Republican weigh shutdown . . . One Republican leader on Sunday held open the possibility that his party could move to shut down the government in an attempt to stop President Barack Obama from taking executive action on immigration policy.

A vocal group of conservatives in the House of Representatives is pressing to use government funding as leverage to prevent any White House moves that would allow millions of undocumented immigrants to stay and work in the United States. Reuters​

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Obamacare bait and switch . . . If you like your Obamacare plan, you can keep it. But you’ll have to pay up to 20 percent more. White House Dossier

More Gruber! . . . In the latest installment of our enthralling series, the architect of Obamacare explains that those who resist measures he thinks will help low income earners with their health care are either misinformed or racist. Fox News

I think "Gruber" should become a new English language word for cynical nonsense. As in, "Oh that's just a bunch of Gruber," or, "There you go with all that Gruber again."

Obama dismisses Gruber . . . "The fact that some adviser who never worked on our staff expressed an opinion that I completely disagree with ... is no reflection on the actual process that was run," Obama said during a press conference at the Group of 20 leaders meeting in Brisbane, Australia. Reuters

Really? "Some advisor?" He designed Obamacare and was paid $400K for his efforts. Reminds me of when Obama described Bill Ayers as just "a guy who lives in my neighborhood."

Obamacare website runs smoothly . . . President Obama says that more than 500,000 people successfully logged onto the federal website on Saturday, the first day of sign-ups for ObamaCare in 2015. Fox News

Obama vows $3 billion for UN climate fund . . . Speaking at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia on Saturday, President Barack Obama vowed, "We are going to contribute $3 billion to the Green Climate Fund so we can help developing nations deal with climate change.” CNS News

It's okay, we'll just borrow it.

Romney to Obama: Don't rule out boots . . . If Mitt Romney were president, all options for defeating the terrorist group ISIS would be left on the table—including boots on the ground in Iraq. National Journal

Will Gruber ruin the Romney revival? . . . The avalanche of Gruber videos may remind people of Romney’s biggest weakness – that he did Obamacare before Obama did it. Gruber proudly asserts that the Massachusetts plan was a “rip off” of the federal government, which he suggests was conned into paying for it. Romney, he indicates, was complicit in the scheme. White House Dossier

Worrisome questions about Loretta Lynch . . . Legal scholar Hans Von Spakovsky raises some disturbing points about Lynch, an African American who may be in the habit of viewing legal issues through the same prism of race used by Holder. White House Dossier

Obama opens door for Central American kids . . . The Obama administration quietly announced a program late last week to create a legal channel for thousands of Central American children to come to the U.S., a move designed to prevent a repeat of this summer’s illegal immigrant surge but which Republicans said amounted to “border sabotage.” Washington Times

Obama questioned mass immigration . . . Then-Senator Obama wrote in The Audacity of Hope his 2006 autobiography: “The number of immigrants added to the labor force every year is of a magnitude not seen in this country for over a century. If this huge influx of mostly low-skill workers provides some benefits to the economy as a whole . . . it also threatens to depress further the wages of blue-collar Americans and put strains on an already overburdened safety net.” Daily Caller

Former aides criticize Obama "micromanagement" . . . Leon Panetta and Robert Gates, two former directors of the CIA and Defense Department, on Saturday criticized President Barack Obama's "micromanagement" of the military. Fox News

ISIS beheader may be injured . . . The British government said on Saturday it was investigating reports that "Jihadi John", the British-accented Islamic State militant apparently responsible for the beheading of western hostages, had been injured in a US air strike. AFP

State Department hacked . . . The US State Department had to shut down its unclassified computer network over the weekend after evidence emerged that it could have been hacked, the US media reported late Sunday. AFP

Tax reform imperiled . . . Less than two weeks after Republicans won control of Congress, acrimony over immigration is dampening hopes for cooperation on more ambitious initiatives, with President Obama and GOP lawmakers bracing not for compromise but for combat. Washington Post

Christie's real problem is not his temper . . . What doesn’t play well on YouTube? As many as 10,000 people unemployed because of the closure, in a matter of months, of at least a third of the casinos in Atlantic City. The second worst credit rating among states in the nation. And unlike the nation as a whole, which has more than recovered the jobs it lost during the recession, New Jersey has yet to recover half of its lost jobs. Politico​



Turkish president: Muslims discovered America . . .  Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is claiming that Muslim sailors reached the Americas more than 300 years before explorer Christopher Columbus. Fox News​



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Cities brace for Ferguson-related protects . . . Police departments in many of the nation's big cities are preparing to respond in force to any possible protests or riots that might rise after the decision of whether or not to indict a white officer who shot a black teen in Ferguson, Missouri is made public. Breitbart

Protestors stage "Die-in" . . . Dozens of people lay down in the street outside of a downtown theater hosting a film festival, pretending to have been shot by other protests playing the role of police officers. Reuters

Maher: Mormonism "based on a sex cult" . . . The Mormon church revealed last week that its founding prophet, Joseph Smith, had as many as 40 wives. “What I love is he said he had a revelation in 1831 from an angel who said, ‘Marry plurally — get as many b–—s as you can up in there,’” Maher said. Washington Times

Pope Francis to visit United States . . . Pope Francis plans to visit Philadelphia in 2015, the pontiff announced today. It would be his first trip to the United States as pope. ABC News

UCLA celebrates avowed Communist . . . A UCLA campaign to honor role model alumni for their idealism is drawing fire after picking avowed communist Angela Davis as one of its inspirational figures. The school-sponsored "We, the Optimists" campaign includes a banner showing a young Davis, with the words "We Question" under the image. Fox News

Our kids, who are being indoctrinated in Leftist thinking as early as first grade, but some still noticed that this wasn't quite right.

Ebola patient in U.S. critical . . . A surgeon from Sierra Leone being treated for Ebola in a Nebraska hospital on Saturday was critically ill after being airlifted back from Africa, medical officials said. Reuters

Can coffee prevent obesity? . . . A new study has identified a chemical compound in the caffeinated drink helps prevent some of the damaging effects of being overweight. Cholorgenic acid, or CGA, significantly reduced insulin resistance and the accumulation of fat in the livers of mice who were fed a high-fat diet. Daily Mail​

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