Friday, September 20, 2013

WARMAL COLDING HORROR: Arctic Ice Cap Grows 60% in a Year

I'm so confused. I thought all of humankind's reckless breathing -- you know, exhaling all of that poisonous, toxic CO2 -- was supposed to cause global warming. Instead, it looks like we're heading for another Ice Age:

A chilly Arctic summer has left nearly a million more square miles of ocean covered with ice than at the same time last year – an increase of 60 per cent.


The rebound from 2012’s record low comes [just] six years after the BBC reported that global warming would leave the Arctic ice-free in summer by 2013.


...Some eminent scientists now believe the world is heading for a period of cooling that will not end until the middle of this century – a process that would expose computer forecasts of imminent catastrophic warming as dangerously misleading...

The fraud is becoming more and more obvious. The Associated Press obtained emails that prove the entire global warming religious order is in disarray:

Scientists working on a landmark U.N. report on climate change are struggling to explain why global warming appears to have slowed down in the past 15 years even though greenhouse gas emissions keep rising.

Leaked documents obtained by The Associated Press show there are deep concerns among governments over how to address the issue ahead of next week's meeting of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

Policy makers appear to be lobbying the IPCC (the UN body working on the report) to do whatever it takes to make the lack of a warming trend disappear.

The science is settled, you see. Just ignore the growing ice caps, the chilly summers, and the hubris required to believe that man can impact the climate more than the sun, volcanoes and dust storms.

Just ignore all that. The masterminds have a Soviet-style industrial policy in mind, you see, and no power on Earth can stop them. Not facts, not logic, not reason. Not history, not experience, not common sense.

The central planners seek power, money and -- most of all -- control. And they will not be dissuaded unless we the people stand up in 2014 and crush them at the ballot box. It's not too late. Yet.


Hat tip: BadBlue News.

Karl Rove, the Bernie Madoff of the Republican Establishment, Gets Pimp-Slapped by Tom Delay on Defunding Fight

In all of American history, has there ever been a bigger campaign fundraising failure than Karl Rove?

Look at it only in terms of dollars wasted during a single election cycle. In 2012 alone, Rove torched $400 million on losing candidates, if Donald Trump's estimate is accurate.

As if that record wasn't enough, Rove's bizarre attacks on conservative candidates helped suppress the vote. Millions of members of the conservative base, discouraged by a squishy moderate presidential candidate and lack of a coherent attack on a failed president, boycotted the 2012 election.

Now Rove is attacking principled conservatives like Ted Cruz and Mike Lee; these are men who have actually taken a stand to stop the disastrous onset of Obamacare. As October 1st nears, hospitals are shedding jobs, full-time workers are being transitioned to part-time, and those with coverage are losing their coverage. State exchanges aren't ready for prime time, and the entire system is headed for a very ugly collapse.

This isn't a game! This is about right and wrong! This is about preserving the American Republic!

And Rove attacks those who are standing with the American people, claiming the threat of a government shutdown over defunding Obamacare is a losing proposition.

As usual Rove is dead wrong. During the last government shutdown, when a conservative House smacked Bill Clinton around and forced him to balance the budget, Delay was the House Majority Whip. He was there. Rove was not. He knows what transpired. Rove does not.

Interviewed on yesterday's Mark Levin show, Delay patiently explained to listeners -- using small words for Rove and his apparatchik Dana Perino -- the awesome benefits the Republicans accrued by standing up to Bill Clinton.

Levin: Now we're fighting over principle in the House [regarding defunding Obamacare] and your Senator is really one of the bright spots. He's one of the leaders of the Constitutional conservatives and he's under assault and not just by the Left, Tom Delay, not just by the Democrats, but by Republicans! What do you say about that?

Delay: I'm saddened by the Republicans attacking him, he's doing what he thinks is right, frankly, he's doing the right thing. I expect it from the Democrats, I mean the House changed their position, so he's having an impact.

Levin: And you can't win all these fights, can you?

Delay: No, you can't win them all, but you pick the ones you can win. In fact, you gotta fight! You gotta fight!

...Not only is Obamacare worth fighting over, it is a perfect political situation! It's great politics! Americans want Obamacare out of there. And when you can set up a situation where the Continuing Resolution, that funds the federal government, but doesn't fund Obamacare... then the whole issue is on Obamacare, where it needs to be!

Levin: Well, I'm troubled by so-called conservative media, too... it's like they're waging war against the conservatives... they're waging war against the base! That's kind of crazy, don't you think?

Delay: I have to tell you, I've been out there in the real world. And if the Republicans don't energize the base, they're going to have a hard time next year in the elections. Nothing energizes the base like a good fight -- and a good fight for the right reasons.

I've got to tell you, I was with a bunch of people that aren't connected to [DC] when it was reported that the House was moving in a different direction [to defund Obamacare in the Continuing Resolution]... and I've never seen such energy in these people...

Levin: What happened when the federal government shut down in 1995? Who won that?

Delay: It was the most important thing we ever did. I was there, I was the Majority Whip. We had sent the president [Clinton] a Continuing Resolution; we had cut 100 agencies, offices and programs under the Contract With America. And, of course, he didn't like that.

He vetoes the bill and shuts down the government. It was the best thing we ever did.

And we were 21 days fighting, which gave us the opportunity to explain to the American people, to tell our story, and the most important part was we took on the president.

And we used the leverage of the Constitutional power of the purse. And, unfortunately, Bob Dole went down on a Sunday afternoon and opened up the government, but even Clinton admitted that if we'd lasted one more day, he would have caved.

But the point is: we sent a signal to the President. This new majority will take you over the cliff. We're crazy. And the result of that was: for six years, Bill Clinton did not get to sign one major bill he initiated. Everything he signed -- he vetoed welfare reform twice and the balanced budget twice -- but then he took credit for them, but everything he signed was generated by the power of the purse out of the House of Representatives.

And the politics was great! I don't know where they [Rove and company] get that we took it on the chin as Republicans because we stood up and fought. We gained two or three Senate seats in the next election and we only lost a few House seats [retaining a huge majority].

Levin: Yep, we have Republicans [like Rove] rewriting history and it's a stunning thing.

As for Ted Cruz, the distinguished Senator from Texas has offered to debate Rove on his tactics for defunding Obamacare. Suffice it to say that Cruz will hear only crickets because Rove is a complete failure.


Rove is successful at fundraising, but his political track record is one only the '62 Mets could envy.

Rove is the Bernie Madoff of the Republican establishment. Anyone who sends him a single dollar might as well be lighting cigars with the money.


Hat tip: BadBlue News.

Larwyn's Linx: Spot-on Boehner video crucifies Obama: Who won’t he negotiate with?

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Nation

Spot-on Boehner video crucifies Obama: Who won’t he negotiate with?: Twitchy
Stuff That Will Cause Fights: Ace
You Don’t Need Permission from the State to Carry a Gun: Outcast

Michelle’s Food Marketing 101: The Hidden Persuaders: MOTUS
“Tom DeLay money laundering verdict overturned”: Protein Wisdom
"How to Ban Guns: A step by step, long term process": David Hardy

NC Dems Wage War on Conservative Women: Twitchy
#ShutUppery and the Drums of #WAR: Lady Liberty
Peeping Toms: Cannibal

Economy

Surprise: Obama lying about the debt ceiling: Michelle Malkin
Jeb Bush’s Latest Common Core Snit Fit: Michelle Malkin
Don’t tell mom the babysitter’s unionized: Katy Grimes

U.S. Makes $1.2 Bil in Disability “Overpayments”: JW
Obama defies Congress, keeps illegal position filled: Outcast
Minimum Wage Laws: Immoral, Crippling, and... Popular: Ari Armstrong

Scandal Central

Gowdy GRILLS Mullen on failing to interview Hillary Clinton over Benghazi: Scoop
Pickering: I’m proud of the Hillary Benghazi whitewash report we produced: Unyielding
Darrell Issa: Dems ‘excuse themselves’ from testimony by Benghazi family members: Twitchy

Issa: Obama's SOTU Attack on Supremes Began Tea Party Targeting Process: Nice Deb
Issa “Dead Serious” About Issuing Possible Subpoena To Hillary Clinton: Fox Nation
Adm. Mullen Admits Special Ops Told to 'Hold in Place' During Benghazi: Tony Lee

Climate & Energy

Remember when Obama promised to bankrupt coal? That’s tomorrow.: Ben Howe
New Climate Study Blows Away Anthropogenic Causation: RWN
Obama White House Rolls Out Tough New Climate-Change Rules: Coral Davenport

Media

Yes, people were dying in a gunfight across town, but Obama had a speech to give: Andrew Malcolm
Explosive BBC Claim: CERT unit at Navy Yard told to stand down as shooter raged: Bearing Arms
I Get Email: Protein Wisdom

LISTEN: Mark Levin on Glenn Beck’s Radio Show to discuss The Liberty Amendments: Scoop
Washington Post has a real problem with… Terry McAuliffe at the NVTC.: Moe Lane
Hannity Wins: Liberals Humiliated: Jeffrey Lord

IRS Flagged Groups for 'Anti-Obama Rhetoric,' Big Three Refuse to Report: Geoffrey Dickens
Is This Still the America We Thought We Knew?: David Limbaugh
UPS Opens Up New, Helpful Service for Fraudsters: iOTW

World

FBI Officials Met and Coordinated With Employees of Group Tied to Islamic Terrorist Groups: WFB
Congressman Wolf Demands FBI Punish Agents For CAIR Contact: IPT
The End of Barry Obama: Bad Eagle

Admiral re-asserts possibility Benghazi about Blind Sheikh: Shoebat
Benghazi Victim’s Mother: Obama, Clinton, and Biden Lied To Me: WFB
Soldiers of Islam Biker Gang Terrorizes Australia’s Gold Coast: Daniel Greenfield

Sci-Tech

So, Linus Torvalds: Did US spooks demand a backdoor in Linux? 'Yes': John Leyden
The Secret of iOS 7: I, Cringely
Google smacks Surface with free Quickoffice for Android, iOS: Simon Sharwood

Cornucopia

List of Democrats Who Walked Out on Benghazi Families: Protein Wisdom
Thank you! Thank you!: Sondrakistan
End of the Republic: Act Well Your Part

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QOTD: "A chilly Arctic summer has left nearly a million more square miles of ocean covered with ice than at the same time last year – an increase of 60 per cent...

...Some eminent scientists now believe the world is heading for a period of cooling that will not end until the middle of this century – a process that would expose computer forecasts of imminent catastrophic warming as dangerously misleading." --Mail Online

Thursday, September 19, 2013

Democrats: Military never told to "stand down" during Benghazi attacks, they were just ordered to "hold in place"

Bradley Klapper of ABC News (if that is his real name) is busy doing what reporters for ABC News do best: protect guilty Democrats:

House Democrats concluded Thursday the U.S. military wasn't ordered to "stand down" during last year's attack on a diplomatic post in Benghazi, Libya, rejecting Republican claims the Obama administration held back military assets while Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans were killed... Democrats called accusations of a stand-down order during the attack "unfounded."

Let me reiterate: Democrats insist the U.S. military wasn't ordered to "stand down" as a U.S. consulate was attacked by terrorists and America's best and bravest were bleeding, fighting and dying.

Back in Realityville, the actual testimony went like this:

Testifying before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, Admiral Mike Mullen said that the direction given to Special Operations Command Africa commander Lt. Col Gibson was to "hold in place" on the night of the attacks.

Gibson is the boss of Gregory Hicks, the former deputy chief of mission in Libya who had testified that a "stand down" order was given to Special Forces who wanted to help Americans who were under assault in Libya.

So if you're Bradley Klapper of ABC News, ordering Special Ops to "hold in place" isn't the same as ordering them to "stand down."

Right.

These people are the lowest of the low.


Hat tip: BadBlue News Service.

ATROCIOUS: Democrats Walk Out on Families of Benghazi Victims

The words "appalling" and outrageous" don't begin to describe this kind of behavior.

Darryl Issa has tweeted out one of the most appalling photographs I’ve ever seen emerge from the United States House of Representatives.

Today, the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee held a hearing about events in Benghazi on September 11, 2012. You remember what happened on that day, don’t you? If you don’t, I’m happy to give you the official Obama administration version:

That was the day that a Libyan movie review got a little bit out of control. Apparently, Libyan fighters, coincidentally affiliated with Al Qaeda, took umbrage at a poorly made seven minute YouTube trailer promoting a movie that was never actually made about Muhammad’s life. Since Libya has no popcorn to throw at the screen, these same outraged movie critics inadvertently managed to overwhelm our under-guarded diplomatic mission in Benghazi, killing Ambassador Christopher Stevens (and perhaps torturing him before doing so), as well as U.S. Foreign Service Information Management Officer, Sean Smith.

The same crazed movie reviewers then shifted their attack to the nearby CIA Annex where they engaged in a several-hour-long firefight with former Navy SEALS Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty. Both men died at their stations.

Meanwhile, back at home, some unknown person, but definitely not Barack Obama (even though he had sole authority to do so), told nearby troops to stand down. Also, after a single phone call early in the attack, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was sufficiently well informed about everything to vanish from the scene entirely (and really, what difference at that point, did it make?),.. As for Barack Obama, well, he really did need his beauty sleep before an upcoming Las Vegas campaign stop.

...In sum, the incompetence of a Democrat administration left a U.S. outpost vulnerable to a terrorist attack; that same Democrat administration could not be bothered to rouse itself to protect Americans fighting for their lives in a tiny outpost of America on foreign soil; and the Democrat administration then tried to cover-up its gross dereliction of duty by lying consistently in the days and weeks following the attack. Other than that, of course, the Democrats have nothing to be ashamed of when it comes to events in Benghazi.

The Democrats’ sordid Benghazi history may explain a shocking tweet that Rep. Darryl Issa sent out two hours ago right before Patricia Smith, who is Sean Smith’s mother, and Charles Woods, who is Tyrone Woods’ father, were to have testified about their sons’ lives and deaths:
Townhall explains what you’re looking at:
The far side of the room, shown empty in the photo, belongs to the Democrats. The only Democrats who stayed were Ranking Member Elijah Cummings and Rep. Jackie Speier.
Absent further information about this mass retreat, it appears that the Democrats, having presided over these men’s deaths, do not have the decency to look their survivors in the face, if only to apologize.

It's a cover-up.

That's why we can't find out what Obama was doing for nine hours after he found out the Ambassador and the consulate were under attack. Why is it so hard for the press to ask that question?

It's always been a cover-up.


OUCH: Well THIS is Inconvenient Timing for the Sacramento Bee's Pro-Obamacare Op-Ed

While I'm sure you've never heard of it, the Sacramento Bee is purportedly a newspaper and website serving as the unofficial public relations arm of the California Democrat Party.

In a hysterically ill-timed op-ed, today's Bee featured a whiny, half-witted attack on the GOP for honoring the will of the people.

House Republican leaders have shown how far they are willing to go to cave to the tea party faction. They signaled on Wednesday that they are willing to shut down the federal government if they don’t get their pipe dream to defund Obamacare...

Well, if it's a pipe dream, geniuses, then why waste your breath whining about it?

They simply are unwilling to acknowledge that the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, which they call Obamacare, is the law of the land.

The law of the land? Wait: is that the same law of the land that Barack Obama continually rewrites, issuing waivers, exemptions and exceptions to his favored constituencies and donors?

Well, if Obama can change it, why can't the Republicans? Don't you believe in equal rights?

Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., showed how parochial and ideological the tea party faction has become. Massie told The Washington Post: “All that really matters is what my district wants. And my district is overwhelmingly in favor of my position.” ... clearly, making insurance affordable for Americans across the nation is not a priority.

In a stunning coincidence, California Health Line Magazine reports that problems with the state's Obamacare exchanges will crush the poor, especially African-American and Hispanic families.

...provider networks offered through exchange plans could result in policyholders facing:

Longer wait times for care;
Fewer specialists; and
The loss of a long-time doctor.

For example, ... policyholders who purchase a Health Net exchange plan will have access to less than one-third of the insurer's network of providers for employer-based plans. In addition, Blue Shield of California's exchange plans will include only 50% of the insurer's usual provider network.

Some exchange plans also will exclude certain large hospitals... Health care provider groups are concerned that the limited networks will make it more difficult for patients to access care, especially in Latino and African American communities that historically have been underserved...

...Donald Crane -- CEO of the California Association of Physician Groups -- said the organization is "nervous about these narrow networks," adding, "It was all about price. But at what cost in terms of quality and access?"

The California Medical Association said that the state has underestimated the problems facing policyholders and that the group doubts the state's claim that 80% of California physicians will be included in exchange plans.

The only rational explanation I can come up with is that the Sacramento Bee wants crappy health care for minorities.

The entire Obamacare exchange system is fatally flawed. It's a masterpiece of central planning, which is to say it is a Soviet-style disaster. The faster it gets destroyed, the better.


Hat tip: BadBlue News Service.

Larwyn's Linx: Mark Levin’s epic monologue: GOP being forced to defund Obamacare

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Nation

Mark Levin’s epic monologue: GOP being forced to defund Obamacare: Scoop
The Cries of the House GOP Staffers and Congressmen: Erick Erickson
Mike Lee and Ted Cruz applaud Boehner for standing with the people: Scoop

Wussypants Republicans Hate Ted Cruz and We Hate Them Back: AWD
‘Fake Scandal’ Update: IRS Targeted ‘Anti-Obama Rhetoric’: Stephen Kruiser
Conservatives, Your President Hates You: Keith Koffler

Trainwreck: Cold Fury
21 Firsts Under Mr. Obama That Will Shock You: Sara Noble
Connecticut judge declares ‘No one should have guns’: David Codrea

Economy

Mark Knoller slams Obama talking points on debt ceiling: Twitchy
Student Indoctrination: Walter Williams
Frustrated Dems Increasingly Defying Obama: Instapundit

Former Auto Czar Admits Telling GM to Selectively Fund Pensions: PJM
Cleveland Clinic cuts 3,000 jobs thanks to Obamacare: FAM
CBS: Walgreens boots 160,000 employees to private health plans: Scoop

High School Uses AP History Book That Rewrites Second Amendment: RWN
ABC's Jon Karl Pimp-Slaps Jay Carney: Obama's Threatening Default: Breitbart
Why Obama Allowed Bailouts Without Indictments: ZH

Scandal Central

Former U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald guilty of “obstruction of justice” and lying to the court?: IP2P
4 Million Rounds Of Ammunition A Year For An Agency That Won’t Enforce Immigration Law: Prepper Podcast
Pressure Builds on Boehner Over Benghazi: Cliff Kincaid

Climate & Energy

Washers That Don’t Wash and Dryers That Don’t Dry: Jon Gabriel
California poised to become first state to impose full ban on lead bullets: Fox
Action by EPA on biofuels could head off legislation: lawmaker: Ayesha Rascoe

Media

Coddling the Mentally Ill Isn’t Helping Them: Ed Driscoll
Oh, my: Eric Boehlert faced with Shock and Awe on Twitter: Instapundit
Keith Olbermann’s Old Habits Die Hard: Glob

Zimmerman prosecutor Angela Corey now under state investigation: Times
Hannity Fights Beckel Over Tea Party Targeting: ‘The Foundation of Tyranny’: Josh Feldman
Fox News fail! Howard Kurtz defends media’s anti gun agenda: FAM

World

50 Shades of Treason: Terresa Monroe-Hamilton
Axis of Obama: Greg Lewis
Gates, Panetta question Obama's Syria strategy: ArmyTimes

Kennedy: Libya Is Not Allowing U.S. Law Enforcement to Enter Country and Arrest People: WFB
Not a Single Terrorist Brought to Justice for Benghazi Attack: JW
Kassam rocket hits southern Israel: Times of Israel

Sci-Tech

How The U.S. Military Plans To Hijack The Airwaves: Michael Peck
Bentley’s $240,000 Flying Spur Muffles World at 200 MPH: Jason H. Harper
Latest IE 0-day insight: Background, severity and solutions: Ross Barrett

Cornucopia

Is OFA fundraising off the Washington Navy Yard massacre?: Twitchy
Full Text of Obama’s Speech Against Raising the Debt Ceiling in 2006: RS
Gun rights group sues Colorado governor over new laws: Fox

Image: Obama will be worse than Nixon on press freedom: Former NYT lawyer
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QOTD: "I rise today to talk about America’s debt problem.

The fact that we are here today to debate raising America’s debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. It is a sign that the U.S. Government can’t pay its own bills. It is a sign that we now depend on ongoing financial assistance from foreign countries to finance our Government’s reckless fiscal policies...

...This year, the Federal Government will spend $220 billion on interest. That is more money to pay interest on our national debt than we’ll spend on Medicaid and the State Children’s Health Insurance Program. That is more money to pay interest on our debt this year than we will spend on education, homeland security, transportation, and veterans benefits combined...

...That is why I will once again cosponsor the Pay-go amendment and continue to hope that my colleagues will return to a smart rule that has worked in the past and can work again." --Sen. Barack Obama, March 16, 2006

Wednesday, September 18, 2013

Pressure Builds on Boehner Over Benghazi

Guest post by Cliff Kincaid

Informed speculation mounted at Monday’s Accuracy in Media conference, which officially launched the Citizens’ Commission on Benghazi, that House Speaker John Boehner’s opposition to a Watergate-style congressional committee to investigate Benghazi stems from his knowledge of arms shipments to al-Qaeda terrorists in Libya and Syria.

The al-Qaeda terrorist attack on the American diplomatic mission at Benghazi, in Libya, on September 11, 2012, resulted in the deaths of four Americans, who were left to die, rather than be rescued, and has been called by some the “Benghazi Betrayal.”

The dead were U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens, American diplomat Sean Smith, and State Department security officers Glen Doherty and Tyrone S. Woods.

Coming just eight weeks before the 2012 presidential election, the Obama administration falsely blamed the attack on a spontaneous reaction to a video critical of Islam, rather than blaming it on al Qaeda.

Charles Woods spoke with emotion at the AIM conference about the loss of his son and asked for people not only to press for answers as to what really happened at Benghazi, but to pray for the country.

Christopher Farrell, Director of Investigations and Research for Judicial Watch, said at the conference that Obama’s lies and distortions about the attack are designed to obscure the central truth that the administration was arming al Qaeda.

“That’s what they don’t want broadcast or printed anywhere,” he said.

As incredible as it sounds, former CIA officer Clare Lopez said support for al Qaeda, the Muslim Brotherhood, and other Islamists groups has become the official foreign policy of the United States under Obama. She said the policy has been on display in Libya, Egypt, Syria, and the United Nations, through the Organization of Islamic Cooperation.

ABC'S JON KARL: It's the White House that's threatening default, not House Republicans

Kudos to ABC's Jonathan Karl for pointing out the utter hypocrisy of the White House position on the debt ceiling, i.e., we refuse to negotiate, so it's you who's being unreasonable.

ABC's Jon Karl: The president's position is: he will not negotiate over the debt ceiling --

Jay Carney: Correct.

ABC's Jon Karl: How is that tenable? The White House is willing to risk default?

Jay Carney: The White House is not -- here's the thing -- Jon --

ABC's Jon Karl: You're saying you won't even negotiate with Republicans on this issue! How is that tenable?

And this exchange simply reinforces the idiocy of the nincompoop class of political commentators: yes, I'm looking at you, David Brooks and you, Colin Powell.

Brooks, of course, is the faux conservative employed by the failing periodical known as the New York Times. Brooks makes a living slamming principled conservatives like Ted Cruz:

[Cruz is] a media-protest person. And a lot of the House Republicans are in the same mode. They’re not normal members of Congress. They’re not legislators. They want to stop things. And so they’re just being — they just want to obstruct.

They just want to obstruct?

Hey, schmuck: we have a president who refuses to negotiate any aspect of the federal budget, even as his own Government Accountability Office, Office of Management and Budget, Congressional Research Service, and the trustees of Medicare and Social Security all warn that the system is collapsing.

That the debts are unsustainable.

That we risk economic collapse.

This is his own government, yet he refuses to negotiate cutting a single penny from the massive waste and fraud in the federal government.

And you dare to attack Ted Cruz?

David Brooks, you're a freaking disgrace. Take a page from men like Jon Karl, who has demonstrated more intellectual honesty in a single sentence than you've shown us in decades.

You are truly a pathetic, disgusting little man.


Hat tip: BadBlue News Service.

OH, MY: Washington Post Approvingly Describes the Possible Impeachment of the President

Same crimes, different era:

Judiciary Committee Approves Article to Impeach President Nixon


By Richard Lyons and William Chapman
Washington Post Staff Writers
Sunday, July 28, 1974; Page A01

The House Judiciary Committee took the momentous step last night of recommending that the president of the United States be impeached and removed from office... The first such impeachment recommendation in more than a century, it charges President Nixon with unlawful activities that formed a "course of conduct or plan" to obstruct the investigation of the Watergate break-in and to cover up other unlawful activities...

...[Some] are most concerned about allegations that Mr. Nixon misused such sensitive agencies as the Internal Revenue Service and the Central Intelligence Agency for political purposes.

Others are most concerned about Mr. Nixon's defiance of committee subpoenas, which is now included in Article II as a contempt of Congress count, but may be broken out into a separate article...

Substitute Benghazi for Watergate break-in and NSA for CIA and the story could have been written yesterday.

As for abuse of the Internal Revenue Service for political ends, it is now exceedingly clear that the White House had its hand in targeting Tea Party and conservative groups:

Newly uncovered IRS documents show the agency flagged political groups based on the content of their literature, raising concerns specifically about ”anti-Obama rhetoric,” inflammatory language and “emotional” statements made by non-profits seeking tax-exempt status.

The 2011 date has one interesting parallel. Two years ago (almost to the day), the White House rolled out its own version of a lèse-majesté intimidation mechanism — “Attack Watch.” That didn’t last long in the sunlight, after widespread criticism and derision forced the White House to shelve it, although the Obama campaign tried to bring it back in February 2012 as the “Truth Team.”

So, did the IRS just feel inspired by Attack Watch, or did the White House just transfer the effort? The date on the IRS document is November 16, 2011, well after Attack Watch became more or less moribund in the public eye.


As Ed Morrissey concludes his analysis:

When the IRS starts targeting political dissent for scrutiny, they have stopped being a revenue collector and have become instead a political enforcer. That’s dangerous for all Americans, and Congress needs to demand and enforce immediate reform in the IRS. They also need to find out who ordered the targeting, regardless of how high up it goes.

This is yet another reason to defund Obamacare. We need answers. We need reform. And need an accountable IRS that can be trusted to handle Americans' health care data without using it for political purposes.

Furthermore, it is now painfully clear that IRS officials -- including Lois Lerner and Steven Miller -- lied to Congress, blatantly and repeatedly, when questioned about these partisan activities.

So what are you going to do about it, Chairman Issa? Are you going to bray and delay? Or are you going to act?


Hat tip: BadBlue News Service

Larwyn's Linx: Biker Ride to DC: One Biker’s Story

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Nation

Biker Ride to DC: One Biker’s Story: MagNote
Dear Corporate America: Sultan Knish
Freedom of the Press is now an Entitlement?: T. F. Stern

House to Vote on Defunding Obamacare: Robert Costa
Obamacare and the GOP’s Negotiation Crisis: Dan McLaughlin
51% Favor Govt. Shutdown Until Congress Defunds Obamacare: Rasmussen

The cops at Ohio State have an armored fighting vehicle now: Eric Owens
Another 250 Million Rounds Of Ammunition For An Agency: Prepper Podcast
Surprise: Navy Shooter a big Obama fan: Scoop

Economy

New CBO debt study is way worse than the media is telling you: James Pethokoukis
California passes ‘job killer’ increase in minimum wage to $10: BPR
House GOP Leaders Question Holder Over School Voucher Suit: Emma Dumain

California teachers taught how to dump unions, get rebates on dues: Steve Gunn
Average Chicago household owes $83,000 for City Hall debt: Greg Hinz
‘Is LSD covered?’: Twitchy

Scandal Central

CIA Director John Brennan has a new Benghazi problem: Shoebat
Lois Lerner + Malik Obama = White House IRS Scandal: Shoebat
IRS workers turn to elite D.C. lawyers for defense: Lauren French

Climate & Energy

Another Obama-funded Green Energy Company Nears Bankruptcy: Breitbart
EPA Gets Go-Ahead for Pollution Plan: Farm Bureau
EPA regulations keep condemned homes from being demolished in Pasco County: Erik Waxler

Media

So Let’s Talk About Mental Illness And Guns: Glob
Facebook Allows Hate Speech Against Jews -- And No Other Groups -- to Proliferate Online: Algemeiner
Fox News announces new prime-time lineup: Megyn Kelly at 9 PM for “The Kelly File”: Scoop

Who’s a ‘Bully,’ @GregFlynn? Democrat Operative Targets North Carolina Mom: R. S. McCain
Mystery Solved! ‘Standard Issue Journalist Glasses’ Explain Why AR-15s Seen Everywhere: Sooper
Townhall Dropped the Ball: George Rasley

Attention, BuzzFeed: The NRA Tweeted Today, Schmucks.: Brian Carey
Obama on plummeting approval numbers for Obamacare: everyone is wrong: WZ
The Ghoulish Glee Of The Gun Control Lobby: RS

World

Is the west mug enough to fall for this? (Don’t all answer at once): Melanie Phillips
Question of the Day: Impeachment for Treason a Real Possibility?: AWD
"When guns are outlawed, plumbers will build them in the basement.": Sipsey Street Irregulars

Tennessee high school students visit mosque, get Qur'an -- not visiting church or synagogue: JihadWatch
Brotherhood dug their own grave — analyst: Ayman Sharaf, GulfNews
Mark Levin's Liberty Amendments: John Hayward

Sci-Tech

The NSA Is Also Grabbing Millions Of Credit Card Records: TechDirt
10 Startups the CIA Has Invested In: Jeremy Wilson
Top 20 colleges for computer science majors, based on earning potential: Ann Bednarz, IT News

Cornucopia

Aaron Alexis Didn’t Kill those People on His Own; His Gun Did that For Him: MOTUS
Of Mice and Men: Who Let All the Vermin Into the White House? : MOTUS
This Animated How An Engine Works Infographic Is Just Great: Jalopnik

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Tuesday, September 17, 2013

A Journalist's Guide to Identifying Firearms

Via @MikeKMorrison:


As William A. Jacobson observes, "Don’t trust media reports for at least 24 hours."

Or ever.


A single county in the U.S. spends more than $2 billion a year on benefits for illegal aliens

But I'm sure the taxpayers of Los Angeles County don't mind. After all, they most certainly don't need the money themselves.

A projected $650 million in welfare benefits will be distributed to illegal alien parents in 2013, county officials said Monday.

Supervisor Michael D. Antonovich announced the latest figures from the Department of Public Social Services, which showed more than $376 million in CalWORKs benefits and food stamps combined have been distributed through July to illegal alien parents for their native-born children.

Approximately $54 million in welfare payments are issued each month, consisting of nearly $20 million in CalWORKs and $34 million in food stamp issuances, according to the data.

An estimated 100,000 children of 60,000 undocumented parents receive aid in Los Angeles County, according to Antonovich, who said this year’s projections — up about $1 million from the nearly $53 million in total benefits issued in July 2012 — underscore the economic impact of the nation’s immigration debate.

“When you add the $550 million for public safety and nearly $500 million for healthcare, the total cost for illegal immigrants to county taxpayers exceeds $1.6 billion dollars a year,” Antonovich said in a statement. “These costs do not even include the hundreds of millions of dollars spent annually for education.”

With education added in, it's safe to say that the county is spending upwards of $2 billion a year supporting illegal aliens.

So each taxpaying household in the county is spending $1,200 a year -- $100 each and every month -- supporting illegal aliens. But I'm sure there's nothing else they'd rather spend that money on.


Hat tip: Lee.

OH, GOODY! Obamacare forces doctors to ask patients about their sexual behavior and share that data with the feds

Guest post by Eric Boehm

Thanks to new regulations that are part of the federal Affordable Care Act, patients will be asked to disclose more personal information to their doctors — including how often they have sex and how with how many sexual partners.

And once they do, it won’t really be personal information any more.

One provision of the new Obamacare law will have doctors asking their patients about their sex lives and history of drug use, even if such information is completely unrelated to why the patient is seeking medical treatment, according to a report in Monday’s New York Post.

Christina Sandefur, a lawyer for the Goldwater Institute, an Arizona-based conservative think tank challenging the Affordable Care Act in federal court, said the arrangement is a violation of patients’ privacy rights.

“Once you’ve shared your information with a private third party, the Supreme Court has ruled that is fair game for the government,” she told Watchdog.org, noting the recent disclosures of data sharing between the National Security Agency and Google, Facebook and other online services.

Doctors and hospitals who refuse to participate could be cut-off from some federal funds, and individuals who decline to share sensitive information may have to pay the fines — taxes, according to the Supreme Court — outlined in the federal health care law.

Hey, Remember the Jackass That Turned America's Military Bases into "Gun-Free Zones"?

Guest post by Investors Business Daily


Security: As the usual suspects call for stricter gun control, the fact remains that a gunman with two prior gun-crime arrests entered a secure military facility with a stolen ID and found no one able to shoot back.

It was Fort Hood all over again. Aaron Alexis, a gunman whose prior behavioral warning signs were ignored, opens fire in an installation belonging to the most powerful military on Earth and those who protect our nation and design our weapons are not allowed to have a weapon to defend themselves.

He was more equipped than the 12 people he killed on the base who were not permitted to carry weapons on the base, thanks to former President Bill Clinton.

In 1993 the president issued orders that barred members of the military and their civilian contractors from carrying personal firearms on base. Even officers were disarmed under the law.

Almost as soon as Clinton assumed office, in March 1993 the Army imposed regulations forbidding military personnel from carrying their personal firearms and making it almost impossible for commanders to issue firearms to soldiers in the U.S. for personal protection.

That ban extends to virtually all U.S military bases and related installations.

Under the ruling enacted by the Clinton administration, there must be "a credible and specific threat against personnel" before military personnel "may be authorized to carry firearms for personal protection."

This was the reason that the Fort Hood shooter Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan was able to go on a rampage for a full 10 minutes in 2009 without being stopped.

This is why, at Fort Hood, home of the heavily armed and feared 1st Cavalry Division, a civilian policewoman from off base was the one whose marksmanship ended Hasan's terrorist rampage, to this day obscenely called "workplace violence," denying survivors and the dead medals and benefits.

Larwyn's Linx: Gun Free Zones And The Disregard For Human Life

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Nation

Gun Free Zones And The Disregard For Human Life: Herschel Smith
Dianne Feinstein Can't Even Wait for the Blood to Dry: Karl Denninger
Rush: All Out Assault Against Ted Cruz by GOP Establishment: TPNN

House GOP: Reagans or Fords?: Jeffrey Lord
Navy Yard Suspect Got Assault Rifle on Scene: Bearing Arms
DHS Muslim Brotherhood Supporter Gets Promotion: Creeping

Economy

House Rules Say We Can’t Defund Obamacare? Bull.: Publius
41% of small businesses froze hiring thanks to ObamaCare: John Hayward
Obamacare Doctor Rationing Begins in California: Lanhee Chen

Despite mass shooting, Obama delivers partisan economic speech: LoneCon
NSA Spy Chief HQ Is Fantasy Star Trek Bridge!: Tammy Bruce
OFA Propaganda: GOP should stop opposing Obamacare: Erika Johnsen

Scandal Central

CIA Employee Who Refused to Sign NDA on Benghazi Suspended: WFB
More Fast & Furious Guns Found At Mexican Crime Scenes: Dave Workman
Obama Will Negotiate With Putin, Assad-- But NOT Congress: Lid

Media

7 Examples of Discrimination Against Christians in America: John Hawkins
Krauthammer: Obama's “Hyperpartisan” Economic Speech in “Extremely Bad Taste”: Nice Deb
Fort Hood 2009? CNN Can't Remember Last Shooting at 'U.S. Military Facility': Matt Hadro

Sharyl Attkisson Spotlights Benghazi ; First On-Air Report in Over 4 Months: Matthew Balan
NYT Discovers Voter Fraud: Walter Russell Mead
Concern Troll Watch: David Brooks is terrified that Ted Cruz (and Heritage) will succeed: Moe Lane

World

Flashback: US Military Bases are ‘Gun Free Zones’ Because Democrats Decreed Them To Be: Bryan Preston
The Delusions of Caliph Erdogan: Magdi Khalil
Vote for Me Or Else: Islamists' Latest Excuse to Kill Minorities: Raymond Ibrahim

Sci-Tech

Bing gets a new logo and modern design to take on Google: Tom Warren, The Verge
Introduction To Polygonal Modeling And Three.js: Jason Demeuse
Building the Customer-Centric Bank of the Future: Eric Stine

Cornucopia

Of Mice and Men: Who Let All the Vermin Into the White House?: MOTUS
Public Schools Rewrite History: Daily Paul
GM Dealership Gets Hosed By Maryland Rain Tax: CityBizList Baltimore

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QOTD: "Why do you call yourself a Republican[, David Brooks] if all you want to do is lay down and agree with Obama and the Democrats? Why don’t you switch parties if it’s so much better over there? What in the world is [Ted Cruz] supposed to do? He was sent there to stop this. He was sent to Washington specifically to try to stop some of this.

... What the hell is a “normal” Republican, Mr. Brooks, one that bends over and agrees whatever the Democrats want? Makes compromises? Gets along, goes along? What is a “normal” Republican? I guess we know. So Ted Cruz is to be taken out and destroyed because he wants to stop this? I think the vast majority of the American people want Obamacare stopped, Mr. Brooks. The latest numbers from the NBC/Wall Street Journal poll: Only 12% of the American people think it’s gonna do ‘em any good.

Seventy-eight percent, simple math, don’t want this, Mr. Brooks... Mr. Brooks, the Republican Party establishment needs to be undermined, if you are accurately portraying the mind-set of the Republican establishment... It needs to be undermined... It needs to be stopped.

There used to be things that Republicans stood for: free markets, capitalism, individual liberties, limited government. What happened to all that, Mr. Brooks? That’s what Cruz believes in, and millions of Americans still do, too. When did this happen? When did it happen that the Republican establishment decided that their primary objective is to throw in with the Democrats, throw in with Obama? When did that happen?" --Rush Limbaugh

Monday, September 16, 2013

WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG? Obama waives ban on arming known terrorist groups

It just keeps getting better and better, don't it?

Obama waives ban on arming terrorists to allow aid to Syrian opposition


President Obama waived a provision of federal law designed to prevent the supply of arms to terrorist groups to clear the way for the U.S. to provide military assistance to "vetted" opposition groups fighting Syrian dictator Bashar Assad.


Some elements of the Syrian opposition are associated with radical Islamic terrorist groups, including al Qaeda, which was responsible for the Sept. 11 attacks in New York, Washington, D.C., and Shanksville, Pa., in 2001. Assad's regime is backed by Iran and Hezbollah.

The president, citing his authority under the Arms Export Control Act, announced today that he would "waive the prohibitions in sections 40 and 40A of the AECA related to such a transaction."

Really? This is the same fella who thinks Americans aren't responsible enough to own firearms?

This is going a ways back, but y'all remember the incessant shrieks of the anti-Reagan kooks regarding Iran-Contra?

Yeah, good times.

Cue the explosion of the Hypocrisy-meter in the background.


Hat tip: BadBlue News.

41 Percent of Small Businesses Have Frozen Hiring Thanks to Obamacare, Taegan Goddard Hardest Hit

Obamacare hasn't even kicked in yet and the fear, uncertainty and doubt it is sowing among small businesses is truly something to behold.

The carnage from the worst legislation in modern history keeps piling up. The latest damage assessment comes from a Gallup poll that shows “Forty-one percent of small businesses surveyed have frozen hiring” because of ObamaCare, while an equally astonishing 19 percent have actually reduced the number of employees in their business specifically as a result of the President’s health care reform. 38 percent said they have pulled back on expansion plans...


...But wait, it gets worse: 24 percent of poll respondents are thinking about dropping insurance coverage for their employees (“If you like your health care plan, you will be able keep your heath care plan. Period. No matter what.” – Barack Obama, July 2009.) And 18 percent report transforming full-time jobs into part-time positions

Say, I've got an idea! Let's pass Amnesty and flood the non-existent job market with zillions of mostly low-skilled, illiterate workers who've never had background checks!

Roll Call's Taegan Goddard -- or "The modern-day Leni Reifenstahl of the Democrat Party", which is the descriptive phrase he prefers, I hear -- could not be reached for comment at press time.


Hat tip: BadBlue News Service.

Larwyn's Linx: What Would You Sacrifice for Liberty?

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Nation

What Would You Sacrifice for Liberty?: Sara Noble
Words, Dictionaries, Democrats and Demagogues: Elephant
Hillary! Because What Difference Does it Make?: Clarice Feldman

Liberal Group Makes the Case Against Obamacare: Chris Jacobs, Foundry
Obama's HHS Wants Your Sexual History: Betsy McCaughey
Group launches campaign to 'fire Boehner' over Benghazi response: Mike Lillis

The Death of Gun Control: Molly Ball, The Atlantic
Notes on Chicago ending its gun registry: John R. Lott
New Oklahoma City Bombing Trial Set for Spring 2014: Bob McCarty

Economy

Obama: Republicans Stopping My Efforts To Redistribute Wealth: WZ
Obama: GOP Debt Ceiling Demands Attack ‘Constitutional Structure’: ABC
Progressive Jizya: Liberty Hollow

Obamacare Slashes Reward For Working, Incents Part-time Labor: CI
Psyched For Obama Speaking On 5th Anniversary of Financial Crisis?: RWN
Public to Congress: Force an Internet Sales Tax at Your Own Risk: Foundry

Scandal Central

Ty Woods dead body left on Benghazi tarmac for three hours: FAM
Expected ruling in weeks on Holder’s ‘Fast and Furious’ contempt suit: Janeen Capizola
Report: State Dept. Benghazi Probe Unfairly Protected Senior Officials, Hillary Clinton Blamed: Blaze

Climate & Energy

Armed EPA raid sheds light on 70 fed agencies with armed divisions: Fox
HuffPo Kook Andrew Freedman: Warmal Colding Causes Fires and Flooding: Marathon

Media

Bloggers are the only true journalists left in America: AWD
55 miles long, 4 lanes wide - no longer the media is silent on this revolution: Wilderness of Mirrors
It's Pretty Bad When Dilbert's Mom Whacks Federal Agents: Smallest Minority

Mark Levin Refuted: Grumpy Elder
It’s Not Racist, Just Smart: House of Eratosthenes
Care Packages For The Syrian Rebels! YAY!: Chicks on the Right

World

Assad's future is looking bright: Hayom
National Whiplash: Michael Reagan
Assad to Stay In Power, Keep Chemical Weapons, Avoid Inspections Until November: WZ

Sci-Tech

Tooth Cavities May Protect Against Cancer: Slashdot
6 ways Ray Dolby changed the way the world listened: Steve May, TechRadar
30% of Big Brands Now Have Customer Service on Twitter: Jim Dougherty

Cornucopia

What if surfing was your job?: Seth Godin
Putin and Obama Side by Side; I Reflect, You Decide.: MOTUS
Oklahoma City Retrial: Terry Nichols Confessed to FBI of Middle Eastern Involvement: MagNote

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QOTD: "I want to tell you where your book (The Liberty Amendments) is going to be... it will be in EVERY history book for the life of the country. It will stand as the single most impactful representation of the opposition to Barack Obama and the leftists of the day. It will be hailed as the loudest, most penetrating and intelligent warning to the American people about what was happening to their country, and what to do about it. I'm not prescient enough to know if history will recount the warning as heard and acted on, or lament that it wasn't." --Rush Limbaugh

Sunday, September 15, 2013

INFOGRAPHIC: As President Obama Presses for More Wealth Redistribution to Spur Non-Existent "Recovery"...

I'd love to give credit to the creator of this excellent infographic, which I spotted in a comment at Weasel Zippers. The article -- "Obama Back To Pushing Class Warfare: Republicans Stopping My Efforts To Redistribute Wealth" -- quotes The Hill newspaper.

The president has powers to fight income inequality, President Obama argued in an interview broadcast Sunday, adding that Republicans in Congress have hobbled his efforts to do it... acknowledg[ing] that the wealthiest Americans have benefited disproportionately from the economic recovery of recent years. But he was quick to add that much of that trend is due to globalization, technology and, not least, the GOP’s opposition to his economic agenda – all factors he suggested are beyond his control.

Recovery? You mean this recovery (click to explodify):


These Democrats are economic illiterates. If they would simply get out of the way of the private sector, we'd see a real recovery of the sort that President Ronald Reagan touched off. He slashed taxes, cut regulatory requirements, and spurred innovation by unleashing the private sector. The differences between the Reagan recovery and the Obama malaise are stunning.

As for factors "beyond his control", such as a recalcitrant Congress?

President Reagan -- unlike Obama -- did it with an obstreperous, obstinate, free-spending Democrat Congress by appealing to the fundamentally good and hard-working nature of the American people. He went over the heads of Congress.

This is something Obama is unable to do; his legacy of fables, fabrications and fictions haunt him. Most Americans have simply tuned Obama out.

As we close out Obama's fourth annual "Recovery Summer" -- in which we saw virtually no recovery, rampant unemployment, record food-stamp use, record Social Security Disability fraud, record Medicare fraud, record Medicaid fraud -- I can only ask: aren't the American people getting sick of Obama's tiresome rhetoric? His endless clamoring to steal money from his enemies to give to his friends?

When will the American people have had enough of his failures?


Hat tip: BadBlue News