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BLATANTLY IMPERIAL: Obama Bypasses Congress; Goes After Guns

29 Thursday Aug 2013

Posted by theconservvoice in Communism, Corruption, Fascism, Government Control, Guns & Ammo, Harry Reid, John Boehner, Law & Policy, Liberty & Tyranny, Obama, Out-Of-This-World, Scandals & Coverups, The House of Representatives, The Senate, Tyranny, U.S. Government, Unconstitutional, WTF?!?!

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Striving to take action where Congress would not, the Obama administration announced new steps Thursday on gun control, curbing the import of military surplus weapons and proposing to close a little-known loophole that lets felons and others circumvent background checks by registering guns to corporations.

Four months after a gun control drive collapsed spectacularly in the Senate, President Barack Obama added two more executive actions to a list of 23 steps the White House determined Obama could take on his own to reduce gun violence. With the political world focused on Mideast tensions and looming fiscal battles, the move signaled Obama’s intent to show he hasn’t lost sight of the cause he took up after 20 first graders and six adults were gunned down last year in an elementary school in Newtown, Conn.

One new policy will end a government practice that lets military weapons, sold or donated by the U.S. to allies, be reimported into the U.S. by private entities, where some may end up on the streets. The White House said the U.S. has approved 250,000 of those guns to be reimported since 2005; under the new policy, only museums and a few other entities like the government will be eligible to reimport military-grade firearms.

The Obama administration is also proposing a federal rule to stop those who would be ineligible to pass a background check from skirting the law by registering a gun to a corporation or trust. The new rule would require people associated with those entities, like beneficiaries and trustees, to undergo the same type of fingerprint-based background checks as individuals if they want to register guns.

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VA Awards Million$ in Employee Bonuses Despite Massive Backlog in Veterans’ Disability Claims

26 Monday Aug 2013

Posted by theconservvoice in Corruption, Did You Know, Hypocrisy, Money, Spending, U.S. Government, Veterans, WTF?!?!

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Two-thirds of employees at the Department of Veteran Affairs, which has been the subject of widespread criticism for its excessive delays in providing veterans their benefits, received bonuses at the end of 2011 for “excellent” or “outstanding” performance. Additionally, employees at some of the department’s most ineffective offices were more likely to receive bonuses than workers at some of its most productive offices.

The VA’s regional office in Oakland, Calif., gave about 90 percent of its employees bonuses despite having to temporarily shut down operations to retrain its under performing workers and, in a Baltimore office, about 40 percent of workers receive a bonus despite the office’s having the longest wait time nationally, according to a News21 investigation. Yet, at the Sioux Falls, S.D., office, which processes claims up to four times more efficiently than Oakland, less than a tenth of its employees saw a bonus, the same investigation found.

Overall, employees received about $5.5 million in bonuses. According to the report, the department’s performance standards encourage workers to push aside more complicated claims and process easier ones to ensure their job security and qualify for extra pay through a points system. One Veterans Benefits Administration official said in defense of the bonuses, ”There are many, many employees who are exceeding their minimum standards, and they deserve to be recognized for that.”

The agency’s standards no longer allow employees to earn points for “supplemental development” — that is, making follow-up contacts and going through other documents in an effort to minimize the time employees spend on such issues. But as a result, the quality of work has worsened – documents show that nearly three-quarters of appeal claims were either done incorrectly or without complete information and that approximately 14,000 veterans had pending appeals of more than two years.

One employee told News21 that the current process “breeds cheating,” as employees resort to “survival mode” and work only on easy claims at the expense of backlog claims. “Your backlog is over here. But your points are in this direction. How stupid is that?” one employee said.

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MORE OBAMA LIES: Report Finds Health Care Premiums Climbed $2,976 Since 2009

23 Friday Aug 2013

Posted by theconservvoice in Communism, Contempt, Corruption, Double Talk, False Claims, Fascism, Government Control, Insurance, Law & Policy, Liberty & Tyranny, Money, Obamacare, Politics

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The average employer-provided family health insurance premiums have climbed $2,976 since 2009, according to an annual Kaiser Family Foundation survey released this week. They’re up $3,671 compared with the year before President Obama took office. That’s despite Obama’s repeated promises that the health care reform law he championed would cut premiums by $2,500 in his first term.

And while annual premium increases have moderated over the past two years, that’s due to trends in the insurance market largely unrelated to ObamaCare, and trends the law could actually reverse.

The Kaiser survey found that the average family premium this year is $16,351, up 4% over last year, and up 22% since 2009. After adjusting for inflation, premiums climbed an average 3.2% a year in Obama’s first term, higher than the 2.7% average during President Bush’s last four years in office.

During his first campaign for president, Obama repeatedly claimed that his health reform plan would, as he said at a Virginia rally in 2008 “lower premiums by up to $2,500 for a typical family per year.”

Nevertheless, the White House has been touting recent signs of health cost moderation as evidence that ObamaCare is “already working to reduce costs.”

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Boehner Blocks Shutdown of Gov’t

22 Thursday Aug 2013

Posted by theconservvoice in Corruption, Government Control, Hypocrisy, John Boehner, Law & Policy, Legislation, Liberty & Tyranny, Obama, Politics, Republicans/GOP, Spending, The House of Representatives, Tyranny

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Speaker John Boehner strongly hinted on a conference call with rank-and-file House Republicans that the upcoming continuing resolution will not be a do-or-die fight over Obamacare spending.

“Our intent is to move quickly on a short-term continuing resolution [CR] that keeps the government running and maintains current sequester spending levels,” Boehner told members, according to a person on the call.

While Boehner did not explicitly rule out using the CR for an Obamacare fight, other sources on the call said it was clear he preferred not to use the spending bill to draw a line in the sand. “He didn’t rule it out, but indicated to members that defund through CR is not the best strategy,” a second source said. Beyond the CR, in November or December, lies a needed debt-ceiling increase that the House GOP has long planned to use as leverage.

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HHS Secretly Hires 86 Criminal Investigators to Probe Obamacare Violators

22 Thursday Aug 2013

Posted by theconservvoice in Communism, Corruption, Democrats/Liberals, Dept of Health & Human Services, Economy, Fascism, Government Control, Health & Medicine, Jobs, Liberalism, Liberty & Tyranny, Not-So-Transparent, Obamacare, Out-Of-This-World, Police-State, Politics, Recession, Secrets, Shocking, Socialism, Tyranny, U.S. Government, Unconstitutional, WTF?!?!

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  • Post-Obamacare law hiring at the Department of Health and Human Services included 86 ‘criminal investigators,’ but just two ‘consumer safety’ officers
  • On the day President Obama signed the Affordable Care Act into law in 2010, HHS received authority to make 1,814 new hires
  • The authorization included positions for 50 criminal investigators. The agency increased that number to 86
  • The agency was also authorized to hire  261 ‘consumer safety officers.’ Only two such employees were hired

More than 1,600 new employees hired by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Resources in the aftermath of Obamacare’s passage include just two described as ‘consumer safety’ officers, but 86 tasked with ‘criminal investigating’ – indicating that the agency is building an army of detectives to sleuth out violations of a law that many in Congress who supported it still find confusing.

On the day President Obama signed the Affordable Care Act into law in 2010, HHS received authority from the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) to make as many as 1,814 new hires under an emergency ‘Direct Hiring Authority’ order.

The Obama administration ordered that employment expansion despite a government-wide hiring freeze.

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Kerry Reinstates Benghazi Officials Clinton Punished

20 Tuesday Aug 2013

Posted by theconservvoice in Africa, Benghazi, Contempt, Corruption, Dept. of State, Do As I Say Not As I Do, Double Talk, Government Control, Hypocrisy, International, Jobs, John Kerry, Out-Of-This-World, Scandals & Coverups, Shocking, WTF?!?!

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Secretary of State John Kerry has determined that the four State Department officials placed on administrative leave by Hillary Clinton after the terrorist attack on the U.S. mission in Benghazi do not deserve any formal disciplinary action and has asked them to come back to work at the State Department starting Tuesday.

Last December, Clinton’s staff told four mid-level officials to clean out their desks and hand in their badges after the release of the report of its own internal investigation into the Benghazi attack, compiled by the Administrative Review Board led by former State Department official Tom Pickering and former Joint Chiefs Chairman Ret. Adm. Mike Mullen. Those four officials have been in legal and professional limbo, not fired but unable to return to their jobs, for eight months… until today.

Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Raymond Maxwell, the only official from the State Department’s Near Eastern Affairs bureau to lose his job over the Benghazi attack, told The Daily Beast Monday he received a memo from the State Department’s human resources department informing him his administrative leave status has been lifted and he should report for duty Tuesday morning.

“No explanation, no briefing, just come back to work. So I will go in tomorrow,” Maxwell said.

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Obama Administration Asks Supreme Court To Allow Warrantless Cellphone Searches

19 Monday Aug 2013

Posted by theconservvoice in Corruption, Courts & Litigation, Crime, Government Control, Hypocrisy, Liberty & Tyranny, Not-So-Transparent, Obama, Police-State, Technology, Tyranny, U.S. Government, Wiretaps

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If the police arrest you, do they need a warrant to rifle through your cellphone? Courts have been split on the question. Last week the Obama administration asked the Supreme Court to resolve the issue and rule that the Fourth Amendment allows warrantless cellphone searches.

In 2007, the police arrested a Massachusetts man who appeared to be selling crack cocaine from his car. The cops seized his cellphone and noticed that it was receiving calls from “My House.” They opened the phone to determine the number for “My House.” That led them to the man’s home, where the police found drugs, cash and guns.

The defendant was convicted, but on appeal he argued that accessing the information on his cellphone without a warrant violated his Fourth Amendment rights. Earlier this year, the First Circuit Court of Appeals accepted the man’s argument, ruling that the police should have gotten a warrant before accessing any information on the man’s phone.

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FBI raids Philadelphia Sheriff’s Office

15 Thursday Aug 2013

Posted by theconservvoice in Blacks, Corruption, Courts & Litigation, Crime, Dept. of Justice, FBI, Fraud, Police Fire Rescue 911, Scandals & Coverups

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The FBI raided the Philadelphia Sheriff’s office Thursday and seized some of the office’s computers, a source said.

An FBI spokeswoman confirmed that it was at the office “performing normal law enforcement activities” but declined to offer specifics. She said details would not come unless charges are filed.

A Sheriff’s office employee posted the following message on his Facebook account Thursday:

“So I’m at the office and in comes the FBI. They locked the doors unplugged my computer and separated everyone. I was able to take my cell phone with me and I’m currently being quarantined for what reason I do not know.”

Philadelphia Sheriff’s Office spokesman Joe Blake released a statement late Thursday afternoon saying, “As part of an ongoing investigation begun in the previous administration, the FBI arrived at the sheriff’s office at 100 S. Broad this morning with a search warrant and subpoena for certain records and files.”

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ENOUGH CORRUPTION ALREADY! Daley Officially Runs for Illinois Governor

30 Tuesday Jul 2013

Posted by theconservvoice in Communism, Corruption, Democrats/Liberals, Fascism, Government Control, Governor, History, Hypocrisy, Jobs, Liberalism, Liberty & Tyranny, Obama, Out-Of-This-World, Politics, Socialism, The White House, WTF?!?!

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CHICAGO (Reuters) – Former White House Chief of Staff Bill Daley, the son and brother of former mayors of Chicago, formally announced on Tuesday he is running for governor of Illinois in 2014.

Daley had said on June 11 he was exploring a bid.

“I’m committed to running for governor, there is no exploratory piece of this anymore,” Daley said in a video posted by his campaign on Tuesday.

The announcement sets the stage for a fight for the Democratic nomination for governor between Daley and Governor Pat Quinn.

Daley has been criticizing Quinn for months, saying that the governor has failed to lead a state facing a financial crisis over mounting costs of public sector pensions. Illinois faces an unfunded pension liability of some $100 billion and has the lowest debt rating among the states.

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Two Days After Furloughs Begin Pentagon Spends $81K on TV’s for Gitmo

17 Wednesday Jul 2013

Posted by theconservvoice in Corruption, Dept of Defense / Pentagon, Economy, Government Control, Guantanamo, Hypocrisy, Military, Money, Out-Of-This-World, Scandals & Coverups, Spending, WTF?!?!

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(CNSNews.com) – Just two days after the Pentagon began furloughing hundreds of thousands of civilian personnel due to budget cuts, the Army ordered its second batch of televisions for the terrorist detention center at Guantanamo Bay, an expense totaling more than $80,000 in the last two months.

The Army’s Expeditionary Contracting Command (ECC) procured a $62,125 contract for television/DVD player combos on May 30.  The award went to Intech, Inc., a Government Services Administration (GSA) approved vendor.

A second contract, announced on July 11, allots $18,981.25 for TV sets and TV mounts.  This award was given to Digital Plaza Direct, the “electronics company of choice for all federal and local government purchasers.”

In all, the Army spent $81,106.25 in 42 days on television equipment for the U.S. base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel warned just a day before the second TV purchase that sequestration will cause “serious damage” to the military.

“If the cuts continue, the Department will have to make sharp cuts with far-reaching consequences, including limiting combat power, reducing readiness and undermining the national security interests of the United States,” Hagel said in a letter to the Senate Armed Forces Committee on July 10.

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