Keith Ellison: [Hannity], The GOP Is Your Pimp!

Congressman Keith Ellison (D-Minnesota) gets into a heated debate with Sean Hannity.

That's not what the congressman said. However, this is what that annoying conservative agitator does on his nightly program and radio show. This conservative agitator practically tricking for the Republican Party.

The Minnesota congressman who was elected in 2006 as the first American Sunni Muslim and state's first African American took great offense to Fox News and the conservative agitator Sean Hannity.

Hannity listed the Democratic congressman as one of his headliners to his program.

They were going to debate the looming sequester deadline. The sequester is likely to happen putting many Americans at risk of losing their jobs. The Democrats offer a plan that includes cuts to spending but tax increases. Republicans offer a plan that includes cuts to spending but no tax increases. They're gridlocked at taxes on the wealthy.

Republicans are unpopular in this debate. It doesn't stop them from holding firm on their "principles".

Hannity goes into his selective editing of President Barack Obama's speech to a naval contractor in Newport News, Virginia and makes a word salad of insults and hyperbolic rhetoric. Hannity rants about how this sequester is not a big deal and the president is lying to the American people about this. And even claiming that it was his idea in the first place.

After playing his selective clip, the conservative agitator starts talking to Congressman Keith Ellison (D-Minnesota) about how the president is "fearmongering" the public.

Congressman Ellison went right into Hannity.

“You're the worst excuse for a journalist I've ever seen,” said Ellison.

That right there got Sean Hannity livid. And for the rest of the interview they get into a screaming match over who's at fault and what didn't get done and the like.

Sean Hannity upset with Congressman Keith Ellison after he called the conservative agitator a Republican shill.

Hannity kept lobbing these accusations that it was the president's massive debt and spending the causes of a stalled economy.

Ellison countered that the sequester was a part of the compromise by Congress to get them motivated to pass legislation that promised equal sacrifices. The congressman told Hannity that the combination of legislators in the "supercommittee" failed to reach a deal. The Republicans stubborn views on taxes have pretty much stalled Washington and progress. And now the American people have to pay because of this.

Hannity didn't buy this. He also went on to say how it's immoral to have such a massive debt.

Ellison shot back and told the conservative agitator that he's immoral and liar. Ellison declared that Sean Hannity (and likely Fox News) are shilling for the Republican Party.

Now that's how the interview went. It's certainly going to have some play on the networks. But also fuels Hannity's argument that MSNBC (or what he calls NBC News) is the pro-Obama network.

MSNBC hired former Barack Obama press secretary Robert Gibbs and campaign adviser David Axelrod to its roster.

Fox News hired former George W. Bush press secretary Dana Perino, former chief of staff Karl Rove, and former UN secretary John Bolton. Fox News commentator Tony Snow served as a press secretary for George W. Bush. Snow died in 2008.

Ellison was notably upset about the guests featured on Hannity's program some time ago. Hannity allows anti-Islamic extremists Pam Geller, Frank Gaffney, Bridget Gabrielle, David Horowitz, Jesse Lee Peterson and Alveda King to openly bash Muslims.

Ellison and Congressman Andre Carson (D-Indiana) are African Americans who are Sunni Muslims. They won reelection easily in their respectable districts.

Not many Democratic lawmakers appear on this program. Not many Democratic lawmakers appear on Fox News in general. The only occasion you at least see a Democratic lawmaker is Fox News Sunday.

Democrats figured that Fox News advocates the talking points of the Republican Party. They don't want to waste their time trying to get a message across to an audience that is already hell bent on seeing their defeat in general elections.

Sean Hannity in particular is one of the reasons why Barack Obama won reelection.

Is Ted Cruz The New Joe McCarthy?

Texas junior senator Republican Ted Cruz is in the news yet again for the wrong reasons.

He's fighting the 20th Century in the present day.

To be clear, this is why the Republicans are doomed for failure. The moderate senator Kay Bailey Hutchinson retired and the extreme candidate Ted Cruz sailed easily to victory.

Already, Senator Cruz is seeing red.

He's leading the way in filibustering Defense nominee Chuck Hagel. He's already hit the president over his Obamacare and proposals to gun control. Republicans smile with an eagerness to recapture the Senate.

In Texas, Republicans have a strong majority of the state legislature. They're likely the ones who run around screaming the Republic of Texas talk. Many Republicans want to separate from the United States for the very fact that President Barack Obama won reelection.

The New Yorker reports that Cruz and his prosecutorial style of questioning Chuck Hagel, President Obama’s nominee for Defense Secretary, came so close to innuendo that it raised eyebrows in Congress, even among his Republican colleagues.

Senator Lindsey Graham, Republican of South Carolina, called Cruz’s inquiry into Hagel’s past associations “out of bounds, quite frankly.” The Times reported that Senator John McCain, Republican of Arizona, rebuked Cruz for insinuating, without evidence, that Hagel may have collected speaking fees from North Korea. Some Democrats went so far as to liken Cruz, who is a newcomer to the Senate, to a darkly divisive predecessor, Senator Joseph R. McCarthy, whose anti-Communist crusades devolved into infamous witch hunts. Senator Barbara Boxer, a California Democrat, stopped short of invoking McCarthy’s name, but there was no mistaking her allusion when she talked about being reminded of “a different time and place, when you said, ‘I have here in my pocket a speech you made on such-and-such a date,’ and of course there was nothing in the pocket.”

Boxer’s analogy may have been more apt than she realized. Two and a half years ago, Cruz gave a stem-winder of a speech at a Fourth of July weekend political rally in Austin, Texas, in which he accused the Harvard Law School of harboring a dozen Communists on its faculty when he studied there. Cruz attended Harvard Law School from 1992 until 1995. His spokeswoman didn’t respond to a request to discuss the speech.

Cruz made the accusation while speaking to a rapt ballroom audience during a luncheon at a conference called “Defending the American Dream,” sponsored by Americans for Prosperity, a non-profit political organization founded and funded in part by the billionaire industrialist brothers Charles and David Koch. Cruz greeted the audience jovially, but soon launched an impassioned attack on President Obama, whom he described as “the most radical” President “ever to occupy the Oval Office.” (I was covering the conference and kept the notes.)

He then went on to assert that Obama, who attended Harvard Law School four years ahead of him, “would have made a perfect president of Harvard Law School.” The reason, said Cruz, was that, “There were fewer declared Republicans in the faculty when we were there than Communists! There was one Republican. But there were twelve who would say they were Marxists who believed in the Communists overthrowing the United States government.”

“We are puzzled by the Senator’s assertions, as we are unaware of any basis for them,” Robb London, a spokesman for Harvard Law School, told me. London noted that Cruz had contributed “warm reminiscences“ of the school by video for a reunion of Latino alumni. “We applaud the fact that he has pursued public service, as so many of our graduates have done. We are also proud of our longstanding tradition of freedom of speech and the robust range of views and debates on our campus.”

Harvard Law School Professor Charles Fried, a Republican who served as Ronald Reagan’s Solicitor General from 1985 to 1989, and who subsequently taught Cruz at the law school, suggests that his former student has his facts wrong. “I can right offhand count four “out” Republicans (including myself) and I don’t know how many closeted Republicans when Ted, who was my student and the editor on the Harvard Law Review who helped me with my Supreme Court foreword, was a student here.”

Fried went on to say that unlike Cruz, or McCarthy, who infamously kept tallies of alleged subversives, he had never tried to count Communists. “I have not taken a poll, but I would be surprised if there were any members of the faculty who ‘believed in the Communists overthrowing the U.S. government,’” he said. Under the Smith Act, it is a crime to actively engage in any organization pursuing the overthrow of the U.S. government.

Fried acknowledged that “there were a certain number (twelve seems to me too high) who were quite radical, but I doubt if any had allegiance or sympathy with anything called ‘the Communists,’ who at that time (unlike the thirties and forties) were in quite bad odor among radical intellectuals.” He pointed out that by the nineteen-nineties, Communist states were widely regarded as tyrannical. From Fried’s perspective, the radicals on the faculty were “a pain in the neck.” But he says that Cruz’s assertion that they were Communists “misunderstands what they were about.”

It may be that Cruz was referring to a group of left-leaning law professors who supported what they called Critical Legal Studies, a method of critiquing the political impact of the American legal system. Professor

Duncan Kennedy, for instance, a leader of the faction, who declined to comment on Cruz’s accusation, counts himself as influenced by the writings of Karl Marx. But he regards himself as a social democrat, not a Communist, and has never advocated the overthrow of the U.S. government by Communists. Rather, he advocated widening admissions at the law school to under-served populations, hiring more minorities and women on the faculty, and paying all law professors equally.

Sounding like a disappointed professor, Fried said that Cruz’s willingness to label the faculty Communist “lacks nuance.” He said he remembered Cruz well, as “very bright, very hard-working and very conservative, in a well-mannered, agreeable way.” So he said, “This surprises me. It suggests he’s changed.”

So too, perhaps, has the U.S. Senate.

Marco Rubio's Water Grab Goes Viral!

The sip heard across the nation. Senator Marco Rubio (R-Florida) grabs the bottle water and the late night comics attention.

The President of The United States is required by the U.S. Constitution to deliver a State of The Union. The opposition can deliver a rebuttal to the president's agenda. Tonight, Barack Obama delivered his address to the nation. The Republicans made it known that they weren't interested in it nor they care about his proposals.

Senator Marco Rubio (R-Florida) is often floated as a potential candidate for the 2016 U.S. presidential election. He was given the honor to deliver the Republican Response to the State of The Union.

Let's say this was a night for water bottles and sips.

Senator Rubio gets tongue tied and rushes for the water and takes a five second sip!

The Republican's response to the nation was a flat line and hopefully a sign of what the nation will face if we nominate or elected him or Senator Rand Paul (R-Kentucky) for president.

Hopefully this gets some airtime because it's was pretty embarrassing for him.

One thing I do agree with Rubio is the fact that Congress does need to work together.

Despite our differences, I know that both Republicans and Democrats love America. I pray we can come together to solve our problems, because the choices before us could not be more important.

If we can get our economy healthy again, our children will be the most prosperous Americans ever.

And if we do not, we will forever be known as the generation responsible for America’s decline.

The Republican Response.

Wrong Way Shoot 'Em Up!

Georgia man was shot and killed by the owner. Rodgrio Diaz turning into the shooter's driveway. The owner rushed up towards him and shot him. The shooter was released on bond. Tensions could ensue!

Shooting in the defense of property or a mistaken identity?

This is what suspected shooter 69-year old Phillip Sailors did to 22-year old Rodrigo Abad Diaz who pulled up into his driveway. The man was apparently on a failed GPS system made a turn into the driveway of Sailors and the man killed him after a brief confrontation.

What amazes me is that the Sailors didn't wait a second to shoot Rodrgio! Even though Rodrgio apologized and pulled away from the property.

The man thought he was being burglarized. Instead of calling the police, Sailors rushed for the firearm. NBC Latino reports that the shooting suspect release on bond could trigger racial tensions.

Since Rodrgio was driving around with his girlfriend and two friends when he pulled into a driveway, thinking they had arrived at another friend’s house, it was considered a mistaken identity! But instead he pulled into the driveway of Phillip Sailors, who thought his home was being robbed, his lawyer says.

Sailors then shot Diaz, according to the police report, citing what Sailors told officers at the scene. Diaz later died while in the intensive care unit.

“Basically, what happened is they were looking for one of my brother’s girlfriend’s friends,” says his brother David E. Diaz-Valencia, 23. “The guy came outside and my brother’s girlfriend said he was screaming, ‘Get off my property!’ and he shot into the air. My brother was backing out fast because he was scared and he rolled down the window to say he was sorry and he was not doing anything wrong. Then the guy shot him in his head.”

Phillip Sailors was arrested in a tragic shooting.

When officers arrived, Angie Rebolledo, Diaz’s girlfriend, had blood on her jeans, both arms and both hands as she was attempting to get a response from him and screamed frantically that her boyfriend had been shot, according to police.

Police arrested Sailors, of Lilburn, Georgia, who was booked into the Gwinnett County jail Sunday afternoon and charged with murder, according to the police report.

“At this point we have established probable cause to charge Mr. Sailors and when the investigation is complete, we will turn over the case file to the Gwinnett County District Attorneys Officer for processing,” Lilburn police Chief Bruce Hedley told NBC Latino. “To preserve the integrity of the case, I will not be releasing further information concerning this incident.”

Sailors’ lawyer says his client is a Vietnam veteran with no prior criminal history and thought he and his wife were about to be victims of a home invasion. “You have to understand this is a 69-year-old man who is a military veteran who has been honorably discharged,” Michael Puglise says. “He dedicated his life to community service, specifically the Christian Lay Ministry in Latin America.”

The bond decision was signed off on by Gwinnett County District Attorney Danny Porter, who defended the bond and said he did not put any consideration into whether Sailors’ release could inflame tensions after Diaz’s death.

“The purpose of a bond is to prevent a defendant from committing another offense or to prevent him from fleeing,” he says. “This is a 69-year-old man with no prior criminal record and I don’t think he’s a flight risk.

We confiscated his firearms, he’s supposed to turn in any firearms, and I don’t think there’s a likelihood that he’s going to commit another crime so I don’t want to commit jail space housing him.”

Diaz-Valencia says the funeral mass will be at 8 p.m on Thursday.

“We appreciate all of the support,” he said, adding that he and his family were on their way to pick up his brother’s ashes.

Diaz’s family thanked the public for its support on the website for their company J & D Cargo Express, where it posted the funeral memorial prayer card for Thursday’s mass.

“We give thanks to God for every single day, minute and second that we spent together,” the prayer card reads in part. “Today we give him to God with the profound hope of being reunited one day in a better world, free of pain.”

“This has been so hard on the community,” brother Diaz-Valencia says. “But we appreciate all of the support. I know everyone is talking about gun control — I’m not against guns — but people have to know how to use them.”

The family takes some comfort in the fact that while Diaz is gone, he may still save the life of others.

All of his organs were donated before he was cremated.

We here at Journal de la Reyna send our condolences Rodrigo Abad Diaz.

GOP Rage At Obama's Vision!

The era of Ronald Reagan is over! Get over it!

The future is now and Americans are looking forward.

President Barack Obama lays out the second term agenda. This agenda will face a stubborn Congress with many of the newest members affiliated with the extremist Tea Party. The Republicans are rebounding from a disastrous year.

The debt ceiling debate an often contentious issue has the United States hanging on a thread. The borrowing agencies are going to downgrade our nation's credit rating if Congress fails to pass bipartisan budgets.

The Republicans concede that it's possible for the three month extension of the debt ceiling. But they're also getting restless on the U.S. Senate inactive notion to pass a budget. They want domestic austerity cuts to social safety nets. They've harped on the Democratic controlled Senate not passing a budget in years. The Democrats are eager to have Republicans now put revenue (tax increases) on the table. That still has been a sticking point to them. The president has a backlog of nominees for his cabinet and federal courts held in limbo the first term. Republicans have filibustered most of the controversial nominees for the president.

The Republicans will continue to stall nominations in the U.S. Senate with cabinet replacements, federal judges and the potential nomination for a Supreme Court justice if one should retire or die.

The president will waste no time on the immigration reform debate. Seeing that the president carried an overwhelmingly amount of Hispanic/Latino votes, he vowed to make it possible for an immigrant to get a piece of the American Dream.

The president also recognized the needs of the African American voters. The president made note of the chaos in Florida and Ohio where long lines plagued early voters and on day voters. The Republican led legislatures in these states have brought forth rollbacks to early voting and ending same day registrations.

Republican state houses pushed restrictions on early voting, voter identification and removal of same day registration. They believe this was an advantage to helping President Barack Obama. They claim these created "voter fraud" and "voter intimidation". The president vows to keep Americans voting in the Midterm and 2016 presidential elections.

The president also recognized the LGBT community. From the mentions of Stonewall to the acceptance of our friends and family who are gay, the president vows to fight for equal rights for all Americans.

The president has invoked acceptance to gay marriage. Last year, the president went to ABC News with Robin Roberts and stated that he's realized that it's essential to accept a same sex family.

The president also recognized women's rights. Since the passing of the Lily Ledbetter Fair Pay law, many American women are hoping the glass ceiling will be broken once and for all. The president vowed that reproductive rights via Roe v. Wade will sustain. The president vowed that he wants to bring family back into the fold. Understanding that American families are unmarried, the president urges Congress to keep safety nets in for families who suffered under the housing and banking crisis.

The president vowed to end the war in Afghanistan by the start of 2014. The president also vowed to capture those involved in the Algeria hostage situation at the BP oil wells. The threat of al-Qaeda isn't over until the president neutralizes top leadership and demands nations to cancel their sponsorship of this organization.

To many progressives, it's was a masterpiece. To conservatives, it's another speech filled with blame Bush, divisiveness, partisan rancor and the like.

The Republicans vow to fight the president at every step. The president vows to fight back even though he still has optimism that bipartisanship can occur.

The beginning of the second term starts. But we know ever since he won the election, his second term began on November 7, 2012 with Republicans are hating along the way!

The way the Republicans acted during the U.S. Election, is a reason for his second term victory.

Labor Secretary Hilda Solis Out!

That was a surprise. The Secretary of Labor is going to need a replacement, the first Latina woman to serve this cabinet is resigning.

Under her leadership, Secretary Hilda Solis managed to pull unemployment from 10.9% to 7.8% as it currently stands. Her leadership lead to President Barack Obama bringing over 5.3 million jobs.

Conservatives were hammering on her over the unemployment numbers because they believe that she fixed the numbers to make the president look good. But so far, more Americans feel comfortable about the economy. Although it's still a long way to go, but the nation can return the right path to pre-recession rates.

Hilda Lucia Solis (/sɵˈliːs/; born October 20, 1957) is the 25th United States Secretary of Labor, serving in the Obama administration. She is a member of the Democratic Party and served in the United States House of Representatives from 2001 to 2009, representing the 31st and 32nd congressional districts of California that include East Los Angeles and the San Gabriel Valley.

Solis was raised in La Puente, California, by immigrant parents from Nicaragua and Mexico. She gained degrees from the California State Polytechnic University, Pomona (Cal Poly Pomona) and the University of Southern California (USC) and worked for two federal agencies in Washington, D.C. Returning to her native state, she was elected to the Rio Hondo Community College Board of Trustees in 1985, the California State Assembly in 1992, and the California State Senate in 1994. She was the first Hispanic woman to serve in the State Senate, and was reelected there in 1998. Solis sought to pass environmental justice legislation. She was the first female recipient of the John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award in 2000.

President-elect Barack Obama announced his intention to nominate Solis as the next U.S. Secretary of Labor. She took office after being confirmed by the United States Senate in February 2009, becoming the first Hispanic woman to serve in the U.S. Cabinet.

In a message to colleagues Wednesday, Solis said she made the decision after discussing it with family and close friends.

President Barack Obama address nation about monthly jobs report. Secretary of Treasury Tim Geithner and Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis are resigning from the Obama Administration. Chief of Staff Jack Lew will replace Geithner if confirmed.

One of the highest-ranking Hispanics in Obama's administration, Solis has won praise from labor unions for aggressive enforcement of wage and hour laws and job safety regulations. But business groups have criticized her as not taking a more cooperative approach.

President Barack Obama calls Solis "a tireless champion for working families."

Separately, the White House says that Attorney General Eric Holder, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, and Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki will remain in their posts.

The White House confirmed the development in a statement:

Over her long career in public service - as an advocate for environmental justice in California, state legislator, member of Congress and Secretary of Labor - Hilda Solis has been a tireless champion for working families. Over the last four years, Secretary Solis has been a critical member of my economic team as we have worked to recover from the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression and strengthen the economy for the middle class. Her efforts have helped train workers for the jobs of the future, protect workers' health and safety and put millions of Americans back to work. I am grateful to Secretary Solis for her steadfast commitment and service not only to the Administration, but on behalf of the American people. I wish her all the best in her future endeavors.

We here at Journal de la Reyna wish Ms. Solis the very best in her endeavors!

GOP Feuds With Chuck Hagel! | Sour Krauthammer Says Hurricane Relief Is Rape!

President Barack Obama wants Chuck Hagel to be Defense Secretary. Republicans are opposed to the idea. This is a picture of the two when there were senators. Barack Obama was an Illinois senator running for president in 2008. He accompanied then Nebraska senator Chuck Hagel in Jordan.

A twofer!

The 113th Congress is in session. They first certified that Barack Obama won the reelection with 332 electoral votes over perennial loser Mitt Romney 206.

Now that that's out of the way, the president has work to do. First is fill the vacancies in his cabinet and then federal court.

The former Republican Nebraska senator Chuck Hagel is likely to replace Defense Secretary Leon Penetta.

President Barack Obama is going to swing the cabinet around with the departures of Penetta, Department of Transportation Ray LaHood, CIA director David Petareus, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Secretary of the Treasury Tim Geithner.

Republicans already signal a fight with the president over these replacements. Senator John Kerry and Hagel are the mentioned as replacements to fill the Secretary of State and Secretary of Defense.

Republicans already threaten filibuster over Kerry because of the Benghazi scandal. The Republicans want to have Secretary Hillary Clinton to testify to Congress about her role in the failed security of the Libyan consulate that lead to the deaths of four Americans one being a Libyan ambassador J. Christopher Stevens.

Republicans are going to give former senator Chuck Hagel a hard time to be confirmed as well. To make this worst, Republicans deem Hagel a "RINO" because he is endorsed by President Barack Obama. The controversy lingers among the senator's apparent criticism of Israel. Even some Democrats are concerned about this nomination.

The Jewish nation has been a key figure in the conflict over in the Middle East. The nation is conflicting with the Gaza Strip and West Bank. Those factions want to create an independent nation of Palestine, but it's constantly tied up with the United States, Israel and United Kingdom's blocking at the United Nations.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is a highly conservative leader. President Barack Obama and Netanyahu have a tremulousness relationship to say at least. The prime minister ignores warnings from the Untied States and the United Nations constantly. The areas near Jerusalem are where Israelis want to build settlements (or real estate properties) on the Gaza Strip.

This has been a major conflict and this engages in the unrest of the Middle East.

Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) is a firebrand among the conservatives. He promotes himself as a "fiscally responsible" Republican who will be the voice opposition to President Barack Obama.

Chuck Hagel on one hand said he represents the needs of the American people, not Israel! This lit up the right wing media. They already dismissed him for his endorsement of the president over perennial losers Senator John McCain (R-Arizona) and Mitt Romney.

The Daily Telegraph reports that Republicans sharply criticized the selection, promising to question Mr. Hagel on Israel and other controversial views in confirmation hearings by the Senate, which must approve his appointment.

Lindsey Graham, a Republican Senator for South Carolina, on Sunday described the pick as an "in-your-face nomination", telling CNN that Mr. Hagel "would be the most antagonistic secretary of defense towards the state of Israel in our nation's history".

Despite being a fellow Republican who sat in the Senate for the party from 1997 to 2009, Mr. Hagel holds markedly less hawkish views on foreign and military policy than many former colleagues.

The 66-year-old Vietnam veteran endorsed Mr Obama, a Democrat, in 2008, having criticized the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and urging a less gung-ho approach to America's alliance with Israel.

Mr. Hagel also voted against sanctions on Iran and urged Israel to engage in direct talks with Hamas, the militant Islamic group.

Mitch McConnell, a Senator for Kentucky and the party's leader in the upper chamber, predicted that Mr. Hagel would face "a lot of tough questions" from disgruntled Republicans.

 Congressman Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas) is a favorite among the Tea Party Movement. Cotton retired as an U.S. Army Captain ran for congress and won. The freshman congressman is likely going to be on the television. Conservatives will push for him to run for president, since he's a rising star.

"His views with regard to Israel, for example, and Iran and all the other positions that he's taken over the years will be very much a matter of discussion in the confirmation process," he told ABC News.

In addition to ongoing tensions over Iran's nuclear program, Mr. Hagel is also likely to have to confront sharp cuts in spending on the military proposed by Mr. Obama and opposed by many Republicans.

Ted Cruz, a newly elected Republican senator for Texas and a favorite of the right-wing Tea Party movement, said that he too was "concerned" about Mr. Hagel's past statements. He accused Mr. Obama of being "high on re-election".

Mr Obama's Democratic party holds a majority in the Senate and it is highly unusual for a president's opponents to block the appointment of cabinet secretaries, even in times of sharp political division.

However, while in the minority, Republicans could wield the filibuster – an obstructive tactic – to prevent Mr. Hagel's nomination from being brought to a vote.

The pick was defended by Heidi Heitkamp, a Democratic senator for North Dakota, who described Mr. Hagel as "a tremendous patriot and statesman".

"This kind of fight is the kind of fight that the people of this country get so frustrated by," Ms. Heitkamp told ABC News.

Controversy over the likely nomination comes weeks after fierce Republican opposition torpedoed the hopes of Susan Rice, reportedly Mr. Obama's first choice to be Secretary of State.

Ms. Rice, America's UN ambassador, came under attack from Mr. Graham and two other senators for her role in the administration's public mishandling of the September 11 attack in Benghazi, Libya.

After Ms. Rice announced that she was withdrawing her name from consideration, Mr. Obama nominated Democratic Massachusetts Senator John Kerry, the former presidential candidate, to replace Hillary Clinton.
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Charles Krauthammer used a bad analogy for hurricane relief.

Now you tell me Republicans! Why on earth are you that willing to expose your problems to the forefront.

Republicans have not only let their private affairs get into the public, but it allow the Democrats to rebound in popularity. The Republicans and conservatives are so extreme, they can't even trust one another now!

Last week, Congressman Peter King (R-New York) slams House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) for allowing the Hurricane Sandy relief bill die off. Boehner promised that a bill will be passed. On Friday, it was passed overwhelmingly but there were some Republicans who continue to hold the line for their "principles".

Arkansas Republican congressman Tom Cotton is a growing face in the Tea Party and he got his opportunity to flex his pea brain on the national networks. Senator Ted  Cruz (R-Texas) also managed to be the new voice of the Tea Party, with his broad and yet incorrect statements of the president.

It's likely they'll buddy up with the likes Fox News personalities Sean Hannity and Greta Van Susteren soon.

To make matters worse, it's just not Cotton and Cruz! The whole U.S. Congressional delegation from Kansas voted against the relief bill. These people unwilling to help the needy are embraced by the likes of famed writer and conservative alumni Charles Krauthammer. The often vocal Krauthammer went into a rant over how Democrats blaming former President George W. Bush for his handling of Hurricane Katrina.

So instead of figuring out who to the blame, Krauthammer says it's was the best idea for House Speaker Boehner to let the legislation die. He concluded that the relief bill was a "rape of the Treasury".

Tell me, Krauthammer, would you like to say this to the family who lost their home?

I guess he doesn't understand what New Jersey hot fist special is?

Governor Chris Christie (R-New Jersey), a potential 2016 Republican presidential candidate has hammered Republicans for constant delay of relief to his state.

I guess you might want to wheel yourself back a couple of feet. Krauthammer is paralyzed from the neck down after he fell in a diving accident. He is a Canadian-American duel citizen. He was born in Montreal, Quebec, but currently resides in Washington, DC.

Chi-Town 500+

Chicago reached a grim milestone.

Say what?

Yeah, Chicago, Illinois has lost over 500 members of its beautiful city this year. The city has reached its infamous milestone. Over 500 murders or homicides this year alone.

We're experiencing an epidemic of tragedy because of the rapid gun violence in the third largest city in the nation.

Mayor Rahm Emmanuel can't control the ongoing feuds within infamous street gangs.  

The president has to deal with this domestic terrorism in our communities. 

Gang violence is a danger to young Black and Latino males. Once you become a member of a street gang, you live by their rule or die by their rule. You gotta survive to eat! You got to make it in before you get in!

The Chicago Tribune reports that metro police confirmed that homicides were up 17 percent over last year in Chicago and shootings had increased by 11 percent, according to police statistics. Earlier this fall, Chicago already exceeded the number of homicides that occurred last year, but this is the first time the city has had 500 or more murders since the 512 in 2008.

Largely contributing to the spike was the unusual number of homicides that occurred during the early part of the year, when the city experienced unseasonable warmth. In the first three months of the year, homicides ran about 60 percent ahead of the 2011 rate.

Police stated that gang violence reduction strategies the department adopted this year have slowed the increase in violence.

Chicago mayor Rahm Emmanuel and Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy are trying to curb gang violence.

There's been too much violence by firearms. The Democrats are proposing legislation that may curb high power firearms. The National Rifle Association dismisses this as a threat upon the freedoms of law abiding firearm owners. 

In the wake of the Sandy Hook shooting, many are calling for reasonable gun control. Although the House of Representatives will never allow passage of this bill, President Barack Obama and the Democratic control senate will continue to push the message that Republicans are obstructionists to progress. In the wake of a tragedy, Republicans would rather continue to allow dangerous firearms in the hands of individuals who may capable of carrying out mass shootings.

When things happen in Chicago, Illinois, Republicans and their conservative allies are rooting for Blacks and Hispanics to kill each other off! The Republicans attack President Barack Obama for ignoring a crisis in one of America's cities. They'll find reason to say that this reminds them of the president saying that these gang members are like "[Trayvon Martin] being was one of his sons!'

Gun rights for White people and gun control for Blacks, Hispanics and Muslims. They want control over us, but never control over them. You see how Republicans act when it comes to serious issues like taxes, the sequester and debt ceiling. They portray themselves as the condescending idiots most Americans see them as! And it's not pretty. Republicans aren't focused on issues such as gun control. They worship the ground walked on by assholes like Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, Sarah Palin, Grover Norquist, Matt Drudge. They want to get good fitting on Fox News or standings with the National Rifle Association. 

Territory.

Conservatives can't understand that the people of Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland, Baltimore, Philadelphia, St. Louis, New York, Los Angeles and Atlanta are just as American as they are! They rather react to gun violence when it happens in the suburbs not the cities.

That's probably why it's a long way til we get to the promise land. 

A reminder to those reading, violent street gangs are domestic terrorist. They're no different from the White extremist who contributes to a mass shooting or racially-theme rant on the changing demogrpahics of our nation.

Senator Daniel Inouye Passes Away!

Thank you for your service, Senator Inouye. 

The longest serving U.S. Senator from the state of Hawaii has passed away. President Barack Obama was notified of the passing of Senator Daniel Inouye (D-Hawaii) yesterday. He was suffering complications from a lung infection.

A senator since 1963, Inouye was the most senior senator at the time of his death. He was also the second-longest serving U.S. Senator in history after Robert Byrd. Inouye continuously represented Hawaii in the U.S. Congress since it achieved statehood in 1959 until the time of his death, serving as Hawaii's first U.S. Representative and later a senator.

Inouye was the first Japanese American to serve in the U.S. House of Representatives and later the first in the U.S. Senate. Before then, he served in the Hawaii territorial house from 1954 to 1958 and the territorial senate from 1958 to 1959. He never lost an election in 58 years as an elected official. At the time of his death, Inouye was the second-oldest current U.S. senator, after Frank Lautenberg of New Jersey. He was also a World War II Medal of Honor recipient.

Because of his seniority, following then West Virginia senator Robert Byrd's death on June 28, 2010, Inouye became President pro tempore of the Senate; this made him third in the presidential line of succession after the Vice President and the Speaker of the House of Representatives.

A veteran of World War II, Senator Inouye enlisted into the military after the United States dropped its internment program in which it imprisoned Japanese Americans, on fears of espionage.

He was at the Pearl Harbor attack December 7, 1941 as a medical volunteer. In 1943, when the U.S. Army dropped its enlistment ban on Japanese Americans, Inouye curtailed his premedical studies at the University of Hawaii and enlisted in the Army. He volunteered to be part of the all-Nisei 442nd Regimental Combat Team. This army unit was mostly made up of second-generation Japanese Americans from Hawaii and the mainland.

Inouye was promoted to the rank of sergeant within his first year, and he was given the role of platoon leader. During a fire fight in Italy, Inouye was badly injured. He had his arm amputated after a severe injury during a combat fight.

A dedicated public servant to the constituents of Hawaii.

Although Inouye had lost his right arm, he remained in the military until 1947 and was honorably discharged with the rank of captain. At the time of his leaving of the Army, he was a recipient of the Bronze Star Medal and the Purple Heart. Inouye was initially awarded the Distinguished Service Cross for his bravery in this action, with the award later being upgraded to the Medal of Honor by President Bill Clinton (alongside 19 other Nisei servicemen who served in the 442nd Regimental Combat Team and were believed to have been denied proper recognition of their bravery due to their race).

Due to the loss of his arm, Inouye abandoned his plans to become a surgeon, and returned to college to study political science under the G.I. Bill. He graduated from the University of Hawaii at Manoa in 1950 with a Bachelor of Arts in political science. He earned his law degree from The George Washington University Law School in Washington, D.C. in 1953 and was elected into the Phi Delta Phi legal fraternity. In 1953, he was elected to the Hawaii territorial House of Representatives, and was immediately elected majority leader. He served two terms there, and was elected to the Hawaii territorial senate in 1957.

Midway through his first term in the state senate, Hawaii achieved statehood. He won a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives as Hawaii's first full member, and took office on August 21, 1959, the same date Hawaii became a state; he was re-elected in 1960.

In 1962, he was elected to the U.S. Senate, succeeding fellow Democrat Oren E. Long. He was reelected eight times, usually without serious difficulty. His only close race was in 1992, when state senator Rick Reed held him to 57 percent of the vote—the only time he received less than 69 percent of the vote. He delivered the keynote address at the turbulent 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, and gained national attention for his service on the Senate Watergate Committee. He was chairman of the Select Committee on Intelligence from 1975 until 1979, and chairman of the Committee on Indian Affairs from 1987 until 1995 and from 2001 until 2003. Inouye was also involved in the Iran-Contra investigations of the 1980s, chairing a special committee from 1987 until 1989. During the hearings Inouye referred to the operations that had been revealed as a "secret government" saying:

"[There exists] a shadowy Government with its own Air Force, its own Navy, its own fundraising mechanism, and the ability to pursue its own ideas of the national interest, free from all checks and balances, and free from the law itself."

Criticizing the logic of Marine Lt. Colonel Oliver North's justifications for his actions in the affair, Inouye made reference to the Nuremberg trials, provoking a heated interruption from North's attorney Brendan V. Sullivan, Jr., an exchange that was widely repeated in the media at the time. He was also seen as a pro-Taiwan senator, and helped in forming the Taiwan Relations Act.

President Barack Obama with Senator Daniel Inouye (D-Hawaii), Senator Scott Brown (R-Massachusetts), Senator John Kerry (D-Massachusetts), and Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vermont).

In 2009, Inouye assumed leadership of the powerful Senate Committee on Appropriations after longtime chairman Robert Byrd stepped down. Following the latter's death on June 28, 2010, Inouye was elected President pro tempore, the officer third in the presidential line of succession.

In 2010, Inouye announced his decision to run for a ninth term. He easily won the Democratic primary–the real contest in this heavily Democratic state--and then trounced Republican state representative Campbell Cavasso with 74 percent of the vote.

Prior to his death, Inouye announced that he planned to run for a record tenth term in 2016, when he would have been 92 years old. He also said, "I have told my staff and I have told my family that when the time comes, when you question my sanity or question my ability to do things physically or mentally, I don't want you to hesitate, do everything to get me out of here, because I want to make certain the people of Hawaii get the best representation possible."

Only Falling Stars.....

As the names are read to the press, I and Le Reyna again express sadden and sorrow for the loss of such innocent lives by the hands of that deranged shooter Adam Lanza. The 20 year old from Newtown, Connecticut want on a mass shooting spree in which it started at his home where he shared with his mother.

The mother, Nancy Lanza was killed. The man went to the Sandy Hook Elementary School around 9:30 am and began shooting the principal, the school psychologist, a grade school kindergarten teacher, a first grade teacher, a substitute teacher, and another teacher. Then Lanza took his actions on the children.

The names are sourced through Associated Press and Wikipedia. We at Journal De La Reyna send our condolences to the family of the victims.

• Nancy Lanza (née Champion), 52, perpetrator's mother
• Rachel Davino, 29, teacher
• Dawn Lafferty Hochsprung, 47, principal
• Anne Marie Murphy, 52, teacher
• Lauren Rousseau, 30, permanent substitute teacher
• Mary Sherlach, 56, school psychologist
• Victoria "Vicki" Soto, 27, first grade teacher
• Charlotte Bacon, 6
• Daniel Barden, 7
• Olivia Engel, 6
• Josephine Gay, 7
• Dylan Hockley, 6
• Madeline F. Hsu, 6
• Catherine Violet Hubbard, 6
• Chase Kowalski, 7
• Jesse Lewis, 6
• Ana Marquez-Greene, 6
• James Mattioli, 6
• Grace McDonnell, 6
• Emilie Parker, 6
• Jack Pinto, 6
• Noah Pozner, 6
• Caroline Previdi, 6
• Jessica Rekos, 6
• Avielle Richman, 6
• Benjamin Wheeler, 6
• Allison N. Wyatt, 6

Ana Marquez-Greene

Details emerged as the brother Ryan is being questioned. The brother of Adam Lanza was mistaken as the perpetrator of the mass shooting. The media made a huge mistake and the internet lit up his page. It was confirmed by the brother that he had nothing to do with the shooting. The FBI, New Jersey and Connecticut state police are actively questioning him.

As I stated earlier, the Associated Press is going to be the only source I obtain most of my information from.

Some of the pictures may comes from Reuters, Associated Press and UPI.

Wikipedia detailed Lanza was born in Kingston, New Hampshire, where his parents had been married in 1981. Lanza attended St. Rose of Lima for middle school and then Newtown High School, where he was an honors student. He had no criminal record. Lanza lived with his mother at her house in Sandy Hook, located 5 miles (8 km) from the elementary school.

Lanza's connection to the elementary school has been unclear. Although initial reports stated that his mother was a teacher in the school, the school superintendent later disputed that.

Lanza's parents had divorced in 2009. Adam Lanza's father, a vice president and corporate tax accountant for GE Energy Financial Services and an adjunct professor at Northeastern University in Boston who lives in Stamford, Connecticut, originally declined to comment on the shootings.

Lauren Rousseau

Lanza graduated from high school in 2010. It is not clear whether he held a job or was enrolled in a college at any time after graduation. There were suggestions that his mother was unable to work as well. Their family was supported by a $240,000 annual alimony paid by Lanza's father.

It was intially reported that two days before the massacre, Lanza went to a sporting goods store in Danbury, Connecticut, and tried to buy a rifle; he was not sold one because of the state's waiting period for gun sales. This information is still being confirmed according to news sources.

At the time of the shooting, Adam Lanza was carrying the identification of his older brother, leading police sources to initially report the sibling as the perpetrator. Adam Lanza's brother voluntarily submitted to questioning by police, but is not considered a suspect and was not taken into custody.

He said he had not been in touch with his brother since 2010.

Emilie Parker

He told law enforcement that his brother Adam was believed to suffer from a personality disorder and was "somewhat autistic"; classmates said they had been told he had Asperger syndrome. Students and teachers who knew Adam Lanza in high school described him as "intelligent, but nervous and fidgety", saying he normally avoided attention. He was also described by his classmates as a goth. A bus driver who drove the Lanza brothers to and from school recalled them as "really nice boys, well-behaved".

According to former classmates of Adam Lanza's, he was socially uncomfortable; he is not known to have had any close friends in school.

The mainstream media's comments and speculation about autism and Asperger syndrome have been criticized by advocates of the autistic.

Vicki Soto

Police investigated whether Lanza was the person who had been in a reported "altercation" with four staff members at Sandy Hook Elementary School the day before the massacre. It was presumed that he killed two of such four staff members (the principal and the psychologist) and wounded the third (the vice-principal) in the attack; the fourth staff member was not at the school that day. But Lt. J. Paul Vance of the Connecticut State Police noted in a news conference later that he knew of no reports about Lanza being involved in any altercations at the school.

A custodian ran through hallways, alerting classrooms in person.

First grade teacher Kaitlyn Roig, age 29, hid 14 students in a bathroom and barricaded the door, telling them to be completely quiet in order to keep them safe.

Noah Pozner

Authorities recovered two 9mm handguns from the scene: one a Glock, and the other a SIG Sauer as well as a .223-caliber Bushmaster rifle.

All the guns were semi-automatic; they were owned by and legally registered to Lanza's mother, who is reported to have been a gun enthusiast. 

A fourth gun was found in the car he drove to the school.

According to the medical examiner, all victims were shot with the same "long weapon", presumably the Bushmaster rifle, and all were hit multiple times; one of the bodies had 11 gunshot wounds.

Adam Lanza was too young to own or carry either handgun under Connecticut law.

Dawn Lafferty Hochsprung

The Associated Press reports that Lanza stormed into the building and shot 20 children at least twice with a high-powered rifle, executing some at close range and killing adults who tried to stop the carnage, authorities said Saturday. He forced his way into the school by breaking a window, officials said. Asked whether the children suffered, Chief Medical Examiner Dr. H. Wayne Carver paused. "If so," he said, "not for very long."

The terrible details about the last moments of young innocents emerged as authorities released their names and ages - the youngest 6 and 7, the oldest 56. They included Ana Marquez-Greene, a little girl who had just moved to Newtown from Canada; Victoria Soto, a 27-year-old teacher who apparently died while trying to hide her pupils; and principal Dawn Hochsprung, who authorities said lunged at the gunman in an attempt to overtake him and paid with her life.

Mary Sherlach

The tragedy has plunged Newtown into mourning and added the picturesque New England community of handsome Colonial homes, red-brick sidewalks and 27,000 people to the grim map of towns where mass shootings in recent years have periodically reignited the national debate over gun control but led to little change.

Faced with the unimaginable, townspeople sadly took down some of their Christmas decorations and struggled Saturday with how to go on. Signs around town read, "Hug a teacher today," "Please pray for Newtown" and "Love will get us through."

"People in my neighborhood are feeling guilty about it being Christmas. They are taking down decorations," said Jeannie Pasacreta, a psychologist who was advising parents struggling with how to talk to their children.

School board chairwoman Debbie Leidlein spent Friday night meeting with parents who lost children and shivered as she recalled those conversations. "They were asking why. They can't wrap their minds around it. Why? What's going on?" she said. "And we just don't have any answers for them."

Ryan Lanza was mistaken as the shooter.

The tragedy brought forth soul-searching and grief around the globe. President Barack Obama planned to visit Newtown on Sunday. Families as far away as Puerto Rico planned funerals for victims who still had their baby teeth, world leaders extended condolences, and vigils were held around the U.S.

"Next week is going to be horrible," said the town's legislative council chairman, Jeff Capeci, thinking about the string of funerals the town will face. "Horrible, and the week leading into Christmas."

Police shed no light on what triggered Adam Lanza, 20, to carry out the second-deadliest school shooting in U.S. history, though state police Lt. Paul Vance said investigators had found "very good evidence ... that our investigators will be able to use in painting the complete picture, the how and, more importantly, the why." He would not elaborate.

However, another law enforcement official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said investigators have found no note or manifesto from Lanza of the sort they have come to expect after murderous rampages such as the Virginia Tech bloodbath in 2007 that left 33 people dead.

Lanza shot to death his mother, Nancy Lanza, at the home they shared, then drove to the school in her car with at least three of her guns, forced his way in and opened fire, authorities said. Within minutes, he killed 20 children, six adults and himself.

Education officials said they had found no link between Lanza's mother and the school, contrary to news reports that said she was a teacher there. Investigators said they believe Adam Lanza attended Sandy Hook Elementary many years ago, but they had no explanation for why he went there Friday.

Authorities said Adam Lanza had no criminal history, and it was not clear whether he had a job. Lanza was believed to have suffered from a personality disorder, said a law enforcement official who spoke on condition of anonymity.

Another law enforcement official, also speaking on condition of anonymity, said Lanza had been diagnosed with Asperger's, a mild form of autism often characterized by social awkwardness. People with the disorder are often highly intelligent. While they can become frustrated more easily, there is no evidence of a link between Asperger's and violent behavior, experts say.

Adam Lanza's first victim was his mother Nancy.

The law enforcement officials insisted on anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the unfolding investigation.

Richard Novia, the school district's head of security until 2008, who also served as adviser for the school technology club, of which Lanza was a member, said he clearly "had some disabilities."

"If that boy would've burned himself, he would not have known it or felt it physically," Novia said in a phone interview. "It was my job to pay close attention to that."

Amid the confusion and sorrow, stories of heroism emerged, including an account of Hochsprung, 47, and the school psychologist, Mary Sherlach, 56, rushing toward Lanza in an attempt to stop him. Both died.

There was also 27-year-old teacher Victoria Soto, whose name has been invoked as a portrait of selflessness and humanity among unfathomable evil. Investigators told relatives she was killed while shielding her first-graders from danger. She reportedly hid some students in a bathroom or closet, ensuring they were safe, a cousin, Jim Wiltsie, told ABC News.

"She put those children first. That's all she ever talked about," a friend, Andrea Crowell, told The Associated Press. "She wanted to do her best for them, to teach them something new every day."

There was also 6-year-old Emilie Parker, whose grieving father, Robbie, talked to reporters not long after police released the names of the victims but expressed no animosity, offering sympathy for Lanza's family.

"I can't imagine how hard this experience must be for you," he said.

On Saturday, Carver, the medical examiner, said that all the victims at the school were shot with a rifle, at least some of them up close, and that all were apparently shot more than once. All six adults killed at the school were women. Of the 20 children, eight were boys and 12 were girls.

Asked how many bullets were fired, Carver said, "I'm lucky if I can tell you how many I found."

Relatives of the shooter were at a loss for words.

All American flags are at half-staff.

"The whole family is traumatized by this event," said Donald Briggs Jr., police chief of Kingston, N.H., who knows the family. "We reach out to the community of Newtown and express our heartfelt sorrow for this incomprehensible and profound loss of innocence," the family said in a statement.

James Champion, Nancy Lanza's brother and a retired police captain in Kingston, N.H., said through the police chief that he had not seen his nephew in eight years. Champion, who still works as a part-time officer, said he would not discuss what might have triggered the rampage since the case is under investigation.

Acquaintances describe the former honor student as smart but odd and remote.

Mourning day!

Jesse Lewis

Olivia DeVivo, now a student at the University of Connecticut, recalled that Lanza always came to school toting a briefcase and wearing his shirt buttoned all the way up. "He was very different and very shy and didn't make an effort to interact with anybody" in his 10th-grade English class, she said.

Lanza would also go through crises that would require his mother to come to school to deal with. Such episodes might involve "total withdrawal from whatever he was supposed to be doing, be it a class, be it sitting and read a book," said Novia, the tech club adviser.

When people approached Lanza in the hallways, he would press himself against the wall or walk in a different direction, clutching his black case "like an 8-year-old who refuses to give up his teddy bear," said Novia, who now lives in Tennessee.

Even so, Novia said his main concern about Lanza was that he might become a target for teasing or abuse by other students, not that he might become a threat.

"Somewhere along in the last four years there were significant changes that led to what has happened Friday morning," Novia said. "I could never have foreseen him doing that."

Nancy Lanza, who was once a stockbroker for John Hancock in Boston and once lived in Kingston, N.H., was a kind, considerate and loving person, Briggs said.

It's time to hug!

"She was very involved in the community and very well-respected," Briggs said.

Lanza's family was struggling to make sense of what happened and "trying to find whatever answers we can," his father, Peter Lanza, said in a statement late Saturday that also expressed sympathy for the victims' families.

Sandy Hook Elementary will be closed next week - some parents can't even conceive of sending their children back, Leidlein said - and officials are deciding what to do about the town's other schools.

Asked whether the town would recover, Maryann Jacob, a clerk in the school library who took cover in a storage room with 18 fourth-graders during the shooting rampage, said: "We have to. We have a lot of children left."
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Contributing to this report were Associated Press writers Jim Fitzgerald, Bridget Murphy, Pat Eaton-Robb and Michael Melia in Newtown; Adam Geller in Southbury, Conn.; and Stephen Singer in Hartford, Conn.

Conservatives Hate Detroit!

Conservatives and white supremacists treat an American city like its a "third world" country.

Conservatives and White supremacists hate Detroit, Michigan as much as they hate President Barack Obama. If you look at the situation, it's mainly a race issue for why they hate on this American city.

Detroit, Michigan was once the fifth largest city in the United States. With a population of 1.4 million people, the Michigan city was the hub of industry boom and the worker's unions. The city is home of the three largest car companies in the world. Ford, Chrysler, General Motors all have offices there and many blue collar workers were making a living in the city.

Dave Bing, retired NBA star is current mayor of Detroit.

Detroit was dubbed the "Motor City" and the "Rock City" by many because of the manufacturing of cars, trucks and buses. The city also gave the world Motown, Faygo soda, Kid Rock, Sonny Bono, Tim Allen, Stevie Wonder, Ted Nugent, Madonna, Aaliyah, Anita Baker, Big Sean, Royce Da 5'9", The Insane Clown Posse and Eminem. Detroit was once the hometown of perennial loser Mitt Romney.

Now as the year turns, Detroit is struggling in bankruptcy. The major industries shipped out to foreign nations, population decrease, White flight, crime and blight plague the city. The population is 712,000 and ranked among the bottom 20 of major cities.

The core of the city is close approximately towards Canada. The Detroit River separates the city from neighboring Windsor, Ontario. Windsor is the base city/suburb of the greater Detroit area. The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, city of Warren, Detroit Metropolitan Airport in Wayne County, Coleman Young International Airport, Windsor International Airport, the Detroit River, Lake Erie, Lake St. Clair and the city of Port Huron make up the major Detroit area. Interstate 75 (into downtown), Interstate 94 (through midtown) and Interstate 96 (from the eastern and southern quadrant) carry transportation through the city. The Ambassador Bridge and the D-W (Detroit/Windsor) Tunnel see traffic into the United States and Canada frequently.

Detroit has been the scorn of conservatives for sometime now. Every time an issue of Black crime, gun violence, protesters against Republican-led right to work laws, and the automotive industry bailout, most Republicans and their conservative allies in the media turn to Detroit.

Union protesters in Lansing, Michigan. They're protesting Governor Rick Snyder (R-Michigan) signing the controversial right to work law.

The Michigan statehouse passed a controversial right-to-work law in the whim of a lame duck session. The Republican governor Rick Snyder signed it into law yesterday making Michigan the 24th state as a right to work state.

Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin are part of the Rust Belt states where Republicans led governors passed legislation that contribute to union busting. Many union and labor groups are furious with these moves and are demanding swift action to either repeal these laws or send the legislators packing.

Protester hits conservative agitator Steven Crowder. The attack was filmed by Crowder. The person that hit the conservative agitator was tripped by Crowder and the attack was meant to show the country that supporters of the unions are thugs!

Wisconsin was the heart of the Occupy Movement. The Wisconsin governor Scott Walker signed a bill that stripped unions of their collective bargaining rights and is pushing for right to work in the state. The voters put an referendum on Walker to be recalled. But in 2012, he beat back the recall and won reelection to finish his term. That motivation gave Republicans the opportunity to pass their own versions of legislation to curb unions. The state house was briefly divided by a Democratic senate and Republican assembly. The Republicans control the Wisconsin state house. The state went to the president and Congresswoman Tammy Baldwin (D-Wisconsin) will become the senator of the state in 2013.

Ohio did it a few years ago and it was repealed by the voters. That managed to drag Republican governor John Kasich's job approval in the toilet. The governor and the Republican led state house will push forth right to work legislation in the coming year. The controversial SB-5 law that stripped public sectors of their bargaining rights was put on the ballot in 2011. That inspired the voters to help put President Barack Obama back into the White House. Senator Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) beat challenger Ohio treasurer Josh Mandel handily. Mandel supported the SB-5 law at the time.

Indiana's outgoing governor Mitch Daniels decided to give a parting shot at the unions by signing a right to work law. Congressman Mike Pence (R-Indiana) will step down from Congress to become the governor of the state in 2013. Mitt Romney carried the state easily and Congressman Joe Donnelly (D-Indiana) beat Indiana state treasurer Richard Mordock in the U.S. senate election. Donnelly will be seated in 2013. Richard Mordock was a Tea Party-backed candidate who was trounced over controversial statements and lackluster support from Senator Dick Lugar (R-Indiana) who lost his primary to him.

Alabama - Bob Bentley (2011 - Present)
Arizona - Jan Brewer (2009 - Present)
Arkansas - Mike Beebe (2007 - Present)
Florida - Rick Scott (2011 - Present)
Georgia - Nathan Deal (2011 - Present)
Guam - Eddie Calvo (2011 - Present)
Idaho - Butch Otter (2007 - Present)
Indiana - Mitch Daniels (2007 - 2013) | Mike Pence (2013 - Present)
Iowa - Terry Branstad (2011 - Present)
Kansas - Sam Brownback (2011 - Present)
Louisiana - Bobby Jindal (2008 - Present)
Michigan - Rick Snyder (2011 - Present)
Mississippi - Phil Bryant (2012 - Present)
Nebraska - Dave Heineman (2005 - Present)
Nevada - Brian Sandoval (2011 - Present)
North Carolina - Bev Perdue (2009 - 2013) | Pat McCrory (2013 - Present)
North Dakota - Jack Dalrymple (2010 - Present)
Oklahoma - Mary Fallin (2011 - Present)
South Carolina - Nikki Haley (2011 - Present)
South Dakota - Dennis Daugaard (2011 - Present)
Tennessee - Bill Haslam (2011 - Present)
Texas - Rick Perry (2000 - Present)
Utah - Gary Herbert (2009 - Present)
Virginia - Bob McDonnell (2010 - Present) 
Wyoming - Matt Mead (2011 - Present)

Detroit, the city of scorn by White conservatives and racists across the country. They hate the fact the city is a minority-majority city. The African American population in the city is 84%. Conservatives and White supremacists look at the city as the "ZOO".

White supremacists use pictures of Black people rioting or committing crime to attack President Barack Obama.

They first pick the choice word salad topics such as "UNIONS", "ENTITLEMENTS", "REVERSE RACISM", "DEMOCRATS", "CORRUPT", "OBAMA", "NIGGER", "BAILOUT", "CHIMPS", "ZOO", "GORILLAS", "DETOILET" and "GRODDTROIT".

These individuals vomits it on the comment page of most of your choice blogs.

They usually downgrade Detroit on talk radio from the likes of Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Bill Cunningham, Neal Boortz, Michael Savage and the like.

Steven Crowder, a conservative "comedian" from Fox News took it upon himself to trash Detroit in the YouTube video. This video was viewed by over a million viewers. Mostly from extremists.



He later goes to Lansing to interview protesters. The commentator went into a shouting match with union members and then allowed his camera crew film him getting his ass hit after he tripped a protester.

Black conservative agitators such as Jesse Lee Peterson, Herman Cain, Erik Rush, Deneen Borelli and Alveda King speak ilk about Black unemployment being high under President Barack Obama and Democrats. They bemoan about unwed parents, abortion and gun violence. And yet, not one Republican president since Richard Nixon done anything about it too. It's easy for them to blame President Barack Obama than the predecessors of past presidencies because he's Black and the majority of his supporters are African American.

Detroit has been the talk on White supremacist blogs such as those I will not mention by name or website.

One made a website devoted to trashing the whole city and Black community as a whole.

These individuals speak ill of a city they've never been too but sure quick to attack on.

But for all their attacks, comes reality.

Detroit, Memphis, Baltimore, New Orleans, and Birmingham are the largest cities with 70% of the city's population being African American.

Despite conservative outcry over Blacks overwhelmingly voting for the president over perennial loser Mitt Romney, the tide is apparently shifting towards a demographics gap between the Democrats and Republicans.

Republicans are out of style in the minds of most Blacks, Asians and Hispanics. Women are swinging in the direction soon.

Whenever a politician (mainly Black) from Detroit gets into the news, conservatives scream bloody murder and chants of the word salad. Once it hits The Drudge Report, The Blaze, The Daily Caller or Fox Nation, it's assure to worm into White supremacists blogs, talk radio or Fox News.

Rick Snyder, Republican governor of Michigan.

Detroit is a thriving city. Mayor Dave Bing is trying to rebound the city after the former mayor Kwame Kilpatrick aka "the Hip-Hop mayor" screwed the city out of money. The former mayor had gave funds to his friends and one of his mistresses. The FBI arrested him and the federal government charged Kilpatrick with corruption. Those charges corruption were served in a Michigan prison. Hence forth he resigned leaving the city with nearly $30 million in debt.

As Detroit faces the wrath of Governor Rick Snyder and Republicans, Mayor Dave Bing is asking for the federal government to give the city a bailout. The city may be forced into state audits by an arbitrator. The federal government right now is in political gridlock because of Republicans obstruction to the president.

Kwame Kilpartick screwed Detroit during his two terms.

The president is willing to help all the American people. The ones who don't need help blame him for things he can't control. He's only one man with the pen to sign laws. It's the House of Representatives and the Senate to pass laws.

They're the fault of Detroit.

No political party affect Detroit. It's not the Democrats fault for the mess. It's mainly because of the global market shifting to getting manufacturing part cheaper from areas with lackluster labor and company greed.

Detroit didn't fail because of Democratic policies or unions. It failed because of the American legislator in Congress not willing to set aside their political views to help the American people.

Last time I've checked, Detroit is an American city!

And Republicans and their conservative allies better get know something!

Once again the rules that apply to only WHITE MALES.

Entitlements, gun rights, leadership, superiority and the slice of the American pie.

When Blacks, Hispanics, Muslims and women want a piece, WHITE CONSERVATIVE MALES offer their usual selfish, racist, sexist, homophobic, Islamophobic, condescending and pain inducing rants.

I believe in Detroit, I hope you do too!

PS - TO ALL CONSERVATIVES AND RACISTS ACROSS THIS COUNTRY: IT'S GETTING BROWN AND YOU'RE GOING DOWN! 

THE SHIFT IS GROWING AND THE NATION IS DIVERSE! 

WITH THE PRESIDENT WINNING REELECTION, IT'S A SIGN THAT THE WHITE POPULATION IS DECLINING RAPIDLY. IN 25 YEARS, WHITE MALES WILL BE FOR THE FIRST TIME IN THE NATION'S HISTORY A MINORITY! SO GET IT ALL OUT OF YOU!  

SOON YOU'LL FACE THE WRATH OF BLACK, HISPANIC AND MUSLIMS AMERICANS BLOGGING ABOUT YOUR DEMISE! 

WE LOVE ALL AMERICANS HERE AT JOURNAL DE LA REYNA! 

I SPEAK FOR MYSELF WHEN I SAY THIS!

I LOVE ALL AMERICANS, JUST NOT CONSERVATIVES AND RACISTS!