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Widow of ‘American Sniper’ author seeks retrial

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jesse_ventura-ts300MINNEAPOLIS (KMSP) – It’s been a month since a jury awarded former Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura $1.8 million in the defamation suit he brought against Chris Kyle, but the widow of the ‘American Sniper’ isn’t ready to let him have it.

On Thursday, attorneys representing Taya Kyle asked a judge to toss out the jury’s verdict and order a new trial. Her legal team argued that the applicable laws and evidence presented in the previous trial don’t support the jury’s award of damages for defamation and unjust enrichment.

Read more at KMSP
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Colorado group seeks to define unborn as persons

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400px-Personhoodcolorado-header4COLORADO – Colorado residents have a chance to redefine prenatal life as a person in their Constitution. The amendment would change the definition of a “person” or “child” to include unborn human being. A group called Personhood Colorado collected 140,000 signatures to get Amendment 67 on the ballot for the November 4 election—53,895 signatures more than required. Previous attempts failed in Colorado in 2008 and 2010.

Amendment 67 is popularly known as The Brady Amendment. The name honors the son of Heather Surovik of Firestone, Colorado. Brady was killed when a drunk driver struck their car on July 5, 2012 while Heather was eight-months pregnant causing a miscarriage. The killing of Brady was not prosecuted because Colorado has no law to do so.

Colorado did pass a law in June of 2013 creating an offense for unlawful temination of a pregnancy with varying degrees. It did not, however, define prenatal life as a person as this amendment would do.

The ballot question reads:

Shall there be an amendment to the Colorado constitution protecting pregnant women and unborn children by defining “person” and “child” in the Colorado criminal code and the Colorado wrongful death act to include unborn human beings?

A rally was held in Denver with both sides of the issue demonstrating for their side.

Keith Mason, president of the pro-life ministry Personhood USA, referred to the Unborn Victims of Violence act signed into law by George Bush in 2004 stating that the federal law never led to bans on abortions or contraceptives.

Nathan Woodliff-Stanley, the executive director of the ACLU of Colorado countered, “Personhood USA are the same people who sponsored ballot amendments that the people of Colorado rejected in 2008 and 2010 — they’re being disingenuous if they say that this isn’t just another attempt to accomplish the same thing.”

The issue is so hotly contested that Republican candidates Mike Coffman and Cory Gardner have both dropped support for the Amendment.

Colorado Republican George Leing who was seeking a seat in the House also distanced himself from the amendment. The Denver Post blog quotes him as saying:

“Just as many Democrats seem unwilling to oppose some of the extreme elements of their party, too many Republicans have succumbed to personhood’ advocates,” Leing said in a news release. “If Republicans, including pro-life Republicans, are to win elections statewide in Colorado, they must stand up to these efforts.”

In an appearance on The Doctors, OB-GYN Jennifer Ashton stated, “Obstetrically the data is crystal-clear, at about 24-weeks, give or take a couple of weeks, that fetus is considered viable—which means it can survive outside the mother.”


Heather Surovik on the doctors (Posted February 21,2014).

FBI Testimony: Illegal Alien Admitted Hitting 16-Year Old With Machete

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CRISTIAN ALEXANDER ZAMORA(CNSNews.com) – On the morning of Sept. 22, 2013, Josael Guevara was a 16-year-old sophomore at Klein Forest High School in Houston, Texas. Before that day was over, he was dead, his body found brutally beaten and dismembered in the Sam Houston National Forest.

Cristian Zamora, 22, and Ricardo Campos-Lara, 19, both illegal aliens from El Salvador, were arrested in connection with Guevara’s murder. Both were indicted for the murder by a federal grand jury in June.

0During Zamora’s detention hearing on July 1, FBI Special Agent Pilar Lozano, one of several agents working on the case, explained how Zamora, Campos-Lara and a third defendant, a juvenile she did not name, allegedly lured Guevara to the park with the intent of killing him. The Houston Chronicle has identified the third defendant as 17-year-old Jose Bonilla-Romero, who has been charged with murder in Walker County, Texas, rather than in federal court.

Lozano, who works on the FBI’s multi-agency gang task force, said that the murder was ordered by the notoriously violent Latin American gang Mara Salvatrucha, or MS-13, of which all the defendants and Guevara were reportedly members.

Read more at CNS News

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A most stunning admission

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An unfortunate video taken on July 28 and posted to YouTube August 3, 2013 displays a stunning admission by a future-former Border Patrol agent. It is unfortunate because the poster did not bother to cover the face of the agent whose statement shows the frustration of many in that service who are being paid to not do their job.

Steve Stockman of Texas introduces bill to address border crisis

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WASHINGTON D.C. – A bill was introduced by Texas House Republican Steve Stockman on July 31 to address the border crisis. It includes dealing with MS-13 gang members who brag to Border Patrol agents about the murders they committed in Central America.

According to the Stockman House web site, the bill would, “…would end the current border crisis by building a full double fence along the US/Mexican border, deploying additional law enforcement to the border, detaining gang members, punishing countries that refuse to accept repatriated illegals and banning welfare benefits for amnestied illegals.”

The text and information about the bill—which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary and other committees—is not yet posted on the Thomas.gov web site. H.R. 5316 is entitled The SECURITY Act (Safely Exacting Cautious Useful Rules for Immigration This Year).

The nine sections of the bill provide for several things including prohibiting criminal gang members from receiving asylum, National Guard deployment and fencing and punishing countries refusing to repatriate refugees. The President of Guatemala is attempting to extort $2 billion to stop the flow of illegal aliens.

The measures of the bill are:

Section 2. Metrics
• Establishes metrics to evaluate the security of the border by defining operational control.
• Penalizes the budget of the DHS Undersecretary for Management for failure to achieve operational control.

Section 3. Fencing
• Requires completion of double-layered fencing along the entire Southern border.
• Requires initial plan and periodic progress reports on status of construction.
• Penalizes the DHS Secretary’s budget for failure to submit plan and progress reports.

Section 4. Border Patrol
• Requires House and Senate Committees to be notified if there are closures of Border Patrol stations and the reasons for the closure and plans for redistribution of personnel.

Section 5. National Guard
• Deploys additional members of the National Guard to support Border Patrol.
• Provides federal assistance for state border control activities.

Section 6. Detention
• Allows detention of dangerous criminal aliens beyond 6 months.

Section 7. Gangs
• Prohibits foreign criminal gang members from receiving asylee or refugee status.

Section 8. Judges
• Requires the Attorney General to submit annual requests to Congress for immigration judges.

Section 9. Facilities
• Requires the Secretary of Homeland Security to submit annual requests to Congress for detention facilities.

Section 10. Incentives
• Closes the additional child tax credit loophole.
• Prohibits an alien deemed to have lawful presence via executive order or policy directive from being defined as a qualified alien for purposes of public benefits.

Stockman complains that the border invasion of illegal aliens began as a result of Obama’s push for a DREAM act amnesty for illegal aliens. The problem is that the DREAM act is only supposed to apply to illegals already in America who grew up here and have no ties to foreign countries.

The gang members are a big problem.

“Gang members with face tattoos openly tell Border Patrol agents about the murders they committed in Central America. Immigration laws prevent agents from detaining these bragging killers,” said Stockman. “Under Obama’s amnesty scheme these killer gang members are set loose in the United States to later get amnesty. Obama doesn’t care. The SECURITY Act puts a stop to that by detaining gang members and stopping Obama’s plan to give them amnesty.”

“These illegals say they are coming because Obama promised them welfare benefits. The invasion stops once Congress passes this bill, which cuts off welfare benefits to these illegals even if Obama issues an Executive Order giving them amnesty,” said Stockman.

(Corrected 10:05 AM)

Dems cry ‘obstructionists’ while House passed over 350 bills that sit on Harry Reid’s desk

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stuck-in-senateThe U.S. House of Representatives has passed 356 bills that are languishing in the Senate, U.S. Rep. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn. said Friday.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has ignored the legislation, even though much of it passed the House with key support from Democrats The Blaze reported.

“We are calling on Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to get off his self-constructed throne, roll up his sleeves and get back to work.” Blackburn said in a post she co-wrote Thursday with U.S. Rep. Renee Ellmers, R-N.C., for HerBlog. “Real lives, a real economy, and a true American recovery hang in the balance.”

Read more at BIZPAC Review

White House Senior Adviser Daniel Pfeiffer blasts Republicans over lawsuit

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Daniel_PfeifferWhite House adviser Daniel Pfeiffer sent out an email blasting Republicans for filing a lawsuit over the illegal use of Executive Orders by the current administration.

Executive orders are not a Constitutional power granted to the President. They are not even mentioned in the Constitution. Executive orders were used first by President George Washington to instruct cabinet members on the manner in which they were to enforce laws passed by Congress. Neither he, nor his successors—until Woodrow Wilson—used executive orders to make laws.

The ability of executive order and bureaucracies to create law was ruled unconstitutional in the decision of Gibbons v. Ogden, 22 U.S. 1 (1824). In Paragraph 146 of the decision Chief Justice John Marshall wrote:

…for the power which is exclusively delegated to Congress, can only be exercised by Congress itself, and cannot be sub-delegated by it.

Pfeiffer’s email reads:

The House of Representatives just took a vote — and it wasn’t to raise the minimum wage, put in place equal pay, create jobs, or reform our broken immigration system.

Instead, the Republican-controlled House of Representatives just voted to sue the President for using his executive authority. This lawsuit will waste valuable time and potentially millions of
taxpayer dollars.

This is the least productive Congress in decades. And instead of doing their job, they are suing the
President for doing his.

The President is committed to making a difference for the millions of hardworking Americans trying to do right by their families and communities. While Republicans in Congress continue to waste taxpayer money, this President is going to keep doing his job.

If you’re doing your own job — and you support President Obama doing his — add your name.

President Obama remains ready and willing to work with Republicans in Congress if they decide to get serious and do something for the American people. But he is also committed to acting even as Congress won’t. You’ve seen that time and time again this year — from raising the federal minimum wage on new federal government contracts, to expanding apprenticeship opportunities and making student loan payments more affordable.

The President is not going to back away from his efforts to use his authority to solve problems and help American families. In fact, tomorrow, President Obama will announce his next executive action to crack down on federal contractors who put workers’ safety and hard-earned pay at risk. It’s just the next in a series of steps this Administration will be taking this year to make sure that American workers are getting a fair deal, and he has pledged to take executive action to deal with our broken immigration system in the months ahead.

That’s what this President is focused on. If you want to see it continue, and are sick and tired of stunts like the House Republicans’ lawsuit, then say so:

http://www.whitehouse.gov/doing-his-job

Row, Row, Row your boat, to get government benefits.

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10532458_10203862247492549_215813082528643457_nThis photo appeared on the Facebook page of Gene McVay. It is reported to be a group of American seniors stopped by the Coast Guard off the coast of Texas on July 29.

The story goes:

The Coast Guard intercepted this boat off the Texas coast today.

The boat was not heading to the US, but towards Mexico and central America.

Another surprise finding was that the people were American senior citizens. Their claim was that they were trying to get to Guatemala or Southern Mexico so they could return to the US as illegal immigrants. Then they would be entitled to far more benefits than they had earned as legitimate American retirees after working for 40 years.

It is believed the Coast Guard gave them food and water and turned them loose?

If they come back with tattoos covering their bodies they could get a lollipop from Texas representative Sheila Jackson Lee.

Korean War and Korean War Veterans not forgotten.

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640px-KoreanWarFallenSoldier1KOREAArizona Revised Statute Title 1, Section 306 provides that, “July 27, in each year, shall be observed as Korean war veterans’ day.” July 27 in 1953 is considered the end of the war in Korea. To this day, however, hostilities still exist spurred on by the Communist leadership in North Korea. The war started a little over three years earlier on June 25, 1950.

The US Department of Defense released statistics which state that 33,739 Americans were killed in hostile action while 2,835 were killed by other causes. 103,284 Americans were injured in combat in Korea. It is estimated that 4,759 service members remain missing.

We respectfully thank those who served in the war in Korea.