Sunday, April 21, 2013

PHOTOGRAPHIC EVIDENCE: Putting a "COEXIST" Bumper-Sticker on Your Car Says, "Look at Me, I'm a Mope"

Turns out the vehicle the Boston terrorists decided to carjack didn't have an NRA bumper sticker; it had one of these:


Which reminds me of this:



Larwyn's Linx: Thoughts the Next Morning -- Martial Law

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Nation

Thoughts the Next Morning: Denninger
Immigration: Incomprehensible, Comprehensive Bills Not the Solution: Foundry
The Pride and the Shame of Yesterday in Boston: DTG

Bloomberg's Lies: Extrano's Alley
Amnesty Bill Goodie Bag: RWN
Immigration bill contains 400 waivers, exceptions and exemptions: DC

Who Are The Three People Taken Into Custody in Boston Case?: WZ
UK Paper: FBI Hunting for 12 Member Strong Sleeper Cell in Boston: Shen
Worse Than Any Horror Movie: RWN

Economy

Hearings on Radical Labor Nominee Perez Begin: Labor Pains
The Corruption of Big Spending Democrats: Wizbang
Dark Clouds Gather in Italy: Mead

100 Years Of Government's Takeover Of The Economy: ZH
School suspends student for wearing NRA shirt, then has him arrested: RWN
School Counselor Gloats Over Dead of West, Texas: MB

Scandal Central

That Was the Week That Was: Driscoll
Why isn’t Benghazi given the same treatment as Boston? This revelation may well explain it: Spellchek
Drama in the Rose Garden: Defying Senate, Obama Vows to Win on Gun Control: NRA-ILA

Media

Add Boston Marathon Bombing to pile of Failed Eliminationist Narratives: LI
Unreal: AP's Kuhnhenn Writes of 'Tough Week for Presidency': Blumer
Tweet of the day, Oh, Yeah: #NPR Can Kiss My Blindingly-White Irish Tuchus edition.: Moe Lane

Epic Rush Limbaugh on Boston Bombers: Isn’t This How Bill Ayers Got His Start?: GWP
The State-Run Media Dare Not Speak It’s Name: iOTW
‘Best thing since Uncle Ruslan’: Viral Vine video shows FBI agent scaling open gate: Twitchy

Robert Redford Picked the Wrong Week to Quit Sniffing Glue: Driscoll
Regulation for bloggers?: Watchdog
Gun control advocate gets mugged by reality: Arms & the Law

World

Monday Bombshell: Evidence So Damning It Will “Determine the Fate of Our Nation”: SHTFplan
Jake Tapper hearing ‘crickets’ from FBI over Tamerlan Tsarnaev inquiry; House committee to seek answers: Twitchy
Boston jihad murderer's YouTube playlist: "I will dedicate my life to Jihad": JihadWatch

Sennels: The Muslim terror attack in Boston gives me Islamonausea: JihadWatch
Boston bombs: Obama lulled America into false confidence over terror threat: Telegraph
Report: Alharbi visited by Michelle Obama in Hospital: Shoebat

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue.com/Tech)

Top 10 Awesome MacGyver Tricks That Speak For Themselves: LifeHacker
Google Glass mysteries revealed!: ComputerWorld
Mary Rose reveals armour piercing cannonball secret: Telegraph

Cornucopia

Obama NOT Golfing Today: Dossier
You can't make this stuff up: Ushanka
4 Lessons from living through a severe water shortage: SurvivalMom

Image: Heartwarming photo: Little boy says ‘thank you’ to police officers in Watertown
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QOTD: "Let me send this message very clear. We know who this Saudi National is. And it is in your best interests and the best interests of integrity and trust for the people of the United States of America. It’s best coming from you, not coming from a news organization.

You have until Monday. We have information on who this man is. And listen to me carefully. We know that he is a very bad, bad, bad man.

I know that doesn’t make sense to you now, but on Monday it will …I don’t bluff. I make promises. The truth matters. I’ve had enough of what you’ve done to our country.

I thought I had heard and seen it all. I thought I didn’t trust my government.

No. No. There is no depth that these people will not stoop to.

They have until Monday." --Glenn Beck

Saturday, April 20, 2013

The Gang of Eight's Immigration Deception [Cutler]

Guest post by Michael Cutler

The “Gang of Eight,” aka the “Eight Gangsters,” are concocting Comprehensive Immigration Reform legislation. Purportedly this legislation is needed to address the presence of the officially-estimated population of 12 million illegal aliens.

While the legislation is referred to as being “Comprehensive,” there is nothing truly comprehensive about their approach, other than the fact that it would provide nearly all illegal aliens who are in the United States, or who will arrive in the months to come, with lawful status and ultimately, a pathway to United States citizenship. It would also increase the number of visas for many thousands of foreign workers and allow them to compete unfairly with American workers.

A History of Deception

The “one time” amnesty of 1986 was supposed to involve approximately one million illegal aliens. Over 3.5 million actually came forward. If history were to repeat itself, Comprehensive Immigration Reform would involve between 30 and 40 million aliens.

And that is just one of the deceptions inherent in the coverage of the current debate. Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) was on ABC’s “This Week” last Sunday, and expressed concern that pledges to secure the border between the U.S. and Mexico won’t be kept, leading to a massive influx of illegal aliens.

“It looks like…it will give amnesty now, legalize everyone that’s here effectively today and then there’s a promise of enforcement in the future,” Sessions said about the proposed legislation. “Even if you pass laws today that appear to be effective, it doesn’t mean they’re going to be enforced.”

“And we have in this administration,” he added, a failure to enforce. So that’s a big deal right now.”

The Border Deception

Another deception is the claim that the United States has just four border states. Any state that has a seaport or international airport is as much a border state as are those states found along America’s northern and southern border. Simply stated, there are 50 border states.

Kim Snarkashian Award for Obliterating the Progressives' CO2 Scam

Over at the uber-serious science site Ace of Spades, we discover the following NASA disclosure:

There were no sunspots observed on 266 of the year's 366 days (73%). To find a year with more blank suns, you have to go all the way back to 1913, which had 311 spotless days... Prompted by these numbers, some observers suggested that the solar cycle had hit bottom in 2008... Maybe not. Sunspot counts for 2009 have dropped even lower. As of March 31st, there were no sunspots on 78 of the year's 90 days (87%).

It adds up to one inescapable conclusion: "We're experiencing a very deep solar minimum," says solar physicist Dean Pesnell of the Goddard Space Flight Center... "This is the quietest sun we've seen in almost a century," agrees sunspot expert David Hathaway of the Marshall Space Flight Center.


Clearly now is the time to regulate the economy through a carbon cap and trade system in an effort to offset, um something (freedom and prosperity mostly).


Now, does anyone notice in that graph Drew posted that sunspot activity is oddly congruent with late nineties warming followed by cooling throughout the 2000s? Look at this chart. Which does warming seem to track with more closely -- solar activity (or inactivity) or rising or falling CO2 ("The Invisible Assassin") levels?

I have to quote the commenter again who wrote this:

If only there were some... natural explanation for falling and rising temperatures. Such a hypothetical source of warming would have to be massive, however. On the order of magnitude of our own Sun.

And in Obama's presser, he just said if China's and India's citizens used same average amount of America's do, "we'd all be melting by now".

Sure we would. How dumb do you have to be to vote Democrat, anyhow?

That's a rhetorical question, of course.


MARK LEVIN SHOW PODCAST PROBLEMS? Here's an easy way to download the Great One's podcasts

If you're a Mark Levin Show fan like me, you may have noticed that the show's website redesign appears to have completely broken podcast downloads. Not to fear -- here's my fix:

1. Choose date of podcast to download:


2. Click on the link to play or right click and save to download:

Podcast link

You're welcome, America!

PEEPS IN DALLAS: Ted Cruz Under Attack by Obama's Political Army!

Those in Dallas or close by:

Tonight after the capture of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, President Obama called on Americans not to “rush to judgment against groups of people.” The president applies such thinking when terrorists strike and kill, but not to Americans who happen to disagree with him. He spent Wednesday afternoon yelling at Americans who disagree with him on gun ownership.

Saturday, the political army that answers directly to Barack Obama and no one else, Organizing for Action, will muster in Dallas to target Sen. Ted Cruz for disagreeing with him on gun ownership. I caught this on Facebook tonight, after the president called on Americans not to rush to judgement and all that crap that he doesn’t really mean. Except when applied to terrorists.

OFA vs. CRUZ CREW

The Obama machine has targeted the Dallas office to protest in retaliation of striking down gun control!

Saturday 11:30am
10440 N Central Expy, Dallas, TX. 75231

Stand with Ted Cruz!

If you go, take pictures and send 'em in.


Hat tip: BadBlue News.

Boston Bombing Suspects: Grassroots Militants from Chechnya

Guest post by Stratfor Research

Summary

The identities of the suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing -- Chechen brothers Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, and Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26 -- appear tentatively to confirm several of Stratfor's suspicions. From this profile, the simple nature of the attack, their efforts to rob a convenience store and their lack of an escape plan, we can at least say at this point in time that they were what we refer to as grassroots militants. Despite being amateurs, such militants clearly still pose a significant threat.

Analysis

Just after 10 p.m. on April 18, the Tsarnaev brothers were identified after having robbed a convenience store in Cambridge, Mass., just three miles from Boston, hours earlier. A Massachusetts Institute of Technology police officer, who responded to the robbery, was shot and killed and found in his car by fellow responding officers. The two suspects later hijacked an SUV at gunpoint, releasing the driver unharmed. Authorities later caught up to the suspects, and a car chase ensued.

Larwyn's Linx: Obama's And Boston's Lesson: Jihad Works

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Jihad in Boston

Obama's And Boston's Lesson: Jihad Works: Denninger
Oh My: FBI Interviewed Boston Terrorist 2 Years Ago Over Extremist Ties: WZ
Report: 3 arrested in New Bedford in connection to bombing suspect: ABC-6

Bombing Suspects Lauded Jihad: IPT
Boston jihad bomber's father threatens "all hell will break loose" if son dies: RWN
The Cat Was a Chechen: Mead

Obama: Let's Not Rush to Judgment on Islamists' Motives: WZ
How the Boston Marathon bombing suspects were hunted down: The Week
Clear photo of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev emerges via Russian Social Network: Riehl

Nation

Turmoil in the Court of the Unicorn King: Leather Penguin
RINO Christie trying to pass even stricter gun control laws: WZ
Tempers Flare in Illinois General Assembly debate on concealed carry : Guns

“Unobtainium” and Border Deception: Loudon
Obama Years Synonymous With Terrorism: IBD
Immigration Reform: Border Security First. Period.: TPNN

Scandal Central

Glenn Beck to Regime: You’ve Got Until Monday To Come Clean on the Saudi National: Nice Deb
Obama shuts down websites for copyright violations but pays for BlindSheik website to spew hatred: JW
Fun with Open Borders: Mexico's Zetas Cartel Wants to Recruit Your Kids: Wired

Climate & Energy

EPA's Dirty Secret About The Environment: IBD
The Unraveling of Global Warming is Accelerating: WUWT
Obama "Green Energy" Destruction: Each Karma 'cost' Fisker $660,000 to produce: Autoblog

Media

"The Southern Poverty Law Center should face a media death penalty.": PJM
Sorry, Media, No White Tea Partiers Were Involved: IBD
As usual, MSNBC struggles to report the facts...: Revealing

Immediately Following Arrest of Boston Bomber – Media Weeps for Jihadist Killer: GWP
If Rubio’s amnesty is so great, why is he lying?: Coulter
The Pride and the Shame of Yesterday in Boston: DTG

World

11 Things You Need To Know About Radical Islam In Chechnya: H4A
Boston jihad bomber's YouTube page feature cleric who called on Muslims to kill enemies of Islam: JihadWatch
‘Russia warned US of Chechen immigrants’: RT

The ultimate umbrella organization for violent malcontents: Bookworm
Obama Administration Opened up Muslim Immigration Floodgates: Clash
Boston bombs: Obama lulled America into false confidence over terror threat: Telegraph

Boston Jihadis carjacked car with "COEXIST" bumper sticker: JihadWatch
Hilarious: CAIR Says Boston Jihadis Weren’t Influenced By Islam!: GWP
Earthquake in China has claimed 124 lives, with more than 3,000 injured: RT

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue.com/Tech)

The Tech That Helped Take Down Marathon Bombing Suspect Dzhokar Tsarnaev: Gizmodo
Samsung explores touchless tablet interaction with brainwave technology: Engadget
Reddit and Crowdsourcing: Valuable or Problematic?: TechLand

Cornucopia

What's in a name? Separated at Birth Evil...: EBL
"It's kind of like foreplay. You don't want it to go too fast.": Autoblog
Beware: The Angel of Death is at Hand: MOTUS

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QOTD: "Let me ask you a question, again based on my observation in recent years. If you, listening to this program, are a Muslim, and it turns out that a Muslim did bomb the Boston Marathon, how d you feel? I daresay that if you are a Muslim, you can be pretty certain, you can rest assured, that everybody in the media will circle the wagons and say that this is not because of Islam. This is a lone bad actor – lone wolf – but this in no way say anything about Islam, it’s just a lone nut, and they will remind us that the vast majority of people denounce this kind of violence.

So if you’re a Muslim, and it turns out to be a Muslim bomber, you will be in no way associated with it. Which is fair. However, folks, if you are a conservative, and it turns out that whoever did this is either real or has an imagined connection to conservatives, everyone in the media will unite to denounce your whole group. Crazy extremists. Everybody thought to be in that guys group will be targeted. And believe me, that’s what they are all hoping for." --Rush Limbaugh

Friday, April 19, 2013

Photo of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev in Custody #Watertown #Manhunt #Boston #Marathon #Bombers

The Right Scoop is on it:


And Jim Hoft has a screen-cap:


Don't expend an ounce of sympathy on this demon. He's the scumbag who dropped off this particular backpack.


I hope his brother is roasting in Hell.


BREAKING: MSNBC still guardedly optimistic that bitter clingers responsible for Boston Marathon bombings

Dan Riehl catches the following interplay on MSNBC (he watches it so we don't have to):

I suppose this is all in how one looks at it, now isn’t it? One would think MSNBC would have the capability to have sifted through what are a growing number of facts pointing out the suspects’ links to Islam – and even certain radical elements.

Maybe they need to hire more bloggers, not that we’re perfect, by any means? But at least we are looking at it, as opposed to perhaps turning a blind eye.

“Let me stop you there,” Todd said. “We don’t know for sure this is one of his Amazon wish lists?”

“I want to stress, we don’t know for sure, but it is certainly hist name….” Kohlmann said, before being interrupted by Todd.

“I’ve got to stop you there,” Todd said. “Our folks — we don’t necessarily want to put this on air yet until we verify it.”

Kohlmann said he understood, then started speculating on possible links between the suspects and Al Qaeda or other organized terror networks on the Afghanistan-Pakistan border, which, he said, have been known to use Chechens or individuals who look like Chechens.

One of those groups is known as the Islamic Jihad Union,” Kohlmann said.

In the studio, off camera, a voice could be heard saying, “Oh my god.”

Todd finally cut in again: “I didn’t mean to cut you off, but we don’t want to draw so many conclusions,” he said. “But your point is that this is the type of string that the intelligence community is going to start pulling at — is that right.”

The new MSNBC logo, above, was contributed by The Looking Spoon, "in response to their eagerness to blame 'right-wing terrorists' in Boston and hesitance to talk about the (suspected) bombers Islamist beliefs."


Bill Ayers and the Bombings in Boston [Alphamail]

Guest post by Alphamail


The major media outlets and their on-camera newslings, have now interpreted the Boston Marathon bombing as a new era in the ground assault on America.

“We’ve entered a new phase in the kind of tactics the enemy is willing to use against us,” they profess. “They’re resorting to a new unusual street warfare and we should be prepared for this new type of attack.”

Excuse me…? Is that some kind of confused ostrich disconnect? Were you alive in the 1970’s? Do you know your history? Do you have a pulse?

This is one bombing! Yes, it is tragic. Yes, we need to pray for and support the victims and their families. May God comfort and be with them all.

But this is one bombing! Have you forgotten…?

The esteemed American professor Bill Ayers and his Weather Underground bombed – are you ready? – nearly forty (40) American institutions in the 1970’s.

The Boston bombing is not new by any means – it has an evil precedent - produced by similarly evil people.

Here is a short list of Ayer’s groundwork:

Find the Twist in Boston Bomber Story [Dan from New York]

Dan from New York:

Aunt: Dead Boston bomber recently became ‘devout Muslim’


TORONTO (AP) — An aunt of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects said Friday the older brother recently became a devout Muslim who prayed five times a day, and she doesn’t believe the brothers could have been involved in Monday’s attack.

Sounds like a joint report from The Onion and the Associated Press.


Related: The 20 Most Stunning Photos of the #Watertown #Manhunt

The 20 Most Stunning Photos of the #Watertown #Manhunt

All spotted on the new mainstream media.  You may know it as Twitter...







Larwyn's Linx: Terror suspects have international ties, have been in the U.S. for a year

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Boston

Terror suspects have international ties, been in U.S. for a year: Blaze
Sunil Tripathi Information 4/19/2013: PunditPress
‘White Hat Suspect’ In Boston Bombings On Run, Other Dead: CBS Boston

DHS File: Saudi National “Linked to the Boston Bombing”: Nice Deb
Missing Brown Student: iOTW
Photo of 8 Year-Old Victim Martin Richard With Bomber: GWP

Gif of Bombing Suspect Fits Missing Brown Student Sunil Tripathi: Sooper
Billboard and previous surveillance image of Sunil Tripathi: Riehl
Boston Bomber Suspect Mike Mulugeta’s Twitter Account: Riehl

Nation

But My Plan Was PERFECT!: Wilson
The President's Gun Tirade and You: Dossier
Biden: Obama 'Already Lining Up... Additional Executive Actions' for Guns: WS

Pelosi, Biden issue threats after Senate Gun Control Failure: Owens
Legal Immigration: What About Those that Followed the Law?: Foundry
FBI Releases Photos, Video of Boston Marathon Bombing Suspects: Breitbart

Pompeo to Baucus: If ObamaCare is a “train wreck,” blame yourself: Hot Air
“BREAKING: President Readying Executive Orders on Gun Control”: ProWis
Wicker Hired Ricin Suspect As Elvis Impersonator: Roll Call

Economy

McDonald’s Franchisee: ‘Obamacare will negatively hit us like nothing else’: Scoop
Health Insurance Actuaries In the Hot Seat On ‘Rate Shock’: KHN
Don’t raise or eliminate the cap: AEI

Scandal Central

Facelift John Kerry On Benghazi: ‘We’ve Got A Lot More Important Things To Move On To’: Hope
Joe Biden Invents Phony Gun Statistics — Because SHUT UP HATERS, That’s Why!: RSM
Gosnell Trial Witness: Baby Abortion Survivor Was 'Swimming' in Toilet 'Trying to Get Out': CNS

Media

All Your Gun Base Are Belong To Us: CJ
“It’s the end of the rule of law on immigration” Mark Levin interviews Steve King: Scoop
Predictable: Obama is Making His Talk At the Boston Memorial About Himself: iOTW

Ben Carson Silenced, Bill Ayers Given Podium: MB
CCRKBA to Piers Morgan: ‘Your plane is waiting’: CFP
Gosnell employee says she saw more than 10 babies breath before they were killed: Scoop

World

Obama Administration Snubs Thatcher Funeral: Foundry
Islam's Collective Punishment of Christians: IPT
Pamela Geller's Banned Synagogue Talk, April 14, 2013: Geller

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue.com/Tech)

Stephen Hawking: So here's how it all happened without God: CNet
Starburst Galaxy Could Illuminate Early Universe: NatGeo
What's your obsolete tech really worth on eBay?: PCWorld

Cornucopia

Doolittle Raiders say this reunion will be last: ArmyTimes
The Most Deranged Sorority Girl Email You Will Ever Read (NSFW): Gawker
Elvis Has Left the Building: MOTUS

Image: PunditPress
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QOTD: "We are the product of quantum fluctuations in the very early universe.

I certainly feel like the product of quantum fluctuations on many days of the week, don't you?"--Dr. Steven Hawking

Thursday, April 18, 2013

Historian Tim Stanley: President Obama a petulant, lame duck whiner

At London's Telegraph, historian Tim Stanley puts #44 in perspective.

Barack Obama is a lame duck president. Nobody listens to what he says anymore, nobody is interested in winning his approval and nobody much cares if he thinks they have “let the country down”.

This is typical for a second-term president who has lost all their leverage because they’re no longer running for office and everybody is patiently waiting for the day when he quits the White House.

But Obama's difficult personality has doubled the size of the challenge. Gloating in victory, adolescent in defeat – the Prez doesn’t make it easy to work with him. Why should conservative senators give him a legislative victory after he has spent four years painting them as knuckle-dragging rednecks who hate women and the poor?

Whatever your position on gun control, yesterday’s events are a damning indictment of Obama’s presidency – a flash of style, lots of soaring rhetoric and, when the votes are actually counted, little show for any of it. America has four more years of this lame-duck president telling them that it has let him down. If only he could tear up the Constitution and rule by diktat he might save himself a little disappointment. Alas, American democracy is a stickler for rules.

The demagoguery has reached such a crescendo that even The Stuffington Roast offered a take on the speech "the deranged sorority emailer" would write for Obama on gun control.


Dozens of IRS employees claim to be unemployed in order to receive welfare, housing allowances and food stamps

But -- but -- but -- I thought all who work in government are benevolent public servants? That they're better than the rest of us? That they're angels, working for the public good?

Twenty-four current and former Internal Revenue Service employees have been charged with stealing government benefits, federal prosecutors said Wednesday.

The IRS employees were indicted on charges that they illegally received more than $250,000 in benefits including unemployment insurance payments, food stamps, welfare, and housing vouchers, the U.S. attorney's office in Memphis said in a news release.

Prosecutors say 13 of the IRS employees face federal charges of lying about being unemployed while applying for or recertifying their government benefits...

They each face up to five years in prison if convicted of making false statements to receive the benefits.

Eleven others face state charges of theft of property over $1,000, a felony that can carry a sentence of probation up to 12 years in prison if they are convicted.

Now take this fraud, multiply it by a million dollars or so, and you get your typical Senator.


Hat tips: Patriot Update and BadBlue News.

Progressive Paradise

Ain't this the truth?



Via: The Looking Spoon.

FBI RELEASES HIGH-RES PHOTOS: The Two Suspects in the Boston Marathon Bombings [Updated]

Guest post by Shelley:

Released just moments ago.


Update:


Update II: From the FBI website:


Update III: More from the FBI website (click for high-res versions):









Update IV: Reddit's official photo compilation thread for the new suspects:






Stay tuned for more updates.


If you have visual images, video, and/or details regarding the explosions along the Boston Marathon route and elsewhere, submit them on https://bostonmarathontips.fbi.gov/. No piece of information or detail is too small.

You can also call 1-800-CALL-FBI (1-800-225-5324), prompt #3, with information.
All media inquiries should be directed to the FBI’s National Press Office at (202) 324-3691.

TWO PERSONS OF INTEREST: Authorities Circulate Photos of Possible Boston Bombers [Updated - Not the Guys]

Update: Not the guys, according to multiple sources.

The New York Post has the latest:

Investigators probing the deadly Boston Marathon bombings are circulating photos of two men spotted chatting near the packed finish line, The Post has learned.

In the photos being distributed by law-enforcement officials among themselves, one of the men is carrying a blue duffel bag. The other is wearing a black backpack in the first photo, taken at 10:53 a.m., but it is not visible in the second, taken at 12:30 p.m.

These were the same two identified earlier by 4chan:

A federal law enforcement source told Fox News that investigators are looking for two men that are persons of interest in Monday's Boston Marathon terror attack and have distributed photos for “law enforcement eyes only.”

According to the reporter, one of the men has a backpack that appears to match the bag believed to have been used in the attack. The other man also appears to have a bag of some kind.



Related: PHOTOS: Suspect Has Large, Black Backpack Before Bombing, Appears to Have Shed It Moments Later [Updated].

Hat tip: BadBlue News Service.

Larwyn's Linx: What does it smell like to you?

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Nation

What does it smell like to you?: MB
Saudi questioned in Boston bombings to be deported: JihadWatch
Mark Levin grills Marco Rubio on immigration proposal: Scoop

We Win. They Lose. The 2nd Amendment is Safe.: RS
Feinstein: Background Check Deal Wouldn't Have Stopped Newtown: WZ
Acts of Rebellion: TL in Exile

Explosion at fertilizer plant in Texas: Photos and Video: Scoop
Tweets From TX: Site of Fertilizer Plant Explosion: Sooper
Allen West puts Left Wing Lunatics on Notice: Twitchy

Economy

Gov. Brownback signs bill requiring drug-testing for welfare recipients: Riehl
Nation's largest theater chain cuts work-week due to Obamacare: GWP
The Wreck of the Euro: Mead

Wake Up!: Denninger
Obama’s Budget Uses Tax Dollars to Fund Lobbyists Pushing Tax Hikes: RWN
Californians: Prepare For A 50% Hike In Pension Costs: ZH

Scandal Central

Boehner’s hand forced on Benghazi: Hill
White House behind Mitch McConnell smear? Brad Woodhouse Needs To Come Clean: Riehl
McConnell Campaign "Bugger" Closely Tied To Kentucky Democratic Party and Soros Group: Lid

Climate & Energy

Electrical Grid Attack: Captain's Journal
Syria: When is Enough, Enough? When the Oil becomes “Islamized!”: OilPrice
Congress Wants to Tell Americans How to Be More Efficient? Really?: Foundry

Media

Breaking: David (Who?) Sirota Suspected of Being a Douche: Ace
Whatever the Reason, There’s No Excuse for Media Ignoring Kermit Gosnell Trial: NB
Embargo? The Reddit/4Chan Guys Have Apparently ID’d the Boston Marathon Bombing Suspects: RSM

Let Not Your Heart Be Troubled: Erickson
Trey Gowdy Smashes DOJ on Voter ID Laws: Blaze
Democrat Sheila Jackson Lee: “Don’t Condemn The Gangbangers,” Guns Make Them Do It!: RWN

World

CBS News: “Multiple New” Benghazi Whistleblowers Speaking With Congressional Investigators: WZ
Did Obama Receive his Saudi Marching Orders about Boston Today?: Shenandoah
Press Cut Out Of Meeting With Saudi Foreign Minister, State Dept. Spins: Breitbart

Laughable Senate Amnesty Bill: Same DHS That's Freeing Illegals to "Dictate Border Security": Breitbart
Chinese Defense White Paper Challenges American Leadership, Military Readiness: Foundry
Reminder: Odds are Boston Bomber Is Either Islamic Extremist or Left-Wing Terrorist: GWP

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue.com/Tech)

A Day With Glass: First Impressions Of The Early Days Of Google’s Latest Moonshot: TechCrunch
Google plans to set up gigabit-speed fiber in Provo, Utah: CIO
Awesome Grandparents Created Ridiculously Awesome Tree House Mansion for Their Grandkids: Gizmodo

Cornucopia

The Cold War Has Gone Hot: TL in Exile
Exploiting Families Of Sandy Hook Victims Backfires: IBD
Obama responds angrily to gun amendment failures in Senate: CDN

Image: Dad records video of blast at fertilizer plant
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QOTD: "Manchin: If you want to remember those 20 babies… please consider you should vote for this bill.

I can conceive of a hypothetical bill which might protect some babies, which I do not think the Democratic caucus would support." --Ace