In the wake of the Newtown massacre, which left 20 schoolchildren dead, and under pressure from the White House, the Democratic-controlled house narrowly voted in favour of a number of gun control measures. … Read More
Obama offers immigration plan as backup
WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House is downplaying its draft immigration proposal as merely a backup plan if lawmakers don’t come up with an overhaul of their own. It won’t be necessary, Republican and Democratic lawmakers alike are telling the Obama administration.
White House chief of staff Denis McDonough said Sunday that President Barack Obama wants to “be prepared” in case the small bipartisan group of senators fails to devise a plan for the estimated 11 million illegal immigrants in the United States. In response, lawmakers assured the White House they are working on their own plan – and warned that Obama would be heading toward failure if the White House gets ahead of them.
“We will be prepared with our own plan if these ongoing talks between Republicans and Democrats up on Capitol Hill break down,” McDonough said, adding he’s optimistic they would not crumble.
But he was equally realistic about the fierce partisanship on Capitol Hill.
“Well, let’s make sure that it doesn’t have to be proposed,” McDonough said of the president’s pitch, first reported on USA Today’s website late Saturday.
Even so, the administration is moving forward on its own immigration agenda should one of Obama’s top priorities get derailed.
Gun Makers Boycott Governments Hostile To Second Amendment
Several companies have announced that they will no longer be supplying equipment to hostile governments, police forces or first responders. … Read More
Obama’s Dereliction Of Duty: Absolutely No Phone Calls On Night Of Bengahazi Attack
“During the entire attack, the president of the United States never picked up the phone to put the weight of his office in the mix,” … Read More
Obama’s Dereliction Of Duty: Absolutely No Phone Calls On Night Of Benghazi Attack
“During the entire attack, the president of the United States never picked up the phone to put the weight of his office in the mix,” … Read More
Study: Are some people born conservative?
A new study in the American Journal of Political Science looked at the relationship between fear and political ideology, and found that people who experience higher levels of fear tend to be more politically conservative than those who are less predisposed to feeling afraid. While the researchers emphasized that their findings in no way suggest that every conservative is more fearful than every liberal, the study did identify a relationship between a fearful disposition and increased support for anti-immigrant and other segregationist policies.
“It’s not that conservative people are more fearful, it’s that fearful people are more conservative,” Rose McDermott, professor of Political Science at Brown University and co-author of the study, said in a press release.
Now, it’s probably important to insert a big caveat here.
As the study’s co-author Peter Hatemi, associate professor of Political Science, Microbiology and Biochemistry at Penn State, told Chris Mooney at Mother Jones: “Nothing is all genes, or all environment.” But together, these things make us who we are.
