Showing posts with label Obama. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Obama. Show all posts

Wednesday, February 15, 2017

BUMMER: Did President Trump Just Nuke Obamacare with a Single Executive Order?

By Josie Wales

Earlier this month, the IRS made a seemingly insignificant change to its policy, undermining the Obamacare mandate in a very significant way.

For the last several years, individual filers were required by law to fill out line 61 of form 1040, which indicates whether you have maintained coverage or paid the penalty. This is otherwise known as a “shared responsibility statement.” Taxpayers could also claim exemption by filing a 8965 form. Tax returns that don’t indicate coverage status (silent returns) were to be automatically rejected. However, due to an executive order issued by President Trump, that line is now optional, making it incredibly difficult to enforce the Obamacare mandate.

In a statement to Reason, the IRS said:

Tuesday, February 14, 2017

INSIDERS: Curious How Flynn's Conversation Was Released, But Nothing Ever Got Leaked on Hillary's Crimes

By Richard Pollock

In the final hours before his resignation, now-former White House National Security Adviser Michael T. Flynn said he “crossed no lines” in his discussion with Russia’s ambassador, but ultimately he was most concerned about the steady stream of leaks to reporters based on classified information.

“In some of these cases, you’re talking about stuff that’s taken off of a classified system and given to a reporter. That’s a crime,” Flynn told The Daily Caller News Foundation Investigative Group during a telephone interview from his White House office on Monday.

“You call them leaks. It’s a criminal act. This is a crime. It’s not just a wink and a nod,” Flynn said.

JUST AS PREDICTED: The Political Assassination of Michael Flynn

By Rush Limbaugh

Everybody just calm down, just calm down. All of this was predicted to you, every bit of this was predicted to you. I mean the media behavior. To show you just how lame the media is and how little they’ve got, they’re already asking what did Trump know and when did he know it, and that’s not the question. The question is, what did Barack Obama know and when did he know it and what has he engineered here?

Monday, February 13, 2017

AN ALLEGED ISLAMIST SPY RING: Is This Why Rex Tillerson Cleaned House at State?

By Free Market Shooter

Shortly after Trump took office, and before Rex Tillerson was even confirmed as Secretary of State, a slew of State Department officials were removed from their positions (or were forced to resign) as part of an effort to “clean house” at the State Department.  The whole affair was haphazardly covered by the media, especially by Jeff Bezos’s blog, which insinuated that the departures were “an ongoing mass exodus of senior Foreign Service officers who don’t want to stick around for the Trump era.”

Sunday, February 12, 2017

TRUMP: Echoes of a Jacksonian Presidency

By Jim Quinn

“Gentlemen! I too have been a close observer of the doings of the Bank of the United States. I have had men watching you for a long time, and am convinced that you have used the funds of the bank to speculate in the breadstuffs of the country. When you won, you divided the profits amongst you, and when you lost, you charged it to the bank. You tell me that if I take the deposits from the bank and annul its charter I shall ruin ten thousand families. That may be true, gentlemen, but that is your sin! Should I let you go on, you will ruin fifty thousand families, and that would be my sin! You are a den of vipers and thieves. I have determined to rout you out, and by the Eternal, (bringing his fist down on the table) I will rout you out!” – Andrew Jackson

UNEXPECTEDLY: @ABC, @CNN, @WashingtonPost can't find evidence of vote fraud that a 9-year old could using Google

White House policy adviser Stephen Miller appeared on the Sunday talk shows today and made some bold claims regarding rampant vote fraud.

A hysterical, incompetent Democrat-media complex -- operating in lockstop, almost as if Journolist was still around -- immediate lept upon his statements. Glenn Kessler, the reliably Leftist Washinton Post columnist, used his debunked Polifact platform to rip Miller.

The problem for these big brains is that a 9-year old using Google could raise enough questions about systematic, rampant vote fraud to completely legitimize Miller. Here's a starter kit for the idiots reporters on the Left:

When the "Breitbart lynch mob" came for @brooks_rosa, the Leftist Hypocrisy-Meter exploded into a million shards

Writing at the far left Foreign Policy online magazine, columnist Rosa Brooks complains that her hints of a military coup that would topple Dictator Trump eventually led to a torrent of criticism, some of it profane. She terms such trolling and criticism a "lynch mob", albeit a very virtualized version of one.

She'd have a tad more credibility if she didn't repeatedly beclown herself with examples of Trump's "extremism". Insert helpful infographic here (click to enbiggen):

See, Rosa, it's only controversial when Republicans do it, right?
 

Saturday, February 11, 2017

ANIMATION: The Reason Democrats Love Open Borders

Well, this animated GIF is a tad sobering. It contrasts illegal immigration population centers with the blue counties that voted for Hillary.


And... that's a wrap.
 

QUITE TRAGIC: Defunding Sanctuary Cities Will Pay for the Wall

It's the little things that often make life worthwhile.

Finding a $20 bill on the sidewalk. That extra hour of sleep when Daylight Savings Time turns over. Oh, and watching Hillary Clinton lose an election in real-time.

And then there's all of that "build the wall" business.

Democrats -- using their traditional, Barney Frank-level of hypocritical lying -- have suddenly claimed they're worried about the debt. That's after eight years of spending that made Caligula look like Scrooge.

Their faux concern: paying a few billion dollars for a security wall. Never mind that building the wall would save Americans countless hundreds of billions on handouts to illegals. That's called a "return on investment", a concept as foreign to the Democrat Party as, say, learning from history.

Now for the ironical part:

Friday, February 10, 2017

TWO CHARTS TO BLOW YOUR MIND: Where Illegal Aliens Live and How Many are Collecting Welfare

Try and contain your surprise, but it turns out that 20 metro areas are home to 60 percent of all illegal aliens in the U.S.

Examine the map, below, and you'll find that five of the top 20 illegal alien havens are in California.

Shut down California's financial incentives to harbor illegals and you solve a great percentage of the problem in the entire country.

WORSE THAN SNOWDEN AND HILLARY? Another NSA Contractor Said to Have Stolen Nation's Most Classified Info

By James Holbrooks

According to an indictment released Wednesday, the information stolen by Harold Martin, a former N.S.A. contractor who was arrested in August of last year, may be far more damaging to the U.S. intelligence community than anything taken by Edward Snowden.

On October 5, the New York Times broke the story that the F.B.I. had arrested an employee of the intelligence community over suspicions the worker had stolen highly classified computer code.

From that report:

Just Like Any Other Religion, Part MCCLXVIII

Yep, I could see clerics in other religions reciting this in their houses of worship. Right, liberals?


Homework here.
 

Thursday, February 09, 2017

HATE MACHINE: How Liberals Became the Very Fascists They Always Warned Us About

By Razor

Before the election, we were told that Trump was a Nazi and his jackbooted thugs would take over and put people into camps and treat them as nonhumans. That is, to do what was only done previously in America by Democrats.

Society is more divided now than at any time since the Civil War. People hate other people because of who they voted for. People are even choosing friends and breaking apart from family members based on who they supported in the last election. Beyond Facebook unfriending, relationships are impacted. It’s based on fear, disappointment, and hatred, and it seems to be all coming from one side.

Leftists said if Trump won, that there’d be violent mobs of hate, and intolerant fascists would try to silence those with whom they disagree. And they were right. It just was by a group of people from which they didn’t expect it: themselves.

A SIMPLE PLAN: How President Trump Can Bypass a Rogue and Lawless 9th Circuit Court

By Jim Simpson

President Trump needs to deny the Left a victory over his immigration executive order. The court challenge now being heard by the infamously unconstitutional and extremist 9th Circuit threatens to set a precedent that will codify open borders and leave the president powerless to protect us. Trump can snatch victory from the jaws of defeat and deny the Left their unconscionable and unconstitutional attempted power grab by rescinding this EO and issuing stronger multiple replacements as stand alone orders.

Wednesday, February 08, 2017

DEBATING CONAN: Ted Cruz Drives Bernie Sanders Before Him and Hears the Lamentation of His Women

So Ted Cruz debated socialist Senator Bernie Sanders on health care the other day.

It was kinda like William Tecumseh Sherman versus Pajama Boy.

Consider this snippet, courtesy of PJmedia:

When Sanders asked Cruz point-blank whether "every American [is] entitled to healthcare as a right," Cruz took him back to the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence.

Tuesday, February 07, 2017

WHAT A CONCEPT: How about we try "America First" when it comes to college admissions?

By Cliff Kincaid

In a recent article, “Surge in foreign students may be crowding Americans out of elite colleges,” The Washington Post accidentally blurted out the truth about one of the factors affecting the rising cost of college for American students. The percentage of foreign students enrolling in both public and private colleges and universities has skyrocketed. Their sponsors, Middle East governments and regimes like China, buy their way into American colleges and universities for their own students, forcing up costs for the dwindling number of Americans fortunate enough to gain admission.

It is estimated that over one million international students are enrolled in U.S. colleges and universities. That figure has doubled in 15 years. And that growing international enrollment is crowding out qualified U.S. students.

NUKE THE FILIBUSTER: Democrats Started the Fight, It's Time to Finish It

By Daniel Greenfield

Senator Harry Reid had big plans for the filibuster last year. The outgoing minority leader was bragging that the filibuster would be eliminated if Republicans tried to stop President Hillary Clinton’s judicial appointments.

"I have set the Senate so when I leave we’re going to be able to get judges done with a majority. It takes only a simple majority anymore," the top Democrat bragged. "They mess with the Supreme Court: it'll be changed just like that."

But instead of watching the maids hang up her pantsuits in the White House closets, Hillary Clinton is working on a collection of essays that she hopes someone will want to buy and Harry Reid is yelling at the children playing on his lawn. The Democrats don’t have the Senate or the White House.

And, as President Trump has urged, it’s time to nuke the filibuster.

Sunday, February 05, 2017

PANIC AT THE P.L.O.: The Trump Way of War

By Caroline Glick

The PLO is disoriented, panicked and hysterical. Speaking to Newsweek this week, Saeb Erekat, PLO chief Mahmoud Abbas’s chief conduit to Israel and the Americans, complained that since President Donald Trump was sworn into office, no administration official had spoken to them.

“I don’t know any of them [Trump’s advisers]. We have sent them letters, written messages. They don’t even bother to respond to us.”

The Trump administration’s shunning of the PLO is a marked departure from the policies of its predecessor. For former president Barack Obama, together with Iran, the Palestinians were viewed as the key players in the Middle East. Abbas was the first foreign leader Obama called after taking office.

SURPRISE! MORE OP-EDS DISGUISED AS NEWS STORIES: Oil and Gas Regulation Edition

By William Teach

Reason #45986758677984232 that the Credentialed Media has lost trust, as the NY Times publishes what is essentially an activist opinion piece by Eric Lipton on page A1 of the Sunday NY edition. This might as well have been written by the office of Nancy Pelosi:

G.O.P. Hurries to Slash Oil and Gas Rules, Ending Industries’ 8-Year Wait

(the headline on the web front page is “GOP Leaps to End Oil And Gas Rules)

The document carried the title “A Roadmap to Repeal,” a concise list of Obama administration environmental regulations that a Koch brothers-backed group was pressing President Trump and Congress to quickly reverse after Inauguration Day.

Saturday, February 04, 2017

BRILLIANT: Democrat Nitwits on House Intel Committees Compromised by Their Own "Diverse" IT Staff

By Luke Rosiak

Three brothers who managed office information technology for members of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence and other lawmakers were abruptly relieved of their duties on suspicion that they accessed congressional computers without permission.

Brothers Abid, Imran, and Jamal Awan [Ed: Militant Quakers, no doubt] were barred from computer networks at the House of Representatives Thursday, The Daily Caller News Foundation Investigative Group has learned.