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Thursday, January 8, 2014

Good morning! In the news today: FCC to adopt Obama net neutrality plan; Obama won't call Islamist terrorism "Islamist terrorism;" the president falsely suggests auto bailouts were free; MSM won't run Mohammed cartoons; climate change - we've been there, done that; and the courts are trying to figure out what to do with a new wave of anti-abortion laws.

Have a great day.

Keith

FCC signals it will adopt Obama net neutrality plan . . . Federal regulators appear to be on the brink of claiming expansive powers over Internet access to protect the principle of net neutrality. Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler indicated that he's in favor of President Obama's net-neutrality proposal, which would put broadband Internet service in the same legal category as landline telephones.

Proponents of the regulatory maneuver claim it's the only way the FCC can enact strong net neutrality rules that can hold up in court. Net neutrality is the principle that Internet service providers should treat all traffic equally. Internet providers and Republicans warn that Title II would turn the Internet into a utility, hampering investment and leaving everyone with worse service. National Journal

Obama wants to let the U.S. government regulate Internet access and allow undemocratic nations to gain purview over the .com system. Because bureaucrats here and overseas know best.

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Obama won't call attacks "Islamist" terrorism . . . In order to win the war on terror, we have to be clear first that we’re in a war, and second about who we’re fighting. The Obama administration doesn’t appear to have much of a notion about either. White House Dossier

Obama's $15.56 billion deception . . . The clear impression Obama is seeking to convey is that the auto bailout was cost-free. But note he said “what my administration invested.” He is purposely, and deceptively, not including the money Bush handed the automakers. If you do that, there’s billions in losses. White House Dossier

More Biden swearing in gaffes . . . Video of Biden wrecking people's swearing in ceremonies. White House Dossier

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Obama's Thursday schedule

Many outlets refuse to run Mohammed cartoons . . . It appears the Paris attack has already prompted some news groups to self-censor what they publish concerning Islam. Others were braver. Washington Examiner

AP hypocrisy . . . "None of the images distributed by AP showed cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad," an Associated Press spokesman said. "It’s been our policy for years that we refrain from moving deliberately provocative images." But in case you want to admire the "work of art" from three decades ago that consisted of a photograph of a crucifix in a vat of the photographer's urine, the AP will sell it to you. Or would, until they pulled it yesterday. Washington Examiner

Dems seeks Afghan withdrawal delay . . . Prominent Democrats are warning President Obama against following a set timeline for pulling U.S. troops out of Afghanistan. Washington Examiner

Right fumes as freshman bail on Boehner effort . . . Several new House Republicans backtracked on campaign promises to oppose John Boehner’s (R-Ohio) bid for another term as Speaker. The Hill

Flood of anti-Boehner phone calls from voters . . . It wasn’t the Republican votes against House Speaker John Boehner that truly rattled the GOP leadership, it was the phone calls. Washington Examiner

McConnell, Cruz vie for influence . . . Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) are competing for influence among the Senate’s 12 Republican freshmen, with the outcome potentially shaping the agenda for 2015 and beyond. The Hill

Inhofe to battle EPA climate change effort . . . Sen. James Inhofe plans to use his position on one of the Senate’s most powerful committees to challenge the Obama administration’s push to regulate carbon dioxide emissions and expand federal power over energy and the environment. Daily Caller

Senators slam 40-hour workweek veto threat . . . Congressional lawmakers, including Democrats, rebuked the White House on Wednesday for refusing to allow tweaks to Obamacare, saying President Obama is reneging on his promise to work to fix problems in the law. Washington Times

Scalise: "I reject bigotry" . . . Rep. Steve Scalise said Wednesday he should be judged by his recent record and the defense of his colleagues, not by his decision more than a decade ago as a state legislator to speak to a group with racist ties. Washington Times

France's Muslim mini-states . . . A backdrop to the massacre in Paris on Wednesday by self-professed al Qaeda terrorists is that city officials have increasingly ceded control of heavily Muslim neighborhoods to Islamists, block by block. Washington Times

This problem cannot be solved. France may well be a Muslim state by mid-century. Get used to it.

Call for new thinking on Islam ignored by media . . . Prior to Paris terror attack, the Egyptian president warned imams of dangers of extremism. Jonah Goldberg

States pass wave of new anti-abortion laws . . . The fight over greater regulation of abortion is swinging once again to the federal courts, where challenges to recent state laws are producing a patchwork of contradictory rulings that may eventually reach the Supreme Court. Politico

Fed: World in turmoil, but U.S. recovery abiding . . . U.S. central bankers have looked beyond a global deflation threat, fear of energy-sector bond defaults, and a surge of oil patch layoffs to reach what appears to be a firm conclusion: the U.S. recovery is here to stay. Reuters

Climate Change, a history . . . If climate Cassandras are as conscientious as they claim to be about weighing evidence, how do they accommodate historical evidence of enormously consequential episodes of climate change not produced by human activity? George Will

More reasons to get and stay married . . . A new economics paper has some old-fashioned advice for people navigating the stresses of life: Find a spouse who is also your best friend. New York Times

From the New York Times? You never know.

Keith Koffler
Editor
White House Dossier

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