Nevada gun rights bill in Nevada protected despite Bloomberg money
Even though billionaire Mayor Bloomberg of New York has been on an anti-gun extremist using his fortune to bankroll nationwide attacks on the Second Amendment, Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval vetoed legislation on Thursday that would have mandated “universal background checks” on gun purchases. Gun-rights activists successfully mobilized to stop the bill, inundating the Republican governor’s office with phone calls asking him to veto it.
Gun-rights supporters celebrated the veto, saying it showed that out-of-touch billionaires and their bogus polls were losing the nationwide battle to strip Americans’ God-given right to keep and bear arms. Anti-gun zealots, meanwhile, howled about the embarrassing defeat and vowed to press forward with their attack on the Second Amendment.
Sen Corker puts hold on millions paid to Karzai
Sen. Bob Corker says he has put a hold on the monthly bags of cash that the CIA has been delivering to Afghan President Hamid Karzai until the White House offers an explanation for the secret practice. Corker is the ranking Republican on the Foreign Relations Committee, announced Monday in a letter that there would be a hold on the $75 million in secretive payments until the Obama administration gave “sufficient assurances” that the cash is not being used to fuel corruption in the Afghan government.
“I have repeatedly requested briefings and additional information on the nature and effect of this policy, classified and unclassified, as appropriate. The administration’s lack of any response to these requests, its apparent decision to flout the Foreign Relations Committee’s oversight, and its inability (or unwillingness) to explain such a policy is unacceptable,” the Tennessee Republican wrote.
Senators challenge NSA’s claim to have foiled ‘dozens’ of terror attacks
Two top Senators, whom are critics of the NSA’s dragnet surveillance have challenged the agency’s assertion that the spy efforts helped stop “dozens” of terror attacks. Mark Udall and Ron Wyden, both members of the Senate intelligence committee, said they were not convinced by the testimony of the NSA director, General Keith Alexander, on Capitol Hill on Wednesday, who claimed that evidence gleaned from surveillance helped thwart attacks in the US.
“We have not yet seen any evidence showing that the NSA’s dragnet collection of Americans’ phone records has produced any uniquely valuable intelligence,” they said in a statement released on Thursday ahead of a widely anticipated briefing for US senators about the National Security Agency’s activities.
Rubio says he’s done if immigration bill includes gay amendment
Today Florida Sen Marco Rubio a co-author and key proponent of the Senate immigration bill, said he will revoke his support if an amendment is added that allows gay unauthorized immigrants to claim foreign same-sex partners as family.
“If this bill has something in it that gives gay couples immigration rights and so forth, it kills the bill. I’m done,” Rubio said Thursday during an interview on the Andrea Tantaros Show. “I’m off it, and I’ve said that repeatedly. I don’t think that’s going to happen and it shouldn’t happen. This is already a difficult enough issue as it is.”
Supreme Court says AZ law requiring proof of citizenship to vote is illegal
Once again, judges have made their ruling, in favor of Democrats and the Obama Administration. Today the US Supreme Court ruled that states cannot on their own require would-be voters to prove they are U.S. citizens before using a federal registration system designed to make signing up easier.
The vote was 7-2 to throw out Arizona’s voter-approved requirement that prospective voters document their U.S. citizenship in order to use a registration form produced under the federal “Motor Voter” voter registration law.
