Friday, June 28, 2013

The Immigration Reform will be decisive and strengthen the USA, this nation won't be weaker but stronger and more powerful. - It is very important to have labor for many U. S. corporations and the next prosperity

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Obamacare and Medicaid Expansion will also help the American Economy, the Domestic Social Strength and Political Stability.

It will improve the image of the USA in foreign lands, specially in Latin America.

It will strengthen the U. S. allies in Latin America.

And talking about Latin America, we see a lot of dark clouds that announce a gathering storm.

Vicente Duque

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Thursday, June 27, 2013

Latin America is in a process of big degradation - Communists use their base in dictatorships of Cuba, Venezuela, Nicaragua, Bolivia and Ecuador to create havoc in the more democratic nations - This is helped by the "useful idiots" everywhere

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There are too many dictators in Latin America and too many leftist extremists, helped in Internet by Crazy Europeans that write in Spanish or languages that are easily understood by Latin Americans like English, Portuguese, French and Italian.


The Victim of Choice :

There is a constant attack against the weak government of President Juan Manuel Santos of Colombia, that has made the great mistake of going into a disastrous "Peace Process" with the FARC Narco Terrorists.


Colombia is surrounded by hostile nations ( except Panama and I have many doubts about Brazil ) : Venezuela, Nicaragua, Cuba and Ecuador ( in order of danger ! )

The President is being saddled and mounted by the FARC murderers of Children with land bombs and other terrorist bombs

But he has done two good things : to sign a "Defense and Cooperation Pact" with NATO ( North Atlantic Treaty Organization ) in Brussels and to receive Henrique Capriles, leader of the opposition in Venezuela

And Colombian planes have flown in air formation with the US Air Force in "Red Flag" operation, over Texas and Nevada, May and June 2012

And with the Canadian planes in Cold Lake, Alberta, Canada during May and June of 2013

Who is going to defend Panama and its Canal ??, surrounded by brutal pro-communist or communistoid dictatorships ??.

Vicente Duque

Sunday, June 23, 2013

Very important Law Journalist Lyle Denniston is somewhat concerned about the "Victory" of Minorities in the U. S. Supreme Court decision about "Arizona Voters Registration Law" - There is a poison pill inside ( prepared by Scalia ?? )

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I have great trust and confidence in what Expert Lyle Denniston writes, he seems very concerned for this "Liberal Victory" because it opens the door for some Republican and Conservative Mischief

But it is important to remark that Justice Samuel Alito wrote a dissent and put most of the emphasis on a different way to read the federal voter registration law at issue, and spent considerable effort arguing that the road map the majority had laid out for states that want to impose a proof-of-citizenship requirement would not work in practice.

That offers some hope to a Liberal Heart


Some excerpts :

Justice Scalia’s opinion had the full support of Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr., and Justices Stephen G. Breyer, Elena Kagan, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and Sonia Sotomayor.   Justice Kennedy joined all parts of the opinion except the refusal to apply the “presumption against preemption” to state election laws.

Justices Samuel A. Alito, Jr., and Clarence Thomas each filed a dissenting opinion, speaking only for themselves individually.

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Justice Thomas’s dissent was mainly devoted to arguing that the Constitution gives Congress no role in judging who may register to vote, and that this is a power given exclusively to the states.



This decision, in plain English:

The Constitution divides up the power to determine who will be allowed to vote between state governments and Congress.  The states have the basic power to decide who is eligible to vote but, so far as state laws are aimed at who gets to vote for President or Congress, the Constitution gives Congress a back-up power to change or even to override those state laws.

The Supreme Court on Monday made a significant effort to try to sort out how to divide up this power, in the context of deciding whether a state may require would-be voters to show proof that they are U.S. citizens — both to register and to actually vote.  That proof requirement was challenged by various advocacy groups, because Congress in 1993 had passed a law designed to expand the ranks of voters, and a federal agency acting under that law has specified a form that voters may use to register.

The argument before the Court was that the federal law must control, because Congress had specified that, in filling out a federal form, all would-be voters had to do was to swear they are U.S. citizens, while Arizona went further and required an actual piece of official paper to prove citizenship.   The challengers argued that the two approaches cannot co-exist, so the state proof requirement had to yield.

On the one hand, the Supreme Court agreed that, for now, Arizona’s proof requirement must yield to the federal form’s approach — that is, it is enough to register, using that form, if the would-be voter swears that he satisfies the citizenship requirement.

On the other hand, however, the Court also ruled that Arizona can seek permission from federal officials to impose its proof-of-citizenship requirement.  If it fails with that request, it can go to court and argue that it has a constitutional right to make proof of citizenship a binding requirement for all voters.

It was the kind of mixed decision that can sometimes baffle lay readers and, in this instance, maybe even lawyers and judges, too, because the two parts of the ruling did not seem to be reconciled easily.


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Scotus Blog
Analysis of Arizona v. Inter Tribal Council of Arizona
Opinion recap: One hand giveth
By Lyle Denniston Reporter

Analysis of Arizona v. Inter Tribal Council of Arizona

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Friday, June 21, 2013

Surprise ! : Justices Scalia, Kennedy and Roberts side with the Liberals in the U. S. Supreme Court and strike down Arizona's voter registration law - Conservatives Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito dissented

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Justice Antonin Scalia, writing for the court's majority, found that federal law "precludes Arizona from requiring a federal form applicant to submit information beyond that required by the form itself".

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Arizona was appealing a decision of the Ninth US Circuit Court of Appeals, which said that the National Voter Registration Act of 1993, which doesn't require documentation to prove US citizenship, trumps Arizona's Proposition 200.

Arizona voters approved Proposition 200 in 2004, requiring more specific proof of citizenship. During the next three years, more than 30,000 people were turned away for failing to provide documentation, according to civil rights groups. About 20% of those blocked were Latino.

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British Guardian Newspaper
US supreme court strikes down Arizona's voter registration law
Justice Scalia writes in majority opinion that states cannot require proof of US citizenship before allowing people to vote

By Karen McVeigh in New York
Monday, June 17, 2013




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Monday, June 17, 2013

Venezuela's "Long March" towards COMUNIST Famine : Tropical Mao Tse Tungs are leading this nation towards Food Shortages, Scarcity, Rationing and Starvation - History of China and the Reality of Venezuelan Mismanagement

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Great Chinese Famine 1958-1961, referred to by the Communist Party of China as the Three Years of Natural Disasters or Three Years of Difficult Period

According to Chinese government statistics, there were 15 million excess deaths in this period, 20 to 43 millions according to scholars

Brutal collectivization, abolishing of private property, War against Entrepreneurs and Private Initiative

Encyclopædia Britannica estimates 7 million deaths in Stalin's Famine 1932-1933, 5 million in Ukraine, 1 million in Northern Caucasus, 1 million elsewhere

And I am not counting the Great Russian Famine of year 1921

Maduro is preaching fattening chicken for every household, working your vegetables in your backyard ( if any ! )

This is like Mao Tse Tung, The Great Leap Forward and his little red book of thoughts

Ideology can cause the ruin of nations !

Vicente Duque

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Friday, June 14, 2013

Great Obama Victory : Arizona will expand Medicaid to cover nearly 300,000 poor residents next year -- Gov. Jan Brewer (R) passed it through the state legislature on Thursday. The Governor campaigned aggressively for the Expansion

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Excerpts :


Brewer, a conservative and avowed foe of President Barack Obama's health care reform law, announced her support for the Medicaid expansion in January, but faced stiff resistance from fellow Republicans in Arizona's House and Senate. During a marathon session that began Wednesday afternoon and stretched into the wee hours of Thursday morning before culminating in a final vote late Thursday afternoon, a handful of Republicans joined Democrats in the House and Senate to pass the Medicaid expansion.

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The Arizona governor aggressively promoted the Medicaid expansion since taking her surprising public stand earlier this year. Brewer assembled a coalition of health care interests and business groups and worked alongside Democratic legislators in addition to campaigning across the state in service of extending health coverage to hundreds of thousands of poor Arizonans using Obamacare funding.


Huffington Post
Arizona Medicaid Expansion Advances After Jan Brewer Forces Lawmakers' Hands
By Jeffrey Young

June 13, 2013

Arizona Medicaid Expansion Advances After Jan Brewer Forces Lawmakers' Hands

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Wednesday, June 12, 2013

According to Jonathan Chait of New York Mag : Immigration Reform has good winds to sail : Republican senators that opposed it have decided to stand aside and not oppose the bill in strong terms

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And in the House of Representatives John Boehner is willing to help by not opposing it. For me Jonathan Chait is like an oracle.


Some excerpts :

The Senate has voted on the "motion to proceed" on immigration reform by an 82-15 vote.

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Republican senators today faced a choice to position themselves as fundamentally opposed to the entire process, and most of them decided to stand aside.

Of course, the major obstacle remains the House, but here the news remains positive. This morning, George Stephanopoulos interviewed John Boehner and asked the key question of the entire debate: Will he let a bill come to a vote without a majority support of his own party? Passing a bill through the House with 218 votes is not very hard, if Boehner is willing to let Democrats supply most of those votes. The question is whether he’ll stop that vote from happening. This answer does not sound like “no”:


New York Magazine
Senate Okays Immigration-Reform Debate 82-15
By Jonathan Chait
June 11, 2013


Senate Okays Immigration-Reform Debate 82-15


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Saturday, June 8, 2013

What a pain to watch the VIDEOS of Cuba and see a Communist Oligarchy that kills, tortures and opresses. They put good people in jail without any trial or open democratic process. And the Chavistas want to turn Venezuela into

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And the Chavistas want to turn Venezuela into

a Cuba without singer Celia Cruz and the "Sonora Matancera" tropical band

Venezuela now : Blackouts, Rationing of Foods, Medicines, and Electric Energy, shortages, scarcity. And jail for those that don't kneel before

an Idiotic MAUSOLEOCRACY !

Rationing Cards very soon in Venezuela !



Vicente Duque

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Friday, June 7, 2013

The "flowery" photo album and VIDEOS of Vicepresident Joe Biden that the Furious Chavistas don't want you to see. Because they are anti-NATO, anti-Colombia, anti-USA

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Mr Biden and his wife Jill ( married in 1977 ) and their two beautiful granddaughters Naomi and Maisy, some visits to Flower Farms for Exports in Colombia

http://www.politico.com/gallery/2013/05/biden-in-colombia/001056-014943.html

There are many VIDEOS in YouTube about Mr Biden looking Roses, Carnations and others in Colombia

Chavistas are mad because Colombia is approaching the USA in military matters and wants to share information and technology with NATO, North Atlantic Treaty Organization

Thousands of insults have rained on Colombia from Venezuela's High Officials and from the Client Nations that receive oil and money from Venezuela

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Wednesday, June 5, 2013

The U. S. Department of State defends Colombia against the recent verbal aggressions of Venezuelan Dictators Nicolas Maduro and Diosdado Cabello - Declarations of Roberta Jacobson, assistant secretary of state for western hemisphere affairs

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The USA defends Colombia against the aggressive and violent speeches of Venezuela and its paid poor ( beggar ) client countries in Latin America :

"Our goal is certainly to support Colombia as being a capable and strong member of lots of different international organizations, and that might well include NATO" said Roberta Jacobson

"It is not all that surprising that the Colombians are interested in where else they would be able to interact" Jacobson said

This has a powerful logic, everybody understands ( minus the communist dictators in Latin America ) that full membership in NATO ( North Atlantic Treaty Organization ) is not possible. But there are many ways of friendship, cooperation and common work between Colombia, the USA and its allies of NATO.

These developments take years if not many decades. Politics is the Art of the Possible, but it is also the art of waiting for political developments, in the domestic front and in the international front.

Vicente Duque

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Sunday, June 2, 2013

What was given to Mr Juan Manuel Santos ( Colombian President ) in his coffee ??? - He did two good things lately : to receive Henrique Capriles and asking a place in NATO : North Atlantic Treaty Organization

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The President and Congress of Colombia receive with great enthusiasm and friendship Venezuela's opposition leader Henrique Capriles. And are gravely insulted by the dictators of Venezuela !

Colombia should not ask alms from Chaplinesque Victimita ( Little Victim ) dictators of Venezuela.

ALBA and UNASUR are clubs of beggars.

Better to be in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization NATO :



This will take many years or decades. It is necessary to be realistic, with feet on the ground. But it is the best imaginable move.

So, these communist dictators : Ortega, Fidel, Raul and the Zombis of Venezuela don't steal more seas and islands from Colombia

Colombia is Decency ! -- Arise !

Vicente Duque

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