Tuesday, December 17, 2013

INFLATION: Keeping It Real

Guest post by Jim Quinn

The BLS reported the CPI this morning. They tell me that inflation is well contained and has only risen by 1.2% in the past twelve months. Our beloved Federal Reserve chairman is worried inflation is too low. It is fascinating that the only people worried about inflation being too low are Ivy League educated economists and bankers whose wealth depends upon the middle class sinking further into poverty. As a person who lives in the real world, I can honestly say I like it when the things I need to buy cost less today than they did last year. When did inflation become a good thing for the average American? Our country was somehow able to grow from a fledgling new country to a world power in just over a century while experiencing mild deflation, except during times of war. The fallacy that inflation is beneficial to the common man has been peddled by bankers since 1971 when Nixon and his cronies closed the gold window and unleashed the inflationary boogeyman in the form of feckless politicians, captured Keynesian academics, and greedy soulless bankers.

It is no coincidence inflation accelerated the moment politicians, academics and bankers were unleashed to spend your money at will in order to obtain votes, Nobel prizes in economics, and ill-gotten obscene levels of wealth. David Stockman described Nixon’s dreadful sellout of the American people in his brilliant new book:

“Nixon’s estimable free market advisors who gathered at the Camp David weekend were to an astonishing degree clueless as to the consequences of their recommendation to close the gold window and float the dollar. In their wildest imaginations they did not foresee that this would unhinge the monetary and financial nervous system of capitalism. They had no premonition at all that it would pave the way for a forty-year storm of financialization and a debt-besotted symbiosis between central bankers possessed by delusions of grandeur and private gamblers intoxicated with visions of delirious wealth.” -David Stockman – The Great Deformation: The Corruption of Capitalism in America

The USD has lost 83% of its purchasing power since 1971. The moment Nixon began playing politics with the USD and bullied the Federal Reserve Chairman into pumping up the money supply prior to the 1972 election, the inflation genie got out of the bottle and led to the miserable stagflation of the 1970′s. It took extreme measures by Paul Volcker to get it back under control in the early 1980′s. Since Volcker we’ve had nothing but academics and toadies who have chosen to change the definition of inflation in order to mislead the average American regarding how badly they are getting screwed. Every refinement, tweak, adjustment, or revision to the calculation of CPI has been designed to produce a lower figure. Why control inflation when you can just change the calculation to suit your purposes?

Over the proceeding decades, the BLS has sliced and diced the CPI in such a way that they can make it say whatever TPTB want it to say. They need to keep the mushrooms (you) in the dark regarding your standard of living deteriorating, while the beneficiaries of inflation (bankers, politicians) see their standard of living soaring. They have made hedonistic “adjustments”, quality “adjustments”, substitution “adjustments” and geometric weighting “adjustments”, all with the sole purpose to reduce the level reported to the American people on a monthly basis.

A Dramatic Poetry Reading By Mr. B. H. Soetero

See if you recognize any of these.


And, no, I'm not a birther, but it would seem that Mr. Obama is.


Larwyn's Linx: Why We Oppose the Ryan-Murray Budget Deal

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Nation

Why We Oppose the Ryan-Murray Budget Deal: Julie Borowski
Ryan-Murray Budget A Kick In The Gut To Military Retirees: LoneCon
Federal judge finds NSA phone spying likely unconstitutional: Joe Mullin

Establishment GOP bites its feeding hand: David Limbaugh
A Civil War With Two Winners: PJM
Mark Udall (D-CO) gets called out on his lies: Moe Lane

Sen. Feinstein (D-CA): 'Hillary Now More Than Ever': TruthRevolt
Californians meekly take another step towards gun confiscation: Bearing Arms
The Political Corollary to You Will Be Made to Care: Erick Erickson

Economy

12 Reasons Why Amnesty Will Hurt Low-Income Workers : Federalist
Limp: Millenials now split on Obama's job performance: Ace
Time For States To Reclaim Our Land From The Federal Government: Ammoland

Robert Reich's Age of Envy: Kevin D. Williamson
Hope Yes, Vote No is Not a Winning Equation: Daniel Horowitz
Surprise! Obamacare Includes A Medicaid Death Tax: SAB

Scandal Central

Sen. Mike Lee: Congress must act against Obama's lawlessness: TPNN
How Death Panels Work Without Being Legal: Outcast
EPA’s Top Climate Change Expert Engaged in “Crime of Massive Proportions”: JWF

Climate & Energy

Well, this isn't ominous or anything: Inform the Pundits
EPA Climate-Change Expert Admits ‘Historic’ Fraud for $900,000: R.S. McCain
Who Are The People Touting Global Warming? Here’s One: HayRide

Media

The 25 Best Tweets Of 2013: RWN
NYT notices hot new trend among sheriffs: ignore gun-control laws: Ed Morrissey
Yup, pretty much, the Me-tivity scene : LI

WaPo's Dana Milbank: Being Called Liar of the Year 'A Very Low Point' for Obama: HAP
Sheriffs' Resistance to Federal Gun Control Acts Makes Major Media: Joe Wolverton
MSNBC's Roberts: Many Consider Obama 'The First Gay President': TruthRevolt

More on the Tarantino Presidency: Blackmailers
The Democrats Fear and Loathe Fox News: CHQ
Progressive propagandist freaks out when politician mentions purpose of Second Amendment: Bearing Arms

World

Mitch McConnell To Defense Contractors: Help Us Defeat Tea Party Challengers!: Ace
NSA Debates Amnesty for Edward Snowden: John Ribeiro, CIO
Act of War: CIA Leak Gives “Incontrovertible Evidence” That 9/11 Was State Sponsored: Mac Slavo

More Slaughter in Muslim Lands; Media, Governments Silent: Raymond Ibrahim
The Redistribution of Freedom: Daniel Greenfield
Gun control: 'What if we say no?': Anthony Martin

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Analyze Large Data Sets on Elastic MapReduce Clusters With Impala: AWS
Court upholds Motorola import ban in dispute with Microsoft: John Ribeiro
Seriously, what were they thinking?: CNet

Cornucopia

The 35 Naughtiest Dogs On The Planet: Distractify
The Buttcracker Suite: Hopenchange Cartoons
Santa Coal for non-offensive Christmas and equal presents: Cube

Image: Obama Wins Another Award! “Worst Year in Washington”, via Tammy Bruce
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QOTD: "We may be witnessing the sun’s last dying gasps before entering into a long slumber...

Sunspots may not disappear completely, but they will be so weak that a long term decrease in solar wind and a slight but prolonged decrease in the sun’s temperature will result.

The latest solar data from this month reinforces the belief that our sun is headed into a long-term period of low solar activity.

As time goes on a link between decreasing solar activity and the halt in global warming 17 years ago becomes harder and harder to deny." --Inform the Pundits

Monday, December 16, 2013

China lands rover on the moon while U.S. space program is reduced to begging the Russians for rides

Guest post by Investor's Business Daily

Unexceptional: China becomes the third country to land a spacecraft on the moon in preparation for a manned visit. Meanwhile, U.S. astronauts have to ride Russian spacecraft to fix toilets on the International Space Station.

Tourists visiting the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, where one of America's retired space shuttles now resides, were no doubt able to see news reports of the landing of China's first lunar vehicle, a solar-powered rover, on the surface of the moon.

The landing of the rover 37 years after the last such mission by the Soviet Luna 24 sample-return voyage in 1976 makes China just the third nation to accomplish such a feat, joining the U.S. and Russia. Clearly, Beijing intends to be a player in space, just as on the global scene. On both scores, the Obama administration seems intent on making the U.S. a spectator.

The Chang'e 3 spacecraft and its lunar rover, sent aboard a Long March 3B rocket launched on Dec. 2 from Southwest China, is the latest triumph of an ambitious military-backed space program. Its goals include a manned orbiting space station and landing Chinese astronauts on the moon, possibly to plant their flag next to the U.S. flag left there in 1969. The rover itself is called Yutu or Jade Rabbit after the pet of Chang'e, Chinese mythology's goddess of the moon.

On Oct. 15, 2003, China's first manned spaceflight sent astronaut Yang Liwei on a 21-hour mission. An 8.5-ton space station module orbited in September 2011 was launched into space aboard a Long March 2F rocket. It was to be the prototype for a planned 60-ton Chinese space laboratory to be in orbit by 2020.

No, really: guess who's helping the Democrats recruit interns.

Oh, dear is right:


Yeah, they went there:


Here ya' go: fixed it for ya'.


"Un self-aware" indeed.



Common Core in One Picture

This about sums it up.


Related: PRENTICE-HALL OUTRAGE: Its Common Core-aligned History Textbooks Depict World War II-Era America as Evil.


Hat tip: Norman Hooben.

DEMOCRAT LOGIC COMICS: RINO Misdirection Edition

Priorities:


Looks like John Edwards was right: there really are two Americas.

There's the Beltway ruling class. And the rest of us.


Note: Our long-serving intern Biff Spackle has his own Twitter feed: @BiffSpackle. Not that we're endorsing following him, mind you. Just in the interest of full transparency. Like the most transparent administration ever.

Larwyn's Linx: What Will It Take to Awaken the American People?

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Nation

What Will It Take to Awaken the American People?: David Solway
Rep. Trey Gowdy: Obama’s disregard of law at 'an unprecedented level’: DC
Which one should be banned?: Liberal Logic 101

McConnell and Boehner Can’t See or Lead Beyond the Beltway: Dan Riehl
Gun Control Dishonesty: Charles C. W. Cooke
Will DNC Repudiate the Clintons?: Jeffrey Lord

Paul Ryan's Illusory Boast: Power Line
The Recurring Circular Firing Squad On The Right: Derek Hunter
Our Bored President: Ed Lasky

Economy

The Great Disability Scam: Dave Blount
A Christmas Toy Story — Back to the Basics: Thomas Purcell
Obama to jet off this week for 17-day vacation in Hawaii: Daily Mail

Scandal Central

IRS Targeting Now ‘Reverse-Engineered’ to Shut Down TEA Party: MagNote
If You Like Your Bank Account, You Can Keep Your Bank Account: Steyn
American Studies Association about to pass odious resolution: LI

Climate & Energy

Over half the USA covered in snow, the most in 11 years: Anthony Watts
‘Gore Effect’ was in full force at S.F. meeting of global warming ‘scientists’: Doug Powers
Climate alarmists' search for proof going cold: Mark Landsbaum

Media

Why Barack Obama will cheerfully ignore the AP’s photo complaints.: Moe Lane
Krauthammer Tells PBS Viewers ‘Try Fox’ to Hear What You Won’t On This Show: Noel Sheppard
Arapahoe High School shooter – my amateur attempt at profiling: Liberty Zone

Is MSNBC’s Ed Schultz Merely Union Bosses’ Paid Puppet? It Certainly Looks That Way: LUR
GOA’s Larry Pratt Tells Chris Wallace He’s Full Of Crap On Claim: Pat Dollard
John McCain ‘pleads guilty’ after linking Obama to Hitler — but thinks it’s hilarious: David Edwards, Raw Story

All the President’s On-the-Job Training: Ed Driscoll
Denver Post Scrubs 'Socialist' from Description of Colorado School Shooter: Warner Todd Huston
Ron Christie Rips MSNBC Race Baiting Idiot Claiming TeaParty Is Racist : IM41

World

Boston Bombers' family 'was on the run from Russian mob': Daily Mail
McCain: Obama CIA Lied to Congress: TAB
Kerry Awards Vietnam With $17 Million to Fight Global Warming: GWP

Why don’t liberals decry the Islamic war on women?: Allen West
NSA official: Edward Snowden stole ‘keys to the kingdom’: The Hill
How the West was lost by the selfie president: Michael Goodwin

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

If You Use Facebook You Need to Read & Share This! They Are Killing Free Information: MinorityReport
'Twitter primary' can help reveal interest in GOP presidential hopefuls: Hugh Hewitt
The 10 Coolest Guns on Earth: RWN

Cornucopia

Secrets: Zion's Trumpet
OFA samples lame Obamacare ‘Christmas Song’; Iowahawk writes more accurate lyrics: Twitchy
O Tannenbaum, or, “Doing That Christmas Hand Jive.”: MOTUS

Image: O Tannenbaum, or, “Doing That Christmas Hand Jive.”
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QOTD: "Let me begin with a categorical statement that, given current events and recent political history, can be easily defended: Barack Hussein Obama is a willful, indoctrinated child of the Left with strong Islamic sympathies who is not fit to govern. Indeed, he would not be fit to govern Lower Slobovia, let alone the United States of America. Obama is a historic disaster of the first magnitude and, if not restrained, he will see to the irrevocable decline of the country which foolishly elected him, leaving the world on the brink of a conflict — or in the midst of one — whose repercussions cannot be underestimated.

Accompanying the undeniable havoc and damage that Obama is wreaking on his country and equally on its allies — Honduras, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Poland, Czech Republic, Israel, and possibly Taiwan — is the sense of helplessness that overcomes one when writing or speaking about a rogue president and his destructive administration. I feel this personally, having done my utmost in books, articles and lectures, from 2008 to the present, to warn whomever might read or listen that Obama represented a greater threat to the U.S. and the oddly named “free world” than any of our most dedicated and belligerent enemies. Even prior to his nomination as the Democratic candidate for the presidency, my distrust of this man was proprioceptive. And after his Missouri address, I wondered why anyone would want to “fundamentally transform” a country which, for all its flaws, perched atop the pinnacle of success in comparison to any other country." --David Solway

Sunday, December 15, 2013

"What happened on Thursday... will stand as one of the most lawless acts yet committed by this administration"

Avik Roy of Forbes is one of the unsung heroes in the battle against Obamacare. His latest article -- "Government Takeover: White House Forces Obamacare Insurers To Cover Unpaid Patients At A Loss" -- outlines the increasingly frenzied thrashing of an administration that is operating completely outside the boundaries of the Constitution.

Of all of the last-minute delays, website bungles, and Presidential whims that have marred the roll-out of Obamacare’s subsidized insurance exchanges, what happened on Thursday, December 12 will stand as one of the most lawless acts yet committed by this administration. The White House—having canceled Americans’ old health plans, and having botched the system for enrolling people in new ones—knows that millions of Americans will enter the new year without health coverage. So instead of actually fixing the problem, the administration is retroactively attempting to force insurers to hand out free health care—at a loss—to those whom the White House has rendered uninsured. If Obamacare wasn’t a government takeover of the health insurance industry [before], then what is it now?

On Wednesday afternoon, health policy reporters found in their inboxes a friendly e-mail from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, announcing “steps to ensure Americans signing up through the Marketplace have coverage and access to the care they need on January 1.” Basically, the “steps” involve muscling insurers to provide free or discounted care to those who have become uninsured because of the problems with healthcare.gov.

HHS threatens to throw non-complying plans off the exchanges

HHS assured reporters that it would be “urging issuers to give consumers additional time to pay their first month’s premium and still have coverage beginning January 1, 2014.” In other words, urging them to offer free care to those who haven’t paid. This is a problem because the government has yet to build the system that allows people who’ve signed up for plans to actually pay for them. “One client reports only 15 percent [of applicants] have paid so far,” Bob Laszewski told Charles Ornstein. “So far I’m hearing from health plans that around 5 percent and 10 percent of consumers who have made it through the data transfer gauntlet have paid first month’s premium and therefore truly enrolled,” said Kip Piper.

“What’s wrong with ‘urging’ insurers to offer free care?” you might ask. “That’s not the same as forcing them to offer free care.” Except that the government is using the full force of its regulatory powers, under Obamacare, to threaten insurers if they don’t comply. All you have to do is read the menacing language in the new regulations that HHS published this week [PDF], in which HHS says it may throw otherwise qualified health plans off of the exchanges next year if they don’t comply with the government’s “requests.”

...There are other services HHS is asking insurers to offer for free. The administration is “strongly encouraging insurers to treat out-of-network providers”—i.e., costly ones—“as in-network to ensure continuity of care” and to “refill prescriptions covered under previous plans during January.” But the issue of unpaid premiums looms largest.

It’s unconstitutional to force insurers to cover people for free

The administration could pay insurers to cover up for its mistakes. But that would lead to criticism—as it has in other instances—that the White House is lawlessly throwing taxpayer money at insurers to, well, cover up for its mistakes. So, instead, they’re asking insurers to pay for the mistakes.

But, of course, the cost of paying for those mistakes won’t end up being paid by insurers, but by consumers, in the form of higher premiums.

In theory, the Obama administration’s actions aren’t merely illegal—they’re unconstitutional. The Fifth Amendment of the Bill of Rights says that no one can “be deprived of life, liberty or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.”

But it will be up to insurers to sue to protect their rights. Like battered wives, they are unlikely to do so. Companies like Aetna and Humana are so terrified that the administration will run them out of business that they are more likely to do what they’re told, and quietly pass the costs on to consumers. The chaos and recriminations have made insurers like UnitedHealth, who have largely stayed out of the exchanges, look smart.

In 2010, PolitiFact said that the claim that Obamacare was a “government takeover of health care” was its “lie of the year.” The Federal Register disagrees.

So as the long list of Obama administration scandals continues to expand -- seemingly every day -- what are the Republican leaders doing?

You guessed it: allowing Democrats to destroy the spending caps ("the sequester") that had been promised for 10 years... just two years ago.

Oh. And passing Amnesty for illegal immigrants.

It's time to vote out every fake Republican. Find out when your primary is and start working to support the most conservative candidate you can in your local race. It's time. November is coming.


Hat tip: BadBlue Money News.

Democrat Logic Comics: Chicago Crime Edition

Chicago is number one!

I love the libnards who say that Chicago is only violent because of the lax gun laws in surrounding cities and states. Would those be the same cities and states where gun crime is a fraction of that in Chiraq?


Democrat Logic Comics: NFL Gun Advertising Edition

Makes perfect sense, doesn't it?


Hat tip: Liberal Logic 101.

Fun With Socialized Medicine: the Comic Book

It just keeps getting better and better. Obamacare, that is.


Obamacare isn't so much a law -- considering that it's continually rewritten by the Executive Branch -- as it is an amorphous TripTik to single-payer.


Larwyn's Linx: Three Minutes to Destroy Gun Control

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Nation

Three Minutes to Destroy Gun Control: Conservative Post
Colorado School Shooter A “Very Opinionated Socialist”: WZ
It's Panic Time in the White House: Hot Air

They Want You Dead: Ushanka
Boehner whines: I was pushed into fight to defund Obamacare: Craig Bannister
Tea Party Patriots Respond to Boehner's Attacks: It's War: GWP

Have we reached peak schadenfreude yet?: Instapundit
Illegal Immigrants Sue the State of Georgia for In-State Tuition: CI
Don't ignore gun violence among black Americans: Dustin Siggins

Insurers fear they’ll have a net loss in enrollments for the year: Hot Air
Georgia Will Introduce Legislation To Nullify Obamacare, Sue Feds: Michael Lofti
Will Obamas Light A Candle For Each Of These Victims Too?: Sooper

Economy

Center for American progress is really Center for Crony Capitalism: Ben Shapiro
The Actual Unemployment Rate is 14.6 Percent: Joe Guzzardi
Kelo revisited after 8-and-a-half years: Tom Blumer

Scandal Central

NSA Has No Clue As To Scope of Snowden's Data Trove: Slashdot
HHS Contractor Rejects Illegal HHS Request to Hide Subpoenaed Documents from Congress: TPNN
BATFE Implicated in More Rogue Operations: NRA-ILA

Climate & Energy

Betting big on global cooling: Russia lays down world’s largest icebreaker: RT

Media

The Tweetable Guide To Media Myths And Left-wing Violence: Ace
Colorado School Shooter Just Another Violent Liberal: JWF
Denver Post Edits Out Arapahoe Shooter's Socialist Ideology: American Power

MSNBC’s Newest Darling Might Surprise You: TPNN
You Stay Classy, LGF: R.S. McCain
Hatemail of the Day (Language Warning): GWP

2-to-1 margin of uninsured think Obamacare is a bad idea: John R. Lott
David Brooks, the Complete Jackass: Ace
Why are anti-gun activists so violent?: Says Uncle

Chris Matthews compares genocidal North Korean dictator to center-right media: Scoop
Media Hoax On Benghazi To Save Hillary: NoisyRoom
Hey, Liberals! Leave Old White Men Alone!: AWD

World

Inside the Empire of Horror: RWN
Acing the Background Check: Mark Steyn
Bathtub Thoughts on Munitions: Winter Soldier

Aviation Technician Arrested in Failed Wichita Airport Suicide Bombing: GWP
Good News: Muslim Brotherhood Symbol Appears at Mandela Funeral: Sharona Schwartz
Japan: Bill passed banning investigative journalism: P&F

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

This is what the Universe would look like if it were a tiny model: Jesus Diaz
IETF To Change TLS Implementation In Applications: Slashdot
Apple approves 'only gay social app for ages 12 and up': Chris Matyszczyk

Cornucopia

Obama’s Fundamental Transformation of Photojourn-O-lism Is Complete: Selfies!: MOTUS
Hehehehehe!: Nobody Asked Me...
Obama admin hires Mandela interpreter to sell Obamacare: Cube

Image: Dear Leader Looking Down On Us All…
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QOTD: "“I pray to God that I’ll be able to still see these doctors, because they saved my life,” said Jim Hoft, founder and publisher of thegatewaypundit.com.

Just three months after being treated for a life-threatening disease, Hoft learned that his health coverage is being canceled. He told CNBC’s “The Kudlow Report” on Thursday that it’s because the Affordable Care Act has prompted insurance carriers to leave the marketplace in Missouri, where he lives.

“Ezekiel Emanuel told us this—that all these companies were going to get out of the market and it was going to be taken over by the government. That’s what I’m finding out,” he said.

“The company I had, that actually paid over seven figures for the surgeries I had here in St. Louis, they’re pulling out of this market,” Hoft said. “So now I have to find a different company, and it looks like I only have two options.”" --Kudlow Report

Saturday, December 14, 2013

OH, THE HUMANITY: Warmal Colding Strikes Syria

I wonder how the climate grifters like Michael "Piltdown" Mann will explain Earth's slow, inevitable slide into global cooling? You know, caused by the one factor the Climategate kooks forgot to countenance? You may know it as the "Sun":


Quick! Someone find fat-boy some tree rings -- I hear they taste like onion rings!


SURPRISE: Left-Wing Think Tank "Center for American Progress" Funded by Massive Corporations

You can read the headline like this: Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, his hatchet-man John Podesta, and the rest of the Democrat Party are bought and paid for by the nation's biggest corporations.

Let me just say that these corporate executives are beyond stupid.

Are they not seeing what happens to companies -- like health insurers -- that collaborate with the federal government?


Inevitably, the government's insatiable appetite consumes them -- and these jamokes will be no different.

Ben Shapiro, of Breitbart and TruthRevolt, explains

On Friday, the Obama- and Clinton-allied Center for American Progress finally revealed its long-sought corporate donor list after heavy pressure arising from CAP’s quasi-lobbying history. That scrutiny ratcheted up following the announcement that CAP founder John Podesta would be formally joining the Obama administration. Both Politico and The New York Times called for the donor list to meet the public eye.

And so CAP handed over the list to the leftist Huffington Post. Incredibly, its 2013 donor list contains a myriad of massive corporations, including Apple Inc., AT&T, Bank of America, BMW of North America, Citigroup, Coca-Cola, Discovery, GE, Facebook, Google, Goldman Sachs, PepsiCo, PG&E, the Motion Picture Association of America, Samsung, Time Warner Inc., T-Mobile, Toyota, Visa, Walmart and Wells Fargo.

The revelation that huge corporations have been footing the bill for the CAP shatters the myth that major corporations are right-wing repositories. In fact, it shows precisely the opposite: major American corporations including supposedly conservative ones like Walmart are largely in league with a massive government that supports massive subsidizing legislation. Crony capitalism is the order of the day, and it skews leftist – and impacts the donation patterns of America’s most profitable companies.


Gee, and I always thought it was the Republican Party that was in bed with the "evil corporations".

Turns out that the lying leftists of the Democrat Party are secretly funded by those very same cronies.


Ben Shapiro is Editor-At-Large of Breitbart News and author of the New York Times bestseller “Bullies: How the Left’s Culture of Fear and Intimidation Silences America(Threshold Editions, January 8, 2013). He is also Editor-in-Chief of TruthRevolt.org. Follow Ben Shapiro on Twitter @benshapiro.


Liberal Logic Comics, Episode #27

Another Biff Spackle offering:



Hat tip: Liberal Logic 101.


Democrat Logic Comics, Episode #18

Yes, this really appears to be their argument.


More here.


14 Experts Predict Economic Catastrophe for 2014 and Beyond

Guest post by Michael Snyder

Some of the most respected prognosticators in the financial world are warning that what is coming in 2014 and beyond is going to shake America to the core. Many of the quotes that you are about to read are from individuals that actually predicted the subprime mortgage meltdown and the financial crisis of 2008 ahead of time. So they have a track record of being right. Does that guarantee that they will be right about what is coming in 2014? Of course not. In fact, as you will see below, not all of them agree about exactly what is coming next. But without a doubt, all of their forecasts are quite ominous. The following are quotes from Harry Dent, Marc Faber, Gerald Celente, Mike Maloney, Jim Rogers and nine other respected economic experts about what they believe is coming in 2014 and beyond...

-Harry Dent, author of The Great Depression Ahead: "Our best long-term and intermediate cycles suggest another slowdown and stock crash accelerating between very early 2014 and early 2015, and possibly lasting well into 2015 or even 2016. The worst economic trends due to demographics will hit between 2014 and 2019. The U.S. economy is likely to suffer a minor or major crash by early 2015 and another between late 2017 and late 2019 or early 2020 at the latest."

-Marc Faber, editor and publisher of the Gloom, Boom & Doom Report: "You have to say that we are again in a massive financial bubble in bonds, in equities, in [other] asset prices that have gone up dramatically."

-Gerald Celente: "Any self-respecting adult that hears McConnell, Reid, Boehner, Ryan, one after another, and buys this baloney… they deserve what they get.

And as for the international scene… the whole thing is collapsing.

That’s our forecast.

We are saying that by the second quarter of 2014, we expect the bottom to fall out… or something to divert our attention as it falls out."

KAPOW: Police Chief Shreds Kanye West for Comparing His Job to Police and Military

Guest post by Police Chief David Oliver of the the Brimfield, Ohio Police Department


Dear Kanye West,

I am honored to be writing such an important star. I am a mere Internet sensation. I’m not sure I am worthy to address you, although the Huffington Post did say I was “Humorous and Insanely Popular.” I don't pay much attention to those things. Anyway, please excuse my interference in your life for a quick second.

I read your interview and also watched it on video. You said: “I’m just giving of my body on the stage and putting my life at risk, literally.….and I think about it. I think about my family and I’m like, wow, this is like being a police officer or something, in war or something.”

I want to thank you for putting your life on the line for all of us every day. I know that being a rapper is tough work. I have tried to rap, and it is very difficult to keep up with the pulse of the rhyme flow…although when Ice Ice Baby comes on the radio, I can usually keep up with ol’ Vanilla. Anywho, your job is just some very dangerous work. Most people don't consider... if you rap really fast, without a chance to inhale, you could pass out and hit your head.

That last paragraph was covered in sarcasm. I’m letting you know, just so you do not think I agree with your very ignorant assessment of your career (or any other performer)as it relates to a person in the military or a police officer’s service. You sir, are as misguided as they come. I do have a suggestion for you. Since you are accustomed to danger, from your life as an international rapper, I am strongly encouraging you immediately abandon you career as a super star and join the military. After joining, I would like you to volunteer to be deployed in Afghanistan or one of the numerous other forward locations where our men an women are currently serving. When the Taliban starts shooting at you, perhaps you could stand up and let the words flow. It could be something like “I’m Kanye West, wearing a flak vest.” I’m sure they would just drop weapons and surrender. You could quite possibly end all wars, just from the enemy being star-struck.

Your line of thinking is part of the problem in the world today….which include entertainers thinking they are something more than just entertainers. I know it is supply and demand and the demand for your services is high. I get economics. What I do not get is you EVER comparing what you do for a living to our heroic military members, who are always in harm’s way… and my brother and sister police officers who have to go to work carrying weapons and wearing a bullet-proof vest to protect themselves.

Check yourself, before you wreck yourself, fool.

Chief Oliver.


Note: I added the word "fool" at the end. Follow Chief Oliver on Facebook

Media Matters: "The war on Fox is over and... we won"

It's true. Media Matters, the Soros-funded, anti-veracity, left-wing goon squad has defeated Fox News on the field of open and public debate.

Bryan Preston has all of the gory details and I pulled the Alexa traffic rankings to prove it.


I really don't know what else to say except for: so long, Fox. It's been great knowing you.

Hashtag #delusional.


Hat tip: BadBlue Uncensored News.