PATRIOTUPDATE.COM 6 Hours Ago Slaughter in Gun Control Chicago Over the weekend in the gun control Capitol of the country, 46 people were shot in Chicago. More from the Chicago Tribune: "Our son is dead! Oh Jesus!" the 57-year-old screamed, referring to her other son, Cortez, who was killed earlier that morning on Chicago's West Side. "Oh my God! Oh my God! We were just talking." At least 33 people were shot — six of them fatally — Saturday afternoon through Father's Day Sunday, stretching from 94th Street and Loomis Avenue on the South Side up to about North Avenue and North Pulaski Road on the Northwest Side, according to authorities. The youngest person who was killed during one of the bloodiest weekends in Chicago this year was 16. Slaughter in Gun Control Chicago http://patriotupdate.com/2013/06/slaughter-in-gun-control-chicago/ John Hames

 THEBLAZE.COM 4 Hours Ago Ted Cruz Set to Infuriate the Left With Immigration Bill Amendment by  Jason Howerton Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) on Monday announced his intention to file another amendment to the so-called "gang of eight" immigration bill that is facing tough opposition from some GOP lawmakers. "I'll file amendment to immigration bill that permits states to require ID before registering voters & close this hole in [federal] statutory law," Cruz wrote via his official Twitter account. I'll file amendment to immigration bill that permits states to require ID before registering voters & close this hole in fed statutory law. Cruz has consistently opposed the immigration bill, voting against its advancement in the Senate three times and has shown no signs of flipping on the legislation. Cruz previously attempted to amend the bill to remove the path to citizenship provisions for illegal immigrants. As previously mentioned, the Texas Republican's...

 CAINTV.COM 7 Hours Ago Lindsey Graham confident he has the votes to pass immigration reform, destroy the GOP by  Robert Laurie By ROBERT LAURIE - 11 Million new registered Dems, coming right up! This weekend, everyone's favorite non-Republican, Lindsey Graham, was enjoying plenty of face time on the Sunday morning shows. The blitz was designed to promote his belief that passage of the "Gang of Eight" immigration reform package is the only thing that can save the GOP from what he calls a "demographic death spiral." "If we don't pass immigration reform, if we don't get it off the table in a reasonable, practical way, it doesn't matter who we run in 2016," Graham claims. "We're in a demographic death spiral as a party." Fortunately for the Grand Old Party, Lindsey is pretty sure that Grahamnesty is going to pass. Graham predicts a "political breakthrough" that will lead to the bill's passage with "plus 70 vote...

 DAILYCALLER.COM 4 Hours Ago Rubio Doubles Down into Disaster by  Mickey Kaus Tweet Stars. They're not like you!  Ryan Lizza's  New Yorker  piece on the Gang of 8′s immigration efforts [behind paywall] contains a seemingly inflammatory quote from an unnamed aide to Marco Rubio: "There are American workers who, for lack of a better term, can't cut it," a Rubio aide told me. "There shouldn't be a presumption that every American worker is a star performer. There are people who just can't get it, can't do it, don't want to do it. And so you can't obviously discuss that publicly."  It's a bad enough quote that Gang-of-8 cheerleader Jonathan Chait  was worried . "[T]here's a reason nobody in politics ever says anything like this," he noted, in a piece titled "The Gaffe That Threatens Immigration Reform."  In response, Team Rubio began "pushing back hard," according to both  Rich Lowry  and  Matt Lewis ,...

 TREVORLOUDON.COM 4 Hours Ago Socialism Through Immigration: Leading Marxist Immigration Activist Admits it's All About the Votes! Home  »  Featured ,  Headline ,  Latin America ,  Red Reps ,  Social Movements , Socialism/Communism ,  Socialist Opinion Shapers ,  Uncategorized ,  Unions ,  Video On the eve of the immigration debate the video below really needs to go viral. Eliseo Medina speaking on "immigration reform" One of the US' top "immigrants rights" activists labor leader  and   Democratic Socialists of America  Marxist  Eliseo Medina , admits that illegal immigrant amnesty has nothing to do with compassion or economics – its all about permanent political power for the left. Medina sees illegal immigrant amnesty and voting rights as the beginnings of a "governing coalition for the long term." At the "progressive"  America's Future Now!  conference in Washington, DC on June 2, 2009,  SE...

 GUNSSAVELIVES.NET 3 Hours Ago BREAKING: Colorado Gun Rights Advocates Plan to Break New Magazine Law on Capitol Steps At least two formal events have popped up on Facebook that are encouraging Colorado gun owners to engage in civil disobedience and break the recent law that prohibits the sale or transfer of gun magazines capable of holding more than 15 rounds. The events encourage participants from Colorado and other surrounding states to buy, sell and swap magazines that can hold more than 15 rounds in disobedience of the law. The  first event  is scheduled for July 1st and is actually supposed to be on the Colorado Capitol building's steps in Denver. See the Facebook page  here . The  second event  is scheduled for July 2nd and encourages people to disobey the law wherever they are in the state and upload images and videos to various social media outlets. See the Facebook page  here . It is unclear if law enforcement will try to make arrests during ...

 CRUZ.SENATE.GOV 43 Minutes Ago Ted Cruz Contact: press@cruz.senate.gov / (202) 228-7561Monday, June 17, 2013 WASHINGTON, DC  – U.S. Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) today filed an amendment to S. 744, the Senate Immigration Reform Bill, to close a loophole in the federal "Motor Voter" law that preempts states from enforcing requirements that would ensure those registered to vote are U.S. citizens. Senator David Vitter (R-LA) is a co-sponsor. "The right to vote is a fundamental building block of our nation's democratic process and it is crucial that we have the measures in place to uphold the integrity of our elections," said Sen. Cruz. "This amendment ensures that states can enforce the commonsense requirement that those registered to vote must actually be U.S. citizens." The Cruz-Vitter amendment states: "Nothing in subsection (a) [42 U.S.C. §1973gg-4(a)] shall be construed to preempt any State law requiring evidence of citizenship in order to complete ...

 BREITBART.COM 2 Hours Ago Glenn Beck to Speak at Tea Party Patriots Rally on Wednesday by  Michael Patrick Leahy by  Michael Patrick Leahy 17 Jun 2013, 4:49 PM PDT post a comment Beck told listeners to his radio program, "I will go and stand, and I ask you to do the same," confirming his appearance as a speaker. This marks the first time Beck has called on his audience to join him at a rally since his highly successful "Restoring Honor" rally held in August 2010. Martin welcomed Beck's participation on Wednesday. "We are glad that Glenn Beck will join the Tea Party Patriots--and speakers from the US Senate, the US Congress and most importantly the American people who were targeted by the IRS."  The "Audit the IRS Rally" will be held on the West Lawn of the Capitol from noon until 2 PM on Wednesday. Martin said it "will be a day for Americans of all political stripes to tell the government and the IRS that they have become too big and to...

 WEASELZIPPERS.US 2 Hours Ago Records Show Comrade Nancy Pelosi By Far Richest Member Of House Leadership Pelosi is worth at least $24 million, which is light years ahead of Eric Cantor who is second at $4.4 million. Via  Politico : Eric Cantor and Nancy Pelosi are once again the two wealthiest members of the House leadership, according to just released financial disclosure reports for all members. Cantor saw his minimum personal wealth rise slightly to nearly $4.4 million in 2012, and Pelosi is worth at least $24.4 million, according to their annual reports. The disclosures show that Paul Pelosi, the husband of the minority leader, has been shelling out millions of dollars for the United Football League, which last played a game in 2012. Paul Pelosi has put between $10 million and $50 million into the United Football League and its Sacramento team, the Mountain Lions, the disclosure records show. In2012, Pelosi dumped between $4.36 million and $9.45 million into the project. ...

 VIRALREAD.COM 2 Hours Ago Obama Donor Holly Paz Supervised IRS Tea Party Scrutiny by  Robert Stacy McCain The British newspaper  Daily Mail  reports : Holly Paz, a supervisor in the IRS's Washington, DC office that issued rulings on tax-exempt groups, made a $2,000 contribution directly to the Obama for America war chest, and another $2,000 to the separate Obama Victory Fund, both in 2008, according to Federal Election Commission documents. She has also been named as the attorney who monitored interviews conducted with IRS employees by Treasury Inspector General J. Russell George, as he investigated what would explode in May 2013 as a major crisis for the White House. The revelation of Paz's involvement,  first reported Sunday  by the  Associated Press , contradicts claims by agency officials that the scandal was limited to low-level officials in a Cincinnati IRS office. However,  neither NBC nor CBS mentioned the story  in their Monday...

 THEBLAZE.COM 5 Hours Ago 'A Redrawing of the Map': Syria's Assad Makes Chilling Threat to Europe & the World by  James Rollins This photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA shows Syrian President Bashar al-Assad speaking during an interview with Al-Manar TV, owned by the militant Hezbollah group, in Damascus, Syria, Thursday, May 30, 2013. (Photo: AP) BEIRUT (TheBlaze/AP) — Syria's president warned that Europe "will pay a price" if it delivers weapons to the rebels fighting him, saying in an interview published Monday that arming them would backfire as the "terrorists" return to their countries with extremist ideologies. Assad further warned that as the conflict spills into neighboring countries, blurring borders, it will set off a domino effect. "Nobody can imagine how the region would look like in case of a redrawing of the map. That will be a map for uncounted wars in the Middle East and possibly elsewhere, that nobody can ...