Wednesday, June 30, 2010

Markos Moulitsas reveals his popular Daily Kos website has been 100% satire for the last 18 months

Markos Moulitsas, the founder of the popular Daily Kos website, yesterday stunned the blogosphere by revealing that virtually all of the material published over the last 18 months was satirical, not factual, in nature.

I have just published a report by three statistics wizards showing, quite convincingly, that all of the material we ran the past year and a half was likely bunk.

It's true. Thousands of years of human experience show quite convincingly that modern progressives are socialist retreads. Facts, logic and reason demonstrate beyond a shadow of a doubt that the liberals' big government-slash-socialist agenda inevitably leads to the destruction of societies.

Kos continued:

Quite some time ago, we embarked on a secret project to revamp the content of the Daily Kos website. We intended to -- and have succeeded beyond our wildest dreams -- in replacing The Onion as the thinking man's humor portal.

If you Google "hilarious political satire", we're definitely on the first page of results along with JibJab and the entire New York Times editorial board.

And next year we will release our first motion picture, modeled after the National Lampoon Vacation series of films. Look for Kos Goes to College and Learns to Write Good in theaters mid-third-and-a-half-quarter 2011.

Kos also noted that "Premium Banner" sponsorships of the movie are still available but are selling fast.


Larwyn's Linx: Elena Kagan -- Lawyer by Day, Obstetrician by Night

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Kagan Nomination

Lawyer By Day, Obstetrician By Night: Ace
Did Kagan lie to Supreme Court in 9/11 case?: TAB
Is this the Kagan 'smoking gun'?: Patterico

'A Pattern of Socialist Associations': the Early Years: NewZeal
Reports: Kagan used flat-out lies to win cases: NiceDeb
Sotomayor lied, Kagan's credibility died: Times

Nation

Obama's 'Coffee House' Loophole: Malkin
Adolf Farrakhan wants Jews to apologize: GWP
Where Did the Tea-Party Anger Come From?: Hanson

Reporter, Consultant, Housewife, Spy: AT
Pete Stark urinates all over voters: Malkin
NY should kill profs' foolish vote-count scheme: Post

Economy

Hasn’t the SEIU wasted enough of its members’ money?: Malkin
How the Worst Teachers are Rewarded by Unions: RWN
The Union-Only Protection Racket: Jacoby

So Tell Me: Charity and Government: Kesler
CBO Tax Analysis: Oof!: BlogProf
Why Obama is Sabotaging U.S. Economic Growth: AIM

Climate & Energy

Day 70: Feds Finally Accept Foreign Help with Spill: RWN
5 Ways the Administration Bungled the Gulf Spill: Townhall
Obama's Bureaucracies: They're spill-tastic!: Morris

Media

Left-wing group’s grant will 'educate' legacy media on Obamacare law: Malkin
Daily Kos to sue Research 2000 over polling fraud: Hot Air
The Perpetual Campaign: PJM

A Media Welfare State?: City Journal
I'll Take a Cashier's Check, Mr. Breitbart: IowaHawk
Tom Brokaw's Stunning Revelation: He's a Democrat: Malkin

Desperately Seeking Liberals: AT
Oops: Ambinder's Agitprop Requires Some Facts: RWN
Riehl's War on the GOP Establishment: Ace

World

Petraeus Testimony: Mudville Gazette
Would a Tehran 'No Fly' Zone Work?: AT
Obama surrenders: US arms sales to Taiwan on hold: People's Daily (China)

Why Islam Will Never Accept the State of Israel: AT
Leviathan's Loot: AT
Chavez Protesters in Venezuela Carry Stalin, Lenin & Marx Posters: GWP

SciTech

Science historian cracks "the Plato code": Manchester
Cisco introduces Cius Android tablet PC: CNet
Google Changing Course In Big Fight With China: IBD

Cornucopia

Amateurs: SondraK
Cities with worst traffic problems revealed: Maktoob
Saudi clerics battle over adult-breastfeeding: Maktoob

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Tuesday, June 29, 2010

The Invasion Continues as Drug-, Arms- and Human-Smuggling Gangs Operate in Arizona with Complete Impunity

The magnificent BorderInvasionPics.com website just posted its latest hidden-camera videos from the corridors controlled by Mexican drug- and human-smuggling gangs.

Day after day, BIP documents the unchecked flow of smugglers, armed criminals, the ill, the poor and others of unknown origin into the U.S.

Local law enforcement in Arizona says that "Mexican drug cartels now control parts of Arizona.

And the President and Democrats in Congress don't give a damn, no matter how many Americans are hurt, no matter how many cops are killed, no matter how much damage is done to our society.


Related Reading Just to Tick You Off Even More:
The Shameless Duplicity of the Obama Administration: Napolitano Directly Contradicts Solis on Immigration Enforcement; Media Strangely Silent.
Four Border Stories Guaranteed to Make Your Blood Boil
Obama Administration Unveils Dramatic New Plan to Seal Massive Gulf Leak: Suing Arizona for Arresting Drug- and Human-Smugglers
Anyone know what you call it when heavily armed intruders cross the border into the U.S. unmolested by authorities? Oh, that's right: Arizona.


Here's yer tax hike exemption card you was promised

Americans for Tax Reform will ship you your own, valuable tax hike exemption card for a nominal contribution. Here's the way it works:

If you make under $250,000 a year and find yourself confronted with any of the taxes highlighted on the ATR site ("Tax on Indoor Tanning Services," "Medicine Cabinet Tax," "Special Needs Kids Tax," etc.) simply use these instructions:

How to use the card:

Step 1: Present the card to merchants, employers, and tax authorities.

Step 2: If challenged, pleasantly ask: "Are you calling President Obama a liar?"

“I can make a firm pledge. Under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase. Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes.”

--Candidate Barack Obama, Sept. 12, 2008

“If your family earns less than $250,000 a year, you will not see your taxes increased a single dime. I repeat: not one single dime.”

--President Barack Obama, Feb. 24, 2009

“The statement didn’t come with caveats.”

--Obama spokesman Robert Gibbs, April 15, 2009, when asked if the pledge applies to healthcare

What's still unclear is how the tax hike exemption card would work after Democrats slap on their massive new VAT taxes? Of course, it may not matter, because they're guaranteed to supercharge the economy, especially after the Bush tax cuts expire*.


Hat tip: Amalaur.

* Thanks in part to the ludicrous John McCain -- of McCain-Feingold, Amnesty for Illegals, the Gang of 14, and numerous other affronts to the Constitution.


Gee, What a Surprise: Under Oath, Union Official Says Obama Lied About Blago Contacts

Sitting down? I don't want to catch you off guard, but a powerful Democrat union boss said that President-elect Obama lied about not having contact with disgraced Governor Rod Blagojevich about his vacated Senate seat.

Top union leader Thomas Balanoff said he was at dinner the night before the November Presidential election when he got a call that was blocked... So he didn't take it.

Later he listened to his messages: "I walked outside, listened to it and it was from President Obama," Balanoff said.

"Tom, this is Barack, give me a call," the soon-to-be President-Elect said on the message... After Balanoff sent word through an Obama aide to call him back, Obama returned his call later that night.

"Tom, I want to talk to you with regard to the Senate seat," Obama told him... Balanoff said Obama said he had two criteria: someone who was good for the citizens of Illinois and could be elected in 2010.

Obama said he wasn't publicly coming out in support of anyone but he believed Valerie Jarrett would fit the bill.

"I would much prefer she (remain in the White House) but she does want to be Senator and she does meet those two criteria," Balanoff said Obama told him. "I said: 'thank you, I'm going to reach out to Gov. Blagojevich."

Balanoff then described a Nov. 6, 2008 meeting he had with Rod Blagojevich to recommend Valerie Jarrett for Barack Obama's Senate seat.

Curiously, most reporters appear to be ignoring the fact that Obama, on several occasions, denied having contact with Blago either directly or indirectly.

In December of 2008, for instance, he flatly denied any discussions:

President-elect Barack Obama said Tuesday afternoon that he has had no dealings with Governor Blagojevich over his replacement in the Senate...

"I had no contact with the governor or his office, and so I was not aware of what was happening," Mr. Obama said. "And as I said it is a sad day for Illinois. Beyond that I don't it's appropriate to comment."

And on another occasion that same month, Obama repeated the claim:

In December 2008, Obama said he was "appalled and disappointed" by the revelations that the Illinois governor was involved in a "pay-to-play" scheme to fill his Senate seat.

"I have never spoken to the governor on this subject. I'm confident that no representatives of mine would have any part of any deals related to this seat," Obama, then the president-elect, said at the time.

But the union boss recalled things differently, testifying under oath that Obama was directly involved and, therefore, that he lied about his wheeling-and-dealing over potential Senate appointees.

Surely some pro journalists could figure out these discrepancies, what with their layers upon layers of fact-checking. Though with Journolost (sic) shut down, keeping all of the narratives straight -- between Newsweek, the New York Times, NBC, Rahm Emanuel and David Axelrod -- must be exceedingly difficult.


Behold the Crazed Economic Recovery Poodle

Can you tell what the difference is between America's prior major recessions and this one? No, I mean besides a Congress and President bent on the destruction of American capitalism.

Every other recession began to heal after sensible policies -- tax cuts or spending cuts or other mechanisms to enable the private sector to regroup.

Welcome to the Obama recovery!


Hat tip: Zero Hedge.

Larwyn's Linx: Protecting the Second Amendment (But Just Barely)

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Second Amendment

Protecting the Second Amendment (But Just Barely): Foundry
The New Normal: After Heller and McDonald: Reynolds
History Justifies Overturning Chicago Gun Ban: PJM

Nation

I was inside Holder's 'unequal enforcement' DOJ: PJM
Inside the Black Panther Case: Times
Kagan: it's fine if the law bans books: GWP

Can we win on illegal immigration?: RWN
Another Outrageous Obama DHS Appointment: Malkin
What's Next for Byrd's Senate Seat?: WashExam

Economy

Issa: How much for the Stimulus propaganda signs?: PJM
Is President Obama Trying To Kill Gulf State Economies?: RWN
How did the New Deal work out?: AT

Brown can't support a $19B tax hike: GWP
Return of the Slaughter Rule: Phony Budget Edition: GOPleader
Obama enlists radicals, unions for amnesty bill: GWP

Climate & Energy

Sex Complaint Against Gore is Detailed, Credible: WashExam
Jobs, Environment at Odds Again: WSJ
'Sustainability' on Campus: NAS

Media

Chronicle: Conservative Women Are 'Pseudo-Women' and 'B***hes': RWN
Alleged spy’s newspaper commentaries pretty much what you’d expect: Greenroom
Obama's Wonderland Is No Fairy Tale: AT

Why I Denied David Frum’s Site a Spot In The Blogads Conservative Hive: RWN
Is the Tea Party a Christian Movement?: Patheos
Media Used 'Conservative' Label on Bush Nominees to High Court; Obama Picks Always 'Centrist': NewsBusters

World

The Long Road to Jerusalem: Anchoress
Ten arrested as Putin spies: PJM
Venezuela’s Chavez and Trotsky, and Oliver Stone: Kesler

Oren Spills the Beans: JRubin
Hugo wants to put Israel in its place: AT
Hamas-Fatah fuel spat leaves thousands in the dark: JPost

SciTech

iPhone 4 teardown reveals $188 cost to build: CNet
Court patent ruling leaves software patents intact: MacWorld
Facebook's paternalistic attitudes aren't empowering: CNN

Cornucopia

Leadership: Denny
Just Desserts: iOTW
Red River Gorge closed after bear attack: Kentucky

Image: iOTW
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Monday, June 28, 2010

An open letter to Republican members of the Senate Judiciary Committee

Republican Members of the Senate Judiciary Committee,

Pursuant to the Elena Kagan confirmation process, I would like to call your attention to a little-known fact related to the role of the minority party on the committee. That is, Rule IV of the Judiciary Committee states that "at least one member of the minority party must vote to end debate in committee."

For Elena Kagan to move to a vote in the Senate, at least one Republican on your committee must accede to end debate. I suggest you hold firm and refuse to end debate.

This Democrat-controlled Congress and this Democrat President have declared war on the American people. Against the clear wishes of the people:

• they have passed a multi-trillion dollar bonanza of federal spending aimed at saving government, not private sector jobs, thereby rewarding their union supporters at the expense of subsequent generations;

• they have rammed through, without a single Republican vote, a brand new entitlement program -- socialized medicine -- when the country can least afford its existing entitlements;

• they are attempting to use unaccountable bureaucracies like the EPA to levy crushing new energy taxes, which will allow an unelected, fourth branch of government to completely control industrial policy;

• they aim to jam through thousands of pages of financial regulation that not a single representative has read, the effects of which cannot be predicted, and that doesn't address the root cause of the economic meltdown: the government-sponsored entities Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac;

This egregious band of career, Leftist politicians have made a mockery of representative government because, even as the American people prepare to boot them out of office in November, they plot to defy the will of the people.

In a set of moves unprecedented in American history, Democrats intend to use the lame-duck session combined with budget reconciliation to do what the American people have rejected. They intend to pass their radical agenda despite what 75-80% of the American people want. They intend to flip off the citizenry, bypass the filibuster and violate their oaths to uphold the Constitution.

This band of Statists has declared war on the GOP and the American people.

It's time to stop playing patsy and refuse to vote Kagan or any other non-originalist nominee out of commitee.

Stonewall everything.

They've Pearl Harbored the American people enough. It's time for our Midway.


Why didn't I think of that? The Democrat-controlled Illinois Economic Recovery Panel Recommends... Income Tax Increases!

From the state of Illinois comes this happy news for beleaguered taxpayers:

A blue-ribbon commission charged by Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn (D) with studying the state's fiscal crisis is recommending significant reforms to the tax code to capture billions of new dollars and address fundamental tax fairness problems.

Among other things, the commission June 24 recommended increasing personal and corporate income taxes, and imposing the personal income tax on retirement earnings...

Sounds "fair" to me! Make it tougher on businesses and retirees -- I'm sure they'll love it!

The commission also recommended an expansion of Illinois's sales tax base to include services.

Why not breathing, too? Eh, forget it -- I guess they're doing that with carbon taxes.

Quinn called on the commission to develop specific recommendations aimed at ensuring long-term health and prosperity for Illinois.

"Long-term health and prosperity!" Doesn't that sound like a Soviet slogan from the fifties?

The report included a detailed analysis of the Illinois tax code and said the current structure is antiquated and unfair, and raises inadequate revenues for state services.

Note that the converse is never true: state services are never -- never -- too costly compared to revenues!

The commission recommended several modifications to the state's income tax structure, including a two percentage point increase to both the personal and corporate rates. The change would generate another $6 billion annually. The commission further suggested that the personal income tax be imposed on retirement earnings, collecting $1.6 billion into state coffers.

Gee, that should be popular.

"I appreciate the hard work of the Economic Recovery Commission," [Gov.] Quinn said. "Its insights will help us work together to build on our existing assets and position our state for strong, lasting recovery as we move out of this historic recession."

Yes, I'm sure the citizens of Illinois will appreciate the recommendations of their betters in Springfield. After all, it's clear they don't pay enough in income taxes, property taxes, excise taxes, gas taxes, sales taxes, corporate taxes, capital gains taxes, etc. etc. etc.

I'm betting that retirees and businesses will now flock -- flock! -- to Illinois knowing that Democrats have returned the state to fiscal health.

(Just between you and me, I don't care how much Illinois raises in increased revenues. It will never be enough to pay for their out-of-control Democrat masters and their union bosses. I'll repeat: it will never be enough. Don't tell anyone I said that, though.)


Paging Jonathan Alter--Joint Chiefs Chairman Slams Obama's Insane Spending: Says Nation’s Debt is Biggest Threat to National Security

Paging Mr. Alter... Mr. Alter... It's time for you to unleash your dogs of demagoguery...

Another member of the military's top brass has roundly criticized the President and the Democrat-controlled Congress; in this case, pointing to their catastrophic levels of deficit spending. Little-publicized were last week's comments by Admiral Mike Mullen, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, at a breakfast hosted by The Hill newspaper.

Adm. Mike Mullen... renewed his warning that the nation’s debt is the biggest threat to U.S. national security.

“I was shown the figures the other day by the comptroller of the Pentagon that said that the interest on our debt is $571 billion in 2012,” Mullen said at a breakfast hosted by The Hill. “That is, noticeably, about the size of the defense budget. It is not sustainable.”

Even under the rosy projections of the Obama White House, which thus far have proven to be worse than if you'd used a dartboard, the deficit is dangerously high.


The Obama/Democrat budget doesn't contemplate closing the deficit for as far as the eye can see.


Despite the utter failure of every spending program they've tried -- starting with the $860 billion "Stimulus" package -- the Democrats continue to shovel the taxpayers' hard-earned dollars into their cash furnace.


Worse still, they are creating deficits that endanger the ability of the country to survive: not simply from a national security perspective, but from the standpoint of risking a total economic collapse.


What happens when our interest costs become unsustainable? Barack Obama and his left wing sycophants in Congress will be long gone, having left their legacy of misery and destruction to our heirs.

Perhaps the laughingstock of a "journalist" -- Newsweek's Jonathan Alter -- can co-author another hit piece with David Axelrod similar to the one that took out General McChrystal.

Odds are Alter can get Mullen fired for the same offense -- for telling the truth.