Monday, February 29, 2016

Top 11 Emails From The Final Batch Of Clinton’s Private Server Emails

By America Rising

Today the last batch of Clinton emails from her illicit, private server were released by the State Department. Of the 1,723 released today, 261 were found to contain classified information. Those 261 new classified emails brings the final tally to an astounding 2,079 emails held on Clinton’s unsecure server that now are said to contain classified information. In the 261 classified emails, 19 contained “secret” information. That also means that this batch includes the largest number of secret emails in any tranche.

CONFIRMED: : Obama Sent Weapons to Muslim Terrorists in Benghazi

By Daniel Greenfield

One of the few interesting items in the New York Times' whitewash of Hillary and Obama's illegal Libyan war is the confirmation of weapons shipments.

Obama ultimately took her side, according to the administration officials who described the debate. After he signed a secret document called a presidential finding, approving a covert operation, a list of approved weaponry was drawn up. The shipments arranged by the United States and other Western countries generally arrived through the port of Benghazi and airports in eastern Libya, a Libyan rebel commander said.

Congressmen Have No Idea Why Special Operators Have To Pay Out Of Pocket For Basic Gear

By Jonah Bennett

For reasons still unclear, elite special operators are often let down by their respective services and have to pay out of pocket for the most basic gear.

Private military suppliers have started to notice this phenomenon. During a panel discussion on Capitol Hill Thursday, heads of supply companies met with Congress to discuss the shortages and raise the issue with Secretary of Defense Ash Carter, Stars and Stripes reports.

THE NEW CALIFORNIA CRIME WAVE: Democrat Success Story #78,012

By John Perazzo

Something amazing has happened in California. First, a brief background: Crime rates across the state, after a long period of steady decline, had reached fifty-year lows in 2014. Then, that November, a 60 percent majority of California voters—presumably incapable of accepting such good news without a measure of collective guilt—decided that it would be a really enlightened idea to pass Proposition 47, a ballot initiative bearing the cheery name “The Safe Neighborhoods and Schools Act.” The purpose of this measure was to downgrade many types of drug possession and property crimes from felonies (punishable by more than a year in prison) to misdemeanors (which often entail no prison time at all). For the benefit of squeamish skeptics, the self-assured proponents of Prop 47 condescended to explain that these reduced penalties would not only alleviate prison overcrowding, but would also make California's streets safer by placing drug offenders into warm-and-fuzzy treatment and counseling programs, rather than into disagreeable prison cells. If you think this sounds like a familiar old tune, you're quite correct. It was #1 on the left-wing hit parade throughout the 1960s, when it became the theme song of skyrocketing crime rates across the United States. And now the Golden Oldie is back, in the Golden State.

Larwyn's Linx: Stephen Miller Makes Case Against Marco Rubio in Epic Rant

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Nation

Stephen Miller Makes Case Against Marco Rubio in Epic Rant: Katie McHugh
That Super Tuesday delegate math is still looking awfully Trump-y: Jazz Shaw
Obama: The Lamest Duck: Victor Davis Hanson

Senator Billy Ray Valentine: The Z Man
40 Reasons Not To Vote For Donald Trump: John Hawkins
Sen. Jeff Sessions endorses Trump: Curt Mills

Trump Deflects David Duke, KKK Support, Will 'Research Them': Shoshana Weissmann
Trump Caves, Disavows David Duke 24 Minutes After Cruz Calls Him Out: Scoop
1927 news report: Trump's dad arrested in KKK brawl with cops: Matt Blum (2015)

Donald Trump in the Age of Obama: Stuart Schneiderman
Unless Democrats Run Sanders, We'll Have a Trump Presidency: Nathan J. Robinson
Democrats Should Be Very Nervous About Their Terrible Turnout Numbers: Zach Carter

Economy

Fascist American Universities 2016: Notes from CSULA: Ben Shapiro
Day Of Reckoning Imminent: ZH
Venezuelan Socialism Chaos: Every day is like Insane Black Friday: tuboKanal

Scandal Central

Gov’t Memo: Clinton Would Steer State Dept. Resources to Donor’s Haiti Project: Alana Goodman
Gitmo terrorists could be freed on US soil — thanks to liberal lawyers: Paul Sperry
Ted Cruz is Correct, Donald Trump Does Have Organized Crime Ties: Jeff Dunetz

Did Twitter URL Ban Bare Naked Islam?: MareZilla
Twitter now using ‘stealth blocking’ to prevent BNI readers from sharing BNI posts: BNI
"Trump Must Be Stopped" Plead 'The Economist' And CFR As Financial Establishment Panics: ZH

Climate & Energy

EPA's Disgraceful Reign: Dr. Tom Borelli

Media

Celebrities to wear gun control bracelets at Oscars while surrounded by massive armed security force: AWR Hawkins
Why Isn't This A Hate Crime?: Market Ticker
The Voicemail From Marco Rubio That Drove Christie To Endorse Trump: Robert Gehl

Thoughts on Apple vs. FBI: Mark Levin
The Three-Prong Backdoor Test: Zdziarski
Conservative shopper app wakes Americans up to how liberal name-brand stores are: BPR

Trump dodges Tapper: Do you disavow the support you’re getting from David Duke and the KKK?: Hot Air
Hey Establishment, Trump Already Rejected David Duke Months Ago: Steve Flesher
Is the National Enquirer preparing a John Edwards-like story on Hillary and Huma?: Thomas Lifson

Mickey Kaus on the GOP's Trump Problem: Instapundit
Ben Sasse pens ‘Open Letter’ on what Constitutionalists should do if Trump is nominated: Scoop
Pray for America. Pray for Ted Cruz.: JD Rucker

World

Tashfeen Malik in US Before Farook Met Her for First Time?: MagNote
Everyone in Syria is Violating Kerry's Imaginary Ceasefire: Daniel Greenfield
Smart Power: Construction Begins on China's First Overseas Military Base in Djibouti: Ankit Panda

South Africa's Race and Class Implosion: Joel Pollak
Here's why German bosses are worried for the future: TheLocal.de
France demands billions from Google: SPEISA

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

That one time a man deliberately crashed at 632mph to pull max Gs: Eric Berger
Turn-by-Turn Navigation Showdown: Google Maps vs. Waze: Thorin Klosowski
Climbers Make First Winter Ascent of Nanga Parbat, the “Killer Mountain”: Andrew Bisharat

Cornucopia

Pols and Celebrities. BANG!: MOTUS
Bernie Sanders Supporter Redefines the Term 'Grassroots Support': Diogenes
U.S. military successfully installs 'brain modems' in animals as part of project to develop 'cyborg soldiers': DailyMail

Image: Ramirez Cartoon: Closing Gitmo
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: Help Protect Our Constitution: Ted Cruz for President

QOTD: "Obama issues a new initiative—and the nation snoozes. He wastes the day on the golf links—and the nation snoozes. He smears his critics, invites a rapper to the White House whose latest album cover has a dead white judge lying in front of the White House—and the nation snoozes. He cozies up to America’s enemies and snubs our friends—and the nation snoozes. For the nth time, he blusters about closing down Guantanamo—and the nation snoozes. He opens the border even wider to welcome in more illegal aliens and future constituents—and the nation snoozes. Lame duckestry means not even being able to wake up your opponents.

There is so far no Obama legacy, except the creation of Donald Trump, a $20 trillion debt and zero interest rates—and the gift of flat energy prices that came despite not because of Obama’s efforts. Almost every major bureaucracy is awash in scandal or charges of incompetence. The common theme of the disasters at the GSA, EPA, ICE, IRS, NASA, Secret Service, and VA is ideological subversion and ingrained hostility to meritocracy. Would anyone be surprised that another government official pled the 5th, created fake email personas, resigned at 5 PM on a Friday afternoon, declared a foremost mission Muslim outreach, or withheld subpoenaed documents?" --Victor Davis Hanson

Sunday, February 28, 2016

DISPLACED DISNEY WORKERS: Shame on You, Marco Rubio

By Julia Hahn

At Donald Trump’s Sunday rally at Madison City Stadium, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL)’s own constituents—two displaced Disney workers—publicly denounced Rubio for prioritizing the interests of his big business donors over the interests of his own constituents.

Dena Moore and Leo Perrero were two Disney workers who were informed that they were going to be laid off during the holiday season of 2014. They—along with scores of their colleagues—were told that before they were let go, they’d be forced to train their low-skilled foreign replacements brought in on H-1B visas. Earlier this week, Perrero testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee about the humiliation he was forced to endure by training his foreign replacement. While Donald Trump has called on Disney to hire back all of these workers and has pledged to end H-1B job theft as President, Sen. Marco Rubio has pushed to expand the controversial H-1B program—he has introduced two bills that would dramatically boost the issuances of H-1Bs. As recently as last year, Rubio introduced a bill—endorsed by Disney’s CEO Bob Iger via his immigration lobbying firm—that would triple the issuances of H-1Bs. Disney is one of Sen. Rubio’s top financial backers—having donated more than $2 million according to Open Secrets.

LETTER FROM A READER: A Cruz-Rubio Ticket

Dear Influential Conservative Blogger [Ed.: Heh.],

Perhaps the best chance we have for the Presidential election 2016 is not Donald Trump, but rather a ticket with Ted Cruz for President and Marco Rubio for Vice President. I believe their combined poll ratings are higher than those of Trump.

Ted Cruz for President can be contacted at https://www.tedcruz.org/contact/.

The campaign's phone number is 713-353-4330.

If Ted Cruz is still in the race after Super Tuesday, but has not yet made Rubio his running mate, his campaign can be reached by snail mail at:

PO Box 25376
Houston, TX 77265

Regards, A.S.
 

PRESIDENTIAL DRINK MENU O' THE DAY: NYC Edition

Passed over the transom by correspondent Sopaul:


Larwyn's Linx: Yes, Trump is the liberal Republican in the race

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Nation

Yes, Trump is the liberal Republican in the race: Timothy P. Carney
Immigration or an iPhone: Sultan Knish
The case against Clinton: This is the disaster Democrats must avoid: P.J. Podesta

Reverse Engineering A Belief: The Z Man
China Warns U.S. After Trump Wins Nevada Caucus: Bill Gertz
San Francisco puts Sanctuary Before Funding: Debra Saunders

Trump’s Totalitarian Instincts: Leon H. Wolf
Just How Bad Is It?: Freedom's Torch
Trump and the Rise of the Unprotected: Peggy Noonan

Marine Sgt. Confronts Bill Clinton About Benghazi, Chaos Ensues: Tammy Bruce
Bill Clinton snaps at veteran during speech: ‘Shut up and listen to my answer’: Olaf Ekberg
Cruz, Rubio release tax filings to 'pressure' Trump and other candidates: AP

Christie's Disgrace: Stephen F. Hayes
Yes, Trump University Was a Massive Scam: Ian Tuttle
If Conservatism Is Your Only Priority, There Is No Choice Other Than Ted Cruz: Rush Limbaugh

Economy

Durbin: Rubio blocked bid to protect U.S. workers, limit H-1B visas: Paul Bedard
Drug Warriors Will Pay $3.6 Million for Maiming a Toddler: Jacob Sullum
Rubio Pushed the Big Lie About His Amnesty Bill: Steve Sailer

Scandal Central

Marco Rubio's brother-in-law was the 'front man for an international drug-smuggling ring': DailyMail
Hours Before South Carolina Primary, 1,500 Pages of Hillary Clinton Emails Are Released: Jason Leopold
FBI Scrubs References to Islam from Anti-Radicalization Game After Hamas-CAIR Complains: Creeping

Media

Why Trump Is Panicking Robert Kagan: Jacob Heilbrunn
Former AZ Governor Endorses Trump Because Of His Policies On Illegal Immigration: Bill Quick
Media Pundits Often Fail to Disclose Financial Ties to Hillary Clinton: Randy Hall

World

The Forbidden Name Which None May Utter: Gates of Vienna
Conman Blair's cynical conspiracy to deceive the British people and let in 2 million migrants: Daily Mail
Video: Migration and Sharia: Creeping

What ISIS is doing to women with this tool will make you SICK: Matt Palumbo
Saudi man gets 10 years, 2,000 lashes over atheist tweets: Japan Times
Florida man could get life in prison for mosque bacon attack: Robert Spencer

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Rather Than Ending NSA's Key Surveillance Tool, Obama to Let Other Agencies Use It: TechDirt
Best Telescopes for the Money: Dave Brody, Space.com
From the Editor's Desk: Damn, that was fun ...: Phil Nickinson

Cornucopia

The Lion In Winter Trumps the Sleepers: MOTUS
Ted Cruz, A Personal Look At A Humble Man: Kevin Mooneyhan
Gavin McInnes Plays ‘Spot The Tranny’: Steven Crowder

Image: Trump, Lies, and Bankruptcy
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: Help Protect Our Constitution: Ted Cruz for President

QOTD: "A few weeks after Senator Marco Rubio joined a bipartisan push for an immigration overhaul in 2013, he arrived alongside Senator Chuck Schumer at the executive dining room of News Corporation’s Manhattan headquarters for dinner.

Their mission was to persuade Rupert Murdoch, the owner of the media empire, and Roger Ailes, the chairman and chief executive of its Fox News division, to keep the network’s on-air personalities from savaging the legislation and give it a fighting chance at survival...

...Mr. Murdoch, an advocate of immigration reform, and Mr. Ailes, his top lieutenant and the most powerful man in conservative television, agreed at the Jan. 17, 2013, meeting to give the senators some breathing room." --Jason Horowitz

Saturday, February 27, 2016

Flush with Obama cash, Iran awards financial grants to families of Palestinian terrorists

By The Tower

Iran will pay $7,000 to the families of Palestinian terrorists who were killed while carrying out attacks, and $30,000 to families of terrorists whose houses were demolished by Israel, the Iranian ambassador to Lebanon announced on Wednesday.

“The decision firstly includes giving an amount worth $7,000 to every family of a martyr of the intifada in Jerusalem,” said ambassador Mohammad Fathali during a Beirut press conference.

CATACLYSM: 30 Blocks of Democrat Governance

By Jim Quinn

“Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance. No one in this world, so far as I know—and I have researched the records for years, and employed agents to help me—has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby.” – H.L. Mencken, Notes on Democracy

I’ve written dozens of articles about the 30 Blocks of Squalor over the years. The 30 blocks are essentially from 69th Street to 39th Street encompassing the wretched potholed route from unsafe Upper Darby through the killing fields of West Philly. The fine union government workers in the Streets Department have consistently maintained Chestnut Street in a constant state of disrepair. Not that drivers notice.

Larwyn's Linx: Donald Trump the Vacillator in Chief

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Nation

Donald Trump the Vacillator in Chief: Michael Brown
Trump: I'm Going to "Open Up Libel Law" So We Can Sue the Media or Something: Ace
The Trashing of Bill's Accusers: What Did Hillary Do -- And Why?: Larry Elder

Obama caught in massive terror lie: The Horn
Nitwits of the Round Table: Mark Steyn
The Three R's Enabling Trump: Amy Walter

Granny Clinton Explains ‘Right-Wing’ Plot on Email Scandal: Fred Lucas
Rattled Trump Spams Incoherent, Spelling-Challenged Tweets After Debate Debacle: JWF
"True or false, you said the government should pay for everyone's healthcare?": CR Wire

Cycles, Cultural Entropy and Faith: The Iron Legion
Trump’s Shocking Post-Debate Admission: Leon H. Wolf
Why Lindsey Graham Should Resign in Disgrace: CR Staff

Economy

The declining labor force participation rate for middle-aged males: Tyler Cowen
U.S. Has Record 10th Straight Year Without 3% Growth in GDP: Terence P. Jeffrey
Recovery? 13 Of The Biggest Retailers In America Are Closing Down Stores: Michael Snyder

Scandal Central

State Dept. Turns Over 1,600 Newly-Discovered Clinton Documents to Benghazi Committee: Alana Goodman
Why Whitewater Matters: Newly Released Documents Show A Pattern Of Clinton Deception: Micah Morrison
Feds Flag Thousands of Illegal Bernie Sanders Contributions: Lachlan Markay

Federal Footprint Map shows Government Lands: WF&A
Quiet 'Legal Scrub' Of TPP Makes Massive Change To Penalties For Copyright Infringement: Mike Masnick
Congressmen Have No Idea Why Special Operators Have To Pay Out Of Pocket For Basic Gear: Jonah Bennett

Media

The Pentagon's $660 million FOIA fee: MuckRock
Twitter accused of shutting down Sanders fans/Hillary critics: Kyle Olson
Watch This Black Lives Matter Activist Get In Hillary Clinton’s Face: Bre Payton

Why Trump University is Every Bit as Awful as Marco Rubio Says: Ronn Blitzer
An Open Letter To The Three FBI Agents That Killed LaVoy Finicum In Oregon: Kate Dalley
A Case in Point: Newt Gingrich

World

Caught On Tape: U.S. Test Fires Nuclear ICBM, Warns "We Are Prepared To Use Nuclear Weapons": ZH
February 26, 1993: Michelle Malkin
Speaker Ryan: Congress Will Fight Obama Efforts to Ignore Pro-Israel Law: Adam Kredo

The Enduring Relevance of America’s Aircraft Carriers: Michael R. Groothousen
“10 days until EU migration system totally breaks down”: BNI
North Korea Threatens 'Mainland U.S.' in Response to Largest-Ever Joint Drill on Border: Frances Martel

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

A Brilliant Physicist Explains Gravitational Waves to Colbert: Andrew Liszewski
CDC: Zika infections confirmed in 9 pregnant women in US: Mike Stobbe
Artificial intelligence needs your data, all of it: Mike Elgan

Cornucopia

Ben Shapiro speaks at California campus, all hell breaks loose: LI
The Twitter Police Target Conservatives: Debra Saunders
The Most Fantastic Thing In the History of Things: "Dual Survival" on National Geographic Discovery Channel: Ace

Image: Ben Shapiro speaks at California campus, all hell breaks loose
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: Help Protect Our Constitution: Ted Cruz for President

QOTD: "I've spent the last fortnight in a country where on illegal immigration everyone electorally viable is a hard-ass. That's to say, there's a bipartisan consensus that anyone attempting to enter the country without authorization should be warehoused in a detention camp – not in Australia but offshore, either on Nauru, a pile of guano that fancies itself a nation-state, or on Manos Island, which belongs to Papua New Guinea. It's the equivalent of Trump imprisoning Mexicans in a camp in the Dominican Republic. After years in detention, the migrants are generally either returned whence they came or resettled in a third country. Whatever squeamishness the Aussie Labor Party might feel about this is subject to the compelling political arithmetic that the voters are overwhelmingly at ease with it.

In America, by contrast, there is a cozy bipartisan consensus between the Democrat Party and the Donor Party that untrammeled mass unskilled immigration now and forever is a good thing. The Dems get voters, the Donors get cheap labor. The Dems have the better deal, but over on the GOP side the Stupid Party is too stupid to realize that suicide in slow motion leads to the same place as one swift sure slice from Isis.

So it was obvious that the moment someone proposed to rupture this corrupt and squalid arrangement that there would be takers for it – particularly among America's downwardly mobile lower middle class who, as a price for supporting the Donor Party, are supposed to put up with stagnant wages and diminished economic opportunity as a permanent feature of life. " --Mark Steyn

Friday, February 26, 2016

The Five Must-Read Emails Of The Latest Clinton Email Dump

By America Rising

Today the State Department released the penultimate batch of emails gleaned from Hillary Clinton’s illicit, private email server. The release featured another 88 emails that the government has determined contained classified information. Those 88 emails bring the total number of Clinton’s email that contain classified information to at least 1,818.

While the State Department’s release of Clinton’s emails is winding down, the amount of damaging information found in Clinton’s emails certainly isn’t. The latest tranche of Clinton emails spotlight many of questionable aspects of her State Department tenure.

The biggest bombshell of the batch is an email from Neera Tanden that exposes Clinton’s faulty approach to email security. Others, such as one from Wendy Sherman, highlight the failed policies Clinton pursued at the State Department. There is also a damaging exchange about trade that reminds people of the many flip-flops Clinton has made this campaign.

See below for the five best new emails from this latest batch:

CAPITALISM VS. SOCIALISM FOR DUMMIES: And Bernie Sanders Fans, But I Repeat Myself

Not sure who the original author was, but @BiffSpackle sobered up enough from his recent three-day bender to illustrate it for us.

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Make China Great Again!

Hmmm:


Hat tip: Commander Spicy Disco.
 

DEEP THOUGHTS WITH DOUG: I guess it's back to drug-testing the summer interns again.

Submitted by @BiffSpackle:


Perhaps Twitter's invaluable "Trust and Safety Council" can step in and stop the madness that is our summer intern program.
 

Larwyn's Linx: Rubio and Cruz take the gloves off against Trump

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Nation

Rubio and Cruz take the gloves off against Trump: W. James Antle III
USCIS Backs Up ICE: 'God Forbid' Rubio Gets Elected: Julia Hahn
How Cruz Could Win: Jeffrey H. Anderson

Sixteen Reasons Why Cruz Is The Better Anti-Trump Than Rubio: Carl Jackson, BCN
Pro-Trump robocall: 'Don't vote for a Cuban': Amy R. Connolly
Trump: I'm being audited: Ryan Lovelace

Justice Breyer: Eight-Person Court “Will Not Change” Supreme Court’s Work: AR2
Why Trump Is Winning: Scott Rasmussen
Trump's Lies Don't Seem to Matter: Brent Smith

Marco Rubio: Our issue is not with Islam: Pamela Geller
Clinton Fans Now Fret They May Get Wanted: Trump: Brendan Bordelon
Mrs. Clinton, Show Voters Those Transcripts: NYT Editorial Board

GOPe Rewarding a Corrupt IRS with a Bigger Budget: Daniel J. Mitchell
Reich: "We Have No Choice" But To Move to Single-Payer Healthcare: Ian Schwartz
CAIR vows to save US from Trump, Cruz, Geller, Spencer: Robert Spencer

Scandal Central

Donald Trump vs George Soros: Who is the bigger Democratic donor?: Mitchell Blatt
Rush Limbaugh: Ted Cruz fought the Washington Establishment, Donald Trump Donated to It: Scoop
Spy agencies: Clinton emails contain info which “closely matches” Top Secret documents: Jazz Shaw

Media

Dana Loesch and Matt Walsh on the Donald Trump Disaster!: Politibrew
A Grudging Admirer of Ted Cruz: Robert Charles
What Lindsey Graham said about Ted Cruz at #WPCFdinner is ‘utterly disgraceful’: Twitchy

World

Brexit: The Z Man
Flush with Obama cash, Iran awards funds to families of Palestinian terrorists: The Tower
Kerry urges Congress not to rush to renew Iran sanctions measure: Robert Spencer

Rubio, Cruz hit Trump for saying he'd be neutral on Israel: Ariel Cohen
Iran to Russia: Take $14bn and build us a modern army: DEBKAfile
The Great Wall of Jordan: How the US Wants to Keep the Islamic State Out: William M. Arkin

Anti-Islamization movement in Europe’s leading crusader Geert Wilder’s latest interview on Dutch TV: BNI
Total chaos in the Swedish police: 'Minimal risk of being arrested': SPEISA
Pictured: 1,000 migrants storm the Channel Tunnel in desperate bid to reach Britain: DailyMail

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Mysterious 'Fast Radio Burst' Pinpointed for First Time: Ian O'Neill
BMI Is A Terrible Measure Of Health: Katherine Hobson
Judge Confirms CMU Paid to Break Tor: Threatpost

Cornucopia

Clinton’s HIV Scandal?: RWN
Obama Lies Compilation: Feral Irishman
How Close Was Donald Trump To The Mob? (7/2015): David Marcus

Image: Take off your shoes, Ted Cruz!
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: Help Protect Our Constitution: Ted Cruz for President

QOTD: "Following Thursday's Republican presidential debate, Donald Trump discussed an instance in which he had to hire foreign workers.

"It's almost impossible to get help. And part of the reason that you can't get American people—you know, they want full-time jobs. This is a 4-month 5-month job."" --Shoshana Weissmann

Thursday, February 25, 2016

IN ONE WORD: Why Rubio Can't Win

By CR Wire

Tonight on his radio program, Conservative Review Editor-in-Chief Mark Levin explained why Marco Rubio is running to lose, the way he’s conducting his campaign.

Listen:

Marco Rubio will not win the Republican nomination because of one word: amnesty.

Rubio’s record as senator, his record as a pro-amnesty Republican, will prevent him from beating Donald Trump outright, Levin says.

The Rubio strategy, Levin says, appears to be destroy Ted Cruz, run for second place, and then try to win a brokered convention. This strategy gives Trump a free ride to victory.

And so, Levin argues, Rubio is playing spoiler for conservatism in this race.   


Read more at Conservative Review.
 

EXCLUSIVE: Spy photograph reveals first meeting of Twitter's "Trust and Safety Council"

In addition to banning Stacy McCain's Twitter account for the high crime of offending feminists, the social network's ill-named "Trust and Safety Council" has also banned the the Twitter account used to promote his book, Sex Trouble. With that said, I think it safe to say that the following anonymously sourced photograph captures the Council's most recent meeting.


Too harsh? I don't think so.
 

Larwyn's Linx: What would a President Marco Rubio do about immigration?

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Nation

What would a President Marco Rubio do about immigration?: John Fonte
Levin: Rubio's Disgraceful Tactics: CR Wire
Fully Delusional Cruz and Rubio Campaigns Ignore Trump As He Soars: Ben Shapiro

Scalia’s Passing: A Reminder of the Stakes: Paul A. Rahe
GOPe Plans To Go “Full Mississippi” on Trump To Destroy Him: Treehouse
Oh, by the way: Just 4% of all Super PAC spending has targeted Trump: Hot Air

Cruz versus Trump: The difference between a conservative and a populist: Bookworm
Hillary Doesn't Know Difference Between Constitution And Declaration: Hannity
Does Ben Carson Suspect His Campaign Was a Scam?: David A. Graham

Why Trump Isn't the Inevitable Nominee: Lou Cannon
Get Over It, GOP: Trump’s the Nominee: Fran Coombs
The Math: Why Cruz is the Only GOP Candidate that can Stop Trump: JD Rucker

Trump: The barbarian at the GOP gates: John Kass
RNC sees leverage over Trump: Daniel Strauss
Cruz Isn't Out, and Rubio Isn't a Shoo-In: Albert R. Hunt

Economy

An Escalating War on Cash: John Browne
How the Affordable Care Act Continues to Fall Short: Veronique De Rugy
Economic Inequality Summed Up in One Picture: MB

Scandal Central

Trump Heading to Trial Over Trump University Fraud Charges: LI
Lynch: Hillary e-mail investigation will get an “independent” review … to a point: Ed Morrissey
A bad day for the DOJ in court; a good one for electoral integrity: Paul Mirengoff

Lexington, MA Now Faces Semi-Automatic Gun Confiscation: Mike Sweeney
The Trashing of Bill’s Accusers: What Did Hillary Do — and Why Did She Do It?: Larry Elder
CNN: Trump’s body language like that of Mussolini: Brian Maloney

Media

If This isn't an Endorsement of Ted Cruz Nothing is! A Must Listen!: Politibrew
Twitter’s “Trust and Safety Council”: Orwellian, or just a really bad idea?: Ed Morrissey
The #FreeStacy Twitter Exodus Has Begun: Daniel Payne

California State University LA Bans Ben Shapiro: LI
A question for all you I-will-never-vote-for-Trump-even-if-he's-the-nominee conservatives: CainTV
Why I support Ted Cruz for president: Dan Patrick

World

The Tough Choices Of Overseas Intervention: Victor Davis Hanson
Israel says Iran building terror network in Europe, US: Himalayan
West told Ukraine to abandon Crimea, document says: EUobserver

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

The Death of Twitter: The Z Man
The Amazing True Story of How the Microwave Was Invented by Accident: Matt Blitz
Automakers Find Three Root Causes for Defective Takata Airbags: Clifford Atiyeh

Cornucopia

Suicide Is Painless.: MOTUS
The Mercedes-AMG C43 Coupe Is Like A C63 With The Volume Turned Down: Matt Robinson
There's a Word for This: Sondrakistan

Image: There's a Word for This
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: Help Protect Our Constitution: Ted Cruz for President

QOTD: "First comes legalization. Then come the measures to secure the border." --Sen. Marco Rubio, June 10, 2013, speaking in Spanish on the Spanish-language Univision television network

Wednesday, February 24, 2016

TOP 5 REASONS TO IMPEACH: IRS Chief John "One Step Shy of Perjury" Koskinen

By Sarah Feldspauch

Taxpayers deserve a transparent, accountable government, starting with Commissioner John Koskinen’s complacency in uncovering the truth in the Lois Lerner conservative targeting scandal. The agency has continually displayed extraordinary lack of responsibility.

Koskinen has also proven to be incapable of correctly handling taxpayer dollars, protecting them from identity theft, fraud, and even lied to the American people and Congress. Clearly, the agency is in desperate need of reform and new leadership.

The following are the top five reasons to impeach IRS Commissioner John Koskinen:

DEEP THOUGHTS WITH DOUG: This Episode --- Trump and the SuperPACs

Another submission by our summer intern, @BiffSpackle.


Larwyn's Linx: Rubio Needs to Step Aside and Clear the Field For Ted Cruz, Not Vice Versa

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Nation

Rubio Needs to Step Aside and Clear the Field For Ted Cruz, Not Vice Versa: Ace
Liberty—If You Can Keep It: Myron Magnet
With nomination looming, Trump slated to take stand in fraud trial: Michael Isikoff

Stat Crimes Matter: Heather Mac Donald
If Cruz Wants to Win, Thursday Night He'll Have to Knock Trump Out: Ben Shapiro
August 2013: Donald Trump Supports Amnesty: Dana Loesch

Judge unimpressed by Obama DOJ’s dive on non-citizen voting: Paul Mirengoff
Van Jones: Bernie Was For Civil Rights When Hillary Was For Goldwater: WklyStd
McConnell: No hearings or meetings with Supreme Court nominee: Politico

A Rubio-Cruz ticket might be the only way to stop Trump: Jonah Goldberg
The Conservative Case Against Marco Rubio: John Hawkins
Gun Maker Seeks Dismissal of Lawsuit Over Newtown Shooting: ABC

Nevada Caucus

Trump Wins Nevada. Rubio and Cruz settle nothing.: Leon H. Wolf
Trump Speech Falsely Tells Voters Cruz Left Nevada Before Caucus: CR Wire
Nevada caucuses: reports of double voting, Trump attire on poll staff: Nicky Woolf

Nevada entrance polls show Trump winning Hispanics: Al Weaver
Nevada: irregularities, disorganization and violations of caucus rules: Kyle Cheney
Caucus chaos in Nevada as voters report instances of possible fraud: David M. Drucker

Economy

H-1B Hell: Obama DOJ Throws Fired SoCal Edison Workers Under Bus: Michelle Malkin
Starving on the Prosciutto-and-Brie Poverty Diet: Michelle Malkin
Gullible Americans: Walter Williams

Scandal Central

Using @Twitter's own risk factor analysis to force it to respect viewpoint diversity: Bainbridge
Big Trouble for Hillary: Federal Judge Grants 'Judicial Watch' Discovery on Emails: Debra Heine
Obama says he will close Gitmo – give terrorists Miranda rights: FAM

Media

Red Ears Reveal Rubio’s Immigration Lies during O’Reilly Interview: Brenda Walker
Black Nationalist: ‘A Black Person Voting for Hillary Clinton Is Like a Jew Voting for Adolf Hitler’: Sam Reisman
Adam Baldwin sets the record straight, bids farewell to Twitter: Twitchy

Exclusive: Inside The Donald Trump Sexual Assault Lawsuit: Rachel Stockman
Brutal Ad Released Ripping Trump on Illegal Immigration Flip-Flop: DailyWire
Trump: 'I Really Don't Even Know What I Mean, Because That Was a Long Time Ago': Susan Jones

Twitter Doubles Down Stacy McCain’s SexTroubleBook account banned: DTG
'Average Mohamed' Cartoons Fight Radicalization in U.S.: Clarion
Federal Court Grants Judicial Watch Discovery on Clinton Email Issue: JW

World

Obama’s Plan to Close Guantánamo Would Establish Indefinite Detention on U.S. Soil: Murtaza Hussain
New York: Muslim rams patrol car, shoots two cops in Brooklyn: Creeping
Trump slams Iraq invasion, after first supporting it: Times of Israel

Russia wants to fly over U.S. with advanced digital camera: Times
Up to 5,000 Syria-trained jihadists back in Europe: EUobserver
68,000 migrants arrived in Greece in January: EUobserver

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

The man who made 'the worst video game in history': Richard Hooper
The Eight Principles That Made Google the Most Innovative Company on Earth: Steven Kotler
These 5 Viral Puzzles Are Baffling the Internet—Can You Solve Them?: Sage Lazzaro • 02/23/16 12:44pm

Cornucopia

Einstein: He Really Was All That: MOTUS
Hitler 'had tiny deformed penis' as well as just one testicle, historians claim: Telegraph
Ronda Rousey on 'Tonight Show' Photoshopped Picture: It 'Goes Against Everything I Believe': NBC-4

Image: Red Ears Reveal Rubio’s Immigration Lies during O’Reilly Interview
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: Help Protect Our Constitution: Ted Cruz for President

QOTD: "On Friday, Breitbart News published an exclusive interview with Chris Crane, an ICE officer of 13 years and a U.S. Marine, in which Crane said Sen. Rubio treated law enforcement “like absolute trash” during his push to pass his 2013 amnesty bill. On Saturday, Rubio appeared on Fox News and implicitly denounced Crane and his service to the country. “He’s not an ICE official, he’s head of a union,” Rubio said angrily.

Miller, who worked for Sen. Sessions as Rubio sought to push the Gang of Eight amnesty bill through the Senate, explained that: “Chris Crane was a central figure in stopping the Gang of Eight immigration bill from becoming law. He did that in his capacity as the ICE Council President for America’s nearly 6,000 ICE officers and personnel. What that means is that the 6,000 ICE officers and personnel cast a ballot to pick one from among their own ranks to represent them nation-wide… He [Crane] was a central figure in exposing the Gang of Eight bill and stopping it.”

Miller explained that rather than rebutting ICE officer Crane’s specific accusations, Rubio responded by attacking Crane’s integrity... Rubio’s treatment of law enforcement and his implicit denunciation of Crane “really has become one of the central issues of the 2016 race,” Miller said." --Julia Hahn

Tuesday, February 23, 2016

SCORCHED EARTH FOR A GENERATION: President Hillary and the End of the Second Amendment

By Wayne LaPierre

“Only Eight Years of President Hillary Can Take the Supreme Court Away From Conservatives”

That headline on the Daily Beast website succinctly lays out the devastating threat to our liberty that defines the coming November elections—demanding that we as NRA members mobilize as never before.

You can bet that a Hillary Clinton Supreme Court will make sure to carry out her threat to “take back the Second Amendment” and that the protections of the First Amendment on free assembly and free speech—as exercised to perfection by NRA members—will be erased.

That entire progressive agenda is in danger if they “don’t get a lock on the White House and pack the bench for a generation.”

An Open Letter to Senator Sanders

By David Brock

Dear Senator Sanders,

I’m writing today to urge that you and your campaign immediately halt all negative campaigning against our party’s prospective candidate for the Presidency, Secretary Hillary Clinton.

After first pledging to wage a positive campaign for President, you and your campaign have for weeks now engaged in a relentlessly ugly barrage of false character attacks against Mrs. Clinton, including running negative TV advertising of the sort you promised you never would.

Following the Nevada caucuses, you had the opportunity to live up to the self-professed ideals of your own campaign by delivering an aspirational message of systemic change, but instead you chose to ramp up spurious negative attacks against the winner of those caucuses.

AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH: The Democrats's Phony Gun Violence "Epidemic"

By Richard Larsen

On the first day of the year, President Obama declared that he could “no longer sit around and do nothing about the epidemic of gun violence” in this country. The New York Times in December published a front-page editorial titled “End the Gun Epidemic in America.” But do we really have an “epidemic,” and at what point does hyperbole damage rational debate and resolution?

To illustrate how hyperbolic the notion of “epidemic of gun violence” is, let’s look at what real epidemics look like. Typhus, which spread throughout Europe during the Thirty Years War in the 1600s claimed over 10 million lives. It resurfaced during the 20th century, and caused several million deaths during WWI in Eastern Europe.

Larwyn's Linx: Refuting the Lies About Cruz Told by Rubio and His Supporters

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Nation

Refuting the Lies About Cruz Told by Rubio and His Supporters: Patterico
White House slashed NYC anti-terror funding to punish Schumer: Dan Friedman
Illegals will be voting in the 2016 election: Flopping Aces

Trump’s brilliant 30 second indictment of an open borders policy: Kevin Collins
LifeZette Exclusive: Sessions Says No to Rubio: Jon Conradi
The Math and the Map: Mark Steyn

Robert B. Reichhhh Produces the Best Campaign Ad Ted Cruz Could Wish For: EIB
Ted Cruz fires communications director after doctored Rubio video: Ace
A Republic If We Can Keep It – A Message To Ted Cruz Supporters: Treehouse

Bernie Sanders: the ghost of socialism past: The Z Man
Why Democrats Should Beware Sanders’ Socialism: Paul Starr, Politico
Constitutional Carry Convincingly Passes in West Virginia Senate: Bob Owens

Rubio's Rocky Road Ahead: Caitlin Huey-Burns
Suggested Cruz Campaign Reboot: Show, Don’t Tell: David Limbaugh
Paranoid Politics: Thomas Sowell

Economy

Bernie Sanders, Lifelong Stalinist: MB
Government Illegally Diverts Billions to Obamacare Reinsurance Slush Fund: ATR
Obama is looting the Treasury to pay off insurers: Betsy McCaughey

Scandal Central

Lawsuit: Obama DOJ Goes to Federal Court to Facilitate Non-Citizen Voter Registration: True the Vote
Almost 90,000 dangerous illegal immigrants go free: Paul Bedard
Obama Making Sure Non-Citizens Vote: Daniel Horowitz

Trump Threatens Private Donor For Contributing Against Him. That Should Scare You.: Ben Shapiro
Reporter has Hillary’s Wall Street speech transcripts: Olaf Ekberg
New Document in Criminal Corruption Case against Hillary Clinton in Whitewater Affair: JW

Media

Conservatives are prisoners of Twitter: William A. Jacobson
#FreeStacy: @rsmccain ‘Will Not Be Restored’; @SexTroubleBook Suspended: R.S. McCain
#FreeStacy – Another Conservative Dissident Is Banned And Put In The Twitter Gulag: NoisyRm

Biden in 1992: No hearings for GOP Supreme Court appointment: Joel Gehrke
Mark Levin on The Five: “The hate for Ted Cruz, the love for Marco Rubio is UNMISTAKABLE”: Scoop
Hillary tries preacher routine at gospel awards show: Olaf Ekberg

Actor Adam Baldwin Quits Twitter “For Good” In Protest Of The Platform Censoring Conservatives: Benny Johnson
Twitter Bans Conservative Blogger, “Kill Trump” Account Still Active 6 Months Later: Paul Joseph Watson
Twitters’ War Against Conservatives Widens: BattleSwarm

World

Obama Releasing Plan to Close Guantanamo: Molly O'Toole
Norwegian government: We will abandon international law if Sweden collapses: SPEISA
Moderate Malaysia: Muslims pressuring children in Catholic schools to convert to Islam: Robert Spencer

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

RIP Twitter: Larry Correia
OPM tech head resigns before having to testify: Rudy Takala
Bill Gates: An energy miracle is coming, and it's going to change the world: Drake Baer

Cornucopia

Blue State Nirvana: Photo Gallery of Abandoned Homes in Chicago: Marathon
Game of Thrones: Winter is Trumping: Exam
Pink Floyd Monday: MOTUS

Image: White House slashed NYC anti-terror funding to punish Schumer
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: Help Protect Our Constitution: Ted Cruz for President

QOTD: "I welcome Ms. Seymour’s retirement and hope that it will represent an important turning point at an agency plagued with mismanagement and negligence at the highest level. Last year, OPM fell victim to the worst cyber-attack in United States’ history largely due to internal failure within the agency to implement proper cybersecurity measures. Throughout the course of the Oversight and Government Reform Committee’s investigation into the hack, it came to light that OPM officials ignored an Inspector General’s cybersecurity recommendations, leaving the personal information of millions of federal employees, members of the U.S. military, and intelligence officials vulnerable to a hack.

The OPM attack was a failure at every level and will have security implications for decades to come. I look forward to a new day ahead at OPM and am eager to work to ensure that the necessary measures are taken to prevent a data breach of this magnitude from ever happening again" --Rep. Mark Meadows (R-NC)