Obamacare employer mandate delayed until 2015 to give Democrats breathing room until after 2014 midterm elections, says Treasury source

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A Treasury Department official who declined to be named confirmed to MailOnline on Tuesday that the Obama administration will not begin enforcing employer mandates in the Obamacare law until 2015 - one year later than originally planned - and pinned that change of direction on a combination of politics and economic realities in the marketplace.

Mark Mazur, the Assistant Treasury Secretary for Tax Policy, announced on the agency's blog that the administration 'will provide an additional year before the ... mandatory employer and insurer reporting requirements begin.'

The blog post explained that the delay was intended to leave time to simplify reporting requirements and give companies time to adapt. 

But the Treasury source said the extra year will give the White House an extra year to persuade health insurers to participate in the exchanges that make up the backbone of the Affordable Care Act.

The revised timetable, the source added, will also push back the final implementation of Obamacare's penalties past the 2014 midterm elections, providing Republicans fewer chances to highlight the law's potentially harmful effects on businesses' bottom lines.

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Syrian Christians: 'Why Is America at War with Us'

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Syrian Christians are asking why the United States supports extremists who want to turn Syria into an Islamic state.

That testimony came during a congressional hearing on Syria's religious minorities Tuesday.

Rep. Chris Smith, R-N.J., who chairs the House Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health and Human Rights, called on President Barack Obama to defend the rights of Syrian Christians.

In an opening statement at Tuesday's hearing, Smith said statistics show "that Christians are even more fearful for their lives and safety than other segments of the Syrian population."

Nina Shea, director of the Hudson Institute's Center for Religious Freedom, testified that Islamic insurgents are targeting Christians for "ethno-religious cleansing."

Christian Solidarity International CEO Dr. John Eibner, who also testified at the hearing, said displaced Christians are asking him, "Why is the U.S. at war against us?"

 

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http://www.cbn.com/cbnnews/world/2013/June/Syrian-Christians-Why-Is-America-at-War-with-Us/

Atheistic Russia more moral than Islamic Obama; because, Russia retains humanity, made in God's image, Obama sides with the very anti-thesis of God

More tyranny in America: judge rules First Amendment has no authority

source http://www.examiner.com/article/more-tyranny-america-judge-rules-first-amendment-has-no-authority

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The latest case in point is a California case in which a citizen is being tried in court on charges that state prosecutors say could land him in prison for 13 years. His crime? He engaged in propagating negative messages about the Bank of America.

The Bank of America, it is to be remembered, was one of the large financial institutions that received tax payer funded bailouts in order to stay afloat in 2008-09. According to financial expert and talk radio host Dave Ramsey, Bank of America is one of the most inept and poorly managed banks in the country, along with Morgan Chase, Citigroup, and Goldman Sachs.

As an individual citizen who is endowed with the unalienable right of free speech, California resident Jeff Olson began scrawling anti-megabank messages in water soluble chalk on sidewalks last year in San Diego. For this he was charged with vandalism.

But before the trial got underway Judge Howard Shore granted a motion from the state prosecutor that would forbid Olson's attorney from using the Constitutional right of free speech as a defense of his client.

Olson's attorney, thus, is now prevented from using the First Amendment, free speech, free expression, expressive conduct, public forum, or political speech as a defense of his client against the charges brought against him. Olson now must stand trial on 13 counts of vandalism, which, if convicted, could result in a 13 year prison sentence.

Using race to obscure, conceal, excuse and distract from Obama's failures & crimes.

From Obama's trip to Africa and ports of slave transport, to the hearings on the Trayvon Martin case and the news about Paula Deen's use of the "N" word decades ago, the government and the Liberal media makes a pathetic and futile attempt to obscure, conceal, excuse and distract from Obama's failures & crimes by hinting at racism. It works for Obama's supporters who would take anything to defend their food stamps and free phones. But for those who can think and have their eyes wide open, this drama is ridiculous if it weren't tragic. Barrack Hussein was supposedly a Muslim expert has become a catastrophy in our foreign relations. Egypt jumped from the frying pan of a benign dictator to the fire of rabid, violent and tyrannical Islamic law and is now on the verge of climbing back to the grill of martial law. Syria is going to the same route of an Arab Spring and Obama is still supporting the failed paradigm that has unfolded in Egypt. Then there's Libya, Iraq & Afghanistan which are all worse off than before Obama interfered and squandered trillions of taxpayer dollars. And that is just in the Middle East. The media's solution is to cover and conceal the naked emperor with the dark shroud of racism and slavery as though to say, "He's a descendant of poor, ignorant slaves so, cut him some slack."   And if that is not racist, then it is a double standard.

OBAMA'S EPIC FAILURE IN EGYPT: MILLIONS MARCH IN ANTI-MORSI, ANTI-OBAMA PROTESTS

This was an AMAZING sight today in Cairo. Military helicopters with Egyptian flags flew over Tahrir Square showing their support for the massive anti-Morsi crowd. Middle East expert Walid Phares says these are the true Arab Spring protests we are witnessing. Phares said nearly 20 million protested against Morsi on Sunday compared to 2 million who protested Mubarak in 2011. The Obama administration supports the Muslim Brotherhood Morsi regime.

from http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2013/06/obamas-epic-failure-in-egypt-millions-march-in-anti-morsi-anti-obama-protests.html

Obama's legacy. History will not be kind to the Muslim Brothehrood stooge in the White House. Imagine, Obama send Morsi 140,000 canisters of tear gas. They won't soon forget.

Obama in Egypt via twitpic

Massive anti-Muslim Brothehrood protests in Egypt via twitpic

Another sign in Tahrir where thousands of anti-protesters are says "Obama support dictator Morsi

"Reporter’s Notebook: Millions March in Egypt Protests" ABC News, June 30, 2013

CAIRO, Egypt — A sea of bobbing heads hoisting Egyptian flags high spilled out of Tahrir Square as drivers pulled their cars over on the October 6 Bridge to watch the scene below. A long procession of others walked down Ramses Street in the direction of the presidential palace.

We’ve covered a lot of protests in Egypt since the fall of President Hosni Mubarak, but the last time we’d seen anything on this massive scale was in the days following Jan. 25, 2011, when the revolution started against him.

As night fell today, it quickly became clear the size of the June 30 protests by opponents of President Mohammed Morsi would eclipse those seen during the revolution. Egypt’s CBC cable channel showed a split-screen of high shots of the various protests, each box revealing a staggering number of Egyptians walking and chanting.

GRAPHIC: Syrian rebels beheads bishop François Murad

From the Fides News Agency (news agency of the Vatican)

On Sunday, June 23 the Syrian priest François Murad was killed in Gassanieh, in northern Syria, in the convent of the Custody of the Holy Land where he had taken refuge. This is confirmed by a statement of the Custos of the Holy Land sent to Fides Agency. The circumstances of the death are not fully understood. According to local sources, the monastery where Fr. Murad was staying was attacked by militants linked to the jihadi group Jabhat al-Nusra.
Father François, 49, had taken the first steps in the religious life with the Franciscan Friars of the Custody of the Holy Land, and with them he continued to share close bonds of spiritual friendship. After being ordained a priest he had started the construction of a coenobitic monastery dedicated to St. Simon Stylites in the village of Gassanieh.After the start of the Civil War, the monastery of St. Simon had been bombed and Fr. Murad had moved to the convent of the Custody for safety reasons and to give support to the remaining few, along with another religious and nuns of the Rosary.
"Let us pray," writes the Custos of the Holy Land Pierbattista Pizzaballa OFM " so that this absurd and shameful war ends soon and that the people of Syria can go back to living a normal life." Archbishop Jacques Behnan Hindo, titular of the Syrian Catholic archeparchy in Hassaké-Nisibis reports to Fides: "The whole story of Christians in the Middle East is marked and made fruitful by the blood of the martyrs of many persecutions. Lately, father Murad sent me some messages that clearly showed how conscious he was of living in a dangerous situation, and offered his life for peace in Syria and around the world. " .
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