Tuesday, October 20, 2015

Larwyn's Linx: Memo to GOP: Curb Immigration or Quit

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Nation

Memo to GOP: Curb Immigration or Quit: Roll Call
Republicans Would Rather Lose Than Help Conservatives: Erick on the Radio
George W. Bush Attacks Ted Cruz. Advantage to Ted Cruz.: Erick Erickson

Lies and Flopsweat: The 3 Democrat Attacks on the Benghazi Committee: Leon H. Wolf
House Leaders Devise Way to Fund PPFA, Avoid Obamacare Repeal: Erick Erickson
Dividing Lines – President George W Bush Attacks Senator Ted Cruz: Treehouse

Democrats Without Borders: Debra Saunders
Open Season on the Police: Thomas Sowell
Jim Webb May Run As Independent and Elect Hillary Clinton: Ace

Sources tell Fox Biden is running: Ace
Biden 2016: A Bad Idea Gets Worse: Michael Tomasky
Husband of Hong Kong cosmetics tycoon bankrolls Jeb super PAC: Shanghaiist

Economy

In Case You Were Wondering, Obamacare is Going Great: Leon H. Wolf
Income Inequality: Totally Irrelevant In A Country Like America: John Hawkins
Racialist Cali Middle School Principal Withholding Student Election Results: Blaze

Scandal Central

Memos recovered from Benghazi compound detail staff security worries: Times
State Dept. cybersecurity under Hillary Clinton assailed: CBS News
Emails: Clinton Foundation donor lobbied State Department for Haiti hotels: Alana Goodman

Media

Crazy Salon Writer Who Wanted Gun Owners Shot Wrote That He Possessed Guns: Cove
How the MSM spins, example #926: Politico provides Team Hillary a talking point: Doug Powers
Dan Rather: Hey, We Totally "Got to the Truth" of that Bush Air National Guard Story: Ace

The Republican Front Runner is a Huge Fan of Michael Moore: Leon H. Wolf
Even the LA Times thinks California Governor Brown’s latest Climate Claim is Nonsense: Eric Worrall
Ben Carson Confuses Iraq, Afghanistan, Past, Future, Space, Time, Whatever: Charles P. Pierce

World

Israel Must Deport the PLO: Daniel Greenfield
Why Obama Keeps Blaming The Victims Of Terrorism In Israel: LidBlog
Canada election: Trudeau promises change after Liberals rout Conservatives: Guardian

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Are You Part Iceman? Famous Ötzi Has 19 Living Relatives: Tia Ghose, LiveScience
Top 5 Risks You Hadn't Considered in Connected Cars: IT Business Edge
Scented cup gives the illusion of flavored water: Springwise

Cornucopia

Old West gunfight reenactment gets a bit too real: France24
The Zombie Apocalypse Will NOT Be Televised: MOTUS
Jeb Bush, Hillary Clinton offer prizes and fine print: Stephanie Condon

Image: Biden 2016: A Bad Idea Gets Worse
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: #ConstitutionMan: TED CRUZ FOR PRESIDENT

QOTD: "A Biden candidacy was always a bad idea, in part for reasons I wrote about back in early August: no real rationale, no major policy differences with Hillary Clinton, he’ll just end up attacking her trustworthiness if he wants to get anywhere.

In the 10 weeks that have passed since I wrote that column, it’s only become a worse idea. First of all, Biden’s polling performance isn’t so hot. He’s third, behind Clinton and Sanders. He’s been pretty steady for the last two months, at 15 to 20 percent. So it’s not as if he’s lost ground, but the general assumption in politics is that once a person announces, he slips a bit in the polls because he goes from being a neat hypothetical idea to someone whose warts the electorate actually begins to contemplate (and whom the press begins to scrutinize). He’s also third in Iowa, and a pretty distant third in New Hampshire. Oh, and third in South Carolina, too,  25 or 30 points behind Clinton. Polls can change, of course—they often do. But there’s no obvious reason to think they’re going to change much here, for such a known quantity as Joe.

The second reason it’s become a worse idea is that Clinton seems to have stabilized. She topped everybody’s expectations in the debate. She showed life, zest for battle. (She’s a high-energy person!) She regained the lead over Sanders in New Hampshire—well, according to one poll anyway. " --Michael Tomasky

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