The Right Stuff In The Morning
Monday, December 15, 2014
Good morning! In the news today: Illegals line up for amnesty; Obama sex assault crackdown threatens speech on campus; government to rate colleges; terror suspects can use torture report; Romney PAC launches; and the police tell de Blasio not to attend their funerals.
Have a great day.
Keith
Immigrants line up for door opened by Obama . . . They pushed strollers, tugged toddlers and streamed into the convention center in the heart of this city on Sunday, thousands of immigrants here illegally and anxious to find out if they could gain protection from deportation under executive actions by President Obama.
The day became a kind of coming-out party for about 5,000 unauthorized immigrants, the largest gathering in the country of people who might qualify for temporary protection since the president’s announcement last month.
Hundreds of activist leaders also converged for a three-day strategy conclave to plot how to enroll a maximum number of people in order to create momentum among immigrants and Latinos so they will defend the president’s actions and try to stop Republicans from canceling the programs before they get off the ground. New York Times
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GOP takes Obama's bait by not acting on amnesty . . . The White House argument early next year will be simple: Republicans, by creating a fight over the Department of Homeland Security spending bill, are jeopardizing national security, while the president is responsible and wants to safeguard the country. And who remembers that silly immigration order anyway? White House Dossier
Obama sex crackdown threatens free speech . . . The Obama administration’s crackdown on campus sexual misconduct has led to the adoption of “flatly unconstitutional” speech codes and poses what may be the greatest threat to free speech facing higher education today, according to a newly released report. Washington Times
Next up: coeds to start consulting attorneys before making out.
Sharpton has visited the White House 61 times . . . Obama’s embrace of Al Sharpton has helped legitimize Sharpton as the preeminent black leader. Sharpton and his idiotic rantings, his message of victimization instead of self-help, and his fomenting of racial divisions, now takes the place of Martin Luther King Jr., thanks to Obama. White House Dossier
O'Reilly: Obama made race a "grievance industry" . . . Citing a new Fox News poll, conservative political commentator Bill O'Reilly said that race relations in America had grown worse under Barack Obama because the president has facilitated the "grievance industry." Newsmax
Young Biden: "I'll kill your son" . . . Vice President Joe Biden this week bragged that he once threatened to kill a boy who had pushed his sister off her bike. White House Dossier
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Torture Report could help accused terrorists . . . The Senate Intelligence Committee’s bombshell report on the CIA’s interrogation program has armed defense attorneys representing accused terrorists held in the military prison at Guantanamo Bay with a powerful argument against capital punishment and the integrity of the system in which they are being tried. Yahoo News
Bush aide says tactics might have gone too far . . . Former Justice Department lawyer John Yoo said the sleep deprivation, rectal feeding and other harsh treatment outlined in a U.S. Senate report last week could violate anti-torture laws. Reuters
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Top Dems knew of interrogation tactics . . . Jose Rodriguez, the former chief of the CIA Clandestine Service, said he briefed Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi in 2002 on each of the interrogation tactics approved by the Justice Department. Washington Times
Cruz puts GOP leaders on notice . . . Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, put Republican leaders on notice that he intends to hold them to their word that they will seek to scuttle President Obama’s executive amnesty next year, forcing the Senate into an unwelcome Saturday workday and a symbolic vote related to the amnesty. White House Dossier
Watt steering U.S. toward next housing crisis . . . Federal Housing Finance Agency Director Mel Watt pleased affordable-housing advocates last week by directing the bailed-out mortgage businesses to begin contributing to special housing. Watt has left many conservatives afraid and angry at the possibility that he is leading Fannie and Freddie back down the path toward failure, just six years after the companies crashed and required a nearly $200 billion bailout. Washington Examiner
The dirty secret of the housing crisis and the Great Recession is that the problems were the direct result of liberal social policies designed to put people in houses who couldn't afford them. And now, here we go again.
Ready for Romney? . . . "On Sunday, supporters of Mitt Romney filed the appropriate paperwork with the Federal Elections Commission to establish a 'Super PAC' with the goal of urging Mitt Romney for [sic] run for the presidency in 2016," reads the press release. Weekly Standard
Cruz will bank on the base . . . His strategists aren’t planning to make a big play for so-called independent voters in the general election if Cruz wins the Republican nomination. Cruz sees a path to victory that relies instead on increasing conservative turnout; attracting votes from groups — including Jews, Hispanics, and Millennials — that have tended to favor Democrats; and, in the words of one Cruz strategist, “not getting killed with independents.” National Review
This is actually the same strategy Obama used, except on the opposite end of the political spectrum.
Elizabeth Warren is catching fire . . . Progressive activists haven’t agreed on what to call the movement urging Sen. Elizabeth Warren to run for president, but they largely concur on this: With every recent anti-establishment move, the Massachusetts Democrat grows more attractive as a 2016 candidate, both in her own right and as a progressive foil for Hillary Clinton. Politico
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Terror strikes Sydney, Australia . . . An unknown number of hostages are being held by an armed man in the Lindt Chocolat Cafe in Martin Place. The hostages held a flag up to the window known as The Black Standard, which has been used as a symbol by Islamic extremists. At least one gunman is involved, a bearded man wearing a headband. news.com.au
New climate change process launched . . . About 190 nations agreed on Sunday the building blocks of a new-style global deal due in 2015 to combat climate change amid warnings that far tougher action will be needed to limit increases in global temperatures. Reuters
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Government to rate colleges . . . "What we are opposed to is the federal government taking the factors IT thinks is important from a policy perspective and putting a federal letter grade INSTEAD of leaving that judgment up to students and families depending on their individual needs," said Pete Boyle, vice president of public affairs for the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities. Fox News
"Notice: This curriculum has been approved by Barack Obama and Arne Duncan."
Thousands march to protest shootings . . . Thousands of protesters marched across the country Saturday -- past the White House in the nation's capital, along iconic Fifth Avenue in New York and in front of Boston's Statehouse -- to call attention to the deaths of unarmed black men at the hands of police and urge lawmakers to take action. Fox News
Police to de Blasio: Don't come to our funerals . . . The police union is telling members not to let NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio "insult their sacrifice" should they be killed. The revolt was sparked by the mayor’s lack of support for the NYPD following the grand jury’s decision not to indict the officer involved in the death of Staten Islander Eric Garner. De Blasio added fuel to that fire when he said he had warned his 17-year-old, mixed-race son, Dante, to be careful around police officers. New York Post
"Guntry club" opens near Washington . . . The space is “climate adjusted” to 71 degrees year-round and is planned to include a full-time gunsmith on staff, five classrooms, two customer lounges, dojo, cafe and a 5,000-square-foot space for additional retail. A training simulator, to be used with either lasers or live fire, is also on-site, and a two-level 1,600-square-foot live fire shoot house for law enforcement training is in the works. Washington Times
Mayor walks out on prayer to Satan, Zues and Allah . . . Some Florida city leaders get up and leave a city council meeting before a prayer mentioning Satan, Allah and Zeus is read. CNS News
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