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Craig Bannister | November 22, 2014
  Pres. Obama said today that he will begin respecting limits on his authority once Congress passes an immigration bill he likes. In his weekly address, entitled “Immigration Accountability Executive Action,” Obama responded to those who criticize him for exceeding his authority by issuing an executive order changing immigration law: “As you might have heard, there are Members of Congress…
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Craig Bannister | November 20, 2014
The American Center for Law & Justice (ACLJ), which focuses on constitutional law, said Thursday that President Obama’s Executive Order on immigration reform is an “unconstitutional power grab of historic proportions” designed to change the law by “executive fiat – something that he does not have the power to do.” “The action is an unconstitutional power grab of historic proportions by a…
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Craig Bannister | November 20, 2014
Wednesday, Attorney General Holder announced that the Justice Department (DOJ) collected a whopping $24.7 billion in civil and criminal actions in fiscal year 2014 – more than triple what it raked in for FY2013. “That’s more than three times the $8 billion total the Department collected in 2013. And it’s nearly eight and a half times the combined budgets of our 94 U.S. Attorneys’ Offices and…
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Craig Bannister | November 19, 2014
    So, what is Grubergate all about? Get up to speed by watching this fast-paced, two-minute video. The montage of clips answers all of your most burning questions about the Jonathan Gruber Obamacare scandal: Who is Jonathan Gruber and what did he say that’s causing all the ruckus? What was Gruber’s role in Obamacare? How do Pres. Obama’s current claims about Gruber contradict what he’s…
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Craig Bannister | November 18, 2014
“Authorizing Keystone XL is an act of war,” Rosebud Sioux Tribal Pres. Cyril Scott declared, responding to Congressional efforts to authorize the oil pipeline. In a statement provided to MRCTV by spokesman Paul Valandra, Pres. Scott said the pipeline would constitute "death warrants and the death warrants of our children and grandchildren. The Rosebud Sioux Tribe will not allow this pipeline…
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Craig Bannister | November 18, 2014
“CBP Seizes Fake Monster Tails,” reads the headline of today’s media release by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP). “U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers working at the Dallas/Fort Worth International airport seized 200 Rainbow Loom ® Monster Tail ™ kits, Nov. 16.” CBP explains that fake Monster Tails can be dangerous: “For this particular seizure, a primary concern was the risk…
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Craig Bannister | November 18, 2014
Today, Pres. Obama is dismissing controversial Obamacare architect Jonathan Gruber as just “some adviser” who never worked for him. But, in 2006, he boasted of stealing ideas “liberally” from Gruber. In a April 5, 2006 event at the Brookings Institution entitled “Restoring America’s Promise of Opportunity, Prosperity and Growth,” Obama called Gruber one of “the brightest minds” – from whom…
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Craig Bannister | November 15, 2014
UPDATE: Apparently, green activists hate rain even more than they hate oil pipelines. Far less than the hoped-for hundreds at this AM's rainy rally with mock Keystone XL in Landrieu's yard. pic.twitter.com/LhJ6W4G1Dy — Elana Schor (@eschor) November 17, 2014 .@eschor @POLITICOPro we'll be delivering a giant pipeline as her going away present. I mean, if she really wants it in her backyard…
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Craig Bannister | November 12, 2014
Internet Services Providers (ISPs) are denouncing Pres. Obama’s plan to have the FCC turn the Internet into a utility under Title II of an arcane 1934 communications law passed when rotary phones were cutting-edge technology. In its comments to the FCC on Obama’s “Net Neutrality” plan, the 800-member Wireless Internet Service Providers Association (WISPA) says that Title II is irrelevant to…
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Craig Bannister | November 12, 2014
Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) is calling Pres. Obama’s new climate deal with China “a non-binding charade” – in which “China won’t have to reduce anything.” In a statement released today, Sen. Inhofe disputed China’s promise to shun fossil fuels: "In the President's climate change deal, the United States will be required to more steeply reduce our carbon emissions while China won't have to reduce…