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Honorable Mention: Navy Jet Crashes in Virginia
http://usnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/04/06/11057385-navy-jet-crashes-in-virginia-beach-hitting-apartment-buildings#.T39cYNPPN3Y.facebook
5. Thomas Kincade Dies at age 54
http://news.yahoo.com/calif-artist-thomas-kinkade-dies-age-54-040935368.html
4. Iran: We Can Produce a Nuclear Weapon
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2012/04/07/iran-lawmaker-country-can-produce-nuclear-weapons-but-will-never-do-so/
3. Marion Barry: We Need To Get Rid of the Asians
http://news.yahoo.com/barry-apologizes-asian-businesses-215408295.html
2. Romney Changes To Obama with Win of GOP Nomination in Sight
http://news.yahoo.com/romney-wins-republican-primary-illinois-media-005552960.html
http://www.delcotimes.com/articles/2012/04/04/news/doc4f7c14339a736598807290.txt
http://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/article/20120330/GPG010402/120330166/GOP-front-runner-Mitt-Romney-sets-sights-squarely-on-Obama-in-Appleton-speech
1. Supreme Court Under Obama’s Scrutiny
Seems it may have leaked that Obamacare may be overturned. . . And Obama decides suddenly Judicial Review, a tool liberals use to push policies they could not achieve legislatively, is an impeachable offense
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/04/02/us-obama-healthcare-idUSBRE8310WP20120402
http://www.gopusa.com/news/2012/04/04/federal-judge-upset-by-obamas-warning-on-health-law
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303816504577321844137787970.html
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/jay-carney-obama-didn-t-intend-challenge-supreme-203326281.html
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/04/03/impeach-the-supreme-court-justices-if-they-overturn-health-care-law.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/04/opinion/dowd-men-in-black.html
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2012/04/03/obama-eases-rhetoric-about-supreme-court-on-health-care/
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Nuts and Nuggets
Nut: Mary J. Blige sang in a commercial about Burger King's brand-new crispy fried chicken wraps. The ad "incited jeers for promoting racial stereotypes after it was released on Monday. The black women-oriented website Madame Noire likened it to 'buffoonery.' Blige is saying she's sorry, too. 'I agreed to be a part of a fun and creative campaign that was supposed to feature a dream sequence. Unfortunately, that's not what was happening in that clip,' Blige told TMZ in a statement. 'I understand my fans being upset by what they saw.'"
http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/eats/burger-king-mary-blige-apologize-fried-chicken-ad-spot-yanked-fan-outcry-article-1.1056491?localLinksEnabled=false
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/post/burger-king-chickens-out-on-mary-j-blige/2012/04/04/gIQArV2vvS_blog.html
http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-TV/2012/04/05/Burger-King-Commercial-Pulled-After-Stereotype-Criticisms
Nugget: A federal judge, Jerry Smith at the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in Houston, demanded that the Justice Department give him a three-page memo on whether or not this administration understands the concept of judicial review. Remember, judicial review is unconstitutional, but the point here is that this judge is calling the administration on their double-standards. The Obama Justice Department has argued that the courts, and the executive branch, can strike down what it considers to be unconstitutional law, such as in the case of the Defense of Marriage Act, which is in fact unconstitutional, and Holder has claimed that the First Circuit court should have the courage to tune out politics and strike it down. The Obama administration has said it will not be defending the Defense of Marriage Act. Yet, now with receiving word that the Supreme Court may rule against his precious Health Care Act, Obama’s words about his beloved courts have changed: "It's unprecedented; the Supreme Court's never overturned a law." But wait. . . Isn’t his own Department of Justice asking the First Circuit to strike down the Defense of Marriage Act?
So, back to Judge Jerry Smith. The microphones were in the courtroom in Houston at the Fifth Circuit, and during oral arguments in a separate challenge to another aspect of the federal health care law, Jerry Smith, the judge, asked an Obama Department of Justice lawyer, Dana Lydia Kaersvang, about Obama's remarks to the court that they shouldn't overturn the health care reform law:
Smith: Does the Department of Justice recognize that federal courts have the authority, in appropriate circumstances, to strike federal statutes because of win or more constitutional infirmities?
Kaersvang: Yes, Your Honor, I... Of course there would need to be a severability analysis, but yes.
Smith: I'm referring to statements by the president in the past few days to the effect, and I'm sure you've heard about them, that it is somehow inappropriate for what he termed "unelected judges" to strike acts of Congress that have enjoyed -- and he's referring of course to Obamacare -- to what he termed a "broad consensus and majorities in both houses in Congress." That has troubled a number of people who have read it as somehow a challenge to the federal courts or to their authority or to the appropriateness of concept of judicial review. And that's not a small matter.
Remember, Obama thinks he’s the cat’s meow. Nobody, including the United States Supreme Court, should dare oppose him. Obama, with his words about this, is calling the Supreme Court Justices out. He was admonishing the court, intimidating them, and you could even say threatening them.
So, here’s Judge Smith saying “Give me some clarification on this.” Obama’s people are replying that they know about judicial review, that they think the courts can strike down a law, but Smith is saying that it seems Obama has changed his mind on that matter.
Obama is purely politicizing -- while he's got an audience there of what he thinks is willing to believe his bull crap. He thinks the uneducated voters will want their socialized medicine so bad they’ll demand it, and that Obama, as king, can do whatever he wants, regardless of the opinion of the courts, regardless of the actions of Congress, regardless of the unpopularity of the policy with the people of the country, and regardless of the authorities granted by the United States Constitution.
Obama is challenging the separation of powers, he’s challenging the courts, he’s challenging any opposition that dares come up against him. Though judicial review is not constitutional, and that is a different, much longer conversation, Obama’s decision to support the concept only when it is convenient for him is being called out by Judge Smith, and I love it.
Smith continued: I would like to have from you by noon on Thursday -- that's about 48 hours from now -- a letter stating what is the position of the Attorney General in the Department of Justice in regard to the recent statements by the president, stating specifically and in detail in reference to those statements what the authority is of the federal courts in this regard in terms of judicial review. That letters needs to be at least three pages single-spaced, no less, and it needs to be specific.
And Holder did it. But it is funny that Judge Smith demanded it. It was like a teacher punishing his students. Now, I don’t like the ridiculous belief that judges walk on water, but I am loving the fact that somebody is putting Obama in his place.
The problem is, these people just don’t get it. The States created the federal government. The States are not there to serve the federal government. The federal government is there to serve the States. And if most of the States, 26 of them in this case, says Obamacare is unconstitutional, the courts don’t mean beans. If these States understood their constitutional authority, they would toss the courts aside, and nullify.
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