More immigrants living in the U.S. illegally would be able to obtain a
California driver's license under a bill that is moving through the
state Legislature.
A measure from Democratic Assemblyman Luis Alejo, of Watsonville,
would allow people without a Social Security number to apply for a
license. They must show several alternative forms of identification,
including a birth certificate and proof of residency.
Unauthorized immigrants seeking a license also must pass a driving test like other applicants.
The legislation, which passed the state Assembly on Wednesday,
follows a law approved last year that allowed driver's licenses to be
issued to unauthorized immigrants who are eligible for work permits
under a revised federal policy.
Alejo said his bill, AB60, would increase safety on California roads.
A recent study by the state Department of Motor Vehicles showed that
unlicensed drivers are nearly three times as likely to cause a crash, he
said.
"This is a good public policy to allow immigrant families across
California to be able to take the exam, learn the rules of the road,
learn our safe traffic laws, pass the driving exam," Alejo said.
Roughly 2 million people in California would become eligible for a
driver's license or ID card under the legislation, according to a
committee analysis.
Republican lawmakers opposing the bill said loosening the
requirements on who can possess a driver's license would jeopardize
other uses for the IDs, such as showing a driver's license as ID to
board a plane.
"It is a federal document accepted by federal standards to be
identification for other means besides driving," said Assemblyman Curt
Hagman, R-Chino Hills. "It is your security document."
Before a law approved in 1993, immigration status was not a factor in
seeking a California license, said Assembly Speaker John Perez, D-Los
Angeles. He countered that a driver's license is not the only
identification accepted at airports, pulling out the U.S. passport card
he uses when flying to Sacramento.
"This is not about immigration policy," Perez said. "It is about what
it takes to prove that you are competent to drive under California's
laws that are applicable to our roads."
The Assembly approved AB60 on a vote of 53-20, sending it to the
Senate. If approved and signed by the governor, it would take effect
Jan. 1, 2015.
Four states - New Mexico, Utah, Washington and Illinois - allow those
who are in the U.S. illegally to apply for driver's licenses.
Conservative Blogger
Thursday, May 30, 2013
Many Americans May Lose Current Health Policies Under ObamaCare
Many Americans who buy their own health insurance could have their
policies cancelled because they aren't up to standards of Obama's health
care law.
http://www.foxnews.com/
http://www.foxnews.com/
Wednesday, May 29, 2013
You know the honeymoon is over, when the comedians start.
The liberals are asking us to give Obama time.
We agree...and think 25 to life would be
Appropriate.
--Jay Leno
America needs Obama-care like Nancy
Pelosi needs a Halloween mask.
--Jay Leno
Q: Have you heard about McDonald's'
New Obama Value Meal?A: Order anything you like and the guy behind you
Has to pay for it.
--Conan O'Brien
Q: What does Barack Obama call
Lunch with a convicted felon?A: A fund raiser.
--Jay Leno
Q: What's the difference between
Obama's cabinet and a penitentiary?A: One is filled with tax evaders, blackmailers,
And threats to society. The other is for housing
Prisoners.
--David Letterman
Q: If Nancy Pelosi and Obama were
On a boat in the middle of the ocean and it
Started to sink, who would be saved?A: America !
--Jimmy Fallon
Q: What's the difference between
Obama and his dog, Bo?A: Bo has papers.
--Jimmy Kimmel
Q: What was the most positive result
Of the "Cash for Clunkers" program?A: It took 95% of the Obama bumper
Stickers off the road.
--David Letterman
We agree...and think 25 to life would be
Appropriate.
--Jay Leno
America needs Obama-care like Nancy
Pelosi needs a Halloween mask.
--Jay Leno
Q: Have you heard about McDonald's'
New Obama Value Meal?A: Order anything you like and the guy behind you
Has to pay for it.
--Conan O'Brien
Q: What does Barack Obama call
Lunch with a convicted felon?A: A fund raiser.
--Jay Leno
Q: What's the difference between
Obama's cabinet and a penitentiary?A: One is filled with tax evaders, blackmailers,
And threats to society. The other is for housing
Prisoners.
--David Letterman
Q: If Nancy Pelosi and Obama were
On a boat in the middle of the ocean and it
Started to sink, who would be saved?A: America !
--Jimmy Fallon
Q: What's the difference between
Obama and his dog, Bo?A: Bo has papers.
--Jimmy Kimmel
Q: What was the most positive result
Of the "Cash for Clunkers" program?A: It took 95% of the Obama bumper
Stickers off the road.
--David Letterman
Monday, May 27, 2013
Memorial Day: The story of a fallen American
Every year, tens of thousands of people
visit Pearl Harbor Hawaii. It is hard to visit there without
remembering the events of December 7th, 1941.
Pearl Harbor is home to the former Battleship USS Missouri, now open as a memorial. It is also home to the wreck of USS Arizona and the famous memorial that floats just above the sunken battleship that is a grave to over 1100 Americans.
Most people assume that there is only one sunken battleship in Pearl Harbor. They are wrong. There is a second and it is the grave of an American hero.
What is this second ship? Who is this hero and why is his story so uniquely American?
On the Northwest corner of Ford Island in Pearl Harbor is a memorial that is missed by most tourists. Just beyond the memorial is the rusting hulk of a ship.
That ship is the grave of Peter Tomich and 63 other American sailors.
Peter Tomich was born in 1893 in a city called Prolog. It was then a part of the Austrian-Hungarian empire. It is today part of Bosnia Herzegovina. As a young man of twenty, he immigrated to the United States.
His motivations for immigrating or for that matter, details of his family and early life are lost to history. In 1917, Tomich enlisted in the United States Army and became an American Citizen.
In 1919, after World War I had ended and Tomich’s army enlistment was completed, he enlisted in the Navy. He would spend the rest of his life serving his new country as a sailor.
Tomich rose through the ranks until by 1941, he was a Chief Water Tender. In 1941, he was assigned to USS Utah.
USS Utah was a battleship, first commissioned in 1911. By 1930, the ship was old and obsolete. The United States had to get rid of a number of old battleships to comply with the London Naval Treaty. Instead of being scrapped, Utah was turned into an anti-aircraft training and target ship.
On the morning of December 7th, 1941, Tomich was performing his duties deep in the bowels of the massive ship, which was berthed on the Northwest corner of Ford Island.
Because of large wooden boards that covered much of the deck of USS Utah, which allowed American planes to practice bombing this ship without damaging it or its crew, the Japanese pilots thought Utah was an aircraft carrier.
USS Utah was torpedoed and badly damaged. The ship began to capsize and order was given to abandon ship.
Tomich did not obey that order.
Instead, he stayed at his post deep inside the ship, keeping vital machinery running as long as possible so his shipmates could escape.
At 8:12 AM, less than 15 minutes into the attack, USS Utah capsized and Peter Tomich gave his life for his adopted nation.
For this devotion to duty and his heroism, Peter Tomich was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor.
Today Hawaii will be bathed in sunshine. The tropical breezes will blow, fluttering the flags that fly above the tombstones of the fallen Americans we remember today on this Memorial Day.
Peter Tomich has no tombstone. He rests where he fell on USS Utah.
Peter Tomich was a true American. He came here to become an American and when his nation asked, he made the ultimate sacrifice.
Today we give Peter Tomich and millions of others the thanks of a grateful nation.
Rest in peace, Peter Tomich: American.
Pearl Harbor is home to the former Battleship USS Missouri, now open as a memorial. It is also home to the wreck of USS Arizona and the famous memorial that floats just above the sunken battleship that is a grave to over 1100 Americans.
Most people assume that there is only one sunken battleship in Pearl Harbor. They are wrong. There is a second and it is the grave of an American hero.
What is this second ship? Who is this hero and why is his story so uniquely American?
On the Northwest corner of Ford Island in Pearl Harbor is a memorial that is missed by most tourists. Just beyond the memorial is the rusting hulk of a ship.
That ship is the grave of Peter Tomich and 63 other American sailors.
Peter Tomich was born in 1893 in a city called Prolog. It was then a part of the Austrian-Hungarian empire. It is today part of Bosnia Herzegovina. As a young man of twenty, he immigrated to the United States.
His motivations for immigrating or for that matter, details of his family and early life are lost to history. In 1917, Tomich enlisted in the United States Army and became an American Citizen.
In 1919, after World War I had ended and Tomich’s army enlistment was completed, he enlisted in the Navy. He would spend the rest of his life serving his new country as a sailor.
Tomich rose through the ranks until by 1941, he was a Chief Water Tender. In 1941, he was assigned to USS Utah.
USS Utah was a battleship, first commissioned in 1911. By 1930, the ship was old and obsolete. The United States had to get rid of a number of old battleships to comply with the London Naval Treaty. Instead of being scrapped, Utah was turned into an anti-aircraft training and target ship.
On the morning of December 7th, 1941, Tomich was performing his duties deep in the bowels of the massive ship, which was berthed on the Northwest corner of Ford Island.
Because of large wooden boards that covered much of the deck of USS Utah, which allowed American planes to practice bombing this ship without damaging it or its crew, the Japanese pilots thought Utah was an aircraft carrier.
USS Utah was torpedoed and badly damaged. The ship began to capsize and order was given to abandon ship.
Tomich did not obey that order.
Instead, he stayed at his post deep inside the ship, keeping vital machinery running as long as possible so his shipmates could escape.
At 8:12 AM, less than 15 minutes into the attack, USS Utah capsized and Peter Tomich gave his life for his adopted nation.
For this devotion to duty and his heroism, Peter Tomich was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor.
Today Hawaii will be bathed in sunshine. The tropical breezes will blow, fluttering the flags that fly above the tombstones of the fallen Americans we remember today on this Memorial Day.
Peter Tomich has no tombstone. He rests where he fell on USS Utah.
Peter Tomich was a true American. He came here to become an American and when his nation asked, he made the ultimate sacrifice.
Today we give Peter Tomich and millions of others the thanks of a grateful nation.
Rest in peace, Peter Tomich: American.
From the Medal of Honor Citation for Peter Tomich
"For distinguished
conduct in the line of his profession, and extraordinary courage and
disregard of his own safety, during the attack on the Fleet in Pearl
Harbor by the Japanese forces on 7 December 1941. Although realizing
that the ship was capsizing, as a result of enemy bombing and
torpedoing, Tomich remained at his post in the engineering plant of the
U.S.S. Utah, until he saw that all boilers were secured and all fireroom
personnel had left their stations, and by so doing lost his own life."
Sunday, May 26, 2013
Free Money from the US Government, come and get it!!
How much money does the United States currently contribute to the
United Nations and its various agencies? Surprisingly, no one knows for
sure.
The State Department does report on its spending at the United Nations, but it is only one of several federal agencies that give money to the world body each year.
In its fiscal 2014 State and Foreign Operations budget proposal released in April, the Obama administration asked for $1.57 billion for contributions to international organizations, including $617.6 million for the U.N. operating budget — up from $568.8 million in fiscal 2012.
But other agencies giving to the U.N. include the Departments of Labor, Energy, Agriculture, Defense, and Health and Human Services, CNS News reported.
Fiscal 2007 legislation stipulated that the Office of Budget and Management (OMB) report all federal agencies' contributions, but the requirement expired in 2011.
Now Republican Sens. Mike Enzi of Wyoming and Mike Lee of Utah, and others, are submitting legislation that would reinstate the requirement.
"It's disturbing that no one, including our ambassador to the United Nations, knows exactly how much money we send the U.N. every year," Enzi said in a statement.
"With a national debt exceeding $17 trillion, we need to be able to account for every dime we spend, including what we send to the U.N."
The last OMB report to Congress on U.N. contributions was issued in June 2011 and covered fiscal 2010. It showed that State was just one of 17 government agencies giving money to U.N. organizations, funds, affiliates and other bodies, and the total expenditure that year was $7.69 billion — more than 10 times the amount requested for State in fiscal 2014.
In addition to the billions being contributed to various bodies within the U.N. system, the United States provides 22 percent of the U.N.'s operating budget, more than twice as much as the No. 2 contributor, Japan (10.8 percent).
Other legislation likely to be introduced in Congress would change the way the United Nations is funded, allowing the United States to fund only those activities and agencies that are "efficient and in the national interest," according to CNS News.
As the Insider Report disclosed earlier, the United States did cut off funding for the U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) after it voted in October 2011 to approve the Palestinian Authority's full membership in the agency. But that move was required by U.S. laws.
The State Department does report on its spending at the United Nations, but it is only one of several federal agencies that give money to the world body each year.
In its fiscal 2014 State and Foreign Operations budget proposal released in April, the Obama administration asked for $1.57 billion for contributions to international organizations, including $617.6 million for the U.N. operating budget — up from $568.8 million in fiscal 2012.
But other agencies giving to the U.N. include the Departments of Labor, Energy, Agriculture, Defense, and Health and Human Services, CNS News reported.
Fiscal 2007 legislation stipulated that the Office of Budget and Management (OMB) report all federal agencies' contributions, but the requirement expired in 2011.
Now Republican Sens. Mike Enzi of Wyoming and Mike Lee of Utah, and others, are submitting legislation that would reinstate the requirement.
"It's disturbing that no one, including our ambassador to the United Nations, knows exactly how much money we send the U.N. every year," Enzi said in a statement.
"With a national debt exceeding $17 trillion, we need to be able to account for every dime we spend, including what we send to the U.N."
The last OMB report to Congress on U.N. contributions was issued in June 2011 and covered fiscal 2010. It showed that State was just one of 17 government agencies giving money to U.N. organizations, funds, affiliates and other bodies, and the total expenditure that year was $7.69 billion — more than 10 times the amount requested for State in fiscal 2014.
In addition to the billions being contributed to various bodies within the U.N. system, the United States provides 22 percent of the U.N.'s operating budget, more than twice as much as the No. 2 contributor, Japan (10.8 percent).
Other legislation likely to be introduced in Congress would change the way the United Nations is funded, allowing the United States to fund only those activities and agencies that are "efficient and in the national interest," according to CNS News.
As the Insider Report disclosed earlier, the United States did cut off funding for the U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) after it voted in October 2011 to approve the Palestinian Authority's full membership in the agency. But that move was required by U.S. laws.
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