The Patriot Post Digest 1-21-2014

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The Patriot Post Digest 1-21-2014
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Daily Digest

Jan. 21, 2014

THE FOUNDATION

“Considering the natural lust for power so inherent in man, I fear the thirst of power will prevail to oppress the people.” –George Mason, speech at the Virginia Ratifying Convention, 1788

TOP 5 RIGHT HOOKS

Healthcare.gov Now ‘Much Worse’

Former Marine Corps cyberwarfare expert David Kennedy has been testing Healthcare.gov for some time, warning all along about its security vulnerabilities. Now that the administration has “fixed it,” however, he says the site is “much worse off” than ever. As for no successful hacks to date, Kennedy warns, “They haven’t detected any attacks on the website, because they don’t have the capability to detect them.” That’s bad, but it gets worse. He says you don’t even really have to “hack” the website because it’s more akin to leaving your car doors wide open: “You can literally just open up your browser, go to this [query] and extract all this information.” If you like your security, you can keep it.

Exchange Gives Wrong Phone Number

The Maryland ObamaCare exchange is bedeviled by many of the same problems with which some of the 13 other states that chose to set up their own exchanges are reckoning, but one issue stood out as being especially amusing. Maryland’s website lists an 800-number for its help line, but the number directs callers to Seattle Pottery Supply instead. State Senate Minority Leader David Brinkly said, “You can’t make this stuff up.” Fortunately, the Seattle pottery shop could give callers the correct phone number, but something tells us the owner didn’t sign up to be an ObamaCare navigator for customers on the other side of the continent.

More Al-Qaida Than Ever

Richard Barrett, the former head of the United Nations al-Qaida and Taliban monitoring team, warns that al-Qaida isn’t, as Barack Obama infamously and repeatedly claimed, “decimated.” In fact, Barrett says, “There are probably more people fighting now under the al-Qaida banner than ever before.” Obama is now passing off the news, saying, “If a jayvee team puts on Lakers uniforms that doesn’t make them Kobe Bryant.” In other words, they don’t have the “capacity and reach” that al-Qaida formerly had. Then again, Obama still isn’t ready for the varsity team himself.

Cut World GDP by 4%

According to UN estimates, by 2050, global emissions need to be cut by 40% to 70% from 2010 levels in order to keep temperatures from rising more than 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit – the UN-agreed cap. The economic cost of doing so could reach 4% of world GDP by 2030. Given that temperatures haven’t risen at all for the past 15 years, the UN is calling on us to spend trillions of dollars to fight a phantom problem. The UN recommends investing $1 trillion per year on wind, solar and other renewable energy. But such investments have fallen for the last two years because they’re still not the most economically viable thing to do with money. That won’t stop the UN from blowing its own hot air.

Wendy Davis' Real Story

Texas state senator and aspiring governor Wendy Davis made herself known with an infamous 11-hour filibuster that blocked a proposed state ban on late-term abortions – an effort that eventually proved futile. Still, Davis' PR stunt reinvigorated the Left’s “war on women” rhetoric. Pathetically, as it turns out, the abortion advocate had to conjure up some BIG lies to make her own biography sell. She was first divorced at age 21, not 19 as she previously claimed while testifying in a federal lawsuit (but don’t anticipate any punishment for perjury), meaning she wasn’t the single teen mom she claimed to be. Also left in the shadows are key facts pertaining to her second husband, attorney Jeff Davis, whom she divorced in 2005. Mr. Davis financed the rest of his wife’s schooling through Harvard before being dumped the day after her student-loans were paid off. She also made no effort to win custody of her two children. All this proves one thing: She’s still a hero for Democrats. (Source1.)
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RIGHT ANALYSIS
Coming Soon: Immigration Reform?

House Republicans leaders are currently drafting a list of principles to guide any upcoming immigration legislation, but the final product seems unlikely to provide any true reform. The Senate bill passed last year created a special path to citizenship for the millions of illegal immigrants in the U.S. with only token attention given to renewed border enforcement provisions, while the House at the time insisted on real border security improvements before moving forward with legalization. Now that the time seems to have come for the House to take up the issue, suddenly their enforcement rhetoric doesn’t seem so solid.

The new House plan appears to embrace a path to legalization that includes fines and payment of back taxes after a border security plan is in place. But there are no mentions of any benchmarks for the new enforcement provisions, only the need to have them in place. In other words, enforcement could be a complete failure, but that won’t stop legalization from moving forward, which is what Democrats have wanted all along. They see millions of potential voters and they will do anything to get them legalized and legitimized. Businesses likewise see a whole new crop of cheap labor, so they are also pushing heavily for legalization regardless of any other consequence.

Amnesty, of course, will mean that virtually overnight millions more people will have access to federal and state welfare programs, Medicare, and ObamaCare, totaling nearly $160 billion in additional deficit spending. Right now, the House GOP seems to be the only institution that has the capability of preventing an amnesty disaster. Yet, they are more wrapped up in the politics of the moment than the principles of the ages. What they need to do is fall back on the basic principles of reform, and stick to them. Enhance security and enforcement efforts, reform the bureaucracy of the legal immigration system, reject amnesty, and enforce existing laws. Part of the problem with the immigration system now is that, thanks to Barack Obama, the federal government picks and chooses its immigration policy based on the potential political gain for Democrats. The GOP will not improve its fortunes – not to mention do what’s best for the nation – by aiding those ends.