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Univision report connects Operation Fast and Furious scandal to murders of Mexican teenagers

The Spanish language television news network Univision unleashed a bombshell investigative report on Operation Fast and Furious Sunday evening, finding that in January 2010 drug cartel hit men slaughtered students with weapons the United States government allowed to flow to them across the Mexican border.

“On January 30, 2010, a commando of at least 20 hit men parked themselves outside a birthday party of high school and college students in Villas de Salvarcar, Ciudad Juarez,” according to a version of the Univision report in English, on the ABC News website.

“Near midnight, the assassins, later identified as hired guns for the Mexican cartel La Linea, broke into a one-story house and opened fire on a gathering of nearly 60 teenagers. Outside, lookouts gunned down a screaming neighbor and several students who had managed to escape. Fourteen young men and women were killed, and 12 more were wounded before the hit men finally fled.”

Citing a Mexican Army document it obtained and published, Univision reported that “[t]hree of the high caliber weapons fired that night in Villas de Salvarcar were linked to a gun tracing operation run by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF).”

That operation was Fast and Furious.

The “massacre,” as Univision described it, was not the only bombshell the network unveiled in its Sunday evening report.

“Univision News identified a total of 57 more previously unreported firearms that were bought by straw purchasers monitored by ATF during Operation Fast and Furious, and then recovered in Mexico in sites related to murders, kidnappings, and at least one other massacre,” the Univision report reads.

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Calling Christians to leave Democratic Party

One News Now is reporting a prominent black pastor, upset over the direction the Democrat Party has taken, is asking Christians to change political affiliations.

Bishop E.W. Jackson of S.T.A.N.D. (Staying True To America’s National
Destiny) has launched a project called "Exodus Now," which calls for a
"mass exodus of Christians from the Democrat Part."

"We believe that the Democrat Party has shown itself to be anti-Christian, anti-Bible, anti-family, anti-life and anti-God, and it’s time for Christians to come out," Jackson explains. "We are focusing particularly — not exclusively, but particularly — on black Christians who in our view have been held captive by the Democrat Party with a tissue of lies."

While S.T.A.N.D. is encouraging people to vote their conscience, the group’s founder asserts, "We have stayed away from either endorsing Mitt Romney or saying that this is a call to vote against President Obama and make it personal. But I will say this," Jackson adds. "We’re calling people to come out of the Democrat Party and not support candidates who represent its values and the rebellion that it represents against God. That certainly would include President Barack Obama."

Bishop Jackson notes that the Democrat Party has "manipulated, deceived and misled the black community" for a long time, and it’s time "to awaken them that they are being used in a power game by Democrats who could care less about the black community, only care about staying in power, and they will use the black community for as long as they will allow them to use them."

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Sen. Inhofe introduces Food Stamp Restoration Act

Washington, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.), a leading Senate conservative, Thursday introduced the Food Stamp Restoration Act to reform the current food stamp program to be a discretionary block grant for states to design individualized nutrition assistance programs. It is estimated this bill will save more than $300 billion over the next ten years.

“My bill will take the food stamp program out from under federal government control, placing the responsibility of future food stamp programs at the state level – where it belongs,” said Inhofe. “Today over 46 million Americans claim Food Stamp benefits, which cost taxpayers over $80 billion per year. This cost has more than doubled under the President’s leadership in just the past four years. Because of the President’s failed economic policies and welfare provisions in his stimulus package, millions more Americans are reliant on federal assistance than ever before.”
 
“My bill gives states nearly limitless flexibility to design and implement their food stamp programs in the way that best serves their people. I’ve never thought that bureaucrats in Washington understood Oklahomans, but the elected officials in Oklahoma City do. By giving increased powers to each state, my bill would provide an opportunity for more people in need to receive adequate care.”
 
The Food Stamp Restoration Act converts the program from a mandatory program into a discretionary one, and it gives power to the states to run and design it. Under the bill, states will be required to meet the following requirements to qualify for the block grant:
     •  A state’s program must only allow benefit spending on real food, and not be allowed to authorize spending on items such as alcohol and tobacco;
     •  All beneficiaries must submit themselves to drug testing;
     •  States must implement work requirements for the beneficiaries; and
     •  Recipients must be legal residents of the United States.

A copy of the bill can be read by clicking here. 

Emails reveal Justice Dept enlists spin

Internal Department of Justice emails obtained by The Daily Caller show Attorney General Eric Holder’s staff  collaborated with the left-wing advocacy group Media Matters for America to quell stories about scandals plaguing Holder and America’s top law enforcement agency.

Dozens of pages of emails between DOJ Office of Public Affairs Director
Tracy Schmaler and Media Matters staffers show Schmaler, Holder’s top
press defender, working with Media Matters to attack reporters covering
DOJ scandals. TheDC obtained the emails through a Freedom of Information
Act request. 

Emails sent in September and November 2010 show Schmaler working with Media Matters staffer Jeremy Holden on attacking news coverage of the New Black Panther Party voter intimidation scandal.
 
Holden attacked former DOJ Civil Rights Division attorneys J. Christian Adams and Hans von Spakovsky on Sept. 20, 2010 for what he called an attempt “to reignite the phony New Black Panther Party scandal.”
 
Before Holden posted his article at 7:52 p.m., Schmaler sent him several emails with information helping him attack both former DOJ oficials.
 
Click here to read more from The Daily Caller.

Egypt’s Islamic TV talks with iron Salafist

A Muslim cleric hosting an Egyptian television show recently outlined his version of Islamic instructions for wife-beating. In another show, a cleric claimed that the Muslim Brotherhood, now governing Egypt, one day will rule the world.

“If not through peace, there is nothing preventing war. We welcome war,”
said the second cleric, who added that “one of the tenets of the Muslim
Brotherhood, which they cannot renounce,” is the goal of global
dominance by an Islamic caliphate.

The shows aired on Egypt’s Al Nas network, a hard-line Salafist Muslim outfit that for years has flown largely under the radar of international observers.
 
The network was thrust into the spotlight last week when it broadcast Arabic-dubbed movie clips from what it described as an English-language film insulting Islam’s Prophet Muhammad. Riots and protests erupted throughout the Middle East and other parts of the Muslim world.
 
Protesters breached the walls of the U.S. Embassy in Cairo on Tuesday, destroyed the American flag and raised a black banner used by Islamic extremists.
 
In Libya, terrorists killed U.S. Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens and others in an armed attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi.
 
Protests continued Sunday when hundreds of Pakistanis clashed with police as they tried to storm the U.S. Consulate in Karachi. One protester was killed and more than a dozen were injured.
 
U.S. officials last week cited Al Nas‘ attention to “Innocence of Muslims” — a crudely made independent film produced in the United States — as a flash point behind the wave of anti-American unrest.
 
Like Al Jazeera, CNN Arabic and other international satellite stations, Al Nas broadcasts live on YouTube and is piped into millions of homes across the Middle East.

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