Tuesday, September 24, 2013

Larwyn's Linx: Obamacare’s ‘Cool Calculator'

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Nation

Obamacare’s ‘Cool Calculator': Tom Blumer
SOURCE: MCCONNELL, CORNYN WHIPPING VOTES AGAINST TED CRUZ
Obama administration quietly caves on True the Vote case: Power Line

A Cruz Missile Launch, Like a Light, Shows the Cockroaches Scurrying: RS
‘Defund Now, for When Shall We Be Stronger?’: David Limbaugh
Shutdown showdown: Cruz and Reid go head-to-head on Senate floor: Twitchy

Outing the Progressive Republicans Attacking Cruz: NoisyRm
McCain Aide: McCain “F–king Hates Cruz”: WZ
Lindsey Graham Knocks Ted Cruz Strategy For Defunding: PuffHo

Mitch McConnell: Sitting Out the Battle; Fighting a Fake Fight: Daniel Horowitz
‘Affordable’ Care Act Raises One Man’s Premium by $632 A Month: Tatler
The Truth About Hobby Lobby and the Supreme Court: David Catron

Economy

Levin: Obama is planning a brazen unconstitutional assault: Scoop
Quotations From Academia’s Front Lines in the War to Destroy America: MB
The Mower Gang: #Anarchy in Detroit: Reason

Scandal Central

Unindicted Co-Conspirator and Terror-Linked CAIR Laundering "Millions": Charles C. Johnson
Lois “5th Amendment” Lerner Out At the IRS: Tammy Bruce
Close ties between White House, NSA spying review: Stephen Braun

Media

Which RINOs are voting for Cloture?: IM41
Gallup: Record number of Americans believe government is too powerful: Twitchy
High Risk, Low Yield: Thomas Sowell

World

CAIR has Changed Its Name to... Wait for it... WTF!: James Simpson
Taliban Assassinates Top Female Police Officer, Months After Killing Her Predecessor: Ace
Blasts rock Kenya hostage mall: Bruce Golding, Post

Armed, Off Duty SAS Officer Saved 100 Lives During Nairobi Mall Massacre: Stephen Kruiser
Illegals, Non-Citizens Will Monitor California Polls: Sara Noble
Russian Court Declares Koran "Extremist Literature": IBA

Sci-Tech

LinkedIn hits back at lawsuit, claims users permit it to access emails: Jon Russell
Linkedin Denies Harvesting User Email Accounts Without Permission: John Ribeiro
Microsoft’s impending obsolesence caused by failure to grasp its own irrelevance: Joel Hruska

Cornucopia

Which GOP senators support Obamacare? (scroll down for list): Don't Fund Obamacare
The Obamacare Kama Sutra: Morlock Revolt
Lenin's Own 20 Monster Quotes: The People's Cube

Image: SOURCE: MCCONNELL, CORNYN WHIPPING VOTES AGAINST TED CRUZ
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: HERE'S THE GOP WHIP LIST FOR FUNDING OBAMACARE (scroll down)

QOTD: Here it is:

• Call Mitch McConnell's office right now at (202) 224-2541:
• Call John Cornyn's office right now at 202-224-2934:

Tell both of them: WE WANT YOU TO OPPOSE cloture to stop Harry Reid's plan to fund Obamacare. Tell them a vote for cloture is a vote to fund Obamacare.

Then send this message to 10 friends. This is it, folks. Don't sit on the sidelines and hope someone else will do it.

Monday, September 23, 2013

Senator Harry Reid (D-NV) has always been there to remind us no law has ever been changed

Guest post by Erik Soderstrom



You can follow Erik on Twitter at @Soderstrom.

WHAT COULD GO WRONG? Statist Control Freaks in Senate Want to Define Who Is a Journalist

Does it count as violating Godwin's Law if they really are fascists?

Your First Amendment rights are UNDER ATTACK!

Members of the Senate Judiciary Committee led by Chuck Schumer and Lindsey Graham have attached an amendment to Senate Bill 987, which would give the Department of Justice power to determine who qualifies for protection as a journalist under the First Amendment.


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And Now: A Very Special Message From Karl Rove

From the man who brought you Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi comes the following pearls of wisdom. Write 'em down, because I'll wager you cash money that these two will be Rove's favorites:


Well, sooner or later he's bound to get one right.

Isn't he?

Well, isn't he???


I've got a pretty good idea which Republican Senate Progressives are undermining Ted Cruz and Mike Lee

The Beltway Establishment ain't happy with Ted Cruz and Mike Lee. Chris Wallace, during his "Power Panel" segment, mentioned that disgruntled Republican insiders had actually fed him opposition research in an underhanded attempt to preserve the Obamacare status quo.

“This has been one of the strangest weeks I’ve ever had in Washington,” Wallace said. “As soon as we listed Ted Cruz as our guest this week, I got unsolicited research and questions, not from Democrats, but from top Republicans to hammer Cruz. Why are Republicans so angry at Ted Cruz?”

Rove insisted it was because Cruz and fellow Utah Republican Sen. Mike Lee decided to devise a strategy to defund Obamacare without consulting Republican leadership.

Rove, as usual, is full of it.

He and the rest of the old bulls don't like anyone else in the spotlight, especially those with whom they disagree.

After the Tea Party and Constitutional conservatives swept the Republicans into power in 2010, what did the House leadership do, Karl? Did they embrace the huge crop of new freshmen, incorporate their concerns into their agenda, and install the best of them into key committee slots?

No. No. And no. John Boehner in the House and Mitch McConnell in the Senate did everything in their power to intimidate conservatives and put them on a leash. They ignored their concerns and avoided every real fight over spending and the debt ceiling. Even worse, they made sure that not a single conservative was given a key position, in spite of their popularity.

In fact, Boehner and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell have done everything in their power to disenfranchise conservatives; their mouthpieces including Rove and the RNC suppressed turnout by attacking primary winners like Sharron Angle, Richard Mourdock, and Christine O'Donnell.

What kind of "leadership" attacks members of their own party?

Not only has Rove been a loser since 2006, but he also despises not calling the shots for the GOP. Now, Karl: with your horrific track record, why would anyone with an IQ above that of an amoeba consult you?

For two years, you, Boehner and McConnell did nothing -- nothing -- to fight Barack Obama's agenda.

House leadership has done nothing serious to investigate the outrageous scandals plaguing this administration. They refuse to name a Select Investigative Committee on Benghazi; they refuse to demand a Special Prosecutor for IRS-Gate; and heaven knows what they're doing about the illegal wiretaps of reporters or the illicit activities of the NSA.

In 2012, with Rove spending more time and energy attacking conservatives than a horrific Democrat candidate in Barack Obama, he managed to turn off millions of conservatives.

Let me say this in terms even he can understand: Karl Rove lost the election for Mitt Romney.

Rove and other "architects" disenfranchised and demoralized the conservative base.

Karl Rove blew $400 million on losing candidates in 2012, according to Donald Trump. He ignored digital outreach. He ignored and/or pissed off the grassroots. And he's the same man who gave us Speaker Nancy Pelosi in 2006 and Barack Obama in 2008, for heaven's sake!

Giving money to Rove is like investing with Bernie Madoff.

And which Republicans are secretly attacking Ted Cruz?

So which Republicans have been feeding Chris Wallace opposition research on Ted Cruz?

Conservative stalwarts Mark Levin and Sarah Palin have both called on Chris Wallace to disclose the source of these outrageous attacks.

Gee, it's so hard to figure out:

McCain Aide: McCain “F–king Hates Cruz”

Lindsey Graham Knocks Ted Cruz Strategy For Defunding

Not only are the same-sex Senators McCain and Graham big-government neo-Statists, they hate sharing the media spotlight with others.

You guys know "the Oklahoma Drill" in football? That's where a defender has to fight off a blocker and try and stop a rusher in a very contained space, all by himself.

I'd love to see the same drill with McCain and Chuck Schumer on opposite sides fighting one-on-one to get the attention of a cameraman. These lifetime politicians are absolutely useless. If they had to get a job in the private sector, my guess is their highest level of achievement would revolve around the phrase: "Can I super-size that for you, ma'am?"

Karl Rove needs to stop losing elections for Republicans. John Boehner needs to follow Ted Cruz's lead.

We've had enough of these losers. It's time to win, fellas, so get the hell out of the way and let the adults call the shots. Your time is over.


Hat tips: BadBlue News and Mark Levin

Larwyn's Linx: Passed it, finding out what’s in it: lost coverage

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Nation

Passed it, finding out what’s in it: lost coverage: Michelle Malkin
Pelosi: Obamacare ‘a liberation’: Michelle Malkin
The Central Planning Solution to Evil: Daniel Greenfield

MN Somalis said to be among terrorists in Nairobi slaughter: Tatler
ObamaCare’s Muslim Exemption: Herbert London
SWAT Team Ordered To “Stand Down” Hasn’t Been Interviewed.: Instapundit

Conservatives vs. RINOs: AWD
Could The GOP Actually Be About To Beat Obama?: Kurt Schlichter
Palin: the More things change, the more the GOP remains the same: DTG

'You Can Keep Your Plan': The Left's Epic Campaign of Lies: American Power
Obama demands gun curbs, laments gun rights in latest speech: DC
Cory Booker, Mother Goose: Eliana Johnson

Economy

Obamacare and That Q-Easy Feeling: Tom Blumer
Twitchy collecting “Your health care plan got cancelled!” letters: Moe Lane
Cali Dem Hopes Obamacare Denies Treatment For "Nonbelievers": Jawa

Pelosi: ‘The Cupboard Is Bare, There’s No More Cuts to Make’: WFB
Chart of the Day: Median income in DC vs the rest of us: Greenroom
Professor Wishes Death on Children of NRA Members, Liberals Applaud: ProWis

Scandal Central

While IRS Targeted Tea Party Groups, CAIR Got Away With Quite A Bit Of Shady Funding: LoneCon
Common Core causing huge rift between Jeb Bush and conservatives: RWN
Democrat Congressmen refuse to hear Benghazi families testimony: Nolan Chart

Climate & Energy

WHOA: New Aussie PM dissolves climate change committee, freezes renewables funding: Hot Air

Media

Tea Party vs. Progressives on Obamacare: Trevor Loudon
How Much Does Hillary Losing to Obama in ’08 Still Sting for Bill?: Ed Driscoll
Chris Wallace says he got opposition research from Republicans on Ted Cruz; Rove explains: Scoop

America Barely Noticed Navy Yard Shootings: Rantburg
Hillary to Huma: It’s Weiner or Me: JWF
Grand Theft Auto V Features 15-Minute Liberal Superhero Cartoon Called “Impotent Rage”: GWP

As Freedom Destroys Itself: Sarah Palin
Ted Cruz grilled by Chris Wallace on Defunding Fight: Scoop
What Obama said about health care in 2009: Elephant

World

Two Kenyans Report Being Rescued by ‘Israeli Security Officer’ in Nairobi Mall: Joshua Levitt
That Massacre in Nairobi: Gates of Vienna
Brit columnist calls for International Intervention in the U.S. due to gun violence: Jeff Quinton

Iranian President Rowhani Brags Of Deceiving West To Complete Illicit Nuclear Program: Reza Kahlili
Israel Demands Explanation After French Diplomat Punches Israeli Soldier in Face: Algemeiner
Russia: Fewer Guns Equals More Crime: BlurBrain

Sci-Tech

LinkedIn sued by users who say it hacked their e-mail accounts: Megan Geuss
Google to fight aging with health care startup Calico: Cameron Scott
Social networks stick with MySQL: Brett Winterford

Cornucopia

The Government Can- Tim Hawkins: Theo Spark
Race and Class Wars IV: MOTUS Does a Movie Review: MOTUS
Honest Movie Trailer for World War Z: Greenroom

Image: The silence of our friends – the extinction of Christianity in the Middle East (Ed West)
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: SIGN AND EMAIL TO YOUR FRIENDS: DON'T FUND OBAMACARE

QOTD: "Apparently some White House staffers have a new nickname for the president: "Obam-me," because it's all about him and his big thoughts. I guess the second-term team is not quite as adoring as the first." --Peggy Noonan

Sunday, September 22, 2013

This Cadillac Elmiraj Coupe Concept is Stunning

Matt Delorenzo reports:

General Motors’ luxury division unveiled a new concept coupe that foreshadows an all-new rear-drive flagship line that could appear within two years. The Cadillac Elmiraj is a hardtop coupe powered by a 500 hp twin-turbo 4.5-liter V-8 driving the rear wheels. While Cadillac has scotched rumors that it would build a super-premium sedan to rival cars like the Bentley Flying Spur and Rolls-Royce Phantom, executives have said that they are looking at a rear-drive full-size sedan positioned above the current XTS that would compete with BMW’s 7 Series and Mercedes-Benz S Class.


The Elmiraj is proof of that plan moving forward. While presented as a coupe, the concept’s 205-inch overall length could accommodate both two- and four-door variants. The striking design features a long front hood and short rear deck that recall the 1967 Cadillac Eldorado, the division’s first personal luxury coupe.

The cabin features a 2+2 seating configuration with seats clad in camel-colored leather. Wood accents are made from Brazilian rosewood, while titanium trim is used to divide the leather from the wood. The instrument panel features an analog tachometer and speedometer, with a transparent background that allows them to seemingly float above a high-definition screen that projects driver information and images from the front-mounted camera. A 10-inch touchscreen for the navigation and entertainment systems can be concealed inside the instrument panel when not in use...

The implication is that the Elmiraj is less a concept than a clear direction. Impressive stuff.


Hat tip: BadBlue Car News.

TRANSCRIPT: Cruz vs. Rove - Today's Showdown on Fox

Senator Ted Cruz, one of the leaders of the movement to defund Obamacare using the "power of the purse", was interviewed extensively by Chris Wallace of Fox News Sunday. Cruz, as usual, was incredibly impressive in describing the rationale and tactics behind the effort:

WALLACE: Hello, again. The clock is ticking. The government shuts down in just eight days unless congress agrees on a bill to fund federal agencies. On Friday the House passed a bill to keep the government going until mid December but they also cut off funding for Obamacare, and Harry Reid said that is dead in the Senate. Ted Cruz is leading the drive, welcome back to “Fox News Sunday.”

CRUZ: Thank you, Chris, good to be here today.

WALLACE: We just played a clip where you say you will do everything you can to block it with a filibuster, but the problem is you will be blocking a bill you support. So how are you going to get other remember Senators on board to block a bill you support.

CRUZ: Let’s be clear. Last week’s vote was a tremendous victory. A few weeks ago no pundit thought it was possible. They voted to defund Obamacare, and next year as you know the fight moves to the Senate. And I think next week is a time for party immunity. All Senate Republicans I think should come together and support the House bill. They should stop Harry Reid from changing the House bill and for inserting the funding with 51 votes. That will be the fight whether he can use a straight party line vote — and Senate Republicans, if they stand together, we can stop Harry Reid.

EPA's New Restrictions on Coal Plants to Kill Nearly a Million Jobs

Guest post by M.D. Kittle

Leave it to the Environmental Protection Agency to come up with regulatory standards so restrictive that the technology to meet them has yet to be commercially tested.

As expected, the EPA on Friday unveiled its revised proposal to cap greenhouse gas emissions from new power plants. And as expected, coal-fired power plants will fail to meet the limits without some very expensive technology to capture and store carbon emissions.

“There’s the rub. No commercial, coal-fired plant worldwide has yet to use this technology,” notes a story in USA Today.

As the piece points out, there are least two such carbon storage power plants under construction — one in Canada’s Saskatchewan Province, and the other in Mississippi’s Kemper County, scheduled to open in May.

But the coal-fired power industry need only look to Mississippi for a cautionary tale. The $4.7-billion project has been saddled with at least $1 billion in cost overruns, “a stew of legal battles, a revolt by ratepayers and a credit downgrade for the local utility,” according to Bloomberg News story published Thursday.

And, as the story points out, consumers ultimately will foot the bill for the expensive technology in the 582-megawatt plant, the first of its kind to be built on a commercial scale.

“By some measures, it may be one of the most expensive power plants ever built for the watts of energy it will generate,” Bloomberg notes. “The utility got approval to recoup $2.88 billion in costs from ratepayers. In addition, the Department of Energy pledged $270 million, and the company qualified for a federal tax credit of $133 million. The costs of the new lignite mine and carbon dioxide pipelines are additional.”

Coal industry officials earlier this week told Watchdog.org the restrictive limits on CO2 could kill coal, and with it, many of the 800,000 good-paying jobs it supports.

PHONY SCANDALS DON'T PRODUCE BODY-BAGS: Democrats Walk Out on Benghazi Victims' Families

Guest post by Investors Business Daily


Benghazi-gate: Democrats couldn't share the grief of a mom who was lied to in front of her son's casket or a grieving father who wonders why the general who could have mounted a rescue was relieved of his post.

It was a shameful spectacle all around, starting with bizarre testimony by the authors of the State Department's Accountability Review Board (ARB) report and including real tears in a scandal branded as "phony" by the Obama administration and the repetition of lies agreed upon.

The scene was Thursday's hearing on the Benghazi terrorist attack before Rep. Darrell Issa's House Oversight Committee. ARB co-chair Thomas Pickering shamelessly repeated the excuse that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was not interviewed by the board because members knew where the responsibility rested — as if an attack on a U.S. diplomatic mission and the murder of an ambassador, the first in three decades, was outside the scope of her interest or authority.

Yet Pickering and Mike Mullen, former Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman, authors of this "independent" investigation, admitted they regularly briefed Clinton and her advisers on their probe, an admission made more telling when the parents of two of the Benghazi dead said they never received the information they were promised on how and why their sons died.

Incredibly, they also explained why they didn't swear in witnesses for the ARB: "We had no reason to believe we would not get truthful testimony." Really? They had no reason to doubt the truthfulness of people who for weeks claimed a terrorist attack was really a spontaneous demonstration triggered by an old Internet video?

But the grim reality of this "phony" scandal really hit home with the testimony of Patricia Smith and Charles Woods, which apparently threatened more revealed truth than most Democrats on the Oversight panel could handle. With the exception of ranking member Elijah Cummings, D-Md., and Jackie Speier, D-Calif., 12 other Democrats on the Committee shamefully left the room and refused to listen to the testimony of Smith, mother of Sean Smith, an information management officer killed in the 9/11 Benghazi attack, or Woods, father of Navy SEAL Tyrone Woods, who was also killed.

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Larwyn's Linx: Why is Obama so angry to have a Political “win”?

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Nation

Why is Obama so angry to have a Political “win”?: DTG
Obamacare destroying the private insurance market (according to plan): LI
The Fight to Defund Is a Fight for Liberty: Jan LaRue

One Weird Trick to Expose the Truth About ObamaCare: Clarice Feldman
Cruz to use any procedural means necessary to defund: Sibyl West
For California’s Illegal Immigrants, a Great Week: RWN

Former ACORN Chief: Use Amnesty to Get "the White Man": Neil Munro
Murder Capital!: SCC
Garry needs a drink: Chicago Police Chief blames guns, not gangs: GSL

Economy

American Banana Republic: Mark Steyn
Journalism Teacher Calls For Children of NRA Members To Be Murdered: RWN
Unhinged: What liberal NC professors think of opposing views: Sister Toldjah

Malkin Misapprehends: Underside Of The Bus *IS* Your Healthcare Plan: RSM
American Dependency: “Give Me My Food Stamps”: Mac Slavo
Our Government's Propaganda Isn’t Even Subtle Any More: Sara Noble

Scandal Central

Tom DeLay’s Exoneration: Democrat Abuse Of The Judicial Process: RS
Pickering asked if Benghazi a Botched Kidnapping Plot: Shoebat
Health insurers to customers: If you like your plan, you can keep … nah, you’re screwed: Twitchy

Climate & Energy

EPA effectively bans coal plants with stifling carbon dioxide limits: Michael Bastasch
New EPA Regulations: Obama Begins Carpet Bombing the Coal Industry: Rusty Weiss
Warmists Claim They Predicted There Would Be More Arctic Ice This Year: RWN

Media

Politico: Obama is a snake-oil salesman: AWD
CA Democratic Official Allan Brauer Fired for Insanely Offensive Tweets Against Conservatives: IJReview
Washington Post Distorts Commission Probe of Benghazi: NoisyRm

Some notes on the flood of discussions about gun control after the Navy Yard Shooting: John R. Lott
Mark Levin Rips FOX News: "I Pretty Much Have To Watch Now at 4 PM and 9 PM": RCP
Obamanation: SDA

World

Navy Yard killer created webpage with name “Mohammed Salem”: Creeping
Report: Israeli forces join battle against Nairobi terrorists: Hayom
Americans injured in terrorist bloodbath at Kenyan mall: BPR

Sci-Tech

Bank robbers pose as IT guys, rig device to slurp £1.3m from Barclays: Lisa Vaas
10 Things I Didn’t Know About Google: Harry McCracken
Bing's Page Zero Search Results: Dan Marantz

Cornucopia

Dear Mr. Security Agent: Chuck Bracken
CO Rescue Pilot Issued Parking Ticket for His Helicopter: BlackFive
In Search of Our Perfect Doppelganger: MOTUS

Image: Upscale Mall Becomes War Zone
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: SIGN AND EMAIL TO YOUR FRIENDS: DON'T FUND OBAMACARE

QOTD: "...The second, crucial advantage of forcing the Senate to act on a stripped-of-Obamacare funding bill is that it will oblige six endangered democratic incumbents to take positions on Obamacare just before it crashes into the American economy –Begich of Alaska, Hagan of North Carolina, Landrieu of Louisiana, Pryor of Arkansas, Shaheen of New Hampshire, Udall of Colorado. Either they will vote to break the filibuster in order to revive Obamacare funding or they will vote with Cruz and company. They will either thus double down on Obamacare 11 months before voting on their re-elections begins or they will flip flop on their decisive votes from 2009. Each one of them is 100% responsible for Obamacare. I hope to hear their names brought up in many speeches by GOPers in next weeks floor debates." --Hugh Hewitt

Saturday, September 21, 2013

An Important Message From Ted Cruz

Pass it on.

You libs think this is a game?

People are losing their insurance, they are getting fired, and and they are being dumped onto Obamacare Exchanges.

Join us.

Follow @SenTedCruz and @SenMikeLee on Twitter and let your friends, family members, friends and colleagues know: This monstrous law needs to be stopped. Unless you want the IRS controlling your family's health care, that is.


Democrat Apparatchik Dana Milbank Doing His Level Best to Continue the Benghazi Cover-Up

Guest post by Roger Aronoff


The Citizens’ Commission on Benghazi (CCB) started off with a powerful message: “We are here and planning on staying until we get the answers we’re seeking.” But, some in the media just don’t get it. Dana Milbank of The Washington Post delivered one of his Dennis the Menace, snarky rants about the view of “Benghazi, as seen from the grassy knoll.” Yes, Dana Milbank is calling this group of patriotic Americans who have given so much for this country a bunch of lunatic conspiracy theorists.

To Milbank, Benghazi is, to quote the administration talking point, a phony scandal: “It’s a pity that those seeking answers on Benghazi can’t focus on what really matters: Could anything have been done to prevent the deaths of the four men lost in Benghazi that night? And what can be done to make sure such a thing never happens again?”

While those are certainly important questions, and need to be addressed, that’s not enough. That sounds like it would make for a nice conference hosted by the Center for American Progress, Media Matters, and the primetime line-up of MSNBC. But how about holding people accountable for their actions and inactions that could have saved four lives, and for lying to the American people in an attempt to sweep it under the rug?

Sure, who cares that Hillary Clinton’s State Department ignored the requests to beef up security, and refused to withdraw our personnel, as the Brits and the Red Cross had done? Wouldn’t that send the wrong message?

Wouldn’t it have said that Libya was a mess, run by jihadists and al-Qaeda affiliates after the great liberation of 2011? After all, al-Qaeda flags were flying in Benghazi just days after the “liberation” of Libya. We wouldn’t want to mess up the President’s narrative in the middle of a presidential election by asking the tough questions, now would we?

PICS: Dozens of Islamophobes slaughtered in Nairobi mall

Some of these pictures really got to me.


It's said the attackers warned Muslims to leave before launching the attack on innocents shopping in the mall: Witnesses say the gunmen asked victims they had cornered if they were Muslim: If the answer was yes, several witnesses said, those people were free to go. The non-Muslims were [shot].


39 Islamophobes are dead and 150 wounded.


AP reporter Jason Straziuso had good friends in the mall at the time of the shooting. His tale is a harrowing one.

Had they not suffered from "Islamophobia" before, I wonder if the affected families do so now.


PROPAGANDA: Obamacare did not repeal the First Amendment

Guest post by Wayne Hoffman

Perhaps the most odious application of Obamacare is one that’s gotten very little attention—until now. It’s the requirement that says all businesses are to notify their employees by Oct. 1 of the existence of Obamacare insurance exchanges.

Moreover, the Obama administration is now using this less-discussed but critical employer mandate to compel business owners to extol the virtues of socialized medicine and wealth redistribution. The word “notify” has been rewritten to mean “promote.” Even employers opposed to Obamacare are being told to peddle the new entitlements they find detestable.

I’ve previously complained that the Hawley Troxell law firm in Boise, which represents Idaho’s Obamacare insurance exchange, wrote this summer that “employers are prohibited from pressuring employees to not seek coverage through an exchange.” Well, employers aren’t prohibited, the law firm later acknowledged; they’re just encouraged not to.

The federal Department of Labor has created its own “model” forms intended to help employers with the mandated notification.

The federal government’s doe-eyed forms say that the exchange — henceforth referred to as a “marketplace” — “is designed to help you find insurance that meets your needs and fits your budget. The Marketplace offers ‘one-stop shopping’ to find and compare private health insurance options.”

This is government-sanctioned propaganda, on a scale that might impress Joseph Goebbels.

The forms also encourage Americans to sign up so they can see if they’re eligible for “a new kind of tax credit that lowers your monthly premium right away.”

FIGURES: Left-wing hacks Taegan Goddard (@PoliticalWire) and Bob Corker (@SenBobCorker) both block me on Twitter

No, I wasn't uncivil. I didn't hurl vicious insults or death threats the way Democrats so often do.

No, I simply pointed out the horrific failures of their insane political ideology. For example:


That both a left wing propagandist like Roll Call's Goddard and a supposed "Republican" like Sen. Bob Corker of Tennessee refuse to engage in legitimate political debate says much about the Democrat Party and the RINO establishment.

Which is why we need to unify behind Constitutional conservatives like Ted Cruz and Mike Lee, strengthen their numbers in 2014, and politically obliterate those who would destroy our country.


Larwyn's Linx: Mr. Breitbart Goes to Washington

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Nation

Mr. Breitbart Goes to Washington: Paula Bolyard
Next: Defund Obamacare by preventing a vote on defunding Obamacare: David Freddoso
Obama would rather meet with latest Iranian figurehead than John Boehner: Moe Lane

Why is the OFA buying ads to “save” the GOP from Ted Cruz?: DTG
Forced Home Inspections are Coming With Obamacare: Eric Odom
Submit to Obamacare or you'll get Cervical Cancer and Die!!!: Alexa Shrugged

Ted Cruz’s Two Front War: Cowardly GOPers and a Dumbed-Down MSM: Hugh Hewitt
The President Throws a Temper Tantrum: WZ
Obama Whines About Congress: 'They're... Trying to Mess with Me': Breitbart

Economy

Prison Inmates Collecting Millions in Unemployment Cash: Rodrigo Sermeno
"You drive up to the Welfare Office in a Porsche and still get food stamps": Nice Deb
True Unemployment Hits 23%: Highest Since Great Depression: Vel Craft

What John Adams Foretold Has Come True: W.A. Beatty
Two More Defections from Amnesty Gang of Eight: Ace
Dad arrested at school meeting after challenging Common Core: Michelle Malkin

Scandal Central

Dems Leave Room As Benghazi Mom Says Obama, Hillary Lied: IBD
AZ to Deny Drivers Licenses to all Illegals Granted ‘Deferred Deportation’ by Obama: HACT
IRS targeted groups for “anti-Obama rhetoric”?: Ed Morrissey

Climate & Energy

Global Warming 2.0: When Lying is No Longer Enough: MOTUS
Climategate II: Scientists pushed to hide data: Chris Stirewalt
Roadside America: Moonbattery

Media

CNN’s Don Lemon Rethinking Position On Guns After CDC Study: WZ
RINO hack Peter King really hates Ted Cruz: Scoop
Pelosi Unplugged In La La Land: STACLU

Ed Henry Slams Jay Carney Over 'Four Pinocchio' Lie: Breitbart
Levin On Boehner: Rove, Jeb Wrong Again: Jeffrey Lord
Networks That Touted Tom DeLay’s 2010 Conviction Silent About His Complete Vindication: MRC

World

Dangerous Times: Does Putin want a Nuclear Suicide Cult Next Door?: James Lewis
Parents Furious When Schools Takes Their Children To Mosque, Where They’re Given Qurans: RWN
Was Aaron Alexis Becoming Mohammed Salem at The Time of the Massacre?: Sara Noble

Louie Gohmert Speech On Muslim Brotherhood In Obama Administration 9/20/2013: NoisyRm
Why I may say anything I want about Obama: Winter Soldier
1 Million Truckers Protest Now Joined By Canadian Counterparts: Suzanne Hamner

Sci-Tech

LinkedIn users sue over service's "hacking" of contacts and spammy ways: Lisa Vaas, Sophos
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QOTD: "I'm pretty sure you lose 100% of the battles that you begin by surrendering." --Ted Cruz, responding to Karl Rove, who claimed that the GOP shouldn't threaten to defund Obamacare because it's a losing strategy.

Friday, September 20, 2013

REASON ALONE TO ERADICATE OBAMACARE: IRS was targeting conservative groups as recently as two weeks ago

Bryan Preston, who's doing yeoman's work at PJM, explains the latest developments in IRS-gate. Remember: the completely politicized IRS will be Obamacare's enforcers, with access to all of your most personal data.

This news emerged from Wednesday’s House hearing on the IRS abuse scandal. Not only did the agency target conservative groups, it continued surveillance of them until acting Commissioner Danny Werfel shut it down just two weeks ago.

Republicans investigating the IRS targeting scandal said Wednesday that the agency continued to conduct secret surveillance on tea party groups even after approving them for tax-exempt status.

Acting Commissioner Danny Werfel said... he has halted all audits of tax-exempt organizations based on political activity as he tries to get a handle on the embattled agency... he [also said he] is troubled by emails sent by Lois G. Lerner, the woman at the center of the targeting scandal, that raise questions about her behavior. He said he has asked internal investigators to follow up on those emails...

...In one of those emails Ms. Lerner wrote that dealing with tea party applications was “very dangerous,” and in another she seemed to indicate that she was looking for ways to deny the charitable organization label to groups without having to accuse them of political activity.

Lerner remains unwilling to testify, and on paid leave from her post at the IRS.
The investigation has also turned up evidence that the IRS targeted Tea Party groups because agents knew that President Obama wanted them to.

Just a reminder: Nixon's Obama-like abuse of the IRS was "a high crime and misdemeanor".


Hat tip: BadBlue News

GENIUS: Obama FTC Suing Hospitals for Trying to Adhere to Obama HHS Guidelines

S.A. writes:


I read your blog post about the Sacramento Bee's pro-Obamacare editorial. I don't know if you've seen this, but there's a hospital in Idaho that's trying to merge with other healthcare systems in order to consolidate its care so it could adhere to the cost-saving regulations in Obamacare. But this hospital is now being sued by the FTC, which is arguing that its attempt to merge with these other systems violates anti-trust rules. So you have an Obama agency suing a hospital for merely trying to adhere to an Obama law.

While the nation uneasily prepares for the October 1 deadline for implementation of Obamacare, a potentially fatal rift has materialized in the most unlikely place – inside the Obama Administration itself, demonstrating once again how unready the country is for this law.

...For example, the administration’s Federal Trade Commission and Justice Department are suing to block mergers among many of the nation’s hospitals-- hospitals that are only trying to accommodate the changes the law promises to bring. In short they just want to stay in business under the changed environment of Obamacare... Yet, the Obama FTC is jamming on the brakes to prevent the industry from achieving this critical mass required for hospitals to run efficiently under Obamacare.

Ironically, the FTC is talking about making sure we have enough hospitals to maintain competitiveness, even as the Obamacare design is inevitably leading to fewer hospitals, doctors, pharmacies and labs.

...St. Luke’s Hospital in Boise, Idaho presents perhaps the best case in point... [W]hen a physicians group in nearby Nampa sought to consolidate with St. Luke’s to afford better care and service to its patients, a nearby hospital sued, claiming that St. Luke’s was “buying up” physician practices in order to hold more patients “captive” to its system.

The Federal Trade Commission was quick to join the lawsuit, buying into the premise that if hospitals and physicians groups were consolidating, they must be colluding to squeeze out the competition, ignoring completely for the moment that Obamacare defines “the market” not the competition.

...It is not just St. Lukes, either. Phoebe Putney Health System in Georgia, ProMedica health system in Ohio, Reading Health System in Pennsylvania, Renown Health in Nevada, are also victims of the FTC - punishing those who are trying to get in front of the situation.

Hospitals and doctors groups that want to survive under the changed conditions of Obamacare must consolidate to keep those costs down. Keeping cost down is, after all, the basic premise that Obama sold the country on when the healthcare pact was passed.

...The alternative is government run hospitals…only.

And that’ll be really competitive, right?

Thought you and your readers would find this interesting. The FTC trial against the hospital starts on Monday.