Rand Paul unloads on Immigration Bill

Senator Rand Paul

Senator Rand Paul

On Tuesday afternoon, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) unloaded a series of harsh criticisms on the “Gang of Eight” immigration bill in an exclusive interview with Breitbart News.

Asked if there is a concern that government bureaucrats may take advantage of nonspecific language in the 1,200-page bill, regardless of the intention of any given provision’s author, Paul said, “Yes, that’s what I’ve been saying for a few weeks now, that there are some similarities with Obamacare.”
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OK Muslim Youth Leadership Symposium

CAIROklaLogoBeginning Friday June 28, the Oklahoma chapter of Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-OK) will host its 5th annual Muslim Youth Leadership Symposium (MYLS) at the University of Central Oklahoma in Edmond. The MYLS program, which continues through June 30, will focus on developing today’s young leaders to be social and community activists with the goal of working towards a better Oklahoma.

The weekend symposium will consist of a networking dinner, a full day of workshops and team-building exercises, a talent show, and will conclude with a mock legislative debate in the House Chambers of the Oklahoma State Capitol building led by Representative Emily Virgin.
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No indications IRS targeted ‘progressives’ the way it did ‘Tea Party’

InternalRevenueServiceTreasuryDavid Freddoso, Conservative Intel, is reporting that House Democrats in their release of new IRS documents, along with a briefing from the new IRS director, managed to get several news outlets to report that “progressive” groups had been targeted by the IRS in much the same way as Tea Party groups. The more accurate reports merely mention that a certain type of “progressive” group application was mentioned on IRS “be on the lookout lists.”

But if progressive advocacy groups were given the third degree, then you might ask why none of them have come forward. Possibly because the documents in question do not actually say they were systematically targeted. And probably because the kinds of groups discussed in these documents are of a totally different nature than the Tea Party groups targeted in the recent scandal.
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Immigration Bill quotes and notes

Sen. Ted Cruz

Sen. Ted Cruz

The betrayal of the Rule of Law and our Constitutional Republic continue in the time of leftist loons and a cowardly Congress.  Not all, however, have drunk the Kool-Aid of malicious manipulations by well-funded evil or the fools who worship fame.  At the moment, the battle is in the U.S. Senate.

Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL), a senior member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, issued the following statement after Monday’s vote:

Sen. Jeff Sessions

Sen. Jeff Sessions

“The Gang of Eight and their allies revealed their true tactics tonight. They shut down debate and blocked amendments to a 1,200-page immigration bill that no one has read. It was anything but the open and fair process that they had promised.

“What we know for absolute certain is that this bill guarantees three things: instantaneous amnesty, permanent lawlessness, and a massive expansion in legal immigration that will reduce wages for working Americans. This legislation is a crushing blow to the working people of this country, a surrender to illegality, and a capitulation to special interests over the interests of the citizens we pledged to represent,” Sen. Sessions concluded.
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Shock pummels Seattle

ShockTulsaLogoTULSA, OK—It was a game of firsts on Saturday night in the BOK Center for the Tulsa Shock.

In addition to winning twice in a row for the first time in 2013 they handed a defeat to an opponent that was expected to hold a nearly 20 point advantage.  It was the first time since the Shock played in Detroit that such a milestone has taken place.  Finally, it was the first time since their relocation from Michigan that Tulsa has defeated the Storm twice in a season.

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