Tuesday, January 07, 2014

DEMOCRAT LOGIC COMIX: Unemployment Squirrel Edition

With a tip o' the fedora to Jon Gabriel:



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Larwyn's Linx: The Establishment's Coming Amnesty Offensive and the Need to Clean House

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Nation

The Coming Amnesty Offensive and the Need to Clean House: Daniel Horowitz
'Mixed Bag'? 50 Years Later and That's Summary of 'War on Poverty'?: AmPower
75% of Illegals Fail Written Driving Test in Nevada: MagNote

Sorry, Liberals: Obamacare Won’t Lead to Single Payer: Peter Suderman
Former WH Official: Obama's 'Maybe' Not Good at Governing: WS
DC Saw Nearly 1400 Armed Robberies in 2013. How Can This Be?: PJM

The Left’s Latest Distraction: Income Inequality: David Limbaugh
Breaking: Federal judge strikes down Chicago’s ban on handgun sales: Hot Air
Creepy Propaganda Video Aimed At Selling Kids On TSA Security: WZ

Ready 4 Hillary? Yes and No.: Blasted Fools
CNN’s Jake Tapper: Hillary will have to answer for Benghazi: Brendan Bordelon
Court stops Utah gay marriages: Lyle Denniston, SCOTUSblog

Economy

The ‘Trickle-Down’ Lie: Thomas Sowell
You won't believe how bad California's business climate is: LI
The Slow (But Inevitable) Demise Of The US Dollar: ZH

Scandal Central

I took the SNAP Challenge and scored 25 lbs. of bacon!: MoTorch
Democrats Grayson, Schakowsky, and Barbara Lee Consult With Al Qaeda: Moe Lane
Speaker Boehner, install a select committee on Benghazi now.: Allen West

Climate & Energy

On coldest day in 20 years, here are Al Gore’s most ridiculous statements about global warming: Joshua Riddle
Obama in a nutshell: 141 new regulations in 3 days: Allen West
Despite Record Cold, Obama To Press Forward With Executive Action On Global Warming: LoneCon

Executive Order: 'Excessively High Temperatures' 'Already' Harming Public Health: CNS
Climate Astrology: Warmists Claim Global Warming Causing Record Cold Temperatures: AmPower
An Attempt At Climate Change Humor: Nice Deb

Media

Would the New York Post publish a headline like this if the victim were Muslim?: Matzav
The Left Wing Cesspool Formerly Known As Rolling Stone: Glob
Obama's Evil Not-So-Righteous Indignation: Michael Reisig

Lotfi and Tenthers Wrong!: Jen Kuznicki
Delving into the Tenth: Jen Kuznicki
Lotfi’s “Sound Judgment”: Jen Kuznicki

America's 50 best conservative blogs: Andrea Shea King
It's Time We Had That "Conversation on Guns": War on Guns
Rush: Media invented ‘Polar Vortex’ to try and blame ‘cold’ on global warming:

World

Why People Believe America Is the ‘Greatest Threat to Peace’: Dennis Prager
Peter King Raised Money for Terrorists While They Were Murdering American Allies: Erick Erickson
Czech Officials: Palestinian Explosion Possible Tip of the Iceberg of Weapon Smuggling Ring: Algemeiner

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Pebble Steel declassified: Raising the smartwatch design bar without breaking the mold: Tim Stevens, CNet
How the NSA (may have) put a backdoor in RSA’s cryptography: A technical primer: Nick Sullivan
Gene Therapy Turns Several Leukemia Patients Cancer Free. Will It Work for Other Cancers, Too?: SingularityHub

Cornucopia

Oh Look! Eliot Spitzer Is Still A Gross Weirdo: WZ
Hitler Finds Out His Doctor Is Not In His Obamacare Network: iOTW
Dystopic Short Fiction Trailer of Epic Proportons: War on Guns

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QOTD: "'One Oregon mother says that she is unable to afford health insurance for her and her 18-month-old son because it’s too expensive.

The woman — who wishes to remain anonymous — tells KOIN-TV that she originally championed President Barack Obama’s signature health care law because she thought it would help people in her situation...

“It wasn’t until I started the process and got an agent that I started hearing from them I wasn’t going to qualify for subsidies because I qualify on my husband’s insurance,” she told KOIN.
'

In other words, Miss Anonymous supported ObamaCare when she thought you were going to pay for it.

Scratch a prog, find a greedy, grubby thief." --Vodkapundit

Monday, January 06, 2014

DEMOCRAT LOGIC COMIX: Washington Post Self-Beclownment Edition @mikeciandella @mateagold @themrc

Rumor has it that liberal billionaire Jeff Bezos bought the Washington Post for two snow tires and a bottle of A-1 Steak Sauce. And overpaid, based upon untreated sewage propaganda like this.



Hat tip: BadBlue News.

You'll never guess whose photograph appears in about 99 percent of the White House "Year in Review" album

Did you say, "dozens and dozens and dozens of glamour shots of the Lightbringer™"? How'd you guess?


And it's not like the White House contains any important memorabilia and Americana, right?

It reminds me of Leni Riefenstahl's work, don't you think?

Oh, and of course there's one of Dear Leader with his favorite RINO, Crispy Creme Christie.


And it's not just me complaining about the leader cult photos: it's also the Praetorian Media, including the Associated Press, who now lament his "staged propaganda photos."

Bummer, nitwits.


Crazed Sex Poodle Al Gore Curiously AWOL

I pulled into the garage this evening and this is what my dashboard displayed:


I've had this particular car for seven years. I've never seen it remotely this cold before.

I swear to you, if there was an iota of justice in the world, Al "Crazed Sex Poodle" Gore, Michael "Fried Tree Rings" Mann, Lisa "Richard Windsor" Jackson, and that Climategate kook from England whose name escapes me would be forced to walk from the south side of Chicago to Evanston.

Tonight.

And does it strike anyone else as ironic that most of the climate grifters appear to be somewhat, uhm, rotund, having feasted like gluttons on the energy economy while trying to advance their radical Marxist agenda?


Hat tip: Me.

DEMOCRAT LOGIC COMIX: Extreme Schadenfreude Edition

With a tip o' the beret to Stephen Green's "Your Daily Dose of Schadenfreude":



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Larwyn's Linx: The Police State in Review, 2013

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Nation

The Police State in Review, 2013: PSUSA
The Year of the Dud: Victor Davis Hanson
Establishment GOP Teams With Left Against Tea Party Candidates: Dan Riehl

2013: The World’s Biggest Losers: Walter Russell Mead
Democrats Need To Come ‘Halfway’ On Immigration, Rand Paul Says: WZ
Support Legal, Lawful Immigration: 90 Miles

Medicaid Backdoor to Government Health Care: Star Parker
Obama’s OFA Thanks Paul Ryan, John McCain for Helping Push Amnesty: TPNN
Black and Latino Caucus Invites Whites, Denies them Voting Rights: FPM

Economy

Right-To-Work Advocates Are Ready For Prime Time In Missouri: LUR
'Savvy Fiat Scooped Up Chrysler (From Obama) For A Song': Tim Graham
The greatest achievement in human history, and you never hear about it: Skillicorn

De Blasio Plans to Destroy NYC: ‘We Won’t Wait. We’ll Do It Now.’: R.S. McCain
Why Wal-Mart can't pay a $15/hr. minimum wage: Looking Spoon
Muslim Mortgages Paid with More than $300 Million of Your Money: Suzanne Hamner

Scandal Central

Coercing Conformity: Andrew C. McCarthy
Surprise! Medicaid isn't free - it's a poorly advertised predatory loan: Robert Laurie
Your Birthday Gift to Michelle: Keith Koffler

Climate & Energy

Obama Winter: The War on Coal: John Ruberry
US Coast Guard Ship To Attempt Rescue of 2 Icebreakers In Antarctica: Slashdot
U.S. Must Build More Icebreakers Now: 90 Miles

Media

MSNBC Lying In The Bed They Made: Blasted Fools
FACT: Greg Gutfeld-Jon Stewart Would See Gutfeld Draw More Viewers: 90 Miles
Will: 'There's Nothing Better for Conservatism Than Periodic Examples of Untrammeled Liberalism': Noel Sheppard

A new power in conservative media: Hadas Gold, Politico
A Liberal Goes to a Gun Event, Comes Away Shocked at How Nice Gun Owners Are: Publius
Outrage Over New York Post Coverage of Tragic Death of Kidnapped Chasidic Jew: Algemeiner

World

Trey Gowdy: What Would Happen If Americans Knew Al Qaeda Really Isn’t On The Run?: Caleb Howe
Kerry continues Mideast shuttle diplomacy: Rantburg
Britain's version of Tea Party rocks political system across the pond: Adam Shaw, Fox

The Chinese High-Tech Dynasty Wrapped in Red: Terresa Monroe-Hamilton
Cubans Shocked At Prices As Foreign Cars Go On Sale: Tammy Bruce
Hateful anti-Israel education shows PA’s true colors, minister charges: Stuart Winer

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

“NSA gate” makes global expansion a sticky wicket for U.S. cloud providers: Barb Darrow
This Tiny Device Brings Exercising to Planes, Couches: Samantha Murphy Kelly
CES: Laser headlights edge closer to real-world highways: Slashdot

Cornucopia

The Truth About What is Going on in America is Far Worse Than We Want to Admit: Dean Garrison
Hillary Posing With Invited Whitehouse Guests: And Of the Gods
Not All Lambeau Leaps Are Equal: Timothy Burke, Deadspin

Image: Britain’s own version of the tea party poised to take 2014 elections by storm
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QOTD: "...when they’ve got scientific evidence on their side, green campaigners spew hate speech about the evil science deniers on the other side. But the moment a scientific consensus attacks some cherished green myth (organic good, GMO bad, for example), they spew hate speech against scientists as corporate shills. There is no intellectual honesty or consistency in this attitude; the one constant is anger and contempt for those who challenge the tenets of green faith.

What the planet and the people who live on it badly need is a pro-environment, pro-people movement that actually cares about scientific evidence. Unfortunately that’s not what we’ve got—and climate change activists again need to come to terms with the reality that cloudy green thinking and downright hypocrisy is a leading cause of climate skepticism." --Walter Russell Mead

Sunday, January 05, 2014

MAN VS. NATURE: Warmal Colding Edition

I wonder how many tens of millions of carbon-emitting automobiles it would take to match the 50 volcanic eruptions that occurred yesterday in Indonesia?



As an aside, now the U.S. Coast Guard will assist the icebreaking ships that have been trapped in Antarctic ice. You know, the same ice that Al Gore and Tree-Ring Boy predicted wouldn't be there. Oh -- and it's summer in Antarctica.

Remember: the global cooling deniers are Marxists. They want to redistribute your wealth using "climate change" as the excuse. It's a scam. Mankind can no more control the weather than Al Gore can control his appetite.


Important Update:



DEMOCRAT LOGIC COMIX: The Silence of the Feminists

Biff Spackle is, as they say, on a roll:



Hat tip: Capitol Hill Blue

Democrats and Republicans Agree!

It would seem that Democrats and Republicans agree on at least one thing: the economy sucks:

Contrary to ongoing attempts by the administration to refocus the public's attention on such focal points as guns, an imminent external cybersecurity threat (until it was revealed that the biggest cyber terrorist is the NSA itself), and climate change, the three still remain, pardon the pan, at the cold end of the spectrum when it comes to what issues most concern the US public. On the other end, for one decade and counting, the "top priority" for the US public was and continues to be "the economy", stupid.

The term cognitive dissonance was invented for situations like this. Democrats are super-concerned with the economy, unemployment, education, Medicare, and health care, yet they've been calling the shots in Congress for seven years and controlling the White House for five.

Yet they haven't quite figured out that it's their own policies that suck: from the teacher's unions monopolistic control of education to Obamacare's chaotic dismantling of the health care industry.

In other words, the fact that Democrats list these issues as their biggest concerns are tacit admissions that their own party's policies are utter failures.

Oh: and someone alert John Boehner, Paul Ryan and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, who seem painfully unaware of how unpopular some kind of "compromise" on illegal immigration will be. Secure the border, dimwits, then let's talk.


DEMOCRAT LOGIC COMIX: The Bloomberg Conundrum

Biff Spackle:



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THE BENGHAZI WHITEWASH: The New York Times engages in outright journalistic malpractice

Guest post by Kenneth Timmerman

The New York Times has done excellent reporting on Libya. The newspaper was among the first to reveal that U.S.-approved arms for the Libyan rebels had fallen into the hands of jihadi groups and, more generally, on the rise of al Qaeda-affiliated groups in Libya and North Africa. So the paper’s Dec. 28 “investigation” that determined with utter certainty that the attacks of Sept. 11, 2012, in Benghazi were caused by a YouTube video would be baffling if it weren’t so obvious an attempt to exonerate the Obama administration and Hillary Clinton from responsibility for the deadly failures in Libya that cost the lives of four brave Americans.

The Times’ report misconstrues known facts and simply sweeps under the table mountains of evidence of al Qaeda’s ties to Libyan jihadi groups.

In June 2012, for example, more than a dozen different jihadi groups put the black flag of al Qaeda on parade in Benghazi in what they hoped would be a three-day show of force. Thousands of jihadi fighters, many of them in Pakistani and Afghan dress, paraded through the streets of Benghazi with hundreds of gun trucks.

For The New York Times, though, the black flags were merely “the black flags of militant Islam” and apparently bore no relation to al Qaeda. “Benghazi was not infiltrated by al Qaeda,” The Times flatly asserted.

In August, Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens put his name to a cable with the auspicious title, “The Guns of August,” that explicitly warned about the security vacuum in Benghazi and Tripoli. “What we have seen are not random crimes of opportunity, but rather targeted and discriminate attacks,” the cable warned.

It was one of dozens of cables detailing the growing chaos in Libya that were turned over to the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee after repeated stonewalling by the State Department. My sources say it came on the heels of an alarming security briefing by the CIA chief of station for Stevens and the Embassy security team. But for The New York Times, the cable simply “struck an understanding tone about the absence of effective policing.”

Larwyn's Linx: Jim Rogers Warns "Bernanke Has Set The Stage For The Fed's Collapse"

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Nation

Jim Rogers Warns "Bernanke Has Set The Stage For The Fed's Collapse": ZH
Secession Brought To You By The New Barbarians: Russell D. Longcore
A Call For Freedom: III Percent

The Denaturalization of America: Daren Jonescu
Good News: The NSA Spies on All U.S. Persons Equally: Nice Deb
Detroit police chief: Legal gun owners can deter crime: George Hunter

A World of Destitution: Christian Mercenary
New York’s Fact-Free Gun Ruling : John R. Lott Jr.
Management experts knock Obama: Politico

Economy

The Party of the Rich Flogs Income Inequality: Roger L. Simon
Did Inequality Make Dasani Homeless?: Kay S. Hymowitz
Obama: Republicans Went Home For Holidays While a Mother Suffers : GWP

The Big Puff: Obama’s Shrinking Deficit: Rick Jensen
Boeing Result: Everyone Wins: Mish
NLRB Acknowledges Overreach: NAM

Scandal Central

Moms Demand Action: Shannon Watts, the Plastic Gardener: Gun-Free Zone
Embarrassments Of The New York SAFE Act Gun Ban Legal Ruling: Captain's Journal
Man arrested for 5 knockout game attacks: Liberal Logic 101

Climate & Energy

German scientists predict a century of global cooling: Cliff Harris
The Labors of Hercules: Kevin D. Williamson
2 Below Honey: Moonbattery

As Temperatures Plunge, Experts Declare Global Warming Is Getting Worse: Dave Blount
UK Guardian Fascist Wonders If Aussie Papers Should Give Platforms To Skeptics: Cove
15 Items That Should Be In Your Vehicle During the Winter: Ready Nutrition

Media

Dangerous Times: The New York Times Goes the Full Pravda: James Lewis
Chris Hayes: Heartless Right-Wingers Laughing at Scientists Trying to Save the World: Ace
Monty Python Star Reveals Why Comics Won’t Lampoon Islam: Bryan Preston

Rolling Stone's Sad "5 Economic Reforms Millennials Should Be Fighting For": Nick Gillespie
She Lies! Original Video Indicates Melissa Harris-Perry’s Tearful Apology Is Bogus: Dan Riehl
Gun myths destroyed in five minutes… from ABC’s 20/20?: Bearing Arms

A Lesson in Efficient Dictatorship: R.S. McCain
“Shrugging It Off”– It’s a Game of the Throne: MOTUS
Every Boy Should Own A Knife: Ed That Matters

World

World In Chaos: Keith Koffler
'America does not lead the world in the area of morality': Lech Walesa: Rick Moran
We Don't Need Combat Troops Anymore -- Right?: Market Ticker

Thanks to Obama, Al Qaeda Retakes Fallujah: Pat Dollard
Obama’s Post-American Smart Power Leads To Middle East Power Vacuum: RWN
Hostage priest released by jihadists denies being freed for "compassion": JihadWatch

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Navy sailors have radiation sickness after Japan rescue: Laura Italiano, Kerry Murtha
Revealed: Glock 41 & 42 Pistols: Guns & Ammo
Surviving Disaster: Home For Survival

Cornucopia

William Overstreet Jr. 1921-2014: Ace
A Lasting Peace: IMAO
The Weirdest Thing on the Internet Tonight: Symmetry: Gizmodo

Image: Because Obama Surrendered All Our Bases In Iraq To Please Iran, Al-Qaeda Retakes Fallujah
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QOTD: "Record low temperatures and mountains of snow aren’t the only symptoms of the brutal winter much of the country has been having. Another is egg on the face of liberals, who even now are unwilling to relinquish their faith in global warming.

...On Tuesday, Winnipeg was as cold as the surface of Mars...

Why not scrap the obviously erroneous models and pay some attention to actual temperatures? Because bureaucrats don’t pass out grants for that.

Arctic ice has expanded by 50% since last year. Pseudo-scientific frauds searching for their lost global warming find themselves frozen in place. Yet we are asked to believe that the warming trend that has not actually existed since the previous century is accelerating." --Dave Blount

Saturday, January 04, 2014

They tried to protect the President by only showing one picture on the news. Here’s the rest of them.

Via Anita:

John Kerry's Tenuous Grasp on Reality Endangers the Entire World

Guest post by Ambassador (ret.) Yoram Ettinger

The value of U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry's assessments and proposed peace agreement, which would reduce Israel to a 9-to-15 mile waistline (the pre-1967 lines), in the increasingly raging Middle East, is consistent with Kerry's track record.

Kerry's Syrian track record

Until the eruption of the civil war in Syria, Kerry was a member of a tiny group of U.S. senators -- along with Chuck Hagel and Hillary Clinton -- who believed that President Bashar Assad was a generous, constructive leader, a reformer and a man of his word. Kerry was a frequent flyer to Damascus, dining with Assad and his wife at the Naranj restaurant in central Damascus. Following a motorcycle ride with Assad, he returned to Washington referring to the president as "my dear friend."

In September 2009, Kerry opined that "Syria is an essential player in bringing peace and stability to the region," while Assad was conducting hate-education, repressing his opposition, hosting and arming terrorist outfits like Hezbollah, cozying up to Iran, and facilitating the infiltration of jihadists into Iraq to kill U.S. soldiers. WikiLeaks disclosed that on February, 2010, Kerry told Qatari leaders that the Golan Heights should be returned to Syria and that a Palestinian capital should be established in east Jerusalem. "We know that for the Palestinians the control of Al-Aqsa mosque and the establishment of their capital in east Jerusalem are not negotiable."

According to the London Telegraph, Kerry was a fierce critic of the Bush administration's hardline against Assad, advocating a policy of engagement -- rather than sanctions -- against terror-sponsoring Syria. In March 2011, Kerry subordinated reality-driven hope to wishful-thinking-driven hope: "My judgment is that Syria will move; Syria will change, as it embraces a legitimate relationship with the United States and the West." However, more than 200,000 deaths and 2 million refugees later, Assad's Syria has certainly changed for the worst. In January 2005, following another meeting with Assad, Kerry said: "This is the moment of opportunity for the Middle East, for the U.S. and for the world. ... I think we found a great deal of areas of mutual interest ... strengthening the relationship between the U.S. and Syria."

On September 3, 2013, Kerry assured his colleagues that "the Syrian opposition has increasingly become more defined by its moderation." However, Assad's opposition consists, mainly, of anti-U.S., Islamic supremacists, Shariah-driven, anti-democracy, the violently intolerant Muslim Brotherhood and al-Qaida, whose subversive vision transcends Syria, encompassing the Abode of Islam as a prelude to the grand assault on the Abode of the Infidel.

DEMOCRAT LOGIC COMIX: Reichstag Edition

Another one from Biff Spackle:



Hat tip: Liberal Logic 101.

Archdiocese of New York: Obamacare exemptions granted to any and all... except those with Judeo-Christian beliefs

Ed Mechmann of the Archdiocese of New York has some astute observations regarding faith and Obamacare.

How can you diagnose when somebody is suffering from ideological obsession?

Consider the case of the Affordable Care Act. This law was supposed to provide for universal health insurance for all Americans. Yet the law is filled with exemptions, and the Administration has granted even more exceptions and exemptions as the implementation date for the law approached on New Year’s Day.

Here are just a few of the exemptions that were incorporated in the law itself: people who can’t afford coverage, even with a subsidy; people with income levels too low to require filing a federal tax return; members of certain Indian tribes; people who can claim a hardship; people who will have a short gap in their coverage; members of certain religious groups that conscientiously oppose insurance benefit programs (e.g., the Amish); members of a “health care sharing ministry”; people in prison; and people who are not lawfully in the United States.

In the last few months, with all the mess associated with the new health exchange websites, and all the other chaos associated with the law, the Administration has granted new exemptions: people whose plans were cancelled can get a plan that is not compliant with the ACA; people who weren’t able to comply because of difficulties in signing up for a new plan won’t be penalized; and large businesses with over 50 employees will not be fined for failing to provide any health insurance.

Now, many of these exemptions make perfect sense, and reflect a healthy degree of flexibility in the implementation of a very complex law.

So, what does this have to do with ideology? Well, despite all those other exemptions, waivers and extensions, one group has not been able to obtain an exemption, despite repeatedly asking for it, petitioning for it, and finally suing for it — religious organizations that have a moral objection to facilitating contraception, sterilization, and abortion, as would be required under the so-called HHS Mandate.

For these groups, there is no flexibility at all. There is instead an adamant insistence that they will have to cooperate, regardless of their deeply-held religious beliefs. The Amish get out of the law entirely, but when it comes to Catholic dioceses, schools and charities agencies, the government offers nothing except artificial and unsatisfactory “accommodations”.

Consider the absurdity of the government’s position. As pointed out by Archbishop Kurtz, the president of the U.S. Bishops, under the Administration’s current policies, large businesses will be able to completely eliminate any health insurance for their employees, with no fine at all, but religious organizations that refuse to cooperate with moral evil will be subject to crippling fines of $100 per day per employee. The government won’t even grant temporary respite while legal challenges are working their way through the courts. They can’t even bring themselves to give a break to the Little Sisters of the Poor, who spend their entire lives caring for needy elderly people.

Why is this? It’s not that hard to understand. The current Administration is entirely beholden to an ideology of sexual liberationism that considers contraception, sterilization and abortion to be “sacred ground”. They consider this ideology to be so central to life that they will brook no opposition, and will do whatever it takes to bring to heel anyone who opposes them.

That is an ideological obsession. It is dangerous to the souls of those who suffer from it, and it is dangerous to any society in which they wield power.


Gee, I wonder why the Obama administration would be so dead-set against granting exemptions to those with Judeo-Christian beliefs?

And let me guess: the Archdiocese of New York will now be tarred as right-wing, racist, tea-bagging extremists by the kooks on the left and MSNBC. But I repeat myself.


Hat tip: Ace.

The New York Times Shreds Obama

Guest post by Caroline Glick

The New York Times just delivered a mortal blow to the Obama administration and its Middle East policy. Call it fratricide. It was clearly unintentional. Indeed, is far from clear that the paper realizes what it has done.

Last Saturday the Times published an 8,000-word account by David Kirkpatrick detailing the terrorist strike against the US Consulate and the CIA annex in Benghazi, Libya, on September 11, 2012. In it, Kirkpatrick tore to shreds the foundations of President Barack Obama’s counterterrorism strategy and his overall policy in the Middle East.

Obama first enunciated those foundations in his June 4, 2009, speech to the Muslim world at Cairo University. Ever since, they have been the rationale behind US counterterror strategy and US Middle East policy.

Obama’s first assertion is that radical Islam is not inherently hostile to the US. As a consequence, America can appease radical Islamists. Moreover, once radical Muslims are appeased, they will become US allies, (replacing the allies the US abandons to appease the radical Muslims).

Obama’s second strategic guidepost is his claim that the only Islamic group that is a bona fide terrorist organization is the faction of al-Qaida directly subordinate to Osama bin Laden’s successor, Ayman al-Zawahiri. Only this group cannot be appeased and must be destroyed through force.

The administration has dubbed the Zawahiri faction of al-Qaida “core al-Qaida.” And anyone who operates in the name of al-Qaida, or any other group that does not have courtroom-certified operational links to Zawahiri, is not really al-Qaida, and therefore, not really a terrorist group or a US enemy.

These foundations have led the US to negotiate with the Taliban in Afghanistan. They are the rationale for the US’s embrace of the Muslim Brotherhood worldwide. They are the basis for Obama’s allegiance to Turkey’s Islamist government, and his early support for the Muslim Brotherhood-dominated Syrian opposition.

They are the basis for the administration’s kneejerk support for the PLO against Israel.

Larwyn's Linx: Obamacare: Frustrated Patients Walk Out of Hospitals Without Treatment

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Nation

Frustrated Patients Walk Out of Hospitals Without Treatment: Tammy Bruce
Welcome To Reality, IDIOTS!: Market Ticker
Obamacare Has No Financial Controls Whatsoever: RS

11 state attorneys general say Obamacare fixes illegal: BPR
CA Lacks the Docs To Meet the Demand Of ObamaCare: S&L
Obamacare system fails to account for human reproduction: Moe Lane

ObamaCare Scam Collapsing as Uninsured Realize How Little it Offers: FPM
Make Obamacare Voluntary: Phil Kerpen
Your daily ObamaCare horror story: Protein Wisdom

Economy

An American Depression: Extreme Haircut Edition: Terresa Monroe-Hamilton
Stop the Bailout -- Now: Charles Krauthammer
Congress Throws Veterans Under The Bus For Illegal Immigrants: John Hawkins

Death, Taxes, and Obamacare: Erick Erickson
5 Ways Liberal Obsession With Income Inequality Hurts Poor: John Hawkins
10 Things to Watch in Congress in 2014: Bill Straub

Scandal Central

Washington’s “Ten Most Wanted Corrupt Politicians” for 2013: JW
Rand Paul to Lead Class-Action Lawsuit Against Obama Administration: Breitbart
The DOJ is about to spend half a million on LinkedIn: NakedDC

Climate & Energy

U.S. Taxpayers Funded $7.45 Billion Helping Other Countries Deal With “Climate Change”: WZ
As Temperatures Plunge, Experts Declare Global Warming Is Getting Worse: MB
Polar Vortex – It’s colder in Canada than it is on Mars – But I thought Global Warming?: FAM

Media

Let us send our daughters to die in battle for the sake of gender neutrality!: Matt Walsh
J’Accuse the Ultimate Anti-Semite (Update): The “As a Jew” Meme Returns: Liberty's Spirit
Self-Esteem Begat the Selfie Generation: MOTUS

World

Heading South: Mark Steyn
This is called "quan jue", or execution by dogs: Blazing Cat Fur
Al Qaeda Captures Fallujah, Proclaims It An Islamic State: RWN

I’m glad my son’s murderers have not been found: Sherri Mandell
Allah Akbar and Ho, Ho, Ho: Blogmocracy
NYU Prof to Head ASA, Supports Israel Boycott: Joshua Levitt

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Eye-Controlled Gaming May Be Closer Than It Appears: Richard Adhikari
Is Republic Wireless too good to be true?: Maguerite Reardon
New research on King Tut's genitals could point to ancient religious rift: Josh Lowensohn

Cornucopia

It's Up to Us: Adrienne
It's Thick: RWN
A&E spinoffs: Dyke Dynasty, Schmuck Dynasty, Lame Duck...: Cube

Image: A&E spinoffs: Dyke Dynasty, Schmuck Dynasty, Lame Duck...
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QOTD: "First, it postponed the employer mandate. Then it exempted from the individual mandate people whose policies were canceled (by Obamacare). And for those who did join the exchanges, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius is “strongly encouraging” insurers — during the “transition” — to cover doctors and drugs not included in their clients’ plans.

The insurers were stunned. Told to give free coverage. Deprived of their best customers. Forced to offer stripped-down “catastrophic” plans to people age 30 and over (contrary to the law). These dictates, complained an insurance industry spokesman, could “destabilize” the insurance market.

Translation: How are we going to survive this? Shrinking revenues and rising costs could bring on the “death spiral” — an unbalanced patient pool forcing huge premium increases (to restore revenue) that would further unbalance the patient pool as the young and healthy drop out.

End result? Insolvency — before which the insurance companies will pull out of Obamacare.

Solution? A huge government bailout. It’s Obamacare’s escape hatch. And — surprise, surprise — it’s already baked into the law.

Which is why the GOP needs to act [to ban any bailout of insurers]... Such a bill would be overwhelmingly popular because Americans hate fat-cat bailouts of any kind. Why should their tax dollars be spent not only saving giant insurers but also rescuing this unworkable, unbalanced, unstable, unpopular money-pit of a health-care scheme?" --Charles Krauthammer