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THAT’S SOME DIET COKE: A muslim chaplain wearing a hijab was allegedly denied an unopened can of Diet Coke on a United flight from Chicago to Washington. The reason? “We are unauthorized to give unopened cans to people because they may use it as a weapon on the plane,” she recalled the flight attendant telling her. A United spokesperson says the incident was a misunderstanding. The flight attendant and the pilot later apologized to her.

My opinion? She is making a mountain out of a molehill.  She sounds like a rabble-rouser looking like her 15 minutes of fame.

IT’S COME TO THIS: The French Government Wants To Tone My Vagina. “But you know what? Despite the occasional embarrassment, these sessions actually work.”

WELL, THEY WERE SOCIALISTS: Former Nazis received $20.2 million in Social Security benefits. 

A report from the Social Security Administration’s inspector general revealed that more than 130 suspected Nazi war criminals, SS guards and others who may have participated in the Third Reich’s atrocities collected $20.2 million in retirement benefits. . . .

The watchdog report comes seven months after The Associated Press revealed benefits were paid to former Nazis after they were forced out of the U.S. The AP found that the Justice Department used a legal loophole to persuade Nazi suspects to leave the U.S. in exchange for Social Security benefits. IF they agreed to go voluntarily or fled the country before their deportation, they could keep their benefits.

Congress passed legislation to close the loophole and bar Nazi suspects from receiving benefits. President Obama signed the measure into law last year.

But hey, as Socialists, the Nazis appreciated all this cradle-to-grave government support.  They only got cut off because of the political pressure put on Congress.  Now, if only they could somehow make statutory entitlements a constitutional right.  Oh, wait. . .

YEAH, THAT’S WHY I HAD MINE ENCRYPTED: The Vagus Nerve: A Back Door for Brain Hacking.

SO, “FAKE BUT ACCURATE” SCIENCE, THEN? Study Using Gay Canvassers Erred in Methods, Not Results, Author Says.

More here. “But the allegations about the study go far beyond these admitted misrepresentations — rather, there is doubt about whether the survey was even conducted as LaCour described.”

THE NEW DEMOCRATS: MATTRESS GIRL AND PAJAMA BOY: Peter Alberice at Breitbart has an oped lamenting the loss of the old Democrats, concluding:

Under Obama, divisiveness and the politics of envy overrode the unity and a sense of purpose under JFK that the party once stood for. “And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country” has been replaced by “You didn’t build that.”

“My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man” has become “leading from behind.”

The Democratic Party will continue to champion divisiveness through single-issue political infighting, a failed progressive economic agenda, and an almost nonexistent foreign policy. The party that once stood with our allies abroad and supported robust economic growth has been replaced by whiny radical feminism and an overwrought sense of entitlement.

Mattress Girl and Pajama Boy are the new Democratic Party; Truman and Kennedy would be embarrassed.

Indeed.

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WELL THEN, WE’VE GOT THAT GOING FOR US ANYWAY: Windows 10 build 10130 rolled out with slightly less ugly icons.

MORE EXECUTIVE LAWMAKING: According to The Hill, the Obama Administration is readying more than a dozen new gun laws regulations, ranging from restrictions on high-powered pistols to gun storage requirements. “Congressional efforts to expand background checks and keep guns away from dangerous people have failed in recent years, but the legislative defeats won’t stop the Justice Department from regulating.”

No, no it won’t. Nothing stops this President from getting his way, least of all a legislative branch or a Constitution that assigns to it “all legislative powers.“

I GUESS A FART JOKE WOULD BE TOO OBVIOUS: Google and Levis Are Teaming Up to Turn Your Jeans into a Trackpad.

9th CIRCUIT INVALIDATES IDAHO’S 20-WEEK ABORTION BAN:  The court determined, in McCormack v. Herzog, that banning abortions at 20 weeks violates the viability line drawn by the Supreme Court in Planned Parenthood v. Casey. The Ninth Circuit panel concluded:

The Supreme Court reaffirmed in Casey that an undue burden exists if the purpose or effect of a provision of law places a substantial obstacle in the path of a woman seeking an abortion before the fetus obtains viability. Casey, 505 U.S. at 846. In Planned Parenthood of Cent. Mo. v. Danforth, 428 U.S. 52, 64 (1976), the Court further explained that “it is not the proper function of the legislature or the courts to place viability, which essentially is a medical concept, at a specific point in the gestation period.” Because § 18-505 places an arbitrary time limit on when women can obtain abortions, the statute is unconstitutional.

As I noted in an earlier post, the Ninth Circuit similarly ruled Arizona’s 20-week abortion law unconstitutional in Horne v. Isaacson, so this decision isn’t all that surprising.  What is interesting, however, is that the House of Representatives recently passed a similar 20-week ban, which has its own unique constitutional problems, since it is questionable whether Congress has the power, through the Commerce Clause, to regulate abortions.

To avoid the Casey viability issue, States should simply ban abortions after 24 weeks instead. Congress should stay out of it.

TAXPROF ROUNDUP: The IRS Scandal, Day 752.

DECLINE: Black Workers Can No Longer Rely on Blue Jobs.

Public sector jobs are in decline, and one community has been hit particularly hard: African Americans. Historically, the black middle class has relied on the government for good jobs. One in five African Americans are employed by the government, making them more dependent on public sector employment than whites and Hispanics. But those jobs are disappearing. . . .

The loss of these jobs has and will hit the African American community hard, putting it in an even more economically precarious position in the coming years. But there’s no reversing the economic and technological trends of the last half-century that have eroded the blue model and employment it generated. These jobs are gone and it’s futile to lament the end of the glory days of peak blue—or strive to bring them back.

Instead, those concerned for the welfare of the black middle class should be putting more energy into considering what the high-wage middle class jobs of the future will be.

Better to keep them dependent and voting Democrat.

NOT ME:  Who voted to bring 33 million immigrants from Mexico?

Americans pride ourselves on being people who have a government. But these days, it more often seems as if we’ve got a government that has people.

And that government is even selecting who its people will be, having–within a generation–essentially imported a state’s worth of new people through immigration.

Since 1970, the number of “Hispanics of Mexican origin” in the U.S. has jumped from fewer than 1 million to more than 33 million. If all these Mexicans were a state, it would be the second largest in population in the country, trailing only California.

Did you vote to approve that immigration policy? Did anyone? In fact, the federal government allowed it to happen without any voter input. That’s by design.

It’s no accident. And Americans overwhelmingly believe (77%)  illegal immigration is a serious issue, and 63% still agree that the U.S. military should be used along the Mexican border to prevent illegal immigration.  And while 60% think illegal immigrants should not be allowed to vote if they can prove they live in this country and pay taxes, a shocking 53% of Democrats disagree, and think tax-paying illegal immigrants should have the right to vote.  Yep, you read that right: a majority of Democrats think illegal immigrants should be allowed to vote.  So much for the rule of law. But then again, it’s not about law; it’s about growing the ranks of voting Democrats.

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SMELLS LIKE POLITICS: Alan Dershowitz says Hastert indictment “smells.”  The federal structuring statutes that Hastert is accused of violating are aimed at sniffing out drug money, tax evasion and other illegal activities. But paying “hush money,” as Hastert was allegedly doing, isn’t illegal.

THIS SHOULD BOOST GOP TURNOUT IN 2016: Administration preps new gun regulations.

The Justice Department plans to move forward this year with more than a dozen new gun-related regulations, according to list of rules the agency has proposed to enact before the end of the Obama administration.

The regulations range from new restrictions on high-powered pistols to gun storage requirements. Chief among them is a renewed effort to keep guns out of the hands of people who are mentally unstable or have been convicted of domestic abuse.

Gun safety advocates have been calling for such reforms since the Sandy Hook school shooting nearly three years ago in Newtown, Conn. They say keeping guns away from dangerous people is of primary importance.

I think Americans should show just as much respect for the law as President Obama has.

ALAN GREENSPAN: U.S. ‘Way Underestimating’ the National Debt. Something that can’t go on forever, won’t. Promises that can’t be kept will be broken. Debt that can’t be repaid, won’t be. Plan accordingly.

THE HILL: Patriot Act’s Fate Now In Rand Paul’s Hands.

The Senate is scheduled to hold a rare Sunday evening vote on three Patriot Act provisions mere hours before they expire at midnight. The late hour — and lack of a clean path forward — means any single senator has an undue amount of leverage to gum up the works.

After staking his reputation on fighting the National Security Agency (NSA) to the bitter end, the Kentucky Republican and White House contender now finds himself with the best chance yet to hobble it.

On Saturday morning, he pledged to take no prisoners.

“Tomorrow, I will force the expiration of the NSA illegal spy program,” he said in a statement distributed by his presidential campaign.

“I do not do this to obstruct,” he added. “I do it to build something better, more effective, more lasting, and more cognizant of who we are as Americans.”

If he wanted to, Paul certainly could doom parts of the post-9/11 counterterrorism law — at least temporarily.

“It requires unanimous consent to get anything done by midnight — that gives him a lot of leverage,” said Nathan White, the senior legislative manager at Access, an advocacy group that supports reforming the law.

Well, stay tuned.

WARREN COATS: Dennis Hastert And The Law.

AMERICA’S POLITICAL CLASS: “If I understand the history correctly, in the late 1990s, the President was impeached for lying about a sexual affair by a House of Representatives led by a man who was also then hiding a sexual affair, who was supposed to be replaced by another Congressman who stepped down when forced to reveal that he too was having a sexual affair, which led to the election of a new Speaker of the House who now has been indicted for lying about payments covering up his sexual contact with a boy.”