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• Dem. Senator: Threatening to Nullify Fed Gun Laws Is Like Opposing Desegregation

  May 7, 2013 at 10:35am

  In reply to bclkimmel79.

  Actually, what Senator Murphy is talking about is all the Red states who are telling the Federal government they will not enforce Federal laws because they don’t like them. Senator Murphy is saying they will be remembered like those who tried to ignore desegregation efforts and attempts to “nullify” Federal supremacy, like the South did just before the Civil War. It has nothing to do with race at all and a lot to do with respecting the power of the Constitution. Many Red states claim to “love” the Constitution, but they completely ignore most of it. What they really mean is, they love the Second Amendment and the right to force their religion down your throat, whether you like it or not.

• How Much Did Sheila Jackson Lee’s ‘Round-the-World Trip’ Cost You?

  April 29, 2013 at 5:10pm

  The Congresswoman went to Asia to investigate overseas adoptions on behalf of her constituents. She spent about 30 hours in transit to Korea from D.C. and she traveled commercially, rather than taking a Government plane or accepting “free” airfare from a lobbying group. She only ran up a fews days per deim, that is her hotel and food, beyond her transportation. Seoul is an expensive city, she probably got $200 a day, with only half of the per diem allowed for her travel days. Why did you come back through Germany, probably because it was cheaper and an shorter flight. Flying from Asia is about 30 hours from the time you wake up in the morning until your head hits the pillow of the same day you left in Asia. I lived in Asia for ten years, I am very, very familiar with the travel time it takes to get there. The flight time from California to Seoul is 12 hours in the air, plus the embarking and disembarking procedures. After about 9 hours in the air, there is no comfortable position that can be assumed, even in Business class.

  Becket Adams likes to play “Gotcha Games”, facts don’t seem to matter too much to him. This was hardly a vacation.

• Is Congress Trying to Exempt Itself From Obamacare? The Interesting Details

  April 25, 2013 at 11:44am

  Federal employees are under FEHB and have been since 1960. It is an exchange system where employees choose their health care from several private companies in a managed competition system. Congress and its employees are eligible for FEHB. FEHB is run by OPM.

• ‘Do Not Pick Up the Pencil’: New York Parents Coach Kids to Refuse Common Core Tests

  April 14, 2013 at 7:01pm

  In reply to ghostsouls.

  The test’s scores are not reflected on the child’s report card. However, the blank scores count as a failure on the school’s report card. The school will be judged for the child’s failure. Some schools lose money because through funding from these tests. “No Child Left Behind” is often used to reward or punish a school for how their students do on standardized tests. Failing schools lose money. Winning schools get more money in their budgets to buy new books, desks, computers, etc. Some districts reward teachers with bonus money. (By the way, I don’t think any of this is really ethical, but it is very popular with the “accountability in education” types like Michelle Rhee.

• Melissa Harris-Perry: ‘I Stand By’ ‘Kids Belong to Whole Communities’ MSNBC Promo

  April 13, 2013 at 7:38pm

  In reply to love the kids.

  Her father is William M. Harris, Senior and he was the Dean of Afro-American Studies at the University of Virginia (founded by Thomas Jefferson) and her mother, who is White, was a former Mormon who became a Unitarian Universalist. She got her Ph.D at age 26 and she’s a professor at Tulane. She’s also the mother of a young daughter.

• Wasserman Schultz Seeks a Little Special Treatment for Frustrated Staffers

  April 11, 2013 at 4:33pm

  I know reality and facts are immaterial things on The Blaze. Rep. Wasserman-Schultz has a reputation of caring for her staffers, of being a good boss. The request sounds like it a request for all the staffers on the Hill, not just hers. Members of Congress have pins on their lapels. They walk right through security, unchallenged. Staffers don’t have these pins and apparently must go through the metal detects just as any visitor to Congress would have to do. If the lines are long because tourists are standing in fewer lines (due to Sequester) then maybe she has a point. If you visit your Congressperson or Senator, wouldn’t you want them to have staff there to greet you and answer your questions? Imagine if they can’t do that because the staff is caught in the line next to the tourists. Imagine having to run something over from the Canon Building to some House committee room and not being able to get through the line. It’s their vacation, true, but you’re just trying to do your job. By the way, they have elevators that are reserved strictly for Members. Also, if you start downhill, at the Russell Building, and go underground, you can access all three House office buildings without having to go through security. The same is true on the Senate side. Directories in all six buildings will tell you where your Representative or Senator has offices. And if you want into the Capitol galleries, you have to stop there anyway to pick up your free ticket.

• Report: Up to 14 People Stabbed on College Campus in Houston

  April 9, 2013 at 2:20pm

  In reply to Exidor.

  Quite the opposite, actually. Most college classrooms have more than one exit due to fire regulations. If it’s one or two people and you have to get close enough to stab them, the other people in the room can run out the other door. Even if it’s two people, one at each door, the number of students could easily get past or overwhelm one person with a knife. On the same day as Newtown, a man in China attacked 23 school children with a knife, though nearly as many children were wounded in China, there were no deaths as there were in Connecticut.

• Federal Judge Who Emailed a Bestiality Joke About Obama Is Retiring — Here are the Details

  April 3, 2013 at 4:52pm

  In reply to 912network.

  Bill Maher hasn’t ever made a joke like that about Barbara or Laura Bush, and the Left did not laugh at it. Sarah Palin whines about how the Left has treated her, but you can’t show one mainstream Liberal who has said anythiing like that about her or her children. But if you read the rest of the comments on this thread, you’ll find as bad or worse than the joke that got that judge in trouble.

• School Bans the Word ‘Easter’ From Easter Festivities to Not ‘Infringe on the Rights of Others’

  March 27, 2013 at 10:36am

  In reply to rja444.

  Please tell me what plastic eggs and stuffed pastel bunnies have to do with Passover or the Crucifxion of Jesus? Even the name “Easter” takes its name from a pagan godess. Ham for Easter dinner? If Jesus came to your house, he couldn’t eat it! Where in the Bible do the Apostles celebrate Spring with pagan fertility rituals? I’m a Liberal and a Catholic. I’ve been saying the Sorrowful Mysteries on my weekly Rosary since Lent started. I’ll be saying a Rosary on each day of the Triduum and I’ve abstained from meat every Friday during Lent and I fast for at least 20 hours on Ash Wednesday and Good Friday. And I’ll go to a public Stations of the Cross on Good Friday. My husband and daughters are currently observing Passover, which makes Easter dinner a bit interesting since they can’t have wheat, rice, or corn or things with yeast. Nowhere in our celebrations do we have any room for “Peter Cottontail” and baskets of jelly bean filled plastic eggs. However, one of my daughters does like those ghastly “Cadbury Eggs” and the other one went out of her way to buy Kosher for Passover, sugar sweetened Coke, which is one of the things I look forward to on Easter Sunday…..that and coffee. Where is this war on Christianity that you speak? Could it be in that bunny with the Easter basket, hidden among the colored eggs?

• Why Aren’t Dems ‘Pro-Choice’ When It Comes to Guns and Women? O’Reilly Clashes With Guest Over That Question

  March 13, 2013 at 12:49pm

  In reply to DesertRose1960.

  @Country_hick, As far as purses go, mine is lighweight, I don’t carry a lot of extra stuff. Adding a 20 oz gun to my purse would probably double the weight I’m carrying. Body holsters wouldn’t fit me very well and would not be concealed by my clothing.