Sen. Tom Cotton introduces bill to mandate federal usage of term 'Judea and Samaria' instead of 'West Bank'

US Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AK) has introduced legislation that would ban the term "West Bank" by the federal government and use the term "Judea and Samaria" instead.

On Thursday, Senator Cotton introduced a bill called the "Retiring the Egregious Confusion Over the Genuine Name of Israel's Zone of Influence by Necessitating Government-use of Judea and Samaria (RECOGNIZING Judea and Samaria) Act." He explained that this new law would "align US policy language with the geographical and cultural significance of the region."

“The Jewish people’s legal and historic rights to Judea and Samaria goes back thousands of years. The US should stop using the politically charged term West Bank to refer to the biblical heartland of Israel,” Cotton stated.

U.S. Representative Claudia Tenney from New York, who is known for her strong support for Israel, also backed the bill. She said that using the names Judea and Samaria officially is important for "defending the integrity of the Jewish state."

“The Israeli people have an undeniable and indisputable historical and legal claim over Judea and Samaria, and at this critical moment in history, the United States must reaffirm this,” Tenney said. “This bill reaffirms Israel’s rightful claim to its territory. I remain committed to defending the integrity of the Jewish state and fully supporting Israel’s sovereignty over Judea and Samaria.”

US President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee, has vowed to use the words Judea and Samaria instead of the West Bank.

“I can’t say something I don’t believe. As you well know, I’ve never been willing to use the term ‘West Bank.’ There is no such thing. I speak of Judea and Samaria,” Huckabee told Israeli media outlet Arutz Sheva in an interview. “I tell people there is no ‘occupation.’ It is a land that is ‘occupied’ by the people who have had a rightful deed to the place for 3,500 years, since the time of Abraham.”

If the US federal government were to officially use Judea and Samaria instead of the West Bank, it would be adopting terminology favored by Israel. This could show that US policy is moving closer to supporting Israel and might encourage more Jewish settlements in the area.

However, critics argue that changing the language could stir up more conflict in the Middle East, making it harder to achieve a two-state solution for peace between Israel and Palestine.

After the 1948 Arab-Israeli war, where Israel gained independence, Jordan began using the term "West Bank" for the region west of the Jordan River that it controlled. Since Israel took over this area during the Six-Day War in 1967, it has referred to it as Judea and Samaria.

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Federal judge stops Biden administration from blocking new oil and gas drilling leases

A federal judge in Louisiana, Terry A. Doughty has stopped the socialist Biden administration on Tuesday from blocking new gas and oil drilling leases on federal land, thus putting a damper on Biden's extreme left environmental agenda that would obviously harm American energy workers. Doughty issued a preliminary injunction in the case.

“Judge Terry A. Doughty of the U.S. District Court in Monroe said the administration doesn’t have the legal right to stop leasing federal territory for oil-and-gas production without approval from Congress,” The Wall Street Journal reported. The WSJ added that Doughty noted that “states suing the federal government—largely southern and coastal states—will be harmed immediately as the pause prevents them from collecting lease bids and bonuses from oil-and-gas prospectors.”

Thirteen states in all sued the Biden administration over its radical and anti-American proposal: Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Texas, Utah and West Virginia.

The court's decision was a clear setback for Biden, who in his total lack of wisdom ordered suspension of new leases for fossil fuel development on public lands and waters in January while a review of the permitting process was carried out. He also halted work on the Keystone Pipeline, which put thousands of American workers out of a job while allowing Russia to be the sole providers of energy to Germany with their Nord Stream 2 pipeline. 

Biden has never once gotten a foreign policy idea correct and he isn't planning on ruining his record of incompetence.

The suspension — which did not affect existing drilling permits — fulfilled an election pledge and marked the president’s most significant move against the energy sector after he campaigned on a “transition away from oil.”

“The omission of any rational explanation in cancelling the lease sales, and in enacting the Pause, results in this Court ruling that Plaintiff States also have a substantial likelihood of success on the merits of this claim,” Doughty wrote. “Millions and possibly billions of dollars are at stake. Plaintiff states have a reliance interest in the proceeds derived from offshore and on land oil and gas lease sales.

Judge Doughty added, “Local government funding, jobs for Plaintiff State workers, and funds for the restoration of Louisiana’s Coastline are at stake.”

Officials who support American energy praised the decision as a victory for the rule of law, workers, and American citizens.

Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) said the ruling was “great news for Louisiana energy workers and their families!”

Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry said the ruling was “a major win for the Constitution, for workers employed in the oil and gas industry and for all Americans who have felt pain at the pump.”

Rep. Jody Arrington (R-TX) responded to the news by saying that the ruling could “save a million jobs and preserve a safe and affordable supply of energy for all Americans.”

The left is coming for your money, your jobs and your preferred transportation.

Joke of the Day: California is considering a $500 to $1000 tax on the purchases of new, gas-driven vehicles to dissuade their purchase in lieu of electric cars. And if you think it will stop there and not affect older vehicles in the future, you're smoking something skunky.

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Daniel Lewis Lee finally executed for torturing and killing family in 1996

Oct. 31 1997, file photo, Daniel Lewis Lee waits
for his arraignment hearing in the Pope County
 Detention Center in Russellville, Ark.

Better late than never. The execution of a white supremacist [aka douche nozzle] Daniel Lewis Lee, 47, took place Tuesday, at 8:07 a.m. in Indiana.

Lee tortured and killed an Arkansas family, one of whom was an 8-year-old girl, and it only took the federal government 24 years to give him what he clearly deserved.

This was the first execution to get the go-ahead by the feds since 2003. He was given a lethal dose of pentobarbital.

The murders occurred in 1996 after Lee and an accomplice robbed and shot William Frederick Mueller, his wife Nancy Ann Mueller, and their 8-year-old stepdaughter, Sarah Elizabeth Powell, in Arkansas.

The bodies of him and his family were discovered five months after they went missing.  There were plastic bags covering their heads and sealed with duct tape. The bodies dumped in the Illinois bayou.

Leftist legal proceedings stalled the execution at the U.S. Penitentiary in Terre Haute, Indiana several times.

Hours before he was slated to die, the Supreme Court in a 5-4 vote overruled a lower courts order to delay four executions scheduled for July and August. You can guess who voted for what.

Liberal Judge Tanya Chutkan of the U.S. district court in Washington had issued the preliminary injunction against the executions. She cited issues with the lethal injection methods used by the government, fearful the injection might kill Lee, but the Supreme Court disagreed with her ruling.

“The government has produced competing expert testimony of its own, indicating that any pulmonary edema occurs only after the prisoner has died or been rendered fully insensate,” the Supreme Court said in their ruling. The liberals didn't want Lee to suffer as much as the Mueller's did.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit also overturned an injunction put in place last week by a district court after the family of the victims said the coronavirus would pose a health risk to them and prevent them from exercising their right to attend the execution at the prison, where several people have been infected with COVID-19.

Attorneys for Lee and members of the victim's family have long fought for Lee to get a life sentence and not be put to death but instead, he's getting what he gave, but with more humanity than he rendered to the family.

Attorney General William Barr told The Associated Press in recent days that he believes the Bureau of Prisons could “carry out these executions without being at risk.” 

Except for those people having their sentences finally carried out.

The agency has put a number of additional measures in place, including temperature checks and requiring witnesses to wear masks.

The execution is the first after the Trump administration announced last year it would be making a return back to capital punishment methods.

Two more executions are scheduled this week. 

Wesley Ira Purkey

Wesley Ira Purkey is scheduled to be executed on Wednesday. Purkey raped and dismembered a teenage girl then burned her body in 1998.

Dustin Lee Honken is scheduled to die on Friday. 

In 2004, Honken, 52, was convicted of killing five people, including two girls ages 10 and 6, their mother and two men. Judge Chutkan thinks he doesn't deserve to die.

Keith Dwayne Nelson

The fourth scumbag, Keith Dwayne Nelson, 46, is scheduled to be executed in August. He kidnapped, raped and then strangled a 10-year-old child, Pamela Butler, to death in Texas. Days later, the child's body was found in a wooded area behind a church in Grain Valley. Autopsy results showed she was raped and strangled to death with a wire. He was linked to the crime two years later through his DNA.

Sorry, I don't care what kind of childhoods these scum muffins had. They are getting what they gave, but with less pain than their victims.

If a society cannot protect their babies, their children from this menace, the society will eventually fail to thrive and not exist.

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