Dr. Ben Carson “Schools” The Obama’s in the Moral of Taxes, HealthCare, and More; POTUS Isn’t Happen That Carson Has Taken the Limelight!!

This is the full version of the remarks of Dr. Ben Carson @ the National Prayer Breakfast last week. I am sure that a body language expert can have a field day examining President Obama’s reaction throughout the speech.

The Narcissist-in-Chief has whined this weekend that Dr. Carson’s speech received more coverage than the President’s actual appearance at the event. Give me a break!

Pope Benedict XVI Announces His Retirement

As dawn came on this beautiful Monday, word came from the Vatican, not that the head of the Catholic Church had passed away, but that in his advanced years, Pope Benedict XVI has decided that he should resign, and allow the Cardinals to select his successor. His retirement will begin officially on February 28th, 2013, and many speculate that a conclave of the Cardinals will convene to have a new Pope in place before Easter.

It has been more than 600 years since a vacancy in the Papacy has occurred in this manner.

Will the next Pope be from Africa, Asia, or perhaps the United States? And if he is from the United States, will that change the Obama administration’s constatnt ongoing attack on religions? Just food for thought!!

ObamaCare Exchanges: Costs Up 29%….. Before They Even Start

There’s a raft of implementation issues as states try to figure out whether they want to set up their own exchanges or go along with federal ones. Here’s something that only makes 2014, the year Obamacare fully comes online, even more dread-worthy: The estimated cost of subsidizing plans through Obamacare’s exchanges has grown from $3,970 in 2010 to $5,510. Here’s John Merline of Investors Business:

The CBO’s new baseline estimate shows that ObamaCare subsidies offered through the insurance exchanges — which are supposed to be up and running by next January — will total more than $1 trillion through 2022, up from $814 billion over those same years in its budget forecast made a year ago.

That’s an increase of nearly 29%…

for article: http://reason.com/blog/2013/02/06/obamacare-exchange-costs-up-29-before-pr

High School Student Suspended for a PICTURE of a Gun……. Have We reached Paranoia Yet?

Yet another student has been suspended for having something that represents a  gun, but isn’t actually anything like a real gun.

This time, Daniel McClaine, Jr., a freshman at Poston Butte High School in  Tan Valley, Arizona, made the mistake of setting a picture of a gun as the  desktop background on his school-issued computer.

The picture shows an AK-47 lying on a flag, reports KNXV-TV. The gun isn’t his, McClaine  assured the ABC affiliate in Phoenix. He found it on the Internet and liked it,  partly because he is interested in serving in the military after graduation.

Read more:  http://dailycaller.com/2013/02/02/high-school-freshman-suspended-for-having-a-picture-of-a-gun/#ixzz2K2hrPCyg

 

Drones the Size of a “FINCH”: Could These be Used by Homeland Security Here??

Just food for thought……………

LONDON (AP) — British soldiers in Afghanistan have been issued with surveillance drones so small they can fit in the palm of a man’s hand.

The Scandinavian-designed Black Hornet Nano weighs as little as 16 grams (roughly half an ounce) — the same as a finch. The 4-inch (10-centimeter) -long helicopter is fitted with a tiny camera which relays still images and video to a remote terminal.

“We used it to look for insurgent firing points and check out exposed areas of the ground before crossing, which is a real asset,” said Sgt. Christopher Petherbridge, with Britain’s Brigade Reconnaissance Force. In a statement, he called the Hornet easy to operate and said it offered “amazing capability to the guys on the ground.”

The military said Sunday that the toy-like Hornet is capable of flying even in windy conditions.

It said the Hornet was developed by Norway’s Prox Dynamics AS as part of a 20 million-pound ($31 million) contract for 160 units with southern England’s Marlborough Communications Ltd.

Drones of all shapes and sizes have rapidly become a mainstay of U.S., British and other nations’ military operations around the world. Late last year the U.K. said it was doubling the size of its armed drone fleet in Afghanistan to 10 with the purchase of a new batch of Reapers.

http://news.yahoo.com/uk-sends-hand-held-helicopter-drones-war-zone-101428321–finance.html

As DOJ Makes Its Case for Drone Attacks on US Citizens Abroad, the Left Admits that It Is OK for Obama, but They Would Be Trashing Bush For the same Thing

from NBC News online:

By Michael Isikoff National Investigative Correspondent, NBC News

A confidential Justice Department memo concludes that the U.S. government can order the killing of American citizens if they are believed to be “senior operational leaders” of al-Qaida or “an associated force” — even if there is no intelligence indicating they are engaged in an active plot to attack the U.S.

The 16-page memo, a copy of which was obtained by NBC News, provides new details about the legal reasoning behind one of the Obama administration’s most secretive and controversial polices: its dramatically increased use of drone strikes against al-Qaida suspects abroad, including those aimed at American citizens, such as the  September 2011 strike in Yemen that killed alleged al-Qaida operatives Anwar al-Awlaki and Samir Khan. Both were U.S. citizens who had never been indicted by the U.S. government nor charged with any crimes.

http://openchannel.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/02/04/16843014-exclusive-justice-department-memo-reveals-legal-case-for-drone-strikes-on-americans?lite

Meanwhile, Mika @ “MORNING JOE” admits that the drone attack policy would NOT be tolerated by the Left if George W. Bush was using it:

from Newsbusters:

Unusual candor from Mika Brzezinski and Harold Ford, Jr. on the double  standard that exists for Republicans and Democrats.  Discussing on today’s Morning Joe the Obama administration memo that has been uncovered authorizing the use of drone strikes to kill U.S.  citizens abroad, Mika admitted that there would have been a “huge  controversy” if such a memo had surfaced during the Bush  administration. Ford said that “Democrats have to think now about how  they conducted themselves and the questions they raised about Bush  administration tactics.” Joe Scarborough flatly declared that had the policy  come to light under Bush, it would have been “stopped” by the ensuing outcry.  View the video after the jump.

Read more:  http://newsbusters.org/blogs/mark-finkelstein/2013/02/05/mika-admits-under-bush-drone-strike-memo-would-have-caused-huge-co#ixzz2K2fokzNZ

 

Gun Availability is NOT the Problem, it is SOCIETAL DECAY

OurGuns.org: Come and Take It

Senate Has Immigration Reform Plan, To Be Announced 1 Day Before Obama Gives Immigration Speech

WASHINGTON (AP) — A bipartisan group of leading senators has reached agreement on the principles of sweeping legislation to rewrite the nation’s immigration laws.

The deal, which was to be announced at a news conference Monday afternoon, covers border security, guest workers and employer verification, as well as a path to citizenship for the 11 million illegal immigrants already in this country.

Although thorny details remain to be negotiated and success is far from certain, the development heralds the start of what could be the most significant effort in years toward overhauling the nation’s inefficient patchwork of immigration laws.

President Barack Obama also is committed to enacting comprehensive immigration legislation and will travel to Nevada on Tuesday to lay out his vision, which is expected to overlap in important ways with the Senate effort.

The eight senators expected to endorse the new principles Monday are Democrats Charles Schumer of New York, Dick Durbin of Illinois, Robert Menendez of New Jersey and Michael Bennet of Colorado; and Republicans John McCain of Arizona, Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, Marco Rubio of Florida and Jeff Flake of Arizona.

http://news.yahoo.com/senators-reach-agreement-immigration-reform-085239296–politics.html

 

Senate Dems Unveil Gun Control Plan, and Prepare for “Battle”; Public Support for Obama on GunControl Wanes

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A top Democratic lawmaker tried on Thursday to revive a U.S. assault-weapons ban, riding a wave of support for gun control after the killing of 20 children and six adults at a school in Connecticut last month.

       Senator Dianne Feinstein and several other Democrats said they were introducing a bill to ban semi-automatic weapons and high-capacity ammunition clips. It faces stiff opposition in Congress as well as from the National Rifle Association, the main U.S. lobby for gun manufacturers, and from many Americans.

       “Getting this bill signed into law will be an uphill battle, and I recognize that – but it is a battle worth having,” Feinstein said at a news conference to announce the bill.

http://news.yahoo.com/assault-weapons-ban-announced-congress-faces-uphill-battle-171358623.html

Meanwhile:

New polling from Washington Post-ABC News and Pew find that President Obama’s campaign to repress the Second Amendment right “keep and bear arms” is faltering.

On January 22, 2013, Pew released polling results that found the public followed news about Obama’s gun control proposals closely and the reaction is mixed. Only 39 percent think Obama’s proposals are about right, while 31 percent think the proposals go too far. Or, as Politico put it, “39 percent back Obama gun plan.”

http://www.redstate.com/2013/01/24/obama-losing-his-gun-control-campaign/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter