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Wednesday, February 18, 2015  

Good morning! In the news today: Obama may face a long and difficult road challenging a ruling against his immigration order; Obama thinks he solved the ebola problem, but he got there too late; Marie Harf keeps stepping in it; Holder may accuse Ferguson police department of civil rights violations; DWS might seek Rubio's Senate seat if he vacates it; ISIS' reach is expanding; and ten hours walking around Paris as a Jew.

Have a great day.

Keith
Immigration ruling may be hard to challenge . . . President Obama's administration faces a difficult and possibly lengthy legal battle to overturn a Texas court ruling that blocked his landmark immigration overhaul, since the judge based his decision on an obscure and unsettled area of administrative law, lawyers said. In his ruling, Judge Andrew Hanen faulted Obama for not giving public notice of his plans. The failure to do so, Hanen wrote, was a violation of the 1946 Administrative Procedure Act, which requires notice in a publication called the Federal Register as well as an opportunity for people to submit views in writing. Reuters
White House puts immigration plans on hold after ruling . . . The Obama administration put its new deportation-relief program on hold Tuesday on the eve of its launch, complying reluctantly with a federal judge's order that roiled immigrant communities nationwide and seemed to harden an already-tense stalemate on Capitol Hill. Associated Press
You know, I was honestly surprised they felt they had to comply with the ruling. I've now adopted, without noticing it, a presumption of lawlessness with respect to this administration.
Administration to border agents: OK to release drunk drivers . . . The Obama administration is telling Customs and Border Protection agents in a busy stretch of the U.S.-Mexico crossing that they don’t have to arrest intoxicated drivers, sparking backlash from advocacy groups and others. Jessica Vaughan, a policy director for the Center for Immigration Studies, said Tuesday the advisory is consistent with the administration’s long-held strategy of trying to end federal agents’ close cooperation with state and local law enforcement, which has led to deportations. Fox News
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Obama tries to take credit for vanquishing ebola . . . Actually, Obama, distracted from important tasks as usual, was late when it counted, as I pointed out in September. As the Washington Post confirmed in an ebola effort post-mortem last month, our leader and his white horse rode up to save the day after the day had already been saved. White House Dossier
Marie Harf: Christian extremists killing too . . . The State Department spokeswoman links Christians to terrorism, even as Christians are under siege from Islamists. Washington Free Beacon
More outrageousness from my favorite self-righteous young lefty.
Muslim leader who met with Biden said Israel a 9/11 suspect . . . A controversial U.S. Muslim leader who has been highly critical of Israel and said that the Jewish state should be on the “suspect list” in the wake of the 9/11 terror attacks participated on Tuesday in a White House summit on Countering Violent Extremism (CVE) that featured Vice President Joe Biden. Washington Free Beacon
Of course, we must understand the cultural differences and sensitivities at work here.
Holder mocks Fox News . . . Attorney General Eric Holder criticized Fox News on Tuesday for its obsession with the administration's characterization of the Islamic State. “We spend more time talking about what do you call it as opposed to what do you do about it. You know, really, if Fox didn’t talk about this, they’d have nothing else to talk about,” Holder said. Politico 
DOJ may go after the Ferguson police department . . . In weighing whether to bring discrimination charges against the Ferguson Police Department, the Justice Department has been “seriously examining” allegations that the city’s enforcement of minor offenses discriminated against minorities and often led to jail time and to fines that lined the city’s coffers. Politico
Can't go after the officer, but the administration requires retribution.
Risen: Obama administration the top enemy of press freedom . . . New York Times reporter James Risen slammed Attorney General Eric Holder in a series of tweets Tuesday evening, calling the Obama administration “The greatest enemy of press freedom in a generation.” “Eric Holder has been the nation's top censorship officer, not the top law enforcement officer,” Risen tweeted. Politico
White House: 11.4 million using Obamacare . . . The White House late Tuesday claimed that 11.4 million people had signed up for Obamacare at the end of the law’s second enrollment period, more than 2 million more than what the Obama administration set for a goal late last year. The Blaze
Of course, they never set a goal they know they can't exceed.
Behind the scenes, Obamacare website still a mess . . . The “back end” of the Obamacare website still isn’t properly wired to the health insurance companies. Instead of a swift process, health plans use clunky workarounds and manual spreadsheets. It takes time and it costs money. Politico
Biden's touching moment . . . Biden has once again raised the eyebrows of social media commentators, who saw his beckoning of Stephanie Carter — the wife of the new defense secretary, Ashton Carter — and subsequent grab of her shoulders and close-eared whisper as little more than America’s “creepy uncle” at work. Washington Times
ISIS reach is expanding . . . The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria's beheading of 21 Egyptian Christians in Libya was a violent reminder that the group's reach is expanding even in the face of intense pressure against its strongholds in Iraq and Syria. Washington Examiner
The consequences of slow-walking ISIS' destruction.
Rumsfeld: Americans in denial about ISIS . . . "I think back to the 1930s when the Holocaust was going on and Nazis were killing Jews by the tens of thousands," he said. "And the United States government turned away ships filled with Jews from our ports." Newsmax
Even Bob Schieffer can't believe Obama's ISIS response . . . CBS’ Face the Nation host Bob Schieffer has seen a lot. And he’s no war hawk or cheerleader for the Republicans. But he seems pretty flummoxed at the casual attitude of President Obama toward ISIS. White House Dossier
DWS may run for Senate . . . Florida Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, the Democratic National Committee chairwoman, is strongly considering a bid for U.S. Senate, calculating that having Hillary Clinton at the top of the 2016 ticket would help lift her candidacy in a year-of-the-woman campaign. Driving Wasserman Schultz’s interest: the increasing likelihood that Sen. Marco Rubio will run for the White House and that he ultimately won’t seek reelection in 2016. Politico
Walker: Obama's Harvard degree proof I don't need one . . . Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker has lashed out at the "elitist" critics who have attacked him for not having a college degree. Newsmax
Victorious Democrat charged with gross distortions . . . A Republican candidate is suing a Democratic congresswoman and the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee for defamation for doctoring his statements in campaign ads. Daily Caller
ISIS views Libya as a gateway to Europe . . . Islamic State militants are planning a takeover of Libya as a "gateway" to wage war across the whole of southern Europe, letters written by the group's supporters have revealed. Telegraph
Uhh, who removed Qaddafi?
Isis burns 45 to death . . . Jihadist militants from Islamic State (IS) have burned to death 45 people in the western Iraqi town of al-Baghdadi, the local police chief says. Exactly who these people were and why they were killed is not clear, but Col Qasim al-Obeidi said he believed some were members of the security forces. BBC
Harvesting organs? . . . Iraq's ambassador to the United Nations asked the U.N. Security Council on Tuesday to look at allegations that the Islamic State group is using organ harvesting as a way to finance its operations. Associated Press
Ten hours walking in Paris as a Jew . . . A man put on a yarmulke and strolled around Paris. You can imagine what happened. YouTube
UMass bans Iranians from graduate science programs . . . The University of Massachusetts at Amherst has banned Iranian nationals from enrolling in certain engineering and science graduate programs, in a move some students are calling discriminatory. Washington Times
Thank God someone in academia is being reasonable, but I assume they will fold under pressure which probably will include a demand from the White House.
Conservative journalist Arnaud De Borchgrave is dead . . . Award-winning editor, war correspondent, and best-selling author Arnaud de Borchgrave, hailed as one of the most noteworthy journalists of the modern era, died Sunday after an extended illness. He was 88. Newsmax
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