[snakeoil]

http://www.blacklistednews.com/Congress ... 8/Y/M.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

In a little-noticed brief filed last summer, lawyers for the House of Representatives claimed that an SEC investigation of congressional insider trading should be blocked on principle, because lawmakers and their staff are constitutionally protected from such inquiries given the nature of their work.

The legal team led by Kerry W. Kircher, who was appointed House General Counsel by Speaker John Boehner in 2011, claimed that the insider trading probe violated the separation of powers between the legislative and executive branch.

In 2012, members of Congress patted themselves on the back for passing the STOCK Act, a bill meant to curb insider trading for lawmakers and their staff. “We all know that Washington is broken and today members of both parties took a big step forward to fix it,” said Rep. Bill Johnson, R-Ohio, upon passage of the law.

But as the Securities and Exchange Commission made news with the first major investigation of political insider trading, Congress moved to block the inquiry.

And here I didn't realize that those in Congress are so much better than the rest of us. Silly me.

[snakeoil]

http://www.thedailysheeple.com/dhs-appr ... der_052015" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

After President Obama announced his amnesty plan in November of last year, 26 states filed a lawsuit against the federal government for failing to uphold their own immigration laws. The case was taken to federal court, where Judge Andrew Hanen issued an injunction against the plan on February 16th, ordering the federal government to stop their amnesty roll out. Despite the Justice Department’s assurances that the plan had not been implemented, it was later discovered that the Department of Homeland Security had already started to issue 3 year deferrals to over 100,000 illegal aliens.

The last paragraph is the best.

What’s most troubling, is not the blatant disregard of our nation’s immigration laws and court procedures, but the fact that they can get away with it over and over again. If the DOJ, DHS, and the Obama administration (insert Congress here) are capable of ignoring our laws, then there should be no remaining doubts about the legitimacy our government.

[johnforbes]

There's no historical precedent for a presidency in which the goal is to fundamentally change America, where illegal immigrants have special rights but citizens do not.

Where race-baiting and division are goals, but civility and unity are not.