GOP Won't Use Its Power To Say 'No'

B. Hussein wants Obamacare for everyone else

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(full story "#DontBlink — Defund It" at redstate.com)

Leni Riefenstahl Born, Huey Newton Dead, Welfare Reform Signed

On this day: August 22

Jacob Barsimson, the first known Jewish immigrant to America, arrives in New Amsterdam (1654)

German troops reach Leningrad, leading to the siege of Leningrad (1941)

NFWA and AWOC merge to become the United Farm Workers Organizing Committee (UFWOC), predecessor of the United Farm Workers (1966)

President Bill Clinton signs welfare reform into law, ensuring his re-election; the reform would be reversed under B. Hussein Obama (1996)

b: Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk (1887), Leni Riefenstahl (1902), Deng Xiaoping (1904), Ray Marshall (1928); d: Huey P. Newton (1989), Jomo Kenyatta (1978)

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