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According to
a Wall Street Journal report,
Newark Mayor Cory Booker is now considering a 2014 run for the Senate
seat currently occupied by 88-year-old Frank Lautenberg after mounting
speculation he would challenge incumbent New Jersey Governor Chris
Christie next year. On the internet, a close advisor to Mr. Booker has
prepped for both a gubernatorial campaign and Senate bid. Records show
Mr. Booker’s fundraising advisor and former City Hall staffer Bari
Mattes has purchased the web domains for both “BookerForSenate” and
BookerForGovernor.
Update (3:48 p.m.): Ms. Mattes has also registered “CoryBookerForPresident.com.”
[OK. Read that last sentence again. I have heard the dynamic and engaging Corey Booker speak, and I have met him. I was truly impressed. I asked for and received a CD of his speech. I see that he might well be the next man to take over the Barack Obama Presidency. I thought Obama should ask him to run with him as VP, getting rid of
Biden, for I thought Obama could not win this election without him. That would have set
Cory up for being the next President. He seems not to be a narcissist, he is very well spoken without a teleprompter, and he has a great story. He did not seem to be the Progressive that Obama is, but that remains to be seen. I wrote at the time I reported on him that we will be hearing more of this up and comer, and here he comes.] http://politicker.com/2012/12/cory-booker-is-keeping-his-options-open-online/
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Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is supporting a bid by General
Electric to export jobs and nuclear technology to China by seeking
assurances from Beijing that it will not steal or transfer valuable
reactor technology, the
Free Beacon has learned.
[What could go wrong here. We can believe China, can't we? Right... And then we have our American government supporting the outsourcing of American jobs.]
http://www.wcnc.com/news/regional/New-SC-bill-aims-to-arm-public-school-employees-184011311.html
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Republicans in Michigan capped off a prolific lame duck session that
included turning the home of the United Auto Workers into a
right-to-work state by passing recall reforms.
The Michigan legislature on Friday pushed through a bill that will
limit the ability of interest groups and residents to recall elected
officials. Challengers now have 60 days to file recall petitions, down
from 90, and recall votes now require opposition candidates rather than
up-or-down votes.
Liberal activists
have campaigned to recall Republican Gov. Rick Snyder since May 2011. That chorus has gained a
few key labor voices since Dec. 11 when Snyder made Michigan the 24th right-to-work state in the nation and the second in the industrial Midwest.
http://freebeacon.com/the-recall-recoil/
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Exclusive: Cops, detectives, FBI agents, U.S. soldiers tell Natural News they will not enforce gun confiscation orders
The retired police captain told me that, "Door-to-door confiscation by
men and women in blue [i.e. city cops] would be a suicide mission." If
ordered to conduct such gun confiscation actions, many would simply resign on the spot
rather than risk their lives in firefights with determined gun owners,
he explained. "Our officers are not generally willing to assume the
increased risk of such a police action."
He also explained, importantly, that most police officers have not even been trained
to conduct sweeping, community-level weapons confiscation programs.
"This goes against all our community outreach efforts where we try to
earn the trust of the community." If cops suddenly became gun
confiscation enforcers, trust would break down and policing would become
extremely difficult, he explained.
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The official Chinese government news agency, Xinhua, has demanded
the US immediately adopt stricter gun control measures to reduce the
number of firearms the US populace is permitted to possess.
The Chinese state-controlled media’s statement, titled
“Innocent Blood Demands No Delay for US Gun Control,”
is primarily focused on the Newtown tragedy in which 26 Americans were
killed by a mad gunman. Twenty of the victims were young children.
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/2012/12/18/China-Demands-US-Citizens-Be-Disarmed
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Another gun sent to Mexico under the White House’s “Fast and Furious”
program has been found beside a murdered Mexican, just as the White
House prepares to launch a large-scale political campaign built on the
Dec. 14 massacre of 26 Americans in Newtown, Conn.
The dead Mexican, Maria Gamez, was killed in a shootout Nov. 23
shootout between cops and drug-runners. The incident made headlines
because a Mexican beauty queen was killed in the exchange of fire.
Though Maria Susana Flores Gamez reportedly had a gun in her hand,
police said she was likely used as a human shield when the men in the
car she was traveling in pushed her out in front of them.
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In an appearance on
Fox News, Bolton said that Clinton’s claim that she had fainted because of the
flu,
hitting her head and suffering a concussion, was what foreign service
officers call a “diplomatic illness,” intended to free a diplomat from
an unpleasant duty. Clinton was supposed to appear before congressional
foreign affairs committees on Thursday to respond to questions about
whether security failures opened the way for the Sept. 11 attack.
“This is a diplomatic illness to beat the band,” said Bolton, who served during the
George W. Bush
administration. “I mean, I hope it’s nothing serious. But this was
revealed in a way that I think was not transparent and I think there is
an obligation here.”
[One wonders if she will offer up her xrays. And if she is not hospitalized, why would a headache prevent her from testifying? When the going gets tough, the tough get going.] http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-pn-clinton-faking-illness-benghazi-20121219,0,5649917.story
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U.S. Reps. Walter Jones, R-N.C., and Charles Rangel, D-N.Y., along
with retired senior defense intelligence officer Col. Walter P. Lang and
the Veterans for Peace today said Congress must be consulted before
Barack Obama would send American troops into Syria.
Or else.
At a press conference, Jones discussed his resolution to oppose American involvement in Syria without first consulting Congress.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Today, Sen. Rand Paul issued the following statement regarding the
newly released National Defense Authorization Act for 2013 (NDAA)
conference report.
The amendment, introduced by Sens. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) and
Mike Lee (R-Utah) and which passed with a 67-29 vote on Nov. 29, was
designed to guarantee Americans the right to due process and a jury
trial. These are basic and core American legal privileges prescribed in
our Bill of Rights, which have been observed since our nation's
founding. Removing these indefinite detention protections now means that
the NDAA is in violation of the Fourth and Fifth Amendments of the
Constitution.
"The decision by the NDAA conference committee, led by Sen. John
McCain (R-Ariz.) to strip the National Defense Authorization Act of the
amendment that protects American citizens against indefinite detention
now renders the entire NDAA unconstitutional," Sen. Paul said.
http://www.paul.senate.gov/?p=press_release&id=665
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The violence that
broke out at the Sandy Hook Elementary School continues to shock: images
of the little faces and the heroic teachers who tried
desperately to save their students have pierced the hearts of people
worldwide.
As the
grief-stricken families are laying to rest the loved
ones stolen from them in the tragedy on December 14 – the small town of
Bath, Michigan is standing in solidarity with the people of Newtown as
the
Connecticut community struggles to move forward after being shaken to the core by the unspeakable
violence.
The Midwest
town, just 20 miles from Lansing, was the site of
the most deadly school violence in U.S. history, when in May 1927 a
trustee
from the local school board wired the school with 600 pounds of dynamite
and then detonated the explosive, killing 45 people, 38 of whom were
children. [Well, I guess when one is intent on mass murders, there are other ways to do it than using a gun.]
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