[VIDEO] Harry Reid compares tea party to anarchists who ‘started World War I’

Senate Majority Leader and Nevada Democrat Sen. Harry Reid compared the tea party to the 20th century anarchist movement during a Friday interview on KNPR.

“Who is the tea party? Well, understand, when I was in school, I studied government, among other things, and prior to World War I and after World War I we had the anarchists,” Reid began. “Now they were violent — you know, some say that’s what started World War I, the anarchy moment — but they were violent. They did damage to property and they did physical damage to people.”

“The modern anarchists don’t do that — that’s the tea party,” Reid clarified. “But they have the same philosophy as the early anarchists: They do not believe in government. Anytime anything bad happens to government, that’s a victory to them. And that’s what’s happened. We have absolute gridlock created by a group of people who represent few Americans. But it makes it extremely difficult to get things done.”

It is not the first time Reid has made the comparison between the tea party and anarchists. In April, he made similar comments speaking on the Senate floor.

Via: The Daily Caller

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[VIDEO] Gutierrez: 40-50 House GOP will back reform of immigration

Forty to 50 House Republicans will support immigration reform, Rep. Luis Gutiérrez (D-Ill.) predicted Thursday.

Gutiérrez said many of the Republicans supportive of immigration reform don’t want to be identified, but he insisted they would support comprehensive immigration reform.

“If they ask me today, go find those 40 to 50 Republicans, I’ll tell them I found them. I know where they’re at,” Gutiérrez said in an interview with Ed O’Keefe at The Washington Post.

“I’m not going to tell you the names of some of them because some of them I’ve spoken to, and they’ve said I’d love to do the activity with you. I want to be able to vote for it. I really don’t need to draw attention to myself.”

Gutiérrez also predicted only a handful of House Democrats would vote against legislation that included a pathway to citizenship for the nation’s estimated 11 million illegal immigrants.

He noted that only three Democrats voted in favor of legislation earlier this year aimed at forcing President Obama to deport illegal immigrants who were brought to the U.S. as children.

Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) has said he will only bring an immigration bill to the House floor if it is supported by a majority of his conference. 

Via: The Hill

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Satisfying slap down of an insufferable Democrat

One of the Senate's top three most obnoxious Democrats just got a serious thrashing by the editorial board of the home state's largest newspaper. No, it wasn't Chuck Schumer or Barbara Boxer. It was Dick Durbin and the Chicago Tribune.

The editorial board started by throwing his own words in his face:

"It is absolutely unacceptable to single out any political group - right, left or center - and say we're going to target them. That is unthinkable. That goes back to some of the worst days of the Richard Nixon administration."

-U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., on IRS targeting of conservative groups for special scrutiny, May 13, 2013.

We were surprised in the early days of this spring's Internal Revenue Service scandal to see Durbin voice indignation with the IRS for apparently behaving just as he had urged it to: In an Oct. 12, 2010, letter to then-IRS Commissioner Douglas Shulman - we have Durbin's press release, including his letter - the senator urged an investigation of "several 501(c)(4) organizations that appear to be in violation of the law." But Durbin's letter only cited one group by name: Crossroads GPS, a conservative group that has spent heavily on advertising to promote fiscal responsibility, limits to government regulation and national security.

Durbin said this year on Fox News that he hadn't sicced the IRS on any liberal groups because ... an investigation of Crossroads would put them, too, on notice. (snip) We've seen no evidence that Durbin's accusation of crimes was accurate, but he surely achieved one goal: He made potential donors think twice about contributing to a group a U.S. senator had publicly named as an illegal operation.

This would be bad enough, but there is more. The title of the editorial is "Durbin's enemies list," and it is the racial demagoguery involved that is most outrageous.  Read the rest of the indictment here.

Via: The American Thinker

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Why Sen. Feinstein Is Wrong About Who’s a “Real Reporter”

THEN WHAT MAKES YOU THINK YOU ARE A REAL POLITICIAN? IT CAN'T BECAUSE YOUR SMART!!

During the Senate Judiciary Committee’s August 1 mark-up of the shield law bill aimed at protecting journalists’ sources, Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) reportedly objected to the definition of journalist provided in the bill as introduced, seeking to restrict the definition’s scope to apply only to “real reporters.” To achieve her misguided goal, Sen. Feinstein has put forward an amendment to S. 987 that would greatly exacerbate the problems with the definition of who’s a journalist that existed in the bill as introduced.

Her amendment, to be submitted for Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Il.) as well, not only retains the problematic requirement that a person “regularly” engage in journalism to enjoy shield law protections, but moreover adds new requirements that would make it especially difficult for self-publishers such as independent bloggers and citizen journalists to be protected under the law. Indeed, her new requirements for being either salaried or at least affiliated with a news “entity” seem to purposefully target these self-publishers.

These problems are rooted in the vagueness of many key terms in her definition of journalist. Indeed, most essential terms are not defined. While vagueness provides an interpretative battleground, self-publishing bloggers and citizen journalists are disadvantaged in this fight.

Via: EFF

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[VIDEO] ObamaCare: Forcing Texas County To Cut Program That Helps Elderly And Disabled

      

The most recent layoffs caused by Obamacare are happening in Bee County, Texas.

Part-time workers for the Bee Community Action Agency are being forced to cut their hours. The county can’t afford to provide the part-time employees with health care. The Bee Community Action Agency is a vital program for the community’s disabled and elderly, responsible for transporting them to where they need to go.

Via: WFB

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PRIVATE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL IN ARKANSAS ARMS TEACHER AND STAFF

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A private school in Bryant is in the national spotlight, commended for its decision to train and arm its school’s staff. 

"I just felt like with what's going on in many of the public sectors where there seems to be a lot of shootings we need to take the same stance that we do in church on Sunday for our kids Monday through Friday," says Pastor Perry Black. 

Pastor Black has armed security during Sunday service, but now his school will be seeing the same thing five days a week. He posted some signs in front of the Arkansas Christian Academy in Bryant that read, “Staff is armed and trained. Any attempt to harm children will be met with deadly force.” 

Pastor Black says about 1 to 7 staff members are armed on any given day. 

"We have the same law enforcement officers that have helped us through training and helped us through our concealed carry permits," he says. 

The staff’s been training since the beginning of this year, following the deadly Connecticut school shooting. Attorney General Dustin McDaniel shot down plans to arm staff in Arkansas’ public schools earlier this month. 

On Wednesday however, Republican gubernatorial candidate Curtis Coleman is praising the Bryant school. He released this statement, "I admire the school's administrator, Perry Black, for recognizing that every moment counts when a gun-toting criminal intent on taking innocent lives is on campus." 

"We certainly recognize his authority and his right to his opinion and we reserve our right as American citizens and as Christians to protect the children on our campus," said Pastor Black. 

Pastor Black said staff and parents are very excited to be a part of the program that puts the safety of their children number one.

Via: Breitbart

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Big Government isn’t Working—Limited Government is Needed

Let us fight for limited government at all costs, and let the size of government shrink in turn

This is not the end of the world, everyone. Nations in Europe are teetering on the brink of bankruptcy. The United States cannot resolve its debt debate, failing to raise the debt ceiling

If markets do correct, as French Economist Frederic Bastiat calmly asserted, then this is the most massive and necessary market correction in human history.

For two hundred years, national governments have instituted large entitlement programs and the horrendous debt which they incur in order to consolidate power. European states purchased the agreement of rural and conservative interests in their lands by offering state subsidies and handouts, like social security, if they would relinquish ancient land ties and local autonomies.

Recently, political parties have bought votes by promising to take from the wealthy and pass out the legally ill-gotten largess out to the growing base of tax-exempt citizens. Government has insidiously colluded with public workers to offer handsome perks and exorbitant benefits on the public dime. No one complains when it is not their specific dime getting pilfered, yet when everyone collectively suffers under the timely failure of wealth distribution, the people of a nation protest.

This Big Government model was bound to be unsustainable, no was bound to unsustainability. Those with money get tired of being forced to lose their wealth to those who have done nothing, slowly entrapped in the wicked entitlement mentality that only demands more. As sources of independent wealth dry up or drive away, the state depends on tricky accounting, subtle tax increases, and ultimately extensive borrowing. These dysfunctional maneuvers only drown the state in deeper obligations, steeper paying plans, and ultimately bankruptcy.

Via: Canada Free Press

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