According to an Associated Press report, an Alabama Supreme Court judge said that Barack Obama should have to prove his eligibility to be on the state ballot in 2012 as well as prove he was born in the United States.
The entirely Republican panel of judges upheld the dismissal in the lower courts with a 7-2 vote that sought to require Alabama’s secretary of state to demand a birth certificate from President Obama and other presidential candidates.
Two of the justices dissented, Justice Roy Moore and Justice Tom Parker.
In Moore’s dissent, he wrote that the secretary of state is the gatekeeper and it’s their duty to determine the eligibility of candidates by finding out if they’re natural-born U.S. citizens.
“The complaint alleged that the Secretary of State failed to perform a constitutional duty to verify the eligibility of all presidential candidates appearing on the ballot in the 2012 general election,” further arguing that even though the election was over, the secretary wasn’t absolved of his duty to investigate the claims.
Parker went further, and said that the plaintiffs presented enough documentation to raise “serious questions” regarding the authenticity of Obama’s birth certificate.
Two other justices, Mike Bolin and Tommy Brian, claimed that the secretary of state doesn’t possess the authority or the ability to investigate each candidate’s qualifications.
Editor’s Note…
As we reported back in October,the Obama regime is hellbent on jump starting a civil war in Egypt to put its pet Muslim Brothers back in power. This recent report reiterates our earlier assessment and elaborates on further details.
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World Tribune \ Global Information System \ Defense & Foreign Affairs
The struggle for Egypt is on the verge of a major escalation as the key sponsors of the jihadist cause in Syria are now committed to a similar campaign against Egypt.
The overall strategic objective is to prevent the emergence of an inward-looking regional order based on the Arab heartland, shielded by the Fertile Crescent of Minorities, and thus excluding the external forces. A strong and stable Egypt is considered a cornerstone of such a regional posture.
Because Russia is the primary supporter and sponsor of the emerging regional order, the sponsors of the jihadists are convinced the U.S. Barack Obama Administration supports them just as Obama is supporting their jihad in Syria.
Jihadist sources directly involved in the sponsorship of jihadist causes in Syria and Egypt just reported on the comparable effort against Egypt.
According to these jihadist sources, “attempts to create a Free Egyptian Army in Libya have been identified, with the participation of the Muslim Brothers and Al Qaida and under Qatari-Turkish-Iranian patronage, in addition to plans to target vital installations, including Cairo International Airport, the storming of prisons to free Muslim Brothers detainees, and spreading chaos to sabotage the presidential elections.”
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On this date, U.S. House of Representatives Bill "H.R. 2847" goes into effect. It will usher in the true collapse of the U.S. dollar, and will make millions of Americans poorer, overnight. You now have just several months to prepare...
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Issa Launches Federal Investigation Into Obama/Reid Involvement in BLM Land Grab
Washington, DC–While Cliven Bundy’s decades long battle against the federal government over grazing rights on his Nevada ranch continues, news from the nation’s capital has confirmed that Rep. Darrell Issa, chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, has launched a full federal investigation into President Obama and Senator Harry Reid’s involvement in the attempted land grab by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM).
In a Fox News interview aired today, Issa told Gretchen Carlson that he has launched an investigation to find out what exactly was Obama and Reid’s involvement in the siege of the Bundy Ranch. Issa went on to reference a 2010 memo titled “Internal Draft – NOT FOR RELEASE” that appears to lay the groundwork for such a seizure to take place. The memo reads, in part: “The areas listed may be good candidates for National Monument designation under the Antiquities Act; however, further evaluations should be completed prior to any final decision, including an assessment of public and Congressional support.”
Americans want a flat tax, overwhelmingly. It would be good for the
general economy in a myriad of ways. (Assuming it was set at a low
enough rate.) Just think for instance of how many millions of man hours
lost to wading through our labyrinthine tax code could instead be put to
productive use. A flat tax would just make life so much EASIER.
So why don’t we have one?
Because a coalition of the accounting industry and “tax fairness” folks do everything they can to stop its adoption.
The tax preparation companies and the accountants would be destroyed
by a flat tax. This is an industry which enjoys massive wealth now.
These people aren’t about to just let their industry – built on
complexity in the tax code – just go away.
The wing men of the tax prep industry are the people who think that
the tax code must be “progressive” for fairness sake. They think that
everyone, poor and rich alike, paying the same share of their income in
taxes is unfair. The rich have more money and so – according to the “tax
fairness” people – the rich should have to pay a higher percentage of
their income in taxes. The rich can “afford” higher taxes.
This unholy alliance has held back us tossing out the tax code for
decades. Add in the companies which have custom bits literally written
into the code for them and it’s clear to see why the American people
still don’t have their flat tax.
Just imagine. No forms. No nonsense. Just send an envelope with your
tax payment, which is determined in the blink of an eye. We could enjoy
the spring so much more.
'Vladimir Putin is striking at the heart of the West'
'We can chose to surrender any responsibility we have to protect Ukraine and the Baltic states'
'Or we can mount a last-ditch attempt to deter Russia from furthering its imperial ambitions'
'If we choose to resist Putin, we will risk a terrifying miltary escalation'
'I do not think it an exaggeration to say this could bring us to the brink of nuclear war'
Deep in the flat and featureless
landscape of eastern Ukraine, it is all too possible that the outline
of World War III is taking shape.
Whipped up by the Kremlin propaganda machine and led by Russian military intelligence, armed men are erecting road blocks, storming police stations and ripping down the country’s flag.
They
are demolishing not just their own country — bankrupt, ill-run and
beleaguered — but also the post-war order that has kept most of Europe
and us, here in Britain, safe and free for decades.
Vladimir Putin is striking at the heart of the West.
His target is our
inability to work with allies in defence against common threats. The
profoundly depressing fact is that the events of the past few months, as
Russia has annexed the Crimea and suppressed opposition in Ukraine,
have shown the West to be divided, humiliated and powerless in the face
of these land grabs.
We
are soon to face a bleak choice. We can chose to surrender any
responsibility we have to protect Ukraine and the Baltic states — almost
certainly Putin’s next target — from further Russian incursion. Or we
can mount a last-ditch attempt to deter Russia from furthering its
imperial ambitions.
The husband of a Democratic lawmaker has pled guilty to Social Security fraud and other crimes.
Henry A. Fellela Jr., the husband of Rhode Island Democratic state
Rep. Deborah A. Fellela, pled guilty last week to illegally collecting
more than $58,000 in Social Security benefits, according to local reports.
Fellela pled guilty to five counts on charges of aggravated identity theft, credit card fraud, Social Security fraud and theft of government funds.
This was not Fellela’s first brush with the law. In 1999, he first
applied for Supplemental Social Security benefits — the benefits were
ultimately terminated when he was convicted of credit card and mail
theft, according to the Providence Journal. He was released from prison for those crimes in January 2004.
After his prison term, while serving a 21-month supervised release, Fellela applied for Social Security benefits again. From 2004 – 2012 he improperly collected $58,207 after claiming that he did not have a permanent residence, when he in fact did.
Prosecutors also charged that he racked up thousands in credit card purchases on another man’s credit cards.
Rep. Fellela has in the past defended her husband, according to the Johnston Sun Rise, and said it does not affect her work as a lawmaker.
Al Qaeda leaders were able to hold a large meeting somewhere in south
Yemen despite U.S. drone warfare targeting that region, according to a
video published on Hot Air.
The video comes from a CNN report:
A new video shows what looks like the largest and most
dangerous gathering of al Qaeda in years. And the CIA and the Pentagon
either didn’t know about it or couldn’t get a drone there in time to
strike.
U.S. officials won’t comment on that, but every frame of the video is now being analyzed by the United States.
In the middle of the clip, the man known as al Qaeda’s crown prince,
Nasir al-Wuhayshi, appears brazenly out in the open, greeting followers
in Yemen. Al-Wuhayshi, the No. 2 leader of al Qaeda globally and the
head of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, has said he wants to attack
the United States. But in the video, he looks unconcerned that he could
be hit by an American drone.
The video started appearing on jihadist websites recently, drawing
the attention of U.S. officials and global terrorism experts. U.S.
officials say they believe it’s authentic.
Hot Air writer Ed Morrisey wonders if the United States may have
missed a “golden opportunity to take out a large number of al Qaeda
leaders.”
Did the U.S. know about this [meeting] ahead of time? If
they did, they must have either had difficulty arranging the logistics
of an attack — or perhaps had other assets in place for other reasons.
Morrisey speculates that the lost opportunity could have been caused
by the effort to transfer the drone program from the CIA to the Defense
Department.
Former head of the IRS tax-exempt division Lois Lerner communicated
with the Justice Department about the possibility of criminally
prosecuting certain tax-exempt groups, new documents reveal.
According to the conservative government accountability group
Judicial Watch, email exchanges between Lerner and Nikole C. Flax, the
Chief of Staff to then-Acting IRS Commissioner Steven T. Miller, reveal
there were discussions about possible prosecution of tax-exempt groups
that were believed to have “lied” about political activities.
I got a call today from Richard Pilger Director
Elections Crimes Branch at DOJ … He wanted to know who at IRS the DOJ
folks could talk to about [Rhode Island Democratic Sen. Sheldon]
Whitehouse idea at the hearing that DOJ could piece together false
statement cases about applicants who “lied” on their 1024s — saying they
weren’t planning on doing political activity, and then turning around
and making large visible political expenditures. DOJ is feeling like it
needs to respond, but want to talk to the right folks at IRS to see
whether there are impediments from our side and what, if any damage this
might do to IRS programs.
I told him that sounded like we might need several folks from IRS …
I think we should do it — also need to include CI
[Criminal Investigation Division], which we can help coordinate. Also,
we need to reach out to FEC. Does it make sense to consider including
them in this or keep it separate?
Judicial Watch, which obtained the documents as a result of a Freedom
of Information Act lawsuit initiated after the IRS failed to respond to
their inquiry, reports Lerner then had IRS senior technical adviser
Nancy Marks deal with the scheduling.
On May 9, 2013, Whitehouse held a hearing on the enforcement of
campaign finance laws and noted the possibility of prosecuting such
tax-exempt groups that were believed to have been deceitful on their tax
filings.
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When advertisements for the $7.9-billion Northern Gateway pipeline
project started appearing around Kitimat, B.C., last month, the
non-profit environmental group Douglas Channel Watch hardly seemed ready
for a fight. The group had just $200 in its bank account, no campaign
team and was going up against pipeline giant Enbridge Inc.
But soon donations began to trickle in, with some people handing over
crumpled $20 bills to campaigner Murray Minchin as he pounded signs
into neighbours’ lawns. “We had no actual campaign organized at all
until we saw how much resources Enbridge was pouring into it,” Mr.
Minchin, a long-time Kitimat resident, said in an interview Monday.
“Nobody knew that was coming.”
Within weeks the organization had
raised $14,000 and put together such an effective campaign that on
Saturday nearly 60 per cent of voters said ‘No’ to the pipeline. The
rejection stunned some observers and raised questions about a project
that appears to lack strong support even in the community that stands to
benefit most if it goes ahead.
The twin-pipeline project would
ship crude oil from Alberta to Kitimat, and condensate – a product used
to thin oil for transport – in the other direction.
Kitimat, a
community located 650 kilometres northwest of Vancouver, would be the
marine terminal for the project and would have 165 full-time jobs when
the project is complete.
On Monday, Enbridge executive
vice-president Janet Holder played down the results, noting the
non-binding plebiscite is part of broader, ongoing public consultations.
The controversy over the proposed Keystone XL pipeline has inspired what may well be the largest piece of crop art ever.
The Cowboy and Indian Alliance, a coalition of farmers, ranchers and Native American tribes who oppose the pipeline, recently unveiled a massive display of crop art that covers roughly 80 acres of farmland in rural Nebraska.
(For perspective, when you fly over the Midwest and upper Great Plains, each of the big circles you see is 160 acres, an area equal to that of a half-mile square.)
Jane Kleeb of BOLD Nebraska, a partner in the alliance, told the Washington Examiner that the group "had the idea for the last several years" and had just never known an artist who could execute the project.
Recently, the US State Department released yet another report on the environmental impacts
of building the Keystone pipeline. The report is shocking in its
ironic juxtaposition of real greenhouse gas emissions and the potential
impact on the Earth's climate. It is also shocking because the State
Department tells us the pipeline will be made to withstand climate change,
but won't be responsible for those changes. The report reflects an
incompetence of the authors of the report and a divorce of the report
from common sense. It isn't just me who feels this way, other groups concur the State Department report is faulty.
First,
the report does identify the equivalent greenhouse gas emissions which
would travel through the pipeline. With an estimated 830,000 barrels
per day, my calculations (reinforced by multiple published and
white-paper studies) are that the associated emissions would be
approximately 480 million kg CO2 per day. If you include the byproduct
petcoke, which is being burned as a coal replacement (but is dirtier
than coal), the numbers are even worse (520 million kg CO2 per day).
There is some uncertainty because we are not certain what the actual
transported product will be, how many barrels of bitumen, what the
diluent is made from, what the mix of extraction methods are, etc.
All
of this is equivalent to approximately 35-40 million passenger vehicles
or 50-57 coal-powered plants. During a time we need to reduce
emissions, exploitation of the tar sands and construction of the
Keystone pipeline would do the reverse. We would be locked in for years
of enormous greenhouse emissions. People who think Keystone is a minor
issue don't understand science and they sure don't understand
economics. The tar sands contain reserves equivalent to seven times
Saudi Arabia. Full exploitation of that tar will raise world
temperatures by 0.75°F.
So, how does the report overlook these numbers (which they essentially agree with)? They say, "Stop! We don't want you to focus on the greenhouse gas emissions from oil through Keystone"
(or from the tar sands for that matter). They want you to imagine a
world where the oil would be burned anyways. If not piped through
Keystone, it would come from some other source. If not from Canadian
tar sands, someone else would supply the petroleum. This argument makes
no sense. It is a little like a crystal meth dealer saying to the
police, "I shouldn't be charged for the damage my drug caused
because the users would have found meth, or cocaine, or heroin somewhere
else." Such an argument is illogical.
WASHINGTON — Donny Williams didn’t spend his weekend in Washington walking around the Tidal Basin taking in the cherry blossoms.
He was training people how to get arrested.
Williams, a 36-year-old
environmental activist from Baltimore, taught a class in the nation’s
capital on civil disobedience, part of a last-ditch campaign against the
Keystone XL pipeline, which critics view as a threat to the climate.
The sessions were held
over the past two weekends in eight cities, including Chicago, New York
and Los Angeles. While critics say they remain hopeful that President
Barack Obama will reject Keystone, the tutorials anticipate that a State
Department-led review will find the project to be in the nation’s
interest to build.
“We’re trying to create
as much pressure as we can on President Obama,” Williams said in a phone
interview. “We want to personalize this. This isn’t just the faceless
masses.”
TransCanada Corp. applied
more than five years ago for a permit to build the pipeline across the
U.S.-Canadian border to link Alberta’s oil sands with refineries in
Texas and Louisiana. Each new milestone in the process leads supporters
and opponents to marshal forces. The last was the release of a final
environmental review by the State Department in January, which had
prompted the submission of more than 1 million public comments.
Next month marks the end
of the period during which eight federal agencies, including the
Environmental Protection Agency and Energy Department, had a chance to
comment on the project.
After that, a decision date may finally be near on the project.
Secretary of State John
Kerry will make a recommendation, weighing factors including Keystone’s
environmental, economic and diplomatic impacts. Obama will then make the
final call, ending years of a pitched battle over environmental
protection, job creation and energy security.
For the first time ever, a former U.S. president has come out against the Keystone XL pipeline.
The ex-president in question is Jimmy Carter.
The 39th president joined a group of Nobel laureates to sign a letter
urging the current commander-in-chief to reject the pipeline from
Canada.
The letter tells Barack Obama that he stands on the brink of making a
choice that will define his legacy on one of the greatest challenges
humanity has ever faced — climate change.
“History will reflect on this moment and it will be clear to our
children and grandchildren if you made the right choice.... We urge you
to reject the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline," the letter reads.
It says his decision will either signal a "dangerous commitment" to
the status quo, or "bold leadership" that will inspire millions counting
on him to do the right thing for the climate.
Obama has signalled that a decision on the Alberta-to-Texas pipeline is imminent before summer.
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