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Two men in Texas have been arrested for Jihad terror charges. Religion of Peace hits once again, this time within our borders. Bagledash born U.S. Citizen, Rahatul Ashikim Khan and Michael Todd Wolfe attempted to travel across the globe in order to train and engage in violent jihad.

 Khan is reported to attempting to join al-Shabab, a Somalia based terror group linked to al-Qaida. Wolfe is reported to have the goal in learning to fight in Syria. Both men were apprehended by the FBI on separtely charged terror-related offenses.

Wolfe
According to charging documents, Wolfe’s wife met an undercover FBI agent in August 2013 and told the agent she and her husband wanted to “perform a violent form of jihad” outside of the United States. She said Wolfe “just wants to hop into Syria. He’s just ready to die for his deen [religion]. He’s ready to die for someone, for something,” court documents say.

On Jan. 22, both undercover FBI agents met with Wolfe and his wife, and Wolfe “indicated that he had learned that al-Qaida in Syria was training brothers from other countries (foreign fighters) and then sending those fighters back from Syria to their home countries to conduct terror attacks,” the FBI says in court documents.

Prosecutors also indicated Wolfe would be using some of his returned U.S. $5000 tax return for the trip.

Khan

Khan became a U.S. citizen in 2002 and is a full time student at the University of Texas-Austin, currently in summer recess. According to charges, Khan began discussion with an informant via online chat room which he used “as a platform to spot and assess potential recruits for committing violent jihad overseas.”

Through the contact, information was provided to Khan on how he could get to Somalia to join the terrorist group al-Shabab. This other contact, a co-conspirator, is believed to be in Florida where another American in Florida recently detonated himself in Syria. Arrests came for Khan, one month after the Justice

Department asked a special prosecutor to help lead U.S. efforts at stemming the flow of American fighters in Syria, aiding the civil war.

Issue

The Religion of Peace is nothing more than a platform for Jihadist to wage war. While many will continue to argue there is a billion of Muslims and only a few have this hate, the issue remains. We will continue to see a rise of home-grown jihadist, as the Religion of Peace continues to be ignored by our government.

It’s the state of Texas versus the National Football League (NFL).  A new rule was passed by the NFL, banning off-duty police officers from bringing guns into the stadium. This new ruling flies in the face of Texas law, which allows off-duty police officers to carry their weapons and be ready to protect and defend the public.

No less than 11 attorney generals from the GOP state the Obama administration is breaking the law by repeatedly making changes to Obamacare without going through Congress. The use of President Obama’s executive action is an over-reach of his powers. The attorneys general criticizes Obama, using executive action allowing insurance companies to keep offering health plans, that have been canceled for not meeting Obamacare’s more strict standards

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The issue

 “We support allowing citizens to keep their health insurance coverage, but the only way to fix this problem-ridden law is to enact changes lawfully: through Congressional action,” the attorneys general wrote in a letter to Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius. “The illegal actions by this administration must stop.” This healthcare fix is “flatly illegal under federal constitutional and statutory law”, they say. The seven-page letter says the President is violating both his responsibility to execute laws faithfully and the separation of powers between the branches of government.

  The Group

 The 11 attorney generals signing the letter included the states Alabama, Georgia, Idaho, Kansas, Louisiana, Michigan, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Texas and Virginia. West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey wrote the letter . Officials point to the 1985 Heckler vs Chaney case. The Supreme Court concluded some enforcement actions of laws might be subject to judicial review first. “We are deeply concerned that this Administration is consistently rewriting new rules and effectively inventing statutory provisions to operationalize a flawed law,” the attorneys general wrote. “And the irony, of course, is that the changes being put forth to fix the disastrous exchanges will ultimately destroy the market and increase health insurance premiums for customers who played by the rules.”

  Other issues

 HHS continues to “ignore the widespread public outcry over the security of consumers’ private information” on exchanges,” they wrote, adding that they’re concerned about the administration’s decision to “not propose and implement rigorous privacy standards for outreach personnel.” “Each of us is charged with protecting our states’ consumers,” Morrisey said. “Once a person’s private information is breached, it is very hard to ensure it is secure again. We are troubled that the Administration has not even proposed implementing criminal background checks on people who have access to sensitive private information.”

Summary

 The letter was written December 26, 2013 to HHS Kathleen Sebelius to convey concerns of illegality. The seven page letter provides the concerns, citing specific laws and regulations being broken by the Obama Administration. The “fix” placed by the Obama Administration breaks the constitutional law, while also creating a new statutory obligation or new rule. In essence, Obama is attempting to create new laws, without Congress approval, while breaking existing laws already in place. The letter then proposes commonsense safeguards on “ways to ensure protection for information”.

Planned Parenthood has been shut down in the Texas panhandle.

American Life League's (ALL) Stop Planned Parenthood, or Stopp International, says it took a long time, but their campaign against Planned Parenthood finally got some results. "For 12 years in the Texas panhandle, there has been a fight against Planned Parenthood," he notes. "Planned Parenthood, in 1997, operated 19 clinics in the Texas panhandle."

Then the state reduced funding for the organization, and pro-life workers also continued in their efforts to shut Planned Parenthood's doors. "And as of December 31, there will no longer be any Planned Parenthood offices in the Texas panhandle," Sedlak explains. "They will all be gone."

The two remaining clinics in Amarillo have disaffiliated with the national organization. Sedlak says other cities can accomplish the same goal if they are determined, and information on that is available on the Stopp website.