Monday, May 06, 2013

Larwyn's Linx: "Wholesale rewriting of [Benghazi] intelligence... in order to mislead the public"

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Nation

"Wholesale rewriting of intelligence... in order to mislead the public": ProWis
State Department Blocked Access to Benghazi Witness for Months: Breitbart
Obama’s Benghazi Secrets: Western

Marco Rubio Wants Ideas on Immigration; Here’s A Few: RWN
The Language of Killer Tomatoes: NoisyRm
Official: We knew terrorists attacked Benghazi “from the get-go”: Scoop

Waking the dragon-How Feinstein fiddled while America burned: Snell
Scumbag Ayers Defends Weathermen Bombings: WZ
When Leaders Falter Serfdom Nears: FreedomRings

Economy

Entrepreneurship and The Prairie Fire: P&F
Roofers Union Seeks Repeal of Obamacare: CDN
HHS mandate: Secular shari’a?: RTM

Scandal Central

Benghazi, Again: Diplomad
Benghazi: The Impeachy-Keen Cover-Up That Just Won’t Die: Babalu
The Highly Damning Benghazi Timeline in Spreadsheet Format: HySci

The Language of Killer Tomatoes: NoisyRm
Violent illegal alien ‘drug-dealing gang member’ found running kids' party supply business in Florida: Malcontents
Benghazi plot thickens: JRubin

Climate & Energy

Warmists Decide “Settled Science” Means They Should Burn Books: RWN
New Climate Deniers Blame Snow On, Yup, Global Warming: RWN
EPA must prove it acted responsibly: Journal-News

Media

The New York Times Erases Islam from Existence: Greenfield
Why I’m Not on the Harvard Faculty: RSM
Dem Party Leader Says They’ll Send Nicki Haley “Back to Wherever the Hell She Came From”: GWP

Carville: 'Ted Cruz Is the Most Talented and Fearless Republican Politician I’ve Seen in 30 Years': NB
Beck Teaches America’s History Like Never Before Using Guns in NRA Keynote: ‘It Is the Man, Not the Gun’: Blaze
LA Times Writer Loses It Over Gov. Palin’s NRA Speech: C4P

Dems Criticize ObamaCare in Quest to Control the House: FW
Obama Tells Thomas Jefferson to Go to Hell: Shenandoah
National Rifle Association Bans Bleeding “Obama” Target, Others Remain: BuzzFeed

World

Syria: Obama’s Own ‘Problem From Hell’: Mead
Obama Aide On Syria's Assad: 'If He Drops Sarin On His Own People, What’s That Got Do Do With Us?': WS
Syria Attack Shows There’s No Alternative to Neutralizing Iran: Spengler

Lawrence Wilkerson’s Shame. And Colin Powell’s: Commentary
The Difference it makes: Hillary Clinton’s spokesman involved in altering of Benghazi Talking Points?: Shoebat
Saudi National in Colorado Prison may have himself a Bank Account problem: Shoebat

Real Purpose Behind Obama Jaunt to Mexico: Recruitment!: CFP
Bangladesh: Thousands stone police, torch city as they demonstrate for Sharia blasphemy law: JihadWatch
Report: 35% of German Muslims Have Multiple Wives, All Funded by Welfare: GWP

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue.com/Tech)

How the North Hollywood Shootout Changed Patrol Arsenals: PoliceMag
Google Plans Video Subscription Service on Youtube: CIO
First 3D-printed gun fired on video, blueprint files available to download: Verge

Cornucopia

Braver Than Any Man: Two Sisters Who Fought the Nazis: Daily Mail
The “Frocky Horror Picture Show©” 2013 Battle Is Now….Over!: MOTUS
The Fourth Strike of the Match: ZeroGov

Image: Violent illegal alien ‘drug-dealing gang member’ found running kids' party supply business in FL
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: THE FILM THAT COULD KILL THE IMMIGRATION BILL

QOTD: "The media coverage of Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has one theme and one tack. Like 30 of the 31 men on the FBI’s Most Wanted Terrorists list, they were terrorists who just happened to be Muslim.

While the New York Times dispatched its best and brightest lackeys to Boston to write sensitive pieces on how hard it was for the two Tsarnaevs to fit in, it fell to a UK tabloids like The Sun to conduct an interview with the ex-girlfriend of the lead terrorist and learn that he wanted her to hate America and beat her because she wouldn’t wear a Hijab.

There are all sorts of jobs that Americans won’t do. Like pick lettuce, bomb the Boston Marathon and report honestly on the motives of the bombers. The only news network that operates outside the media consensus is owned by an Australian mogul who also owns The Sun." --Daniel Greenfield

Sunday, May 05, 2013

National Association of Former Border Patrol Officers to Gang of Eight: How About Comprehensive Immigration Enforcement First, Geniuses?

Actually, I paraphrased their respectful and compelling open letter:



Related: National Association of Former Border Patrol Officers.

PHOTO: Respect. Or lack thereof.

Spotted at John Sheil's Twitter feed.




Larwyn's Linx: Obama Administration's Benghazi Lies Exposed as State Department Cover-Up

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Nation

Obama Administration's Benghazi Lies Exposed as Flat Out Cover-Up: RSM
I am Number 421,721: Shenandoah
Jeanine Pirro Goes Nuclear, Eviscerates Obama and the Left on Guns: MagNote

Saul Alinsky and the Gang of Eight: NoisyRm
Freedom Or Socialism? The Choice Is Still Ours: Western
Bomber's Wife's Laptop, Home Show Evidence of Her Involvement: DailyMail

Fact Checkers Rip OFA For Perpetrating “Hoax” Video Against Congress: WZ
BENGHAZI: Names of ‘whistleblower’ witnesses revealed: Fox
The Full Benghazi Timeline: Conservatory

Career Of Decorated Army Officer Who Taught of Radical Islam Crushed: Jawa
CO State Senator Owen Hill: American Badass: GayPatriot
One Day In Gun-Free Chicago: 20 People Shot, 3 Killed: WZ

Economy

Planned Parenthood Educational Material for Children: MB (NSFW)
Cognitive Ability and Employment in the 21st Century: Ace
Obama Says No Compromise On Amnesty: WZ

ObamaCare Is Blocking Job Creation, Economic Growth: IBD
Circle K Shifts Workers to Part-Time, Blames Obamacare: WFB
States: 'Blindsided' by Obamacare's shift of 'uninsurable' costs to them: Fox

Scandal Central

Vitter: “Red Flags” in Immigration Bill, Including Unprecendented Power Of DHS Head: WZ
Whoa: One Of The Benghazi Whisteblowers Was The Number 2 Official at Tripoli Embassy on Night Of Attack: Ace
Whistleblower Lawyer: ARB's Gen Pickering 'Became Physically Ill' At Thought of Dealing With Hillary: Breitbart

Obama in Mexico: Most of the guns used to commit violence here come from the United States: Malkin
Bill allows for $150M in grants to sign up illegal immigrants to become citizens: Fox
FLASHBACK: ATF used "Fast and Furious" to make the case for gun regulations: CBS (2011)

Climate & Energy

Warmists Decide “Settled Science” Means They Should Burn Books: Cove
No Money for Air Traffic Controllers, But EPA to grant $569 million for New York, New Jersey water: UPI
The EPA Opens a New Review of Handsoap: HuffPo

Media

Mark Levin Addresses NRA Convention in Houston: Townhall
NRA president: Obama ‘motivated by revenge’: DC
Allen West Teaches Obama What Courage Is (It’s Not Announcing You’re Gay): Blaze

Bolton stunned at whistleblower ‘positions’, says Benghazi hearings could be very dramatic: Nice Deb
The Gosnell of Michigan, and other This Week (Not) in the News: Ace
MSNBC forced to apologize after being busted for misleading video edits: Blaze

More Evil Than Nazi Germany: RWN
National Journal’s Report on Missing Workers Misstates History of Labor Force Participation Decline: BizzyBlog
Obama Quotes Octavio Paz: “US Protector of Tyrants – Ally of Enemies of Democracy”: MagNote

World

Assad "to declare war" on Israel following fresh airstrikes: Commentator
Israel launches second airstrike in Syria, targeting weapons shipment: WaPo
Breaking: BWAHAHAHAHA! Syrians caught painting old MiG with Israeli markings: Matzav

Obama to Mexico: A lot of the guns here came from us: Hot Air
Mexicans Have No Idea What Mexico POTUS Was Talking About: NRO
CFR, Brookings Celebrate Obama “Lovefest” for International Criminal Court: NewAm

Venezuela: 50 shades of crazy: Fausta
20 dead in Muslim attack on Christian funeral: Commentator
Time to Derail the Saudi “Visa Express”: CSP

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue.com/Tech)

The printable gun has arrived: Hot Air
Syrian Electronic Army hack of E!Online Twitter account nothing to laugh about: LI
ORBX streaming tech could revolutionize computing: CNet

Cornucopia

"Progressive" Origins: RWN
Miss Lube Rack of 1959: Snopes
Let's put an end to these border crossings: MOTUS

Image: Allen West Teaches Obama What Courage Is (It’s Not Announcing You’re Gay)
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: Oath Keepers

QOTD: "...because each of you spoke out and because millions of Americans spoke out two weeks ago, when those proposals came to a vote every amendment that would have violated our Second Amendment rights to keep and bear arms was voted down.

The fight is not over. President Obama and Vice President Joe Biden have come out and said they intend to come back at it…I would like to invite the Vice President to engage in an hour long conversation and debate about how we stop crime. If Vice President Biden really believes the facts are on his side and this is not an exercise in political power, I would think he would welcome the opportunity to talk about the sources of violent crime and how we can do everything we can to stop it..." --Sen. Ted Cruz

Saturday, May 04, 2013

GOOD NEWS: Illegal Border Crossings Triple thanks to 'Gang of Eight'

As anyone with an IQ over 12 could have predicted, talk of "Amnesty" has touched off a veritable tidal wave of illegal immigration:

For months, Stand With Arizona has been reporting (most recently here, here and here) on the massive increase in border crossings since Obama and the ‘Gang of Eight’ started promising amnesty for millions of illegal aliens. 
And I have been interviewed by two dozen media outlets from the Washington Post and L.A. Times to CNN and even FoxNews. Each time I begged them to report the truth about what border agents were telling me – that a tidal wave of new alien arrivals was overwhelming agents and ranchers – especially in Texas.
We showed them emails and faxes, even one handwritten note from a border agent with the numbers. We even told them how DHS stopped releasing monthly statistics on apprehensions after the border crossing spike became known.
The national media ignored the evidence for 9 weeks – until now.
One of the reporters we spoke to, Anna Werner, from CBS News, is now reporting that arrests of illegal aliens crossing into the United States have nearly tripled in recent months in anticipation of the ‘Gang of Eight’ amnesty. To her credit, Werner spoke to border agents to verify the numbers we showed her back in March, and presented them on the CBS Evening News (video).
In March, 7,500 illegals were arrested in the Rio Grande Valley of South Texas, which includes McAllen, CBS quoted agent Chris Cabrera as reporting. That’s up from 2,800 in January. And that January number itself is up 200% over 2012. In February, nearly 4,800 illegals were arrested in the Rio Grande. 
CBS even reported (as we did at the time) how overwhelmed agents in McAllen used their station’s carport to process nearly 900 illegals caught over three days in March, as they ran out of space to handle the massive influx.
...CBS interviewed one rancher, Juan Mercado, who lives on border property his family has owned since the 1850s, and is now under seige. Illegals usually come across his property, but recently Mercado has seen a tidal wave of illegals streaming across... “I’m being invaded by people who have no permission to be on my property,” Mercado said. “By smugglers, by illegals.”
Mercado is left exposed by the failed border security policies of Obama and Napolitano’s DHS. So, as we reported last year regarding Texas ranchers turning to AK-47′s to defend themselves, Mercado is now relying on his own security system: a gun.
...Is that the best the Feds can do? Leave it to Americans on the border to fend for themselves as they concern themselves with blanket amnesty to satisfy slave-labor addicted big businesses, and ethnic intimidation groups? ENOUGH! 
Secure the border NOW. KILL THIS BILL!

Call your Senator and DEMAND it: 202-224-3121.

If YOU are sick and tired of hearing about a “path to citizenship” and “immigration reform” and just want to see the border secured, the rule of law upheld and amnesty for illegals stopped, then put your name where your heart is, and join the 170,000 who have signed the petition:


Gang of Eight's Stuttering Cluster of an Immigration Bill Deconstructed With a Single Infographic

Courtesy of the Heritage Foundation:


A better question is: "What's not wrong with the Gang of Eight's ludicrous bill"?

[The bill gives DHS Secretary] Janet Napolitano freedom to do pretty much whatever she wants and the authority to let in anyone she pleases... Just in case anyone is concerned that senators aren’t reading the 844-page immigration reform bill from the Group of Eight closely before returning from recess next week, note that Sen. David Vitter (R-La.) is tweeting as he goes, calling out concerning elements of the legislation:

• #Gof8Fact pg 11 of #Gangof8 bill says that Secretary of Homeland Security can alter legal immigrant status of #DREAM and ag. workers.

• #Gof8Fact pg 65 of #Gangof8 bill says Homeland Security Secretary can waive inadmissibility for humanitarian purposes and public interest

• #Gof8Fact pg 66 of #Gangof8 bill says Sec of Homeland Security gets discretion on whether to start legal proceedings to remove illegals

• Still going through #Gangof8 bill. #Gof8Fact pg 69 says Sec of Homeland Security can extend time allowed to apply for legal status

One report states that the bill would give legal status to 57 million, including non-immigra​nt visas.

This bill is utter garbage. It must be stopped. Call your Senator now at 202-224-3121 and demand they crush this bill.


SICKENING: Terrorist Mob in Libya Desecrates, Destroys World War II British Military Cemetary

Not only are Ambassador Stevens' assassins still running free, the larger Islamist terror mob in Libya is methodically returning the country to its barbaric roots.


Say, Democrat and RINO hacks: how's that Arab Spring™ working out for ya?


Hat tip: Keith.

DAMNING: The Complete Benghazi Timeline in Spreadsheet Format

Update: The latest version of the timeline is here.


The complete Benghazi timeline, now augmented with information culled by Stephen Hayes and the House Oversight Committee [PDF], leads me to four inescapable conclusions.


It is now clear to me that:

a) Hillary Clinton lied under oath to Congress.
b) Barack Obama went to sleep knowing that a U.S. Ambassador and other Americans were under terrorist attack.
c) Barack Obama awoke refreshed the next day to begin fundraising.
d) The entire Executive Branch lied repeatedly to the American people to save Obama's chances for reelection.

Could someone drag John Boehner out of whatever bar he's in, wake him up, and let him know: There is more than enough material for impeachment proceedings to begin and criminal charges levied against Hillary Clinton.

Larwyn's Linx: Benghazi Impeachment Suddenly Not So Far-Fetched

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Nation

Benghazi Impeachment Suddenly Not So Far-Fetched: PJM
The Benghazi Talking Points: Hayes
Mike Vanderboegh And The III Percenters: OathKeepers

Kansas to Holder: Stick It: NewAm
Did Boston Bombing kill immigration “reform”?: LI
Kansas To Eric Holder: Perform Anatomically Impossible Act: Denninger

Hillary's Flack Has Hands All Over Benghazi Deception: Ace
Children Denied Privacy in Bathrooms: MB
Administration Doctored Benghazi Talking Points Weeks Before Election: DailyMail

Economy

White House for Sale? Obama Puts Bundlers in Top Posts: Dossier
The Latest Broken Promises of Obamacare: Ribali
Dicks Sporting Goods Getting Paid Back in Spades: Extrano's

Unemployment Report: Dismal: Mish
Will JPMorgan's "Enron" Be The End Of Blythe Masters?: ZH
Forget Unemployment: Alarming Stat Is Number of 'Missing Workers': NatlJrnl

Scandal Central

POTUS Releasing Illegal Aliens While Decrying “Broken Immigration System”: Cove
Obama blames America for drug violence in Mexico, cites GUN SMUGGLING as part of the problem: Scoop
How Obama Obstructs Justice in the Search for a Communist Terrorist: AIM

Climate & Energy

New Climate Deniers Blame Snow On, Yup, Global Warming: STACLU
The human costs of Obama’s war on coal: DC
NBC's Curry: U.S. to Blame for 'Toxic Legacy' of Oil Drilling in the Amazon: NB

Media

Cultural Marxism: "Any Race but Caucasian" ...: Stop Shouting
Obama Blows His Racially Divisive Hispanic “Dog Whistle”: Shark Tank
Piers Morgan believes he has the smoking gun on why AK-47s should be banned: Scoop

State Department: Benghazi Whistleblower Attorney Is Lying: Breitbart
The Left Hates Howard Kurtz, Which Doesn’t Mean We Should Love Him, But …: RSM
Bad News for Crazy Joe Biden: Ted Cruz Challenges Him to a Debate on Gun Control: TPNN

World

Israeli Air Strikes Reported As Both Rebels and Hezbollah Close In on Syria’s Chemical Weapons: The Tower
The REAL George Soros: An evil, despicable excuse for a human being: Blogmocracy
Awful… Obama Blames US For Drug Violence in Mexico… While in Mexico: GWP

Cornucopia

Power of social media: Second Twitter rally aims to #StopCommonCore; Updated with resources: Twitchy
Reward Doubled to $2M for N.J. Trooper's Killer: PoliceMag
DoD clarifies faith-sharing policy: ArmyTimes

Image: No Matter How Hard I Try, I Can’t Keep Up
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QOTD: "The [Camp Bastion] attack only occurred because of an egregious failure in basic infantry practices. The enemy may have been lucky to exploit these failures, but neglect was the precondition that set the stages for this attack. Intelligence analysts should not have to issue a warning of an impending frontal assault on a major military base for the base to be prepared.

There is an appalling lack of accountability and introspection that is evident in Maj. Gen. Gurganus’ comments about this incident. It is painfully obvious that this attack would not have been successful, or likely even attempted, if not for multiple security failures at Leatherneck/Bastion. This single episode highlights a much larger problem of accountability in the Marine Corps. It is nearly impossible to get fired for incompetence.

We need to stop treating the Marine Corps like a teachers union and demand excellence and accountability from our officer corps." --Retired Marine officer Nick Francona

Friday, May 03, 2013

Obama on SNL a Day Early: I Sent Thousands of Guns to Drug Cartels, But I Blame You for Mexican Crime Wave

You heard that right: the same man who gave thousands of military-grade weapons to Mexican drug cartels during "Operation Fast and Furious" now blames law-abiding citizens for gun violence in Mexico.

President Barack Obama told the Mexican people on Friday that he sees a “new Mexico” emerging, with a deepening democracy and growing economy, and that Mexico and the United States should be viewed as equal partners...

Drug-fueled violence in Mexico is not entirely the fault of the Mexican people, he said. Instead, the United States shares the blame because much of the violence is centered around the Americans’ demand for illegal drugs and the fact that guns are smuggled into Mexico from the United States.

“In this relationship there is no senior partner or junior partner. We are two equal partners, two sovereign nations that must work together in mutual interest and mutual respect,” Obama said.

A new book -- "Prisoners of the White House: The Isolation of America's Presidents and the Crisis of Leadership" -- describes how utterly insulated Barack Obama is from the real world:

"Obama has a cadre of idolizers around him, people such as Chicago friend and confidante Valerie Jarrett, and devoted adviser Denis McDonough, who is now White House chief of staff," Walsh says in a note about his book.

... "He follows sports, which gives him a break from the tedium and keeps him from obsessing about politics, his advisers say. He watches ESPN and frequently will relax by enjoying games on live TV, especially basketball and football.

"But staying in touch requires constant effort, and it's unclear whether Obama will, or can, keep up his current efforts amid all the time constraints, security limitations and pressures of office."

In other words, Obama is so completely surrounded by sycophants that no one objected when he floated the idea of giving a speech indicting his own actions.


Hat tip: BadBlue News Service.

SENATOR TED CRUZ: "Every word of the Constitution Matters"

This man is the real deal. Which is why Democrat Leftists and the RINO establishment fear him (I'm looking at you, Jennifer Rubin and you, Joe "The Morning Moe" Scarborough).

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) addressed the NRA convention in Houston today. The following are key excerpts from his speech.

CRUZ: “It seems to me that when the Constitution says the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed, that means the right to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed. The Constitution matters.

All of the Constitution. It’s not pick and choose. It’s not take what part you like and get rid of the parts you don’t like. For some reason Obama liberals want to disregard the First Amendment and take away our right to speak and political speech. For some reason they want to disregard the Fourth and Fifth Amendments. And, for some reason the Obama liberals want to disregard the Tenth Amendment and implement Obamacare and take away our liberties.

Every word of the Constitution matters.

It is our fundamental protection of our liberties against the government.

This man needs to run for president.


Hat tip: BadBlue News.

DADDY LIKE: Israel's IWI Tavor Battle Rifle

If someone wanted to buy an IWI Tavor for me as a gift, I would be inclined to refuse.

"It's too much," I would say, "I don't deserve it."

"But since you insist..." (grabs gun and takes off, footsteps echoing in the distance).

YouTube: VIDEO: Nutnfancy: IWI Tavor: Israeli Battle Rifle




Hat tip: BadBlue Guns.

Occupy vs. Tea Party, Round II

Just in time for the run-up to the 2014 midterms: it's Occupy vs. Tea Party, Round II.


In 2014, Americans will have felt the full effects of Obamacare. They will have seen their gun rights eroded. They will have seen Democrats leave American borders wide open, even as terrorists kill and main U.S. citizens.

2014 is coming and G-4 Productions can use your help with as little as a $1 donation to their Kickstarter project. It's designed to highlight the differences between the Hard Left Democrat Occupiers and the Constitutional Tea Party Conservatives. Please consider helping out: even a single dollar is cool!


BREAKING: CNN confirms that Israeli jets struck Syrian chemical weapons installations

Guest post by The Tower

CNN reported tonight that Israel’s air force recently attacked a Syrian chemicals weapon cache, probably on Thursday or Friday and probably from within Lebanese airspace. The report cited Western intelligence sources, likely based on radar evidence. The CNN report comes days after Syrian opposition forces reported that IAF strikes had taken place on Syrian territory. The opposition reports also indicated that the Israeli attack targeted Syria’s chemical weapons program.

Israeli officials have been increasingly explicit in warning that Jerusalem would act to prevent the Syrian regime from crossing the double read line that Israeli officials had set at the onset of the Syrian conflict: no transfer of advanced Syrian weapons to terrorist allies of the embattled Bashar al-Assad and no seizure of those weapons by Al Qaeda-linked opponents fighting to overthrow the regime.

President Barack Obama has endorsed the Israeli position:

“That’s an issue that doesn’t just concern Syria. It concerns our close allies in the region, including Israel. It concerns us,” Obama said, also acknowledging the possibility that militant groups might acquire some of those weapons. “We cannot have a situation where chemical or biological weapons are falling into the hands of the wrong people.”

The president noted that he has not ordered any armed U.S. intervention yet, but said: “We have communicated in no uncertain terms with every player in the region, that that’s a red line for us, and that there would be enormous consequences if we start seeing movement on the chemical weapons front, or the use of chemical weapons. That would change my calculations significantly.”

The odds of transfer or seizure have dramatically increased in recent weeks.

Israeli officials publicly worried earlier this week that Assad’s forces had already transferred small amounts of chemical weapons to the Iran-backed terror group Hezbollah. For its part is thought to have poured literally thousands of fighters into Syria, and has become deeply embedded in the Syrian army’s battles against opposition forces. The regime has kept much of the Syrian army out of the fighting due to fears of defection. There are no such worries with Hezbollah’s fighters, and Hezbollah forces had already been deployed to guard Syrian WMD arsenals months ago. Iran and Hezbollah have also reportedly built an enormous force to seize control of Syria if necessary.

The risk of chemical weapons seizure has also spiked. Areas evacuated by Syrian forces, especially those around the border area with Israel, have been filled in by fighters from the Al Nusra Front. The beginning of April saw the largest redeployment of Syrian army forces in 40 years, and rebels are now within striking distance of Syria’s largest WMD caches. The Al Nusra Front is, according to the the State Department, merely an alias for Al Qaeda, and Al Nusra fighters have pledged allegiance to the global terrorist group. Islamist rebels in Syria have pledged to attack Israel and top Israeli military officials believe those attacks would include the use of chemical weapons.

Hanging over everything is an overarching uncertainty regarding the status of Syria’s chemical weapons. This week The Daily Beast revealed that the U.S. simply does not know the current status of all of Syria’s chemical weapons or who is in control of them:

As the White House mulls whether Syria has crossed President Obama’s red line and used chemical weapons, the U.S. military and intelligence community are quietly acknowledging that the United States does not know where many of those weapons are located… At the heart of the concern is that the Syrian military has transferred more and more of its stock of sarin and mustard gas from storage sites to trucks where they are being moved around the country. While U.S. intelligence agencies first saw reports that Syria was moving the weapons last year, the process has accelerated since December, according to these officials. Also worrisome, said two of the officials, is intelligence from late last year that says the Syrian Scientific Research Center—an entity responsible for Syria’s chemical-weapons stockpile—has begun to train irregular militias loyal to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in how to use the chemical munitions.



Related: Israeli IDF: Two Warplanes Hit Syrian Weapons Facility – Hover Over Beirut for Hours.


EXTREME CLOSE-UP PHOTO: World Trade Center Spire

Our enterprising Cub Reporter Biff Spackle emails us this photo from the World Trade Center:


Spackle says the finger is pointed exactly at a certain point in the Middle East. Or Mayor Bloomberg's house. He's not sure which.

Larwyn's Linx: Busted Rhetoric “Explains” the Brothers Tsarnaev

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Nation

Busted Rhetoric “Explains” the Brothers Tsarnaev: Leather Penguin
Friend of Obama's neighborhood pal added to Most Wanted List: JWF
5 Ways the Immigration Bill Is Like Obamacare: Foundry

Alabama Senate Votes to Nullify Unconstitutional Federal Gun Laws: RWN
Even legal immigrants no longer taught to love America: Gonzalez
SAF Wins Injunction In Illinois: OG&M

Economy

The truth about Chicago fat cat/Obama Commerce nominee Penny Pritzer: Malkin
Obama Saved Detroit — for China and Italy: Tatler
The Unknown Cost of Federal Student Loans: Foundry

Dick’s Sporting Goods sales plunge after adopting anti-gun policy: Rare
Once again Oregon leads the way... in what not to do: Ribali
104 Stories Tall: Raising of World Trade Center Spire: Blaze

Boom Times: Two Million Guns On Backorder: Extrano's Alley
Chicago Homicides on Pace With 2011: SCC
Sequester: Obama spends $350K Studying Transvestites in India: Clash

Scandal Central

Whose Side Is he On?: Nice Deb
Benghazi Whistleblower: Signal Went Out From SPECOPS For All Available To Assist, No Aid Came: WZ
The Latest Broken Promises of Obamacare: Ribali

Climate & Energy

Former EPA chief under fire for new batch of ‘Richard Windsor’ emails: Hill
EPA urged to rewrite or ditch CO2 standards for new coal plants: Helenair
Oil Shale Development in the United States and Abroad: CFP

Media

54% Want Obamacare Repealed: WZ
Kim Strassel Again Serves as the Senate GOP’s Stenographer: RS
Tupac Shakur’s godmother first female ‘Most Wanted Terrorist’: DC

Scientific Fact: Republican Politicians are the Most Stupid Beings on Earth: AWD
The Most Popular Conservative Photoshops For April Of 2013: RWN
Pepsi pulls incredibly racist Mountiain Dew commercial: TPNN

World

The Human Cost of Jihad Denial: Spencer
Feds Raid Saudi Compound in Virigina, Free Two Slaves: Atlas
TN Commissioner refuses to apologize for anti-Muslim picture he posted on Facebook: BNI

Obama's Muslim Childhood: Pipes
AFA: Time to Suspend Muslim Immigration, Muslims in the Military, and Building Mosques in the U.S.: PatUpd
Terror Suspect Gets Bail?: SCC

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue.com/Tech)

IRS Takes A Bite Out Of Bitcoin: Forbes
Gamifying your health with Google Glass: a glimpse into the future: VenBeat
Flight of the RoboBee: Tiny hovering robot creates buzz: CSM

Cornucopia

No Matter How Hard I Try, I Can’t Keep Up: MOTUS
New York City Shop Fined $60,000 For Selling Gun-Shaped Lighters: MenRec
Game-Changer: RWN

Image: 104 Stories Tall: Raising of World Trade Center Spire
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: Senator Ted Cruz

QOTD: "On Tuesday, Spencer Ackerman complained that the examination of counterterror procedures that Obama promised during his press conference that day was unlikely to bear fruit. He noted that James “Clueless” Clapper, the director of national intelligence, was overseeing that review, and “yet before the inquiry has concluded, Clapper is satisfied — as he first said last week, before any review even got started — that the intelligence agencies didn’t drop the ball on Boston.”

He should be grateful for that. If the Obama Administration’s review of the massive intelligence failures related to the Boston jihad bombing were thorough, it would lead directly to him.

In any case, Wednesday’s revelations show the human cost of the denial of the reality and magnitude of the jihad threat. Three people are dead and well over 200 wounded because bumbling, ill-instructed (and in many cases reeducated) FBI agents didn’t know how to understand or act upon intelligence they received from Russia and (probably) Saudi Arabia. How many more have to die before the bloody legacy of Farhana Khera, John Brennan, Spencer Ackerman and Barack Obama is decisively rejected?" --Robert Spencer

Thursday, May 02, 2013

GRAPHIC: 5 Ways the Immigration Bill Is Like Obamacare

From the peerless Heritage Foundation:


Here's an idea regarding outrageous bills such as Obamacare and "Comprehensive Immigration Reform". Bills so complex and so lengthy that no one, not a single legislator, is able to read or comprehend them before being forced to vote.

This idea builds upon Thomas Jefferson's suggestion to James Madison: that bills passed by Congress should lay in stasis for at least a year in order to facilitate public review and open debate. I propose:

Any bill passed by Congress shall, prior to being signed into law by the President, be published into the Congressional Record. It shall be be open to public discourse and debate for a period no less than a number of days equal to or greater than the number of pages required for publication in the Congressional Record before it may be signed into law.

A bill that requires 2,000 pages should require at least 2,000 days of public review and debate.


A Parent's Prayer for The Children (Not Valid in Illinois)

Guest post by Charlie Fritschner


Imagine that you are a young parent. You’re 28 years old. You have four young children. You didn’t finish high school, but you work hard and provide your family with a stable home and lots of love.

Your children are bright and curious, and you dream of giving them a first-class education. But your neighborhood public school has a dropout rate of 30%. Most kids don’t read on grade level. Almost none attend college. Personal tutors and private schools are far beyond your means.

You have no power to leave. You have no ability to choose. You’re stuck.

Meet Emilia Melendez. A mother of four from Milwaukee.


Meet the Griffins. A family of seven from Merrillville, Ind., about 50 miles southeast of Chicago. Like Emilia, the Griffins were stuck, scared and powerless.


Today, both families send their children to elite private schools. Both families expect their children to attend top universities and go on to successful professional careers.

Their dreams, and the dreams of their children, are becoming reality thanks to Indiana and Milwaukee’s school voucher systems.

I spent several weeks filming the Griffin and Melendez families.

I saw firsthand the empowerment they not only feel, but exercise daily.

For them, education reform isn’t a concept or a nice idea. It isn’t about policy or politics. It’s about giving their children a chance at a better life.

If Emilia or the Griffins lived in Illinois, none of this would be possible.

Illinois politicians have not yet been convinced that parents deserve the ability to choose the school that best suits their child’s needs and goals.

It doesn’t have to be this way.

Hundreds of thousands of children in Illinois could have access to a more dynamic education and more fulfilling lives if we gave their parents the power to choose.

For poor and working parents in Wisconsin and Indiana, education and opportunity are no longer the hopeless struggles they once were.

Can we make the dreams of children in Illinois a reality as well?


Charlie Fritschner is a video specialist at the Illinois Policy Institute

Faith, the Founding, and Obama

Compare this:

Pentagon May Court Martial Soldiers Who Share Christian Faith


The Pentagon has released a statement confirming that soldiers could be prosecuted for promoting their faith: "Religious proselytization is not permitted within the Department of Defense...Court martials and non-judicial punishments are decided on a case-by-case basis...”.

[Thus] President Barack Obama’s civilian appointees who lead the Pentagon are confirming that the military will make it a crime--possibly resulting in imprisonment--for those in uniform to share their faith. This would include chaplains—military officers who are ordained clergymen of their faith (mostly Christian pastors or priests, or Jewish rabbis)--whose duty since the founding of the U.S. military under George Washington is to teach their faith and minister to the spiritual needs of troops who come to them for counsel, instruction, or comfort.

This regulation would severely limit expressions of faith in the military, even on a one-to-one basis between close friends. It could also effectively abolish the position of chaplain in the military...

With this:


Something has gone woefully wrong in this country.


ERIC HOLDER TO KANSAS: We Will Ignore the Bill of Rights and State Laws to Enforce Federal Gun Grabs

Would that the Attorney General of the United States spent as much time and energy pursuing terrorists.

Attorney General Eric Holder has written to Kansas Governor Sam Brownback, informing him that the Obama administration considers state attempts to protect the Second Amendment “unconstitutional” and that federal agents will “continue to execute their duties,” regardless of state statutes to the contrary.

The letter, dated April 26, specifically references a Kansas statute recently signed into law by Brownback that criminalizes any attempt by federal officers or agents to infringe upon the Second Amendment rights of citizens of the Sunflower State. Section 7 of the new law declares:

It is unlawful for any official, agent or employee of the government of the United States, or employee of a corporation providing services to the government of the United States to enforce or attempt to enforce any act, law, treaty, order, rule or regulation of the government of the United States regarding a firearm, a firearm accessory, or ammunition that is manufactured commercially or privately and owned in the state of Kansas and that remains within the borders of Kansas. Violation of this section is a severity level 10 nonperson felony.

The right of states to refuse to enforce unconstitutional federal acts is known as nullification... [which is an aspect] of constitutional law recognizing the right of each state to nullify, or invalidate, any federal measure that exceeds the few and defined powers allowed the federal government as enumerated in the Constitution.

...Both Attorney General Holder and President Obama are trained lawyers, so one would expect that they have read the Federalist Papers. In fairness, they probably have, but perhaps they overlooked Federalist, No. 33, where Alexander Hamilton explained the legal validity of federal acts that exceed the powers granted to it by the Constitution. Hamilton wrote:

If a number of political societies enter into a larger political society, the laws which the latter may enact, pursuant to the powers intrusted [sic] to it by its constitution, must necessarily be supreme over those societies and the individuals of whom they are composed.... But it will not follow from this doctrine that acts of the larger society which are not pursuant to its constitutional powers, but which are invasions of the residuary authorities of the smaller societies, will become the supreme law of the land. These will be merely acts of usurpation, and will deserve to be treated as such.

Holder denies that states have the right to withstand federal tyranny and argues that the Constitution declares federal acts to be the “supreme law of the land.”

His comments echo a common misreading and misunderstanding of Article VI of the Constitution, the so-called Supremacy Clause... Article VI does not declare that federal laws are the supreme law of the land without qualification. What it says is that the Constitution "and laws of the United States made in pursuance thereof" are the supreme law of the land.

...If an act of Congress is not permissible under any enumerated power given to it in the Constitution, it was not made in pursuance of the Constitution and therefore not only is not the supreme law of the land, it is not the law at all.

...Alexander Hamilton put an even finer point on the issue when he wrote in Federalist, No. 78, “...No legislative act, therefore, contrary to the constitution, can be valid.”

..."The state legislatures will jealously and closely watch the operation of this government, and be able to resist with more effect every assumption of power than any other power on earth can do; and the greatest opponents to a federal government admit the state legislatures to be sure guardians of the people’s liberty," Madison declared.

...In his letter to Governor Brownback, Attorney General Holder demonstrates that he is as ignorant as his boss as to the proper, constitutional relationship between state governments and the federal government.

We Americans truly appear to be approaching a fork in the road.


Hat tip: BadBlue News.