The Right Stuff In The Morning
Tuesday, October 28, 2014
Good morning! Leading the news today: Temporary exemptions from food stamp work requirements seem not so temporary; Susan Page calls the Obama White House "dangerous" for reporters; Nine reasons to fear Ebola; another state's voting machines are changing votes; and a cop killer had already been deported - twice.
Have a great day.
Keith
Food stamps, Yes. Work, No. . . . The Great Recession ended more than 1,900 days ago, and the national unemployment rate is 5.9 percent — but many able-bodied adults in 42 states nevertheless continue to collect long-term food-stamp benefits without working, volunteering, or training for a job. Unless a state has extraordinarily high unemployment or a dearth of jobs, able-bodied adults who are younger than 50 and without a dependent must spend 20 hours a week productively if they wish to continue drawing food-stamp benefits longer than three months — or so says a policy enacted as part of the 1996 welfare reforms.
But Congress temporarily suspended this work requirement during the Great Recession, and the number of able-bodied, childless beneficiaries on the welfare dolls ballooned, accounting for more than one in ten of all recipients of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP).
Today, 28 states continue to waive the work requirement altogether, despite an average unemployment rate of 6.72. An additional 13 states have waived the work requirement in some parts of their states, despite an average unemployment rate of just 4.58. National Review
Welfare reform was so hard to achieve. Putting it back together will be no easy task.
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Civil rights leader: Amnesty will hurt blacks . . . A top civil rights advocate is warning President Obama that extending executive amnesty to millions of illegal aliens will deeply harm black workers. Peter Kirsanow, as U.S. Civil Rights Commissioner, says in an Oct. 27 letter to Obama and the Congressional Black Caucus that U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services' recently revealed preparations for a huge ID "surge" upped his alarm over what the president has planned. Breitbart
Top reporter: Obama White House "dangerous" . . . USA Today Washington Bureau Chief Susan Page called the current White House not only “more restrictive” but also “more dangerous” to the press than any other in history, a clear reference to the Obama administration’s leak investigations and its naming of Fox News’s James Rosen as a possible “co-conspirator” in a violation of the Espionage Act. Washington Post
Page is well-respected among mainstream reporters and, if she's at all conservative, I've never heard about it.
Is your Obamacare info safe? . . . As the second year of ObamaCare enrollment approaches, the focus this time is on the security of information the government requires enrollees to provide. Rep. Lamar Smith, R-Texas, chairman of the committee with jurisdiction over security of the website, said, "we've had hearings on the subject of the security or lack of security with the ObamaCare website and what we've discovered is that it seems to be easy to be hacked, the security is not secure." Fox News
Memories of The One's faded luster . . . President Barack Obama is fighting his last campaign mostly at staid Democratic fund-raising events in hotel ballrooms and the private homes of donors, a far cry from the huge crowds who turned out in droves during his White House runs and helped elect him twice. Reuters
The seriousness of Ronald Reagan . . . Fifty years ago yesterday, Ronald Reagan staked his claim to leadership among conservatives with a speech meant to rescue Republican candidate Barry Goldwater. It didn’t rescue Goldwater. But it saved conservatism. And maybe the nation. The Reagan Americans saw on the night of Oct. 27, 1964 was was not the avuncular optimist remembered by conservatives today, nor the dunce portrayed by liberals then and now. He was on fire with conservative principle, laying out a stark choice for Americans between statism and freedom and in a speech that is known as “A time for choosing.” White House Dossier
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Nine reasons to fear Ebola . . . The Obama administration and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have moved to tamp down worries over Ebola even as the number of cases continues to accelerate. However, many doctors and researchers say there are ominous signs about what the future holds regarding the deadly virus. Newsmax
CDC: No quarantine for most returnees . . . Federal health officials on Monday revamped guidelines for doctors and nurses returning home to the United States from treating Ebola patients in West Africa, stopping well short of controversial mandatory quarantines being imposed by some U.S. states. Dr. Thomas Frieden, director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, called for voluntary home quarantine for people at the highest risk for Ebola infection but said most medical workers returning from the three countries at the center of the epidemic would require daily monitoring without isolation. Reuters
Everyone's got their own Ebola rules . . . The Ebola quarantine controversy has become a chaotic brawl involving politics, science and the law. The rules on quarantining health-care workers returning from West Africa are changing almost daily and varying according to geography and political climate. The Pentagon announced Monday that Army personnel returning to their home base in Italy from Liberia will be held in quarantine for 21 days. The military’s policy does not appear to track new guidelines announced Monday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention - or the White House. Washington Post
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Dems fret debilitating losses . . . The political environment continues to deteriorate for House Democrats ahead of a midterm election that’s certain to diminish their ranks. Obama’s unpopularity hindering their candidates and Republican cash flooding into races across the country, Democrats are increasingly worried that the election will push them deep into the minority and diminish their hopes of winning back the majority in 2016 or beyond. Politico
GOP riding anti-tax wave . . . They call it “crushing the middle class” or “the big squeeze” or just plain “irresponsible.” Regardless of the description they use, Republican candidates for governor in some of the Democratic Party’s most dependable strongholds are finding receptive audiences of voters fed up with too many taxes. Washington Times
Red votes magically turn blue . . . Voting machines that switch Republican votes to Democrats are being reported in Maryland. “When I first selected my candidate on the electronic machine, it would not put the ‘x’ on the candidate I chose — a Republican — but it would put the ‘x’ on the Democrat candidate above it,” Donna Hamilton said. Fox News
Remember, if they're not requiring ID's, vote twice, just to be sure.
Voter fraud is real . . . The authors find that about one-quarter of the non-citizens who participated in the survey were registered to vote. Studying survey responses, the authors judge that non-citizen voters tend to favor Democratic candidates by large margins. In many states, their participation wouldn’t be large enough to make a difference, but in North Carolina in 2008, the authors calculate, non-citizens may well have tipped the state into Obama’s column. Mona Charen
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Iran's Christians face repression . . . Iran’s regime conducted a raid on an Easter service and arrested Christians, subjected Christian converts to death threats and psychological abuse and shut down licensed churches, according to a UN report that will be submitted to world leaders on Tuesday. Fox News
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Cop killer was deported - twice . . . A man charged with killing two sheriff's deputies and wounding two other people in a bloody chase through Northern California was twice deported from the United States but appeared to have been living quietly for a decade, authorities said.Associated Press
Extremists' appeal is based in Islam . . . I’m appalled by what is done in the name of my religion. Yet my American friends don’t want to hear it. What is so compelling about radical Islamism may lie within its founding texts. It is time we acknowledged the powerful influence these texts have had even on ordinary Muslims. The political ideology based on them has already dragged the Middle East back toward the Stone Age. Aly Salem
Republicans vow to fight anti-speech regs . . . Republicans on the Federal Election Commission are vowing to fight regulations on online political advocacy that they say would chill free speech and potentially lead to politicized targeting of Internet writers and video-makers. The commission’s chairman is warning that such regulations would allow the federal government to impose onerous new regulations on websites such as the Drudge Report or White House Dossier. Washington Free Beacon
School handout portrays Founders as racist . . . The mother of an eight-year-old wants to know why a Tennessee school teacher gave her child a handout from the Nation of Islam that portrayed the presidents on Mount Rushmore as being racists. The handout then explains that George Washington hailed from Virginia, a “prime breeder of black people.” Of Theodore Roosevelt, it was alleged he called Africans “ape-like.” There were also disparaging remarks made of Thomas Jefferson (he enslaved 200 Africans) and Abraham Lincoln. Fox News
Once kids were taught America is a great nation, albeit with flaws. Now they're taught America is a flawed nation, albeit with some moments of adequacy.
Weather Channel Founder blasts warming . . . John Coleman says man-made global warming is a myth. Fox News
Walmart apologizes for "fat girl costumes" . . . The costume description could be seen above a selection of plus-size outfits for women, however Walmart appears to have re-worded it to 'Women's Plus Size Halloween Costumes' as of 11:30am. A Walmart representative told MailOnline: 'This never should have been on our site. It is unacceptable, and we apologize. Daily Mail
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