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Video Captures Woman Sobbing Uncontrollably During TSA Pat Down

MADISON, Wis. (CBSDC) – A video captured a woman shaking and sobbing uncontrollably while being frisked by a Transportation Security Administration agent.

Political blogger Jim Hoft — who runs the Gateway Pundit website — captured the incident at a Madison, Wis., airport Sunday.

“This morning at a Midwest airport I witnessed this poor woman suffering through this horrible sexual violation,” Hoft said on his Gateway Pundit website.

The video shows a TSA agent patting down a woman in a pink sweater.

During the pat down, the woman can be heard sobbing and is visibly shaking while the TSA agents runs her hands down the woman’s legs.

After the agent leaves, the woman simply stands still, hunched over.

TSA agents have been under fire recently over the aggressive manner in which they conduct their searches on members of the general public.

Agents have been accused of patting down a 3-year-old boy who was in a wheelchair and also making a 95-year-old woman stricken with cancer remove her adult diaper.

If I Had a Daughter, She’d Look Like Ann Romney
Posted on April 13, 2012 by Conservative Byte

You have to hear Wolf Blitzer last night on CNN, Situation Room, audio sound bite number five. He had Hilary Rosen on, who is a Democrat National Committee strategist. She works in the White House. She works for the reelection of Barack Obama, and this is a montage of Wolf Blitzer talking to and interviewing Hilary Rosen.

Look into the camera, Ann Romney’s on the other side, what do you have to say to her? Tell her. The only thing he didn’t say is, could you cry a little? That’s the only thing Wolf didn’t say. They are shocked. Folks, they know this is a big hit. Grab audio sound bite number 11. This is Karl Rove. He was on with Greta last night, and she said, “She certainly is an experienced mother. She knows the challenges of raising a family and household. She’s had health challenges. I didn’t see this as an attack personally on Ann Romney, Karl.”

Even after the Super Bowl victory of the New Orleans Saints, I have noticed a large number of people, implying with bad jokes and anecdotes, that Loozianna Cajuns ain’t smart. I would like to state for the record that I disagree with that assessment. Anybody who would build a city 5 feet below sea level in a hurricane zone and fill it with Democrats who can’t swim is a damn genius.

11 Secret Service agents put on leave amid prostitution inquiry

By David Nakamura and Ed O’Keefe, Published: April 14

The U.S. Secret Service on Saturday placed 11 agents on administrative leave as the agency investigates allegations that the men brought prostitutes to their hotel rooms in Cartagena, Colombia, on Wednesday night and that a dispute ensued with one of the women over payment the following morning.

Secret Service Assistant Director Paul S. Morrissey said the agents had violated the service’s “zero-tolerance policy on personal misconduct” during their trip to prepare for President Obama’s arrival at an international summit this weekend.

A dozen Secret Service agents sent to Colombia to provide security for President Obama at an international summit have been relieved of duty because of allegations of misconduct.

“We regret any distraction from the Summit of the Americas this situation has caused,” Morrissey said in a statement.

The rapidly unfolding scandal has upstaged Obama’s trip to the summit, where he is discussing trade and the economy with 32 other heads of state. Though the agency has said Obama’s security was not compromised, the allegations of misconduct have brought intense scrutiny to an agency that had not had a major lapse since 2009, when two party crashers entered the White House uninvited.

The situation deteriorated further Saturday when the Defense Department announced that five military personnel, who are staying at the same hotel, violated curfew Wednesday night and have been confined to their rooms. The department will conduct its own investigation upon their return to the United States, said Air Force Gen. Douglas Fraser of the U.S. Southern Command, where the military personnel were from.

Fraser said he was “disappointed by the entire incident and . . . this behavior is not in keeping with the professional standards expected of members of the United States military.”

Rep. Peter T. King (R-N.Y.), chairman of the Homeland Security Committee, said Saturday that Secret Service officials conducting an internal investigation told him that the staff at the Hotel Caribe summoned local police after discovering a woman in the room of one agent after 7 a.m., against the hotel’s policy for visitors of paying guests.

Although the agent eventually paid the woman and she left, King added, police reported the incident to the U.S. Embassy, which informed the Secret Service. The agency quickly recalled the agents and replaced them with a new team before Obama’s arrival Friday afternoon at the Hilton a few blocks away.

King praised the agency for removing the men involved, but he added that “everything they did was a violation of proper conduct.”

“First of all, to be getting involved with prostitutes in a foreign country can leave yourself vulnerable to blackmail and threats,” King said. “To be bringing prostitutes or almost anyone into a security zone when you’re supposed to protect the president is totally wrong.”

Briefing reporters in Cartagena, press secretary Jay Carney said the White House learned of the incident Thursday and Obama was informed Friday.

“This has not been a distraction,” Carney said. “It has been much more so for the press than for the president, who is going on with his work here.”

The Hotel Caribe is in Bocagrande, a seaside district of Cartagena. It’s not a colonial hotel, like those in the old walled city, but rather an elegant, decades-old structure that is considered a national patrimony. Locals consider it a good place to party — there is a beachfront bar-restaurant in front of the hotel and inside it has gardens and bars.

Any presidential trip, but especially those abroad, involve immense manpower and logistical planning that can take place weeks before the president arrives, experts said.

Typically, on a foreign trip, more than 200 federal officials from the Secret Service, Defense Department and White House staff are sent to the site two weeks ahead of the event. Once the president arrives on Air Force One, usually with a support plane and press charter plane in tow, an additional 200 people or more join the original group.

Several people familiar with the Cartagena investigation described a night of partying by members of the advance team, who created enough of a disturbance in the Hotel Caribe that hotel employees asked the group to quiet down more than once.

Prostitution is legal in Colombia, but soliciting women for paid sexual favors is against Secret Service policy. It is not clear how many of the 11 agents, some of whom are reportedly married, had sexual encounters with the women or whether it was clear to all of them that the women expected to be paid.

One person with close ties to the Secret Service, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to speak freely about an ongoing investigation, said he was told by agents that the woman involved in the dispute “freaked out” after she was not paid and banged on walls and doors in the hotel hallways.

But King described a calmer scene. He said that under hotel policy, any overnight guest of a paying guest must leave photo identification at the front desk and leave the hotel by 7 a.m. the next morning.

According to King, one of the 11 women had not left the hotel by 7 a.m. Thursday, prompting hotel officials to knock on the door of the room. When nobody answered, hotel officials summoned police officers, King said.

Once police opened the door, the woman and the agent had a brief dispute over payment, King said, but the agent eventually paid the woman and she left.

Colombian police made no arrests because prostitution is legal in the country, but they turned over to the embassy a list of U.S. personnel staying at the hotel.

King said U.S. Secret Service Special Agent in Charge Paula Reid, based in Miami, rushed to remove the officers from the country Thursday.

Ralph Basham, director of the Secret Service from 2003 to 2006, said he spoke with current agency Director Mark J. Sullivan, and Basham called the agents’ alleged conduct “totally out of bounds.” But Basham defended the agency’s quick action in removing the agents from Cartagena.

“Clearly, they made a huge mistake,” he said. “But to try to tie this somehow to impacting the security of the president of the United States is just outrageous. It did not.”

Staff writers Joe Davidson, Peter Finn and Scott Wilson and correspondent Juan Forero contributed to this report. Wilson and Forero reported from Cartagena.

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Billboard Targets State’s Largest Teachers Union

A billboard along the Beltline is getting drivers’ attention with a message targeting the Wisconsin Education Association Council, the state’s largest teachers union.
The new sign appeared over the weekend, with the quote, “When schoolchildren start paying union dues, I’ll start representing schoolchildren.” Below the quote is a web address for a group calling itself Recall WEAC, recently formed as a political action committee.
“I think you have a lot of people who get left behind (in the Madison Metropolitan School District),” said Jeff Waksman, of Recall WEAC. “Forty-eight percent of African-Americans are graduating from high school in four years; 52 percent are not. That’s a major problem. The labor unions say we’re not going to change anything, we won’t allow any reform.”
When pressed for examples, Waksman cited the failed Madison Metropolitan School District’s Board of Education vote on Madison Prep, the Urban League-backed charter school designed as an educational alternative for struggling low-income students. He also pointed to the Middleton Education Association fighting the firing of a teacher who viewed porn at school.
“Last I checked, the school district had spent nearly $300,000 on legal fees fighting the union,” he said.
But what about the quote? It’s been frequently attributed to Albert Shanker, longtime president of the United Federation of Teachers and the American Federation of Teachers. Shanker died in 1997, but many of his contemporaries dispute he ever made the statement.
The Albert Shanker Institute in Washington, D.C., said it has attempted to trace back the quote, finding the earliest instance of the quote in 1985. It appeared in the Meridian Star in Meridian, Miss. The article has no byline and attributes the quote to Shanker as something he said “a couple of years ago.”
For Waksman, none of that matters.
“Whether he said the quote or not, it describes exactly what teachers unions do. It describes the duty of fair representation,” Waksman said.
WEAC gave WISC-TV a statement regarding the billboard.
“This is just another smear campaign by anti-union, anti-public education and anti-teacher groups. It’s yet another example of the divisive politics Wisconsin has experienced over the last 15 months under (Gov.) Scott Walker,” WEAC said in the statement.
Waksman said his group is bipartisan and the $3,700 billboard was funded by members of both political parties. He said he hopes it will spark discussion about the state of education in Wisconsin.

Posted by Jim Hoft on Thursday, April 5, 2012, 5:55 AM
Last February THOUSANDS of Tea Party Patriots turned out in Madison, Wisconsin, in support of Republican Governor Scott Walker. It was an amazing turnout considering the Saturday rally was only announced on Friday morningThe tea party patriots filled the state capital grounds from the steps to the street over 100 yards back. There were so many Walker supporters there that you couldn’t hear the speakers from the stage in the back of the crowd.

Next week we’re doing it again…
Show Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker that he has support by coming out to the Wisconsin Tax Day Rally at the Capitol on Saturday April 14 from 11:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.

Confirmed Speakers Include:
Fox News Contributor – James T. Harris
Conservative Talk Show Host – Vicki McKenna
Big Journalism.com – Dana Loesch
Gateway Pundit – Jim Hoft
PJTV – Stephen Kruiser
Nashville Recording Artist – Krista Branch
AFP WI State Director – Luke Hilgemann

Invited Speakers Include:
Governor Sarah Palin – Invited
Actor Jon Voight – Invited
NRO & Fox News – Jonah Goldberg – Invited
Navy Seal Team 8 – Chris Mark Heben – Invited

Today, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel is in Milwaukee raising funds for Mayor Tom Barrett. He is, without a doubt, showcasing how his failed leadership coupled with the dangerous policies of Governor Quinn can reverse the positive benefits to society that the Walker Administration has worked so hard to give back to the people of Wisconsin.
Chicago style politics are rearing their head on other campaigns as well. Two-time statewide loser Kathleen Falk is also holding a fundraiser this Friday called “Chicago Stands with Falk.”
Those looking to oust Governor Walker from office seem to look no further than to the failed policies from our neighbors to the south for inspiration.
Politicians like Governor Quinn and Mayor Emanuel will stop at nothing to further their liberal agenda and spread it like cancer throughout our country. Sadly, Mayor Barrett is cut from the same cloth and his policies, if left unchecked, will wreak havoc on our budding economy.
With the impending recall election, the people of Wisconsin are once again faced with a crucial decision. On one hand, there is the prosperous foundation that has been laid by Governor Walker as evidenced by the growing job numbers and economy that Wisconsin has seen in the last year. On the other hand, the liberal ideology that has ruined Illinois’ economic future is a very real possibility in our future if failed leaders like Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett take the reins of power in Madison.
The reforms of Wisconsin and the lack thereof in Illinois, truly showcase the Tale of Two States when it comes to economic recovery.
Wisconsin
Illinois
Eliminated $3.6 Billion deficit without raising taxes
$8.5 Billion in unpaid bills and raised income taxes by 66%
Cut taxes on businesses that invest in Wisconsin
Increased corporate tax rate by 46%
Budget called “credit positive” by Moody’s
Bond rating downgraded to lowest in nation by Moody’s
Public Employee Retirement System fully funded
$83 Billion shortfall for Public Employee Retirement System
Unemployment rate at 3-year low of 6.9%
Unemployment rate higher than the national average at 9.1%

The choice is clear in Wisconsin. The voters resoundingly stood together in November of 2010 to say enough is enough, and we will stand together again on June 5th and to let those with a far left, liberal, tax-and-spend methodology towards governing know that their time has come and passed. We will continue to stand behind Governor Walker and his bold reforms that have put Wisconsin on the track towards prosperity and are moving us forward.
Sincerely,

Ciara Matthews
Communications Director
Friends of Scott Antoniette D Walker

By Jason Lee

The liberal Supreme Court justices have demonstrated profound and shocking ignorance of the American health care system. Here’s one of the most jarring examples“What percentage of the American people who took their son or daughter to an emergency room and that child was turned away because the parent didn’t have insurance,” asked Sotomayor, “… do you think there’s a large percentage of the American population that would stand for the death of that child — (who) had an allergic reaction and a simple shot would have saved the child?”

I have a precise answer for Justice Sonia Sotomayor.

The percentage of American people who took their son or daughter to an emergency room and were turned away because the parent didn’t have insurance is exactly zero.

No person, whether American or not, is ever turned away from an emergency room for lack of health insurance. Ever.

This simply does not happen.

Here’s why:

1. It’s illegal.

Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA) is a U.S. Act of Congress passed in 1986 as part of the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (COBRA). It requires hospitals to provide care to anyone needing emergency healthcare treatment regardless of citizenship, legal status or ability to pay. There are no reimbursement provisions. Participating hospitals may only transfer or discharge patients needing emergency treatment under their own informed consent, after stabilization, or when their condition requires transfer to a hospital better equipped to administer the treatment.

You can thank Republican President Ronald Reagan for that, for better or for worse.

As a health care provider who interacts with emergency room physicians on a daily basis, I can attest to the fact that seriously ill patients are never discharged from an emergency room in the tragic fashion that Sonia Sotomayor imagines. Even uninsured patients with minor, self-limited problems are treated better than that.

2. Morality and the patient-doctor relationship

Although this might come as a shocking revelation to liberal Democrats, most physicians understand the difference between right and wrong. No physician would turn away a child simply because the parent didn’t have insurance. This is primarily because physicians, even conservative ones, are as compassionate as liberal Supreme Court justices. (And in securing scarce and enormously expensive resources for their patients in an emergency, physicians have virtually unlimited latitude.)

3. The legal risks of selfish, short-sighted decisions are enormous.

A jury would have no mercy on a physician who withheld treatment inappropriately, causing a child to die. The financial and professional consequences would be devastating.

It’s disheartening to note that Justice Sonia Sotomayor, as profoundly ignorant as she is, will be making a monumental decision about a 2,700 page health care law. Justice Sotomayor needs to have a talk with her brother.

Jason Lee, M.D. blogs at RightKlik.net

Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2012/03/justice_sonia_sotomayors_shocking_ignorance.html#ixzz1qjYApxA0