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The Senate immigration bill will be a major boost to the federal budget but does relatively little to clamp down on illegal immigration — cutting the future flow by only about 25 percent — according to the Congressional Budget Office analysis of the bill, released Tuesday afternoon. Under the bill, which legalizes illegal immigrants and invites in foreign workers, immigration will total 10.4 million more people over the next decade and 16.2 million by 2033 Click here for full article ===================================================================== Sen. Amnesia writes Amnesty Bill If Mexico were a communist country run by a murderous, blood-thirsty dictatorship, with millions...

Louisiana State Senator Elbert Guillory (R-Opelousas) explains why he recently switched from the Democrat Party to the Republican Party. He discusses the history of the Republican Party, founded as an Abolitionist Movement in 1854. Guillory talks about how the welfare state is only a mechanism for politicians to control the black community.Hello, my name is Elbert Lee Guillory, and I’m the senator for the twenty-fourth district right here in beautiful Louisiana. Recently I made what many are referring to as a ‘bold decision’ to switch my party affiliation to the Republican Party. I wanted to take a moment to explain...

Five years and 50 years. As President Barack Obama revisits Berlin, he can't escape those anniversaries and the inevitable comparisons to history and personal achievement. His 26-hour whirlwind visit to the German capital caps three days of international summitry for the president and marks his return to a place where he once summoned a throng of 200,000 to share his ambitious vision for American leadership. That was 2008, when Obama was running for president and those who supported him at home and abroad saw the young mixed-race American as a unifying and transformational figure who signified hope and change. Five...

Explanation: How many different astronomical phenomena have come together to create the above vista? Several. First, in the foreground, is Crater Lake -- a caldera created by volcanism on planet Earth about 7,700 years ago. Next, inside the lake, is water. Although the origin of the water in the crater is melted snowfall, the origin of water on Earth more generally is unclear, but possibly related to ancient Earthly-impacts of icy bodies. Next, the green glow in the sky is airglow, light emitted by atoms high in the Earth's atmosphere as they recombine at night after being separated during the...

The Irish Parliament is expected to legalize limited abortion before its summer break after the publication of final government proposals that would allow terminations in cases when there is a real and substantial risk to the life of the mother, including the threat of suicide. In the face of intense opposition from the Roman Catholic Church and anti-abortion groups, Prime Minister Enda Kenny has pushed ahead with the changes while disallowing members of his party a free vote on conscience grounds. Given the large government majority in favor of the legislation, barring unforeseen circumstances it will pass into law. The...

China needs to ensure the security and profitability of its assets China is the world's largest holder of foreign exchange (forex) reserves, which reached $3.31 trillion in 2012. The annual growth of its forex reserves alone would still place China among the top five countries globally. (By the end of March, its forex reserves reached $3.44 trillion.) Even during the past decade, China's forex reserves had come under the global spotlight, and the State Administration of Foreign Exchange (SAFE), the world's largest institutional investor, was under the watchful eye of market participants around the world. So how can the Chinese...

China's first foreign invested hospital, the Beijing United Family hospital, opened in 1997. Roberta Lipson, co-founder and CEO of Chindex International was instrumental in the establishment of this institution. CHINATALKS spoke to Roberta about the difficulties faced during those early years as well as the differences that exist between the private and public systems of healthcare in China at the present. Roberta Lipson also talks about the current state of competition within the field of private healthcare and how public hospitals are attempting to cash-in on the demand for higher levels of service. Related Article Private Healthcare in China

E-books are becoming more popular amongst young people in China. The variety and flexibility on offer, alongside the hot sales of many e-reading terminals, make them a big competitor for the independent bookstores. -or maybe not?

No, this is not the Onion. The New York chapter of the Hamas-tied Council on American-Islamic Relations is submitting testimony on “hate crimes.” The hate group announced in a press release last week: “On Friday, the New York chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-NY) submitted written testimony for a public hearing on that state’s hate crimes law hosted by ranking member of the Senate Committee on Investigations and Government Operations, State Sen. Brad Hoylman.” Hamas-CAIR is submitting testimony on hate crimes? This is Shariah in action. Why aren’t the American Freedom Defense Initiative (AFDI) or Stop Islamization of...

By now even the increasingly ridiculous and irrelevant Nobel Peace Prize Committee, a stinking stain on the face of Scandinavia, must be wondering what possessed it to give Black Jesus its annual Donald Duck prize for being fashionably left-wing. Previous holders of the four-boxtops cuddly toy include a peanut farmer and a global-warming profiteer, both of whom, like Obama, are “Democrats.” The Christmas-cracker trinket has also been awarded to an Arab terrorist and to a South African terrorist. Recently, the Peace Popsicle has been given – fatuously – to the European Tyranny-by-Clerk and also to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate...

Get off the tourist track and head for the High CountryWith limited free time and a bucket list growing by the day, a return trip to Yosemite National Park had been on the cards for a while, but sadly the only weekend we could spare was in late July. We expected the worst – the heat, the traffic, the overcrowded viewpoints – but decided to grit our teeth and do it anyway. We knew there had to be a way to find the less-travelled roads and still enjoy the park in its peak season. First, we needed somewhere to stay....

On June 19-21, 2013, there will be dueling Seven50 Summits at the Palm Beach Conference Center, West Palm Beach, Florida. The Seven50 plan is an effort by the Southeast Florida Regional Partnership, funded by a grant from the US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), with the mission to “[C]reate and implement the Seven50: SE Florida Prosperity Plan, a blueprint for a vibrant and resilient economy; socially inclusive, sustainable, and affordable communities; and environmental sustainability.” … The City of Vero Beach, FL has pulled out of the plan. Mayor Craig Fletcher attended a briefing given by proponents of Seven50...

A Florida school admits that it made several mistakes when it allowed a security company to install iris scanners without telling parents -- and without even having a contract with the company. The eyes have it? Or the eyes were had? (Credit: Screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET) There's a quaint concept that seemingly every technology company dismisses as outdated. It's called opting in. Should you not be familiar with it, it's the notion that you ought to choose before, say, all the people in your address book are contacted by a company they've never heard of. And wouldn't it be lovely...

19-year-old Kendrec McDade was shot multiple times by police in Pasadena last March while fleeing. Cops continued to shoot when they mistook their own shots for shots from the suspect. Police say they believed McDade had a gun based on his behavior during the foot chase (holding his waistband) and on a 911 call reporting as much. The 911 caller, Oscar Carillo, was arrested on an involuntary manslaughter charge a month after the shooting after admitted to lying about being robbed at gunpoint in order to elicit a faster police response. Federal immigration authorities also asked that he be detained...

Obama weapons plan seen as adding to all-out sectarian conflict in Mideast WASHINGTON – Not only has the United States decided to begin providing weapons to the Syrian opposition, now Sunni Muslim clerics from the Gulf Cooperating Council countries, which are backed by the U.S. in arming and providing fighters to the opposition, have issued a fatwa calling for a “holy war” against Syria and its Shiite allies, principally Hezbollah, according to Joseph Farah’s G2 Bulletin. The fatwa, which signals the beginning of an all-out Sunni-Shia sectarian conflict, comes as foreign fighters led by the al-Qaida-affiliated Jabhat al-Nusra killed 60...

Forget Islam: Exercises focuses on fictional 'Free America Citizens' group While two brothers reportedly motivated by Islamic fundamentalism were carrying out the Boston Marathon bombing, the city was hard at work planning a mass casualty terrorism-training exercise in which the perpetrators were American militiamen whose logo includes Uncle Sam hats. The Boston Globe revealed the plot of “Operation Urban Shield,” a simulation by the Department of Homeland Security costing $200,000. The program was slated to take place last weekend to train local Boston law-enforcement agencies to work together to thwart a terrorist threat. The Boston newspaper reported officials from a...

Police in Slaton, Texas, took exception when a 32-yeReason 24/7Reasonar-old mom had the nerve to ask to see the arrest warrant for her 11-year-old son. Rather than show it, or leave, they arrested the by-the-book mother and hauled her in to spend the night behind bars. The son who was the supposed focus of their attentions? They left him unmolested. From MyFoxLubbock: Slaton police came to this woman's house, who wishes to remain anonymous, to arrest her son. But by asking one simple question, she found herself behind bars instead. "I told him, 'I will release my son to you...

Elbert Guillory: "Why I Am a Republican" Louisiana Senator Elbert Guillory (R-Opelousas) explains why he recently switched from the Democrat Party to the Republican Party. He discusses the history of the Republican Party, founded as an Abolitionist Movement in 1854. Guillory talks about how the welfare state is only a mechanism for politicians to control the black community. ‘Free at Last’: La. State Senator Explains Why He Recently Left the ‘Government Plantation’ & Joined GOP in Powerful Video The Blaze Jun. 18, 2013

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The mayors of New York, Los Angeles, Chicago and 15 other cities are reviving a push against letting food stamps be used to buy soda and other sugary drinks. In a letter sent to congressional leaders on Tuesday, the mayors say it’s “time to test and evaluate approaches limiting” the use of the subsidies for sugar-laden beverages, in the interest of fighting obesity and related diseases. “We need to find ways to strengthen the program and promote good nutrition while limiting the use of these resources for items with no nutritional value, like sugary drinks, that are actually harming the...

Photo: Lance Cpl Greg Buckley, murdered by our Afghan "allies" The Obama Administration announced that it will meet with the Taliban in Doha for “peace talks.” The Taliban continue to orchestrate insider attacks, killing our soldiers. They continue to poison girls’ schools across Afghanistan, kidnap Red Cross workers, enforce the most brutal and extreme ideology on the face of the earth (the Sharia), and call for the defeat of American and coalition forces. These jihadists behead Afghan children, slaughter Afghans who dare to attend a party where dancing takes place, and mean to run Mullah Omar for President, despite the...

The State Bank of Vietnam said it intervened “with reasonable volume” in the foreign-exchange market to slow a slide in the dong fueled by increasing dollar demand from importers. For the rest of 2013, the monetary authority will closely watch currency movements as well as banks’ foreign-exchange levels in order to get into the market in a timely manner and “flexibly manage money supply channels to control cash flow,” it said in a statement on its website today. The central bank said it will try to help the government meet its inflation and economic growth targets. Vietnam joined central banks...

A petition has been filed in the Supreme Court of Pakistan on Tuesday to direct the Federation to stop drone attacks, which have killed hundreds of innocent people in FATA/Waziristan. Mado Jan, a resident of South Waziristan Agency, in person filed the petition under Article 184(3) of Constitution, making the Federation through secretaries ministry of interior, ministry of foreign affairs, ministry of defence, ministry of information and US ambassador/US charge d' affairs as respondents. The killing of Pakistani citizens on large scale is an offence of murder of which US President Barak Obama and others should be dealt with in...

Police are searching for a man who skipped out on a $100 dinner bill, then brandished a gun at witnesses who tried to stop him in a Gaslamp Quarter parking garage. The incident occurred about 7 p.m. June 5, when the man in a brown suit racked up a $108 bill at Toscana Cafe, San Diego police said. He walked out of the Fifth Avenue eatery when he was done, telling the hostess he was just going to smoke a cigarette on the sidewalk. But he left without paying his tab. One of the managers followed him to Lou &...

THE live export market suffers another blow, with a Queensland mission to Indonesia being told pre-slaughter cattle stunning won't be allowed. The trade mission, led by Agriculture Minister John McVeigh, was told there had been a marked shift against stunning by Indonesians, the Courier Mail reports. Stun guns - commonly used in Australian abattoirs - are the main hope of exporters wanting Indonesian abattoirs to overcome cruel slaughter conditions. The northern live cattle market is on its knees due to a decision taken by Indonesia in 2009 to wind back exports to start its own beef industry. Graziers - some...

Al Qaeda ripping off freedom lovers -- savages nonetheless, no matter they hide and steal and mimic the call of freedom lovers. Spring 2012: al-Qaeda’s English-language online magazine, Inspire, published an article called “It Is of Your Freedom to Ignite a Firebomb,” which featured instructions on how to build an incendiary bomb to light forests on fire. "Fire Wars – Forest Jihad in America" Algemeiner, June 15, 2013 (thanks to Ken) American focus on the NSA “leaks” diverts attention from real existential threats and economic devastation that for now affects mostly the West. The fire raging in Colorado Springs forced...

The corrupt liberal media, and Democrats have gone into full smear mode ever since Ted Cruz was elected to the U.S. Senate last year. The left fears Ted Cruz like no other Republican in decades. Chris Matthews in particular has been ruthless. A leftist in Houston identified as Nick Gates was arrested for threatening to kidnap, burn, and murder Ted Cruz and his father unless he paid him $3 million. Nick Gates identified himself as Abolfazi Akbori, so he may be a Muslim convert. Abolfazi Akbori comes from Sheila Jackson Lee’s district in Houston and obviously was missed by Obama’s...

Yeah, but could it deliver your order in 30 minutes or less? A handful of UC San Diego engineering students hungry to get in on the movement to design drones that can do something other than spy on people drafted plans for an autonomous vehicle that's meant to deliver hot pizza to customers up to five miles away. "We want to deliver pizza faster, and to reduce the amount of gas that's now burned by delivery trucks and cars," says Humerto Sainz, one of the four students who came up with the design for a mechanical and aerospace engineering class...

Breitbart News has learned that less than a month before Barbara Walters defended Bill Maher's vicious attacks on Sarah Palin's special-needs son, Walters personally called Palin's camp to ask if the former Alaska governor could be a guest co-host on The View sometime during the months before the legendary anchor retires from TV journalism. Maher mocked Palin's special needs son by referring to him as "retarded" during a June 8 Las Vegas show. When Palin's schedule did not allow for her to guest host, Palin's advisers left the invitation as an open question. This backstory makes Walters's refusal to defend...

June 19, 2013   Wednesday of the Eleventh Week in Ordinary Time Reading 1 2 Cor 9:6-11 Brothers and sisters, consider this:whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly,and whoever sows bountifully will also reap bountifully.Each must do as already determined, without sadness or compulsion,for God loves a cheerful giver.Moreover, God is able to make every grace abundant for you,so that in all things, always having all you need,you may have an abundance for every good work.As it is written: He scatters abroad, he gives to the poor;his righteousness endures forever. The one who supplies seed to the sower and...

The deadline draws closer by the hour. In New York, the band of good-government reformers, labor unions, enviros, community organizers, religious leaders, and more have until Thursday night, when the current legislative session ends, to press state lawmakers to pass legislation combating political corruption and kickstarting a public financing program for statewide elections. Standing in their way: The odd coalition of breakaway Democrats and Republicans who control the state Senate and who are blocking the public financing bill, which passed the state Assembly earlier this year and is backed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo. Friends of Democracy, the super-PAC run by...

(Reuters) - Malaysia's Islamic finance university and the research arm of Kuwait Finance House will develop training and internship programmes to address growing demand for professionals in the business, officials said on Tuesday. Despite rapid growth over the last several years, the Islamic finance industry lacks a large pool of professionals with both academic and practical knowledge, a problem which the tie-up aims to tackle. "Academia has its own processes and metrics but it can be quite technical. This is bridging the gap between academia and the industry," said Daud Vicary Abdullah, president and chief executive of the International Centre...

Recipe Lab, a monthly feature, invites you to cook with the Dining section. We’ll publish a recipe from a new cookbook for you to try; the following week, the book’s author will join Julia Moskin and readers in a live video chat. This month we’re making a pesto pizza by Mario Batali’s sons; you can watch the video chat with Mario, Benno and Leo Batali here on Diner’s Journal on Wednesday, June 26, at 7 p.m. Eastern time. Who better than Mario Batali, whose teenage sons have just published a cookbook in his honor, to anchor a Recipe Lab dedicated...

BANGKOK – Thailand's government has acknowledged losing more than $4.46 billion in a much-criticized scheme to support rice prices that ended up dislodging the country from its top spot as the grain's exporter. Prime Minister's Office Minister Warathep Rattanakorn said Tuesday the government's sales of the rice failed to cover the sum it paid to farmers under the 2011-2012 subsidy program. Under the scheme, the government buys rice from farmers at about 15,000 baht ($490) a ton, hundreds more than the market price. Its inability to resell much of it on the international market allowed India and Vietnam to surpass...

The expectations continue to rise for the Philippine economy's growth prospects. The country is seen to have the highest growth potential in the eight years to 2020 among Southeast Asia's new investment darlings – Thailand, Indonesia and the Philippines, or the TIP economies, a new report said. But the report's author, Singapore-based DBS Ltd. economist Eugene Leow, warned: “For the Philippines, it is easy to remember the many false dawns over the last few decades." Manila is seen to have the highest growth potential in the years to 2020 among Southeast Asia's new investment darlings – Thailand, Indonesia and the...

MANILA: The Philippines wants to remain the call centre capital of the world. It has allotted almost US$12 million to help train millions of Filipinos, who are aspiring to become call centre agents. The call centre industry accounts for approximately 70 per cent of the whole business process outsourcing industry in the Philippines, and is forecasted to grow by nearly 30 per cent every year. The country is targeting to produce at least a million call centre agents by 2016 to meet the demand. Jay Santisteban, operations manager at Contact Centre Association of the Philippines, said: “The industry requires close...

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In this undercover video by James O'Keefe, free Obamaphones are handed out to recipients who admit in advance that they will be selling them to buy illegal drugs: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qskKVKHBMVM

TAIPEI--Suspicion is growing that Taiwan was used as a conduit for exporting products from Japan that can be used to develop weapons of mass destruction. The suspicion surfaced after a corruption case involving the customs office in Kaohsiung, southern Taiwan, came to light early this month. Because Taiwan does not belong to the United Nations, concern is growing that it is serving as a loophole in the international system that aims to prevent the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. On June 5, the Kaohsiung District Prosecutors Office arrested seven officials of the Kaohsiung Customs office on suspicion of approving...

The London Metal Exchange, a member of HKEx Group, is the world centre for industrial metals trading, has approved Kaohsiung, Taiwan as a good delivery point for primary aluminium, aluminium alloy, copper, lead, nickel, tin and zinc. This will be the LME’s ninth location in Asia. Mr Rob Hall, head of Physical Operations at the LME, said that “It is important that the LME’s network of good delivery points are located in the correct regions to meet the demands of the metals industry.” Mr Hall sad that “With Asia being the fastest growing industrial region in the world, and a...

TULSA, Okla. (AP) — An engineer killed in a fiery train collision in the Oklahoma Panhandle last year suffered from serious vision problems for much of his life, underwent several corrective procedures in the years leading up to the crash and had even complained that he couldn't distinguish between red and green signals, a doctor told a federal oversight board Tuesday. Despite his failing vision, the engineer continued driving freight trains and was guiding one of the ones that collided June 24, 2012, near town of Goodwell, killing him and two other railroad workers and causing about $15 million in...

UNION CITY (CBS SF) — A six-year old boy was mauled to death by a pit bull at a home in Union City Monday morning, according to Union City police. Fire crews and an ambulance were called to an address on Elizabeth Way about 11 a.m. Monday morning. The victim, identified as Dixon resident Nephi Selu, was taken to Stanford Hospital where neighbors of the family say the boy died. Police said the boy was visiting relatives and had been playing with the dog in the backyard when the dog attacked him, biting him on the top of his head....

1st PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 1789-97 FAMILY ESSAY "Washington came of very good blood - aw, quite good - I b'lieve." Attributed by his classmates to Amory Blaine in F. Scott Fitzgerald's This Side of Paradise. The Washingtons are of unusual antiquity in European terms, let alone American ones. A direct male ancestry has been traced back to William de Wessington or Wessyngton (i.e., Washington, a town in Tyne and Wear, formerly County Durham, in northern England), who was living in the late 12th century. The remoter ancestry is not absolutely certain but a detailed argument has...

A teenage girl chopped her father's head clean off with a bush knife after he raped her in their home in the highlands of Papua New Guinea. Now residents of the village have formed a protective ring around the 18-year-old, refusing to hand her over to the police because they agreed her 'evil' father deserved to die. A local church leader, Pastor Lucas Kumi from the village of Rang in the Western Highlands, said the entire community would refuse to allow the girl to be subjected to any official investigation. 'The people and leaders in our area went and saw...

WINNSBORO, SC (WIS) - Logan Robinson is going to need a bigger sash. He's come a long way in 10 years. Back then he was just a 7-year-old Cub Scout who enjoyed carving polar bears out of bars of soap. "For a 7-year old to have a knife and be carving something, it was awesome," said Robinson. "I was hooked right away." Robinson achieved his Eagle Scout rank by the age of 13. Most scouts quit when they hit Eagle. Robinson was just getting started. "If I didn't have something to focus on, I was just going to fizzle out,"...

The Senate voted down an amendment to the upper chamber's immigration bill proposed by Sen. David Vitter (R-LA) that would require a full biometric visa tracking system placed at every land, sea, and air port of entry in the United States before legalized immigrants could receive green cards. The measure, which was also called for by the 9/11 Commission in the wake of the 2001 terrorist attacks, would establish a biometric exit-entry system. Gang of Eight member Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) told Breitbart News last week that the tracking system was the "lynchpin to the whole bill." In May, he...

Vice President Joe Biden said senators who voted against the Obama administration-backed gun control legislation in April have contacted him implying they would change their votes if the measure is brought up again. “I’m optimistic, because I’ve gotten those phone calls from those members of Congress, many of whom voted no, saying, ‘Can you find a way? Can you find a way? Can you find a way for us to revisit this?’” Biden said Tuesday at the White House. “So that’s exactly what we’re going to be doing—counting on the leadership, members of Congress here, and counting on the continued...

China is developing drones to spy on Taiwan, a study from the US-China Economic and Security Review Commission indicates. “When fully integrated into the force structure, these Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) will improve the PLA’s [People’s Liberation Army] ability to assess US and Taiwan military force posture and intent and to employ long-range weapons systems,” the study says. Written by policy analyst Kimberly Hsu and titled China’s Military Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Industry, the study was prepared for the US Congress. According to the study, Beijing employs UAVs in a wide range of missions, though the extent to which it does...

As Uranus speeds in its orbit in the solar system, there are three large space rocks that are in lockstep with the gas giant, according to new simulations. Two of them are wobbling in unstable “horseshoe” orbits near Uranus, while the third is in a more reliable Trojan orbit that is always 60 degrees in front of the planet. The largest of this small group is the asteroid Crantor, which is 44 miles (70 kilometers) wide. Its horseshoe orbit, and that of companion 2010 EU65, means the space rocks seesaw between being close to Uranus and further away. They should...

It’s the question on everyone’s lips: "Why is Edward Snowden in China?” The implication is that spookiness is the only plausible explanation for why the NSA whistleblower would have absconded to Hong Kong. “Why flee the country?” is the accusation du jour. “I'm deeply suspicious obviously because he went to China,” said the man-most-likely-to-accuse-you-of-being-a-spy, Dick Cheney. CBS’s Bob Schieffer accused Snowed of cowardice, taunting: “I don’t remember Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks running off to China.” Let me suggest an alternative explanation: Bradley Manning. The trial of the man who handed over classified information to Wikileaks founder Julian...