New Hampshire House approves in-state tuition for illegals
Earlier today the New Hampshire House passed a bill which would grant illegal aliens in-state tuition by a vote of 188-155.
House Bill 474 would require the students to apply for legal residency or sign an affidavit that they will apply for legal residency as soon as they are eligible to do so. Under a 2012 law, all students seeking in-state tuition must sign an affidavit that they are legal residents of the United States. A copy of the application for legal residency or the affidavit must be filed with the University System of New Hampshire.
Under the provisions of the bill this means that roughly 100 illegal aliens in New Hampshire will be eligible for in-state tuition. A small number, but that is not the point.
The bill is unlikely to pass the New Hampshire Senate but we must not take anything for granted. If you are a New Hampshire resident please contact your State Senator and demand that he or she votes against this legislation.
Barack Obama calls al-Qaeda’s resurgence “Junior Varsity”
During the 2o12 presidential campaign Barack Obama ran around the country telling the American people that al-Qaeda was on the run. He used this statement as proof that his foreign policy of Neville Chamberlain-like appeasement was working.
Then came the al-Qaeda terrorist attack in Benghazi which left Chris Stevens, Sean Smith, Glen Doherty, and Tyrone Woods dead and if not for the coordinated attack on Mitt Romney by Barack Obama and Candy Crowley the American people might have realized before the election that this statement was not true.
Now that Barack Obama has been sworn in we are seeing radical Islamists in power in Egypt and Libya, and al-Qaeda has taken over Fallujah and Ramadi and now CNN(!) is reporting that al-Qaeda holds more ground in the Middle East than in any other time in history.
This naturally has Barack Obama on the defensive and when recently asked about to juxtapose his claim about al-Qaeda being on the run with real world events this is what the president had to say:
“The analogy we use around here sometimes, and I think is accurate, is if a jayvee team puts on Lakers uniforms that doesn’t make them Kobe Bryant,” Obama told Remnick. “I think there is a distinction between the capacity and reach of a bin Laden and a network that is actively planning major terrorist plots against the homeland versus jihadists who are engaged in various local power struggles and disputes, often sectarian.”
Oh the tolerant liberal left! There are only two black Senators in the “upper chamber” and one of them, Tim Scott, just happens to be a Republican. This does not sit well with the left, and the NAACP, which feels it has a monopoly when it comes to black people.
The NAACP came out hard against Senator Scott on Martin Luther King Day, bashing him for leaving the Democratic plantation:
A prominent NAACP official recognized Martin Luther King Day by labeling black senator Tim Scott a puppet for the Republican party. “A ventriloquist can always find a good dummy,” said Reverend William Barber II, the president of North Carolina’s NAACP chapter.
The State reports that Barber’s remarks came in a speech in Scott’s home state of South Carolina. “The extreme right wing down here,” he said, “finds a black guy to be senator and claims he’s the first black senator since Reconstruction and then he goes to Washington, D.C., and articulates the agenda of the Tea Party.”
Target has announced that the company will stop offering its part-time employees healthcare insurance and will dump them into Obamacare instead.
Target Corp. said it will end health insurance for part-time employees, joining Trader Joe’s Co., Home Depot Inc. and other retailers that have scaled back benefits in response to changes from Obamacare.
About 10 percent of Target’s part-time employees, defined as those working fewer than 30 hours a week, use the company’s health plans now, according to an announcement posted today on the Minneapolis-based company’s website. Target said it would pay $500 to part-timers losing coverage and a consulting firm will help workers sign up for new Obamacare plans.
“Health care reform is transforming the benefits landscape and affecting how all employers, including Target, administer health benefits coverage,” Jodee Kozlak, Target’s executive vice president of human resources, said in the web posting. She cited “new options available for our part-time team, and the historically low number of team members who elected to enroll in the part-time plan.”
Is New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio trying to punish the wealthy by not plowing snow in their neighborhoods?
Much was made in the mainstream media about Chris Christie and Bridgeghazi. While this scandal shows Chris Christie to be a bully and a thug this scandal pales in comparison to the NSA, the IRS, Fast and Furious, Fort Hood, and Benghazi scandals yet you would not know it by listening to the mainstream media.
The die has been cast in the mainstream media about what constitutes a true scandal, political bullying trumps everything else, so one has to wonder what the mainstream media thinks about New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and plowgate.
Some residents of New York City believe that the person they elected to represent them is punishing them for being wealthy by not plowing out their neighborhoods:
Apparently believing he is some type of dictator who can decide who can and cannot live in his state Andrew Cuomo recently declared that the extreme conservatives–you know, those people who believe in traditional values–are not welcome in New York:
“Their problem is not me and the Democrats; their problem is themselves,” he said. “Who are they? Are they these extreme conservatives who are right-to-life, pro-assault-weapon, anti-gay? Is that who they are? Because if that’s who they are and they’re the extreme conservatives, they have no place in the state of New York, because that’s not who New Yorkers are.”
And yet the mainstream media does not seem to have a problem with his declaration because to this point they have not taken him to task for his intoleration. I have only one question: If Rick Perry or Jan Brewer declared that liberals have no place in Texas and Arizona respectively would the mainstream media take such a passive approach to their declarations? I didn’t think so.
The Republican establishment is attacking the IRS and the Tea Party at the same time
I have written several posts about the IRS targeting scandal and I have written several posts about the Republican establishment, led by Karl Rove, attacking the Tea Party. The Republican establishment has been using the IRS targeting scandal to raise money for the party, while at the same time going after the Tea Party in order to protect the establishment. This is quite ironic considering the IRS was targeting the Tea Party and the Republican establishment is doing the same.
Somehow while covering both of these stories I failed to make this connection, but luckily it has not been lost the national coordinator of the Tea Party Patriots.
Here is what she had to say:
Barack Obama delays yet another Obamacare provision
Obamacare is moving forward so swimmingly that the regime has been forced to delay several key components of the law until after the 2014 election in an attempt to temper the disastrous effects and protect Democratic incumbents who voted in favor of the bill.
Now the Obama regime has delayed yet another provision of the law:
The Obama administration plans to delay enforcement of yet another Obamacare provision, according to a New York Times report.
This line in the law would ban employers from discriminating “in favor of highly compensated individuals” when it comes to health insurance eligibility or benefits. Effectively, the provision prevents employers from providing their top executives cushy health benefits while low-level employees are given less optimal health insurance options.
Why would the Obama regime delay a provision which assures the rich would not receive benefits the middle class would not get, especially considering that Barack Obama calls himself a middle class warrior? Why would he allow corporations to take care of the rich if he cared so deeply about punishing the rich for being successful?
Open thread for Sunday, January 19th: Electric Eye
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Now on to the musical selection of the week: I have used this song before, but the NSA spying scandal was back in the news this week after Barack Obama held a press conference and basically stated that the NSA is doing nothing wrong and will continue to collect data on virtually every single American, but will let a private company store our data to make us feel better, so I decided to use the song again. That was a bit of a run-on sentence, wasn’t it? Oh well, I changed the video so it wouldn’t be exactly the same.
Here is Judas Priest performing ‘Electric Eye.’
Up here in space
I’m looking down on you
My lasers trace
Everything you do
You think you’ve private lives
Think nothing of the kind
There is no true escape
I’m watching all the time
I’m made of metal
My circuits gleam
I am perpetual
I keep the country clean
I’m elected electric spy
I’m protected electric eye
Always in focus
You can’t feel my stare
I zoom into you
You don’t know I’m there
I take a pride in probing all your secret moves
My tearless retina takes pictures that can prove
Electric eye, in the sky
Feel my stare, always there
There’s nothing you can do about it
Develop and expose
I feed upon your every thought
And so my power grows
I’m made of metal
My circuits gleam
I am perpetual
I keep the country clean
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