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Saturday, June 6, 2015

Of Course Liberals Are Concerned. How Would You Feel If Hillary Was Your Candidate?

Bill Kristol: NYT Tale of Rubio's Traffic Tix Shows Liberals Are Worried

Friday, 05 Jun 2015 05:41 PM
By Bill Hoffmann


"A year-and-a-half out and they're trying everything they can to make him look young, reckless, driving fast. I can't believe it."

In Friday's edition, The Times, thought of as a liberal publication, revealed in a lengthy article that Rubio has been cited four times in 18 years for minor traffic violations, while his wife Jeanette received 13.

The infractions included speeding, driving through red lights and careless driving, and in four separate occasions the couple agreed to attend remedial driving school after a violation, The Times reported.

Kristol told Steve Malzberg the expose is much ado about nothing.

"Most Americans look at him and think, 'you know what he's a normal guy and they have a normal family. They got the occasional ticket and there's no evidence of recklessness or any inappropriate behavior,'" Kristol said.

"You know what? Maybe having a president who has driven himself and his kids and wife around to the grocery store or into the Little League games and stuff, maybe that's not such a bad thing to have compared to the Clintons, neither who have driven a car in 25 years."

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Trump Will Tell Us If He Is A Candidate Later This Month. Do You Think He Will Run? We Doubt It!

Trump: I've Made Up My Mind About Presidential Race

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Friday, 05 Jun 2015 12:53 PM
By Melissa Clyne


It’s official.

Donald Trump has made a decision about his intentions for 2016, but the famously self-promoting billionaire real estate mogul is teasing the public announcement until June 16, he told MSNBC during a phone interview from Iowa Friday morning.

"In my own mind, I’ve decided, but I haven’t made it official — that’s for the 16th," he said. "Can’t tell you yet, though I’d like to!"

He may have tipped his hand in speaking to a crowd of more than 300 people in Mason City, Iowa, the Daily Mail reported, when he told supporters there that he would be returning to the Hawkeye State, which holds the first major electoral event of the nominating process for president of the United States, immediately after the announcement.
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The big reveal will take place at Trump Tower in New York City.

Though a Quinnipiac University pollpublished May 28 showed Trump leading New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, Ohio Gov. John Kasich and former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina, he also topped the "no way" list in the same poll.

Trump received 5 percent support, compared with Christie’s 4 percent and Kasich and Fiorina’s 2 percent.

Twenty-one percent of Republican voters in the Quinnipiac Poll said they would definitely not support him, followed by former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush (17 percent) and Christie (15 percent).

Tied for the lead in that poll were Bush, retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, Florida Sen. Marco Rubio and Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, with 10 percent support each, followed by Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul (7 percent) and Texas Sen. Ted Cruz (6 percent).

In his trademark blunt delivery, Trump told the Iowa crowd that America has "a chance to be great, but we can't keep it going like this," the Daily Mail reported.

"We can't continue to be led by stupid people who are being controlled by the wrong people, and that's what's happening with our country," he said.

A Trump presidency would means Americans would learn "hard truths," including that "the American dream is dead."

"But if I run, and if I win, we will bring the American dream back bigger and stronger than ever."

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When Soros Gets Involved In Issues, You Know It IS NOT In Our Best Interests! What Is Wrong With Proving You Are Who You Say You Are?

NYT: Billionaire George Soros Financing Dems' Voter Rights Lawsuits

Saturday, 06 Jun 2015 07:40 AM
By Sandy Fitzgerald
Billionaire philanthropist George Soros has agreed to spend as much as $5 million on Democrats' court battles against voting laws passed in recent years by Republican-controlled state governments such as in Ohio and Wisconsin.

"We hope to see these unfair laws, which often disproportionately affect the most vulnerable in our society, repealed," the Hungarian-born investor has said about the legal battles, describing himself as being "proud" of his involvement, reports The New York Times.

Soros political adviser Michael Vachon said the billionaire has given $1 million so far this year to the liberal research super PAC American Bridge.

Backers of Democrat presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, who has made the voting laws a cornerstone of her campaign, have been pushing Soros to commit millions of dollars to her super PAC.  Soros has not done that so far, the Times says.

The lawsuits against the states are being led by attorney Marc Elias, who is the Clinton campaign's general counsel, the newspaper reports.

This is not Soros' first involvement in voting issues. His first major push in American politics included the America Coming Together voter-mobilization drive in 2004, in an effort to defeat President George W. Bush.

The lawsuits include attacks on voter ID requirements, time restrictions on early voting that make it difficult to cast ballots on the weekend before Election Day, and rules nullifying ballots that are cast in wrong precincts.

The Times reports that Soros was in contact with Elias in January 2014, while the attorney was exploring federal lawsuits before the midterms and before the 2016 cycle, said Vachon, Soros'  adviser, Michael Vachon. Elias himself refused comment Friday about the lawsuits' funding.

Soros is supporting lawsuits filed in Ohio and Wisconsin last month, and is helping finance a case Elias and other groups filed in North Carolina last year.

Clinton and Democrats argue that the states' voting laws affect poor, minority, and young voters, but Republicans say the new laws, enacted since 2010, serve as protection against election fraud.

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Further, Republican opponents point out that the lawsuits, also expected in Georgia, Nevada, and Virginia, are being filed to attract minority voters to support Democrats.

Vachon, though, said it is "disingenuous" for Republicans to say the laws prevent voter fraud, which he claims is "nearly nonexistent," but instead, they are "meant to give Republicans a political advantage on Election Day.”

In addition to representing Clinton's presidential campaign, Elias' client list also includes four major national Democratic Party committees.

In a speech in Houston on Thursday, Clinton attacked many of her potential Republican opponents for the presidency by name, including New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, who fired back.

"Secretary Clinton doesn't know the first thing about voting rights in New Jersey or in the other states that she attacked," Christie told The Record of Elmwood Park, New Jersey.  "My sense is she just wants an opportunity to commit greater acts of voter fraud around the country.”

Walker commented that Clinton's push against laws that make it "easier to vote and harder to cheat" defies logic and most Americans' wishes.

Vachon told the Times that Elias first approached him last year about a lawsuit against a North Carolina law that says student identification cards are not acceptable to use as a photo ID for voting, and which ended a program allowing teenagers to fill out a form that automatically registered them to vote on their 18th birthday.

The lawsuit claims that the North Carolina law violates the 26th Amendment, which changed the voting age from 21 to 18. The N.A.A.C.P, the Justice Department, and the American Civil Liberties Union are also involved in the legal case, which is still pending.

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Social Security Overpaid Nearly 50% Of Disability Benefit Recipients. Probably Disqualified Some Who Were Deserving. Big Government In Action!

Social Security overpaid beneficiaries by nearly $17 billion

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The Social Security Administration overpaid nearly half of the people receiving disability benefits over a 10-year period, according to a new report by the agency’s inspector general.
Social Security overpaid beneficiaries by nearly $17 billion, the report estimated, between October 2003 and February 2014.
The agency was able to recover about $8.1 billion of it, the report said.
Many of the payments were delivered to people who either were no longer disabled or to earned too much money to qualify. Some payments went to people who were in prison or had died.
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The inspector general followed a randomly selected sample of 1,532 over that 10-year period who either received disability benefits or supplemental security income for the poor.
Auditors found that 45 percent of the beneficiaries were overpaid at some point during the decade by $2.9 million. Based on that result, the inspector general estimated Social Security overpaid $16.8 million from 2003 to 2014.
The report comes just a year before the Social Security Disability Trust Fund is projected to be exhausted, and lawmakers on Capitol Hill are divided over how to handle the shortfall. If Congress fails to act, beneficiaries would receive a nearly 20 percent cut in benefits.
Republicans largely oppose keeping the disability fund afloat by reallocating revenue from the Social Security retirement fund to the disability fund. The GOP-led House in January approved a rule that would make a reallocation of the payroll tax more difficult.
Instead, GOP lawmakers have said they’d like to focus on program integrity initiatives to weed out fraud and abuse to find savings.