Bad COPP: MT Commission on Political Practices Targets Ideological Opponents

(Hat tip: KimR) - The road trip from the Colorado statehouse to the Capitol building in Montana is about 800 miles, but the psychological distance from a Denver meth-house to the office of Helena’s Commissioner of Political Practices has to be greater than that. And that’s only the beginning of this bizarre story, and just the latest example of partisan public officials using government power to crush their political opponents. Read more at Fairfield Sun Times Read More......

No. 1 Sunni Terrorist Group, ISIS, Claims to Target No. 1 Shi'ite Terrorist Group, Hezbollah, in Beirut

The world’s most dangerous Sunni terrorist organization, Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), claimed responsibility Thursday for lethal suicide bombings in southern Beirut, a stronghold of the world’s leading Shi’ite terrorist organization, Hezbollah. --The blasts, which Hezbollah’s Al-Manar television station said cost at least 41 lives, was the deadliest expression yet of the spillover of the sectarian conflict in neighboring Syria, where ISIS and Hezbollah are among the groups fighting each other.

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Colorado state pension plan to miss full-funding target by 14 years

Colorado’s pension plan is on track to be fully funded by 2055 — 14 years after the 2041 target date set by the Colorado Legislature in 2010. Now, lawmakers will need to decide if they want to stick to the 2041 target date, or agree that it will take longer than they planned for the Colorado Public Employees’ Retirement Association to have the money to pay for the promised benefits to PERA’s 529,000.

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New Obama Terror Czar Will Target Conservatives, Christians

The Obama administration's increasingly controversial Justice Department, in partnership with the ultra-leftist Southern Poverty Law Center, announced the creation of a new czar position to focus on “domestic terrorism” — especially the alleged threat from Christians and Americans with “anti-government” views. While ostensibly created to serve as a coordination office overseeing domestic terror cases, critics and analysts are sounding the alarm, warning that the administration is plotting to go after its political opponents with the full force of the federal government.

Read more at the New American
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