China now has the world’s second-largest defense budget

"China now has the world’s second-largest defense budget after the United States and the fastest growing military market."

"If the People’s Liberation Army went to war tomorrow, it would field an arsenal bristling with hardware from some of America’s closest allies: Germany, France and Britain."

Paid for by American consumers buying cheap Chinese products at their local Wal-mart.

http://www.reuters.com/investigates/china-military/#article/part5

China's Paltry Aid to the Philippines

The U.S. has promised $20 million in aid for victims of Supertyphoon Haiyan in the Philippines and has mobilized an aircraft carrier for the relief effort. Britain is also sending a warship and has pledged $16 million. The Vatican is dispatching $4 million, Japan $10 million and New Zealand $1.7 million. And China, the world’s most populous nation and second largest economy?

It’s handing over $100,000.

Read more: Haiyan: China's Paltry Aid to the Philippines | TIME.com http://world.time.com/2013/11/13/china-to-philippines-here-have-a-measly-100000-in-aid/#ixzz2kY6izmS7

Obama's Big Lie...

"All we've been hearing the last three years is if you like your policy you can keep it.... I'm infuriated because I was lied to," one woman told this newspaper, as part of a story on how some middle-class Californians have been stunned to learn the real costs of Obamacare.

And that lie looks like the biggest lie about domestic policy ever uttered by a U.S. president.

http://www.latimes.com/opinion/commentary/la-oe-goldberg-obamacare-failure-20131029,0,6727221.column#axzz2j925H52k

Another Lie...

Obama the Hypocrite

Remember this when president Obama says we must raise the debt ceiling.

Obama called Bush "irresponsible and unpatriotic" for raising the debt ceiling $4 trillion. Since Obama has become president he has raised it by almost $8 trillion (it was about $9 trillion when he took office, and now it is almost $17 trillion).

Americans Find Little to Like in Washington

"The AP-GfK poll finds few people approve of the way the president is handling most major issues and most people say he's not decisive, strong, honest, reasonable or inspiring."

http://bigstory.ap.org/article/poll-americans-find-little-washington

Illegal Aliens in LA County Cost Taxpayers Billions a Year

Just in LA County alone illegal aliens cost taxpayers almost $2 billion dollars a year, and $650 million of that goes to welfare benefits for anchor babies.

So much for the notion that they all just come here to work, and that they don't collect welfare benefits.

http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2013/09/16/undocumented-la-county-parents-projected-to-receive-650m-in-welfare-benefits/

Is the Left Admitting That Clinton Played a Role in the Financial Crisis

But I thought the left blame Bush for the near collapse of Wall Street five years ago. According to this article the liberals did not want Obama's pick for the chair of the Federal Reserve because of his role during the Clinton administration that resulted in the bailout of AIG.

"And they were suspicious of his role in Clinton-era financial deregulation -- especially the decision barely to regulate financial derivatives at all. That loosed a monster called the credit-default swap that forced the $85 billion bailout of AIG five years ago this weekend, and nearly brought down all of Wall Street with it."

Is it a typo? Did they mean to say "Bush-era" financial deregulation, or are they admitting that the trouble on Wall Street was growing before Bush took office. Will they now admit that Freddie and Fannie, which contributed to the housing collapse, can also be linked to Democrats?

http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2013/09/15/summers-fed-bernanke-analysis/2817101/

President Obama to Aid Al Qaeda

Who would have guessed that 12 years after 9/11 our president would be helping Al Qaeda.  President Obama could possible be giving aid to terrorists who fought our soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan.

http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/does-obama-know-hes-fighting-on-alqaidas-side-8786680.html

Your smart phone would only cost about $4 more to make in the U.S.

Your smart phone would only cost about $4 more to make in the U.S.

http://money.cnn.com/2013/08/28/technology/mobile/moto-x-united-states/index.html?sr=fb082813googlephonecost5p

Why Border Security is Important

In case you are wondering why border security is so important.  Here is wake-up call from CBS News.

http://vimeo.com/57340567

Mainstream Media Ignores Race When the Attacker is a Minority

Remember how quickly the media was to point out the race of George Zimmerman and Trayvon Martin. It is interesting how in the Florida school bus attack they would not mention that the three attackers were black, and that the younger boy they were beating was white.

http://www.cnn.com/2013/08/05/justice/florida-school-bus-beating/index.html

 http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/08/08/jackson-sharpton-stay-silent-on-school-bus-beating/

Seattle City Officials Say the Word "Citizen" is Offensive

Another example of what happens when the left-wing nutjobs are in power. Seattle wants to ban the word "citizen" and "brown bag" because it might offend foreigners and Latinos. Washington state lawmakers have already banned the words freshman, journeymen, and penmanship from state business. I'm a bit surprised they didn't ban "woman" since it also includes "man" in it.

http://seattle.cbslocal.com/2013/08/02/seattle-city-officials-aim-to-ban-potentially-offensive-language/

She may as well be talking about the U.S.

“This is an organized replacement of our population. This threatens our very survival. We don’t have the means to integrate those who are already here. The result is endless cultural conflict.”
-Marine Le Pen

She is talking about the millions of immigrants pouring into France, but she may as well be speaking of the United States.

http://independentfilmnewsandmedia.com/gods-multiculturalism-crazy-france/

Mrs. Wiener Caught in a Conflict of Interest

Wow! Take home huge salaries working for the government, and at the same time sell inside information to corporations.

Ms. Abedin (Mrs. Wiener) earned approximately $135,000 a year from the State Department as a Federal employee and a trusted advisor to Secretary Clinton, while receiving $355,000 in consulting income for representing outside clients at the same company Bill Clinton consulted for.

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-250_162-57595659/weiners-wife-huma-abedin-under-scrutiny-over-two-jobs/

Left Wing Plant at Pro-Zimmerman Rally

A good sign that someone at a protest rally is a plant from the other side is if they are making statements that are radically different than everyone else.
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2013/07/busted-left-wing-plant-at-houston-pro-zimmerman-rally-is-far-left-activist/

White House Reporters Laugh When Press Secretary Say Immigration Reform Will Increase Wages

White House reporters had a good laugh when President Obama's press secretary said immigration reform will raise wages.  Looks like they understand that adding 20 million uneducated low skilled workers into the workforce will only lower wages for the existing workers.

http://youtu.be/XgO2HBaGUYk

Federal Appeals Court Rules That Obama Violated the Constitution

A third federal appeals court ruled Wednesday that President Obama violated the Constitution last year when he made recess appointments.

Read more: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/jul/17/third-court-overturns-obama-recess-appointments/#ixzz2ZPnvSDpP
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Black Floridians have made about a third of the “Stand Your Ground” claims in homicide cases

"African Americans benefit from Florida’s “Stand Your Ground” self-defense law at a rate far out of proportion to their presence in the state’s population, despite an assertion by Attorney General Eric Holder that repealing “Stand Your Ground” would help African Americans."

Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2013/07/16/blacks-benefit-from-florida-stand-your-ground-law-at-disproportionate-rate/#ixzz2ZHJ2eFAp

Obama: "If I had a son, he'd look like Trayvon"

The True Identity of the Zimmerman Judge

19 Fallen Firefighters Begin Their Journey Home

Phoenix Fire Department and Arizona residents pay tribute to the fallen Granite Mountain Hotshots as they begin their 125 mile journey from Phoenix to Prescott.

Secret move keeps bin Laden records out of sight

"Welcome to the shell game in place of open government," said Thomas Blanton, director of the National Security Archive, a private research institute at George Washington University. 

AP requested information about bin laden under the Freedom of Information Act... so the Pentagon sends the files to the CIA, and then deletes the files from their computers. Seems like pretty extreme steps to keep information hidden.

http://news.yahoo.com/secret-move-keeps-bin-laden-records-sight-152650366.html

Street Preachers Attacked at Pride Fest in Seattle

Looks like some in the NOH8 LGBT crowd aren't very tolerant of those who disagree with their lifestyle. Two street preachers were attacked at a Pride Fest in Seattle.

Looks like Obama backed the wrong horse in Egypt

In Memory of the 19 Granite Mountain Hotshots

Syrian Rebels Beheading Christians

Please remind me why the U.S. is giving weapons to the Syrian rebels? We worry about firearms getting into the wrong hands here in the U.S., yet we are giving them to murderers in Syria.

http://www.cnn.com/2013/07/01/world/meast/syria-unrest/index.html?sr=fb070213catholicgroupmonkbeheading10a

No More Clintons, Bushes, or Obamas!

Media Hypocrisy

Obama Supports Voter ID in Kenya, But Sues U.S. States for Doing the Same Thing

While in Africa president Obama is praising efforts to create a national voter ID in Kenya, yet his Justice Department sues any state in the U.S. that requires ID when registering to vote. After digging a little deeper I found out that the $53 million for the Kenyan voter ID program came from the U.S. government.

http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/wh-touts-kenyan-program-obtain-national-id-cards-voter-registration_737990.html

American Celebrities Pimping Themselves Out Around the World

Are American Celebrities Pimping Themselves Out Around the World?  Jennifer Lopez performed "Happy Birthday" for the leader of country known for human rights violations, and her show was paid for by China National Petroleum Corp.  So it seems she was helping the Chinese impress the leaders of one of the most repressive countries in the world.  Either nobody on her staff checked out the country beforehand, or the money was just too good to pass up.

http://news.yahoo.com/lopez-sings-happy-birthday-turkmenistan-head-132517872.html

NSA Bugging the EU

This would be like one of our allies bugging offices in the Capitol Building.  There needs to be a thorough housecleaning in Washington.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2013/06/30/nsa-surveillance-snowden-eu/2476543/

President Obama Spending $7 Billion to Provide Electricity to Africans

The U.S. government is broke, many Americans are unemployed, and our infrastructure is crumbling... so president Obama just announced he is going to spend $7 billion to provide electricity to Africa.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/06/30/us-usa-obama-southafrica-idUSBRE95T02120130630

Taxpayer Funds Used to Celebrate Gay Pride

St. Louis alderman Shane Cohn used $15,000 of taxpayer funds to light up a public war memorial for gay pride.

http://www.redstate.com/dloesch/2013/06/28/did-st-louis-spend-15k-to-make-public-building-light-up-for-gay-pride/

Hillary Clinton to be Awarded Medal

It seems that no matter how incompetent you are in DC, there is an award for you.  Hillary Clinton is receiving the Liberty Medal, and guess who is presenting it to her... Jeb Bush.

http://blog.constitutioncenter.org/2013/06/hillary-rodham-clinton-to-receive-national-constitution-centers-2013-liberty-medal/

Mass Knife Murders in China

But I thought when guns are banned nobody has to worry about mass murders.

Report: 36 killed after knife gang attacks China police station
http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/06/26/19149980-report-36-killed-after-knife-gang-attacks-china-police-station

"Terrorist attack" involving axes, knives kills 21 in China
http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/04/24/17894638-terrorist-attack-involving-axes-knives-kills-21-in-china?lite

Alec Baldwin Lashes Out At Journalist With Homophobic Threats... Media Gives Him a Pass

I am a bit curious why the media is not all over Alec Baldwin for the homophobic slurs he used in a number of tweets today... considering how they treated Paula Deen for using a slur over 20 years ago. Will the companies he does commercials for now drop him?

In an attempt to delete the tweets he closed the Twitter account, but he should know by now that once you post online it is there to stay.

http://twitchy.com/2013/06/27/alec-baldwin-threatens-toxic-little-queen-reporter-in-epic-twitter-rant/

Senate Amnesty Bill Will Legalize Illegal Aliens Who Have 2 DUIs

Here illegally and have two DUIs?  No problem... welcome to America!

http://bit.ly/19zeSg9

Biometric Database of All Adult Americans Hidden in Immigration Reform

“The most worrying aspect is that this creates a principle of permission basically to do certain activities and it can be used to restrict activities,” he said. “It’s like a national ID system without the card.”

“It starts to change the relationship between the citizen and state, you do have to get permission to do things,” said Chris Calabrese, a congressional lobbyist with the American Civil Liberties Union. “More fundamentally, it could be the start of keeping a record of all things.”

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/05/immigration-reform-dossiers/

NRA... Made in China

CBO Immigration Study False

CBO's immigration study has been proven to be false by a Stanford researcher.

http://news.investors.com/ibd-editorials-perspective/062113-660996-increased-immigration-wont-have-positive-effect-on-budget.htm

Senator McAmnesty

A few things I put together...

Immigration/Amnesty Bill Spends Billions Paying for Transportation For Young People

McCain's amnesty bill is loaded with pork, including spending $1.5 billion in just 15 months to buy cars for young people under 24.

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/06/24/ObamaCar-handout-for-taxpayer-subsidized-vehicles-for-kids-built-into-immigration-bill-too

Massive Tax Fraud By Illegal Aliens

In 2011 the IRS sent 53,994 refunds to illegal aliens at 10 addresses totaling $86,352,307.00.  That means over $86 million sent to illegal aliens filing thousands of fraudulent tax returns from just 10 addresses.

And that is only the tip of the iceberg, with those being only the top 10 addresses.  There were 154 addresses around the country that had 1,000 or more claims filed from them by illegal aliens.  In Morganton, North Carolina the IRS issued 6,411 ITINs, the number the IRS gives illegal aliens so they can file for these tax refunds, to a single address.  However, according to the 2010 Census, there were only 16,681 people in Morganton.  That meant 38 percent of the town's population were illegal aliens living at a single address.

Illegal aliens should not be allowed to file tax returns or be issued refunds.  The IRS also needs to be abolished, and the U.S. should have a flat tax with no loopholes, exemptions, write-offs, deductions, credits, and refunds... just everyone paying the same percentage.

http://cnsnews.com/news/article/irs-sent-46378040-refunds-23994-unauthorized-aliens-1-atlanta-address

The Thrill Is Gone...

Out of Control Political Correctness

Curious how far the left is taking this politically correct no profiling idea? The New York city council is working on a bill that will ban the police from identifying a suspect’s age, gender, color or disability. So when they are identifying or describing a suspect on the radio or to the public, they will basically only be able to describe the clothes the person is wearing. I am starting to believe more and more that liberalism is a disease which takes away all common sense or logic.

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/cops_say_new_bill_will_blind_and_GPweD7fZD6q3MTmPtu6xfI

1 in 12 on Bloomberg’s gun victims list are crime suspects

Mayor Bloomberg's little "Mayors Against Illegal Guns" group is running around the country holding rallies where they read off names of people killed by guns.  It turns out that one in 12 people on their list are crime suspects killed by police or armed citizens acting in self-defense.  They even had Boston Marathon terrorist Tamerlan Tsarnaev listed as a victim of gun violence.

http://washingtonexaminer.com/1-in-12-on-bloombergs-gun-victims-list-are-crime-suspects/article/2532224

Anti-2nd Amendment Politicians Facing Recalls

Politicians seeking to restrict 2nd Amendment rights are now facing recall elections.

http://www.denverpost.com/breakingnews/ci_23486124/organizers-submit-sufficient-signatures-recall-sen-john-morse

White House Spying On Average Americans, But Not Mosques

"...the government's sweeping surveillance of our most private communications excludes the jihad factories where homegrown terrorists are radicalized."

http://news.investors.com/ibd-editorials/061213-659753-all-intrusive-obama-terror-dragnet-excludes-mosques.htm

President Obama to Supply Weapons to Syrian Terrorists

I feel so much better knowing that included in the arms president Obama is providing the "rebels" will not be anti-aircraft weapons. According to a Wall Street Journal article, the fear is they might be used against civilian aircraft... you know, like something terrorists would do. Why do our leaders in Washington think the only solution to the conflicts in the middle-east is to send weapons to people who hate us?

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324188604578543820387158806.html