Economy – The unemployment rate went up to 8.2% after only 69,000 jobs were added in the month of May. What’s worse is that March and April job creation estimates have also been lowered.
ObamaCare – Obama is on record this past week saying he needs a second term to redo his healthcare legislation.
Fast and Furious – Mexican officials say they are investing the U.S. gun trafficking program since they were not advised about the logistics.
Bill Clinton – In a CNN interview, the former president, praised Romney’s qualifications and business experience to be President.
Tax Reform - A recent IRS report showed that 20,752 households that reported earning more than $200,000 in 2009 paid no federal income taxes because of loopholes. About 1,500 of those tax-free Americans were millionaires.
Artur Davis - Former Democrat, Obama supporter and Congressman Artur Davis is making the switch to the Republican Party. Davis is a former member of the Congressional Black Caucus and after watching for three years as the Democrats destroy this country and break promise after promise he had enough.
Liberia - A UN-backed court has sentenced Charles Taylor, Liberia's ex-president to a 50 year prison sentence. The judge stated: "The accused has been found responsible for aiding and abetting some of the most heinous crimes in human history."
Drones - The Obama administration plans to arm Italy with drones. Aside from the U.K., Italy will be the only NATO member with American "weaponized" drones. Officials believe this move will make it difficult to deny any other ally armed drones in the future.
New York City - The proposed first-in-the-nation ban would impose a 16-ounce limit on the size of sweetened drinks sold at restaurants, movie theaters, sports venues and street carts. It would apply to bottled drinks as well as fountain sodas.
Elizabeth Warren – The cookbook plagiarism race liar now claims to be the first nursing mother to take the bar exam in New Jersey.
Planned Parenthood – A newly released video shows a Planned Parenthood counselor explain to a pregnant girl how she can do a late term abortion after the sex of the baby had been identified. The mother only wanted to keep the baby if it is a boy. Meanwhile, the Obama administration is against legislation that will forbid gender abortions – this is the White House Statement: White House deputy press secretary Jamie Smith says in a statement: “The Administration opposes gender discrimination in all forms, but the end result of this legislation would be to subject doctors to criminal prosecution if they fail to determine the motivations behind a very personal and private decision. The government should not intrude in medical decisions or private family matters in this way.” The bill failed to get two-thirds majority in the house because 161 Democrats voted against the bill.
Defense of Marriage Act - The three-judge panel of the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Boston ruled that the provision defining marriage as between a man and woman is unconstitutional in that it denies gay couples the rights granted to heterosexual couples.
John Edwards - Former Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards won a major victory in his campaign finance case. The jury acquitted him on one account and failed to come to a verdict on five other accounts. The judge deemed it a mistrial.
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