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		<title>Obamacare&#8217;s Annus Horribilis</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 2014 05:13:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A review of health care consumers' nightmare year. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/aca_marketplace_ap_605.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-248473" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/aca_marketplace_ap_605-450x287.jpg" alt="Health Overhaul Florida" width="331" height="211" /></a>There&#8217;s no candy coating the truth: Obamacare has had a very terrible, horrible, crappy, none-too-happy year. What it really means is that the victims of Obamacare — taxpayers, health care consumers, health care providers, employers and employees — have had a hellish, nightmarish 2014.</p>
<p>Let&#8217;s start with premiums. President Candy Land promised that he&#8217;d &#8220;lower premiums by up to $2,500 for a typical family per year.&#8221; But premiums for people in the individual market for health insurance have spiked over the last year. In fact, Forbes health policy journalist Avik Roy and the Manhattan Institute analyzed 3,137 counties and found that individual market premiums rose an average of 49 percent.</p>
<p>The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services itself admitted this month that average premiums will rise at least five percent for the lowest-cost plans offered by federal Obamacare health care exchanges. Democrats&#8217; reaction? Obamacare rate shock doesn&#8217;t matter &#8230; because government is redistributing the burden and taxpayers are footing the bill! HHS crowed this week that nearly 90 percent of exchange enrollees received public subsidies in order to pay their premiums.</p>
<p>&#8220;Affordable&#8221; doesn&#8217;t mean what White House truth-warpers says it means — just like everything else they&#8217;ve spewed about the doomed federal takeover of health policy in America.</p>
<p>As the White House tries to hype year-end enrollment numbers and hide Obamacare-imposed cancellations, just remember that the administration got caught this fall cooking the books by including 380,000 dental plan subscribers that have never been counted before. Innocent oopsie? The &#8220;erroneous&#8221; inflation just happened to push the Obamacare enrollment figures over the president&#8217;s 7 million goal, while fudging the attrition of more than 1 million enrolled in Obamacare medical insurance plans.</p>
<p>A &#8220;mistake was made,&#8221; HHS &#8216;fessed up after GOP investigators discovered the Common Core math antics. Lying liars. Caught red-handed.</p>
<p>So, how about: &#8220;If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor?&#8221; Well, not if he or she isn&#8217;t practicing anymore. After scoffing at conservative warnings for years that socialized medicine-light would create doctor shortages, Obamacare cheerleaders can no longer whitewash the grim reality. The Physicians Foundation found that 81 percent of doctors believe they are &#8220;either overextended or at full capacity.&#8221; Another 44 percent said they &#8220;planned to cut back on the number of patients they see, retire, work part-time or close their practice to new patients.&#8221;</p>
<p>Analysts on all sides of the debate agree that massive cuts in Medicaid payments to primary care doctors, which take effect on Jan. 1, will reduce patient access. Meanwhile, a Commonwealth Fund survey found that 26 percent of American adults waited six days or more to see a doctor — with only Canada and Norway performing worse.</p>
<p>A separate physicians&#8217; staffing company&#8217;s poll, reported by the left-wing New York Times, found that patients &#8220;waited an average of 29 days nationally to see a dermatologist [,] 66 days to have a physical in Boston and 32 days for a heart evaluation by a cardiologist in Washington.&#8221;</p>
<p>Translation: If you like your doctor, it doesn&#8217;t mean you&#8217;ll get to see your doctor. Tick, tick, tick.</p>
<p>How about Obama&#8217;s pledge to lower costs? A Congressional Budget Office reported earlier this year that implementation will cost taxpayers $2 trillion over the next decade. That&#8217;s just the direct costs. Obamacare&#8217;s job-killing regulations continue to discourage businesses from expanding and force more bosses to slash hours to avoid the employer mandate.</p>
<p>Based on estimates by Harvard and University of Chicago economists, health care policy analyst John Goodman concludes that the &#8220;indirect cost to the economy &#8230; equals more than $8,000 per household per year — or four times the size of the direct budget outlays.&#8221;</p>
<p>This includes the tax on innovation. As I&#8217;ve reported over the last four years, Obamacare&#8217;s reviled medical-device tax has forced companies to cut back on research and development, in addition to catalyzing layoffs of at least 33,000 workers over the past year. A recent study by the New York Federal Reserve found that half of the state&#8217;s medical device manufacturers were bracing for &#8220;considerably&#8221; higher health care costs as a result of Obamacare rules. These include &#8220;higher deductibles, increased copays, higher out-of-pocket maximums and an increased employee contribution to the premium.&#8221;</p>
<p>Who&#8217;s &#8220;stupid&#8221; now? The fallout from intrepid Philadelphia investment adviser and citizen researcher Rich Weinstein&#8217;s exposure of Obamacare architect/deceiver Jonathan Gruber has only just begun. Far worse than Gruber&#8217;s insult of American voters, Weinstein notes, is the annual $250 billion tax grab at the heart of Gruber and Company&#8217;s scheme. Obamacare&#8217;s so-called &#8220;Cadillac tax&#8221; on expensive health plans was purposely &#8220;mislabeled,&#8221; Gruber said in video uncovered by Weinstein, in order to pass a tax that will eventually hit all employer plans.</p>
<p>Separately, insurers have been lobbying for a total taxpayer bailout of an estimated $1 billion in 2014. Meanwhile, beleaguered Obamacare non-profit &#8220;co-ops&#8221; that were supposed to lower costs have sucked up $2 billion in loans to date and hundreds of millions more in emergency solvency funding this year.</p>
<p>The worst is yet to come. Before the midterms, panicked and politically driven Obama bureaucrats delayed premium payment deadlines, high-risk insurance pool cancellations and onerous &#8220;meaningful use&#8221; mandates on health providers grappling with Obamacare&#8217;s disastrous top-down electronic medical records rules. Those chickens will come home to roost in 2015.</p>
<p>One silver lining: A total of 16 Senators who voted for the federal health care takeover either failed to win re-election or declined to run for re-election.</p>
<p>Good riddance to them and farewell to Obamacare&#8217;s annus horribilis.</p>
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		<title>Mrs. Obama&#8217;s Tall Tales of Racialized Victimhood</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Dec 2014 05:40:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Michelle Malkin]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The truth about the First Lady's alleged experience with "racism" at Target. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/michelle-obama-angry.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-247789" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/michelle-obama-angry-416x350.jpg" alt="michelle-obama-angry" width="349" height="294" /></a>Oh, woe is she. In an &#8220;exclusive&#8221; interview with People magazine this week, first lady Michelle Obama lamented the &#8220;sting&#8221; of &#8220;racist experiences&#8221; that she and her husband allegedly still suffer. My message for America&#8217;s Marie Antoinette? Cry me a river.</p>
<p>To show how she&#8217;s down with The Struggle of post-Ferguson agitators, Mrs. Obama cited a supposedly horrifying incident at a Target store where she was treated, in her paranoid mind, as a subservient. &#8220;Even as the first lady,&#8221; she bemoaned, &#8220;not highly disguised, the only person who came up to me in the store was a woman who asked me to help her take something off a shelf.&#8221;</p>
<p>A lowly peon asked her for an innocent favor? It&#8217;s Jim Crow all over again! ABC News reports that Mrs. Obama said such &#8220;incidents are &#8216;the regular course of life&#8217; for African-Americans and a &#8216;challenge&#8217; for the country to overcome.&#8221;</p>
<p>Newsflash: Oh, deep in my heart, I do believe that it is part of the &#8220;regular course of life&#8221; of tall people of all colors (Mrs. Obama is 5-foot-11) to be prevailed upon to reach high on behalf of those of us who are vertically challenged. These are not odious &#8220;incidents&#8221; of racism between slaves and masters. They&#8217;re matters of common courtesy between equals.</p>
<p>So overcome your ridiculously hypersensitive, privileged self and deal with it, girl! (And now don&#8217;t get all hot and bothered about the &#8220;girl&#8221; thing. Sheesh.)</p>
<p>There is, of course, a truly insidious &#8220;-ism&#8221; at work here: Cynicism. Mrs. Obama&#8217;s dissemination of her false racial narrative in a popular celebrity rag is cunningly calculated to pander to America&#8217;s aggrieved leftists. We know Mrs. Obama&#8217;s victim sob story is a steaming pile of rotten turnips because the last time she talked about The Incident, it was a feel-good late-night talk show anecdote devoid of discrimination.</p>
<p>On David Letterman&#8217;s show in 2012, the haute-couture-clad first lady recounted the same &#8220;incognito&#8221; Target visit to demonstrate her just-like-you bona fides. She chuckled as she shared how the shopper asked: &#8220;Can you reach on that shelf and hand me the detergent?&#8221; As the audience laughed with delight and Mrs.</p>
<p>Obama grinned from ear to ear, she told Letterman: &#8220;I reached up, &#8217;cause she was short, and I reached up, pulled it down — she said, &#8216;Well, you didn&#8217;t have to make it look so easy.&#8217; That was my interaction. I felt so good.&#8221;</p>
<p>From overjoyed Regular Mom to Oppressed Martyr, can Mrs. Obama&#8217;s shopping fable get any more absurd? To paraphrase a popular slogan of the social justice mob: Jig&#8217;s Up, Don&#8217;t Compute.</p>
<p>It just goes to show you: Once a race hustler, always a race hustler. The first lady demonstrated a willingness to employ accusations of racial oppression for political gain from the earliest days of her adult life. Take Mrs. Obama&#8217;s senior thesis at Princeton University, titled &#8220;Princeton-Educated Blacks and the Black Community.&#8221; Decrying her racial otherness, the Ivy Leaguer accused her university of pushing her down the dreaded path toward &#8220;further integration and/or assimilation into a white cultural and social structure that will only allow me to remain on the periphery of society; never becoming a full participant.&#8221;</p>
<p>Yet, while regaling campaign crowds with complaints about bias, burdensome education loans and the beastly lily-white corporate world, Mrs. Obama neglected to mention that it was a white male Princeton alum who went beyond the call of duty to bring her from her imagined &#8220;periphery&#8221; to the center of power.</p>
<p>As I recounted in my book &#8220;Culture of Corruption,&#8221; Sidley and Austin corporate law partner Stephen Carlson offered the elite student generous career guidance and mentoring while she was an undergrad and then reached out to her again when she was at Harvard Law. She secured a coveted job as a summer associate in 1987, accepted a full-time job upon graduation and never looked back. Mrs. Obama, perpetual victim, hopped from Princeton to Harvard to prestigious law firms, cushy nonprofit gigs, an exclusive Hyde Park manse and a crony corporate board appointment before landing at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.</p>
<p>Only in America is such upward mobility possible by a thin-skinned incessant whiner who has fabricated racial tall tales all the way to the tippy-top of the ladder of opportunity. God bless the U.S.A.</p>
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		<title>Pesky Questions About Those AWOL Afghans</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Oct 2014 04:10:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why the silence from authorities? ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/img-Missing-Afghan-soldiers-found-at-Canadian-border.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-242169" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/img-Missing-Afghan-soldiers-found-at-Canadian-border-450x313.jpg" alt="img-Missing-Afghan-soldiers-found-at-Canadian-border" width="346" height="241" /></a>So the five Afghan soldiers who went missing from two separate U.S. military bases are now all accounted for and apparently headed back to their home country. Feel safer now? Don&#8217;t.</p>
<p>The Pentagon, State Department and Department of Homeland Security would like this story to be over and done. (Just like they wanted the White House &#8220;fence-jumper&#8221; story to be buried. But then we found out he didn&#8217;t just jump the fence; he also overpowered a Secret Service agent, burst through the halls and invaded the East Room wielding a knife.)</p>
<p>Here are my nagging questions about another hushed-up national security incident the White House would prefer to whitewash:</p>
<p>—Why were officials so quick to tell the public that these men were not a threat to the public?</p>
<p>The two Afghan men who disappeared on Sept. 13 from a training program with the Drug Enforcement Administration in Quantico, Va., were Mohd Naweed Samimi, 24, and Mohammad Yasin Ataye, 22. The three men who ditched Cape Cod&#8217;s Camp Edwards on Sept. 22 were Major Jan Mohammad Arash, Captain Mohammad Nasir Askarzada and Captain Noorullah Aminyar.</p>
<p>Both Afghan and U.S. officials rushed to assure the public that none of these men posed a security threat. The Pentagon said &#8220;they were vetted&#8221; by the State Department through its so-called &#8220;Leahy vetting process.&#8221; Big deal. This so-called process has been under fire for years because of shoddy or unavailable records, as well as inconsistency across programs and agencies.</p>
<p>&#8220;We generally don&#8217;t know who we are training. We have little reliable information,&#8221; one U.S. official told RAND Corp. researchers. Their study &#8220;found significant problems with current U.S. vetting practices in relation to security assistance.&#8221; That was six years ago.</p>
<p>In 2008, similar problems were exposed by the State Department inspector general in visa programs for thousands of Afghan and Iraqi translators and interpreters who worked for U.S. government agencies. The programs were deemed at &#8220;high risk for fraud and abuse,&#8221; with almost 25 percent of those approved failing to meet the eligibility criteria.</p>
<p>In 2012, after Afghan trainees murdered 45 NATO troops, U.S. Special Operations forces suspended Afghan police and special forces training. Lax screening and security measures led to widespread abuse and corruption within Afghan law enforcement units, not to mention endangerment of our troops. In addition to a massive rescreening effort of 350,000 Afghan security forces, U.S. military leaders directed coalition force units to &#8220;create safe zones inside (Afghan National Security Forces) compounds where they can defend themselves if necessary.&#8221;</p>
<p>Unfortunately, the &#8220;safe zone&#8221; initiative didn&#8217;t work at Camp Bastion in September 2012, when an unprecedented attack by Taliban infiltrators left two Marines dead, 17 troops wounded and eight Harrier jets destroyed or damaged. Neither did &#8220;safe zones&#8221; stop the August 2014 slaying of U.S. Maj. Gen. Harold Greene at the hands of a Taliban infiltrator wearing an Afghan army uniform.</p>
<p>And no such &#8220;safe zones&#8221; have been created here at home for when Afghan trainees come to our shores and suddenly wander off.</p>
<p>—Where exactly were the Afghan soldiers who ditched Quantico found and with whom?</p>
<p>According to press reports citing unnamed federal law enforcement officials, Samimi and Ataye were &#8220;picked up in Buffalo, N.Y., without incident.&#8221; Some speculated they wanted to reunite with a &#8220;relative.&#8221; I&#8217;m sure the residents of Buffalo would appreciate more details.</p>
<p>Alarmingly, when I asked DHS/ICE public affairs officer Khaalid Walls on Tuesday what the status of the Quantico Afghan soldiers was, he told me: &#8220;I haven&#8217;t heard of that.&#8221;</p>
<p>—What steps are being taken to ensure that the Cape Cod Afghans aren&#8217;t catch-and-release beneficiaries?</p>
<p>According to Walls, the men will be in immigration court in Batavia, N.Y., on Thursday for a hearing. When I asked whether the feds would intervene if the judge orders them released pending further removal proceedings (which can drag on for years), Walls told me he didn&#8217;t know.</p>
<p>—Isn&#8217;t it uncanny that both sets of AWOL Afghan soldiers were headed up north near the U.S.-Canada border? The Afghan trio who abandoned Camp Edwards turned up on Rainbow Bridge as they attempted to enter Canada. That&#8217;s just a half-hour away from Buffalo, where the Quantico Afghans were apprehended.</p>
<p>Side notes: The FBI is still searching for Canadian al-Qaida terror plotter Amer el-Maati, who trained in Afghanistan and Pakistan, and fellow Canadian fugitive jihadist Faker Ben Abdelaziz Boussora, another al-Qaida terror suspect trained in Afghanistan. And just last week, a Taliban-trained jihadist living in Ottawa pleaded guilty to a terror plot involving 56 cellphone-triggered explosive devices smuggled into Canada from Afghanistan.</p>
<p>Hiva Alizadeh was arrested with beheading videos and &#8220;How To Kidnap an American&#8221; pamphlets. Past Canadian jihad plots have targeted financial districts, tourist landmarks, government buildings and power grids on both sides of the border.</p>
<p>Last questions: Did the Quantico and Cape Cod soldiers know one another? Have any other Afghan soldiers gone missing? When? Where? Inquiring, non-complacent minds want to know.</p>
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		<title>Hey, Bloomberg: Mind Your Own Crumbling City</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jul 2014 04:25:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The real reason the former NYC mayor lashed out at "rural" Colorado. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Bloomberg-angry.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-236212" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Bloomberg-angry-427x350.jpg" alt="Bloomberg-angry" width="268" height="220" /></a>Some sore losers just don&#8217;t know when to pick up their billion-dollar marbles and go away. Far, far away.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m looking at you, Michael Bloomberg.</p>
<p>The former New York City mayor mouthed off about my adopted hometown of Colorado Springs and my friends in nearby Pueblo in Rolling Stone magazine this month. He snidely bashed our neighborhoods as backwater holes &#8220;where I don&#8217;t think there&#8217;s roads. It&#8217;s as far rural as you can get.&#8221;</p>
<p>Snotty Bloomberg is as clueless about geography as he is about the Second Amendment. Colorado Springs and Pueblo are the second and seventh largest cities in the state, respectively. If we&#8217;re hee-haw, everyone&#8217;s hee-haw. (And what&#8217;s wrong with hee-haw, anyway?)</p>
<p>Why such vitriol and hatred for the Rockies from the man who pompously co-founded the &#8220;No Labels&#8221; movement for &#8220;civility&#8221; in politics?</p>
<p>Simple: Bloomberg&#8217;s still smarting from the ground-breaking losses he and his gun-grabbing East Coast elite pals suffered last fall.</p>
<p>Grass-roots activists — independents, former Democrats, constitutional conservatives and Republicans — successfully recalled two top gun control zealots in our state legislature.</p>
<p>The recall organizers were outspent by a whopping 7-to-1 margin. Bloomberg poured $350,000 into the failed effort to stave off the historic recalls.</p>
<p>Listen up, Bloomie: Butt out of our state and mind your own crumbling city before you bash anyone else&#8217;s infrastructure.</p>
<p>You were mayor of New York City for 12 years. How are your roads, bridges and utilities doing, Pal?</p>
<p>According to the Center for an Urban Future&#8217;s Adam Forman, &#8220;1,000 miles of water mains, 170 school buildings and 165 bridges were constructed over a century ago.</p>
<p>The city&#8217;s public hospital buildings are 57 years old, on average, and 531 public housing towers were built prior to 1950.&#8221; The center&#8217;s report documented 403 water main breaks last year. And in 2012, &#8220;162 bridges across the city — or 11 percent of the total — were structurally deficient,&#8221; and 47 of these were deemed &#8220;fracture critical.&#8221;</p>
<p>Take a Big Gulp of these additional fun facts:</p>
<p>— &#8220;Thirty seven percent of all subway signals exceed their 50-year useful life, slowing the movement of trains.&#8221;</p>
<p>— &#8220;Approximately 4,000 miles of sewer pipe across the city are made of vitreous clay, a material susceptible to cracking and blockage.</p>
<p>— Meanwhile, 1,500 of the 2,600 public housing buildings do not comply with local standards for exterior and facade conditions.</p>
<p>— In Manhattan and Staten Island, less than 60 percent of roads were rated &#8220;good&#8221; by residents. A &#8220;staggering 65.9 percent of streets in West Harlem/Morningside Heights&#8221; were in &#8220;fair to poor condition.&#8221;</p>
<p>— Highway maintenance has deteriorated over Bloomberg&#8217;s tenure. In 2012, 51 percent of highways were rated poor to fair, compared to 38 percent in 2008. &#8220;Conditions have declined in every borough except Brooklyn.&#8221;</p>
<p>Oh, and dare I mention to you and your city slicker clique that embarrassing time you had a few Christmas seasons ago dealing with a few feet of snow. Hundreds of ambulances were left stranded. Mass transit was paralyzed. Businesses suffered. Your bungling and AWOL jet setting (Bloomberg was flying to Bermuda while New Yorkers braced for the storm) cost taxpayers the entire $40 million snow removal budget and $30 million in city overtime.</p>
<p>But we&#8217;re the bumbling yokels?</p>
<p>Go home, Nanny Bloomberg. Keep your high-and-mighty nose out of our business, your hands off our guns and your money out of our state.</p>
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		<title>Military Bases: Obama&#8217;s New Illegal Alien Dumping Grounds</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jun 2014 04:02:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Michelle Malkin]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How many bases across the country are redistributing illegal immigrants?]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/ILLEGALIMMIGRATION_NEVELEOT.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-233912 " src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/ILLEGALIMMIGRATION_NEVELEOT.jpg" alt="ILLEGALIMMIGRATION_NEVELEOT" width="271" height="203" /></a>A source tipped me off last week to a curious occurrence: It seems that two planeloads of illegal aliens were recently shipped to Massachusetts. The first reportedly landed at Hanscom Air Force Base in Bedford. According to my tipster, approximately 160 illegal immigrants arrived on that flight and stayed nearly a week before being transferred to a Department of Homeland Security site and then released.</p>
<p>The second flight reportedly was diverted from Hanscom to Boston&#8217;s Logan Airport this past weekend. I am told that both Massachusetts and New Hampshire officials were on hand. I reached out to Hanscom AFB for confirmation, but did not receive a call back by my deadline.</p>
<p>Question: How many other military bases are stealthily being used to redistribute, house, process and release illegal border crossers?</p>
<p>What we do know for sure is that the Obama administration already has converted several other military bases across the country into outposts for tens of thousands of illegal aliens from Central and South America.</p>
<p>San Antonio&#8217;s Lackland Air Force Base opened its doors as an illegal immigrant camp last month. Port Hueneme Naval Base in Ventura County, Calif., will shelter nearly 600 illegal border-crossing children and teens. The Fort Sill Army post in Lawton, Okla., was ordered on Friday to take in 1,200 illegal aliens despite the objections of GOP Gov. Mary Fallin, who blasted the White House, saying, &#8220;The Obama administration continues to fail in its duty to protect our borders and continues to promote policies that encourage, rather than discourage, illegal immigration.&#8221;</p>
<p>A makeshift detention center in Nogales, Ariz., is being used as the central clearing station for the latest illegal alien surge. The deluge is a threat to national security, public safety and public health — not to mention a slap in the face to the law-abiding men and women in uniform on those bases and a kick in the teeth to law-abiding people around the world patiently waiting for approval of their visas.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, a law enforcement source in Texas tells me this week that countless illegal aliens are being released into the general public despite testing positive for tuberculosis.</p>
<p>&#8220;The feds are putting them on public transportation to God knows where,&#8221; he said.</p>
<p>Another source, working in the border patrol in south Texas, tells me: &#8220;Our station, along with every other station, is flooded with women and small children. One lady yesterday had a baby as young as 8 months. And they&#8217;re coming over with pink eye and scabies. So getting them medically cleared becomes a priority. They&#8217;ll be here for almost a week, so we provide them with formula and diapers. We have a catering service contracted to feed them because it&#8217;s too many for us to feed on our own. And of course, they end up being released because every family housing facility is full. They&#8217;re supposed to show up for immigration court at a later date, but they don&#8217;t.&#8221;</p>
<p>Same old, same old. I&#8217;ve reported for years on the feds&#8217; catch-and-release games and deportation Kabuki. The &#8220;notice to appear&#8221; letters — known as &#8220;run letters&#8221; — are a notorious joke in open-borders circles.</p>
<p>The latest &#8220;crisis&#8221; is a wholly manufactured byproduct of White House administrative amnesties, which are supported by a toxic alliance of ethnic-vote-seeking Democrats and cheap-labor-hungry Big Business Republicans. The flood comes just as Obama&#8217;s DHS announced a two-year extension for beneficiaries of the &#8220;Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals&#8221; (DACA) program. A whopping 560,000 illegal aliens have been granted amnesty under DACA and also have received employment authorization.</p>
<p>As I&#8217;ve said for two decades, illegal alien amnesties guarantee two things: more illegal immigration and more Democratic voters. Now we have a White House forcing U.S. military bases to provide interminable benefits and services to illegal aliens for political gain, while said White House evades responsibility for allowing military veterans to die waiting for the most basic of medical services.</p>
<p>And where&#8217;s the GOP &#8220;leadership&#8221; in this country? Doing the bidding of the amnesty-loving U.S. Chamber of Commerce and demonizing Republican candidates at every level who are sick and tired of giving away the store and the country.</p>
<p>God save us from bipartisanship.</p>
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		<title>What Happened to Marine Deserter Wassef Ali Hassoun?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jun 2014 04:00:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A terrorist sympathizer with military training is on the run. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/missing-marine.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-233571" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/missing-marine.jpg" alt="missing-marine" width="263" height="263" /></a>Ten years ago this month, U.S. Marine Wassef Ali Hassoun disappeared from Camp Fallujah in Iraq. After a five-month military investigation, he was charged with desertion and theft, brought back to Virginia&#8217;s Quantico Marine base and then transferred to North Carolina&#8217;s Camp Lejeune for trial.</p>
<p>Yet, a full decade later, Hassoun is as free as a bird.</p>
<p>The accused deserter&#8217;s whereabouts are unknown. No trial ever began. No punishment ensued. And our leaders in Washington don&#8217;t seem to be doing a thing about this.</p>
<p>Hassoun was born in Lebanon and immigrated with his family to Utah in 1999. A few years later, he joined the Marines as an Arabic translator. On June 20, 2004, Hassoun bailed on guard duty at his base in Fallujah. He took his military-issued gun and his Muslim prayer rug. Military records obtained by the Salt Lake Tribune showed that he was &#8220;torn between military loyalty and his Muslim beliefs.&#8221;</p>
<p>According to the internal probe, he undermined intelligence-gathering operations by refusing to translate questions about Islam. He balked at raising his voice to suspected jihadi imams and sheiks. He openly threatened to &#8220;walk out the front gate and leave.&#8221;</p>
<p>The Muslim Marine told his colleagues he supported Hezbollah terrorist attacks on Israel. Members of his unit told investigators he was &#8220;anti-American&#8221; and listened to jihad sermons on propaganda CDs. Hassoun had received spiritual counseling from Navy Lt. Cmdr. Abuhena Saifulislam, a Muslim military chaplain tied to a radical Wahhabist outfit under federal investigation, according to Hoover Institution fellow and journalist Paul Sperry.</p>
<p>A bizarre video by Hassoun&#8217;s Islamist &#8220;kidnappers&#8221; showed him blindfolded with a sword above his head. But his fellow Marines suspected it was all staged and the &#8220;abduction&#8221; a collaborative fake. What did the purported hostage-takers want in return for the shady, disgruntled American serviceman? The release of jihadists in &#8220;U.S.-led occupation prisons.&#8221; Translation: Gitmo detainees. (Americans would never negotiate such a reckless trade, right? Oh, wait.)</p>
<p>In an even weirder twist, Hassoun somehow resurfaced at the U.S. embassy in Lebanon a few weeks after he walked away from his base. His family was rumored to have enlisted the aid of an Islamist group associated with the Muslim Brotherhood.</p>
<p>Hassoun denied desertion charges, came back to the U.S. for trial and then deserted a second time after failing to return to Camp Lejeune after visiting family in Utah. In 2011, Hassoun&#8217;s family sought a $1 million book and movie deal in Hollywood. One of his brothers said the fugitive Marine was with family in Lebanon.</p>
<p>Ten summers after he abandoned his post, double-deserting Hassoun is still on the run and has yet to be held accountable.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s worth reminding Americans about Hassoun&#8217;s story in light of President Obama&#8217;s exploding Bowe Bergdahl scandal. By all appearances, this administration has no intention of taking action on longstanding allegations that Bergdahl, like Hassoun before him, deliberately abandoned his post in 2009. Defiant Obama said he makes &#8220;no apologies&#8221; for the treacherous deal, even as reports of Bergdahl&#8217;s renunciation of U.S. citizenship and conversion to Islam have surfaced in the past 48 hours.</p>
<p>Soldiers on the ground have described how Bergdahl&#8217;s disappearance catalyzed deadly coordinated attacks by the Taliban on numerous U.S. outposts in Afghanistan. The response has been breathtaking. One of Obama&#8217;s minions, former Veterans Affairs bureaucrat and now Housing and Urban Development flack Brandon Friedman defended his boss by suggesting that Bergdahl&#8217;s colleagues were &#8220;psychopaths.&#8221;</p>
<p>Nancy Pelosi&#8217;s daughter, Alexandra, sneered that Bergdahl&#8217;s critics inside the military are &#8220;dysfunctional.&#8221; Harry Reid invoked Hillary Clinton&#8217;s &#8220;What difference does it make?&#8221; retort. The president himself sniffed that swelling anger among the families of the fallen was &#8220;whipped up.&#8221;</p>
<p>Islamist sympathizers inside our military walk away, and the Obama White House turns a blind eye. The Fort Hood jihad attack by Nidal Hasan, who invoked Hassoun in PowerPoint presentations to his military supervisors, is &#8220;workplace violence.&#8221; Gitmo recidivist Abu Sufian bin Qumu, lead suspect in the Benghazi attack, roams free despite the president&#8217;s promise to make &#8220;justice&#8221; his &#8220;biggest priority.&#8221;</p>
<p>Our commander in chief empties Gitmo of the worst of the worst jihadists and shrugs at the recidivists targeting American soldiers and civilians. And in a desperate attempt to deflect from the rising death toll of the Veterans Affairs book-cooking scandal, Obama gave Bob Bergdahl a Rose Garden stage to invoke Allah in Arabic.</p>
<p>If you&#8217;re not &#8220;whipped up&#8221; into Category 5 disgust, you&#8217;re not paying attention.</p>
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		<title>How America Treats Illegal Aliens vs. Veterans</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 May 2014 04:10:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Michelle Malkin]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cutting benefits for our warriors while extending them to non-citizens. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Illegal-Immigrants.jpg"><img class=" wp-image-226233 alignleft" alt="Illegal-Immigrants" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Illegal-Immigrants-450x262.jpg" width="315" height="183" /></a>A government that fails to secure its borders is guilty of dereliction of duty. A government that fails to care for our men and women on the frontlines is guilty of malpractice. A government that puts the needs of illegal aliens above U.S. veterans for political gain should be prosecuted for criminal neglect bordering on treason.</p>
<p>Compare, contrast and weep:</p>
<p>In Sacramento, Calif., lawmakers are moving forward with a budget-busting plan to extend government-funded health insurance to at least 1.5 million illegal aliens.</p>
<p>In Los Angeles, federal bureaucrats callously canceled an estimated 40,000 diagnostic tests and treatments for American veterans with cancer and other illnesses to cover up a decade-long backlog.</p>
<p>In New York, doctors report that nearly 40 percent of their patients receiving kidney dialysis are illegal aliens. A survey of nephrologists in 44 states revealed that 65 percent of them treat illegal aliens with kidney disease.</p>
<p>In Memphis, a VA whistleblower reported that his hospital was using contaminated kidney dialysis machines to treat America&#8217;s warriors. The same hospital previously had been investigated for chronic overcrowding at its emergency room, leading to six-hour waits or longer. Another watchdog probe found unconscionable delays in processing lab tests at the center. In addition, three patients died under negligent circumstances, and the hospital failed to enforce accountability measures.</p>
<p>In Arizona, illegal aliens incurred health care costs totaling an estimated $700 million in 2009.</p>
<p>In Phoenix, at least 40 veterans died waiting for VA hospitals and clinics to treat them, while government officials created secret waiting lists to cook the books and deceive the public about deadly treatment delays.</p>
<p>At the University of California at Berkeley, UC President Janet Napolitano (former secretary of the Department of Homeland Security) has offered $5 million in financial aid to illegal alien students. Across the country, 16 states offer in-state tuition discounts for illegal aliens: California, Colorado, Connecticut, Illinois, Kansas, Maryland, Minnesota, Nebraska, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Oklahoma, Oregon, Texas, Utah and Washington.</p>
<p>In addition, the Rhode Island Board of Governors for Higher Education, the University of Hawaii Board of Regents and the University of Michigan Board of Regents all approved their own illegal alien tuition benefits.</p>
<p>In 2013, the nation&#8217;s most selective colleges and universities had enrolled just 168 American veterans, down from 232 in 2011. Anti-war activists have waged war on military recruitment offices at elite campuses for years. The huge influx of illegal aliens in state universities is shrinking the number of state-subsidized slots for vets.</p>
<p>In 2013, the Obama Department of Homeland Security released 36,007 known, convicted criminal illegal aliens, according to the Center for Immigration Studies. The catch-and-release beneficiaries include thugs convicted of homicide, sexual assault, kidnapping, and thousands of drunk or drugged driving crimes.</p>
<p>The same Department of Homeland Security issued a report in 2009 that identified returning combat veterans as worrisome terrorist and criminal threats to America.</p>
<p>In Washington, Big Business and open-borders lobbyists are redoubling efforts to pass another massive illegal alien amnesty to flood the U.S. job market with low-wage labor.</p>
<p>Across the country, men and women in uniform returning home from Iraq and Afghanistan have higher jobless rates than the civilian population. The unemployment rate for new veterans has spiked to its worst levels, nearing 15 percent. For veterans ages 24 and under, the jobless rate is a whopping 29.1 percent, compared to 17.6 percent nationally for the age group.</p>
<p>A Forbes columnist reported last year that an Air Force veteran was told: &#8220;We don&#8217;t hire your kind.&#8221;</p>
<p>And last December, Democrats led the charge to reduce cost-of-living increases in military pensions — while blocking GOP Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions&#8217; efforts to close a $4.2 billion loophole that allows illegal aliens to collect child tax credits from the IRS, even if they pay no taxes. The fraudulent payments to illegal aliens would have offset the cuts to veterans&#8217; benefits.</p>
<p>America: medical and welfare welcome mat to the rest of the world, while leavings its best and bravest veterans to languish in hospital lounges, die waiting for appointments, and compete for jobs and educational opportunities against illegal border-crossers, document fakers, visa violators and deportation evaders. Shame on us.</p>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/full_1305598779students-raising-their-hands-classroom.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-224543" alt="full_1305598779students-raising-their-hands-classroom" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/full_1305598779students-raising-their-hands-classroom.jpg" width="315" height="210" /></a>This weekend on &#8220;Fox News Sunday,&#8221; anchor Chris Wallace credited his guest, Republican Indiana Gov. Mike Pence, with leading the nation as the &#8220;first state to fall out of the Common Core national education standards.&#8221; If only it were true.</p>
<p>Wallace didn&#8217;t do his homework. And presidential aspirant Pence was too busy daydreaming about 2016 to correct him.</p>
<p>Reality check: Last week, Pence faced the anger of hundreds of Indiana parents, educators and activists at a public Indiana Business Roundtable meeting to discuss his phony charade. The protesters openly booed Pence&#8217;s derision of critics as out-of-staters and elitists. They roared their disapproval when he claimed that his &#8220;new&#8221; standards were superior and homegrown.</p>
<p>Indiana mom Heather Crossin, one of the earliest and strongest grassroots voices against the federalized standards/textbook/testing racket, exposed the truth: &#8220;The proposed standards are simply a cloned version of the Common Core rebranded.&#8221;</p>
<p>Indiana mom Erin Tuttle, also a leading Hoosier activist for true academic excellence, reported that state officials had failed to prove that their &#8220;new&#8221; scheme included &#8220;internationally and nationally benchmarked&#8221; standards as required by state law.</p>
<p>Indiana native and Hillsdale College professor Terrence Moore, who reviewed the &#8220;new&#8221; English standards, concluded that if the proposal were turned into him as a college paper, he would give it an F and write &#8220;plagiarism&#8221; across the top. The &#8220;new&#8221; regime recycles old Common Core ideology, eschews phonics and fails to define &#8220;what constitutes good reading and good literature.&#8221;</p>
<p>Indiana native, Stanford University emeritus math professor and former member of the Common Core math standards validation committee James Milgram blasted the &#8220;new&#8221; Indiana math standards supported by Pence and the state school board. He begged the state to ask qualified mathematicians to revise the standards. He was ignored. Milgram revealed that &#8220;there are even more errors in the current document than were present in (an earlier draft). The standards for these courses are completely disorganized and, mathematically speaking, can only be described as bizarre.&#8221;</p>
<p>Indiana mom and vigilant education analyst Joy Pullmann added: &#8220;Pence&#8217;s decision is all the more foolish because Indiana has been renowned as one of the two or three states with the highest standards in the nation.</p>
<p>&#8230; Now Indiana has even worse standards than the Common Core Hoosier mothers and fathers spent three exhausting years attempting to defenestrate.&#8221;</p>
<p>It wasn&#8217;t just opponents who spotlighted the &#8220;new&#8221; Indiana standards&#8217; eerie echoes of the federal Common Core program.</p>
<p>A pro-Common Core educator in Indiana, Tami Hicks, counseled her colleagues: &#8220;(D)on&#8217;t stop your work on CCSS (Common Core State Standards) — they are just getting a new name. &#8230; If you compare the new drafted standards to the CCSS, they will see that they are practically (or even exactly) the same.&#8221;</p>
<p>A spokesman from Pence&#8217;s office sent me materials purporting to refute the critics. But the documents he sent revealed a fascinating tidbit: Common Core architects have generously waived copyright claims on their materials, will not sue Indiana recyclers and &#8220;did not see any problems with Indiana using excerpts or portions of the Common Core State Standards within Indiana&#8217;s standards.&#8221; How convenient.</p>
<p>Pence&#8217;s friend Republican Utah Gov. Gary Herbert also inadvertently spilled the beans on the Rename That Common Core Tune game. &#8220;I&#8217;ve talked to Gov. Pence about what they&#8217;re doing there,&#8221; he told a local reporter. &#8220;In essence, they&#8217;re creating what&#8217;s called the Indiana Core. It&#8217;s not the Common Core. It&#8217;s the Indiana Core, but their standards are almost mirroring exactly what&#8217;s commonly referred to as the Common Core standards. So they&#8217;re just doing it in a different way, which is what we&#8217;ve already been doing in Utah.&#8221;</p>
<p>GOP Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer pulled a similar move, issuing an executive order last fall to whitewash &#8220;Common Core&#8221; from state government documents. She replaced the name with &#8220;Arizona&#8217;s College and Career Ready Standards.&#8221; But the old racket is still in place. And Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation-funded lobbyists from Achieve Inc. and the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers are still in the driver&#8217;s seat.</p>
<p>This retreat-and-rebrand strategy was explicitly championed by Fed Ed advocate and former Arkansas GOP Gov. Mike Huckabee. Huckabee told his allies at the Gates Foundation-funded Council of Chief State School Officers earlier this year that since Common Core had become &#8220;toxic,&#8221; the group needed to &#8220;rebrand it, refocus it, but don&#8217;t retreat.&#8221;</p>
<p>While disingenuous Republican governors tout their &#8220;withdrawals&#8221; from Common Core, it&#8217;s more of the same old, same old: Diluted standards, tied to testing/textbook/technology cash cows, manufactured a top-down cadre of big-government D.C. education lobbyists and big-business interests, in violation of local control and state sovereignty.</p>
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		<title>NBC&#8217;s David Gregory Problem</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Apr 2014 04:10:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why viewers are rejecting the network's biased host.  ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/david_gregory.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-224022" alt="david_gregory" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/david_gregory.jpg" width="315" height="252" /></a>I&#8217;ve always thought entrenched left-wing journalists in Washington needed their heads examined. Much to my satisfaction, it appears the corporate media bosses of at least one Beltway anchor now agree.</p>
<p>According to The Washington Post this week, NBC News hired a &#8220;psychological consultant&#8221; to examine why flailing &#8220;Meet the Press&#8221; moderator David Gregory has been bombing in the ratings. The overpriced shrinks (NBC prefers the euphemism &#8220;brand consultants&#8221;) came from the New York-based brand fixer-upper Elastic Strategy.</p>
<p>They interviewed Gregory&#8217;s wife. They interrogated his friends. They crunched their numbers. They compiled their reports. And after all that, the &#8220;experts&#8221; are still scratching their noggins:</p>
<p>What&#8217;s the matter with David Gregory? And why don&#8217;t people like to watch him?</p>
<p>I could have saved the honchos at NBC News a lot of time and trouble. The first answer is: David Gregory is a phony. The second answer is: He&#8217;s a jerk.</p>
<p>And no amount of brand therapy and rehabilitation consulting can fix him.</p>
<p>Gregory&#8217;s predecessor, Tim Russert, was highly respected on both sides of the political aisle. The former chief of staff for iconoclastic U.S. Sen. Daniel Moynihan turned &#8220;Meet the Press&#8221; into mandatory viewing for any American serious about politics and policy. Yes, he was liberal. But he never pretended to be anything he wasn&#8217;t. He did his homework. He didn&#8217;t pull punches. He helped enlighten the nation about our entitlement crisis. He conducted interviews, not one-sided partisan lectures.</p>
<p>Russert was also a decent man, as so many warm eulogies across the ideological divide attested. I had a chance to meet him a few times as an intern in the videotape library of the Washington political unit at NBC News in 1992. He was always friendly and engaging. (Andrea Mitchell was a whole &#8216;nother story. Gah.) Before I left to work for the Los Angeles Daily News, I drafted a little memo on suggestions to improve data collection and entry. I never expected acknowledgment. But Russert took the time to respond and thank me. A lowly intern. I never forgot that.</p>
<p>Gregory is the anti-Russert. His boorish behavior around D.C. is legendary — from his juvenile tantrums with the Bush press staff to his drunken radio appearances to his diva snit fits with innocent bystanders while filming news segments.</p>
<p>One of the most telling and notorious anecdotes involves Russert himself, who reportedly reprimanded Gregory in 2008 for going ballistic on a poor waitress while the two TV stars dined at a D.C. restaurant. But &#8220;Gregory still treats most of &#8230; the newsroom like s**t,&#8221; an insider told the website Jossip. &#8220;Amazing how NBC cares more about food servers than about the people who have to deal with Gregory&#8217;s arrogance every day.&#8221;</p>
<p>Since Gregory doesn&#8217;t have the intellectual heft to carry in-depth interview segments the way Russert did, &#8220;Meet the Press&#8221; producers have reduced substantive exchanges to a few minutes and larded the rest of the show with fluff and stunts.</p>
<p>That means: If it&#8217;s Sunday, it&#8217;s &#8220;Meet the Jerk.&#8221;</p>
<p>Last fall, Gregory the gun-control activist masquerading as a Sunday talk-show journalist made headlines with his brazen hectoring of NRA CEO Wayne LaPierre — while illegally brandishing a 30-round ammunition magazine on national television. He has used the show to fawn over vulgar, misogynistic &#8220;comedian&#8221; Bill Maher and to repeatedly browbeat Timothy Dolan, the archbishop of New York, over gay marriage.</p>
<p>As I&#8217;ve noted many times over 20-plus years in this business, the problem isn&#8217;t bias. It&#8217;s the pretense of non-bias. Gregory and his peers suffer from cognitive dissonant hack syndrome, a common affliction among incurable left-wing journalists who sanctimoniously pay lip service every day to neutrality and objectivity, while brazenly using their platforms to promote partisan political narratives.</p>
<p>Desperate NBC suits in denial tried to get Gregory to immerse himself more in social media to appeal to &#8220;younger viewers.&#8221; But he detests the hoi polloi and refuses to respond to critics. You don&#8217;t have to be a high-priced brand guru to know that for social media engagement to work, it requires an engaging personality to actually, you know, engage.</p>
<p>Another NBC muckety-muck gave his expert analysis on the network&#8217;s David Gregory Problem: &#8220;You need to be who you are. We&#8217;re trying to look at who David is.&#8221;</p>
<p>Well, there&#8217;s the rub, isn&#8217;t it? Gregory, like many of his ilk, is a thin-skinned elite who lives in the Beltway bubble and can barely contain his contempt for his audience. With rare exceptions, the supposed watchdogs of Washington journalism are lapdogs for the establishment with &#8220;Don&#8217;t You Know Who I Am?&#8221; egos as big as the politicians they sidle up to every weekend.</p>
<p>To the chagrin of NBC and its brand EMTs, Americans have discovered an effective cure: the &#8220;off&#8221; button on their remotes.</p>
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		<title>Revolt Against the Testing Tyrants</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Mar 2014 04:15:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Who's really benefiting from school testing madness? ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/6a00d8341c630a53ef0133f387e0cb970b.jpg"><img class="wp-image-221373 alignleft" alt="6a00d8341c630a53ef0133f387e0cb970b" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/6a00d8341c630a53ef0133f387e0cb970b-450x332.jpg" width="315" height="232" /></a>Have you had enough of the testing tyranny? Join the club. To be clear: I&#8217;m not against all standardized academic tests. My kids excel on tests. The problem is that there are too damned many of these top-down assessments, measuring who knows what, using our children as guinea pigs and cash cows.</p>
<p>College-bound students in Orange County, Fla., for example, now take a total of 234 standardized diagnostic, benchmark and achievement tests from kindergarten through 12th grade. Reading instructor Brian Trutschel calculated that a typical 10th-grade English class will be disrupted 65 out of 180 school days this year alone for mandatory tests required by the state and district. &#8220;It&#8217;s a huge detriment to instruction,&#8221; he told the Orlando Sentinel last month. The library at one Florida middle school is closed for a full three months out of the 10-month school year for computerized assessments.</p>
<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s horrible, because all we do is test,&#8221; Nancy Pace, the school&#8217;s testing coordinator, told the newspaper. &#8220;There&#8217;s something every month.&#8221; My Colorado 8th-grader has been tied up all week on her TCAPs (Transitional Colorado Assessment Program), which used to be called CSAPs (Colorado Student Assessment Program), which will soon be replaced by something else.</p>
<p>Now, pile on the latest avalanche of federal pilot testing schemes tied to the Common Core racket. When they&#8217;re not preoccupied with getting ready for Iowa basic skills tests, NAEPs, ACTs, PSATs, revamped SATs, CLEPs, FCATs, TCAPs and scores of other state exams, American kids will be busy testing new tests. Because the Common Core testing scheme mandates computerized administration and because the tests incorporate bandwidth-hogging videos and graphics, school districts across the country must spend gobs of time and money on test preparation.</p>
<p>The San Francisco Unified School District shelled out more than $800,000 this year for new computers, keyboards and headsets for testing, and will buy 5,300 Apple computers next year to start standardizing the district on a single operating system, according to the EdSource.org website. Rural students will be yanked out of the classroom and herded on buses over the course of several days to get to tech-connected districts, where they will spend several hours each day (on top of hours of travel) taking experimental Common Core-aligned field tests that won&#8217;t count until next year.</p>
<p>The federally funded testing consortium called PARCC (Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers), which raked in $186 million through Race to the Top to develop nationalized tests tied to the top-down Common Core program, will dragoon more than one million students into field testing this spring.</p>
<p>The other federally funded testing consortium, the $180-million tax-subsidized Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium, was supposed to start field tests this week for three million students in 23 states. But last-minute &#8220;glitches&#8221; have delayed the untested tests by at least a week, disrupting district instructional plans and calendars in 20,000 schools — and in some cases, interfering with other test schedules for high-stakes Advanced Placement and SAT exams that <i>do </i>count.</p>
<p>Parents, teachers and administrators are fed up with Fed Ed. There&#8217;s a growing grassroots movement — left, right and center — to opt out of this latest battery of assessments. Last week, the Worcester, Mass., school board voted to allow parents to opt out of PARCC field tests and keep their kids in regular classroom instruction. The Norfolk, Mass., school board did the same in January. Colorado State Board of Education Chairman Paul Lundeen has called on the state legislature to repeal the PARCC testing requirement.</p>
<p>The testing tyrants, of course, are doing everything they can to stop parents from protecting their children: deceive, bully, intimidate and obfuscate. The state of Connecticut recently sent out a misleading letter to parents warning them that &#8220;all children enrolled in public schools&#8221; are legally required to &#8220;take yearly assessments.&#8221; But as parent Wendy Lecker points out, the bureaucrats failed to disclose that the mandate applies to &#8220;statewide mastery tests,&#8221; not to experimental field tests such as the PARCC and SBAC pilots, which &#8220;fail to satisfy the basic elements the law clearly sets forth of the required statewide test.&#8221;</p>
<p>Dr. Sandra Stotsky, former senior associate commissioner in the Massachusetts Department of Education and Massachusetts State Board of Education member, spells out the grounds for revolt: &#8220;(L)ocal school districts can legally refuse to give state tests because they don&#8217;t address the legally adopted standards and curriculum at the local level. &#8230; (U)nless state law explicitly forbids parents from opting their kids out of SBAC or PARCC field tests, then parents can do so, and should. They can petition their school boards to pass a policy allowing all parents to opt their kids out of all field tests for any Common Core-aligned test. And they can add that there are to be NO penalties for parents exercising that right. State (Departments of Education) cannot make policy, by law. They are threatening local districts and parents illegally.&#8221;</p>
<p>Bottom line: No child in America is legally required to be a part of the latest Common Core lab-rat testing experiments. You are your kids&#8217; primary educational provider and decider. You have the power to flunk the latest Fed Ed testing boondoggles. Use it.</p>
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		<title>The Inevitability of Obamacare for Illegal Aliens</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Mar 2014 05:20:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A slap in the face to every American who has lost healthcare thanks to the President's law. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/2014-02-28T060840Z_1_CBREA1R0H2I00_RTROPTP_3_USA-HEALTHCARE-MISSISSIPPI.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-220477" alt="2014-02-28T060840Z_1_CBREA1R0H2I00_RTROPTP_3_USA-HEALTHCARE-MISSISSIPPI" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/2014-02-28T060840Z_1_CBREA1R0H2I00_RTROPTP_3_USA-HEALTHCARE-MISSISSIPPI-450x299.jpg" width="270" height="179" /></a>You knew it was coming. I knew it was coming. When government expands entitlements, illegal aliens always end up with a piece of the pie. Obamacare promoters relented to GOP pressure to include an illegal alien ban on eligibility and vowed endlessly that no benefits would go to the &#8220;undocumented.&#8221; But denial isn&#8217;t just a river in Egypt. It&#8217;s the Obama way.</p>
<p>In Oregon this week, officials confessed that nearly 4,000 illegal immigrants had been &#8220;accidentally&#8221; steered from the state&#8217;s low-income Medicaid program and instead were enrolled in Obamacare in violation of the law. Oopsie. The Oregonian newspaper&#8217;s Nick Budnick reported that the health bureaucrats &#8220;discovered the problem several weeks ago and are correcting it.&#8221; Get in line. The beleaguered Cover Oregon health insurance exchange has been riddled with ongoing problems, errors and glitches since last October that have yet to be fixed.</p>
<p>Take note: This wasn&#8217;t a one-time computer meltdown. Because Oregon&#8217;s health insurance exchange website has been offline and its software architects under investigation for possible fraud, the Oregon Obamacare drones have been processing each and every application manually. That means nearly 4,000 illegal alien applications with &#8220;inaccurate&#8221; data somehow passed through government hands and somehow ended up getting routed through as new enrollees with Obamacare-approved full-service health care.</p>
<p>How many Obamacare services did these nearly 4,000 illegal aliens avail themselves of, and at what cost?</p>
<p>Does anyone believe the same incompetent boobs who enrolled them will be able to track down the nearly 4,000 illegal alien beneficiaries, &#8220;correct&#8221; the &#8220;errors&#8221; and ensure that it doesn&#8217;t happen again?</p>
<p>What a slap in the face to the millions of law-abiding Americans who have lost their health care coverage and work hours thanks to Democratic-sponsored federal health care regulatory burdens and mandate costs.</p>
<p>One Oregon Obamacare manager defended the unlawful illegal alien enrollment by explaining: &#8220;We were just getting people into the services.&#8221; And there&#8217;s the rub. The imperative of these government social engineers is to herd as many &#8220;clients&#8221; into taxpayer-subsidized programs as possible. Just last week, Obama&#8217;s Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson publicized an open letter to families with illegal alien relatives promising that no one would be deported for seeking Obamacare services.</p>
<p>&#8220;No one in America who is eligible should be afraid to apply for health coverage because they have a family with mixed status,&#8221; Johnson assured.</p>
<p>And in another sign of how the White House is still planning for mass illegal alien amnesty, Johnson also made clear: &#8220;Enrolling in health coverage &#8230; will not prevent your loved ones who are undocumented from getting a green card in the future or who do not yet have a green card at risk.&#8221;</p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">As always, California Democrats are at the forefront of busting open Obamacare for the illegal alien population. Earlier this month, Democratic state Sen. Ricardo Lara introduced a bill to extend health benefits and a special online marketplace to one million illegals under an Obamacare-style program subsidized by state taxpayer dollars.</span></p>
<p>In case you forgot, President Obama had already paved the path for illegal alien Obamacare when he signed the massive expansion of the State Children&#8217;s Health Insurance Program (S-CHIP) in 2009. As I&#8217;ve reported previously, the law loosened eligibility requirements for legal immigrants and their children by watering down document and evidentiary standards — making it easy for individuals to use fake Social Security cards to apply for benefits with little to no chance of getting caught. In addition, Obama&#8217;s S-CHIP expansion revoked Medicaid application time limits that were part of the 1996 welfare reform law.</p>
<p>Open-borders activists saw those provisions as first steps toward universal health coverage for illegals. They see America as the medical welcome mat to the world. Over the past year, they&#8217;ve ratcheted up public protests demanding free organ transplants for illegal alien patients. In Chicago last fall, they marched on a hospital with caskets and posters demanding scarce organs. One illegal alien blasted authorities for putting &#8220;paper over our lives.&#8221; In California, illegal alien transplant patients count on federal incompetence and lax enforcement to abet them, because if they notify the state that DHS &#8220;is aware of their presence and does not plan to deport them,&#8221; they are eligible for full-blown Medi-Cal coverage, according to the state.</p>
<p>Now, Obamacare peddlers from Oregon to New York and all points in between are rushing to sign up new &#8220;customers&#8221; in advance of the March 31 open enrollment deadline. How many more thousands of illegal aliens will be roped into the system? Remember: In the lexicon of the left, &#8220;accidental&#8221; is just another word for inevitable entitlement creep.</p>
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		<title>The Obamacare Security Nightmare: It Gets Worse</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Feb 2014 05:15:51 +0000</pubDate>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Ocare.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-218005" alt="Ocare" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Ocare-450x304.jpg" width="315" height="213" /></a>Fraudsters on the inside, hackers on the outside. Here we are, stuck in the middle with the security nightmare called Obamacare. Can it get any worse? Yes, it can.</p>
<p>After the spectacular website crashes during last fall&#8217;s federal health insurance exchange rollout, enrollees will soon wish the entire system had stayed down and dead. &#8220;404 Error&#8221; messages and convicted felon Obamacare navigators may be the least of our health care tech problems now. The latest? U.S. intelligence agencies notified the Department of Health and Human Services last week that the Healthcare.gov infrastructure could be infected with malicious code.</p>
<p>Who&#8217;s responsible? Washington Free Beacon national security reporter Bill Gertz writes that U.S. officials have &#8220;warned that programmers in Belarus, a former Soviet republic closely allied with Russia, were suspected&#8221; of possible sabotage. A government tech bureaucrat in the Belarusian regime bragged last summer on Russian radio that HHS is &#8220;one of our clients&#8221; and that &#8220;we are helping Obama complete his insurance reform.&#8221;</p>
<p>Gulp. When an authoritarian minion from the country known as &#8220;Europe&#8217;s last dictatorship&#8221; boasts about &#8220;helping&#8221; the Obama White House, be afraid. One of our intel people spelled it out for Gertz: &#8220;The U.S. Affordable Care Act software was written in part in Belarus by software developers under state control, and that makes the software a potential target for cyber attacks.&#8221;</p>
<p>No kidding. The friends of Vladimir Putin are not our friends. If you&#8217;ve been paying attention, you know that Belarus and other Eastern European hacking gangs have been at the center of several recent international cybercrimes. These aren&#8217;t merely schemes to steal credit card numbers or vandalize websites with annoying graffiti. They&#8217;re acts of espionage and sabotage — like using malware in a phishing scheme aimed at White House employees to gather military intelligence and pilfer sensitive government documents.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s not just the federal health care system&#8217;s problem. Former Obamacare website contractor CGI still holds dozens of contracts with other federal agencies and state governments worth billions of dollars — and wide access to health and financial data.</p>
<p>In my state of Colorado, for example, CGI has a $78 million contract to &#8220;modernize, host and manage&#8221; the state&#8217;s financial system. Have they checked to see whether Belarus hackers are standing by?</p>
<p>For their part, Obamacare officials are making their usual &#8220;don&#8217;t worry about it, the problem&#8217;s under control&#8221; noises. But we already know the problem is far out of control. Last month, GOP oversight hearings exposed persistent failures by Obamacare overseers to fix security lapses.</p>
<p>Former most-wanted cybercriminal Kevin Mitnick concluded in a letter to Capitol Hill: &#8220;It&#8217;s shameful the team that built the Healthcare.gov site implemented minimal, if any, security best practices to mitigate the significant risk of a system compromise.&#8221; If the latest warnings from our intel agencies are any indication, it appears that Obamacare Keystone Kops didn&#8217;t just leave out security protections, but also may have allowed foreign programmers to write in cyber-traps.</p>
<p>David Kennedy, head of computer security consulting firm TrustedSec LLC and a former cybersecurity official with the National Security Agency and the U.S. Marine Corps, warned that &#8220;Healthcare.gov is not secure today&#8221; and said nothing had changed since he gave Congress that assessment three months before. Among the vulnerabilities that the Obama administration still hasn&#8217;t fixed:</p>
<p>—TrustedSec &#8220;identified the ability to enumerate user information (first, last, email, user id, profile, etc.) through one of the sub-sites that directly integrates into the healthcare.gov website.&#8221;</p>
<p>—&#8221;Tens of thousands of user-based data appears to be vulnerable on the specified website and has not been addressed. There are a number of other exposures that have been reported privately that continue to expose users of the healthcare.gov website.&#8221;</p>
<p>—Another exposure identified is &#8220;the ability to perform an open redirect.&#8221; In fact, &#8220;there are multiple open redirects still vulnerable on the healthcare.gov website and supporting sub-sites.&#8221; What this means is that &#8220;an attacker can send a targeted email to an individual that has signed up for healthcare.gov or is looking to and have it appear valid and legitimate and originate from the healthcare.gov website.&#8221; These can open avenues so that victims click on links &#8220;redirecting to a malicious website that hacks the computer and takes complete control over it.&#8221;</p>
<p>Out: &#8220;Got Covered?&#8221; In: &#8220;Got Hacked?&#8221;</p>
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		<title>Tamera Mowry Is Not Alone</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jan 2014 05:02:32 +0000</pubDate>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/mowry-1113.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-216486" alt="mowry-1113" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/mowry-1113-432x350.jpg" width="302" height="245" /></a>This made my heart ache and my blood pressure spike: Actress Tamera Mowry, who is black, wept in an interview with Oprah Winfrey over the vile bigotry she has encountered because of her marriage to Fox News reporter Adam Housley, who is white. Misogynist haters called Mowry a sellout and a &#8220;white man&#8217;s whore.&#8221; International news outlets labeled the Internet epithets she endured &#8220;horrific&#8221; and &#8220;shocking.&#8221;</p>
<p>Horrific? Yes. Shocking? Not at all. What Mowry experienced is just a small taste of what the intolerance mob dishes out against people &#8220;of color&#8221; who love, think and live the &#8220;wrong&#8221; way. I&#8217;ve grown so used to it that I often forget how hurtful it can be. Mowry&#8217;s candor was moving and admirable. It&#8217;s also a valuable teachable moment about how dehumanizing it can be to work in the public eye. Have we really sunk to this?</p>
<p>Young actresses in the 21st century forced to defend their love lives because their marital choices are politically incorrect? We&#8217;re leaning backward in the regressive Age of Hope and Change.</p>
<p>Let&#8217;s face it: Mowry&#8217;s sin, in the view of her feckless detractors, is not merely that she married outside her race. It&#8217;s also that she is so open about her love for a white man who — gasp! — works for reviled Fox News. Neither of them is political, but the mere association with Bad Things (Fox, conservatives, capitalism, the tea party, Christian activism, traditional values) is an invitation for unabashed hate.</p>
<p>The dirty open secret is that a certain category of public figures has been routinely mocked, savaged and reviled for being partners in interracial marriages or part of loving interracial families (for a refresher, see the video clip of MSNBC host Melissa Harris-Perry and friends cackling at the holiday photo of Mitt Romney holding his black adopted grandson in his lap).</p>
<p>And the dirty double standard is that selectively compassionate journalists and pundits have routinely looked the other way — or participate directly in heaping on the hate.</p>
<p>Have you forgotten? Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas was excoriated by black liberals for being married to wife Virginia, who happens to be white. The critics weren&#8217;t anonymous trolls on the Internet.</p>
<p>They worked for major media outlets and institutions of higher learning. USA Today columnist Barbara Reynolds slammed Thomas and his wife for their colorblind union: &#8220;It may sound bigoted; well, this is a bigoted world and why can&#8217;t black people be allowed a little Archie Bunker mentality? &#8230; Here&#8217;s a man who&#8217;s going to decide crucial issues for the country and he has already said no to blacks; he has already said if he can&#8217;t paint himself white he&#8217;ll think white and marry a white woman.&#8221;</p>
<p>Howard University&#8217;s Afro-American Studies Chair Russell Adams accused Thomas of racism against all blacks for falling in love with someone outside his race. &#8220;His marrying a white woman is a sign of his rejection of the black community,&#8221; Adams told The Washington Post. &#8220;Great justices have had community roots that served as a basis for understanding the Constitution. Clarence&#8217;s lack of a sense of community makes his nomination troubling.&#8221;</p>
<p>California state Senate Democrat Diane Watson taunted former University of California regent Ward Connerly after a public hearing, spitting: &#8220;He&#8217;s married a white woman. He wants to be white. He wants a colorless society. He has no ethnic pride. He doesn&#8217;t want to be black.&#8221;</p>
<p>Mowry is not alone. The Thomases and the Connerlys are not alone. Poisonous attempts to shame are an old, endless schoolyard game played by bullies who never grow up and can&#8217;t stand other people&#8217;s happiness or success.</p>
<p>Time doesn&#8217;t lessen the vitriol or hostility. Take it from someone who knows. &#8220;Oriental Auntie-Tom,&#8221; &#8220;yellow woman doing the white man&#8217;s job,&#8221; &#8220;white man&#8217;s puppet,&#8221; &#8220;Manila whore&#8221; and &#8220;Subic Bay bar girl&#8221; are just a few of the printable slurs I&#8217;ve amassed over the past quarter-century. You wouldn&#8217;t believe how many Neanderthals still think they can break you by sneering &#8220;me love you long time&#8221; or &#8220;holla for a dolla.&#8221; My IQ, free will, skin color, eye shape, productivity, sincerity, maiden name and integrity have all been ridiculed or questioned because I happen to be a minority conservative woman happily married to a white man and the mother of two interracial children who see Mom and Dad — not Brown Mom and White Dad.</p>
<p>Mowry&#8217;s got the right attitude. She wiped away her tears and told Oprah that haters wouldn&#8217;t drag her down. Brava. Live, laugh, think and love without regrets. It&#8217;s the best revenge and the most effective antidote to crab-in-the-bucket syndrome.</p>
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		<title>Common Core and the EduTech Abyss</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jan 2014 05:05:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[How filthy rich tech giants like Apple and Google will make a killing from federal regulations.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Screen-Shot-2014-01-08-at-12.35.52-AM.png"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-214855" alt="Screen Shot 2014-01-08 at 12.35.52 AM" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Screen-Shot-2014-01-08-at-12.35.52-AM-450x320.png" width="315" height="224" /></a>The Common Core gold rush is on. Apple, Pearson, Google, Microsoft and Amplify are all cashing in on the federal standards/testing/textbook racket. But the EduTech boondoggle is no boon for students. It&#8217;s more squandered tax dollars down the public school drain.</p>
<p>Even more worrisome: The stampede is widening a dangerous path toward invasive data mining.</p>
<p>According to the Silicon Valley Business Journal, the ed tech sector &#8220;is expected to more than double in size to $13.4 billion by 2017.&#8221; That explosive growth is fueled by Common Core&#8217;s top-down digital learning and testing mandates. So: Cui bono?</p>
<p>In North Carolina, the Guilford County public school district withdrew 15,000 Amplify tablets last fall. Pre-loaded with Common Core apps and part of a federal $30 million Race to the Top grant program, the devices peddled by News Corp. and Wireless Generation were rendered useless because of defective cases, broken screens and malfunctioning power supplies.</p>
<p>Last year, the Los Angeles Unified School District dumped $1 billion of scarce resources into a disastrous iPad program. Educrats paid $678 per glorified Apple e-textbook, pre-loaded with Common Core-branded apps created by Pearson. As I&#8217;ve reported previously, Pearson is the multibillion-dollar educational publishing and testing conglomerate at the center of the federally driven, taxpayer-funded &#8220;standards&#8221; scheme. Pearson&#8217;s digital learning products are used by an estimated 25 million-plus people in North America. Common Core has been a convenient new catalyst for getting the next generation of consumers hooked.</p>
<p>Students breached the LAUSD&#8217;s iPad firewalls and made a mockery of their hapless adult guardians. Despite hefty investments in training and development, many teachers couldn&#8217;t figure out how to sync up the tablets in the classroom. Taxpayers now realize they were sold a grossly inflated bill of goods, but the district wants to buy even more iPads for computerized test-taking. School officials recklessly plan to use school construction debt-financing to pay for the new purchases.</p>
<p>Los Angeles taxpayer Planaria Price summed up swelling outrage perfectly in a letter to the Los Angeles Times this week: &#8220;Cash-strapped LAUSD — which in 2012 cut libraries, nurses, thousands of teachers, administrators and support staff &#8230; is spending more than $1 billion on one of the nation&#8217;s most expensive technology programs. &#8230; I would say that &#8216;something is rotten in the state of Denmark,&#8217; but few would understand because the teaching of Shakespeare has also been cut.&#8221;</p>
<p>By its own account, Apple dominates 94 percent of the education tablet market in the U.S. Microsoft is pushing its own Common Core-aligned Surface RT tablet and app suite, along with &#8220;Bing for Schools.&#8221; Rival Google wants in on the game on the taxpayers&#8217; dime, too.</p>
<p>The company&#8217;s &#8220;Chromebooks,&#8221; which use a cloud-based operating system mimicking the Google Chrome browser, are gaining market share rapidly. While they are cheaper than iPads, they depend on reliable WiFi. Google offers a suite of Google Apps for Education (GAFE) for &#8220;free.&#8221;</p>
<p>But is this really about improving students&#8217; academic bottom line — or Google&#8217;s bottom line?</p>
<p>In one school district, the Google devices are used as glorified whiteboards. A recent news article touting Chromebook adoption in Nebraska&#8217;s Council Bluffs school district described how kindergarteners drew &#8220;dots on the rubber-cased tablets clutched in their hands. Then they wrote what they&#8217;d done as a math equation: 3 + 3 = 6.&#8221; No one explained why pencil and paper were insufficient to do the elementary math, other than a teacher gushing that she likes to &#8220;mix it up&#8221; and provide a &#8220;variety of experiences.&#8221; The district is one of 50 across the country piloting Google Play for Education.</p>
<p>Google is building brand loyalty through a questionable certification program that essentially turns teachers into tax-subsidized lobbyists for the company. The GAFE enrollees are &#8220;trained&#8221; on Google products. They take classes, attend conferences and hold workshops (some, but not all, funded by Google). After passing GAFE tests, they earn certification. Next, the newly minted GAFE educators open up consultancy businesses and bill their school districts (i.e., the public) to hawk Google&#8217;s suite of products to other colleagues. And they tell two friends, who tell two friends, and so on and so on and so on.</p>
<p>Google can collect student/family data to target ads through related services outside the GAFE suite, such as YouTube for Schools, Blogger and Google Plus. These are not covered under the already watered-down federal Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act. Under the Obama administration, Grand Canyon-sized loopholes in FERPA have already opened data mining to third-party private entities.</p>
<p>One parent shared her kids&#8217; experience with the Chromebooks online: &#8220;The biggest problems to date are that kids figured out quickly how to bypass security so they could look at non-approved web material and that kids have problems drawing figures when taking classes such as Chemistry or Physics. &#8230; Many preferred traditional textbooks; others resented the teachers being able to spy on them with the software embedded in the Chromebook.&#8221;</p>
<p>Another savvy mom noted: &#8220;If you think Google won&#8217;t be handing over any and all data it gets from your kids using their Chromebooks, you&#8217;re nuts.&#8221;</p>
<p>Let&#8217;s be clear: I am not opposed to introducing kids to 21st-century tools. My 13-year-old daughter taught herself Java, HTML and Photoshop. My 10-year-old son mixes music on Logic Pro. I support competent, focused and practical instruction exposing school kids to coding, 3D design and robotics. What I&#8217;m against are bungled billion-dollar public investments in overpriced, ineffective technology. Fed Ed&#8217;s shiny education toy syndrome incentivizes wasteful spending binges no school district can afford.</p>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jan 2014 05:00:56 +0000</pubDate>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Jahi.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-214458" alt="Jahi" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Jahi.jpg" width="224" height="203" /></a>New Year&#8217;s Day should be a time of fresh beginnings and forward motion. But for the family of 13-year-old Jahi McMath, the holiday season has been suspended in a cloud of unfathomable pain and suffering: A routine tonsillectomy gone wrong. A beautiful child declared &#8220;brain dead.&#8221; Lawyers, TV cameras, tears.</p>
<p>The McMaths are fighting for life. On Monday, they won a court order that prevents Children&#8217;s Hospital of Oakland from pulling the plug on Jahi until Jan. 7. Her relatives have been attacked as &#8220;publicity hounds&#8221; for doing everything possible to raise awareness about the young girl&#8217;s tragic case. They&#8217;ve been criticized as troublemakers for challenging powerful hospital officials. They&#8217;ve been labeled &#8220;selfish&#8221; and ignorant because they are praying for a miracle.</p>
<p>Why, many observers ask, don&#8217;t they just &#8220;accept reality&#8221; and let go?</p>
<p>As the mother of a 13-year-old girl, I would have done everything Jahi&#8217;s mom has done to this point. Everything. Here&#8217;s reality: Children&#8217;s Hospital faces serious malpractice questions about its care of Jahi. Hospital execs have a glaring conflict of interest in wielding power over her life support. According to relatives, medical officials callously referred to Jahi as &#8220;dead, dead, dead&#8221; and dismissed the child as a &#8220;body.&#8221;</p>
<p>The McMath family refused to be rushed or pushed around. They demanded respect for their loved one. I say more power to them.</p>
<p>There are plenty of reasons to question the medical establishment&#8217;s handling of catastrophic cases involving brain injury and &#8220;brain death.&#8221; In 2008, doctors were dead certain that 21-year-old Zack Dunlop was legally deceased after a horrible ATV accident. Tests showed there was no blood flow to his brain. His hospital issued a death notice. Authorities prepared to harvest his organs. But family members were not convinced. A cousin who happened to be a nurse tested Zack&#8217;s reflexes on his own one last time as the hospital swooped in. The &#8220;brain dead&#8221; &#8220;body&#8221; responded. Forty-eight days later, the supposedly impossible happened: &#8220;Brain dead&#8221; Zack Dunlop walked out of the hospital and lived to tell about his miraculous recovery on the Today Show.</p>
<p>The immense pressure Jahi&#8217;s family faces to give up and give in reminded me of another child written off by medical and government officials: Haleigh Poutre.</p>
<p>She&#8217;s the miracle child who was nearly beaten to death by her barbaric stepfather. Hooked to a ventilator in a comatose state, she was then nearly condemned to death by Massachusetts medical experts and the state&#8217;s criminally negligent child welfare bureaucracy, which hastily declared her to be in a hopeless vegetative state and wanted to pull the plug on her life.</p>
<p>The &#8220;experts&#8221; were wrong. Haleigh breathed on her own; a caring team of therapists nursed her back to health. Soon, she was brushing her hair and feeding herself. She lived to testify against her abusive stepfather, now behind bars. Her survival is a stark warning against blind, yielding trust in Big Nanny and Big Medicine.</p>
<p>We don&#8217;t know what God has planned for Jahi. But I do know this: America has become a throwaway culture where everything and everyone — from utensils to diapers to cameras to babies — is disposable. Elites sneer at the sanctity of life. The Terri Schiavo case brought out the worst, most dehumanizing impulses of American medical ethics debates. And from the attacks I&#8217;ve seen on the McMath family, little has changed.</p>
<p>Schiavo&#8217;s brother, Bobby, knows exactly how it feels to battle the culture of death and medical expediency. His group, Terri&#8217;s Network, and other pro-life organizations are trying to help with Jahi&#8217;s transfer to a long-term care facility. In the meantime, Jahi&#8217;s plight serves as a teachable moment for those with ears, eyes and hearts open. This is a gift. &#8220;Families and individuals must make themselves aware of what so-called &#8216;brain death&#8217; is and what it is not,&#8221; Schindler advises. &#8220;Additionally, families and individuals must educate themselves regarding their rights as patients, the advance documentation that must be completed prior to any medical procedure as well as how to ensure best any patient&#8217;s rights.&#8221;</p>
<p>Jahi&#8217;s story should also prompt family discussions about living wills, durable powers of attorney, &#8220;do not resuscitate&#8221; orders, revocable trusts and advance directives. It&#8217;s never too early to broach these uncomfortable matters of life and death.</p>
<p>I want to thank Naila Winkfield and the McMath family for not &#8220;letting go&#8221; so easily. Their plight is every parent&#8217;s worst nightmare. Their fight reaches beyond ideology, race, and class. The united front of the family and the public testaments of their faith in God are gifts. The Instagram image of Naila clasping her daughter&#8217;s hand at her hospital bedside — the hope, the desperation, the abiding love — is universal. At the start of 2014, the greatest gift of Jahi is her transcendent reminder that all life is precious. Let it not be taken for granted.</p>
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		<title>Cruciphobia at Mt. Soledad</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Dec 2013 05:15:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The cross the Left can't bear.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/cross2-525x376.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-213924" alt="cross2-525x376" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/cross2-525x376-450x322.jpg" width="315" height="225" /></a>Consider this: Taylor Swift wasn&#8217;t even born yet when the fight over the Mount Soledad cross began. How much longer will it drag on? Disgruntled atheists first filed suit over the memorial at a veterans park in San Diego in the summer of 1989. The fringe grievance-mongers have clung bitterly to their litigious activities for nearly a quarter-century. It&#8217;s time to let go and bring peace to the city.</p>
<p>The historic 43-foot cross has stood atop Mount Soledad on public land since 1954. The Mount Soledad Memorial Association erected the monument to commemorate the sacrifice of American soldiers who died in the Korean War, World War I and World War II. The cross has long carried meaning for the city&#8217;s residents far beyond religious symbolism. &#8220;It&#8217;s a symbol of coming of age and of remembrance,&#8221; Pastor Mark Slomka of the Mount Soledad Presbyterian Church said years ago when the case erupted. The San Diego Union-Tribune editorial board explained that the cross is &#8220;much like the Mission San Diego de Alcala and the cross at Presidio Park, both of which also are rooted in Christianity but have come to signify the birth of San Diego.&#8221;</p>
<p>I first started covering the case as an editorial writer at the Los Angeles Daily News in the early 1990s. A federal judge initially ruled that the landmark cross&#8217;s presence violated the California constitution&#8217;s church-state separation principles. The city of San Diego put the issue before voters, who overwhelmingly approved a practical solution in 2005: Sell the cross and the park to the veterans group for use in a national war memorial.</p>
<p>A pragmatic, tolerant resolution with 76 percent of voters&#8217; support? Heavens, no! The extreme secularists couldn&#8217;t have that. They sued and sued and sued and sued. By 2007, the state Supreme Court — affirmed by a state appellate court — had rejected the atheists&#8217; campaign. The courts affirmed the constitutionality of the San Diego referendum (Proposition A) and the sale of the cross to the Mount Soledad Memorial Association.</p>
<p>The American Civil Liberties Union intervened to suppress and &#8220;de-publish&#8221; the ruling as a way to prevent its use in future litigation. They lost.</p>
<p>Lawyers for the Thomas More Law Center, which represented the memorial association, were relieved: &#8220;This decision protects the will of the people and their desire to preserve a historical veterans memorial for future generations.&#8221; They&#8217;ve fought hard to remind America that the Founding Fathers fought for freedom of religion, not freedom from religion.</p>
<p>But still the cross-hunters press on. Fast-forward to Christmas week 2013. U.S. District Court Judge Larry Burns, who earlier had ruled in support of the cross, was forced to rule that it must come down in 90 days in the wake of a liberal 9th Circuit Court of Appeals decision overturning his prior decision. In anticipation of new appeals, Burns stayed the order. All eyes are on the U.S. Supreme Court, which refused to hear the case last summer.</p>
<p>Rabbi Ben Kamin, who lives in Southern California, responded sensibly to the hysteria of the Mount Soledad cross-hunters who claimed to be irreparably &#8220;hurt&#8221; by the monument: &#8220;After six decades, and hundreds of thousands of visitors, cyclists, hikers, thoughtful folks who simply admire the inspiring vista of land, sky and ocean, the Cross remains simply a beacon, a marker and a landmark.&#8221; Kamin wrote that he &#8220;once lived adjacent to the site, and it did not bother me then, and it does not bother, offend or intimidate me now. I remain much more concerned about the glaring mercantilism that has by now drained all the fall/winter holidays, from Thanksgiving to Hanukkah to Christmas, of any dignity or theological poetry.&#8221;</p>
<p>Amen to that. Militant atheists won&#8217;t rest until every last expression of faith is eradicated from the public square. They don&#8217;t stand for reason or religious liberty. They are vengeful purveyors of cruciphobia. The everlasting good news, of course, is that in the end, hope will triumph over hate. Faith will outlast fear. And God&#8217;s love will prevail long after physical crosses have fallen.</p>
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		<title>Arne Duncan&#8217;s War on Women and Children</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Nov 2013 04:16:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Michelle Malkin]]></dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/110103_arne_duncan_face_ap_328.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-211150" alt="110103_arne_duncan_face_ap_328" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/110103_arne_duncan_face_ap_328.jpg" width="295" height="229" /></a>Just when you thought the Obama administration couldn&#8217;t antagonize America any further, along comes Education Secretary Arne Duncan. He didn&#8217;t just attack &#8220;white suburban moms&#8221; and children over their criticism of the Common Core &#8220;standards&#8221;/testing/data-mining program. The feds&#8217; top educrat also managed to insult every one of the nation&#8217;s minority families and educators who oppose Fed Ed&#8217;s threat to academic excellence, local control and student privacy.</p>
<p>On Friday, while defending the beleaguered Common Core program in a meeting with state school superintendents, Duncan unleashed a brazen race and class warfare attack on grassroots foes. As The Washington Post reported, Duncan sneered that he found it &#8220;fascinating&#8221; that the revolt came from &#8220;white suburban moms who — all of a sudden — their child isn&#8217;t as brilliant as they thought they were, and their school isn&#8217;t quite as good as they thought they were.&#8221;</p>
<p>As a brown-skinned suburban mom opposed to Common Core, I can tell you I&#8217;ve personally met moms and dads of all races, ethnicities, backgrounds and parts of the country over the past year who have sacrificed to get their kids into the best schools possible. They are outraged that dumbed-down, untested federal &#8220;standards&#8221; pose an existential threat to their excellent educational arrangements — be they public, private, religious or homeschooling.</p>
<p>Duncan&#8217;s derision exposes the very control-freak impulses that drive Common Core. He condescendingly implies that the only reason &#8220;white suburban moms&#8221; object to Common Core is that their children are too dumb to score well on tests — which, by the firsthand accounts of educators from urban New York City schools to rural Kentucky schools to every corner of the country, are a complete and utter mess.</p>
<p>Thousands of moms and dads immediately took to social media to speak truth to bigoted Fed Ed power. The nonpartisan Mothers Against Duncan (MAD) group on Facebook declared: &#8220;Secretary of Education Arne Duncan has insulted the Moms of America and our children! This MAD group is intended to be a gathering place where America&#8217;s Moms can show him that he picked the WRONG group to mess with!&#8221;</p>
<p>Patti McKelvey wrote: &#8220;I am so angry about the latest comment out of Arne Duncan&#8217;s mouth.</p>
<p>I find it incredibly insulting. I am a clinical laboratory technologist. I have two (master&#8217;s) degrees. I am a grandmother. He has stirred a real hornet&#8217;s nest now — white suburban middle-class women should not be messed with. Nor should parents of any race, creed or religion who care about their (children&#8217;s) education.&#8221;</p>
<p>Daphne Scott Yuhas posted: &#8220;I ain&#8217;t white, and it doesn&#8217;t matter a damn, but I am a Mom, and I am now in angry Mommy Bear mode! Watch out!&#8221;</p>
<p>Elle Commanderr, a &#8220;white former urban now suburban pissed off mom,&#8221; directly addressed Duncan: &#8220;Education without representation is as egregious as taxation without representation. Our children are not YOUR children nor do we wish to &#8216;assimilate&#8217; them to this nonsense in ANY area I know of &#8230; suburban, urban or otherwise.&#8221;</p>
<p>Michigan homeschool mom Karen Braun, who signed her letter to Duncan &#8220;Your boss,&#8221; ripped the tone-deaf bureaucrat: &#8220;Secretary Duncan, you and the feds may control the purse strings, but WE (moms of every color and location) control our &#8216;brilliant&#8217; children&#8217;s shoe strings. We have the final authority, and we&#8217;re saying no to your &#8216;higher standard&#8217; and your high stakes tests&#8230; YOU work for US! Get that right, and you and the mothers of America will get along a whole lot better.&#8221;</p>
<p>Duncan now says his dog-whistle tirade was clumsily worded. But he&#8217;s used the same talking points before. What&#8217;s crystal clear is that Duncan and his top-down dictators presume that only technocratic elites in Washington can determine what quality standards and curricula look like. He pretends that minority parents and students in inner-city charter and magnet schools with rigorous locally crafted classical education missions simply don&#8217;t exist. A textbook liberal racist, Duncan whitewashes all minority parents and educators who oppose Common Core out of the debate.</p>
<p>This is a White House war on uppity women and children of all colors. Duncan&#8217;s a bigot, a bully, an elitist and a foot-in-mouth fool all rolled into one — and he continues to enjoy the support of the president. The relentless Beltway attacks on Common Core critics also give lie to the oft-repeated claim that the top-down initiative was &#8220;state-led&#8221; and grassroots. It should not go unnoticed that the most vocal and defensive advocates of the beleaguered Fed Ed boondoggle are not local teachers or parents, but pale-faced Beltway bureaucrats and their corporate allies.</p>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Nov 2013 04:02:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Michelle Malkin]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why are celebrity elite silent to Terry Richardson's sexual abuse and harassment of women?]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/o-TERRY-RICHARDSON-CHANGE-ORG-facebook.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-210912" alt="o-TERRY-RICHARDSON-CHANGE-ORG-facebook" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/o-TERRY-RICHARDSON-CHANGE-ORG-facebook-450x307.jpg" width="270" height="184" /></a>The silence is deafening. A depraved photographer accused of abusing and exploiting young models enjoys access to the entertainment industry&#8217;s hottest female stars, from Rihanna to Lady Gaga to Beyonce to Miley Cyrus. He counts &#8220;progressive&#8221; feminist celebs among his most intimate friends. He&#8217;s even photographed President Obama. But when confronted with his sordid history and career degradation of women, these elite friends of Terry have nothing to say.</p>
<p>Meet Terry Richardson (but be sure to bring your mental Purell). The Guardian touted him as &#8220;the former junkie punk who put the filth into fashion.&#8221; The son of a fashion photographer, his first &#8220;success&#8221; was an image he shot for British designer Katharine Hamnett. &#8220;There was a shot of a girl, with her legs open, she had white panties,&#8221; he recounted to an admiring New York Times reporter. The see-through underwear left nothing to the imagination. It was a &#8220;cool image,&#8221; Richardson bragged.</p>
<p>The title of that fawning Times feature: &#8220;The Naughty Knave of Fashion&#8217;s Court.&#8221; Naughty? Try skeezy. Shady. Icky. Pervy. Richardson has mainstreamed overlit soft porn and pedophilia chic as &#8220;art.&#8221; His &#8220;Terryworld&#8221; photo exhibit featured women performing oral sex on him while crammed into suitcases and trashcans. He&#8217;s the warped mastermind behind Miley Cyrus&#8217;s naked, phallic-drenched &#8220;Wrecking Ball&#8221; video, for which they won an MTV Europe Music Award. He persuaded Lindsay Lohan to pose with a gun to her head. He slathered Lady Gaga in red meat for Vogue. He finagled &#8220;Glee&#8221; stars Dianna Agron and Lea Michele into simulating group-sex play with the late Cory Montieth, for which Agron later apologized to fans and their appalled parents.</p>
<p>The leering Richardson, who insists that his subjects call him &#8220;Uncle Terry,&#8221; has convinced countless women in the industry to doff their tops, bottoms, and dignity. A few, brave fashion models have publicly exposed Richardson&#8217;s misogyny and manipulation. Model Rie Rasmussen told the New York Post&#8217;s Page Six: &#8220;He takes girls who are young, manipulates them to take their clothes off and takes pictures of them they will be ashamed of. They are too afraid to say no because their agency booked them on the job and are too young to stand up for themselves.&#8221; Veteran supermodel Coca Rocha has spoken out about Richardson&#8217;s creepitude and forbidden her agents from working with the lech.</p>
<p>Model Sara Ziff formed the Model Alliance last year to blow the whistle on sexual harassment and abuse, after women &#8220;began to speak out in numbers against the photographer Terry Richardson for his practice of putting models on the spot to disrobe on castings, soliciting sex from them, and documenting these exploits.&#8221;</p>
<p>These women, alas, are the exception, and not the rule. Hollywood&#8217;s elite sisterhood is a sexual predator sanctuary. Powerful starlets continue to flaunt their hipster friendships with Richardson. Lady Gaga just hired him to shoot the video for her newest single, &#8220;Do What You Want (With My Body).&#8221; High-profile liberal New York City powerbroker Audrey Gelman, press secretary for Democratic city comptroller Scott Stringer, has been dating Richardson for the past few years. Gelman&#8217;s bestie and fellow Oberlin College luminary, actress Lena Dunham, posed naked from the waist down for Richardson in a &#8220;V&#8221; magazine photo spread headlined — I kid you not — &#8220;Girl Power.&#8221;</p>
<p>These women wear their feminist politics on their sleeves (or their sleeveless, tattooed arms). They take to Twitter regularly to moan about the GOP&#8217;s &#8220;war on women.&#8221; They mock conservatives as retrograde and sexist. But when asked about their relationship with a notorious sexist pig who has made a career out of humiliating women (did I mention the time he scrawled &#8220;SLUT&#8221; across one girl&#8217;s forehead), the femme role models are AWOL.</p>
<p>Last month, the Times spilled a barrel of ink on Gelman&#8217;s rising political star. The paper noted her relationship with Richardson in passing, and noted the publicity-hungry couple&#8217;s selective reticence: &#8220;Ms. Gelman generally refuses to discuss her personal life. And Mr. Richardson, who is 48, declined to be interviewed.&#8221; Earlier this month, the New York Post&#8217;s Maureen Callahan zeroed in on Richardson&#8217;s perv history and asked both the outspoken Gelman and Dunham for a response. Cue the chirping crickets: &#8220;Dunham and Gelman would not comment for this article.&#8221;</p>
<p>Young women, whatever your politics, take note. This is not &#8220;girl power.&#8221; It&#8217;s chauvinist power. This soulless shutterbug has supposedly enlightened women right where he wants them: Servile, subordinate and disempowered. Terry Richardson&#8217;s enablers, the poseurs of feminism, are selling out their sisters in the name of &#8220;fashion&#8221; and &#8220;art.&#8221; It&#8217;s not hip. It&#8217;s sick.</p>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Nov 2013 04:03:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The new lows of the president's degrading propaganda.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/colorado-nonprofit-sells-obamacare-as-brosurance-with-cringeworthy-viral-ad-campaign.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-210637" alt="colorado-nonprofit-sells-obamacare-as-brosurance-with-cringeworthy-viral-ad-campaign" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/colorado-nonprofit-sells-obamacare-as-brosurance-with-cringeworthy-viral-ad-campaign-450x337.jpg" width="270" height="202" /></a>The &#8220;Got Insurance?&#8221; campaign is the lame brainchild of two &#8220;progressive&#8221; outfits with dubious nonprofit status: ProgressNow and the Colorado Consumer Health Initiative. Their previous claim to fame: a &#8220;Thanks, Obamacare&#8221; social media movement to propagandize praise and gratitude for the federal mandate.</p>
<p>Modeled after the &#8220;Got Milk?&#8221; ads, the latest print and web promos pander to young people with pop-culture memes and entitlement-friendly appeals. The dumbed-down website address: doyougotinsurance.com. Last month, while federal and state Obamacare exchange sites 404&#8242;ed, the Colorado marketing buffoons LOL&#8217;ed. Their &#8220;Brosurance&#8221; ads featured frat boys with red solo cups guzzling beer, playing golf and celebrating government with a &#8220;Thanks, Obamacare!&#8221; smile.</p>
<p>ProgressNow&#8217;s Alan Franklin boasted about his coverage. Media coverage, that is: &#8220;Within the first few weeks, &#8216;Brosurance&#8217; has been featured by The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, CNN, MSNBC, Conan O&#8217;Brien, Bill Maher and Roll Call, as well as the front page of Buzzfeed and Jezebel, just to name a few. Just in the first 24 hours of the campaign&#8217;s launch alone, #Brosurance was mentioned more than six million times on Twitter, and #GotInsurance more than 1.7 million times. Yes. The ads went viral.&#8221; Priorities.</p>
<p>On Tuesday, the groups launched phase two of their Obamacare bread and circuses. Aimed at young women, the ads show party gals with shot glasses lined up on a ski; &#8220;Hey, Girl&#8221; gags involving a cutout of actor Ryan Gosling; and the Sandra Fluke-inspired promo featuring birth control-wielding &#8220;Susie&#8221; and her &#8220;hot to trot&#8221; date, Nate. The caption reads:</p>
<p>&#8220;Let&#8217;s Get Physical.</p>
<p>OMG, he&#8217;s hot! Let&#8217;s hope he&#8217;s as easy to get as this birth control. My health insurance covers the pill, which means all I have to worry about is getting him between the covers. I got insurance. Now you can, too.&#8221;</p>
<p>It&#8217;s bad enough that these idiocracy-targeted ads reduce young people to perpetually partying boozers and traffic-bait boobs. But what&#8217;s truly toxic is the ad campaign&#8217;s cynical feint to draw attention away from Obamacare&#8217;s undeniable harm to responsible young people. Brosurance and Hosurance are trifling distractions from the federal law&#8217;s Nosurance consequences. Insurers started dropping child-only plans in Colorado, California, Ohio and Missouri in 2010 thanks to Obamacare-induced premium increases. Colleges across the country have canceled low-cost plans for students because of Obamacare rules. Thanks to the Obamacare mandate, young, healthy Americans face higher insurance premiums, decreased work hours and perverse incentives to enroll in Medicaid instead of remaining independent and off the dole.</p>
<p>Meanwhile back in Colorado, the state Division of Insurance reports that 250,000 people here have lost their insurance policies in the past few months. And while the &#8220;bros and hos&#8221; circus masters urge young people to sign up &#8220;easily&#8221; on the state exchange, the overseers of the $200 million program are singing a different tune. Last week, IT expert and Colorado health insurance exchange board member Nathan Wilkes blasted the process as &#8220;painful,&#8221; &#8220;odious&#8221; and &#8220;embarrassing.&#8221;</p>
<p>That&#8217;s an apt description of the ruinous policies, clown implementation and moronic marketing of all aspects of Obamacare. Sober up, young America. The &#8220;Affordable Care Act&#8221; is the progressives&#8217; wealth redistribution party from hell — and you&#8217;re paying for it.</p>
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		<title>The White House Fable Factory</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Phony tales built Obamacare. Real stories will bring it down.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/o-OBAMACARE-MEDIA-WAR-facebook.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-209768" alt="Brack Obama, Kathleen Sebelius" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/o-OBAMACARE-MEDIA-WAR-facebook-450x345.jpg" width="270" height="207" /></a>Now that true horror stories of Obamacare&#8217;s wrecking ball are finally reaching the public, the White House doesn&#8217;t like &#8220;anecdotes.&#8221; Live by tale-telling; die by tale-telling.</p>
<p>On Tuesday, White House press secretary Jay Carney huffed that stage-four gallbladder cancer survivor Edie Littlefield Sundby&#8217;s personal account in The Wall Street Journal of seeing her health insurance plan canceled and her access to doctors cut off was &#8220;sensational.&#8221; Not a shred of compassion for her predicament. No sorrow for her loss. Must. Attack. Messenger.</p>
<p>There are millions out there like Sundby who are using Facebook, Twitter, Twitchy.com and a new website called MyCancellation.com to share their plights. White House flacks and hacks are working overtime to &#8220;debunk&#8221; their experiences, bash insurance companies and deride individual market consumers losing their plans as stupid dupes whose stories don&#8217;t add up.</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s the thing. This Alinsky-steeped administration has relied on an endless stream of sensationalized, phony personal dramas to sell Obamacare. Last month, Organizing for Action (previously Obama for America) promoted the &#8220;success story&#8221; of Chad Henderson, a supposedly random young person who miraculously enrolled in Obamacare while everyone else in America experienced major tech meltdowns and sticker shock.</p>
<p>Turned out Lying Chad was actually an OFA volunteer who hadn&#8217;t really enrolled in Obamacare yet because he was &#8220;joking.&#8221; No matter. Yesterday, Obama appeared before OFA to solicit even more stories from the group to help propagandize Obamacare. A refresher course on the White House Fable Factory&#8217;s greatest hits:</p>
<p>—Stanley Ann Dunham. Obama cited his mom&#8217;s deathbed fight with her insurer several times over the years to support the Obamacare ban on pre-existing condition exclusions by insurers. During a 2008 debate, he shared her plight: &#8220;For my mother to die of cancer at the age of 53 and have to spend the last months of her life in the hospital room arguing with insurance companies because they&#8217;re saying that this may be a pre-existing condition and they don&#8217;t have to pay her treatment, there&#8217;s something fundamentally wrong about that.&#8221; But New York Times reporter Janny Scott discovered that Dunham&#8217;s health insurer had in fact reimbursed her medical expenses with nary an objection. The actual coverage dispute centered on a separate disability insurance policy.</p>
<p>—Otto Raddatz. In 2009, Obama publicized the plight of this Illinois cancer patient, who supposedly died after he was dropped from his Fortis/Assurant Health insurance plan when his insurer discovered an unreported gallstone the patient hadn&#8217;t known about.</p>
<p>The truth? He got the treatment he needed in 2005 and lived for nearly four more years.</p>
<p>—Robin Beaton. Also in 2009, Obama claimed Beaton, a breast cancer patient, lost her insurance after &#8220;she forgot to declare a case of acne.&#8221; In fact, she failed to disclose a previous heart condition and did not list her weight accurately, but had her insurance restored anyway after intense public lobbying.</p>
<p>—John Brodniak. A 23-year-old unemployed Oregon sawmill worker, Brodniak&#8217;s health woes were spotlighted by New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof as a textbook argument for Obamacare. Brodniak reportedly was diagnosed with cavernous hemangioma, a neurological condition, and was allegedly turned away by emergency room doctors. Kristof called the case &#8220;monstrous&#8221; and decried opponents of the Democrats&#8217; health care proposals as heartless murderers. The truth? Brodniak not only had coverage through Oregon&#8217;s Medicaid program, but was also a neurology patient at the prestigious Oregon Health and Science University in Portland (a safety-net institution that accepts all Medicaid patients). Kristof never retracted the legend.</p>
<p>—Marcelas Owens. An 11-year-old boy from Seattle, Owens took a coveted spot next to the president in March 2010 when Obamacare was signed into law. Marcelas&#8217; 27-year-old mother, Tiffany Owens, died of pulmonary hypertension. The family said the single mother of three lost her job as a fast-food manager and lost her insurance. She died in 2007 after receiving emergency care and treatment throughout her illness. Progressive groups (for whom Marcelas&#8217; relatives worked) dubbed Marcelas an &#8220;insurance abuse survivor.&#8221; But there wasn&#8217;t a shred of evidence that any insurer had &#8220;abused&#8221; the boy or his mom. Further, Washington State already offered a plethora of existing government assistance programs to laid-off and unemployed workers like Marcelas&#8217; mom. The family and its public relations agents never explained why she didn&#8217;t enroll.</p>
<p>—Natoma Canfield. The White House made the Ohio cancer patient a poster child for Obamacare in 2010 after she wrote a letter complaining about skyrocketing premiums and the prospect of losing her home. After Obama gave Canfield a shout-out at a health care rally in Strongsville, Ohio, and promised to control costs, officials at the renowned Cleveland Clinic, which is treating her, made clear that they would &#8220;not put a lien on her home&#8221; and that she was eligible for a wide variety of state aid and private charity care.</p>
<p>Phony manufactured tales built Obamacare. Real stories of Obamacare wreckage will bring it down.</p>
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