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Obama’s Willie Horton Moment?
Due to a Moratorium on deportations to Haiti, burglar Kesler Dufrene was not deported the last time ICE took custody of him, although an immigration judge had ordered it. He has since been linked to Jan 2, 2011 slayings of a 15 year old girl and two other people by DNA and cellphone tracking. Dufrene committed suicide just before he was taken by Manatee county deputies after another break in and shooting. Authorities and relatives of the victims wonder if others were involved in the triple slaying, and most agree that that Ashley Chow, Harlen Peralta, and Israel Rincon would still be alive had Dufrene been deported as scheduled.
If deportations are halted, ICE cannot hold illegal immigrants in custody longer than six months, due to a pair of Supreme Court rulings on the issue. Obama had halted deportations to Haiti after the January 2010 earthquake. The result of that decision could be the topic of anti-Obama ads, after the style of the Willie Horton ads that plagued candidate Michael Dukakis so long ago.
Alveda King Says Her Uncle Would Have Opposed Abortion
Crony Capitalism at the FDA – Comes Back To Bite
Some of the panalists on the FDA advisory committee which endorsed the Yaz and Yazmin branded birth control pills, had ties to Bayer, the manufacturer of those pills.
The panelists of the Reproductive Drugs Advisory Committee and the Drug Safety and Risk Management Advisory committee jointly voted 15 to 11 that the benefits of drosperinone-containing BCPs outweighed the risks.
Some members reported their financial ties to Bayer, and the FDA thought that was just fine, and not a conflict of interest sufficient for their exclusion from the advisory groups.
Sidney Wolfe, MD, of Public Citizen comsumer advocacy group had opposed that class of birth control pills due to risk of thromboembolism. His role on the advisory committee was reduced to non-voting status due to his ‘intellectual conflicts’.
Intellectual conflict = bad. Financial conflict = good.
What goes around, comes around, and Bayer has to feed the lawyers now, after years of untoward post-marketing experience.
Was this an purposefully constructed food chain?
AP Whines that Rick Santorum Had Financial Success After Leaving Congress
Santorum’s income has soared since he left Senate (OneNewsNow.com).
Call a Waaaambulance!
Andrew Miga’s name appears at the top of an article which castigates Santorum for serving as a consultant and board member for various private industries and organizations, and making hundreds of thousands of dollars per year. Certainly these industries were interested in using him for regulatory advice because he came out of Washingthon. Mind you, the article needed to produce a figure over a million dollars so it lumped together a year and seven plus months to come up with a 1.3 million dollar bonanza earned at multiple jobs.
Miga apparently found this success to be inconsistent with his blue collar Pennsylvania origins. A grandson of an Italian immigrant coal miner is not supposed to do this well. There is no upward mobility for Americans in the future plans of leftists. Such aspirations and grasping for success is unseemly. Building a financial nest egg to fund the next election attempt is unacceptable behavior for a conservative (but not for a leftist).
After 16 years in Congress Santorum is labeled as an insider, by the same media which said that Sarah Palin was no good because she was not an insider.
Report on Grass Roots Prolife Stalwarts in the Philippines
Philippines Pro-Life Advocates Close 2011 With Victories | LifeNews.com.
Pro-life people of the Philippines (which constitute a clear majority) have expended considerable personal resources and effort to battle increasingly abortophilic politicians, and the money and resources flowing in from outside of the country.
Filipinos have been working to turn back efforts of the population controllers to pass a so called reproductive health bill since 1998. It would be nice if they could use this time to serve their own economic needs, rather than fight meddlesome outside groups such as UNFPA, USAID, UNICEF, World Bank, JICA, European Union, IPPF etc. , who believe in curing poverty by killing the victims.
The article linked at the top is Worth Your Attention, as it details the efforts of a caravan trip through the Philippines, starting in Mindanao, and heading northward to Manila, which raised additional awareness about the “RH” bill and its mandates. The legislative session ended in December without passing the RH bill. Consideration of the same sex marriage bill has been postponed indefinitely.
School of Hard Knocks
Suit: Boy falls, teacher says crawl back to Skokie school – Chicago Sun-Times.
Devonshire Elementary School provided survivalist training to a six year old boy who slipped in the snow, hitting his head and breaking his leg.
The following account comes from the parents, Pritam and Priya, Chandani, and the school officials are not talking.
The teacher apparently told the boy, Rahul Chandani, to walk back, to the building, but he had to crawl as a result of the fractured tibia.
The parents were not notified nor was medical attention was offered to the boy, who was seen crawling by his mother when she picked him up after school. She took him to the hospital.
As the survivalist training was not an expected or contracted part of the curriculum, the school is facing a lawsuit filed by the parents. There is no information as to whether the teacher still has a job.
Could a teachers’ union member in Illinois be fired for such an infraction?
GM deal moves electric car development to China
GM deal moves electric car development to China — a ‘shakedown’?.
Government Motors seeks to outsource electric car development to China, where the government subsidizes purchases to the tune of 19000 dollars, rather than the measly 8000 dollars offered by the U.S.
Obama’s job stimulus program might be more effective for China than for the U.S.
The Payroll Tax Cut is Funded with Increased Mortgage Fees
Increasing Mortgage Fees to Fund the Payroll Tax Cut | Mortgage News.
In the temporary payroll tax cut bill that reduces the funding of social security, there is an increase in mortgage fee payments collected by Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae. This will occur over a ten year period, and the money will go to the Treasury, not the two mortgage lenders.
The cost of the payroll tax cut is being shifted to people who take out new mortgages or refinance them.
The housing industry really didn’t need this additional “help”. This new mortgage fee is never expected to go away, unlike the temporary payroll tax cut (which cuts funding of social security).
Bottom line, Obama is not really cutting taxes, and if he were, it would be a cut to the source of social security funding.