Wednesday, December 14, 2011

One Year Ago Today, Brian Terry Was Murdered Thanks to Eric Holder's Fast and Furious (Which is kinda like Watergate, Only With 200 Dead)

On the one-year anniversary of Brian Terry's murder at the hands of Eric Holder's Operation Fast and Furious, the family of the slain Border Patrol agent spoke out in The Los Angeles Times.

One year after Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry was killed in southern Arizona, his family said it believes that if a flawed gun-tracking operation run by federal ATF agents violated any laws, then “those responsible for Fast and Furious should be held criminally liable.”

The comments came Wednesday as a Border Patrol National Honor Guard held a brief ceremony at a cemetery in Flat Rock, Mich., where Terry was raised and is now buried. He was shot late on the night of Dec. 14 last year while his Border Patrol team was working a rugged canyon south of Tucson, and pronounced dead early the next morning. Two firearms recovered at the scene were traced to Operation Fast and Furious.

The operation was run by the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, part of the Department of Justice, and allowed illegal buyers to purchase firearms with the [Ed: I think they mean 'no' here, since there was no attempt to track] hope of tracking the weapons to Mexican cartel leaders. But authorities lost track of hundreds of guns, some of which also surfaced later at crime scenes in Mexico.

We find it incomprehensible that members of ATF and DOJ would embark on such an egregious operation and then try to conceal the link between this failed investigation and Brian’s murder,” his family said in a statement. “Much to our dismay, no one in ATF or DOJ has come forward to accept responsibility for Operation Fast and Furious.”

Terry’s family continues to press for answers, and said, “We now believe that if it can be shown that laws were broken, then all those responsible for Fast and Furious should be held criminally liable.”

May Brian Terry and all of the others murdered by this criminal operation rest in peace.

And may Eric Holder and everyone else who orchestrated Murdergate receive swift justice in a court of law.


The Horrifying Chart That Democrats and RINOs Don't Want You to See

It has now been nearly 1,000 days since the Democrats last passed a federal budget. This unprecedented act of fiscal irresponsibility -- one that no other Congress in generations has committed -- allows the most profligate administration in American history to continue racking up more than a trillion dollars in deficit spending each year.

What Democrats and big-government Republicans aren't telling you is this: the Obama-Pelosi-Reid "one-time Stimulus package" was built into the baseline, which means each year that the Obamacrats can avoid writing a budget is another year that this cash furnace can continue burning your children's money.

John Boehner and Mitch McConnell, decent human beings though they may be, haven't even raised this issue with the public. They don't have the spine to enact the drastic cuts this country requires to survive.

This chart illustrates why we Tea Party activists must nominate and elect the most conservative candidates possible in 2012. We have two missions: to politically obliterate the Marxist Left that has subsumed the empty husk of the Democrat Party; and to continue our hostile takeover of the Republican Party, in order to return it to its Reagan-esque roots.

We have no choice if we are to save this Republic.


Larwyn's Linx: Dem Congressman Unloads On Obama

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Nation

Dem Congressman Unloads On Obama: Nice Deb
Barack Has a Record: AT
New Perry ad: “Momentum”: Hot Air

Scandal-plagued A.G. opposes voter integrity laws: Nice Deb
Project 21’s Jones to Holder: Treat Voting Like Banking: ConBlog
Holder’s Fraudulent Attack on Voter Fraud Laws: BigGovt

Cook County Unleashes Child-Molesting Illegals on Citizenry: VirtRep
Plain and Simple: DNC Wants Voter Fraud: PJM
NBC/WSJ poll: Gingrich hits 40 percent nationally: WSJ

Economy

Why Would the IRS Hold a Secret Meeting?: ATR
Occupy Las Vegas Obamaville and its Palestinian flag: Marathon
EU Banks Selling ‘Crown Jewels’ for Cash: Bloomberg

House GOP passes that thing Obama wanted...: Malkin
Economic Fairness: Williams
Port Whine: Big Labor's Occu-Punks: Malkin

The Real Unemployment Rate: OTB
Am I better off today?: MagFarm
Hope and Change Hits Children Hardest: GWP

Gunrunner & Energygate

An Open Letter To Eric Holder From An ATF Agent in Mexico: Nice Deb
Fast and Furious Watch: No Coverage From NBC Nightly News in All of 2011: BigJourn
Eric Holder Announces Opposition to Election Integrity Laws: Adams

Media

“I’m not a partisan Republican. I’m someone who moderate and that my views are progressive”.: HillBuzz
Governor Palin’s USA Today Editorial: “Congress, It’s Time To Stop Lining Your Pockets”: C4P
Book ‘Em, Danno: “Hawaii Five-O” Crew Disrespects Pearl Harbor Survivors: GWP

Obama 50 Minutes Late for Press Conference: Dossier
64 companies have pulled ads from All-American Muslim: JihadWatch
Simon Wiesenthal Center Bashes Antisemitism at Media Matters and Center for American Progress: Lid

Quote o' the Day: Deep Fried Manatees
Perry Would Be A Better Change Agent Than Gingrich: Riehl
Levin: Newt Gingrich is no Marxist or Socialist like these imbeciles suggest: Scoop

Latest Obama Fundraising Letter Asks Donors to Taunt Republicans When Donating (Possibly Illegally): BizzyBlog
Glenn Beck’s third-party insanity: Times
Arrest Bill Clinton!: Thiessen

World

Who is Responsible for Muslim Violence?: Sultan Knish
The Truth About the Refugees: Israel Palestinian Conflict: Danny Ayalon
The Year the Arabs Discovered Palestine: Pipes (2000)

Reset! Russia's Plan to Disrupt U.S.-European Relations: Stratfor
Obama Admin Pushed for Indefinite Detention Provision: NewAm
China’s deserted fake Disneyland: Reuters

A Badly Invented People: Sultan Knish
Legal Immigrants Condemn Dream Act "These people are taking seats in college away from our kids": NUSA
Core of Patriot Act Was Drafted in 1995 … By Joe Biden: Ritholtz

Sci-Tech

Top 5 Implications of Finding the Higgs Boson: LiveScience
SOPA foes marshal opposition before House panel vote: CNet
Malicious text sent to a Windows Phone 7.5 device will force it to reboot and lock up: CNet

Cornucopia

Liquid Candy With a Kick: Parkway Rest Stop
Barack Obama: I'm the fourth best president in American history: GJ&JK
Drunk History vol. 1 - Featuring Michael Cera: DrunkHistory

Image: CBS Sports: Harrison Suspended One Game
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: Sign the Petition: Stop Elena Kagan From Deciding Obamacare

QOTD: "Some politicians claim that politicians create jobs... Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid says, “My job is to create jobs.”

What hubris! Government has no money of its own. All it does is take from some people and give to others. That may create some jobs, but only by leaving less money in the private sector for job creation. ... Actually, it’s worse than that. Since government commandeers scarce resources by force and doesn’t have to peddle its so-called services on the market to consenting buyers, there’s no feedback mechanism to indicate if those services are worth more to people than what they were forced to go without.

The only people who create real, sustainable jobs are in private businesses — if they’re unsubsidized." --John Stossel

Tuesday, December 13, 2011

Just in time for Christmas, President Obama gives the gift of unemployment to more than 100,000 Americans

He's the gift that keeps on taking!

In an environment where jobs are hard to find, the Obama administration has thrown more than 100,000 health insurance agents and brokers under the bus and given them the gift of an unemployment line just before the holidays. To make matters worse, a large number of insurance agents, known in the trade as producers, are self-employed and under the prevailing laws may have difficulty receiving unemployment insurance.


It all stems from the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), known colloquially as Obamacare. PPACA dictates [price controls for insurers including commission payments]... Insurance agents were recently able to get backing from National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) to exclude their commissions from [these price controls].

...Led by National Association of Health Underwriters (NAHU), which claims to represent 100,000 health insurance agents, brokers, and related professionals, the Obama administration was lobbied hard to provide relief to insurance agents. The hope of the insurance agents had risen because of the recent backing by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners.

In a recent ruling, the Department of Health and Human Services dashed all hopes.

Merrrrrrrrrrryyyy Christmas!

Oh, and as an added bonus, the president's decision to delay the gigantic Keystone XL pipeline not only prevents the creation of 20,000 jobs in 2012, it is already costing jobs today.

"Layoffs and a brief company shutdown is what employees face at Welspun Tubular Company, which makes steel pipes for the oil industry."

Rest assured, citizen, that the the president will not rest until every American has a job. That is, while he enjoys his 37 Christmas trees in the White House, prior to leaving this weekend for a 17-day Hawaiian vacation.


Surprise! Poll with ties to SEIU and Daily Kos says... Ron Paul getting close to leaders in Iowa

Before you put too much stock in the most recent PPP poll, you may want to review this April 2011 Hill article:

A top union and a top liberal blog announced Tuesday that they'll team up to sponsor polling through the 2012 elections. Daily Kos and the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) said they will join forces to conduct issue and campaign polling in key states and races over the next two years...

...The SEIU/Daily Kos poll will use Public Policy Polling (PPP), a Democratic firm that uses automated polling rather than live, over-the-phone survey methods. Moulitsas contracted with PPP in June of 2010 after severing ties with Research 2000, which faced allegations of producing faulty poll results.

So when you read news like this, take it with a grain of salt.

Oh my: Ron Paul within one point of Gingrich in Iowa? ... "There has been some major movement in the Republican Presidential race in Iowa over the last week, with what was a 9 point lead for Newt Gingrich now all the way down to a single point. Gingrich is at 22% to 21% for Paul with Mitt Romney at 16%, Michele Bachmann at 11%, Rick Perry at 9%, Rick Santorum at 8%, Jon Huntsman at 5%, and Gary Johnson at 1%."

Really? Methinks that the PPP poll is patently bogus. The Intrade prediction market, probably the best indicator of reality, has Gingrich trading at a 47% chance of winning Iowa versus 29% for Paul.

And let's not forget who Ron Paul really is:

• A man who claims that bloodthirsty Islamist terrorists are morally equivalent to Americans?

• A man who vocally encourages the despicable 9/11 Truther movement?

• A man who embraces virulent anti-semites and is inspired by those who despise Jews?

• A man whose foreign policy prescriptions are so "far left" that they are outright dangerous?

• A man whose strongest supporters vilify Ronald Reagan, William F. Buckley, Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas, Ed Meese, Sarah Palin, etc.?

• A man who despises Israel, a beacon of freedom in an otherwise barbaric Middle East?

• A man so power-hungry that he refuses to rule out a third-party run, which would very likely help reelect Barack Obama?

Jeffrey Lord offers the quintessential summary of Ron Paul for conservatives:

The Ron Paul campaign is really about re-educating America to what can only be called Neoliberalism. Which, based on the evidence and writings of its supporters, appears to be a thin gruel of free markets and non-interventionism seasoned heavily with anti-Semitism, morally obtuse Neo-Confederates, and an outspoken contempt for both conservatism and conservative leaders past and present.

I don't care how well-organized the Paulbots are in Iowa. I put as much stock in PPP polling as I do in lunar cheese. No thinking Republican would ever cast a vote for a man who advocates a George McGovern foreign policy. Ever.


Today's lesson in Sharia law: Saudi Arabia beheads woman for 'witchcraft'

The unindicted co-conspirators known as CAIR hardest hit.

A woman was beheaded in Saudi Arabia for practicing witchcraft and sorcery, the kingdom's Interior Ministry said, prompting Amnesty International to call for a halt in executions there.

Amina bint Abdel Halim Nassar was executed Monday for having "committed the practice of witchcraft and sorcery," according to an Interior Ministry statement. Nassar was investigated before her arrest and was "convicted of what she was accused of based on the law," the statement said. Her beheading took place in the Qariyat province of the region of Al-Jawf, the ministry said.

In a statement issued late Monday, the human rights group called the execution "deeply shocking" and said it "highlights the urgent need for a halt in executions in Saudi Arabia."

"While we don't know the details of the acts which the authorities accused Amina of committing, the charge of sorcery has often been used in Saudi Arabia to punish people, generally after unfair trials, for exercising their right to freedom of speech or religion," said Philip Luther, Amnesty International's interim director of the Middle East and North Africa Programme.

The real tragedy, according to CAIR insiders, is the public relations hit their political system religion is taking over incidents like this.


Holder Justice Department to begin investigating... Voter ID laws

Although it would seem -- curiously! -- that the New Black Panthers have once again escaped scrutiny.

The Obama administration on Tuesday will wade into the increasingly divisive national debate over new voting laws in several states that could depress turnout among minorities and others who helped elect the president in 2008.

A dozen states this year tightened rules requiring voters to present state-issued photo identification at the polls, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures. Although Democratic governors vetoed four of the measures, liberal and civil rights groups have been raising alarms about the remaining laws, calling them an “assault on democracy” and an attempt to depress minority voter turnout.

Supporters of the tighter laws say they are needed to combat voter fraud.

With the presidential campaign heating up, Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. will deliver a speech Tuesday expressing concerns about the voter-identification laws, along with a Texas redistricting plan before the Supreme Court that fails to take into account the state’s burgeoning Hispanic population, he said in an interview Monday...

Meanwhile, Senator John Cornyn has warned Holder not to mess with Texas' voter ID law.

Texas Sen. John Cornyn sent a clear message to U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder this afternoon: Don’t mess with Texas’ voter identification law... “Voter identification laws are constitutional and necessary to prevent fraud at the ballot box,” Cornyn said.

The San Antonio Republican, a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, made his comments hours before Holder is scheduled to speak at the Lyndon B. Johnson Library in Austin. Holder is planning to criticize “voter ID” laws passed by Republican legislatures in states including Texas.

Democrats say the laws are designed to reduce minority voter turnout in the 2012 election. But Cornyn said President Obama is the one who’s politicizing the issue.

“Facing an election challenge next year, this administration has chosen to target efforts by the states to protect the democratic process,” Cornyn said. “They would do well instead to focus on job creation, the economy, and reducing our national debt.”

Oh, and the examples of vote fraud are real and they're spectacular:

Never mind the fact that Mississippi NAACP leader Lessadolla Sowers was recently sentenced to 50 years in prison for vote fraud, that the now-defunct ACORN recently received the maximum fine possible for vote fraud by a Nevada judge or that Holder’s own Justice Department is accused of making a sweetheart settlement with members of the New Black Panther Party who were accused of voter intimidation in Philadelphia on Election Day 2008.

This is all part of the Obama administration's plan to erode the integrity of the ballot box, Chicago-style, prior to the 2012 election.

Actions like this, along with his direction of "Operation Fast and Furious" and his stonewalling of the Kagan health care memos, highlight the need for the House Judiciary Committe to begin impeachment proceedings against Eric Holder.

The most lawless attorney general in American history needs to be held to account.


Beware the co-worker with a camera-equipped spywatch

Given the proliferation of micro-cameras and mobile devices, I guess any expectation of privacy we might have had ended, oh, about 12 minutes ago.

A story has reached me of one [particular IT worker]. I won't betray his place of employment, save to say that it is in a large corporation in New York. I will, though, betray his simple method of, well, amusing himself. He takes pictures of the ladies in his office with his watch. His gentlemanliness is such that he takes these pictures without them knowing.

What he does with them is still open to conjecture. However, it seems that his watch is the SVP MW09.

How can I possibly know this? This particular IT guy thinks there's nothing wrong with wandering around the office taking covert pictures. Perhaps he even believes it's part of a subtle seduction technique.

Oddly, last week he thought there was nothing wrong with admitting to one of the subjects of his covert photography what he is doing... [and she] asked that I might make others aware of the possibilities that these no doubt fine pieces of technology offer to the unscrupulous.

She told me: "How do I know what kind of pictures he already has and how long he's been doing this?"

...Clearly anyone in any place of work could buy one of these watches... So, as you wander into your office tomorrow morning, admire everyone's watch--and then check it for a hidden camera. Just, you know, for fun.

The next growth industry: counter-surveillance tools that can help detect and defeat spy-cams and the like.


Larwyn's Linx: Obama Coordinating With Left-Wing Groups on Vote Fraud?

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Nation

Obama Coordinating With Left-Wing Groups on Vote Fraud?: Power
Supreme Court Takes Up Arizona Immigration Law: Cato
S.F. puts the “X” back in Xmas, Naked Santas Edition: Zombie

Romney’s Record on Judicial and Legal Appointments: Awful: Contrada
Is Debbie Wasserman Schultz Running Scared?: Shark
Gingrich Blasts It Out of Park!: Simon

Gridlock to the Rescue: Sowell
President Obama opines on his achievements: WZ
IN Democrat Chairman resigns over widespread vote fraud: FireAndrea

Economy

Obama Redraws the Laffer Curve: Ricochet
Obama’s Math Works Only in BizzaroEcon World: Hayek
Voters Favor Obamacare Repeal By Massive 20% Margin: WZ

Labor board's Boeing 'retreat' is big win for union bosses: Exam
The U.S. Federal Budget Infographic: CBO
Debunking Depression Myths: CFP

Harry Reid: Millionaire Job Creators are Like Unicorns: Malkin
Wasserman Schultz: unemployment has not gone up under Obama: Toldjah
'Obama sees Democracy as stumbling-block to his greatness': Breitbart

Climate & Energy

Enviromental Scientist Caught On Video Faking Data: Wizbang
Canada exits Kyoto, stage right: Bayonet
Why the Chevy Volt Is Such a Scandal: DailyFinance

Media

"But so far as liberalism goes, this is a pretty devastating graph": Ace
Poor Journalism 101: BS-Bias-Detector Goes Off: BaconTime
Barack Obama, Tax-Cutter: PJM

Glenn Beck jumps the shark, along with Michael Weiner: Nice Deb
Republicans See Gingrich As Man With The Plan: IBD
My Video At Heart of Controversy in Florida House Race: Publius

ABC World News Continues To Ignore Fast And Furious: BigJourn
It’s A Brave New World Out There: Gun Values Board
Stealth Jihad in the Senate: Gaffney

Republican Triumphs and Democrat Lies: Diogenes
Obama’s strange, revisionist history on ‘60 Minutes’: Peth
Evolution of a JournOlist: Politico’s Ben Smith Jumps to BuzzFeed: BigJourn

World

Iran is conducting anti-U.S. operations in Latin America: Foundry
Israeli officials: Obama too soft on Iran: ynet
The Mexican Cartel's Hi-Tech Drug Tunnels: Slashdot

Whose photo op do you think this is?: IBD
MPAA Head Chris Dodd on Online Censorship Bill: China's the Model: WS
Eurocrash Update #2: Power Line

Sci-Tech

Was Russia Behind Stuxnet?: The Diplomat
Why even 4 hours of sleep is enough: Hindustan Times
Google and Facebook battle US anti-piracy laws: Telegraph

Cornucopia

Tim Tebow Makes Believers: EIB
Funny Ad Sells Guns As If They're Neglected Puppies Who Just Need The Right Owner To Love Them: Ace
Awesomest Parallel-Parking Job Ever: Marfdrat

Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: Eric Holder is Coming to Texas Today! Join the Counter-Rally

QOTD: "Given that Merkozy cannot bring themselves to accept that Europe's debacle stems from the euro itself, from a 30pc currency misalignment between from North and South, and from an over-leveraged €23 trillion banking bubble that German, French, Dutch, Belgian regulators allowed to happen… given that, yes, I suppose they have to find a scapegoat.

They have to whip up a witchhunt against somebody, so why not Anglo-Saxon bankers? Nasty reflexes are at work. German and French politicians in particular should be very careful about inciting populist hatred against a group that makes such easy prey. We have been there before." --Ambrose Evans-Pritchard

Monday, December 12, 2011

Photo: after Perry attack, Obama family reluctantly trudges to church

Rick Perry's nickname should be "Muezzin", cuz it appears he successfully issued a call to prayer for the President.

Texas Governor Rick Perry's recent campaign ad vow[ed] to end Obama's "war on religion.

President Obama publicly attended church on Sunday, and spoke about Christ's birth during a Christmas concert program that included Jennifer Hudson, The Band Perry, and Justin Bieber.

...The last time the family publicly attended church on Sunday was in April 2011 for Easter.

To be fair, there aren't any really good Black Liberation Theology churches in the D.C. area, which could explain the president's reluctance to attend services.


Obamas somehow make do with only 37 Christmas trees in White House before they leave on 17-day Hawaiian vacation

Like the movie Fletch, I can imagine President Obama ordering all of these extravagant parties, vacations and over-the-top celebrations and, when the tab comes, he says: "Put it on the Underhill account."

And we're the Underhills.

The economy may be weak, unemployment strong and the first family soon to vacate the White House for another half-month of vacation in Hawaii.

But the Obamas have gone all out in decorating their house this year, including a nearly quarter-ton gingerbread White House.

They have also installed 37 different Christmas trees. Thirty of the trees are live, or were, including one nearly 19-feet tall from Wisconsin. Seven of the three dozen Christmas trees are artificial or homemade including, of course, one from recyclables.

"We have 37 Christmas trees here at the White House--37!" Michelle Obama excitedly told a recent group of visitors. "That's a lot, right? Yes, that's a lot of trees. And we also have a 400-pound White House gingerbread house."

Yeah, and I'll bet the ginger for the gingerbread house was grown by Michelle in her organic garden.

You know, the only members of the "one-percent" I know are the Obama family, Congress and the rest of the overpaid paper-pushers in Washington.


More SmartPower™ From Obama: Hey Iran, Can We Get Our Drone Back?

No, seriously. I'm not making this up.

Even ABC News is chortling as the Organizer-In-Chief tries to push the Reset button... all the way back to the Carter administration.

President Barack Obama said today the U.S. has requested that Iran return the highly sensitive stealth drone that crash landed there two weeks ago, but an Iranian general already said that's not going to happen.

"We've asked for it back. We'll see how the Iranians respond," Obama said at a news conference... A senior Iranian military commander, however, said on Iranian television Sunday that not only would Iran not turn over the drone, but warned of a "bigger response" to the "hostile act" of crossing into Iranian airspace.

"No one returns the symbol of aggression to the party that sought secret and vital intelligence related to the national security of a country," Iranian Islamic Revolution Guards Corps [IRGC] Lt. Commander Gen. Hossein Salami said, according to Iran's Fars News Agency.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said told reporters today that "given Iran's behavior to date, we do not expect them to comply" with Obama's request. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta also said he didn't expect Iran to hand over the drone...

Impressive. What's next? A Presidential request to pretty-please-stop-building-nukes-with-a-cherry-on-top?


Needle on Hypocrisy-Meter Breaks Off: Unions require photo IDs to vote in their elections

Gee, I guess the unions are raaacist.

[Via] John Romano at "Yes, But, However!" at the link. He asks the perplexing question of why do Democrats so fear voter ID? Apparently even unions don't see the requirement of a photo ID as too burdensome.

"A picture is worth a thousand words. According to OpenSecrets.org unions belonging to the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM) have donated over $26 million to Democratic candidates and causes since 1990. During that same period, the union gave a paltry $272,311 to the Republican Party.

As you’ll note in the photo below the union requires its own members to produce a photo ID in order to vote. The photo shows a union worker voting earlier today on whether to sanction a new four-year contract with Boeing, clearly the union understands the need for a picture ID in order to help guarantee a clean election:

In America, one needs an ID to vote in a union election, buy liquor, drive a car, board an airplane, use a credit card and a slew of other things in our society. Yet, the Democratic party refuses to back the idea of requiring an ID to vote in state and federal elections under any circumstances. A sensible voter ID law that respects the rights of the poor, elderly, and minorities is a great idea. What are Democrats afraid of? You connect the dots.

The most lawless attorney general in American history -- and I'm including the pathetic John Mitchell in the mix -- is visiting Austin, Texas tomorrow.

And guess what? He will be lobbying for vote fraud, supporting a United Nations resolution that is designed to erode the integrity of the ballot box and, ultimately, destroy the United States Constitution.

If you're in the area (Houston included), I'd strongly encourage you to join the counter-rally.

Like former DOJ official J. Christian Adams says, it's high time this national disgrace was impeached.


Hat tip: @EyeOnPolitics

Larwyn's Linx: Obama, Romney Change Tacks in Week of Political Risks

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Nation

Obama, Romney Change Tacks in Week of Political Risks: Barone
ACORN Returns as ‘Occupy’: RSM
“We Win; They Lose”: Reagan’s Grand Strategy: Foundry

Jihadist Behind Killing of Troops in Iraq To Be Charged As Civilian: NRO
A Note About Romney's "Superior Electabilty": Ace
U.S. Proposes Unmanned Border Entry With Mexico: Fox

Must Be an Election Season: Obama’s Walk to Church: VS
Congress Isn’t Supposed to Be Above the Law: Carter
Governor Perry's Ambitious Plans: Ace

Economy

Obama Blocks The Biggest Shovel-Ready Project Ever: IBD
D12 Guide: Occupiers return to ports for West Coast shutdown: Malkin
Mother and Kids Terrorized By Recall Scott Walker Mob: MBT

Implementing An International IRS In The Name Of Robin Hood: LUR
Eurocrash Update #1: Power Line
Higher Education Bubble Update: Instapundit

Gunrunner & Energygate

Holder may be holding on to private emails about Fast and Furious: DC
Patriots to Rally Tuesday as Holder Plans Major Announcement on Voting Laws: Adams
Criticism of Islam Could Soon be a Crime in America: SRI

Climate & Energy

Volt hysteria: Why image and perception are everything.: AutoExtremist
Where is evidence for EPA’s claims?: Kansas
The Top 3 Google Execs Have How Many Jets?: Insider

Media

Lies, Damned Lies, and ‘Fact Checking’: WS
Andrew Breitbart Resigns From GOProud Advisory Board Over Outing of Perry Pollster: Ace
MSNBC Star Host Al Sharpton Owes IRS $2.6 Million: GWP

CBS Poll: 75% Wrong Direction, 66% No Idea What Obama Wants To Do If Reelected: GWP
I'm Sensing a Trend Here: Ace
Obama Campaign Wants To Know: What Question Do You Have For Barack And Michelle?: WZ

A You Suck List: 10 People, Places, And Things That Suck: Hawkins
Obama Tells 60 Minutes 'Damaging Behavior on Wall Street' Was Legal, Wasn't Asked Who Enacted Laws: NB
The Spread The Wealth Around Game: Soylent Green

World

Sharia Law Already Devouring UK: PJM
Jordan TV: Sheikh Calls "To Annihilate Israel”; Also Jizya Tax for Christians: WZ
GOP debate: Gingrich doubles down on Palestinian comments: Hill

Report: Hamas Sets Up Rocket Production Lines, Forward Operating Bases In Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula: WZ
Back-Door Bank Runs in Europe Have Started: NewAm
United States of Europe One Step Closer to Reality?: PJM

Hollywood Shooter Shouted 'Allahu Akbar'; Media Silent: LoneCon
Newt’s Palestinian comment was more than about history: LI
DhiMITTude: Zilla

Sci-Tech

Bolton: Iranian Jamming Technology Could Be Worse News Than Downed Drone: Fox
What Really Happened Aboard Air France 447: PopMech
Building the bikes of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo: AutoBlog

Cornucopia

Where did that horse’s “A” come from?: MOTUS
Shaking that moneymaker for 10 grand a night: Post
The Red Cross and Video Games - Or Why You Might Already Be a War Criminal: Ace

Image: Rob Goebel, Indianapolis Star
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: Eric Holder is Coming to Texas on Tuesday: Join the Counter-Rally

QOTD: "On Tuesday, Americans will have a rare chance to voice their disdain of the corruption and lies flowing from this Justice Department.  They will have a chance to speak out against the radical and racialist law enforcement priorities of this Justice Department.  Eric Holder comes to Austin, Texas to make a major announcement about voting laws, probably to acquiesce to some loud demand of the NAACP to block state efforts to ensure voter integrity. But a counter-rally organized by Catherine Engelbrecht and True the Vote will greet Eric Holder’s appearance in Austin, Texas at the LBJ Library at 4 p.m.  America is invited, and here is a flier with details." --J. Christian Adams

Sunday, December 11, 2011

Faux Journalist Steve Kroft Interviews Obama, Forgets to Ask About Calls to Impeach Holder, Kagan Recusal, Corzine, Solyndra, etc.

President Obama received another in-kind donation from CBS News tonight in the form of a fawning 60 Minutes interview by "journalist" Steve Kroft. If that is his real name.

Kroft apparently had a brief case of amnesia and forgot about a few mildly important issues:

• The increasing calls for Eric Holder's resignation and/or impeachment for Operation Fast and Furious, etc.

• The newly revealed Obamacare emails that appear to show Elena Kagan lied under oath

• The catastrophic failure of MF Global, headed by none other than one of Obama's leading fundraisers, John Corzine

• The billions in "green energy" funds that went to Obama's fundraisers and political cronies, Solyndra being only the most visible example

• The "historic" $4.2+ trillion budget deficits thanks to Obama's disastrous stimulus debacle and the Democrats' failure to pass a budget for 1,000+ days

Obama has blamed the weather, earthquakes, ATMs, and the Internet -- among other things -- for the bad economy. In the Kroft interview, he said, "I'm being judged against the ideal. And, you know, Joe Biden has a good expression. He says, 'Don't judge me against the Almighty, judge me against the alternative.' "

There he goes again, comparing himself with God.

No, Mr. President. Our ideal is Ronald Reagan who, having inherited a far worse recession than you, had the economy rockin' and rollin' at the exact same point in his presidency.


Hat tip: BP.

Good News: DHS proposes unmanned border entry with Mexico...

...though I think we already have an "unmanned border entry" -- it's called the entire Southwest.

The bloody drug war in Mexico shows no sign of relenting. Neither do calls for tighter border security amid rising fears of spillover violence.

This hardly seems a time the U.S. would be willing to allow people to cross the border legally from Mexico without a customs officer in sight. But in this rugged, remote West Texas terrain where wading across the shallow Rio Grande undetected is all too easy, federal authorities are touting a proposal to open an unmanned port of entry as a security upgrade.

By the spring, kiosks could open up in Big Bend National Park allowing people from the tiny Mexican town of Boquillas del Carmen to scan their identity documents and talk to a customs officer in another location, at least 100 miles away.... The crossing, which would be the nation's first such port of entry with Mexico, has sparked opposition from some who see it as counterintuitive in these days of heightened border security. Supporters say the crossing would give the isolated Mexican town long-awaited access to U.S. commerce, improve conservation efforts and be an unlikely target for criminal operations.

...A public comment period runs through Dec. 27 on the estimated $2.3 million project, which has support at the highest levels of government from both countries... But U.S. Rep. Michael McCaul, a Texas Republican member of the House Homeland Security committee, questioned the wisdom of using resources to make it easier to cross the border...

...A small military presence protects the [Mexican] town from the drug-related violence that has engulfed other Mexican border towns. Now with news of the port of entry, residents are already making plans for restaurants and shops, he said... "When it closed nobody crossed and everything went downhill. People began to leave," he said. "Now people are going to return."

Yes, people are going to return. Especially the narco-terrorists who have killed tens of thousands of Mexicans over the past several years.


The Toughest Place on the Planet to Shoot Free Throws Is...

Bloomington, Indiana. Exhibit A: last night's stands, right behind the opposing team's goal, during Indiana's upset of #1 Kentucky.

I especially like the depiction of mega-stoner Gobi, who most college kids would recognize but not know why.


In Houston or Austin on Tuesday? So is Eric Holder, who is pushing for vote fraud. Here's how to join the anti-Holder counter-rally.

If you'll be in the Houston or Austin area on Tuesday, check this out:

This coming Tuesday, Eric Holder is coming to Austin, Texas, to make a major announcement about voting rights.  Most likely, it will involve opposing election integrity efforts like voter identification requirements in Texas and South Carolina.  It will have a direct impact on the 2012 election. 

[Holder's] appearance at the LBJ Library will be met by True the Vote, which will hold a counter-rally to which all of America is invited.  It is at 4 p.m. on the grounds of the LBJ Library.  Here is the flyer with more information.

Holder is a disgrace and, in the words of former Justice official J. Christian Adams, should face impeachment.

People wonder what to do about this lawless administration. Well, here's something you can do. Help out TrueTheVote and show up to the anti-Holder counter-rally on Tuesday.

It's time.


Was Newt Gingrich right? An Illustrated History of the Middle East

Newt Gingrich touched off a firestorm of controversy by stating that the Palestinian people are an "invented" group, that its leaders are unreconstructed terrorists and that it's high time America's leaders started speaking the truth about the situation.

Which begs the question: what really happened in the Middle East? Why is it so dysfunctional? What prevents people of all religions from living in peace? The highlights of The Terrorism Awareness Project's presentation helps explain the real backstory.














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I Am The One-Hundred Percent [Casey]

Casey:

There has been much talk about class warfare, and about who holds the majority opinion of how to manage the business of the day. This talk is nothing new to me – I’ve been hearing the discussion my entire life. Now, approaching the age of forty, I have witnessed the rise of the very ideology that I saw defeated in my youth. Socialism both at home under Carter and abroad under the Iron Fist of the Soviets suffered defeat in a globally public forum. I remember adults at the time saying that they would remember and never allow such transgressions occur again.

So, here we all are today feeling a sick sense of déjà vu and we are listening to the left in their greatest voice: that of the civil protest. The Occupy movement has generated much conversation, and that is a good thing. However, it seems to me that very little focus finds itself on the rebuttal to this movement. I recall the media ramping up into overdrive to dilute and minimize the message of the Tea Party movement; yet see the same media operate in equal diligence to legitimize the primary theme of the Occupy movement: a percentage.

Ninety-nine percent is what the far left claim themselves to be. The one percent are the ones they aim to … uhm … what do they aim for? Never mind. As such, since I think the ideology of the left is bad policy, I must be the one percent. True, I make money. True, I make enough to pay taxes. I guess those protesters were right – I AM THE ONE PERCENT!

Should I repent?

The truth is that I really can see myself as the one percent. Those jerks out causing trouble under the banner of their media-approved, Twitter-hash-tagged movement may be right that I am the one percent, but they are wrong about why. If I am the one percent, I am because I contend with a situation most of these people know little about.

I am a man of communication. From a very early age, I began to write. I wrote stories, poems, limericks (one that got me in some trouble), and songs. As years grew on, I began to hone my communication skills verbally. Before too long, I found myself successful in sales specifically due to my ability to communicate with people from all walks in life. I also found success in writing and producing songs – communicating complex emotional states in a way that large cross-sections of people equally comprehend. Suffice it to say that the written, spoken, and harmonized words are the mainstay of my being.

In my mid-thirties, I found new inspiration for my words in a new life with a new wife and newborn son. My wife, like me, is a person of words and song. Our kinship of communication contributed to the forces which brought us together. Our son would become the nexus of our affinity for communication of all things which make us human. Then, we felt as if we became the one percent.

Our son, diagnosed with Autism, is a joy and a true miracle to our lives. Neither of us thought we would be able to conceive based on our prior life experience. Nonetheless, we have a beautiful and healthy boy – a boy who has a funny personality, sense of humor, and loving disposition … and Autism. We are fortunate that he does actually have the personality and emotional response that so many with this affliction lack. However, he has a severe impairment with communication.

Put simply, our son’s condition inhibits the one thing my wife and I understand. His disability is centered on communication. While we hold hope that we can overcome these obstacles in his ability to communicate and to assimilate into society, I cannot help but fret at the unfairness of it all. I have always been a man of passionate communication and I can barely connect with my own son.

One thing is for certain: I have heard enough from the “ninety-nine percent”. They complain incessantly about fairness. Perhaps they are right that ninety-nine percent of people get the unfair side of life. Regardless, they seem to be asking for someone else to make it fair. That’s where my situation illustrates it all best. There is no government agency, program, mandate, edict, law, or otherwise generated program that can make my situation fair. I am a man of communication and am facing the possibility that I might never be able to communicate with my own son – ever. Do I or should I ask the government to make this fair? What would the government solution to my unfair situation look like?

When viewing my situation locally, I considered myself the one percent. It hurts so much to know that I may never be able to communicate with my son that I can barely finish a day without tears of sorrow. As a songwriter, it is hard to think that your son might not like your music. It is crushing to think he might not ever understand it. Then, I hear and read about others who endure so much worse than my situation. Epilepsy, Down’s syndrome, etcetera; mine is a situation that could be so much more severe that I pause to even lament it.

When viewing my situation nationally, I am really more along the lines of the middle thirty-three percent. If I were to “zoom out” to a global view, I would estimate myself to be in the top eighty-five percent. So, what does this whole rant mean?

Anyone claiming to be ninety-nine percent of anything is completely disingenuous. Anyone identifying anyone else as one percent of anything is equally deceitful. Regardless of color or creed, wealth inherited or earned, poverty inherited or earned, or defect of body or spirit, we all have our paths to walk. Rarely is this path devoid of pitfall or pain. How we traverse this path defines us, and I will not have others so easily dismiss my path with an arbitrary percentage used to punctuate a point which otherwise makes little sense.

No matter the pain, my wife and I raise our son with pride. We do so without looking to blame anyone else or looking for others to pay us their fair share for having a better situation than ours. We don’t begrudge those with children free of disability – we celebrate them. We don’t for a moment think that these people owe us anything because their kids don’t have Autism and our does. How is this different from income levels?

We are all the one-hundred percent. The only intellectually honest percentage that can be applied is that we are all human. We all inhabit this small planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children’s future. And we are all mortal.