Tuesday, July 16, 2013

What President Obama Meant When He Described His "Fundamental Transformation of America" [Allen West]

Guest post by Allen West


Well, if there was ever any doubt what President Obama meant by "fundamentally transforming" our nation, this should put it to rest. Now 101 million -- one third of our population -- is on federal food aid of some sort. And it's not like Americans would go hungry either as 35.9% of adults age 20 and over are obese. We now have more people on food aid than are working in the private sector, and only 47% of working-age Americans have full-time jobs.

The number of Americans receiving subsidized food assistance from the federal government has risen to 101 million, representing roughly a third of the U.S. population.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture estimates that a total of 101,000,000 people currently participate in at least one of the 15 food programs offered by the agency, at a cost of $114 billion in fiscal year 2012.

That means the number of Americans receiving food assistance has surpassed the number of full-time private sector workers in the U.S...

...A “potential for overlap” exists with the many food programs offered by the USDA, allowing participants to have more than their daily food needs subsidized completely by the federal government.

According to a July 3 audit by the Inspector General, the USDA’s Food Nutrition Service (FNS) “may be duplicating its efforts by providing participants total benefits in excess of 100 percent of daily nutritional needs when households and/or individuals participate in more than one FNS program simultaneously.”

Food assistance programs are designed to be a “safety net,” the IG said.

“With the growing rate of food insecurity among U.S. households and significant pressures on the Federal budget, it is important to understand how food assistance programs complement one another as a safety net, and how services from these 15 individual programs may be inefficient, due to overlap and duplication,” the audit said.

Where are the leaders who will step forward to reverse this trend?


In Obama's Chicago, a Trayvon Tragedy Occurs Every Day of the Week

Guest post by Investors Business Daily


Urban Decay: When more Americans are killed in the president's hometown than in Afghanistan, even the media take notice. When will the president notice the carnage in the city run by his former chief of staff?

People are dying fast and furiously in Chicago, so much so that it caught the CBS eye and prompted "Evening News" anchor Scott Pelley to sit down Monday night with Rahm Emanuel, President Obama's former chief of staff and mayor of this monument to progressive decay, and ask a very pertinent question.

"I got a letter from a viewer the other day who asked us why we were spending so much time at 'The Evening News' covering Afghanistan when more people were dying in Chicago," Pelley said. "Why is the murder rate up 30%?"

Pelley put the number of murders in Chicago at 275 so far this year. On Monday alone, nine young people were shot in suspected gang-related violence, the Chicago Sun-Times reported.

Emanuel responded that crimes such as burglary, armed robbery and theft are down 10%. This is true, but it's small comfort to the parents of Heaven Sutton, 7, who was killed as she tried to dodge bullets fired from the guns of gangbangers. She was selling snow cones at the time.

Heaven didn't get quite the attention of Trayvon Martin, the Florida teenager killed by neighborhood watch member George Zimmerman. When perceived racism can be invoked as a cause of death, headlines blare. When it happens in a city beset by liberalism's failures, crickets chirp.

Mayor Emanuel announced Monday that he's devoting another $4 million to tear down vacant buildings where gang members live and store guns and drugs. Structurally sound buildings will be boarded up. But why are they vacant and boarded up? Why did 200,000 people flee Chicago in the past decade?

Chicago, like Illinois, is overtaxed and overregulated, a climate that attracts neither businesses nor people. It was the ideological incubator for a community organizer who would become president and blame all of America's problems on those who worked hard and succeeded.

Emanuel told Pelley that in addition to being a law enforcement issue, "it's about values. As I said then (when a 7-year-old Heaven was shot and killed last month), who raised you? How were you raised?" And by whom, we might add. Decades of progressive liberalism that started with LBJ's Great Society did much to destroy the black family in America.

Progressive liberalism does not teach the values of hard work and reaping the fruits of one's labor. It gives men fish instead of teaching them how to fish. It demeans the value of marriage by saying, "Don't worry, the government will be your parent," as generations of inner-city youth grow up without a father or male role model in the home.

The fact that African-Americans, with 12.6% of the nation's population, account for 50% of the murder victims just might have something to do with the fact that among blacks, 72% of births are to unmarried women. Yet President Obama focuses on gay marriages.

Mayor Emanuel and his former boss are all about redistributing wealth rather than creating it and fail to realize that no one ever got a job from a poor person. They embrace a cradle-to-grave, paternalistic liberalism that encourages dependence and discourages ambition, that puts food stamps above paychecks.

The black unemployment rate nationally jumped from 13.6% in May to 14.4% in June, with the jobless rate for black youths aged 16 to 19 increasing from 35.2% to 44.2%; yet President Obama says we are on the "right path."

Hope and change? In Barack Obama's liberal citadel of Chicago, there's little hope that anything will change anytime soon.



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Larwyn's Linx: It's Real: GOP Majority in '14

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Nation

It's Real: GOP Majority in '14 : Minority Report
Eric Holder: You Want A Discussion, Eh?: Karl Denninger
7 Key Questions and Answers Explain Zimmerman Verdict: John Hawkins

MLK Jr. Niece Dr. Alveda King Says NAACP is "Race-Baiting": FreeLight
Polling Shows That Sources Of Racism Are Now Reversed: Sowell
Mark Levin suggests States call an Article Five Amendment Convention: AT

LAPD declares citywide tactical alert; protesters storm Walmart: Twitchy
"For Trayvon": Gang of Black Men Chase, Beat Hispanic in Baltimore: Tatler
I Don’t Care What the Question is, the Answer is Gun control.: MOTUS

Economy

Big Labor Writes Strongly-Worded Memo to Protest ObamaCare: Tatler
Black Group Rallies Against Immigration Bill: Emily Stanton
ObamaCare Costs 58,000 Californians Their Health Insurance: NewAm

Americans March for Jobs: RWN
Treasury: Debt Has Been Exactly $16,699,396,000,000 for 56 Days: CNS
Make It Go Faster: American Digest

Scandal Central

Blacks yell ‘This is for Trayvon’ beat up Hispanic in Baltimore: FAM
Angela Corey describes Zimmerman as ‘murderer’, Martin as his ‘prey’: Scoop
Mississippi White Male Beaten Kidnapped, Beaten by Blacks over Trayvon: Sooper

Media

Ballad of a Marked Man: Jim Goad, Taki's Magazine
Pro-Thug Blogger: “Don’t Bother Me With Facts!” : Rottweiler
Trayvon and the "Skittles": Protein Wisdom

“With little media notice, Obama’s poll numbers sink”: Protein Wisdom
The Obama Doctrine of Control Through Dissension: AT
Zogby Poll: Blacks, Hispanics, Youth Abandoning Obama: NewsMax

Juror: 5 of 6 believed it was Zimmerman screaming for help (Rachel Jeantel inverview added): LI
Trayvon Martin’s Family Attorney – “I’m a Social Engineer” : GWP
The chickens are beginning to come home to roost: MSNBC can’t fire Al Sharpton: RS

WHOA! Greta Van Susteren Schools Trayvon Martin Family Attorney: Glob
Can Anyone Verify These Disturbing Allegations About Trayvon’s Family?: R.S. McCain
The Left's Pathetic Temper Tantrum Over the #Zimmerman Verdict: American Power

World

Republicans push missile defense spending after failed tests: DC
Political Atom Bomb Explodes in Spain; Prime Minister Refuses to Step Down: Mish
South Korea blames North Korea for cyberattack: AP

Sci-Tech

FISA court asks government to declassify secret order in Yahoo case: PC World
Crypto-Gram Newsletter: Schneier
After a Year At Yahoo, Mayer Still Sprinting to Catch Up: CIO

Cornucopia

Legendary warrior exemplifies what it means to be a Marine: Marine Times
“Conrad the Constitution, episode 2?: Protein Wisdom
A Fight Broke Out Behind ESPN's Home Run Derby Set: Deadspin

Image: LAPD declares citywide tactical alert; Zimmerman protesters storm Walmart
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QOTD: "Via Hot Air, we learn that the Teamsters and UNITE-HERE are finding out what’s in ObamaCare after they marched out their shock troops to make sure that it got passed. They’re finding out that the predictions about ObamaCare’s sharknado-like effects on the economy were all true. So they’ve written a strongly worded letter...

... Some of us predicted these effects long before ObamaCare became law. The Tea Party rose up to stop ObamaCare, only to have Big Labor’s thugs turn out to provide the Democrats’ muscle in making sure that it passed.

Now they have thugs’ remorse. Color me unimpressed with their letter-writing skills.

If Big Labor really wants this devastating law repealed, they have 2014 and a choice: They can stick with the Obama-Reid-Pelosi Democrats, or they can help elect Republicans and Democrats who credibly promise to repeal the law. Their actions will say volumes more than one angry letter can ever say." --Bryan Preston

Monday, July 15, 2013

15 Photos From the #MarchForJobs Rally (Bringing Together Blacks, Hispanics and Whites) You'll Never See In Legacy Media

Stunning that I haven't seen these photos from the DC March for Jobs on Al Sharpton's MSNBC comedy show.



Hat tips: U.S.News, Breitbart, and WWNC.

NEW STUDY: Obamacare to destroy up to 1 million low-wage jobs and completely bankrupt Medicaid

The invaluable James Pethokoukis with the score:

A new study suggests President Obama’s Affordable Care Act might have yet another huge and negative unintended consequence: if low-income adults can get health insurance through Obamacare’s Medicaid expansion, they are less likely to try and get a job — or keep a job. As Public Health Insurance, Labor Supply, and Employment Lock by Craig Garthwaite, Tal Gross, and Matthew J. Notowidigdo puts it:
Our results suggest a significant degree of “employment lock” – workers employed primarily in order to secure private health insurance coverage. The results also suggest that the Affordable Care Act – which similarly affects adults not traditionally eligible for public health insurance – may cause large reductions in the labor supply of low-income adults. … One must exercise considerable caution when directly applying our results to the ACA, but our results appear to indicate that the soon-to-be-enacted health care reform may cause substantial declines in aggregate employment.
How substantial might the shift from work to welfare be?
...Applying our labor supply estimates directly to this population, we predict a decline in employment of between 530,000 and 940,000 in response to this group of individuals being made newly eligible for free or heavily subsidized health insurance. This would represent a decline in the aggregate employment rate of between 0.3 and 0.6 percentage points from this single component of the ACA.
And the other big finding here is Obamacare could cause an even bigger and costlier move into Medicaid than current forecasts:
Our results suggest a far larger increase in Medicaid enrollments from the ACA than is currently estimated. In 2011, approximately 8.9 million Americans with incomes below 139 percent of the poverty line were covered by employer-provided health insurance. If all states implement the Medicaid expansion, our estimates suggest that approximately 4.2 million of these privately insured individuals will move into public coverage...
...And Obamacare would cause the reverse effect, pushing those getting subsidized coverage to leave the labor force. The result is especially worrisome for the health of working America if you combine it with Obamacare’s possible nudge toward more part-time workers in place of full-time workers.

In other words, the Cloward-Piven destruction of the American economy continues apace.

But, hey: right about now seems like a good time for the Republican-Corporatist Old Boy Network to pass Amnesty for illegal immigrants and destroy even more entry level jobs.


Dershowitz: Zimmerman's the Man Who Had His Rights Violated

For once in my life, I agree with the far left attorney Alan Dershowitz. If there's anyone who had his rights violated in the Martin-Zimmerman case, it's the guy who survived a vicious beatdown using his Second Amendment rights.

Famed defense lawyer and Harvard law professor Alan M. Dershowitz is calling for a federal investigation into civil rights violations stemming from the George Zimmerman case — but he says the probe should focus on prosecutorial misconduct rather than on allegations of racial profiling and bias... Dershowitz said the jury’s finding that Zimmerman was not guilty of either second-degree murder or manslaughter was “the right verdict... There was reasonable doubt all over the place.”

Immediately after the verdict was announced, however, the NAACP and outspoken activist Al Sharpton called on the Justice Department to launch a federal civil-rights probe, charging that the case had been racially tainted.

Dershowitz is calling for a civil-rights probe as well. But he contends the person whose rights were violated was Zimmerman.

“I think there were violations of civil rights and civil liberties — by the prosecutor,” said the criminal-law expert. “The prosecutor sent this case to a judge, and willfully, deliberately, and in my view criminally withheld exculpatory evidence... They denied the judge the right to see pictures that showed Zimmerman with his nose broken and his head bashed in. The prosecution should be investigated for civil rights violations, and civil liberty violations.”

Dershowitz said the second-degree murder case should never have gone to trial considering the flimsy evidence against Zimmerman... “If the judge had any courage in applying the law, she never would have allowed the case to go to the jury,” Dershowitz [said]. “She should have entered a verdict based on reasonable doubt.”

Dershowitz singled out special prosecutor Angela Corey for “disciplinary action... The prosecutor had in her possession photographs that would definitely show a judge that this was not an appropriate case for second-degree murder,” the Harvard professor told Newsmax. “She deliberately withheld and suppressed those photographs, refused to show them to the judge, got the judge to rule erroneously this was a second-degree murder case.

“That violated a whole range of ethical, professional, and legal obligations that prosecutors have. Moreover, they withheld other evidence in the course of the pretrial and trial proceedings, as has been documented by the defense team,” he said...

...Asked if he expects Attorney General Eric Holder’s Justice Department to launch a civil-rights investigation targeting Zimmerman, Dershowitz stated: “I don’t think that’s going to happen, and if it happens, I don’t think it would succeed.”

The real story behind the tragic tale of Trayvon Martin involves a school district's misguided policy and what would appear to be an entire industry of race-hustlers.


Larwyn's Linx: Reid May Nuke Senate Rules to Protect Union Bosses

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Nation

Reid May Nuke Senate Rules to Protect Union Bosses: RS
Cruz tries to defund Obamacare, slams president for playing 2014 politics: DC
Trayvon Martin Protesters Shut Down LA Freeway, Throwing Bottles: WZ

Looking for Racism in America: Daniel Greenfield
Local NAACP President in Trouble Over Mild Criticism of Trayvon Martin: Tatler
Mark Levin, Article V, and the “Liberty Amendments”: David Leeper

Did Miami Crime Cover-Up Policy Lead to Trayvon’s Death?: R.S. McCain
"Dead or Alive": Sharpton's Rally With Black Panthers: Nice Deb
Lead Cop Told FBI Zimmerman Was Not A Racist: TSG

20 Of Trayvon Martin’s Tweets That Stand Out (Language Warning): RWN
Thanks to the jury. You’ve restored a modicum of faith in the rule of law: PW
This Generation’s Real-Life Bonfire Of The Vanities: HayRide

Economy

Nothing Doing: Cold Fury
Obamacare Exchange Contractor Target of Major Fraud Investigation: Foundry
Georgetown Student Calls for Death of All Republicans: MB

Scandal Central

A Nation of George Zimmermans Awakened – Understanding The Fraud: Conservative Treehouse
NAACP in talks with Justice Department about pursuing Trayvon Martin case: Steve Contorno
Army apologizes for helicopters that 'terrorized' Port Angeles: PDN

Alan Dershowitz vs. Angela Corey over misleading Affidavit of Probable Cause: LI
Facebook Gives Thumbs Up to "Kill Zimmerman" Page: Jawa
U.S. Repeals Propaganda Ban, Spreads Government-Made News To Americans: John Hudson

Climate & Energy

Coal, electricity, EPA and your wallet: Frank Goad, Lane Report
How Good Are Met Office Predictions? (Now Includes at Least May Data): WUWT
Chevy Volt Owners See Red, Head for Fiery Crash: John Ransom

Media

Evidence: Video fail not the first time @ABC, MSM have shown #Trayvon case bias: Sister Toldjah
AP "Reporter" Tweets 'So We Can All Kill Teenagers Now' After Zimmerman Verdict: Publius
On Date Boycott, BDSers Feed Chicago Tribune Rotten Fruit: CAMERA

To The Government: NOW You're F*ed: Market Ticker
The Picture Of Trayvon On Night He Was Shot That The MSM Didn’t Show: WZ
America under tyrannical rule: what we must now do: Homeland Security

Zimmerman Acquitted, Media Guilty: NB
Robert Zimmerman takes on Piers Morgan after not guilty verdict announced: Scoop
Rep. King: Obama made Martin case about race: Rare

This Is What a REAL Hero Looks Like: Jason Howerton
The Cover-Up of Trayvon Martin’s Possible Involvement In Local Burglaries: Atlas
Conservative news site Daily Caller passes Politico in web traffic: SAB

World

Of course: US requests Morsy's release: Matzav
Sweden: Luxury lifestyles of the welfare-dependent Muslim immigrants: BNI
Sixty-Six Years Ago: The Exodus, Israel's First Ship of State, Landed In Haifa: Lid

How About Amnesty for All Those Hezbollah Terrorists in ... Mexico?: Jawa
Full Scale Jihad Is The Goal Behind Rioting Over Zimmerman Verdict: Dean Garrison
No Reports of Jewish Riots After Grossly Antisemitic Show Begins Airing on Arab TV: Algemeiner

So who’s blockading Gaza now?: Nick Gray, Commentator
Photos: Morsi supporters gather in Cairo: Pislamonausea
Lee Rigby is laid to rest ... a very brief comment ...: Winter Soldier

Sci-Tech

An e-mail loophole Congress needs to close: WaPo
A Brief History of the Roller Coaster: PopMech
Blood Drive Protests FDA Ban on Gay Donors: ABC

Cornucopia

Al Qaeda plot to bring down airliner just weeks before the TWA 800 crash – and the FBI were told: Daily Mail
A Rotating Bus Turntable Lurks Beneath A Grimy Times Square Hotel: Jalopnik
Awesome: George Zimmerman to resume lawsuit against NBC for deceptive editing: Twitchy

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QOTD: "People rarely focus on the real issues -- in government or elsewhere -- because if you do then you're forced to deal with the ugly reality of what you're promulgating and why. The race pimps are all ignoring the fact that Trayvon Martin was on top of Zimmerman and beating him when he was shot. That's what the evidence shows. The entirety of the case prior to the point where Martin threw a punch is immaterial. You do not have the right to physically attack someone because they're walking in a place where they have a right to be as they live there, even if you're being "followed." You do not have the right to respond to someone asking you a question by decking them. The factual timeline of events placed Martin with four minutes after he broke off contact with Zimmerman to contemplate not being "respected" and then to return to the apartment where he was staying, a walk of some 50yds that would require less than one minute. Instead he decided to double back and physically assault Zimmerman.

But the evidence doesn't just show an assault, it showed that Martin deliberately mounted Zimmerman, cutting off his ability to escape the confrontation and continued beating him. The physical evidence showed lacerations on Martin's knuckles consistent with the repeated striking of Zimmerman with his fists and no lacerations on Zimmerman's hands. In other words, Zimmerman didn't strike Martin with any material amount of force and in fact he probably didn't hit him at all.

We all have a right to life but you do not have a right to place anyone else in reasonable fear that you are about to take their life or do them great bodily harm. When you mount someone in a fight who has fallen and continue beating them you have crossed the line between a fight and an act of aggression that reasonably leaves the person you have mounted believing you intend to seriously injure or kill them. That's the standard for the use of deadly force in lawful self-defense and that standard is exactly where it should be." --Karl Denninger

Sunday, July 14, 2013

Is This Fake Ferrari California The World’s Worst Replica Car?

Andrew Evans, writing at Car Throttle, spotlights possibly the worst replicar in history:

For a comparatively tiny outlay on a donor chassis, powertrain and fibreglass body you can own a car that looks almost indistinguishable from an incredibly expensive or rare hero car of old. Ford RS200? No bother. Ferrari 355? Easy. AC Cobra? Nine out of ten Cobras on the road are replicas.

But that doesn’t mean that every replica is good – or even a good idea – as this “Ferrari” shows...


...The car underneath? A ten year old Lexus SC430, oft-derided as one of the worst cars of all time, and certainly one of the most dismal sports cars of all time, with the handling precision of a badly thrown discus.

That means the 4.3 V8 underneath provides a lazily useless 290hp to the two ton sloth and propels it to 60mph in twice the time the real California takes; ending any confusion between the cars even to those not blessed with the gift of sight...

In fairness to the fake Ferrari makers, the Merzuki Benz still takes the cake in my book.


Hat tip: BadBlue Car News.

Latest Cover of New York Magazine Frightening Women, Children and Brothel Owners

I refer, of course, to this gem:

With disgraced politicians Anthony Weiner and Eliot Spitzer running for mayor and comptroller of the big apple, New York Magazine decided to feature both of them on the cover.

The effect is rather… unsettling.

I can almost hear Igor in the background saying yes master…


Suddenly I don't feel like eating.


Trayvon Martin, Burglary Tools, and PCP-style Drug Cocktails

National media ignored some of the most significant aspects of the tragic Martin-Zimmerman case, among them Martin's suspected involvement with burglary, PCP-like drug cocktails, and/or drug dealing.

Burglary Tools:
Trayvon Martin’s phone was full of text messages, pictures and videos suggestive of drugs, violence and criminal behavior. [According to the Miami Herald,] Trayvon Martin was on his third suspension from school [and t]here is evidence Trayvon Martin had burglarized homes and/or school lockers:

In October, a school police investigator said he saw Trayvon on the school surveillance camera in an unauthorized area “hiding and being suspicious.” Then he said he saw Trayvon mark up a door with “W.T.F” — an acronym for “what the f—.” The officer said he found Trayvon the next day and went through his book bag in search of the graffiti marker. Instead the officer reported he found women’s jewelry and a screwdriver that he described as a “burglary tool” ...

Word of the incident came as the family’s lawyer acknowledged that the boy was suspended in February for getting caught with an empty bag with traces of marijuana [and his] backpack contained 12 pieces of jewelry, in addition to a watch and a large flathead screwdriver, according to the report, which described silver wedding bands and earrings with diamonds. Trayvon was asked if the jewelry belonged to his family or a girlfriend. “Martin replied it’s not mine. A friend gave it to me,” he responded, according to the report. Trayvon declined to name the friend. Trayvon was not disciplined because of the discovery, but was instead suspended for graffiti, according to the report. School police impounded the jewelry and sent photos of the items to detectives at Miami-Dade police for further investigation...

...That suspension was followed four months later by another one in February, in which Trayvon was caught with an empty plastic bag with traces of marijuana in it. A schools police report obtained by The Miami Herald specifies two items: a bag with marijuana residue and a “marijuana pipe.”

Drug Use:

There are a series of compelling articles on the web that describe Martin's alleged abuse of a powerful, home-made PCP-like drug called "Lean" (also known as "Skittles"). Its reported side-effects can include breaks with reality, extreme paranoia and fits of violence.

One of the most painstakingly documented summaries is excerpted below:

Were the 9/11 terror attacks false flag operations orchestrated by Russia?

Guest post by James Simpson

Following World War II, practically every terrorist organization in the world, whether it be Islamist or Communist, was financed, trained, armed and advised by Soviet intelligence or one of its proxies. There is nothing new or even noteworthy about this fundamental fact. I have written about it for years, most notably regarding Yasser Arafat, al Qaeda and radical Islam in general. The theme was covered exhaustively last summer in a conference sponsored by Cliff Kincaid's America's Survival. I wrote about that conference in a two part report, here and here.

The story below by J.R. Nyquist, reprinted here with permission, is one in a series and picks up on that theme, but adds new dimension and depth. J.R. is one of the most brilliant and knowledgeable geopolitical analysts in the United States and you will thank me for introducing him to you. Unfortunately, his analysis is seldom politically correct or convenient for the chattering classes, so our nation suffers, feted instead with fact-free.tripe from DC insiders and other fools with all kinds of ulterior motives.

J.R.tells the story of Victor Kalashikov, a former KGB agent who has bravely spoken out against his former boss, and he and his wife have apparently been poisoned with mercury for their trouble. The opinions of other former KGB officers add further weight, especially that of Alexander Litvineko, poisoned in London with Polonium 210 after he revealed that Ayman al Zawahiri, number 2 in al Qaeda at the time, was in fact an old KGB agent who trained in the former Soviet Union. Read the analysis below; also read parts I and II, and spread this far and wide.

Larwyn's Linx: Obama Big Loser in Zimmerman Trial

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Nation

Obama Big Loser in Zimmerman Trial: Roger L. Simon
A Dagger at the Heart of Justice: Mark Steyn
Virginia NAACP Chief Dares To Question The Saintliness Of Trayvon Martin: WZ

Zimmerman Attorney Slams Media: RCP
White House holds Obamacare briefing with government reporters: DC
Madness, Chaos as Pro-Aborts Threaten Violence in Texas: Tatler

The End of the Zimmerman Trial: Walter Russell Mead
Liberals Secretly Happy: Zimmerman Not Guilty: Kevin Jackson
Brian Schweitzer cuts and runs from Montana Senate race: Moe Lane

Obama's $62 billion unconstitutional maneuver: Betsy McCaughey
Obama Words on Military Sexual Assault Backfire: James Joyner
Capitol Hill Begins the Obamacare Exodus: Kavon Nikrad

Economy

Weekly Address: Obama Really Wants Non-Americans To Have Jobs: STACLU
Rodents get big bucks while military employees suffer: Michael Dorstewitz
Obama Golfing with Sports Journalists: Dossier

Stop Walmart First, Help the Poor Second: Scott Beyer
Three Economic Charts That Will Blow Your Mind: RWN
SEQUESTER: HHS, EPA, National Weather Service Issue Official "Sharknado" Statements: Fast Company

Scandal Central

Marco Rubio helps Hillary… again: Shoebat
Dershowitz: Zimmerman Prosecutors 'Should Be Disbarred': NewsMax
Eric Holder's DOJ Helped Organize/Pay For 2012 Anti-George Zimmerman Protests: Lid

Zimmerman Not Guilty: “Angela Corey should resign”: LI
Obama's Post-Racial America: Twitter lynch mob threatens to kill George Zimmerman: Twitchy
$20 million claim against DOC by man shot 16 times: King5

Climate & Energy

House Republicans ready attack on Obama's ‘social cost of carbon’: Ben Geman, The Hill

Media

Juan Williams: Under Janet Napolitano, There Have Been No Attacks on America: RightPundit
Uproar after radio host Levin calls Democrats “the party of aggrieved Black and Hispanic people”: Protein Wisdom
Obama Is Embarrassed by ObamaCare: Phyllis Schafly

Why Did Trayvon Martin Attack George Zimmerman?: Dan Collins
Anti-American Greenwald Vows to Continue Leaks: NoisyRm
New York Magazine’s hybrid Spitzer/Weiner monster will give you nightmares: Twitchy

Trayvon Martin Case Highlights Why Americans Distrust Media: Bethany Mandel
The Spectacle of Al Sharpton: Bryan Preston
Trayvon Martin’s Mother just tweeted this ….: Gretawire

World

Tinker, Tailor, Snowden, Spy: Grdon G. Chang
Mile Markers on the Demographic Death Watch: Ed Driscoll
HRC film lashes out at guardianship abuse: Saudi Gazette

Report: Attack in Syria conducted by Israeli submarine: Israpundit
Looting Corpses at Brétigny-sur-Orge: Gates of Vienna
Arabic Media: Secret $8 billion deal between Obama and the Muslim Brotherhood: Israpundit

US confirms Israel targeted Yakhonts: Matzav
Canadian engineering duo claim $250,000 prize for first human-powered helicopter: RT
Teaching anti-Semitism is child abuse: Matzav

Sci-Tech

There Are Dangers in Drinking Diet Soda: Daily Beast
NHS Fined After Computer Holding Patient Records Found On eBay: Slashdot
Hello, tomorrow: Smart tech and accidental espionage: CNet

Cornucopia

Anyone Else Seeing This?: Moonbattery
Hot Foot: Kawika
Wrecking the Constitution: TAC

Image: Lee Stranahan
Sponsored by: Call Eric Cantor at 804-747-4073 and Paul Ryan at 202-225-3031; tell them NO AMNESTY!

QOTD: "By injecting himself in a minor Florida criminal case by implying Martin could be his son, the president of the United States — a former law professor, of all things — disgraced himself and his office, made a mockery of our legal system and exacerbated racial tensions in our country, making them worse than they have been in years. This is the work of a reactionary, someone who consciously/unconsciously wants to push our nation back to the 1950s.

It is also the work of a narcissist who thinks of himself first, of his image, not of black, white or any other kind of people. It’s no accident that race relations in our country have gone backwards during his stewardship.

Congratulations to the jury for not acceding to this tremendous pressure and delivering the only conceivable honest verdict. This case should never have been brought to trial. It was, quite literally, the first American Stalinist “show trial.” There was, virtually, no evidence to convict George Zimmerman. It was a great day for justice that this travesty was finally brought to a halt." --Roger L. Simon

Saturday, July 13, 2013

SURPRISE! Kathleen Sebelius and HHS are the Top Violators of Federal Anti-Paperwork Law

In a perfect world, Kathleen Sebelius and her apparatchiks would be on the hook for a dozen years in solitary. In reality, they'll probably get a Presidential Alinsky Medal.

ObamaCare implementation has led to a surge in violations of a federal law designed to minimize paperwork burdens, according to a new analysis... The American Action Forum (AAF) found that the Health and Human Services Department has violated the anti-paperwork statute more than any other department in the past three years.

HHS had 154 violations of the Paperwork Reduction Act over the past three years, earning a "poor" grade from the White House budget office.

The Paperwork Reduction Act requires federal agencies to justify information collections that put a paperwork burden on individuals and businesses.

HHS has violated the statute "either by collecting information without proper approval or allowing collections to lapse without following the renewal process," according to the American Action Forum.

Many of HHS's violations come from regulations that implement parts of the Affordable Care Act. All told, HHS has violated the Paperwork Reduction Act on regulations that add up to more than 700,000 hours of regulatory burdens and cost more than $13.6 million, according to the AAF analysis.

"HHS lacked the legal authority to compel the collection of information, but still imposed the paperwork," the conservative think tank's analysis said.

But don't worry: paperwork violations are the least of our problems with respect to Obamacare.


Hat tip: BadBlue News.

A photograph brought to you by Attorney General Eric Holder, President Barack Obama, and MSNBC's Al Sharpton

Justice is blind, except in the case of George Zimmerman.


There have been 1,000 shootings in Chicago so far this year, hundreds of them fatal and many involving innocent young children.

Where are Obama, Holder, and Sharpton to decry this senseless violence? Oh, that's right: most of it's black-on-black violence, which doesn't help divide the country along racial lines... nor help advance their political agenda.

My bad. Sorry I asked.


Hat tip: BadBlue News.

HECKUVA JOB, NAPPY! Illegal Aliens Smuggling Less Than 150 Lbs. Drugs into U.S. are Set Free by Feds

Gee, I wonder how the Cartels will adapt to this brilliant tactic on the part of DHS?

The Border Patrol is as busy as ever catching smugglers hauling drugs from Mexico. But many who are caught are now being given a free pass.

Brooks County Sheriff Rey Rodriguez took us on Texas Highway 281. This is a major route for smugglers bringing narcotics into the United States from Mexico. He acknowledges that drugs come up here every day and in multiple loads.

Each year the Border Patrol checkpoint seizes hundreds of thousands of pounds of marijuana.

"We have 'em put it in spare tires and gas tanks," said a Border Patrol agent, whose voice and identity has been disguised because the agent feared of being fired for telling us what happens next - that up to 60 smugglers a month are being let go.

"We catch 'em, but then because our hands are tied, they end up walking and being released," said the agent.

As for what the biggest load of marijuana he's seen where someone was still let go, he said: "The biggest load that I've seen is right around 140 pounds."

Police here say federal authorities generally won't prosecute traffickers moving less than 150 pounds of marijuana with a street value of $120,000... Brooks County, Texas, prosecutor Carlos Garcia [depicted] acknowledges there is not enough money to prosecute trafficking cases of marijuana weighing less than 150 pounds.

"We're having problems here," said Garcia. "And it's not crime that's in our area, it's crime that's passing through our area. They just happen to get caught here... they're going to the rest of the United States."

The Justice Department declined our request for an interview. But in a statement, the agency said it had to "make difficult choices regarding funding" for border prosecutions.

The Border Patrol told CBS News in an email that if no one picks up those cases, agents have "no alternative but to seize the illegal drugs ... and then release the individuals involved".

...Since suspects can't be released at this highway checkpoint, federal agents are often stuck giving smugglers a ride to the nearest bus stop.

As for Janet Napolitano: good riddance. Hopefully her replacement will be someone marginally competent, which would be a thousand-fold improvement. But I'm not holding my breath.


Hat tip: BadBlue News.

Ted Cruz Introduces a 2-Page Bill to Completely Obliterate the Obamacare Train Wreck

Ted Cruz, as a freshman Senator from Texas, is doing more to fight for liberty than John Boehner and Eric Cantor (who happen to be in the majority) combined.

On Thursday, Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) introduced legislation in the Senate that would completely defund the Affordable Care Act, aka Obamacare. He wasn’t alone in proposing the legislation either. The bill has 19 co-sponsors, all Republicans, including RINOs.

Amazingly simple, the Defund Obamacare Act of 2013 is only 2 pages.


...All 45 Republican Senators called for a permanent delay of Obamacare earlier this week in a letter to Barack Obama.

Cruz added, “The Administration’s selective enforcement of Obamacare’s implementation is no indication that the law is going away. To the contrary, it demonstrates the President’s unyielding determination to force the unworkable law on the American people.”

...Senator Cruz then put in perspective just how the IRS can no longer be trusted not only in the job they have been assigned with, but also the implementation of Obamacare. “Moreover, in light of the admitted misconduct of the IRS – targeting those whose political views differed from the President’s – we cannot trust the IRS to implement Obamacare. The American people cannot trust the IRS to create and enforce the largest federal database in history, containing the intimate details of our personal healthcare matters. And we cannot just wait for this law to implode under its own weight. The clock is ticking, and the time to act is now – Obamacare full implementation is set for January 1, 2014, but the enrollment for new entitlements starts on October 1, 2013.”

Democrat or Republican, call your Senators now and demand that they support the Defund Obamacare Act of 2013.


Larwyn's Linx: If Violence Follows Zimmerman Verdict, are Eric Holder and Barack Obama to Blame?

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Nation

If Violence Follows Zimmerman Verdict, is Administration to Blame?: Tatler
What’s In Eric Holder’s Wallet? His Real Race Card: Adams
Guys won’t have sex anymore if abortion laws pass. Or something: NakedDC

Napolitano DHS ‘Defined by Consistent Disrespect for Rule of Law’: Stiles
The Perfect Place to Advertise Obamacare: Port-o-Crappers: Doug Powers
Rahm Emanuel: What Chicago Needs is More Gun Control: BizPac

TX Senate Passes Pro-Life Bill as Pro-Aborts Rage Inside Capitol: Blaze
My Sincere Apologies to the Kid Killing Caucus: Erickson
Obama Continues to Rabble Rouse After Texas Abortion Bill Passes: Tatler

Economy

Amnesty's price: $12,433 for every legalized immigrant household: Exam
Napolitano exactly the wrong choice to lead UC system: Greenhut
Another IRS Scandal Waiting to Happen: Kimberley Strassel

Scandal Central

Obama’s Alinskyite Administration: John Fund
Obama DOJ Employee Demanded Action Against George Zimmerman: RWN
Enough Already! Holder Must Go: Ledeen

Media

Beckel: It’s time for Obama to comment on Zimmerman trial: Tom Tillison
Oregon’s epic #obamacare agitprop #fail.: Moe Lane
DHS’ Napolitano Leaves Legacy of Corruption, Lies, Lawsuits, and Waste: Bob Adelmann

NBC and CBS Ignore Dem Hypocrisy on Anti-Filibuster Nuclear Option: Kyle Drennen, MRC
NYT Reporter John Schwartz Mocks NB’s Sheppard About Son’s Wedding: Matthew Sheffield
Bogus "Tea party Leader" Everett “Dirksen” Wilkinson proves race hustlers come in all colors: BizPac

Satanic Media Ties McDonnell Millstone Around Ken Cuccinelli’s Republican Neck: R.S. McCain
New York Times Buries the Lead — Deliberately — on Egypt Story: R.S. McCain
Propaganda Through The Ages Has Been The Enemy Of Reason: IBD

World

Senators inept while questioning Nuland on Benghazi: Shoebat
Dangerous Times: When America Supports Evil: James Lewis
Britain: "Rape Jihad" Against Children: Soeren Kern

Nearly half of Senate votes to surrender sovereignty to progressivist global government: Protein Wisdom
Exposed: Final Conversation Between Morsi and Sisi: Ibrahim
Hezbollah’s suicide bombing tactics come back to haunt it: Times of Israel

Sci-Tech

Discovering Names Of Secret NSA Surveillance Programs Via LinkedIn: TechDirt
Should I ditch Android for Nokia's Lumia 1020?: CNet
So apparently, Edward Snowden uses security-focused email service Lavabit: Boing Boing

Cornucopia

Salt of the Earth; or “Lie to Me” – A Continuing Series: MOTUS
All hyperbole is totally useless: Seth Godin
Just a reminder that this actually happened: Reddit

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QOTD: "This judge is an idiot. I spent five years investigating high profile capital cases defending people from the death penalty, and worked for the Federal judiciary as an independent investigator on other cases. No judge ever inquires as to whether a defendant will testify until the entire defense case is presented. If the defense rests and does not call the defendant then the judge knows there will be no testimony. If the defense calls the defendant then that’s when the judge finds out. They have to get through the entire case first. To see if it is valid after prosecution cross-examines their witnesses and experts as to whether a defendant SHOULD testify, which is decided in private not in public, and NOT on the record. By doing this, the judge has undermined a portion of Zimmerman’s credibility. He looks like he is waffling and this is normal judge/defendant questioning, which it is NOT." --Rivette

Friday, July 12, 2013

AWESOME: San Francisco TV Station KTVU Does Itself Proud...

...with some amazing, original reporting on the tragic KAL airliner crash:

On today’s Noon newscast on KTVU, the station claimed it had “just learned the names of the 4 pilots on board” Asiana flight 214 which crashed last Saturday. But the station was given bad information that made it all the way into the newscast. If you read the names it becomes immediately clear this is a joke, which went unnoticed by the newsroom, producers and the anchor.

You’ll recall earlier this week, KTVU touted its coverage as being not only first, but “100% accurate.”

“Being first on air and on every platform in all aspects of our coverage was a great accomplishment, but being 100% accurate, effectively using our great sources and social media without putting a single piece of erroneous information on our air, is what we are most proud of as a newsroom,” said News Director Lee Rosenthal at the time...

Heh.


SPOILER ALERT: Why I kept cracking up during the last 30 minutes of the movie "World War Z"

Dude, once Brad Pitt discovered that there was an "antidote" that made humans invisible to the zombie hordes, I kept imagining an ad like this:


Seriously: is Brad Pitt really having this much trouble getting roles?

Maybe Scientology can help. Just sayin'.


CBO shocked to discover that Obamacare has turned out to be a financial train-wreck, too

Guest post by Investors Business Daily.


In September 2009, President Obama promised the country that "I will not sign a plan that adds one dime to our deficits — either now or in the future."

But it turns out Obama did sign such a plan — in fact, ObamaCare could add upwards of 180 billion dimes to the deficit in its first 10 years, an IBD analysis of various official budget reports found.

According to the Congressional Budget Office's initial forecast made in March 2010, ObamaCare was supposed to cut the deficit a total of $124 billion in its first decade. Democrats seized on this to show Obama had lived up to his promise.

Almost as soon as Obama signed the law, however, his administration started making changes that added costs and cut revenues. The most recent was the one-year delay in the employer mandate.

The result is instead of a $124 billion deficit cut from 2010 to 2019, ObamaCare will likely add about $18 billion in red ink over those same years. And that assumes nothing else changes in the years ahead.

Costly Delays

When the administration announced the employer mandate delay, it said its decision resulted from business complaints about complex reporting requirements.

What it didn't say is it would cost as much as $10 billion in lost revenues, which is how much the CBO expected in fines from companies that didn't provide health benefits to workers that first year.

In addition, experts believe the delay will push more people into the subsidized exchanges, which could add as much as $5.3 billion in taxpayer costs, according to an analysis by the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget.

Meanwhile, the Obama administration has also been putting off steep cuts to the Medicare Advantage program, which were supposed to help cover ObamaCare costs.

Medicare Advantage lets seniors choose from an array of private health plans, with premiums largely paid by Medicare. About 28% have enrolled in one of these plans.

Obama has been critical of Medicare Advantage, saying it provided "unwarranted subsidies" that "pad their profits but don't improve the care of seniors." And ObamaCare planned to squeeze $136 billion out of it between 2010 and 2019.
But just as these cuts were set to bite, the administration started handing out $8.35 billion in "quality improvement" bonuses to Advantage companies, under the guise of a "demonstration project."

The bonuses eliminated most of the scheduled cuts in 2012, according to the Government Accountability Office, which also challenged the claim that it was a legitimate demonstration project. That led to charges that Obama was just postponing the cuts to avoid upsetting seniors in an election year.

Earlier this year, his administration again reversed course on Medicare Advantage cuts, turning a planned 2.3% reduction in payments for 2014 into a 3.3% increase. Regulators claimed the payment boost resulted from a new methodology, but the change came after a flurry of protests from industry and lawmakers.

CLASS Dismissed

And in October 2011, Obama jettisoned an ObamaCare program, called CLASS, that was supposed to provide subsidized long-term care insurance for seniors.

Because CLASS collected premiums for years before paying any benefits, it appeared to cut ObamaCare's costs by $72 billion in the first 10 years.

But the program was so badly designed it would have gone bankrupt soon after that, and so the administration dumped it.
That decision, however, vaporized more than half of ObamaCare's promised deficit cuts.

After accounting for all these changes, along with overall changes in the CBO's cost projections, the law is now on track to add to the federal deficit in the first 10 years, albeit by a relatively small amount.

Supporters argue that even with these changes ObamaCare is still cutting deficits because it's lowering health spending and improving efficiency, and these savings will grow over time as deeper Medicare cuts and bigger tax bills kick in.

But a January report from the Government Accountability Office found that claims of long-term ObamaCare deficit cuts are based on dubious cost-saving assumptions that several independent agencies "expressed concerns about."

After factoring those out, the GAO found ObamaCare will add $6.2 trillion to deficits over the next 75 years.


Via: Investors Business Daily.