idea that Boehner will not break with Republicans. It did take Rep. Steve King (R-IA) banding together more than 50 of his colleagues to call for a special GOP conference meeting on the topic, at which they expressed their dissatisfaction with the Senate bill and their hope that Boehner will stick to the Hastert Rule. </p>
<p>In addition to King’s efforts, conservative groups have circulated letters around Washington calling on the conference to formally codify the Hastert Rule into the House GOP conference rules so that it must be followed, instead of just being a guideline.</p>
<p><em>COMMENT:<br />
I would say the 70 House Republicans would stood up together had an affect on this announcement. Let&#8217;s KEEP UP THE PRESSURE!</em><br />
<a href="http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/06/17/Boehner-No-immigration-bill-without-support-of-majority-of-House-Republicans" rel="nofollow">http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/06/17/Boehner-No-immigration-bill-without-support-of-majority-of-House-Republicans</a><br />
<em>Watch Video at the link below:</em><br />
<a href="http://video.foxnews.com/v/2487934981001/boehner-calls-senates-current-immigration-plan-laughable/?playlist_id=1621774019001" rel="nofollow">http://video.foxnews.com/v/2487934981001/boehner-calls-senates-current-immigration-plan-laughable/?playlist_id=1621774019001</a><br />
<em>Related previous post on this blog:</em><br />
<a href="http://reclaimourrepublic.wordpress.com/2013/06/15/video-courage-70-house-republicans-push-back-against-immigration-bill-gop-reps-break-down-trojan-horse/" rel="nofollow">http://reclaimourrepublic.wordpress.com/2013/06/15/video-courage-70-house-republicans-push-back-against-immigration-bill-gop-reps-break-down-trojan-horse/</a></p>
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<title><![CDATA[VIDEO "Free at Last": La. State Senator Explains Why He Recently Left the ‘Government Plantation’ &amp; Joined GOP]]></title>
<link>http://reclaimourrepublic.wordpress.com/2013/06/19/video-free-at-last-la-state-senator-explains-why-he-recently-left-the-government-plantation-joined-gop/</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jun 2013 00:08:46 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Jun. 18, 2013 by Jason Howerton Louisiana State Sen. Elbert Guillory,(R-Opelousas),formerly a Democr]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Jun. 18, 2013 by  Jason Howerton</p>
<p><em><strong>Louisiana State Sen. Elbert Guillory,(R-Opelousas),formerly a Democrat, recently — and enthusiastically — joined the Republican party.</p>
<p>Weeks after announcing his bold move, Guillory has released a video explaining why he is now with the GOP. The powerful video is titled, “Why I Am a Republican.”<br />
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<p>Senator Elbert Guillory explains why he recently switched from the Democrat Party to the Republican Party. He discusses the history of the Republican Party, founded as an Abolitionist Movement in 1854. Guillory talks about how the welfare state is only a mechanism for politicians to control the black community.</p>
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<p>In the video, Guillory says it is the Republican Party that actually has the best interests of the black community in mind. He argues Democrats relentlessly push an agenda intended to exert control over blacks, not lift them out of poverty.</p>
<p>“You see, in recent history, the Democrat party has created the illusion that their agenda and their policies are what’s best for black people,” Guillory said. “Somehow it has been forgotten that the Republican party was founded in 1854 as an abolitionist movement, with one simple creed: that slavery is a violation of the rights of man.”</p>
<p>The former Democrat explained that Frederick Douglass called Republicans the “party of freedom and progress.” He also pointed out that former Republican President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation and Republicans in Congress wrote the Thirteenth, Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments.</p>
<p>“The Democrats, on the other hand, were the party of Jim Crow,” Guillory added. “It was the Democrats who defended the rights of slave owners.”</p>
<p>He went on: “You see, at the heart of liberalism, is the idea that only a great and powerful big Government can be the benefactor of social justice for all Americans. But the left is only concerned with one thing: control. And they disguise this control as charity.”</p>
<p>Guillory claimed entitlement programs like welfare and food stamps were never designed to “lift black Americans out of poverty,” but rather to control them.</p>
<p>Further, the welfare programs haven’t even helped blacks at all as they are still “as poor as they’ve ever been,” he argued.</p>
<p>“But most importantly, it is the idea that the individual must be free to pursue his or her own happiness, free from Government dependence, and free from Government control. Because to be truly free, is to be reliant on no one, other than the author of our destiny,” Guillory continued, pointing to God. “These are the ideas are at the core of Republican party… My brothers and sisters of the American community, please join me in abandoning the Government plantation and the party of disappointment.”</p>
<p>“So that we may all echo of one Republican leader who famously said, <strong>‘Free at last, free at last. Thank God almighty, we are free at last,”</strong> he concluded.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/06/18/la-state-senator-explains-why-he-abandoned-party-of-disappointment-and-joined-gop-in-powerful-video/" rel="nofollow">http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/06/18/la-state-senator-explains-why-he-abandoned-party-of-disappointment-and-joined-gop-in-powerful-video/</a><br />
<em>Related previous post on this blog:</em><br />
<a href="http://reclaimourrepublic.wordpress.com/2013/06/03/louisiana-state-senator-switches-party-first-black-republican-since-reconstruction/" rel="nofollow">http://reclaimourrepublic.wordpress.com/2013/06/03/louisiana-state-senator-switches-party-first-black-republican-since-reconstruction/</a></p>
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