Thursday, April 19, 2012

Larwyn's Linx: Michelle Trots Out Recycled Messianic Campaign Blather

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Nation

Michelle Trots Out Recycled Messianic Campaign Blather: Cove
Zoning the Ocean: Hudson
Allen West Does Not Regret Making “Communist” Comment: Shark

10 Things You Need To Know About Obama's Second Term: IBD
llegal Alien Steals 5-Year-Old’s Identity: RSM
Why Voters Should Abolish the Mega Millions Lottery: Forbes

Economy

Illinois Shows What Not to Do: Malanga
Grocery Store Items Up Nearly 7% in Q1 of 2012: HAP
Unhinged Lefties Spew Hatred, Racism, and Filth in Wisconsin: MBT

Recovery Is Hurting Women More Than Men: S&L
Why we can’t go back to sky-high, 1950s tax rates: Peth
Holder's Pal Sharpton Owes $1MM to Creditors, Feds: Beacon

2012 Elections

Levin: Senate GOP tries to silence conservatives: Scoop
Lacking fresh ideas, Obama scares voters with stale tactics: GayPatriot
Mourdock has #INsen lead, Lugar solicits Dems: Hoosier Access

Scandal Central

Fast and Furious – Will Obama Administration Ever Come Clean?: RS
The President's Big Greenwash: Fortune
Limbaugh: Katie Pavlich's 'Fast and Furious': DLim

Climate & Energy

10 Years Ago Today, Dems Say ANWR Won’t Yield Oil for 10 Years: Foundry
ANWR: It’s Been ’10 Years,’ We Could Have Been Reaping Rewards Now: Publius
Obama's Atomic Solyndra: Wasserman [Extreme Caution: Eco-Statist Kook Alert]

Media

Axelrod’s Compulsion to Confess, Makes the Case for Mitt Romney: Bruce
Robin Leach: Obama Is a 'Socialist' - He Is 'Whipping Up This Racial War and This Economic Divide': NB
15-year old who could look like Obama's son pleads guilty to killing 92-year old white female: HyScience

Dog Wars: Stuck to the Roof of Romney’s Car vs. Stuck to the Roof of Obama’s Mouth: Powers
She-PAC's New Ad: 2012 Won't Be A War On Women It Will Be A War By Women: GWP
NYT Questions Michelle Obama's Food Beliefs: S&L

BREAKING: The dog Obama ate as a child was FEMALE.: Beacon
Conservative Twitter-sphere Goes Wild After Daily Caller Reveals Obama Consumed Dog As A Child: Mediaite
Barack Obama’s review of William Ayers' book: Zombie (2008)

World

About those better roads in China...: AEI
Report: Soros-Funded Think Tank Violated Federal Laws: Beacon
Smart Power: White House Stunned By Argentine Oil Expropriation: IBD

Best Buy - Unrepentant "Platinum Sponsor" of CAIR: Boker Tov
IPT Exclusive: Jihadis' New Toulouse Inspiration: IPT
The Bama Bus Revisited: That Was Fast!: Urban Infidel

Yom HaShoah–Shifra’s Reflections on Holocaust Remembrance Day: Bruce
Spanish Auction #Fail As 10Y Borrowing Cost Highest In 5 Months: ZH
US: 3 agents out in wake of Secret Service scandal: ynet

Sci-Tech

Google lawyer trips Oracle CEO Ellison in court: Boing Boing
Facebook Is Not Interested In Your So-Called 'Privacy' Preferences: Consumerist
How Mobile Technologies Are Shaping a New Generation: HBR

Cornucopia

If You Read Just One 'Obama Eats Dogs' Post Today, Read This One...: HayRide
Out of the Darkness: Hot Dogs!: MOTUS
The Doolittle Tokyo Raid 70 Years Ago Today › 2.0: The Blogmocracy: Blogmocracy

Hitler Finds Out Obama Ate His Dog: Bookworm
It’s An Appetizer, Mr. Marshall…: iOTW
Touré, 9/11 Truther: Breitbat

Image: Moonbat Tracker
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QOTD: ". . . if you don’t have any fresh ideas, then you use stale tactics to scare the voters. IF you don’t have a record to run on, then you paint your opponent as someone that people should run from. You make a big election about small things. And you know what it’s worked before — because it feeds into the cynicism we all have about government. When Washington doesn’t work, all its promises seem empty." ----Barack Obama, 2008

Wednesday, April 18, 2012

Hilarity: Obama tries to claim credit for Ohio's economic resurgence, which was orchestrated by... GOP Gov. John Kasich

President Obama was visiting Ohio today and tried to take credit for the Buckeye state's economic resurgence.

Obama, speaking Wednesday at Lorain County Community College in the Cleveland-area town of Elyria, touted his support for investment in job training programs that connect community colleges with unemployed workers, programs he warned the Republicans would "gut" under their budget blueprint...

...Obama's trip to Ohio -- the 20th of his presidency, according to CBS News -- was ostensibly official, and not a campaign event. But he again used the congressional Republicans as a proxy to frame the general election case against Romney. [Ed.: and again stuck taxpayers with the bill for his campaign expenses.]

..."What's the better way to make our economy stronger? Give more tax breaks to every millionaire and billionaire in the country, or make investments in education and research and healthcare and job training?" he asked.

In celebrating Ohio's comeback, Obama is unintentionally repudiating his own policies. It turns out that, in spite of Obama, Ohio is 4th in the nation in job creation and tops in the Midwest. In the previous four years before Republican Gov. Kasich came into office, Ohio was 48th.

Even the states that are ahead of Ohio in job creation are far larger. Check out the other members of the top five job-creating states: Texas, New York, California and Florida. All are far more populous than Ohio. Florida, for instance, has 6.5 million more people, yet Ohio edged it out in job creation.

In fact, February's BLS data showed that Ohio created more jobs than any other state. When was the last time that happened? Can't tell, because the BLS doesn't offer data prior to the Clinton era, so it's been at least that long.

In short, Ohio proves that conservative fiscal policies work in spite of Barack Obama. While Obama's "leadership" destroyed America's pristine AAA credit rating, S&P was simultaneously upgrading Ohio's rating.

And for Obama to run to Ohio and try to take credit for its success is outrageous, but not unexpected coming from the man who claimed "If you like your health care plan, you can keep it."

Kasich has a damn good record when it comes to fiscal policies. Bill Clinton won't ever admit it in public, but the real architect of the much-ballyhooed 'Clinton Surplus' was none other than John Kasich, the Paul Ryan of Newt Gingrich's House of Representatives.


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Laughable: DNC Press Release Regurgitator Known As Politico Asserts Ted Nugent is Romney's Hilary Rosen

Well, this certainly smacks of desperation:

Progressive bloggers erupted in fury over controversial comments about President Barack Obama by rocker Ted Nugent and complained about a lack of media coverage, especially compared with the super-saturation reporting on Hilary Rosen’s remarks last week about stay-at-home moms.

Nugent, who has endorsed Mitt Romney, said over the weekend, “We need to ride into that battlefield and chop their heads off in November … “If Barack Obama becomes the president in November again, I will either be dead or in jail by this time next year. … Our president, attorney general, our vice president, Hillary Clinton — they’re criminals, they’re criminals.”

Hey, Tim Mak -- if that is your real name -- here's a news-flash:

• Hilary Rosen is a professional Democrat political operative linked directly to the Obama administration (having only visited the Obama White House a scant 35 times)

• Ted Nugent is a private citizen with absolutely no role in any Republican campaign

Get the difference, nincompoop?


What an Obama second term means to Bishop Jenky: a Hitlerian end to Catholic institutions and the means to accomplish it

Last week, an Illinois Bishop compared President Obama's virulently secular policies to those of Hitler and Stalin:

Angrily condemning President Obama for his “radical pro-abortion and extreme secularist agenda,” an Illinois bishop likened his leadership to Adolf Hitler and Josef Stalin last weekend and urged Catholics to vote against him.

“This fall, every practicing Catholic must vote, and must vote their Catholic consciences, or by the following fall our Catholic schools, our Catholic hospitals, our Catholic Newman Centers, all our public ministries—only excepting our church buildings – could easily be shut down,” said Bishop Daniel Jenky of Peoria at a gathering of Catholic men on Saturday... "...no Catholic institution, under any circumstance, can ever cooperate with the intrinsic evil of killing innocent human life in the womb,” he said...

The bishop warned that because of the president’s mandate for forcing religious employers to fund contraceptives, sterilizations, and abortion-inducing drugs, America is on a path leading to the state of past dictatorships when Christians were forced to “huddle and hide,” such as Bismarck’s Kulturkampf, Hitler’s Nazis, and Stalin’s Communists.

“Hitler and Stalin, at their better moments, would just barely tolerate some churches remaining open, but would not tolerate any competition with the state in education, social services, and health care,” he said.

“In clear violation of our First Amendment rights, Barack Obama – with his radical, pro-abortion and extreme secularist agenda, now seems intent on following a similar path,” he added.

Think Bishop Glenn is overstating things?

I'd like to remind you of a pair of bizarre Obama statements, one just prior to his election and one just after.

But first, let's set the stage by recalling a 2011 missive from John Podesta, one of Barack Obama's key 2008 campaign advisers. In a position paper, Podesta laid the "D" card on the table for all to see.

No, not "depression". We've already got that.

I'm talking about a de facto "dictatorship". Bypassing the will of the people -- as if that hasn't happened enough in the last three-and-a-half years -- through a set of unconstitutional Czars, Executive Orders, unilateral declarations, and the massive administrative state.

And armed force, if necessary, according to Podesta.

Oh, Doug -- that's so controversial.

Fine. If it's not a dictatorship, please tell me what you would call the form of government that Podesta calls for?

Because it's certainly not a representative republic nor Constitutional in any way.

The U.S. Constitution and the laws of our nation grant the president significant authority to make and implement policy... The ability of President Obama to accomplish important change through these powers [including executive orders and armed forces] should not be underestimated [in] continuing to make progress.

Now back to Obama's pair of statements, which got very little publicity despite their highly inflammatory and un-American nature.

In March of 2009, at the dedication ceremony of the National Defense University's Abraham Lincoln Hall, President Obama expressed his need for a civilian national security force (MP3, 74:00 mark; DOD press release, transcript):

America must balance and integrate all elements of our national power. We can not continue to push the burden onto our military alone, or leave dormant any aspect of the arsenal of American capability. That's why my administration is committed to renewing diplomacy as a tool of American power and developing our civilian national security capabilities.

"Our civilian national security capabilities?"

In July of 2008, Jim Lindren noted a couple of peculiar sentences in a Barack Obama speech.

In Barack Obama’s July 2, 2008 speech calling America to national service, Obama proposed “a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded” as our military... This has prompted some in the blogosphere to raise the specter of a huge new domestic paramilitary organization...

[Obama said] "We cannot continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we've set. We've got to have a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded."

Curiously, the official transcript of the speech omitted those last two sentences.

After the last three-and-a-half years, can there be any real doubt as to what Obama meant?

And what George Soros John Podesta is after?

The Left used to enjoy calling Bush a fascist, but the closest thing this country has ever had to a dictator -- from the iconography to the vicious language to the unconstitutional power-grabs -- is Barack Obama.

Old media did its level best to suppress these bizarre sentences. And the Soros tools at Media Matters claimed, in their usual Riefenstahl-esque way, that Obama didn't mean what he meant.

Without an election hanging over his head, and given his swelling list of outrageous, extra-Constitutional activities, can there be any doubt what lies ahead should this man serve a second term?

I will vote for a soup can over Barack Obama in 2012. Because this country -- and the Constitution -- simply cannot survive his reelection.

Dog: It's Not Just for Dinner Anymore

The Daily Caller's brilliant Jim Treacher discovered the ultimate counter to the progressives' latest pathetic attacks against Mitt Romney. Back in the eighties, the candidate and his family apparently vacationed with their dog, which was transported in a carrier strapped to the family Truckster's roof. Baby boomers will recall that this practice was commonplace in that era.

In any event, Treacher recalled an event recounted in one of Obama's several autobiographies: as a child, young Barry Soetero -- his name at the time -- enjoyed an entree of roast dog. It's not just for dinner any more.

"With Lolo, I learned how to eat small green chill peppers raw with dinner (plenty of rice), and, away from the dinner table, I was introduced to dog meat (tough), snake meat (tougher), and roasted grasshopper (crunchy). Like many Indonesians, Lolo followed a brand of Islam that could make room for the remnants of more ancient animist and Hindu faiths. He explained that a man took on the powers of whatever he ate: One day soon, he promised, he would bring home a piece of tiger meat for us to share."

In short, Treacher's response to the Romney vacation allegations turned out to be the rhetorical equivalent of a Blake Griffin dunk over Pau Gasol. The reactions have been priceless.

Sondrakistan offers us the exclusive picture:


And John Hawkins relays this very special Obama campaign button:


It's a "Dog Eat Dog" world in Washington.

I refer, of course, to the outstanding Eddie Bunker crime novel and not the recent canine kerfuffle.


Update: MOTUS:



Larwyn's Linx: The Tea Party: The greatest feminist movement?

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Nation

The Tea Party: The greatest feminist movement?: LI
West: Who's the Craziest Person Ever to Set Foot in Congress?: Nice Deb
IRS Might Have Stalinist Powers Under New Law: IBD

AZ Voter ID Law Upheld By Ninth Circuit (!) Court of Appeals: WZ
US Bishop: “Obama Following Path of Hitler And Stalin": Nice Deb
Tax (Disappearing) Freedom Day: Blumer

Injustice Dept. Is On the Ground Supporting Al Sharpton’s Racist Mob: MB
Estrada, victim of Democrat filibuster, to fight Obama appointments: Times
DNC press secretary has meltdown over Ted Nugent: Twitchy

Economy

Send out the punter!: Beacon
Harry Reid Shuts Down the Budget Process: Power Line
New Yorkers Line Up For Fake Obama Stimulus Cards: HAP

The Real GSA Scandal: Job-Killing Big Labor Payoffs: Malkin
Barry's Bank: Beacon
The Unfairness of the Buffett Tax: AEI

Good Economists: Williams
The Economy Needs No Conductor: Stossel
Jennifer Granholm doesn’t remember anything about being governor: NakedDC

Scandal Central

Pics show GSA official spa-soaking, drinking wine on the taxpayer dime: Beacon
Solyndra Employees Get $368K in Bonuses: Beacon
More Layoffs At Obama-Funded Electric Carmaker Fisker, Delaware Plant Is “Absolutely Empty”: WZ

House blocks EPA from banning lead in ammunition: Events
Human Rights Campaign leaks list of pro-marriage donors and their addresses: Wintery Knight
73% Think Photo ID Requirement Before Voting Does Not Discriminate: Rasmussen

2012 Elections

Republicans Lead in All Four WI Senate Recall Elections: Ace
Romney put a dog on top of a car, Obama put a dog on top of rice while eating it: FAM
The Blue Dogs’ death rattle?: Moe Lane

Climate & Energy

A Banana Republic, Unless You Can Avoid It: Hayek
Power grab: Obama’s “crackdown” on speculators is just another attempt to strangle free markets: IBD
Oil prices spike after Obama announces Chavez-like crackdown on 'Speculators' (i.e., Investors): Exam

Media

Media Matters’ targets revealed: business, wealth, Christianity: DC
Married Secret Service agents’ classy motto revealed: ‘Wheels up, rings off’: Twitchy
IBD: WaPo Admits Trying to Bury Story that ObamaCare Adds to the Deficit: Tatler

Documents: U.S., U.K. Officials Were Worried About Obama’s 'Anti-American', 'Anti-White' Father: WZ
Did Ted Nugent Really Threaten the President?: Tatler
The Rocks in Tom Friedman’s Head: NoisyRm

Mooch: “This President Has Brought Us Out of The Dark And Into The Light”: WZ
AP Downplays Bad News About Housing Starts and Removes It From Headline: NB
Political Automotive Art: Meet "The Bama Bus": Urban Infidel

World

U.S. Sends Anti-Israel Advisor to Anti-Semitic Sweden: Gatestone
Exodus: Public school in Denmark says it can no longer take Jewish children because of 'security': Steyn
Beijing's Kim Connection: Beacon

Sci-Tech

Why a top app maker is ditching BlackBerry: CNN
Microsoft Really Blew It With These 9 Enterprise Products: Insider
Copyright conundrum in Oracle-Google case: Is a computer language fair game?: CNet

NASA’s Discovery shuttle wows Washington in 45-minute flyover: WaPo
Sprint’s Galaxy Nexus: Can a Second Google Wallet Phone Ignite Mobile Payments?: Wired

Cornucopia

Wall Street Insider: “Obama Is Pulling The Mask Away For All The World To See”: Ulsterman Report
1st iOTW Merit Badge Issued: iOTW
And Now, An Economic Report From Mitt Romney’s Dog Seamus: Glob

1912 Titanic Disaster: Was Racism To Blame?: Cube
BigFurHat’s 99 Second Radio Show – Guest: Ann Barnhardt: iOTW
My Very First Romney 2012 button “At Least I Didn’t Eat My Dog” + a Bonus Obama Button: RWN

Image: 1912 Titanic Disaster: Was Racism To Blame?
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QOTD: "Even Obama is doing worse under President Obama." --Jay Leno

Tuesday, April 17, 2012

Kewl: Memeorandum Helps Visualize Political Spin

Well, this appears to be a useful tool.

...the universe of political blogs is largely split in two, with conservative and liberal blogs rarely covering the same stories or linking to the same sites. But it can be very challenging to tell their political leanings at a glance, especially with names like “Balloon Juice,” “Weasel Zippers,” or “The Volokh Conspiracy.”

So, four years ago, I launched a project with Delicious/Tasty Labs founder Joshua Schachter to visualize the linking biases of various political blogs on Memeorandum by looking at their past behavior.

Using singular value decomposition, the linear algebra at the heart of your Netflix recommendations, we reduced the entire matrix of blogger-to-article relationships to a single dimension. Imagine a single line grouping like-minded blogs together based on the diversity of the stories they cover, with hardcore left- and right-leaning blogs on opposite sides of the spectrum.

Using those precalculated values, we load the data from Google Spreadsheets and color the links on Memeorandum, based on where they fall on the spectrum. The brighter the color, the more frequently they only cover stories by their counterparts.


This simple visualization leads to some interesting insights. Compare these two articles, which were trending on Memeorandum at this writing:


Seeing each site’s potential bias provides the context for understanding how news is spread. Right-leaning blogs are eager to point out new evidence that George Zimmerman was hurt the day he shot Trayvon Martin, but left-leaning blogs aren’t covering that story. Likewise, only left-leaning news sites appear to be covering the news of Ted Nugent’s threatening remarks to the president, but conservative blogs aren’t. This visualization also makes it easy to spot outliers, the sources that are breaking away from their past behavior to link to something beyond their usual circle.

This browser add-on is free and open source. We’ve updated the data sources for the first time since 2008, and Memeorandum Colors now works natively in Chrome, in addition to Firefox....

Directions to install the add-on are here, near the bottom of the page.

The only quibble: I define any article that's red as American. Anything blue means Marxist.

And since I'm a political centrist, I'm assuming any links to my blog will be utterly neutral in color. Like beige.


Class: FLOTUS matches Ann Romney's Multiple Sclerosis, then raises

Wasn't there a recurring character on SNL a few years ago that would always try to one-up everyone else's stories?

That's who Michelle Obama reminds me of.

First Lady Michelle Obama recalled her father's battle with multiple sclerosis (MS) as she explained "what's at stake" in this election between President Obama and Mitt Romney -- whose wife has MS.

Mrs. Obama recalled her father's MS during a campaign fundraiser, saying he "had MS, was a blue-collar city worker all his life . . . [and her parents] saved for us, they sacrificed everything for us, why? Because they wanted something more for me and my brother." The First Lady summarized the anecdote by saying "that's what's at stake" -- by which she referred to the idea that "if you work hard, you can build a decent life for yourself and an even better life for your kids . . . So believe me, your President knows what it means whan a family struggles," she added after talking about his life raised by a single mom.

The implication seemed to be that the president better understands the trials of people with MS, and of working class people like Mrs. Obama's father. But the First Lady might have forgotten that Ann Romney, Mitt Romney's wife, also has MS....

Laura Bush had more class in her toenail clippings than this claque of unreconstructed Chicago pols. And I include the president's handlers, Valerie Jarrett and David "Red Diaper Baby" Axelrod, in that crew.


Women: please don't be a victim like Ann Romney

Via the precocious People's Cube comes this helpful public service message:


What a cluster-fluke.


Hat tip: iOwnTheWorld.

2,000 Green-Slips Issued By Solar Outfit, Which -- Predictably -- Had Received $1.5 Billion in Taxpayer Loans

I've read about so many green energy scams like this one that I was forced to quit updating the Handy Dandy Energygate Cheat Sheet.

First Solar, a solar energy company that received a $1.46 billion loan guarantee from the Department of Energy, announced today that it will layoff 2,000 workers in the United States and world-wide.

The company will "indefinitely idle" four production lines in Malaysia and shutter a plant in Germany. "These actions, combined with other personnel reductions in Europe and the U.S., will reduce First Solar's global workforce by approximately 2,000 positions, about 30 percent of the total," First Solar announced today.



...In December, First Solar laid off 100 employees at a Santa Clara , Calif., plant. The DOE has committed $1.46 billion to a project in Riverside County, California expected to create 15 permanent jobs and 550 construction jobs.

The Washington Examiner's Tim Carney reported last month that the Export-Import Bank also subsidizes First Solar, helping the company "to sell solar panels to itself" by having a Canadian solar company "wholly owned" by First Solar [purchase] its parent company's products.

Scamtabulous!

When green-collar workers get pink-slipped, are we supposed to call them 'green-slips' or just 'the utterly predictable failures of Democrat central planners'?


Related: Mark Levin Nukes Obama's Energy Lies [Transcript]

New look for the BadBlue conservative news service

If you've only recently returned to Earth after being kidnapped by aliens, you may have missed January's introduction of BadBlue.com.

BadBlue helps you discover the hottest stories from center-right news sources, ranging from new media behemoths like Hot Air and The Blaze, to major league blogs like Instapundit and Michelle Malkin, to lesser-known new media outlets like the Free Beacon and CDN, to even small, up-and-coming blogs like Alexa Shrugged and Hoosier Access.

BadBlue doesn't have any human editors. Only the "buzz" a story gets on the social networks will promote it to the front page. Furthermore, BadBlue has no political agenda. It monitors nearly 600 sites, 24 by 7, to make sure you don't miss a thing. You can also use the tabs on the top of the page to review the most popular stories for the last 24 hours, the last week, or even the last month.


In any event, this weekend, we upgraded the cosmetics of the site based upon several concerns we'd heard expressed. The background should be a bit easier on the eyes. And the default typeface (Georgia, 14-point) was selected based upon a study produced by the Software Usability Research Lab. If you don't like the size of the font, use the buttons at top right to adjust up or down.

The idea behind BadBlue is to promote stories based upon merit, not the whims of editors, and -- best of all -- to bypass the filters that old media still tries to enforce. So check out BadBlue, if you would, and let us know what you think in the comments!

Larwyn's Linx: Obama Blame Database Reaches Impressive Size

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Nation

Obama Blame Database Reaches Impressive Size: RS
Obama’s ‘No Excuses’ Pledge Reaches Its Expiration Date: Geraghty
Report: Democrat-controlled Senate laziest in 20 years: Exam

“Corzine Steals Billions, Whale Watcher Faces Prison”: ProWis
Mixing and Matching: Sowell
White House Discontinues Transparency Tool: Foundry

Oops: 82% Favor Voter Identification: Cove
Project Veritas Proves How Easy Voter Fraud Is Without ID: Hawkins
Barney Frank: Passing Obamacare was a mistake: Malkin

Economy

Senate rejects ‘Buffett Rule’: Malkin
Flashback: Buffett Rule Test Drive in Washington State: ATR
OWS Organizer Attacks NYPD Officer With Metal Pipe: JWF

GSA's Neely: More advance prep gone wrong: Pundette
Obama's Lawless Bureaucracy Now Trying To Unionize America: Ace
Nothing to Cut! Cali Spends $205,000 to Move $15 Shrub.: Reason

Scandal Central

Katie Pavlich’s ‘Fast and Furious’: DLim
Obama-endorsed Occupy Thugs Smash Starbucks, Shout 'All Pigs Must Die': Breitbart
Katie Pavlich exposes “Fast and Furious: Barack Obama’s Bloodiest Scandal and Cover-Up”: Malkin

2012 Elections

It's Not 2008 Anymore: Seven Ways In Which 2012 Is Different: Ace
We Need Ted Cruz: Erickson
Tea Party Rallies for Romney in San Francisco: Zombie

Climate & Energy

Reuters: Those “green-collar jobs” promises have been a bust, huh?: Hot Air
Obama’s Latest Power Grab: Natural Gas: ConCom

Media

My favorite Obama prediction, headline and photo: LI
RAAAAACISM!: RSM
Many Conservatives Were Shocked By Ann Coulter: RWN

Romney to Obama: Start Packing: Ace
The Obama Strategy: Pandering and Cries of Racism: Flopping Aces
Beckel throws F-bomb on Hannity Show: GWP

Wolf Blitzer Should Apologize to Allen West: Kincaid
Liberals to Ann Romney: Happy Birthday, bitch. Hope you die.: Twitchy
Levin: Romney needs to lay out a principled case of liberty and stop with class warfare: Scoop

World

"Diversity": They Drive Us Out, We Invite Them In: Gatestone
Iranian nuclear scientists were present at failed North Korean missile launch, says source: Haaretz
Israeli Soldier Gives Commie Protestor A Shot In The Mouth With His Rifle: Wzanmentobe

Shock: Obama Sends Millions of US Dollars to Kenya – Where His Socialist “Cousin” Is Prime Minister: GWP
Bumbling Obama Makes an “Uncharacteristic Error”: JWF
Obama Betrayed Netanyahu in Istanbul: Sentinel

Soldier to receive posthumous Medal of Honor: Army Times
‘International Solidarity Movement’ Protester Is Welcomed in Israel: RSM
Why Is Jordan Keeping Out Palestinian Refugees?: Gatestone

Sci-Tech

Netflix CEO Rips Comcast On Net Neutrality: Consumerist
Scariest Fitness Trends: Fox
$35 Raspberry Pi Micro-Computer Now Shipping to Customers: Wired

Cornucopia

An Iwo Jima, Guadalcanal, Korea, and Vietnam Vet: Mellow
Takes One to Know One: XCV
Looking for a new spring vacation read? Let #ObamaBookTitles suggest a few!: Twitchy

Image: iOwnTheWorld (Headline o' the Day Award)
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Ted Cruz for Senate

QOTD: "George Zimmerman is not on trial because he shot a black teenager during a scuffle. It's not the facts of the case that brought him here. It's his name. Had his last name been Pereira, none of this would have gone anywhere. And it's not the name alone, it's that in this time and place lynching him will help make the political fortunes of everyone from the man in the White House to his cheerful smiling prosecutor who is already counting her campaign cash and book deals." --Daniel Greenfield

Monday, April 16, 2012

Dear Mr. Mataconis at 'Outside the Beltway': I eagerly await your apology to Rep. Allen West

Doug Mataconis at Outside the Beltway is outraged -- outraged! -- that so few Republicans have condemned Allen West's linkage of the Congressional Progressive Caucus (CPC) to Communism.

Just to recap, last week Rep. Allen West (R-FL) -- one of the rising stars in Congress -- publicly tied the CPC to the Communist agenda:

He had the intestinal fortitude to call the Congressional Progressive Caucus Communists...

...The cries from the Democrats can be heard far and wide – calling West irresponsible for calling patriots Communists. Just one small problem – the Congressional Progressive Caucus was founded in 1991 by Bernie Sanders, who is an avowed Socialist and a Congressman from Vermont; Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) and the radical Washington DC based “think tank,” Institute for Policy Studies (IPS).

...Except all of [the media's] video clips are very carefully edited to cut out the next thing West said. Here is the quote in full, with the omitted part presented in boldface:

It’s a good question. I believe there’s about 78 to 81 members of the Democrat Party who are members of the Communist Party. It’s called the Congressional Progressive Caucus.

Which is completely accurate.

It doesn't take much work to prove West right:


According to The Weekly Worker (the Communist Party newsletter of Britain), "...The [Congressional Progressive Caucus] CPC is ‘organised around the principles of social and economic justice’, a ‘non-discriminatory society’ and ‘national priorities which represent the interests of all people, not just the wealthy and powerful’.” ... the CPC platform is “strongly supported by the Communist Party of the United States of America... The CPUSA has served in effect as a loyal tendency inside the Democratic Party for over half a century."


According to the Democrat Socialists of America, "We work with [various radical] movements to strengthen the party’s left wing, represented by the Congressional Progressive Caucus."

In fact, the agenda of the CPC is virtually indistinguishable from Karl Marx' 10-point Communist Manifesto:

According to Karl Marx, the following ten elements were requisite conditions for "a transition from capitalism to communism."

1. Abolition of property in land and application of all rents of land to public purposes. Washington Examiner: The great Obama land grab: "White House officials have been meeting quietly with environmental groups to map out government plans for acquiring untold millions of acres of both public and private land... The federal government, as the memo boasted, is the nation's 'largest land manager.' It already owns roughly one of every three acres in the United States... This is apparently not enough."

2. A heavy progressive or graduated income tax. National Taxpayer Union: The top 1% of taxpayers already pay 40% of all income taxes. The top 5% pay 61% of all income taxes. And the top 25% pay 87%. The bottom 50% pay 3% of all income taxes.

3. Abolition of all right of inheritance. USA Today: "Estate tax to return in 2011, and it could hurt ordinary folks."

4. Confiscation of the property of all emigrants [those leaving the country] and rebels. New York Post: The President's new jobs-killer: "...President Obama explicitly targeted the industry for two massive tax hikes. First, he'd ban oil and gas companies from using the 'Section 199' tax credit, a measure for domestic manufacturers enacted in 2004 to boost US employment... Second, he wants to end 'dual capacity' protection for US energy firms... Without this shield against double taxation on foreign revenues, American companies would be competing on an uneven global playing field... Yet, by the federal government's own economic model, these tax hikes would lead to huge, immediate job losses."

5. Centralisation of credit in the hands of the State, by means of a national bank with State capital and an exclusive monopoly. New York Post: Democrats, Fannie Mae still issuing subprime loans, even after meltdown. And CNS News: Obama to Nationalize Student Lending with Pending Budget Bill.

6. Centralisation of the means of communication and transport in the hands of the State. Tom's Hardware: "Bill Allows Obama Power to Shut Down Internet." And "Advertisers on talk radio targeted by Congressional investigations." And "In an exclusive interview with Rolling Stone Magazine, President Obama made the extraordinary claim that Fox News is 'destructive to [America's] long-term growth.'."

7. Extension of factories and instruments of production owned by the State; the bringing into cultivation of waste-lands, and the improvement of the soil generally in accordance with a common plan. National Legal and Policy Center: "Obama Arranges Takeover of GM and Chrysler; Auto Workers Union Gets Huge Stake." And Discover: "New EPA Rules Clamp Down on Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining." And News 9 Oklahoma: "EPA to Crack Down on Farm Dust."

8. Equal liability of all to labour. Establishment of industrial armies, especially for agriculture. Wall Street Journal: "SEIU’s Stern Tops White House Visitor List." More recently: "The AFL-CIO's Richard Trumka talks to the White House every day." And "Obama’s OFA, Churches Join Democratic Socialists for Saturday March in Washington."

9. Combination of agriculture with manufacturing industries; gradual abolition of the distinction between town and country, by a more equitable distribution of the population over the country. Heritage: "The Clean Water Restoration Act Means Troubled Waters For Property Owners": "...The Waxman-Markey global warming bill is far and away the most worrisome environmental measure currently working its way through Congress, but it is certainly not the only cause for concern... S. 787, the Clean Water Restoration Act (CWRA)... would do much more harm than good, especially for farmers, ranchers, developers, energy producers, and other property owners."

10. Free education for all children in public schools. Abolition of children's factory labour in its present form. Combination of education with industrial production.: Reuters: "Obama says public employees should not be vilified." New York Sun: "Obama Tells Teachers Union He Opposes Vouchers." And Big Hollywood: "[Teachers' Union] NEA: Obama’s Ministry of Propaganda."

In short, the CPC represents a radical Marxist vision for America. It represents Communism. The CPC is antithetical to the United States Constitution, the very document that these Leftists took an oath to uphold! Put simply, they lied under oath.

I encourage you to read the mission statement of the CPC, which represents a laundry list of Utopian dreams that can only be compelled by a massive, centralized, authoritarian federal government. And, that, of course, was something this country's founders feared.

Progressivism is incompatible with the U.S. Constitution. I sincerely hope that, in the not too distant future, any self-admitted "progressive" will be ineligible to hold public office. Because you can't be a progressive and honestly take an oath to uphold the Constitution.

Hey, Mataconis: I'll be looking forward to your next post, which should be a well-written apology to Lt. Col. West.


Photo o' the Day: Jihad-Promoting Communist Assaults IDF Soldier With His Face, Loses

Here's a comforting word for this kook, who's protesting Israel for... allowing Arabs to vote and serve in Parliament, I guess.

Hey, tool: if you'd tried this little "protest" in Egypt, Iran, Libya, or Syria, odds are you'd have been double-tapped on the spot.

So give thanks!

An officer in the IDF had a belly full of taunts from a bunch of pro-Palestinian activists and gave one guy a taste of his rifle magazine.

Naturally the commies are crying brutality and the Israeli government is falling for the propaganda by calling the incident disturbing and starting an investigation...


One thing to note in this video. As soon as the commie gets knocked on his ass and the troops advance on the protestors the crowd quickly melts away in fear. Maybe there’s a lesson to be learned here at home when the Occupy rabble tries to bully the police.

I love how these useful idiots always protest where they can't get in any real trouble.


Moving to Detroit [Papa B]

Papa B:

On a flight getting ready to depart for Detroit...

Jack was sitting on the plane when a guy took the seat beside him. The guy was an emotional wreck, pale, hands shaking, moaning in fear.

"What's the matter?" Jack asked.

"I've been transferred to Detroit... there's crazy people there. They've got lots of shootings, gangs, race riots, drugs, poor public schools, and probably the highest crime rate in the nation!"

Jack replied, "I've lived in Detroit all my life... It's not as bad as the media says. Find a nice home, go to work, mind your own business, enroll your kids in a nice private school. It's as safe a place as anywhere in the world."

The guy relaxed a bit and then stopped shaking.

After a while he turned back to Jack with a grateful comment, "Oh, thank you so much. I've been worried to death...

"...But if you live there and say it's okay, I'll take your word for it. Mind if I ask what do you do for a living?"

"Me?" said Jack. "I'm a tail gunner on a Budweiser truck."


Rimshot, please.


Brilliant: Looming Obama Tax Hikes Threaten To Send Economy Into Real Depression

The invaluable Jim Pethokoukis explains the anchor about to lasso the economy and drag it under.

If you combine all the other tax increases from 1980-1993, they add up to 3.3% of GDP, according to the brilliant budget team at Strategas Research. The coming “taxmageddon” of 2013 surpasses all those tax hikes combined!


How could the Obama White House even toy with the idea, which it has, of letting them happen?

How could Democrats let this happen?

Simple. For this group of radical Leftists, ideology trumps reason, history, experience and logic.

Plus, our beloved Golfer-in-Chief is "historic".


Larwyn's Linx: Hiding Behind Names

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Nation

Hiding Behind Names: NoisyRoom
Race-Baiting in the Era of Obama: Regan
Al Qaeda Attorney Becomes Number Three Man in the DOJ: Sentinel

We Are All George Zimmerman: Sultan Knish
Times accuses White House of taking bribes, selling access: Ricochet
Secret Service Agent Stiffed Hooker $47 — and Lost Everything: WZ

Economy

The Obama Great Failed Recovery: LI
Fantasies of Social Darwinism: Goldberg
Why the Eurozone Crisis Is Getting Worse: Roubini

Will Senate Democrats Finally Write a Budget?: Power Line
Solis: Government Services are the American Dream: FAM
Colombia the winner of the Summit of the Americas: Blogmocracy

2012 Elections

Which Dem Incumbents Are Most Vulnerable?: Baehr
Darwin Vs. Free Markets: RWN
Poll: Tea Party support on the decline?: Hot Air

Scandal Central

Former Dem. Congressman Kennedy Alleges 'Quid Pro Quo' for Access to White House: WS
White House Allowed Hilary Rosen Back-Door Lobbying Privileges: Breitbart
Obama withholds judgment in Secret Service scandal: LAT

Climate & Energy

Obama Administration Won’t Let Arizona Town Fix Water System Unless They Use Horses: SAB
Obama's Eco-Lies: CFP
NOAA's Unusual Saturday Media Advisory: Watts

Media

Larry Lessig: If the Republican Justices Do Not Agree With Me They Will Be Acting Politically: Volokh
Charles Johnson: An Unlikely Crusader Against Racist Comments: Patterico
Warning: No Betas Need Apply: RSM

AP Laments: Poor Obama “Distracted” By Repeated Scandals: JWF
America Elected an Ignoramus: CFP
Mort Zuckerman Once Again Corrects Eleanor Clift's Stupidity: NB

Crazy Louis Farrakhan to blacks – Breeding with whites is the ‘end of your race’: FAM
Anthony Cromartie: 10 Children 8 Mothers: MagNote
Phil Donahue injects race into 2002 vote authorizing force against Iraq: Marathon

World

Israel TV Shows Air Force Preparing for Iran Attack – Says Moment of Truth Is Near: GWP
Obama pushes back at Israel, says US is offering no ‘freebies’ to Iran in nuclear talks: WaPo
Exclusive: Briton killed after threat to expose Chinese leader's wife: sources: Reuters

Jew-Haters suffer setback: Atlas
Muslim Brotherhood refuses to accept ban: USA Today
UK: Lord offers bounty for capture of Obama, Bush: IIE

Israeli TV report shows air force gearing-up for Iran attack, says moment of truth is near: Times of Israel
Bolton: Bin Laden was killed while Obama was president, not because he was president: Scoop
Albert's Unluckiest Farmer: SDA

Sci-Tech

Web freedom faces greatest threat ever, warns Google's Sergey Brin: Guardian
Word Game Dabble Will Stretch Your Brain in New Ways: Wired
PureGear’s iPhone Extreme Protection: Eye-Catching: Wired

Cornucopia

Wow! Can we move on to the issue of fairness?: MOTUS
This Week in Automotivators, April 9-15: RWN
Loyal dog braves highway to remain by fatally struck dog's side: Fox

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...SKDKnickerbocker has been using its “ins” at the White House to sign up its biggest clients. As The Nation reports, Kaplan Education hired SKDKnickerbocker to help block Obama’s anti-college companies legislation; Win America, a lobbying campaign, has used SKDKnickerbocker to push for big tax breaks; food manufacturers paid SKDKnickerbocker to battle food regulations. The list goes on and on. Anita Dunn, Hilary Rosen’s partner over at SKDKnickerbocker, even used her access to the White House to sign up big businesses for anti-Buffett Rule lobbying while working as a “paid media” advisor for another PR firm." --Breitbart News

Sunday, April 15, 2012

David Axelrod pulls a Hilary Rosen, Accidentally Endorses Mitt Romney

Methinks David 'Red-Diaper Baby' Axelrod just made a boo-boo:

Breaking news with a hat tip to Kevin Eder for highlighting it for me:

David Axelrod, Chief Strategist for President Barack Obama, endorsed Mitt Romney for President on Fox News Sunday this morning. He told Chris Wallace, “The choice in this election is between an economy that produces a growing middle class and that gives people a chance to get ahead and their kids a chance to get ahead and an economy that continues down the road we’re on.”


That is precisely right and precisely what Mitt Romney’s campaign has been telling people. Good to see David Axelrod agrees.

Here are the key bits of the transcript.

WALLACE: And that is, David, if I may, I wanted to ask you in the final question I have. In one paragraph, two or three sentences, what's the choice in this election?

AXELROD: The choice in this election is between economy that produces a growing middle class and that gives people a chance to get ahead and their kids a chance to get ahead, and an economy that continues down the road we are on, where a fewer and fewer number of people do very well, and everybody else is running faster and faster just to keep pace.

We need to take that first route that honors our fundamental economic values, the values that made this country great. And we need to do some things to promote that kind of economy. We can't sit back and go back to the same failed policies that were so disastrous in the last decade.

Looks like Axelrod just pulled a Hilary Rosen.


PM Netanyahu Brings the Snark, Pillories Anti-Humanitarian 'Flytilla'

All other things being equal, when intelligence fights idiocy, the mentally defective generally lose.

Dozens of pro-Palestinian activists were prevented from boarding Israel-bound flights on Friday, due to the fact that their names appeared on the blacklist distributed by the Israeli government to a number of European airlines.

Police are planning to intercept participants in the "Welcome to Palestine" actions at the airport and prevent their entry into the country. Hundreds of police officers are expected to be stationed at the airport ahead of their arrival, most of them unarmed and clothed in civilian dress.

Of the reported 1,500 pro-Jihad activists who had planned to arrive in Israel for a 'Welcome to Palestine' rally, nearly 1,000 received notice that their flights were canceled. Any making it to Israel were to receive the following letter from Prime Minister Netanyahu.


He might as well have added, "Fat, stupid and evil is no way to go through life, son."