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The U.S. Senate background bill failed to secure the needed 60 votes to prevent a filibuster yesterday, defeating the entire Obama gun-grab-control agenda. Obama appeared after the vote in the White House Rose Garden with Gabrielle Giffords and some of the parents of the Newtown shooting victims to scold the senators. Even Harry Reid changed his vote to a NO on the proposal submitted by Pat Toomey (R-PA) and Joe Manchin (D-WV) which would have tightened restrictions on private gun sales. The vote is seen as a victory for the Second Amendment, as well as for advocates of the National Rifle Association. Even Obama has been forced to admit that the current legislation would probably do nothing to stop another mass shooting as that which took place last December at the Sandy Hook Elementary School.

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The White House likes to use policemen as props for Barack Obama speeches, but a new poll shows that police oppose the U.S. Senate gun control plan. Some 15,000 policemen were polled by PoliceOne.com and the results are not good for Harry Reid and the Democrats pushing to rewrite the Second Amendment in the vain hope of curbing gun violence. Of those polled, 95% said that outlawing high-capacity magazine clips would not help. Also, 71% said that banning military-style, semi-automatic ′assault rifles′ would have no effect. Indeed, 20% said that doing so would have a negative effect on public safety! Meanwhile, Senate RINOs, like Pat Looney-Toomey and Lindsey Graham-cracker appear ready to sell-out the American people and the Constitution, once again. When will the voters wise up?

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The Democrat-controlled U.S. Senate passes a budget for Fiscal Year 2014 early Saturday morning. Led by Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA), the proposed spending bill puts the federal budget at $3.7 Trillion dollars and includes some $1 Trillion dollars in new taxes. Yet, the budget, the first the Senate has passed in 4 years, will at best reduce budget deficits by only some $1.85 Trillion over the next ten years. Given that the vote was along party lines, with four Democrats joining all Republicans voting against it, making it a 50-49 vote, there is little chance that it will succeed getting through the House. There, the Republican-controlled House has also passed, along party lines, the latest Paul Ryan budget which proposes reducing budget deficits by some $4 Trillion over the next ten years. But are either bills what America really needs?

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Here is Senator Rand Paul on the floor of the U.S. Senate conducing his one-man filibuster against Obama appointee John Brennan over the drone issue. Brennan, like his Democrat supporters, defend the killing of American citizens with drones. But what is Rand Paul really up to?

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It’s Friday which means it is time again for the weekly photo contest. Come up with a funny description of this photo and you just might be the lucky winner to be announced on Monday!

Update: Winners are below the fold!

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On Wednesday we got to witness one of the unique gems of our political system, a filibuster in the U.S. Senate! Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) spoke for nearly 13 straight hours, delaying the confirmation vote to appoint John Brennan as the new head of the CIA. The issue which turned the hash-tag #standwithrand into all the rage on Twitter was the policies of Barack Obama on the use of domestic drones. Specifically, can drone strikes be carried out within the borders of the United States against potential terrorists? The White House and other administration heads, like Eric Holder, have been ambiguous as to whether such actions are unconstitutional? The junior Kentucky Republican senator had a few allies helping him out during his filibuster, including Mike Lee (R-UT), Ted Cruz (R-TX) and even one Democrat, Ron Wyden (D-OR). But none of the ′Old Guard′, like Lindsay Graham of South Carolina, participated, opting instead to attend a dinner with Obama.

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Every year, the National Journal rates the US Senate and the House members on ideology, and then tells us who are the most liberal and conservative in each body. Here, we’ll look at who were the most liberal senators last year and compare it to the most liberal senators in 2011.

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I for my sins am covering the President’s State of The Union speech tonight. I’ll say that, in the past, I have not been an avid watcher of President Bush’s SOTU speeches either. But, I must admit to some curiosity. Will the president mock or deride members of the Supreme Court or perhaps political opponents tonight?

How many times will he blame our economic troubles on Republicans in general and President Bush in particular? How will he use the bully pulpit tonight to put pressure on Republicans to give him what he wants over spending and raising the debt limit?

And, most importantly, how will Chris Matthews segue from the Dorner coverage to the SOTU speech? He’s got his work cut out for him! Good luck Mr. Matthews!

Immigration reform takes the center stage this week, beginning today with an outline for a bipartisan plan from the U.S. Senate. Tomorrow, Barack Obama flies to Las Vegas to deliver a speech of his own plan for making illegal immigrants legal. The Senate plan would enable a large number of the some 11-plus million illegal immigrants to become permanent residents. There will be hoops to jump through and most will have a long wait behind those who have legally applied for citizenship. But the Senate plan may be overshadowed by a dark cloud of a sex scandal as one of its authors, Senator Robert Menendez (D-NJ), is under investigation by the FBI for allegations of hiring underage prostitutes during trips to the Dominican Republic.

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