Cruz Renounces Canadian Citizenship

Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, who was born in Canada to a mother who held U.S. citizenship, said he has no problem renouncing his citizenship to the Great White North, even though there appears to be no legal reason for him to do so, reports ABC News.com.

According to most legal scholars and Cruz himself, the Texas senator is 100 percent American and his Canadian citizenship is a mere technicality that would not prevent him from a possible Presidential run in 2016.

Still, Cruz said he’s ready to sever ties with Canada.

“Now the Dallas Morning News says that I may technically have dual citizenship,” Cruz said.

“Assuming that is true, then sure, I will renounce any Canadian citizenship. Nothing against Canada, but I’m an American by birth and as a U.S. senator, I believe I should be only an American.”

Over the weekend, Cruz released a copy of his birth certificate to the Dallas Morning News, which showed he was, in fact, born in Calgary, Canada, on Dec. 22, 1970.

An expert in Canadian law concluded that meant “he’s a Canadian.”

A spokesperson for Cruz initially denied the senator’s Canadian’s origins.

“Sen. Cruz became a U.S. citizen at birth, and he never had to go through a naturalization process after birth to become a U.S. citizen,” said Cruz spokeswoman Catherine Frazier.

“To our knowledge, he never had Canadian citizenship, so there is nothing to renounce.”

Many believe Cruz announced his intention to renounce his so-called Canadian citizenship as a way to appease those who might be uncomfortable with his place of birth.

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New White House 'Butler' Film Criticizes Reagan

A biographer of former President Ronald Reagan said some scenes in "Lee Daniels' The Butler" may amount to what he describes as "Hollywood malpractice" if they turn out to be based on anything other than facts.

Paul Kengor, who wrote two books about the late president: "The Crusader" and "God and Ronald Reagan," took particular issue with a scene in which Nancy Reagan invites White House butler Cecil Gaines and his wife to a dinner party only for the couple to feel out of place, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

"The screenwriter and makers of this film better have some hard evidence for this," Kengor told the publication. "I hope they have at least some quotes somewhere from the butler saying he felt like a prop. If they don’t, then they should be ashamed of themselves. If they don’t, then this is Hollywood malpractice."

Other biographers of the nation’s 40th president have also slammed the film, which opened widely on Friday and is based on the story of Eugene Allen, an African American who worked at the White House for more than three decades, from 1952-1986. He is named Gaines in the film, a role that is played by Forrest Whitaker.

Kengor also told the Reporter that the film appears to depict President Reagan as racially insensitive and indifferent to apartheid.

“Ronald Reagan was appalled by apartheid, but also wanted to ensure that if the apartheid regime collapsed in South Africa that it wasn’t replaced by a Marxist-totalitarian regime allied with Moscow and Cuba that would take the South African people down the same road as Ethiopia, Mozambique, and, yes, Cuba,” Kengor said. “Clearly, blacks in South Africa lost rights under apartheid, but Communism was a far greater infringement . . . In Communist nations, people were literally lined up and slaughtered — and starved — on mass scales. Has everyone forgotten this?”

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Jane Richard

Jane Richard is just seven years old, but she bears the scars of the Boston marathon bombing attack that killed her brother, eight-year-old Martin. She is missing her left leg below the knee. The family has now released a picture of little Jane smiling and standing on her crutches.

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Reggie Love: Obama Played Cards during bin Laden Raid

Aug 14, 2013

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By Todd Starnes
President Obama played cards the night Osama bin Laden was killed because he didn’t want to be in the Situation Room, according to his former body man.
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Reggie Love told a gathering in Los Angeles that the president and three others sat around a table in the private dining room to play spades.
“Most people were down in the Situation Room and (Obama) was like, ‘I’m not going to be down there. I can’t watch this entire thing,’” Love recalled. “We must have played 15 games of spades.”
Love made the revelation in Los Angeles during a private briefing hosted by The Artists and Athletes Alliance. Video of the remarks were posted online but have since been removed.

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Obamacare Limit on Consumer Costs To Be Delayed a Year

The implementation of Obamacare is suffering another setback,  after it was discovered that a rule establishing a maximum limit in the out-of-pocket expenses people may have to spend on their own health care will be delayed until 2015.

The health care law stipulates that individuals will not have to spend more than $6,350 per year on their own, including deductibles and co-payments, while families would not spend more than $12,700.

But a little noticed rule in the legislation grants a one-year grace period to some insurers, allowing them to set higher limits or no limits at all on some costs in 2014, The New York Times reports.

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The clause was established on the premise that insurers and employers may need more time to streamline the way they administer coverage and upgrade their computer systems to centrally keep track of individual out-of-pocket expenditures.

"We knew this was an important issue. We had to balance the interests of consumers with the concerns of health plan sponsors and carriers, which told us that their computer systems were not set up to aggregate all of a person's out-of-pocket costs. They asked for more time to comply," an unnamed senior administration official told the Times.

The delay is bad news particularly for people with chronic illnesses, including cancer and disabilities, many whom have tens of thousands of dollars a year in out-of-pocket expenses for treatment and medications.

The news represents the second significant delay in the roll-out of the president's signature health care plan. In July, the administration announced it will not require employers to provide health insurance for their workers until 2015, prompting a wave a criticism about the viability of the law and the renewal of calls to repeal the program.

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