Sunday, April 22, 2012

Change! 1 in 2 new graduates are jobless or underemployed

I'm no Charles Rove, but methinks the Obama Get Out The Vote effort will have a tad more difficulty this year than in 2008.

The college class of 2012 is in for a rude welcome to the world of work.

Young adults with bachelor's degrees are increasingly scraping by in lower-wage jobs -- waiter or waitress, bartender, retail clerk or receptionist, for example -- and that's confounding their hopes a degree would pay off despite higher tuition and mounting student loans.

An analysis of government data conducted for The Associated Press lays bare the highly uneven prospects for holders of bachelor's degrees...


...Taking underemployment into consideration, the job prospects for bachelor's degree holders fell last year to the lowest level in more than a decade.

...About 1.5 million, or 53.6 percent, of bachelor's degree-holders under the age of 25 last year were jobless or underemployed, the highest share in at least 11 years. In 2000, the share was at a low of 41 percent, before the dot-com bust erased job gains for college graduates in the telecommunications and IT fields.

Obama 2012
Hey, Kids! We're pretty sure more class warfare will work if you just give us another four years!



Cartoon: TobyToons.com.

Egypt Takes First Step to Shred Peace Treaty With Israel

Dan from New York:

The Muslim Brotherhood has just tipped its hand. And it’s looking more and more like the $1.3 billion Americans fork over yearly to bolster Egypt’s military will someday be used against Israel. It’s time to turn off the spigot, but there’s little chance of that while an Islamophile occupies the White House.

Arutz Sheva, 4/22/2012

Egypt Unilaterally Breaks Off Gas Deal


Cairo breaks agreement that is part of the peace treaty between the countries, damaging Israeli firms.

By Gil Ronen

Egypt informed Israel Sunday afternoon that it is unilaterally cancelling the agreement of supply of gas to Israel. The announcement was made to EMG, the firm that receives the gas from Egypt, and reported on Channel 2 news.

The peace treaty with Egypt includes a financial appendix, in which Egypt agrees to supply Israel with oil. Several years ago the appendix was changed so that the oil was replaced by gas. The treaty commits Egypt to supply Israel with the amount of gas it requires for a specified period, in exchange for payment.

Egypt's unilateral abrogation of the treaty causes "tremendous financial damage" to Israel, and to the Amgas and Ampal companies, according to Channel 2. However, the primary damage is diplomatic, reporter Amnon Abramovich said.

The pipeline carrying gas from Egypt to Israel was blown up 14 times since the Mubarak regime was toppled in February 2011.

Say, how's that "New Beginning in the Middle East" that President Obama promised in 2009 working out?

For you drones: that's a rhetorical question. Hashtag: #epicfail.


The Dirty Little Secret of #BlogConCLT

It's the hazing of third-tier bloggers.

Caution: graphic photos after the break.

Breaking: New Letterhead Unveiled for the Department of Justice

In light of reports that the Department of Justice now refers reporters to Media Matters -- the George Soros-funded propaganda arm of the hard Left -- I felt it imperative to introduce brand new letterhead for the DOJ.

The Department of Justice is using the liberal “watchdog” group Media Matters for America to deflect questions about the Fast and Furious scandal, including those regarding a gun that might have been used in the murder of a U.S. Border Patrol agent.


A new book raises questions as to whether the FBI hid the existence of a weapon recovered at the scene of murdered U.S. Border Patrol agent Brian Terry. Conservative commentator and author Katie Pavlich lays out evidence she says points to a FBI cover-up to protect a confidential informant in her recently released book, Fast and Furious: Barack Obama’s Bloodiest Scandal and Its Shameless Cover-up...
Here's the full back-story:

Katie Dixon, a 'confidential assistant' in the Office of Public Affairs at the Department of Justice, reportedly sent an email to Washington Free Beacon writer C.J. Ciaramella saying that she had been directed to send him a link to Media Matters for America, which holds weekly "strategy calls" with the White House, in response to an inquiry  regarding the Operation Fast and Furious scandal...

...In a tweet Friday evening, @CJCiaramella said:

Requested comment from DOJ re: @KatiePavlich's #fastandfurious book. DOJ sent me a link to a Media Matters article...

The message then linked to a story titled Fast And Fallacious: Pavlich's Book On ATF Operation Filled With Falsehoods. At the time of this writing, Dixon has not responded to Breitbart News to confirm that she sent the email shown in the tweet.

Pavlich's book, which is currently a top seller on Amazon.com, is described as telling readers "in chilling detail, just what this operation conducted by the ATF, under the supervision of the Justice Department, entailed" and saying that "equally appalling is the blatant cover-up of wrongdoing by the Obama administration."

In other words, the Holder Department of Justice is openly collaborating with an ultra-left wing propaganda outlet to continue its long-running cover-up of Operation Fast and Furious.

I spoke with author Katie Pavlich on Saturday and she confirmed that additional disclosures related to her bestselling book -- little gems, as I like to call them -- are on the way.

I can't wait.


Larwyn's Linx: John McCain, the 2008 Election, and Civil Unrest

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Nation

John McCain, the 2008 Election, and Civil Unrest: Adams
Executive Order 13547: “The Sleeping Power Grab”: Hot Air
Pelosi: Amend the First Amendment: CNS

All the Morals of a Bulldozer: Sultan Knish
Welcome to Über Liberal World!: RWN
FBI: Four Houston banks robbed within hours: ABC Houston

Economy

W.H. Blows Millions to Train Foreign Students for Outsourcing: WZ
Obama's Smoke-and-Mirrors Student Debt Campaign: AT
Obamacare’s devastating small business tax hikes: DC

Union-Backer On Scott Walker “We Cut Your Head Off”: Cove
Food Stamp Rolls to Grow Through 2014, CBO Says: WSJ
Illinois governor unveils "bold" plan to save pensions: Trib

Scandal Central

DOJ Refers Reporter to Media Matters, Source Claims: Breitbart
Good News: DOJ referring reporters to Media Matters: Twitchy
Stratfor and Business Insider?: Ameristroika

2012 Elections

Tea Party roars: Six-term incumbent Sen. Orrin Hatch forced into primary: Malkin
Dick Lugar at risk of losing Senate seat and reputation: LI
Mia B. Love wins Republican nomination in UT04: LI

Gallup: President Obama on the Brink, Polls Worse Than Carter: Ace
WaPo’s Steven Pearlstein wants to get Democrats, political terrorists together to solve problems!: RS
6 takeaways from the Orrin Hatch race: Politico

Jon Corzine Still Bundling for Obama?!?!?!: WS
The Obama Campaign Should Be Hitting the Panic Button: USN&WR
The Romney Campaign’s Tin Ear: Erickson

Climate & Energy

Earth Day Special: The Media's Top 25 Worst Environmental Quotes: MRC
The Illogic of Climate Hysteria: Watts
In '72, EPA battled pollution; now it's politics: WSJ

Media

Steyn: Diving gleefully into darkness: NatlPost
PolitiFact Goes to the Dogs: Patterico
Cokie Roberts: 'Not As Bad As It Could Have Been' Is Not Really a Good Campaign Slogan: HapBlog

This Is What Democrazy Looks Like: Lady Liberty
From the ‘Too Good to Check’ File: RSM
More Civility from the Psychos on the Left: LoneCon

World

Bolton: Obama taking credit for killing bin-Laden is like Nixon taking credit for landing on the moon: Scoop
Legal Jizya: Taxpayers Billed $180 million for representing Muslim terrorist suspects: Atlas
Communist tyrants and their affinity for Rolex Watches: Babalu

Israel Counterterrorism Bureau calls on Israelis to leave Sinai, citing immediate threat: Haaretz
Dying Chavez Drops Out of Sight: JWF
Turnout solid in French presidential election: CNS

Royal Marine Lance Corporal Matt Croucher: Mellow Jihadi
Muslim mob torches Catholic church in Khartoum: Fox
From a Mexican kingpin to an FBI informant: LAT

Sci-Tech

Android Is Suddenly In A Lot Of Trouble: Insider
Hollywood Studios Lose World’s First Major Ruling on Downloading of Copyrighted Material: AllGov
Video gamers trying to emulate Humber's perfect performance: USA Today

Cornucopia

VRWC converges on Charlotte; awesomeness ensues: Landmark Report
Great Britain Reclaims America: Diogenes
Green Energy Failures Continue to Hound our Campaign: WTF?: MOTUS

Image: Orrin Hatch
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QOTD: "The conventional wisdom is that the election is President Obama's to lose, but after the week he's had, if I were his Chicago campaign office I'd be hitting the panic button.

...The problem is that the president is in big trouble on the fundamentals. No matter which poll you look at, or how much you like the president personally, you'll see that a majority of Americans continue to believe that our nation is on the wrong track—and those numbers are stuck like a freight train facing the wrong way. Similarly, there are large and growing majorities of Americans who disapprove of the president's signature accomplishment, healthcare reform. Across all demographic groups, the number one issue is the economy—yet the number of Americans who approve of the way the president is handling the economy is abysmal. Chicago, we have a problem." --Mary Kate Cary

Saturday, April 21, 2012

Forget Taxmaggedon: here's the tax hike exemption card you were promised by Barack Obama!

The Washington Post calls the panoply of 2013 Obama tax hikes "Taxmageddon":

If you thought paying your taxes was painful this year, get ready for more heartache next year, when taxpayers could be on the hook for almost $500 billion in higher taxes... That's the size of "Taxmageddon."

Taxmageddon is the tax hike set to slam the economy and taxpayers on Jan. 1, 2013. It's made up of seven different categories of tax cuts set to expire, and six tax hikes from the health-care law set to kick in, as soon as the ball drops on New Year's Eve.

Fortunately, you and I are exempt from the Obama tax hikes thanks to his 2008 campaign promise!

A couple of years ago, Americans for Tax Reform offered to ship taxpayers their own, valuable tax hike exemption card for a nominal contribution. Here's the way it worked:

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

How to use the card:

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

Step 2: If challenged, pleasantly ask: "How dare you, sir? 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

Which should be extremely helpful when 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.

The 7 Reasons You Will Never Be As Cool As John Hawkins #BlogConCLT

The proprietor of Right Wing News and Linkiest is a man named John Hawkins. Hawkins is famous for his catchy headlines, which often come in the form of lists. Like "The 25 Best Quotes From Thomas Sowell". Or "15 Questions The Mainstream Media Would Ask Barack Obama If He Were A Republican."

In that vein, I present the 7 reasons that you (and I) will never be as cool as John Hawkins:

• John Hawkins will walk up to any woman or group of women -- including the stunning Dana Loesch and Katie Pavlich -- and begin chatting them up for photos. I have a vision of Hawkins' foyer that is lined with hundreds of photos of him hugging every woman on the center-right scene.

• John Hawkins knows everyone. He is an uber-networker and can connect you with the full spectrum of conservative thought, from National Review to Breitbart.com.

• John Hawkins is a prolific reader and he takes copious notes. His collections -- like "The 50 Best Ann Coulter Quotes Of All-Time" -- are outstanding.

• John Hawkins is an entrepreneur. He's leveraged his websites as launching points for a writing career, with his columns appearing at Townhall and PJ Media. I wouldn't be shocked to discover that he has a book and syndicated column in the works.

• John Hawkins is funny. At #BlogConCLT, he had me literally crying and gasping for breath as he outlined various possible "list columns" like "The Top 12 Places You Should Never Wear a Speedo With an Afro-Wig Under It."

• John Hawkins publishes some of the best columns in the business at RightWingNews, with content from Michelle Malkin, Jonah Goldberg, Thomas Sowell, Walter Williams, John Stossel, and many, many more.

• John Hawkins has one of the best collections of entertaining links -- not just politics -- at Linkiest.com. As an aside, Hawkins observed which headlines got the most clicks at Linkiest and tuned his own headline-writing skills there.

So don't bother trying to be John Hawkins. You can't possibly succeed. It's his world -- and we're just living in it.


The One Graphic You Need to See for 2012

Spotted at Reaganite Republican, via BadBlue, is the ultimate 2012 graphic:


This president has set the country on a course for fiscal apocalypse -- and that is no joke.


Curiously, Obama campaign struggles to raise cash as gas prices, inflation, and bankruptcies increase

Even the The New York Times is no longer able to ignore the obvious: Barack Obama is having a very, very difficult time raising money for his 2012 campaign.

Obama Sees Steep Dropoff in Cash From Major Donors

From Wall Street to Hollywood, from doctors and lawyers, the traditional big sources of campaign cash are not delivering for the Obama campaign as they did four years ago. The falloff has left his fund-raising totals running behind where they were at the same point in 2008 — though well ahead of Mr. Romney’s — and has induced growing concern among aides and supporters...

...With big checks no longer flowing as quickly into his campaign, Mr. Obama is leaning harder on his grass-roots supporters, whose small contributions make up well over half of the money he raised through the end of March...

...“They clearly are feeling the pressure,” said one major Obama fund-raiser, who asked for anonymity to characterize his conversations with campaign officials. “They’re behind where they expected to be. You have to factor in $500 million-plus in Republican super PAC money.”

...Mr. Obama has held more than a hundred joint fund-raisers since last spring, far more than President George W. Bush during his 2004 re-election, and has tucked fund-raising stops into many of his official presidential trips.

...All told, about 58 percent of Mr. Obama’s total fund-raising during the election has come in checks of less than $200, compared with about 38 percent in 2008. In March alone, Mr. Obama took in $14.2 million worth of checks under $200 — more than all the money his campaign raised in February.

Even Obama's SuperPACs are suffering. The Hill reported today that Priorities USA is begging Bill "Did somebody say 'Columbian Hookers'?" Clinton for fundraising help.

And if you're on Obama's various mailing lists -- as I am -- you're sure to have noticed that his appeals for cash are now structured as contests. The entry fee is always the same: $3. And you're enticed with the offer to eat dinner with he and Michelle (caution: just keep clear of her hands and mouth while food is served), a chance to win a date with Bill Maher, or an opportunity to vacation in Spain.

Not only is Obama struggling in his fundraising, but he's also turning out to be political poison within the Democrat political establishment. Key Congressional representatives are openly badmouthing his policies. Democrat candidates, who flocked to him in 2008, are advised to stay as far away from him as possible.

There's much work to be done to defeat Obama in 2012. But these are encouraging signs.

Larwyn's Linx: Barack Obama Schools Debbie Wasserman Schultz 'Don’t Forget, You Work For Me'

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Nation

Obama tells Wasserman Schultz “Don’t Forget, You Work For Me”: Shark
Fired Secret Service Agent Eligible for $2.1MM in Pension: Beacon
Boston hates Barack: President Obama booed at Red Sox game: Twitchy

Barack Obama's Polygamist Roots: AmPower
Smear-Troll @Dan_Verg_ Commits Libel With Bogus Tweet: RSM
Coroner: Breitbart died of heart failure, hardened arteries: LAT

Economy

‘He kept us out of depression’ vs. ‘He kept us from prosperity’: Peth
Food Stamp Fraud: Open Trading of Food Stamps on Social Nets: Twitchy
Despite Recession, Gun Sales Still Booming: Bruce

Awesome: Breitbart’s ‘Occupy Unmasked’ trailer released: Scoop
‘The 2012 National Debt Road Trip’: AmRight
Even more anti-semitism at Occupy Wall Street: Power Line

2012 Elections

‘Mormon Mitt’ Meme Keeps Popping Up in Mainstream Media: RSM
Manchin: I may not vote for Obama in November: Hot Air
Dems Fret About Their Virulently Anti-Israel Congressional Candidate: Beacon

Scandal Central

Third Smoking Gun in Fast and Furious?: Beacon
‘Gunwalker’ suspect gave ATF and border authorities plenty of clues amidst lies: Codrea
Mission Accomplished: Frawley joins Blago and Rezko in the Silence Chamber: IP2P

Climate & Energy

Maybe Don Surber is Right: DTG
Steve Zwick Says Burn The Deniers (Metaphorically)!: Briggs
Uh Oh Global Warming Devotees – Some Glaciers Are Growing: Sentinel

Media

MSNBC: We Reserve the Right to Lie About You: Power Line
Coulter: Obama’s silver spoon was ‘an affirmative action silver spoon’: DC
Olbermann unleashed: Wanders, pouts in Central Park: Twitchy

Oops! Dem Governor Bashes Romney for Polygamist Roots – Forgets About Obama’s Polygamist Dad: GWP
After Weeks of Misreporting – Media Releases Bloody George Zimmerman Photo: GWP
MSNBC Genius of the Day: NASCAR Racers Go 500 Miles Per Hour: Powers

Obama's War on Dogs: Lady Liberty
Breitbart Portrait Presented to Team Breitbart at #BlogConCLT: AllAm
“If I wanted America to fail”: NoisyRm

World

The Elephant of Jew Hatred: Glick
Holder Refuses to Enforce the Law Against WikiLeaks and Russia Today: Kincaid
Shocking nation, Norway killer describes island massacre: Reuters

Sci-Tech

The Isaacson biography of Steve Jobs: Hayek
Google-Sun court docs reveal long Java licensing dance: CNet
Microsoft Looks To Stall iPad With New Windows 8 VDI License: CRN

Cornucopia

Fast Food Bracket Round 3: OTN
Geekgasm alert: five Star Trek captains appearing together on stage: Troglo
Rare Penny Auctioned in Illinois: ABC

Image: Power Line
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: Senate Conservatives Fund

QOTD: "...maybe it’s stretching the definition of “mainstream” to include the Daily Beast and MSNBC, but the predicted eruptions of the “Mormon Mitt” meme keep occurring with increasing frequency...

...They’re now doing the same to Romney with the “Mormon Mitt” meme: Establishing the map-grid coordinates, as it were, so that when the signal flare goes up, everybody is aiming at the same target and Romney is helplessly trapped in the media kill-zone...

...You can see it coming a mile away, folks. Don’t say you weren’t warned." --Robert Stacy McCain

Friday, April 20, 2012

Breaking: A.G. Eric Holder aggressively pursuing rampant food stamp fraud on Twitter. Just kidding. He's not.

A follow-up to this morning's "Chart illustrating the uncanny resemblance of the federal government to an organized criminal operation":

It's not enough that tens of billions of dollars are wasted each year on food stamp fraud. One would assume that it's done surreptitiously and cautiously, away from the public eye. And one would be wrong.

Because it turns out, as Twitchy discovered, that criminals are openly buying and selling food stamps on the social networks.

Food stamps aren’t just a hot topic on Capitol Hill and among presidential candidates. They are also a much-discussed topic on Twitter... According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, food stamp trafficking is illegal ... Yet many Twitter users openly discuss the purchase or sale of food stamps:


Gee, government is such an outstanding steward of our hard-earned money, ain't it?


And I'll bet they'll put those extra funds confiscated by "The Buffet Rule" [sic, intentionally] to good use. Those damn rich people. They don't deserve their money!

Because if there's one thing I've learned over the years, it's that a massive, bloated, authoritarian, extra-constitutional and centralized government knows how to spend our money better than you and I do.


Image Credit: JanetAirlines.com.

Good news! Joe Kennedy the 12th wants to end 'cheap oil'

Joe Kennedy the 19th believes he has a royal right of inheritance to Barney Frank's seat. No, I mean his Congressional seat. How else to explain this idiocy:

Ever since he entered the race for Massachusetts' Fourth Congressional District, Joseph Kennedy III has been facing criticism for avoiding discussing any substantive issues. Even left-leaning blogs have pointed out that his website lacked an issues page.


Well, Kennedy finally stepped up this week and gave the voters some idea about where he stands on the issues:

Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush, Clinton, Bush, Obama — they’ve all talked about the same thing: the need to wean ourselves off our debilitating dependence on foreign oil.

The cycle that allows cheap oil to trump tough choices has to stop. Forty years is enough.

- Joe Kennedy III, April 17, 2012, "A Note From Joe"

So our problem is cheap oil. Who knew?

I'm sure that comment gives a lot of comfort to the residents of Massachusetts, many of whom are dependent on heating oil each winter.

So I created the following bumper-sticker:


Feel free to spread it around. I know Joe Kennedy is often described as "out of touch". That's a monumental understatement.

Update: Bonus sticker!



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Obama's Weiner

But he's not a crass, vindictive pol:

“ Enjoy your last ride on Air Force One. ”

— President Obama to Anthony Weiner after the then-New York congressmen ripped into the president’s health care plan during a 2009 plane ride to Washington, according to Politico.


Robert Draper’s upcoming book “Do Not Ask What Good We Do: Inside the U.S. House of Representatives” excerpted in Politico. And this was before Weiner’s Twitter photos.

Gee, I wonder what kind of psychological profile matches President Obama's behavior?


Image: Celebrity Baby Scoop.

Chart illustrating the uncanny resemblance of the federal government to an organized criminal operation

Remember the charges of racism leveled by the Left after Newt Gingrich called Barack Obama "the Foodstamp President"?

How about "The Disability President"?

A record 5.4 million workers and their dependents have signed up to collect federal disability checks since President Obama took office, according to the latest official government data, as discouraged workers increasingly give up looking for jobs and take advantage of the federal program...


...Since the recession ended in June 2009, the number of people who've signed up for disability benefits is twice the job growth figure. In just the first four months of this year, 539,000 joined the disability rolls and more than 725,000 put in applications.

As a result, by April there were 10.8 million people on disability, according to Social Security Administration data released this week. Even after accounting for all those who've left the program — mainly because they hit retirement age or died — that's up 53% from a decade ago.

I'm sure many of you also recall this disturbing chart:


It illustrates the number of Americans dependent on (or simply abusing) the Food Stamp program.

Not only is Barack Obama intentionally growing an entire underclass dependent on government largess, but he is also facilitating corruption and fraud on a scale unseen in American history. Whether it's disability, food stamps, Medicare, or Medicaid, this government is supporting tens of billions of dollars in fraudulent wealth transfers.

Whether this administration has undisclosed ties to organized crime -- or whether its naked incompetence is simply facilitating organized crime -- is a question best left as an exercise for the reader.


Pic Dump #blogconclt

The "Obama ate my dog" meme just won't die.

The Looking Spoon:


Spotted on Free Republic:


What happens when PJ Media's Vodkapundit is confronted with the question: "Why in hell are you drinking bourbon"?


DaTechGuy has more photos of #BlogConCLT, including multiple platters of wings leveled by conservative bloggers:


At least I think they were wings. They tasted like chicken, anyhow.


ABC News Obliterates the Race-Baiters: Graphic Photo of George Zimmerman's Head

Well, this certainly changes the trajectory of the story:

A new photograph obtained exclusively by ABC News showing the bloodied back of George Zimmerman's head, which was apparently taken three minutes after he shot and killed Trayvon Martin, gives possible credence to his claim that Martin had bashed his head against the concrete as Zimmerman fought for his life...


The revelation comes as his attorney and prosecutors prepare for Zimmerman's bail hearing today, which could result in his being released from a Florida jail. Zimmerman, 28, is being held on charges of second-degree murder for the Feb. 26 shooting of Martin, 17, which could carry a life sentence if he is convicted.

The exclusive image shows blood trickling down the back of Zimmerman's head from two cuts. It also shows a possible contusion forming on the crown of his head. The original police report that night notes that the back of Zimmerman's head was wet, and that he was bleeding from the nose and head.

Zimmerman told police that night that he shot and killed the teenager in self-defense after Martin punched him and pounced on him.

Good on ABC News.

Barack Obama, Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson and MSNBC hardest hit.


Hat tip: Melissa Clouthier.

Larwyn's Linx: The Obama Administration May Be Nearing A Complete and Total Breakdown

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Nation

The Obama Administration Looks To Be Close To A Breakdown: Hanson
Ted Nugent Meets Secret Service: Ace
Tapper grills Carney on non-stop campaign travel: Scoop

Dem Senator: Obamacare Represents Failure: GWP
Pelosi: Amend the First Amendment: CNS
Trayvon Martin: New From Daily Beast: JOM

Economy

The Governing Class and Us: Foundry
Teacher upset she can't retire at 47: Events
Sessions Rips Senate Democrats Over Failure to Pass Budget: GWP

Gunmaker alleges political bias by Bank of America: LI
Thanks Obama! Food stamp users increase 70% since 2007: FAM
Audit Notes: Bank Run, Silicon Valley Small-ball, Anti-Free: CJR

American Tune: Goldfish & Clowns
Issues vs. ‘distractions’: Goldberg
AT&T-Verizon: The inevitable duopoly?: Fortune

Scandal Central

New Culture Of Irresponsibility: IBD
Every Picture Tells a Story: Solyndra Building for Sale!: WS
Investigate Nugent But Not Farrakhan?: IBD

2012 Elections

Rubio Slip: "If I Do A Good Job As Vice President": RCP
Lefty Mediaite Blogger: Mitt Romney’s “Obama Isn’t Working” Banner Is Racist: WZ
Pelosi Denies Obama Is In 'Campaign Mode': Exam

Climate & Energy

White House First to Say Chevy Volt Not Ready For Prime Time: NLPC
Obama’s Department of Homeland Security Forms Green Police: CDN
Obama faces defeat on pipeline as Dems defect: York

Media

Michele Bachmann- Obama “Waving a Tar Baby in the Air”: Shark Tank
Harrowing Mel Gibson rant released by screenwriter Joe Eszterhas: Fox
Lifetime's Perky Prostitute: RWN

No More “Mr. Obama Is a Nice Guy”: Malkin
The 25 Best Quotes From Thomas Sowell: RWN
Dana Loesch in Chicago owns Occupy sympathizer over rapes and vandalism: FAM

World

How the Eurocrisis Will Affect the West: Gatestone
Iran Marks Holocaust Remembrance Day By Playing Holocaust-Denying Cartoons On TV: WZ
The Summit of the America’s in nutshell: Babalu

Sci-Tech

Microsoft Uncloaks Windows 8 for ‘Consumerized’ Businesses: Wired
Vietnam asks WHO to help identify killer disease: AP
Facebook Cools New Data Center With Hot Southern Air: Wired

Cornucopia

That Dawg Won’t Hunt: MOTUS
"Is He Too Old For Me?": Dear Wendy
Twitter has fun creating socialist band names: Twitchy

Image: Ace o' Spades
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QOTD: "Obama, it would seem, wants to deny to others what he will not deny to himself. He wants to deny to the children of others what he will not deny to his own children. He wants to amass riches, but he doesn't want you to amass wealth. He doesn't mind private school for his own children, but he minds it for your children. He doesn't mind eating whatever he wants to eat, but he minds what you eat. He doesn't mind taking that 747 one frivolous trip after another, one self-serving fundraising after another, but he minds what you drive and how much fuel you use. And we can go on and on." --Mark Levin

Thursday, April 19, 2012

Not Trayvon: 'I don't want to go back with him'

Although highly relevant to the Trayvon Martin tragedy, you won't read this story in old media:

Ten-year-old Abdifatah Mohamud was running for his life down Sycamore Street at about 5 p.m. Tuesday when a concerned neighbor stopped to try to help. Seeing the boy's stepfather chasing after him, the neighbor helped the man, Ali Mohamed Mohamud, catch up with the child.

The boy didn't want to go home with Mohamud.

"I told the boy, 'Daddy promises nothing is going to happen,'" the neighbor later told The Buffalo News. "The boy said to me: 'No, he always says that.'"

Less than six hours later, Abdifatah was dead, brutally beaten, and his stepfather, Ali Mohamed Mohamud, was under arrest.

The boy was tied to a chair with duct tape, a sock stuffed in his mouth, and he was beaten with a stick or blunt object in the basement of their Guilford Street home, near the Broadway Market, authorities said... The stepfather was angry because the boy, a fifth-grader at the International Preparatory School on Clinton Street, had fallen behind in his homework...

...Mohamud, 40, a native of Somalia who has been in the United States for a decade, was charged with second-degree murder. Police investigators were shocked over the viciousness of the beating... "The defendant admitted he tied up his 10-year-old stepson, admitted that he put a sock in his mouth, put duct tape over the mouth and beat him to death with a stick or similar blunt object," Finnerty said.

And this story is simply too heartbreaking to use the all-too-suitable "Boy who could have been Obama's son..."

Pity the professional race-baiting scam artists -- Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson foremost among them -- won't be seen within 250 miles of this case.


Hat tip: Winterspirit.

Photo o' the day (and maybe the week)

Uncle Ben:


Totalitarian Climate Kook Wants Warming Deniers' Homes to Burn

Someone allegedly named "Steve Zwick" somehow hacked into Forbes' content management system and posted a vicious screed attacking those who believe global warming is a money-making scam. Which, of course, it is.

...the denial machine is ratcheting up its disinformation campaign, and therein lies the problem. Every time someone validates or fine-tunes the science, ten or twelve well-funded and active propagandists pop up to distorting it – usually by twisting the attempts at fine-tuning into “proof” that the models are fundamentally useless, and then launching childish attacks on the scientists themselves.

This propaganda has already set us back two decades, during which the costs of dealing with climate change have risen and our chances of curtailing it have diminished... Let’s take a page from those Tennessee firemen we heard about a few times last year – the ones who stood idly by as houses burned to the ground because their owners had refused to pay a measly $75 fee.

We can apply this same logic to climate change.

We know who the active denialists are – not the people who buy the lies, mind you, but the people who create the lies. Let’s start keeping track of them now, and when the famines come, let’s make them pay. Let’s let their houses burn. Let’s swap their safe land for submerged islands. Let’s force them to bear the cost of rising food prices.

Email ZwickThey broke the climate. Why should the rest of us have to pay for it? ... The models have proven incredibly accurate when it comes to projecting the overall rise in extreme events, they still can’t tell you exactly which specific storms arose from climate change and which would have happened anyway – and they probably never will. They also can’t tell us which company’s emissions caused which change in temperature – and that’s something they’ll never be able to do, because CO2 emissions all get mixed up in the air.

Tell you what, Zwick -- if that is your real name -- how about you warmists go without fossil fuels instead? See, we Constitutional conservatives aren't wannabe totalitarian despots like you nuts. We just want you to live as if there really is a climate crisis.

So, if you want to impress us, we want to see you living without electricity, without food shipped by truck, without the use of automobiles, without using plastics, without jetting around the planet, without all of the wonders provided by our magnificent civilization.

And this, we know, you will not do.

Which is why you and your unscientific religion of Eco-Statism must be dismissed.

So go stick your head in some sand and live like you preach, Zwitler.


Related: Global Warming Comics -- The Fraudulent And The Immoral. Hat tip: Climate Depot.