Tuesday, September 25, 2012

Fleeing California But the real reason isn't mentioned See the California Meltdown Watch Fox News -- September 25   Californians flee for better-run states, study finds     Californians are fleeing in droves to live in better-managed states, according to a conservative research group.     The long-running exodus from the cash-strapped Golden State is an old story, but a new study by The Manhattan Institute finds that the biggest beneficiaries of the population drain are Texas, Nevada, Arizona, Oregon, Washington, Colorado, Idaho, Utah, Georgia and South Carolina. Lower cost of living, less government debt and a more business-friendly culture are the main drivers, according to the study.     "States that have gained the most at California's expense are rated as having better business climates," the study concluded. "The data suggest that many cost drivers --- taxes, regulations, the high price of housing and commercial real estate, costly electricity, union power, and high labor costs --- are prompting businesses to locate outside California, thus helping to drive the exodus."     The report found that since 1990, the state has lost nearly 3.4 million residents through migration to other states, like Texas, Nevada, Arizona, Oregon, Washington, Colorado, Idaho, Utah, Georgia and South Carolina. The average number of residents leaving the state each year over the last decade is 225,000, the report found.  Comment on This Feature     Past Features

Tom Tancredo -- Townhall.com     sc  Time to STEM the Visa Lottery?   ...Currently, America accepts over one million permanent legal immigrants and nearly as many temporary workers each year. Most of these immigrants are not selected based upon their skills or what they will contribute to this country, but through the process of family reunification. I suspect that many who claim that immigration is complicated do so because they know that if the issue were to presented to...

Business Week via the Stein Report   Legal workers move to Alabama after law takes effect   "Esene Manga, an Eritrean refugee living in Atlanta, hadn't heard of Albertville, Alabama until a recruiter offered him a job there. Now Manga, 22, earns $10.85 an hour cutting chicken breasts on a poultry-plant night shift, an unexpected beneficiary of a year-old law designed to drive out illegal Hispanic immigrants," Business Week reports. -- "This isn't what the law's backers said would happen. Republican state Senator Scott Beason, a sponsor, said at a news conference last year...

James R. Edwards Jr. -- CIS.org     Obama's de facto amnesty shows he's no Solomon    Obama's Homeland Security cronies are proving that there's no King Solomon in this administration. The latest "split the baby" decision connected with the end-run amnesty for DREAMers is leaving the rule of law "baby" dead on the administration's trash heap. -- Remember how Solomon saved a baby's life through his wise handling of a dispute over the child?

Jim Kouri, CPP -- The Examiner     Don't trust presidential race polling data, says conservative PAC   There are now only six weeks until the all-important presidential election and the news and entertainment media are working very hard to cover for Obama -- whether it be about his failures on jobs and the economy, or his failures in foreign policy including the loss of a U.S. ambassador, claim officials from the Campaign to Defeat Obama in a report on Monday...

Nile Gardiner -- Heritage Foundation     sc  Obama has another Jimmy Carter moment at the U.N.   President Obama's U.N. speech offered little confidence for those living in the direct firing line of an Iran, which may soon be armed with a nuclear weapon. -- For the people of Israel --- and millions living in the Gulf states that lie in the shadow of Tehran --- Obama's address to the U.N. must have looked positively Carter-eqsue in tone and spirit. This was a milquetoast statement on Iran by the U.S. President...

Huffington Post     Usual suspects form Super PAC to try to unseat Arpaio   Opponents of controversial Maricopa County, Ariz. Sheriff Joe Arpaio (R) are hoping that a new super PAC launched last week and backlash from Arpaio's embrace of the birther movement will unseat the longtime lawman. -- A bipartisan coalition of Phoenix-area politicos led by state Rep. Ruben Gallego (D-Phoenix) said that the new group, called Citizens for Professional Law Enforcement, will be a grassroots-based...

Teri Webster -- The Examiner    Government supporters receive special travel perks   The Department of Homeland Security is now working with an upscale hotel chain to help promote programs that grant special privileges to airline travelers who submit to extensive government background checks. -- But it's the back of the Airbus for the rest of us bad people who just want to save our Republic. -- All of it points to favoritism and the (DHS's) ongoing recruitment of businesses and citizens for its massive spying operations...

WFAA -- Dallas     Mexican invader faces additional child sex charges   Garland youth soccer coach is now accused of molesting a second child in a scandal that police say could eventually involve dozens of children. -- Bernardo Mondragon-Guzman faces two new charges of indecency with a child by contact, a second-degree felony. On September 12, Mondragon-Guzman was accused of sexual abuse of a child...

Ben Shapiro -- Breitbart    Obama's America: Student reading SAT scores hit record lows   President Obama has bragged about his supposed revolution in education over and over during this election cycle. He says he's interested in upping standards while simultaneously appeasing teachers unions. But the performance of American students continues to sink to all-time lows. -- 2012's high school seniors have the worst SAT reading score since 1972; they scored 486 on reading, out of a possible 800...

Terence P. Jeffrey -- Family Security Matters    Intelligence Chair: Obama and Clinton 'gave permission slip to Al Qaeda'   House Intelligence Chairman Mike Rogers (R.-Ala.) said on CNN's "State of the Union" on Sunday that President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, in broadcasting a television ad in Pakistan apologizing for a privately produced YouTube video that criticized Islam, had given al Qaeda and other "bad actors" a "permission slip" to do bad things...

American Border Patrol Your Help Needed! Hilda, one of ABP's German shepherds, needs help. She's can't go on border patrols with her brothers and sisters. She needs knee surgery, but it costs more than $2,000 and ABP can't afford it right now. You can help by donating here. All donations made online or by phone until Oct. 1 will go for Hilda.

Patrick J. Buchanan -- VDare.com    The end of America's last crusade    For Americans of the Greatest Generation that fought World War II and of the Silent Generation that came of age in the 1950s, the great moral and ideological cause was the Cold War. -- It gave purpose and clarity to our politics and foreign policy, and our lives. -- From the fall of Berlin in 1945 to the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, that Cold War was waged by two generations, and with its end Americans faced a fundamental question...

Anthony Martin -- The Examiner  'New gun culture' a reason for hope   Traditionally the gun rights movement in America has been rather low keyed, focusing not on the ideological and political foundation that undergirds the push for firearms rights but on specific legislation aimed at expanding the right to carry guns, such as less restrictive concealed carry laws or legislation that allows open carry...

Thomas Lifson -- The American Thinker -- Bellevue, Wash.      Missing piece surfaces in the Obama puzzle   Nobody knows for sure how Barack Obama managed to get into and pay for the elite higher education he received, particularly given his self-admitted lackadaisical approach to school in his younger years. The president's decision to keep his higher education records a secret is considered unworthy of attention by the mainstream media. -- Students of Obama's rise have long been intrigued by a television interview...

Associated Press     Big Sis extends TPS for Haitians until 2014   The U.S. government will be giving Haitians displaced by the 2010 earthquake more time to legally live and work here while their Caribbean homeland rebuilds. -- Citizenship and Immigration Services says Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano has extended temporary residency and employment benefits for eligible Haitian immigrants through July 2014...

Reuters    America's Hidden Unemployed: Too discouraged to count   When Daniel McCune graduated from college three years ago, he was optimistic his good grades would earn him a job as an intelligence analyst with the government. -- With a Bachelor of Science degree from Liberty University in Virginia, majoring in government service and history, McCune applied for jobs at the National Security Agency, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and other agencies...

Jim Kouri, CPP -- Family Security Matters     Obama promulgates lie about Fast and Furious snafu, police say   In response to the Department of Justice Inspector General's report on the ATF gun-smuggling scheme known as Operation Fast and Furious on Wednesday, while on the campaign trail President Barack Obama once again blamed George W. Bush for the deadly debacle, ABC news reporter Jake Tapper said on Saturday. -- Tapper quotes Obama as saying, “I think it's important for us to understand that the Fast and Furious program...

Thomas More Law Center    Three-Star General: Muslim Brotherhood has infiltrated the DoD    U.S. Army Lieutenant General (Ret.) William "Jerry" Boykin, in a recent World Net Daily radio interview, confirmed that people with high security clearances connected to the Muslim Brotherhood hold important positions in every major federal agency including the Pentagon and the Department of Defense. -- The Muslim Brotherhood is a radical Islamist organization that has vowed the destruction of America from within...

Politico     Poll: Distrust of media sets record   Three-fifths of Americans distrust the mass media --- an all-time high, according to a poll released Thursday. -- Sixty percent of Americans have little or no faith in the media to report the news accurately and fairly, according to a Gallup Poll, and 40 percent trust them a fair amount or a great deal. The percentage of Americans who distrust the media has been steadily rising since 2006...

David Codrea -- The Examiner    Partisan Black Caucus ignores Fast and Furious, honors Holder as 'role model' Lauded in First Lady Michelle Obama's keynote speech for "outstanding contributions to our nation," Attorney General Eric Holder was presented with the Congressional Black Caucus's Chair Award at the Annual Legislative Conference Phoenix Awards Dinner Saturday evening at the Washington Convention Center in the nation's capitol...