Monday, August 26, 2013

Larwyn's Linx: Maybe I Do Have Something to Hide

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Nation

Maybe I Do Have Something to Hide: Daren Jonescu
An Extremist Group of One: Baron Bodissey
Firewall: Building a police state?: Mike Bibb

No one who favors Obamacare wants to be bound by it : Mark Steyn
‘Obama flag’ reappears at MLK march: Doug Powers
Chicago's Honor Student of the Week: iOTW

Economy

Economist on the Real Reason College Costs So Much: Leslie Eastman
‘Recovery’ re-defined: Michelle Malkin
The Secrecy Lobby: CA pensioners conceal their benefits: Steven Greenhut

A Living Wage: Sarah A. Hoyt
Would balancing the budget be a disaster for our economy?: Bob Agard
A Third Of Louisiana Unemployment Payments Are "Improper": ZH

Scandal Central

GOP Rep.: White House Aiding and Abetting Voter Fraud: Oliver Darcy
Tyranny Has Arrived on Our Doorstep: Shane Krauser
Obama’s Puerile Molestation of the Constitution: Kelly O'Connell

Media

DOD: People Who Talk About Individual Freedom, Making World Better Place Are “Extremists”: RWN
Judge Jeanine: We keep being lied to; I’d be hauling butts to jail: BPR
Potius Mori Quam Foedari: R.S. McCain

Mark Levin Booksigning At Tyson's Corner, VA, for his NY Times Bestseller: Marooned In Marin
Is this Martin Luther King’s legacy? National Mall covered in garbage: Elenore Miller
Obama's Intimidation Tactics (2012): Western Journalism

World

Have the Saudis Been Tipped off about a Pending U.S. Attack on Syria?: Shenandoah
A Shiny New War: At Home and Abroad: Terresa Monroe-Hamilton
Cameron reportedly pushing Obama toward Syria strike: Times of Israel

Who’s Lying Now? Syria’s Chemical Attacks Indicate President Bush Didn’t ‘Lie’ About WMDs: Greg Campbell
Obama boxed-in on Syria: Julian Pecquet and Ian Swanson
Outrage: U.S. Returning Artifacts Looted from Iraqi Jews to Iraq, Instead of Lawful Owners: Harold Rhode

Sci-Tech

U.S. Electrical Grid on the Edge of Failure: Jeff Tollefson, Scientific American
Important Shortcuts For Linux Beginners: EFYTimes
Using Pulsars As GPS - A Space Navigation System Fit For A Starship?->: Slashdot

Cornucopia

Liberals Rename ALL 32 NFL Teams!: Morlock Revolt
Something Wonderful: Oh Sweet Lorraine: American Digest
All-Time Most Expensive Classic Cars at Auction: Bloomberg

The Reaction From Will Smith’s Family Tells You All About Miley Cyrus’s Raunchy Dance: RWN
Self-Defense Tip: Give it Up: Robert Farago
Merrill Lynch Man Achieves Winemaker Dream: Elin McCoy

Image: Groveland breathes easier as Rim Fire moves east
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QOTD: "Another school year beckons, which means it’s time for President Obama to go on another college retreat. “He loves college tours,” says Ohio University’s Richard Vedder, who directs the Center for College Affordability and Productivity. “Colleges are an escape from reality. Believe me, I’ve lived in one for half a century. It’s like living in Disneyland. They’re these little isolated enclaves of nonreality.”

…College costs have continued to explode despite 50 years of ostensibly benevolent government interventions, according to Mr. Vedder, and the president’s new plan could exacerbate the trend. By Mr. Vedder’s lights, the cost conundrum started with the Higher Education Act of 1965, a Great Society program that created federal scholarships and low-interest loans aimed at making college more accessible.

..This growth in subsidies, Mr. Vedder argues, has fueled rising prices: “It gives every incentive and every opportunity for colleges to raise their fees.”" --(Source)

Sunday, August 25, 2013

The Difference Between Orlando and Chicago: The Right to Preserve Your Most Precious Gift

Try to imagine what would have happened had this precise scenario unfolded in Chicago (or any other Democrat-enforced human hunting preserve).

An armed robbery suspect was shot and killed in West Melbourne, according to the Brevard County Sheriff’s Office.

According to Major Todd Goodyear, the Brevard County Sheriff’s Office is investigating the death of 32-year-old Fredrick Lorenza Kelly Jr., who was shot and killed during an alleged Armed Robbery of a pizza delivery driver.

According to Goodyear, the incident occurred in the parking lot of the Days Inn motel at 4500 West New Haven Ave., West Melbourne, an area that fall in county jurisdiction shortly before midnight on August 23, 2013.

Bryon Park, 54, of Palm Bay had just returned to his vehicle after delivering a pizza to a room in the motel complex, when he was approached by Kelly brandishing a large knife.

According to Goodyear, Kelly demanded money from Park and threatened to kill him if he did not comply. Park obtained the firearm he carries in his vehicle and defended himself, by firing once toward Kelly, who was struck and pronounced dead at the scene. Kelly’s body was transported to the Brevard County Medical Examiner’s Office for autopsy.

Fredrick Kelly Jr. has a lengthy violent criminal history that includes Armed Robbery, Aggravated Battery and False Imprisonment.

In fact, almost exactly this same scenario did occur in Chicago just a few short years ago.

A man pleaded guilty Thursday in the 2006 slaying and armed robbery of a widowed mother of four sons that occurred while she was delivering pizzas near West Chicago.

Bradley Justice, 31, of Sandwich was scheduled to go on trial next week in the brutal killing of Karen Hassan, 41, of St. Charles. Hassan was beaten to death with a hammer as she arrived at a unoccupied industrial site to deliver pizzas ordered by Justice, who later used cash he took from the woman to buy cocaine.

Thanks to the radical left Democrat Party, Karen Hassan had no ability to defend herself against a vicious hoodlum and criminal.

Democrats want law-abiding citizens disarmed. They use the blood of children to push their radical gun control agenda. They want the citizenry cowed and fearful.

And that is why cities like Chicago are awash in blood; for it is the citizens that obey the Democrats' unconstitutional laws leaving only gangsters with deadly force.


Hat tip: BB.

Larry Summers and the Secret "End-Game" Memo

Guest post by Greg Palast

When a little birdie dropped the End Game memo through my window, its content was so explosive, so sick and plain evil, I just couldn't believe it.

The Memo confirmed every conspiracy freak's fantasy: that in the late 1990s, the top US Treasury officials secretly conspired with a small cabal of banker big-shots to rip apart financial regulation across the planet. When you see 26.3% unemployment in Spain, desperation and hunger in Greece, riots in Indonesia and Detroit in bankruptcy, go back to this End Game memo, the genesis of the blood and tears.

The Treasury official playing the bankers' secret End Game was Larry Summers. Today, Summers is Barack Obama's leading choice for Chairman of the US Federal Reserve, the world's central bank. If the confidential memo is authentic, then Summers shouldn't be serving on the Fed, he should be serving hard time in some dungeon reserved for the criminally insane of the finance world.

The memo is authentic.

To get that confirmation, I would have to fly to Geneva and wangle a meeting with the Secretary General of the World Trade Organization, Pascal Lamy. I did. Lamy, the Generalissimo of Globalization, told me,

"The WTO was not created as some dark cabal of multinationals secretly cooking plots against the people…. We don't have cigar-smoking, rich, crazy bankers negotiating."

Then I showed him the memo.

It begins with Summers’ flunky, Timothy Geithner, reminding his boss to call the then most powerful CEOs on the planet and get them to order their lobbyist armies to march:

"As we enter the end-game of the WTO financial services negotiations, I believe it would be a good idea for you to touch base with the CEOs…."

To avoid Summers having to call his office to get the phone numbers (which, under US law, would have to appear on public logs), Geithner listed their private lines. And here they are:

A Most Dangerous Lie

Last week President Barack Obama asserted that the United States does not face spending or deficit problems, only an ideological divide caused by Republicans that want to slash government programs for health and children's services.

“We don’t have an urgent deficit crisis,” Obama said Friday at a town hall meeting on the campus of Binghamton University in Binghamton, N.Y. “The only crisis we have is the one that is manufactured in Washington and it’s ideological and the basic notion is that we shouldn’t be helping people get health care and we shouldn’t be helping kids who can’t help themselves and whose parents are under resourced, we shouldn’t be helping them get a leg up.”

Now either this president is lying or he has yet to read his own government's reports.

• The Government Accountability Office said earlier this year that "...absent policy changes...the federal government continues to face an unsustainable fiscal path."

• The non-partisan Congressional Budget Office warns that we have less than a decade to rectify the federal spending addiciton: "[a] growing imbalance between revenues and noninterest spending, combined with the spiraling cost of net interest, would swiftly push debt upward in an unsustainable way... The explosive path of federal debt ... underscores the need for major changes in current policies to put the nation on a sustainable fiscal course..."

• The public trustees of Medicare and Social Security continue to sound the alarm that the massive entitlement programs are headed for collapse: "Under current law, both of these vitally important programs are on unsustainable paths."

• Furthermore, government economists in the several states warn that the federal debt "circumstances are dire enough after four consecutive years of trillion-dollar deficits that politicians on each side of the aisle are beginning to realize serious budget repairs are necessary."

Kleiner Perkins partner Mary Meeker, one of the most respected investment analysts in America, reports that the United States federal government "is on a parallel course to GM before its bankruptcy... [and if entitlement programs are not reformed, the U.S. balance sheet will go from bad to worse... The turning point: within 15 years, entitlements plus net interest expenses will absorb all -- yes, all -- of [federal] annual revenue."

This is just a random sampling. There are many, many more. There are hundreds of similar analyses from the government itself as well as the private sector.

Are the federal government's own actuaries all wrong and Obama right?

Are the federal government's own accountants all wrong and Obama right?

Are generally accepted accounting principles all wrong and Obama right?

Are centuries of mathematics all wrong and Obama right?

Are facts, logic, history and reason all wrong and Obama right?

Whether his actions are, as some have proposed, intentional or whether they are the product of a radical and blinkered ideology, the endgame will be the same.

We are headed rapidly for an economic whirlpool, a hydraulic that will -- like chaotic events that have occurred before throughout history -- catch most off-guard and send the country rapidly into desperately dangerous, uncharted waters.

And which segments of the population will be hardest hit by such an economic catastrophe? Will it be the super-rich, the Beltway elites, or former Presidents of the U.S.? Or will it be the poor, seniors living on fixed incomes, and young people trying to get their careers started?

Of all his countless fabrications, the lies the President tells the American people about spending and deficits are the most dangerous.


Hat tips: Mark Levin and BadBlue News Service.

Larwyn's Linx: A Nation Without Heroes

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Nation

A Nation Without Heroes: J. D. Longstreet
You and I are the extremists, not Nidal Hasan: AWD
MLK's Last Speech: “I Have Been To The Mountaintop…”: Ali Akbar

Hillary’s Infamous Benghazi Outburst given new meaning: Shoebat
Conservatives Must Remove Traitor RINOs in Primaries or By Recall: CFP
Selected Scenes from the Great National Discussion on Race: Ace

The speech, the dream and me: Cal Thomas
DA: Race not a factor in murder of Aussie baseball player: RWN
Bradley Manning Is Not a Woman : Kevin D. Williamson

Economy

Americans in shock as work hours, health benefits cut due to Obamacare: DCC
New York City's Prisons: Gilded Cages: Rebecca Harshbarger, Post
The War on Americans: 90 Miles From Tyranny

Ohio: Another Muslim food stamp fraud ring busted, netted $780,000: Creeping
Ford's Risky 2015 Mustang Could Alienate Loyal Fans: My Daily Kona
EBT Users and Increased Fraud: Libertarian Republican

Scandal Central

IRS now targeting the American Legion: Patrick Howley
Team involved in tracking Benghazi suspects pulling out, sources say: Adam Housley
Snowden suspected of bypassing electronic logs: AP

Larry Summers and the Secret "End-Game" Memo: Greg Palast
Obama Warns ICE Agents Not To Arrest Or Deport Illegal Immigrants If They Have Children: WZ
Democrat Hero Filner Resigns: Calls it a 'Coup': Doug Powers

Media

The Foul Stench of Brian Beutler’s Truthlessness Has Become Intolerable: Robert Stacy McCain
How could Oberlin be so cruel as to play along with the racism hoax?: LI
Boy arrested over baseball star's murder tied to robberies with PREGNANT girlfriend: Daily Mail

The Oklahoma Story: No, Piers, it’s not about guns: Ben Stein
The Unprecedented Secrecy of the Obama Administration: Tom Fitton
Sarah Palin takes on DHS over employee with hate site; also talks Ashton Kutcher: Scoop

World

Dangerous Times: Russia Rising in the Middle East: James Lewis
Obama’s New U.N. Ambassador Samantha Power Skips Emergency Security Council Meeting: WZ
You gotta love it when they make our points: Gun Free Zone

Sci-Tech

NSA hacked into encrypted UN communications, leaked documents show: David Meyer
Perceived missteps may have hit a tipping point for Ballmer: Juan Carlos Perez
Tuolumne Fire: Threatens Power to San Francisco: Kirk Raymond

Cornucopia

Peter Dinklage: “I Hate that Word, ‘Lucky’”: Ari Armstrong
A Recap of This Week’s College-Bound and Down Tour: MOTUS
My Thought On Ben Affleck As Batman...: Soylent Siberia (NSFW)

Image: Kevin LaMarque, Reuters
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QOTD: "Brian Beutler‘s day job selling cheap Mexican heroin at the playground near an elementary school wasn’t producing enough revenue, and his weekend gig pimping kidnapped orphan girls to Saudi oil sheiks still didn’t make the nut. The cost of living is outrageous in DC nowadays and so, finally, Brian Beutler was forced to the desperate resort of doing something genuinely heinous, writing lies for Salon.com.

Yesterday, an AOSHQ co-blogger let his hatred of Maureen Dowd get the better of him and actually linked a Salon takedown of her. As much as I despise Maureen Dowd, however, the fact that she was denounced by Alex Pareene makes me think the old gal must have accidentally written a couple of factually accurate sentences lately, because if there is anything that Salon hates more than facts, it’s accuracy.

Generally speaking, every word published by Salon is the exact opposite of truth, and they only employ writers so fanatically dishonest that even such infamous organs of mendacity as the New York Times and the Washington Post want nothing to do with them." --Robert Stacy McCain

Saturday, August 24, 2013

WHILE OBAMA SLEPT: A Tribute to Benghazi's Heroes

Guest post by Kevin Jackson


Greg Marra, the artist who created the statue for fallen Navy SEAL, Chris Kyle, has begun working on the statue to commemorate the 4 fallen in Benghazi.


This tribute statue will be a reminder to politicians, that while they play their political games with people’s lives, the American people won’t forget and we will hold those responsible accountable.

As with the Chris Kyle statue, we need to help fund this bigger than life statue. People will be able to walk among the figures. The statue will help Americans understand what happened to these men, while DC slept.

The statue depicts the artist’s vision of the incident that took the lives of 4 patriots: one man praying, the other behind of the two fallen Navy SEALS, men who fought for over 20 hours against impossible odds. Once complete, Greg will find a fitting home for it, and talks with Congressmen are underway to do just that.

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We will try to get this statue, titled “While Washington DC Slept,” prominently placed in Washington DC. We won’t let the memory of American patriots who died at Benghazi fade!


ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF 9/11 BENGHAZI TERROR ATTACK NEARS: It is Time to Demand Answers

Guest post by Watchdog Wire


BENGHAZI: Who are the players? WHITE HOUSE LIST, THE THREE AMIGOS, OTHERS ON THE HILL, MEDIA

On September 11, 2013 it will have been one year since the tragic attack on the US Diplomatic Mission in Benghazi, Libya. The attack claimed the lives of Ambassador Chris Stephens and three other American citizens – marking the first time an Ambassador has been killed in action since the Carter Administration. It seems unbelievable that, almost 365 days later, American citizens are still waiting for information, answers, and justice. Only four people were ever disciplined for their actions surrounding the attack and not a single person lost their job. And Secretary of State John Kerry recently returned all four officials to work, without subjecting them to hearings regarding their role in the attack. Apparently, answers on Benghazi aren’t at the top of Kerry’s “to-do” list.

Will anyone be held accountable for this giant security failure? Have we learned anything from the ongoing investigation of the attack? The families of the victims deserve answers and American citizens deserve an explanation.

TAKE ACTION

This September, join us in telling the Obama Administration that we haven’t forgotten. Contact the major players in the Benghazi incident and tell them we’re still watching and waiting for the TRUTH. Demand an update in the ongoing investigation!

33 Horrifying Facts Illustrating the Collapse of the U.S. Economy Under Barack Obama

Guest post by Michael Snyder

Barack Obama has been running around the country taking credit for an "economic recovery", but the truth is that things have not gotten better under Obama.  Compared to when he first took office, a smaller percentage of the working age population is employed, the quality of our jobs has declined substantially and the middle class has been absolutely shredded.  If we are really in the middle of an "economic recovery", why is the homeownership rate the lowest that it has been in 18 years?  Why has the number of Americans on food stamps increased by nearly 50 percent while Obama has been in the White House?  Why has the national debt gotten more than 6 trillion dollars larger during the Obama era?  Obama should not be "taking credit" for anything when it comes to the economy.  In fact, he should be deeply apologizing to the American people.

And of course Obama is being delusional if he thinks that he is actually "running the economy".  The Federal Reserve has far more power over the U.S. economy and the U.S. financial system than he does.  But the mainstream media loves to fixate on the presidency, so presidents always get far too much credit or far too much blame for economic conditions.

But if you do want to focus on "the change" that has taken place since Barack Obama entered the White House, there is no way in the world that you can claim that things have actually gotten better during that time frame.  The cold, hard reality of the matter is that the U.S. economy has been steadily declining for over a decade, and this decline has continued while Obama has been living at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

It is getting very tiring listening to Obama supporters try to claim that Obama has improved the economy.  That is a false claim that is not even remotely close to reality.  The following are 33 shocking facts which show how badly the U.S. economy has tanked since Obama became president...

#1 When Barack Obama entered the White House, 60.6 percent of working age Americans had a job.  Today, only 58.7 percent of working age Americans have a job.

#2 Since Obama has been president, seven out of every eight jobs that have been "created" in the U.S. economy have been part-time jobs.

#3 The number of full-time workers in the United States is still nearly 6 million below the old record that was set back in 2007.

WHEN A PICTURE IS WORTH A BILLION WORDS: The Unvanished Idiocy of the Anti-Fracking Crowd

Spotted over at Anthony Watts's jaint.

There’s been a lot of hullabaloo in the UK over the Balcombe fracking protests. WUWT reader Eric Worrall writes in with this comparison photo...


...Here is a tagged version of the same picture of all the plastic high tech synthetics used by anti fracking protestors in England, captured in a single photograph...


It really makes you wonder – do anti-fracking protestors think nylon tents, PVC groundsheets, and plastics grow on trees? No doubt the tents also contain high tech synthetic fibre sleeping bags, and gas powered camp cookers.

Do these hypocrites actually think about what sort of world they would have to endure, without the cheap hydrocarbons, and cheap plastic synthetics, the petroleum source of which they oppose?

And these are the same kooks that tell us humans are causing "global warming" (or is it "climate change" now, I forget) even though the Earth is cooling?

These people are such simpletons I'm amazed they remember to breathe on their own.


Hat tip: BadBlue News.

Larwyn's Linx: BOOM: 80 House Republicans tell John Boehner to defund Obamacare

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Nation

BOOM: 80 House Republicans tell Boehner to defund Obamacare: Scoop
Obama’s Long List of Broken Promises: Peter Wehner
Thugocracy and Obama’s Sons: DeRP

Ms. Wordsmith: Hillary Clinton Quotes from 8 Different Books: Digest
Obama Has Begun the Takeover of College Education in the US: Sara Noble
At Last: Bisexual Forum at the White House: Wayne Dupree

Ayo Kimathi DHS race war pimp gets vacation with paid leave: FAM
Thousands gather at a candlelight vigil for Delbert Belton: FAM
Alleged OK, WA Killers Have Common Thread: Violent Rap: Tom Blumer

Economy

What A Shock – Obama’s Plan Won’t Lower Cost Of College: LoneCon
Ex-McDonald's CEO: Obamacare Forcing 25-Hour Work Week: Breitbart
CFTC Coming At HFT: P&F

Scandal Central

Lawlessness in the Executive: Jeffrey H. Anderson
DHS Employee Promotes Anti-White Genocide: Travis Melvin
Surprise! Barry Soetoro Voter Registration FOIA Request Denied By DC Election Board: Dean Garrison

Climate & Energy

Former EPA official charged with stealing nearly $900K: Cowboy
Fukishima ‘Much Worse’ Than We Thought: James Joyner
Scrooser Electric Scooter: "A Harley-Davidson For The Sidewalk": Antony Ingram

Media

Obama DHS hired racist official accused of advocating killing whites: PJM
You Will Either Fight or Die: AWD
Cowboys: Gary Spina

Missouri State Senator Drops F-Bomb on Twitter, Deletes Tweet Later (Screenshots): Missouri Torch
Obama’s Falsity Turns Even Supporters Away: Jaye Ryan
Media blackout: Nurse shot to death on the streets of Memphis: Examiner

Ron Paul Participates in Holocaust Denial Conference: Ace
Palin calls DHS race scandal ‘stupidity on steroids,’ ‘un-flipping-believable’: Cheryl Carpenter Klimek
Liberals should not listen to Conservative Pundits?: Steve DeFillippo

World

Boom! Evidence U.S. Bribed Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood?: Walid Shoebat
Religion of Bigotry: FPM
Never Forget: Why bikers are descending on DC on 9/11 to Counter-Protest the Million Muslim March: RS

New UN Ambassador vacationing during critical meetings; only 19 days on job: BPR
Restaurant in Pattaya: C&S
Quietly, businesses help reshape U.S. immigration debate: Andy Sullivan, Reuters

Sci-Tech

You did read your Instagram Terms of Service?: Protein Wisdom
Why Steve Ballmer Failed: Nicholas Thompson, The New Yorker
First Drive: 542bhp Jaguar XJR: Top Gear

Cornucopia

Video: If gun control worked, Chicago would be Mayberry: Jazz Shaw
Who is your favorite cartoonist?: C&S
today’s KisPSA: Sondrakistan

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QOTD: "If you want to get called on, wear the president’s face on your shirt." --President Barack Obama

Friday, August 23, 2013

Awesome: 9/11 Million Muslim March In D.C. To Be Met By... ... ... Wait For It... ... ... 2 Million Bikers

Guest post by ZIP

Update to this story.

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Via: Weasel Zippers.

Failed GOP "Strategist" and Professional Shrew Nicolle Wallace Calls Brilliant Constitutionalist Ted Cruz a Liar

I've got a question for you: when do you see Democrat apparatchiks attack their own?

I can't think of a single instance since Joe Lieberman. Say what you will about the radical Left, but they do stay in lockstep.

Not so for the Rockefeller-Scranton-Nixon-Bush Wing of the Republican Party. The Beltway Elite are more interested in attacking the Reaganites -- the conservative, Tea Party, Constitutionalists -- than they are in beating Democrats.

Exhibit #4,035: Someone named "Nicolle Wallace", if that is her real name, who asserts that one of the smartest and most accomplished men in Congress is a liar.

Former John McCain campaign aide Nicolle Wallace told Morning Joe guest host Donny Deutsch that Ted Cruz was being “intellectually dishonest” in his mission to shut down the government in order to defund Obamacare, a strategy she felt was tantamount to lying to his supporters at the cost of the GOP’s national ambitions.

“I watch Ted Cruz up there and I say, ‘Is he not getting the memo from Christie as far as what’s getting you elected going forward?’” Deutsch said. “This ‘party of no,’ this anger, ‘I’m strong, you’re a chicken, I’m strong, you’re a chicken’—who is that talking to? It’s so tone deaf. Party of no, let’s kill Obamacare—versus, you watch what [Chris] Christie’s doing: time after time, decision after decision, moderate, moderate, moderate. Nicolle, am I missing something?”

“The problem with what Cruz is doing is it’s intellectually dishonest,” Wallace said. “[Cruz] was also asked at that event, ‘Why don’t we impeach President Obama?’ And he said, ‘Because we don’t have the votes.’ The true answer, the intellectually honest answer: ‘Because he’s not committed an impeachable offense.’ Ted Cruz is doing a whole lot of fearmongering and lying to the voters. He’s presenting an untruthful case.”

“The reason we’re going to lose this debate about defunding Obamacare is because we don’t occupy the White House,” Wallace said. “We don’t have the ability to pass laws and then sign them. The best way to win this fight is to elect a Republican president.”

Obama "hasn't committed an impeachable offense"? Really, Nicolle? Tell you what, yenta: peruse the Complete List of Barack Obama's Historic Firsts and tell me which items wouldn't make it into the articles of impeachment.

As for de-funding Obamacare, genius: if the House passed a bill that funded all of the government except for O'BoehnerCare and sent it to the Senate, who would be on the hook for a government shutdown? Would there be a tidal wave of support for the Unaffordable Care Act? Some kind of groundswell for more part-time jobs and economic misery?

Nicolle Wallace: your track record of failure makes you suitable only for comic relief. You dare to tell us who to listen to and who to believe? You, who can't get a gig appearing on anything but a failed network like MSNBC, that has lower Nielsens than airport radar and sonograms?

We're supposed to believe you over Ted Cruz, a cum laude graduate of Princeton, a magna cum laude graduate of Harvard Law, and a man who has argued and won multiple cases in front of the Supreme Court?

You're a tool of the left and an utter disgrace.

Ted Cruz is the real deal. And that's why the Beltway Elites are running scared.

I'm telling you folks for real: I ain't takin' this crap any more. I'm calling out every single one of these "Ruling Class Elites" who suckle on the teat of government and media -- but I repeat myself -- while attacking patriots who believe in the nation's highest law.

They're the freaks, the miscreants, and the extremists. They're the useful idiots.

For we stand on the shoulders of the Framers. And they stand on the shoulders of Marx and Lenin.

And we know who will win that battle when the chips are all on the table.


Hat tip: Mark Levin and BadBlue News.

Tactician Extraordinaire John Boehner Lays Out Secret Game-plan for Losing Both the House and His Speakership

In his typical savvy fashion, House Speaker John Boehner has reportedly unveiled a secret, two-fold plan for demoralizing the Republican base, thereby reverting all three branches of government to Democrat control.

1 Even though 80 House Republican have signed a letter urging Boehner to defund Obamacare, Boehner refuses to use the power of the purse to kill the most unpopular law since prohibition.

Boehner told the House Republican membership in a [confidential] telephone meeting a short while ago that the Republican leadership will NOT pursue defunding Obamacare, that they will only pursue saving from the sequestration

Mark Levin suggests calling the Unaffordable Care Act "BoehnerCare". I don't think that's fair, since Barack Obama gave birth to it. Instead, I suggest we use "O'BoehnerCare".

2 Despite an overwhelming majority of Americans who believe the border must be secured before any Amnesty or immigration reform is contemplated, John Boehner is secretly pressuring House Republicans to pass the Senate Amnesty bill, even though he publicly claims he's against it.

Senior GOP aides of a super PAC linked to Speaker John Boehner are lobbying House Republicans to pass the Senate “Gang of Eight” immigration bill, legislation that Boehner has said he will not bring to the House floor.

The lobbying effort is coming under the umbrella of the American Action Network, a nonprofit 501(c)(4) “action tank” led by former senator Norm Coleman, which is touting the “major positive economic impact” of the Senate bill in e-mails sent to individual House Republican offices.

AAN is housed in the same office as the Congressional Leadership Fund, a super PAC associated with Boehner, and the two organizations share senior aides, including Brian O. Walsh, the president of both organizations, and Dan Conston, the spokesman for both... Boehner spoke at a fundraiser for CLN earlier this summer and also headlined the organization’s inaugural event. The group’s website has posted links to numerous news stories that refer to the group as “Boehner’s” super PAC.

In other words, John Boehner is lying to the Republican base and is lying to the American people.

Let me put this in words simple enough for even Boehner to understand: you pass this job-destroying Amnesty bill, you will have sealed the fate of the GOP for decades.

You will lose your Speakership -- guaranteed -- and you will then return to the back-bench of the House, having been booted back to minority status. Then you will watch Nancy Pelosi -- or whatever Marxist the Democrats elect -- take the gavel from your nicotine-stained fingers while you cry like a baby that needs a diaper change.

Guaranteed.


Hat tip: Mark Levin.

Larwyn's Linx: GOP Leadership Plan for Continuing Resolution/Obamacare: Meekness or Malice

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Nation

GOP Leadership Plan for CR/Obamacare: Meekness or Malice: Daniel Horowitz
Ted Cruz: “Why Does Obama Want to Shut Down The Government?”: Nice Deb
Is America Inching toward a police state?: Rodrigo Sermeno, PJM

Liberty Amendments: Congressional Term Limits: D.C. McAllister
The Thug Culture That Killed Chris Lane: Arnold Ahlert
Clyburn pulls the Nazi card on Rightwing Bloggers: Samuel Gonzalez

Talk of the Townhalls: Impeachment: Nice Deb
Mark Levin: A Modern-Day Constitutional Prophet: David Limbaugh
Anger Issues: Second City Cop

Economy

"If you're a Democratic UVA employee-this is what you voted for.": Moe Lane
Bond Market Misconceptions, Facts, and Fallacies: Mish
The Top 20 Things Hipsters Could Buy Instead of Obamacare: Emily Zanotti

Scandal Central

DHS worker's ‘Racial Warfare’ website calls for mass murder of whites: BPR
Obama’s HHS: Now Hiring for the Obamacare Police Force: Dean Garrison
89-year-old WWII veteran beaten to death by black teens in Spokane: Scoop

ICE Apologetic for "Rounding Up" Immigrants: David Seminara, CIS
Pat Smith: ‘I want the whole world to know...Hillary lied to my face...[should not] be president’: Scoop
NSA Kills Parody T-Shirt Sales: Moonbattery

Climate & Energy

"Tepco Has Lost Control" - What Is Really Happening At Fukushima In Four Charts: ZH
Al Gore Compares Climate Change Skeptics to Racists, ‘Homophobes’: Bryan Preston
Al Gore Channels Nigel Tufnel: Steve Maley

Media

Beware Al-Jazeera Coming to America: Gatestone
CNN Arabic Corroborates our Report on Obama’s Brother: Shoebat
Ted Cruz has a Message for the Republican Establishment: TPNN

The Perfect Symbol for the Postmodern Left: TAB
Oprah's New Dress Deftly Combines Negative Space and Glans: Ace
Koch brothers will not buy Tribune papers: Dylan Byers

‘What’s going on’ with America’s values?: Lloyd Marcus
Mark Levin slams former McCain aide Nicole Wallace, says Obama should be impeached: Jeff Poor
Allen West Visits Early Presidential Primary State of NH: Shark Tank

World

Russians Inspect Missile Defense Base in California: Bill Gertz
Arab Spring: Worst Soap Ever: Ann Coulter
Obama’s Brother: Muslim Brotherhood Leader?: Raymond Ibrahim

Sci-Tech

Facebook’s latest local venture – breaking into restaurant reservations: Deanna Sandmann, InsideFacebook
With worker retirements looming, IT starts to prepare for a workforce exodus: Fred O'Connor
Coding Practices MUST Be Followed : TheDailyWTF

Cornucopia

In the Shadow of Death: David Yeagley, Bad Eagle
Fundamentally Transforming America, Hip Hop Style: MOTUS
Let It Burn: Ace

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Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: Support the Senate Conservatives Fund

QOTD: "At some point, rank-and-file conservative activists will have to confront an inconvenient reality. The Republicans in Washington are not just dumb or spineless – they are the problem. They don’t share our values and seek to undermine our beliefs. The only way that will change is if we return the favor and thwart their political careers.

Earlier this evening, Speaker John Boehner announced his grand plans for fighting Obamacare in the budget. He will pass a short-term continuing resolution (CR) until some time in December, grouping the new budget deadline with the debt ceiling date, and create another grand end-of-year fiscal cliff. He will fund Obamacare in the short term CR, but by George, he will fight like hell in the debt ceiling battle! " --Daniel Horowitz

Thursday, August 22, 2013

Al Jazeera, "voice of the Muslim Brotherhood", now setting its sights on the United States

Guest post by Cliff Kincaid

Anti-Al Jazeera posters have recently appeared in Egypt saying, “A bullet kills a man, a lying camera kills a nation.” This attitude led to the new government closing the channel, after 22 staffers quit in disgust over its pro-Muslim Brotherhood bias.

Al Jazeera is the voice of the Muslim Brotherhood, the group now laying siege to Egypt and burning Christian churches there.

On Sunday, CNN’s media criticism show “Reliable Sources” featured a discussion of the launch of Al Jazeera America. While Egyptian Christian churches burn because of what the channel has done there, Al Jazeera America was given a warm welcome not only by the American media, but also by the Congress of the United States. This show was no exception.

A good guest would have been Raymond Ibrahim, author of Crucified Again: Exposing Islam’s New War on Christians (2013) and The Al Qaeda Reader (2007). He told AIM, “One thing I can tell: concerning events in Egypt, Al Jazeera has willfully been manipulating truth to the favor of the Brotherhood—even sometimes portraying the very large masses of anti-Morsi protesters as pro-Morsi protesters, and lots of other distortions that violate any code of journalistic [ethics].”

Instead, CNN’s “Reliable Sources” guest host Joanne Lipman invited Michael Calderone of The Huffington Post and Edward Felsenthal of Time.com to discuss the channel. They never once mentioned the words “Muslim Brotherhood.”

Another taboo topic: Al Jazeera’s lobbyists have worked their will on Capitol Hill, pressuring Rep. Michael McCaul (R-TX), chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, not to open hearings into the channel. The emir of Qatar is throwing millions of oil dollars around on Capitol Hill and in the Washington, D.C. area on behalf of his new toy. This is a non-story for most of the U.S. media.

We have come to expect politicians selling out, but the media should tell the truth about the payoffs that have greased the skids for Al Jazeera America.

John Siegenthaler, David Shuster, Soledad O’Brien, Antonio Mora, Joie Chen, Michael Viqueira and Ali Velshi are among the media personalities accepting money from the channel once known as the voice of Osama bin Laden. They are being touted by publications such as Politico as media trailblazers bringing much-needed news and information to a hungry American audience.

One of the most blatant examples of media manipulation, in order to mask the channel’s terrorist roots, is adding “America” to its name in order to confuse viewers. It is still funded by the Jihadist-supporting dictatorial regime of Qatar, which sheltered bin Laden lieutenant and 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed before he went to Pakistan and cut journalist Daniel Pearl’s head off.

And now, a word from our sponsors in Egypt...

At least 37 churches have been torched and dozens of Christians killed as the Muslim Brotherhood exacts revenge for its well-deserved ejection from Egypt's halls of power.

And, through it all, Barack Obama has remained utterly silent. The same man who couldn't stop slamming President Mubarak during a series of relatively mild protests in Tahrir Square has suddenly gone mum.


Where is the president? Where is the man who didn't hesitate to fly to Vegas during a terror attack in Benghazi to decry Republican "obstructionism"?

Where is the man who gives a speech between every golf game?

Hear that sound? Those are crickets.

Oh. And that's a bindle of tumbleweed that just rolled by.


Hat tips: BadBlue News and Marty O Radio Show.

MARK LEVIN TRANSCRIPT: Just How Desperate is the New Obamacare Sales Pitch?

Via Hannity


JOINING ME NOW, THE AUTHOR OF, NUMBER ONE ON AMAZON FOR OVER A WEEK, "THE LIBERTY AMENDMENTS," MARK LEVIN FROM HIS BUNKER.

SIR, HOW ARE YOU?

>> I'M GOOD, HOW ARE YOU, SEAN?

>> I GUESS NEXT THEY'LL BE SINGING SONGS TO CASTRO AFTER THIS, MARK.

>> YEAH, WHY NOT? I MEAN, WE'RE ADOPTING THE CASTRO AGENDA, AREN'T WE? OBAMA CARE IS A -- NOT ONLY IS IT A COMPLETE DISASTER, BUT I'M AFRAID, SEAN, WE'RE NEVER GOING TO GET RID OF IT.

BECAUSE THE REPUBLICANS DON'T WANT TO GET RID OF IT.

AND INSTEAD OF TAKING ON OBAMA AND TAKING ON THE LEFT, THEY'RE TAKING ON THE CONSERVATIVES AND THE CONSTITUTIONALISTS AND ATTACKING THEM, TELLING US TO WAIT UNTIL TOMORROW AND THE NEXT DAY.

THESE FRENCH REPUBLICANS, THEY ARE ALWAYS SURRENDERING.

AND THE FACT OF THE MATTER IS, IF THEY'RE NOT GOING TO ALEAST ATTACK THE DISCRETIONARY FUNDING OR USE THE POWER OF THE PURSE IN THE HOUSE TO PASS A CONTINUING RESOLUTION THAT FUNDS PART OF THE GOVERNMENT, BUT NOT THIS PART OF THE GOVERNMENT, WHAT'S LEFT? ONCE THIS THING IS INSTITUTED, IT'S NOT GOING TO IMPLODE.

I HEAR THIS, OH, THE LAW IS GOING TO IMPLODE.

HAVE YOU EVER HEARD OF AN IMPLODING LAW?

>> NO, NEVER.

>> YOU HAVE TO REPEAL A LAW.

YOU HAVE TO DEFUND A LAW.

LAWS DON'T IMPLODE.

GUEST POST: Chicago so desperate for scratch it's towing citizens' cars for no reason      

Guest post by Corinne

When you park your car in Chicago these days, be extra wary. Do a 360° examination of the premises - any poorly marked crosswalks? Or perhaps a singular construction cone nearby? Maybe, if you're really ignorant, you have a current parking sticker placed a little too close to an expired one on your dash?

Any of these will have you headed in a cab or the 151 Michigan Avenue bus to 400 Lower East Wacker, where the "Dark Knight" car chase scenes were filmed and your poor, innocent sedan now resides. It seems that the city has upped the ante on non-sensical tows and outrageous parking tickets. Look up the evidence for your parking ticket online and you'll usually see a photograph of your license plate. This type of evidence holds up hard in Chi-raq traffic court.


Better yet, citizens heading to work in the morning could have the unique rush of believing one's car was stolen. That, or just some good, old-fashioned Chicago city employee collusion.

"On the morning of August 12th, I came out to a wonderful surprise - my car was gone! I was parked on the corner of Sedgwick and Blackhawk (Right by the Purple/Brown line stop) in a public, free spot that I had parked in on two different occasions. At first, I thought my car was stolen, but I then asked a woman who was parked near my spot if she had seen a white Nissan Sentra get towed. She said that yes, she had seen my car get towed away. She stated that at first I was simply getting a ticket, but then a tow truck happened to be driving by at that exact time, so they decided to tow my car for being parked in the middle of a pedestrian crosswalk.

What turned out to be a $60 ticket ended up costing me another $200 after a fun trip to the depths of LEW. Now, let's be clear: this wasn't hindering anyone's ability to cross the street, and not once on three occasions of parking in this spot had I ever noticed a "crosswalk." There was absolutely no reason for my car to be towed, just another way for the city of Chicago to turn a minor traffic violation into major revenue. Love this city!"

In Chicago, stories like this are less and less unusual. But hey, shouldn't we support any methods that prevent Chi-raq from becoming the next Detroit?


Larwyn's Linx: The RNC's horrific open-borders pandering

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Nation

The RNC's horrific open-borders pandering: Michelle Malkin
IRS Gets Rid of Obamacare Penalties: Erick Erickson
Ben Shapiro: Obamacare designed to fail, bring about single-payer: Breitbart

Hillary 2016? Nope.: Donald Sensing
AFL-CIO not at all happy with White House and ObamaCare: Erika Johnsen
DNC Fundraising Hits the Skids: Byron Tau and Priya Anand, Politico

Economy

NY Down $50 Billion Due to Residents Leaving for Lower-Tax States: MenRec
Union boss: Hey, who's up for a federal bailout of Detroit?: David Freddoso
Beware Warrior Cops: John Stossel

Obamacare: UPS drops coverage for 15,000 spouses: John Hayward
Delta Airlines and the $100 Million Costs of Obamacare: Erick Erickson
ACT: only 1 in 20 African American students 'fully ready' for college: Post

Scandal Central

Report: NSA doesn’t know the extent of Snowden damage: Instapundit
Another Filner Problem for Democrats?: Instapundit
Executive Order – Obama Tells Schools Not To Discipline Black Students: IM41

Media

Universal Nightmare – Will America Survive? – Mark Levin Weighs In: NoisyRm
The Tao of the Pooh-ba: MOTUS
Figures: Media Matters Gushes Over Al Jazeera's Anti-American Propaganda: Jamie Weinstein

Jesse Jackson Goes Out on a Limb: Ed Driscoll
AT&T Sued by Al Jazeera America After It Refuses to Carry the Network: TheBlaze
Michelle Malkin schools Democrat who blames Okla. gun laws for Australian college student shooting: Scoop

James O’Keefe Humiliates Anti-Gun Liberal, Piers Morgan: John Hawkins
Levin’s The Liberty Amendments Will Debut on NYT Bestseller List as #1: Jen Kuznicki
Darrell Issa Tweets Surprising List: Reasons Not To Stop Obamacare: John Hawkins

World

Arab Media: Obama's Secret $8 Billion Deal With The Muslim Brotherhood: JoshuaPundit
Obama’s Jewel of Denial: George Neumayr
Camille Paglia Trashes Hillary For 2016, Says Benghazi Disqualified Her: Glob

If Syria's deadly poison gas attack doesn't cross Obama's 'red line,' what does?: Keith Wagstaff
Why Obama Is Looking More and More Like Jimmy Carter: JWF
White House Spokesman on Obama's "Red Line": “I didn’t bring my red pen out today...": FreeLight

Sci-Tech

The Internet’s 9 Most Hated Companies: Brian Ries
Bowflex Boost fitness band coming to market in September for $50: Zachary Lutz
German IT officials reportedly deem Windows 8 too ‘dangerous’ to use: Brad Reed

Cornucopia

Elmore Leonard, Cowboy: Steven Malanga
Remember When Democrats Abhorred Federal Debt?: IMAO
Now a Word From Obama on the Chris Lane Killing: Moonbattery

Image: Syrian activists accuse government of deadly chemical attack near Damascus
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QOTD: "In Alabama, there's now a law that any student in one of the state's 78 failing schools may be permitted to escape to a non-failing school. $3,500 is provided as partial (or full) payment of any costs that might be associated with such a move.

The Southern Poverty Law Center is suing the state to block this scheme.

Why? Well, actually, because they are simply creatures of the left and are doing a solid for the most important constituency of the left, Government School Union Teachers (and the bad ones, too, because the good ones have less need of union bargaining power).

But their stated claim is this: They found eight families who say $3500 isn't enough to get their kids the help they need and hence the law is "discriminatory," and ergo is unconstitutional.

So all children must continue to suffer with those eight." --Ace o' Spades

Wednesday, August 21, 2013

Obama silent as Egyptian Christians suffer a Kristallnacht at the hands of his Muslim Brotherhood allies

Guest post by Investors Business Daily


Mideast: Christians in Egypt are again the target of Islamist Muslim Brotherhood supporters using the new violence as a cover for ongoing persecution. If Christians were burning mosques, the world would be outraged.

Amid the raging violence in Egypt, a less-publicized war is being waged against Egypt's long-persecuted Coptic Christians, this time using the excuse that they were somehow involved in the military's ouster of the Muslim Brotherhood's Mohammed Morsi from power.

Coptic Christians comprise up to 10% of Egypt's 84 million people.

Ishaq Ibrahim from the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights group has documented as many as 39 incidents of violence against churches, monasteries, Coptic schools and shops in different parts of the country within the past few days. They include Thursday's torching of the Prince Tadros Church in the province of Fayoum, where three similar attacks occurred on other churches the day before.

Islamists firebombed the Mar Gergiss Church in Sohag, a city with a large community of Coptic Christians, burning it to the ground. Islamists previously raised an al-Qaida flag over the church.

Another two places of worship, the Churches of Abraham and the Virgin Mary, were attacked in El-Menia province, leaving them partially damaged by fire. St. Theresa Church in Assiut in Upper Egypt was also burned.

It was on May 8, 2011, when Islamists stormed and set ablaze that same Virgin Mary Church in Cairo, shouting: "With our blood and soul, we will defend you, Islam." At that time they also burned down nearby homes occupied by Coptic families, killing a dozen people and wounding more than 200.