McCrory signs repeal of Racial Justice Act -- one of 56 bills signed into law Wednesday

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Republicans say it was so poorly crafted that it has allowed nearly all of the state's 156 death-row inmates to launch appeals under the law regardless of their race.

 
 
RALEIGH, N.C. WRAL — Gov Pat McCrory's signature Wednesday repealed a landmark law that had allowed convicted murderers to have their sentences reduced to life in prison if they could prove racial bias influenced the outcome of their cases.

McCrory signed a repeal of the 2009 Racial Justice Act, which both proponents and critics say will restart the death penalty in a state that hasn't executed an inmate since 2006.

McCrory's final signature followed months of debate between Democrats and Republicans on the law's intent and the way it has played out. Republicans say it was so poorly crafted that it has allowed nearly all of the state's 156 death-row inmates to launch appeals under the law regardless of their race. They say the law impedes the will of unanimous jury decisions.

McCrory raised similar complaints in a statement:

"The policy implementation of the law was seriously flawed. Nearly every person on death row, regardless of race, has appealed their death sentence under the Racial Justice Act," he said. "The state's district attorneys are nearly unanimous in their bi-partisan conclusion that the Racial Justice Act created a judicial loophole to avoid the death penalty and not a path to justice."

But Democrats argue there's plenty of evidence that those juries were racially biased.
They cite a Michigan State study of North Carolina that found evidence of prosecutors striking black people from capital cases at more than twice the rate of others over two decades.

They also point to the 2012 decisions of a Cumberland County judge to reduce the sentences of four convicted murderers on racial grounds. Three of those rulings came after a rollback of the act that restricted the use of statistics to prove prejudice and required other forms of evidence.

The repeal of the Racial Justice Act was one of 56 bills McCrory signed into law Wednesday. He also approved a bill raising interest rates on installment loans and another measure banning e-cigarette sales to minors.

ObamaCare's Death Spiral -- Liberals are going to rely on low-information voters to buy into their propaganda campaign on Obamacare.

Verne Strickland USA DOT COM, June 20, 2013

By Sean Hannity, June 20, 2013 

Considering the amount of coverage the impending failure of ObamaCare has received, I'm shocked that there aren't more people outraged and demanding its full repeal and replacement with market-driven reforms. 

The stories related to ObamaCare continue to pile up day after day. Even MSNBC is discussing how ObamaCare is causing anxiety among Democrats. Well what else did they expect?

Here are just some of the latest stories that will make your jaw drop. 

ObamaCare insurance exchange deadlines are already behind schedule. The Government Accountability Office reports this week that government officials have already missed key deadlines in setting up these exchanges and that there is a risk that the exchanges will not be ready by the October 1st deadline. If they can't even get the program itself up and running on time and efficiently, are we expecting that they will be any more capable when it comes to actually administering health insurance or healthcare?

A brand new poll shows that ObamaCare is already having an impact on small business hiring. According to the findings, “Forty-one percent of the businesses surveyed have frozen hiring because of the health-care law known as Obamacare. And almost one-fifth—19 percent— answered 'yes' when asked if they had 'reduced the number of employees you have in your business as a specific result of the Affordable Care Act.'” For a president who claims to be focused on jobs, his defining piece of legislation is harming his case.

Investors Business Daily has a list of local and state governments that are quietly cutting part-time hours, costing many low-income workers a pay cut of potentially over $3,000 a year! Some of these governments include Phillipsburg, Kansas; Dearborn, Michigan; Omaha, Nebraska; Long Beach, California; Salt Lake City, Utah; Cape May County, New Jersey; Kern County, California; Allegheny County, Pennsylvania; Media, Ohio; along with states like Indiana, Texas and Virginia. House Speaker John Boehner's office has a similar roundup of recent headlines from around the country of the impact ObamaCare is having on part-time workers’ hours.

Check out the outrageous premium hikes that women are about to get hammered with in California.

According to Forbes, “If you compare the cheapest plan on healthcare.gov to the cheapest Bronze plan on the new Covered California insurance exchange, premiums for healthy 25-year-olds will increase by 147 percent—a median of $183 on the exchange vs. $74 today—and premiums for healthy 40-year-olds will increase by 149 percent—a median of $234 on the exchange vs. $94 today.”

Planned Parenthood is now in the business of promoting ObamaCare. According to the Politico, “They’re creating everything from refrigerator magnets to online apps that help people enroll in a health plan. Some affiliates will be applying to become official government-funded 'navigators' to give people more hands-on help through the signup process.” Great, so even more of our tax dollars may be funneled into this controversial organization in an effort to promote big government.

The White House is reportedly also reaching out to the NBA to help sell ObamaCare to the American people. That seems highly appropriate – Our celebrity president reaching out to fellow celebrities to sell his policies.

According to this article in Investors Business Daily, millions of your tax dollars are being funneled to unions like the AFL-CIO and the SEIU, along with the NAACP and others to engage in ObamaCare “outreach.” We are talking about $910 million just to get California's ObamaCare exchange up and running and get people enrolled … oh and register them to vote.

The Heritage Foundation has put out a useful guide: What Obama’s Campaign Group Won’t Tell You About Obamacare. Liberals are going to rely on low-information voters to buy into their propaganda campaign, without really understanding the true impact of ObamaCare on their healthcare and even their jobs.

Doctors dump health insurance plans, take cash, charge patients less!

Verne Strickland / AOL COT COM / June 16, 2013

Got cash? Prefer barter? You and your doctor might be able to cut a deal!

 

  Got cash? The doctor will see you . . .

  UPI 6/15/2013 3:56:04 AM

WICHITA, Kan., June 14 (UPI)


 A Kansas physician says he makes the same income and offers better quality care to his patients after he dumped all health insurance companies.

Thirty-two-year old family physician Doug Nunamaker of Wichita, Kan., said after five years of dealing with the red tape of health insurance companies and the high overhead for the staff he hired just to deal with paperwork, he switched to a system of charging his patients a monthly fee plus the price of an office visit or test, CNN/Money reported.

For example, under Nunamaker's membership plan -- also known as "concierge" medicine or "direct primary care" practices -- each patient pays a flat monthly fee to have unlimited access to the doctors and any medical service they can provide in the practice, such as stitches or an EKG.

For adults up to age 44, Nunamaker charges $50 a month, pediatric services are $10 a month, and for adults age 44 and older it costs $100 a month. Although Nunamaker calls the practice "cash-only," he accepts credit and debit cards for the fees and services.

Nunamaker and his partner negotiated deals for services outside the office. A cholesterol test costs the patient for $3, versus the $90 or more billed to insurance companies; an MRI can cost $400, compared with $2,000 or more billed to insurance companies.


The practice encourages patients and families to also carry some type of high-deductible health insurance plan in case of an emergency or serious illness requiring hospitalization, Nunamaker said.


Nunamaker said his annual salary is around $200,000, and he gets to spend more time with patients providing better care because he is not watching the clock and he gets to spend more time with this family.


Most of Nunamaker's clients are self-employed, small business owners, or small companies that found the monthly fee and the cost of the high-deductible plan was a cheaper option, CNN/Money reported.

Detroit in ruins -- ultimate spoils of black on black crime, fraud and racketeering

Verne Strickland USA DOT COM June 16, 2013

Detroit Goes Under: “There Is No Way Out But Collapse”

Mac Slavo
June 16th, 2013 SHTFplan.com

Though most Americans go through their day thinking everything is now returning to normal, the fact of the matter is the situation is anything but stable.
With crime rates skyrocketing, home prices dropping to under $500 for a house, and the local government out of solutions, the city of Detroit is the latest to join the likes of Stockton, California, having just defaulted on its loans from creditors.
Despite promises to the contrary, it should come as no surprise that the city is unable to meet its obligations. And it won’t be the last. City and state governments all over America are in the same boat.
This is a serious occurrence, and one that will not only destroy the financial bottom line of lenders and wipe out retirement promises for tens of thousands of current and former employees, but may well foreshadow events to come throughout the rest of the United States in the near future:

The city of Detroit defaulted on $2.5 billion of its outstanding debt. The creditors are getting what they deserve.
He who lends to government depends on the exploitation of the people to get repaid.
The city’s retired city workers were also warned that significant cuts in pensions and health insurance would take place.
This is the problem all governments face. They promised the moon. Then when those workers retired, they had to be replaced. The cost of government is rising exponentially and this causes higher taxes and it becomes a dog chasing its own tail.
There is NO way out but collapse.
The economic model upon which government has been designed post-WWII is simply braindead. Dumb and Dumber could have done a better job.
The  size of government escalates and this creates a deflationary vortex through which the economy is sucked dry.
There is no surviving this crisis.
Politicians are desperate to cling to power so they buy tanks and guns to defend against the inevitable.
Via Martin Armstrong
(emphasis added)

Detroit and Stockton are mere microcosms compared to the almost unimaginable debt obligations held by the United States government. We’re talking about tens of trillions of dollars that will never, ever be repaid. There’s so much money that has been borrowed that future generations yet to be born are already indebted.
Detroit, Chicago and other cash-strapped cities are turning into domestic tribal war zones akin to the middle east, with cops outnumbered 500-to-1. Now, with the revelation that they have no money left, people who believed in the benevolence of government and depended on them to pay for their retirements are going to be left high and dry.
We will see the same across the rest of this nation, as the federal government runs into similar funding problems for the one hundred million Americans dependent on monthly disbursement checks. These checks are either going to be cut, or more likely, our money will be inflated away driving prices for essential goods like food and energy to the moon.
It will end in disaster, and as Martin Armstrong notes, will lead to violent confrontations when people who thought they’d be taken care of from cradle to grave realize that no help is coming.
Absolutely plan on the worst case scenario – because you can be assured the government is.
You can prepare and have a chance to survive and thrive. Or, fail to do so and be guaranteed a world of horrific despair and poverty.
Understand this or pay the price: THERE IS NO WAY OUT BUT COLLAPSE.

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U.S. Backed – Obama Supported FSA Rebels Massacre an Entire Christian Village in Syria

Verne Strickland AOL DOT COM June 15, 2013

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Barack Hussein Obama Financially Supporting a Worldwide Christian Genocide of Women and Children

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Members of the Free Syrian Army reportedly attacked the Christian-dominated al-Duvair village in Reef on the outskirts of Homs on Monday, where they massacred its citizens, including women and children, before the Syrian Army loyal to Bashar al Assad intervened on behalf of the Christians.

This reported attack comes shortly after intense fighting in the city of al-Qusseir over the weekend, in which Bashar Al-Assad’s forces inflicted heavy casualties on the rebels.

Assad’s forces launched an offensive in April in an effort to cut off supply lines to the rebels by taking the city and its surrounding areas from the rebel groups that had been entrenched there since last year. Two weeks ago, the Syrian forces reached the center of the city

While the sources describing Monday’s massacre are supportive of Assad, it’s possible that it occurred since the rebel groups fighting the Assad regime are composed mainly of members of al-Qaeda and al-Qaeda affiliated groups and have committed war crimes and atrocities in the past.

Jabhat al-Nusra, the branch of al-Qaeda that fought and killed American and allied troops in Iraq, have positioned themselves in Syria and control the rebel movement.

The U.S. and other Western governments that are backing the FSA have acknowledged the presence of jihadists but insist that they’re only a small part of the rebel movement. However, al-Qaeda and other Islamic extremist groups have been at the front of the rebel movement since day one of the Syrian war that began two years ago. According to German intelligence, 95 percent of the rebels aren’t even Syrian.

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“Nowhere in rebel-controlled Syria is there a secular fighting force to speak of,” the New York Times reported last month.

In April, Abou Mohamad al-Joulani, the head of al-Nusra, pledged allegiance to Ayman al-Zawahri, the head of al-Qaeda.

Members of the FSA have admitted that their plan is to institute sharia law, and the rebels now have a brigade named the Osama bin Laden Brigade.

Despite the evidence of al-Qaeda connections, the U.S. government continues to support the FSA.

Last week, Sens. Robert Menendez, D.-N.J., and Bob Corker, R-Tenn., drafted a bill that, if passed, would directly arm the Syrian rebels with lethal weaponry. The U.S. government has so far only provided non-lethal supplies and humanitarian aid.

On Monday, Sen. John McCain made a surprise visit to Syria where he met with Gen. Salem Idris, the leader of the Supreme Military Council of the FSA. McCain has also called for arming the rebels as well as direct U.S. military intervention in the war.

source(‘s):
 http://www.examiner.com/article/u-s-backed-syrian-rebels-reportedly-massacre-christian-village
http://abna.ir/data.asp?lang=3&Id=423524
http://www.islamicinvitationturkey.com/2013/05/28/armed-rebels-massacre-entire-population-of-christian-village-in-syria-2/

Rhonda Amoroso: Rising Star in North Carolina Republican Party

Rhonda Amoroso (left) is a rising star in the North Carolina Republican Party.  In photo above she is depicted with former Navy SEAL Benjamin Smith making the rounds at NCGOP Convention in Charlotte.

Excerpt from WHQR article by Rachel Lewis Hilburn

It wasn’t until the addition of Sarah Palin to the Republican Presidential ticket in 2008 that Rhonda Amoroso’s desire to create political change in the Cape Fear region re-ignited.

Several years later, the New Hanover County Republican Party re-elected Rhonda Amoroso to a second two-year term as Party Chair.  Then, almost immediately, Governor Pat McCrory appointed her to the State Board of Elections.

In the meantime, her passion for election law reform will be put to work at the State level.  The self-described conservative is championing changes to election laws in the state – particularly the new voter ID law.

"My main goal really is to recruit and get Republican candidates elected to office.  The next thing up we have is the City elections – City Council.  Filing is in July.  As you know the demographics in the City do not favor the Republicans.  Right now we have one lone guy on there, so it’s tough.  But we are trying to recruit professional types, credible, qualified, competent people."

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JUNE 15, 2013

Rhonda Amoroso was interviewed by conservative journalist Verne Strickland regarding her new role as a member of the North Carolina Board of Elections, and the modern ascendancy of the North Carolina Republican Party:

"I’m honored to have been appointed by Governor McCrory. It will be a big challenge. Kim Strache we like very much. She replaced Gary Bartlett, long-time liberal ideologue. So he’s out and Kim has already started working. She’s going to be great.

"I think that what you’re going to see is once the new election laws are passed and signed by the Governor, there will be a time of new outreach, education required – and I’m talking about the Voter ID law. My guess is in July. So we’re going to see a lot about that. June 25 is when we’ll meet to appoint local board of elections members in all 100 counties. There are three people in each county serving – two from the majority,Governor’s party, and the third from the other party.

"The Republicans haven’t been in power in over 20 years, so that balance shifts now. We will have two Republicans here in New Hanover County and one Democrat on our local Board of Elections. We’ll continue to work with the current chairman of the local Board of Elections. I’m excited to move forward. 

"I’ve been on the ground with elections over the last five years and I’ve seen what goes on.  I’ve been a poll observer, and ran election operations here in New Hanover as chairman of the party, and have a pretty good sense of what we’re up against, trained hundreds of people to become poll observers, so I come in with that knowledge. I also am an attorney in regulatory law. That’s what I used to do. So I’m really looking forward to it.

"The folks I will be serving with, at least on the Republican side, are excellent attorneys as well. My goal is to ensure election integrity. To make sure your vote counts and my vote counts. We won’t accept irregularities or fraudulent voting. That’s really what it’s about – to have fair and honest elections. 

"People need to stay in touch with what’s going on. Here in New Hanover County we need judges. We’ll have the chief judge spot, and we need a second judge and lots of assistants and poll workers. Those are paid jobs, and if people want to get in the game for next year, 2014 – coming up we have a municipal non-partisan election and poll observers are not needed for that.  But we do need judges. Chief and assistant judges. That’s something people need to step up and do.

"It's gratifying to consider how much we can accomplish now following Republican victories in the Governor's Office, N.C. Senate, NC House of Representatives, plus growing strength on the bench. At all levels, the GOP team is in place and we are ready for the challenge."

Jihadist swine does not amuse U.S. District Judge, who insults "Shoe Bomber" then sentences him to prison forever.

Verne Strickland / USA DOT COM / June 14, 2013

Chris Crawley shared Gary Hufstetler's photo.

Judge William Young, US District Court, gives "Shoe Bomber" Real Hot Foot!

Remember the guy who got on a plane with a bomb built into his shoe and tried to light it?

Did you know his trial is over?
Did you know he was sentenced?
Did you see/hear any of the judge's comments on TV or Radio?
Didn't think so.!!!

Everyone should hear what the judge had to say.

Ruling by Judge William Young, US District Court.

Prior to sentencing, the Judge asked the defendant if he had anything to say His response: After admitting his guilt to the court for the record, Reid also admitted his 'allegiance to Osama bin Laden, to Islam, and to the religion of Allah,' defiantly stating, 'I think I will not apologize for my actions,' and told the court 'I am at war with your country.'

Judge Young then delivered the statement quoted below:

Judge Young: "Mr. Richard C. Reid, hearken now to the sentence the Court imposes upon you.

On counts 1, 5 and 6 the Court sentences you to life in prison in the custody of the United States Attorney General. On counts 2, 3, 4 and 7, the Court sentences you to 20 years in prison on each count, the sentence on each count to run consecutively. (That's 80 years.)

On count 8 the Court sentences you to the mandatory 30 years, again to be served consecutively to the 80 years just imposed. The Court imposes upon you for each of the eight counts a fine of $250,000, that's an aggregate fine of $2 million. The Court accepts the government's recommendation with respect to restitution and orders restitution in the amount of $298.17 to Andre Bousquet and $5,784 to American Airlines.

The Court imposes upon you an $800 special assessment. The Court imposes upon you, five years supervised release simply because the law requires it. But the life sentences are real life sentences so I need go no further.

This is the sentence that is provided for by our statutes. It is a fair and just sentence. It is a righteous sentence.

Now, let me explain this to you. We are not afraid of you or any of your terrorist co-conspirators, Mr. Reid. We are Americans. We have been through the fire before. There is too much war talk here and I say that to everyone with the utmost respect. Here in this court, we deal with individuals as individuals and care for individuals as individuals. As human beings, we reach out for justice.

You are not an enemy combatant. You are a terrorist. You are not a soldier in any war. You are a terrorist. To give you that reference, to call you a soldier, gives you far too much stature. Whether the officers of government do it, or your attorney does it, or if you think you are a soldier, you are not-----, you are a terrorist. And we do not negotiate with terrorists. We do not meet with terrorists. We do not sign documents with terrorists. We hunt them down one by one and bring them to justice.

So war talk is way out of line in this court. You are a big fellow. But you are not that big. You're no warrior. I've known warriors. You are a terrorist. A species of criminal that is guilty of multiple attempted murders. In a very real sense, State Trooper Santiago had it right when you first were taken off that plane and into custody and you wondered where the press and the TV crews were, and he said:

'You're no big deal. '

You are no big deal.

What your able counsel and what the equally able United States attorneys have grappled with and what I have, as honestly as I know how, tried to grapple with, is why you did something so horrific. What was it that led you here to this courtroom today?

I have listened respectfully to what you have to say. And I ask you to search your heart and ask yourself what sort of unfathomable hate led you to do what you are guilty, and admit you are guilty, of doing? And, I have an answer for you. It may not satisfy you, but as I search this entire record, it comes as close to understanding as I know.

It seems to me, you hate the one thing that to us is most precious. You hate our freedom. Our individual freedom. Our individual freedom to live as we choose, to come and go as we choose, to believe or not believe as we individually choose. Here, in this society, the very wind carries freedom. It carries it everywhere from sea to shining sea. It is because we prize individual freedom so much that you are here in this beautiful courtroom, so that everyone can see, truly see, that justice is administered fairly, individually, and discretely. It is for freedom's sake that your lawyers are striving so vigorously on your behalf, have filed appeals, will go on in their representation of you before other judges.

We Americans are all about freedom. Because we all know that the way we treat you, Mr. Reid, is the measure of our own liberties. Make no mistake though. It is yet true that we will bear any burden; pay any price, to preserve our freedoms. Look around this courtroom. Mark it well. The world is not going to long remember what you or I say here. The day after tomorrow, it will be forgotten, but this, however, will long endure.

Here in this courtroom and courtrooms all across America , the American people will gather to see that justice, individual justice, justice, not war, individual justice, is in fact being done. The very President of the United States through his officers, will have to come into courtrooms and lay out evidence on which specific matters can be judged and juries of citizens will gather to sit and judge that evidence democratically, to mold and shape and refine our sense of justice.

See that flag, Mr. Reid? That's the flag of the United States of America . That flag will fly there long after this is all forgotten. That flag stands for freedom. And it always will.

Mr. Custody Officer. Stand him down."

So, how much of this Judge's comments did we hear on our TV sets? We need more judges like Judge Young. Pass this around. Everyone should, and needs to, hear what this fine judge had to say. Powerful words that strike home.

Please SEND this----so that everyone has a chance to read it.

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  Verne Strickland Chris: Wonderful, buddy -- thanks for sharing. I will put this up in lights too. It's an epistle to live by. Love it. God bless America, as I, one lone individual patriot, curse Allah, Muhammad, oh . . . and Barack Obama. Everyone welcome to join in.

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