Sunday, May 18, 2014

Larwyn's Linx: Hillary Clinton's Role in the Release of Criminal Illegal Aliens Inside the U.S.

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Nation

Hillary Clinton's Role in the Release of Criminal Illegal Aliens: Power Line
Head of Justice System Holder: Justice System Rife With Racism: WZ
Electoral College Targeted for Elimination by George Soros: Ed Wood

Good News: Jeb Bush Says He Would Govern Like Lib Icon LBJ: RWN
Walls Closing In for Jews at UCLA -- and in America: Pamela Geller
Dems Fundraising Off Benghazi: RWN

Activists and Immigrants Shout Down Charlie Crist in Little Havana: Scoop
Eric Cantor kills a stealth amnesty bill: RS
Man arrested for sneaking into Cochran's wife's nursing home: Clarion-Ledger

Economy

Why Is There Such High Unemployment In Illinois?: P&F
Remington Moving Two Production Lines From New York to Alabama: LI
Where the World's Unsold Cars Go To Die: ZH

Scandal Central

Vets Die While Pentagon Moves on Manning Sex Change: Patterico
Report: Holder Tells DEA Chief to Get in Line: Michael Warren
More Mexican Voting Fraud, In Texas School Board Election: VDARE

’13 Benghazis That Happened Under Bush’ Meme Destroyed Before Your Very Eyes: IJR
Your ObamaCare subsidies are probably wrong, but don’t worry. We’ll bill you later.: Hot Air
Cruz, Lee Hit HHS Nominee Burwell Over Obamacare Transparency: DC

Climate & Energy

The Next Climate Scandal: Power Line
The Descent of Mann: Mark Steyn
The Real Weapon Of Mass Destruction: ‘Climate Change’ Or Barack Obama?: Personal Liberty

Media

Woman Who Sends Her Kids to Elite Private Schools Whines About Segregation in Schools: JWF
Radio Host: NY Times Fired Abramson For Criticizing Obama: WZ
Poll: 70 percent support voter ID laws: The Hill

Dean Cain: ‘Like Obamacare? Check out the VA hospital scandal’: Twitchy
Obama Reaffirms His Intention to Rule By Dictatorship: Sara Noble
This brutal new poll is devastating for Obama, liberals, and the midterm elections: YC

Feminism: Love as Oppression and Heterosexuality as Subordination: R.S. McCain
Michael Sam Is Not A Hero; Sgt. Andrew Tahmooressi Is: RS
White House Reporter Sent To Shed During Obama’s Golf Game: DC

World

Why Can’t We See?: Belmont Club
All Heart: Islamic court says pregnant woman permitted to give birth before she is hanged: BCF
Dempsey Clashes with Chinese General On Pacific: Military

5 Sharia Atrocities for Jay Leno and Ellen DeGeneres to Protest: Robert Spencer
Obama’s illegal alien aunt receives Muslim burial in Kenya: Creeping
Will Obama Reach Out To His Half-Brother Malik To Save Christian Woman In Sudan?: Nice Deb

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Bones of world's largest dinosaur found in Argentina: SMH
The Ten Fastest Growing IT Job Categories: Baseline
Five of the Internet’s eeriest, unsolved mysteries: WaPo

Cornucopia

Spirit of Ambassador Stevens Doesn't Want Investigation: Cube
If All The #BringBackMyGirls Selfies Were Actually Honest: Sooper
Hitler's Ultra Big Tank Project: Vince Lewis

Image: Scientists discover largest dinosaur ever to have walked the earth
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QOTD: "The IRS is not just a revenue agency — it is a law-enforcement agency, a police agency with far greater powers of investigation and coercion that any normal police force. Its actions in this matter are not only inappropriate — they are illegal. Using government resources for political ends is a serious crime, as is conspiring to mislead investigators about those crimes. But so far, other than holding Lois Lerner in contempt for refusing to comply with the demands of congressional investigators, almost nothing has happened. The characteristic feature of a police state is that those who are entrusted with the power to enforce the law are not themselves bound by it.

Context is again here important. The IRS scandal is not a standalone issue but comes at a time when the Democratic party is seeking to radically expand the power of the federal government to regulate political speech; we can safely assume that the same people who were using the IRS’s political-speech regulations for political ends will have precisely the same motives and precisely the same opportunity to use other political-speech regulations for precisely the same political ends: to benefit their allies and persecute their enemies. So committed are the Democrats to keeping their critics under the thumb of federal police powers that they have introduced an amendment in the Senate that would effectively repeal the free-speech provisions of the First Amendment, those having proved inconvenient to Democrats in Supreme Court rulings such as McCutcheon and Citizens United, the latter case involving a federal attempt to make it a crime to show a film critical of a political figure under unapproved circumstances.

The most important question that must be answered in this matter does not involve the misbehavior of IRS officials and Democratic officeholders, though those are important. Nor is it the question of free speech, vital and fundamental as that is. The question here is nothing less than the legitimacy of the United States government. When law-enforcement agencies and federal regulators with extraordinary coercive powers are subordinated to political interests rather than their official obligations — to the Party rather than to the law — then the law itself becomes meaningless, and the delicate constitutional order we have enjoyed for more than two centuries is reduced to a brutal might-makes-right proposition. Elected officials and public servants of both parties take an oath to uphold the Constitution of the United States and to faithfully discharge the duties of their office. That oath is now being tested. The IRS investigation is no mere partisan scandal, but a moral challenge for the men and women who compose the government of this country. Whether they are sufficient to meet that challenge is far from obvious, but the evidence so far is not encouraging." --Kevin D. Williamson

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