Wednesday, January 08, 2014

Dude.

After a week in Chicago, this could be pretty appealing.


DEMOCRAT LOGIC COMIX: Unemployment Squirrel Edition, Part Deux

Are these poor suckers props or human shields?


As John Hayward observes, "It’s awfully strange to see a President simultaneously claim that his economy is (finally) on the mend… while simultaneously demanding yet another 'emergency' unemployment extension."


Hat tip: BadBlue News.

A Plan for Dealing With John Boehner

Originally posted on 24 July 2013, I am republishing this as we find out more about the Amnesty bill the GOP Establishment wants to ram down our throats. Such an action would prove triply suicidal for the RNC as it would: (a) destroy what little unity exists between the conservative base (which makes up the majority of the Republican grassroots) and the old guard; (b) hand Barack Obama a stunning victory on the heels of the Obamacare debacle; and (c) prove once and for all that the Beltway Ruling Class is bought and paid for by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the rest of the corporatists.


I think we can all agree that John Boehner is a complete and utter failure as House Speaker. Marble-mouthed, unprincipled, double-dealing and cowardly are among the more positive attributes I can think of. Consider the man's actions over the two-and-a-half years that have elapsed since the Tea Party movement and Constitutional Conservatives brought him to power:

• Despite an unprecedented series of White House scandals -- including, but not limited to gun-running to Mexican drug cartels, the Benghazi cover-up, IRS-gate, and repeated perjurious testimony to Congress -- John Boehner refuses to name a Select Investigative Committee or demand a Special Prosecutor.

• In fact, in the case of the Benghazi cover-up, even though 75 percent of House Republicans want a Select Committee formed, Boehner refuses. That's right: John Boehner refuses to name a Special Committee on Benghazi, with dedicated budget, resources and staff -- and won't even tell us why.

• And what could be the reason? Some have speculated that Boehner has secretly cut a deal with Democrats in exchange for, well, who knows? Suffice it to say that if John Boehner is negotiating for you, you're going to walk out of the room wearing only your underwear. My guess is he really has cut a secret deal with Obama and Reid, perhaps regarding the debt ceiling or some other act of surrender that sells out the American people in exchange for his consolidation of more power.

• And what is John Boehner's top priority right now? That's right: Amnesty. Legalizing tens of millions of illegal aliens, which we know for a fact will vote by a stunning 8-to-1 margin for Democrats. Brilliant.

• As for de-funding Obamacare? That, too, Boehner refuses to do, instead holding fan-dance votes to repeal Obamacare, knowing that said bills will never see the light of day in the Senate. The Constitution grants the House of Representatives the power of the purse. Boehner could de-fund Obamacare -- completely -- if he wished, letting Obama try to rally support for his despotic and failed testament to central planning. But this Boehner will not do, because it requires brains, courage, principles and cojones.

So what do we do about John Boehner?

While there are grassroots efforts emerging to primary Boehner in Ohio's 8th District -- and we wish them all possible success -- the time has come to consider an alternative plan. A nuclear option, if you will.

Assuming that Boehner wins his primary in OH-8, I suggest we rally support among Tea Party and Constitutional Conservatives in that district to vote. To vote Democrat.

That single seat has virtually no chance of swinging the majority in the House one way or the other. A newly elected Democrat in that very Red seat will be a back-bencher and virtually powerless. This will give time to the district (and it is a very conservative district by all accounts) to assemble a credible candidate should one not emerge in 2014.

I would never advocate such a tactic in the Senate even though Mitch McConnell is Boehner-lite. In the Senate the odds of taking majority control are simply too tempting to chance returning the dimwitted crackpot from Searchlight, Nevada to a seat of power.

But Boehner, on the other hand, is such an egregious failure, such a cowardly and un-principled operator, that he must be ripped out of the Speaker's chair by any means necessary.

Let's see what happens in OH-8, but I suggest we fund and vociferously support any -- and I do mean any -- Boehner opponent. Enough is enough.

Larwyn's Linx: Occupuncture: Crushing the Equality Narrative

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Nation

Occupuncture: Crushing the Equality Narrative: The Wilderness
Ready to Commit?: Erick Erickson
Mega-Wealthy Obama: I Hate Income Inequality: Albert Merrick

Why Socialism is on the Rise: Ben Shapiro
Obamacare: Workplace Disaster Ahead: Betsy McCaughey
Former SECDEF Gates Rips Obama in His New Memoir: Ace

Chris Christie signs illegal alien DREAM Act, whole hog for amnesty: WyBlog
Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) needs poll-tested excuse for Obamacare: Moe Lane
Roberts protects Obamacare again: GOPUSA

Economy

Barack Obama’s broken window economy: John Hayward
The Big Pop: Peter Schiff
On “income inequality”: ProWis

Equality. Let’s “spread it around.”: MOTUS
Politics And Minimum Wage: Walter Williams
UC Berkeley illegal aliens: "Just hand over the damned money": ProWis

Scandal Central

How the NSA Threatens National Security: Bruce Schneier
Former Guantanamo detainee implicated in Benghazi attack: Adam Goldman, WaPo
DOD Reviewing Its 'Equal Opportunity' Training--After Anti-Christian Materials Exposed: Penny Starr

Climate & Energy

US Sucked Into Polar Vortex! Film at 11°: Ed Driscoll
Time Magazine Swings Both Ways: Ed Driscoll
Everything Is Because Of ‘Climate Change’, Except What Isn’t: Caleb Howe

Media

Mark Levin’s ‘The Liberty Amendments’: Spyridon Mitsotakis
The Best Takedown Of MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow That You Will Ever Read: YoungCons
Huffpo tries to debunk Rush’s Polar Vortex comments, fails miserably: Scoop

Surrounded by His Victims, the President Says Paying People Not to Work Creates Jobs: EIB
The Left's Lies on Obamacare and Everything Else: Ace
Another Undocumented Democrat Comes out of the Shadows: Daniel Horowitz

NBC: Bush to Blame for 'Security Vacuum' in Iraq Created by Obama's Troop Withdrawal: Kyle Drennen
Mark Levin eviscerates lib argument about Framers, slavery, and the Constitution: Scoop
Lib columnist discovers unemployed “gaming” jobless benefits: Michelle Malkin (2010)

World

Flying Towards a Waterfall: Former Spook
How Islam--and the ever-present threat it poses to humanity--could be brought to an end in one, simple step: VFTR
Erdogan’s Son Caught with Al-Qaeda Financier: American Interest

The Muslim Suicide Convert: Daniel Greenfield
Standing Up to Bullies: U. Texas Quits American Studies Association Over Its Israel Boycott: Ace
"The Forest of Assassins" brings the early days of the Vietnam War to life.: Former Spook

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Supervolcano eruption mystery solved: James Morgan, BBC
Wow! Hubble Snaps Super-Deep View of Universe (Photos): Miriam Kramer
Vizio's first 4K TVs will start at only $999: Nathan Ingraham, The Verge

Cornucopia

We're Ready for Hillary!: iOTW
Satan Demands Equal Rights: Cube
Survivors of the Blizzard of ’78 Mock the ‘Arctic Vortex’: PJM

Image: Satan Demands Equal Rights: Cube
Sponsored by: Caleb Jacoby, teenage son of Boston Globe columnist Jeff Jacoby, is missing

QOTD: "If interest rates rise much further, to perhaps 4% or 5%, the stock and real estate markets will be placed under pressure, and the Fed and the other “Too Big to Fail” banks will see considerablelosses on their portfolios of Treasury and mortgage-backed bonds. Such developments could trigger widespread economic turmoil, forcing the Fed to expand its QE purchases. Such an embarrassing reversal would add to selling pressure on the dollar, and might potentially trigger an exodus of foreign investment and an increase in import prices. I believe that nothing can prevent these trends from continuing to the point where a crisis will be reached. It’s extremely difficult to construct a logical argument that avoids this outcome, but that hasn’t stopped our best and brightest forecasters from doing just that.

So while the hallelujah chorus is ringing in the New Year with a full-throated crescendo, don’t be surprised by sour notes that will bubble to the top with increasing frequency. Ultimately the power of monetary policy to engineer a real economy will be proven to be just as ridiculous as the claims that housing prices must always go up." --Peter Schiff

Tuesday, January 07, 2014

CRAZED SEX POODLE COMIX: The Collected Wisdom of Al Gore

Thanks to Young Conservatives.


And this is the thought leader of the global warming climate change movement?


* "Crazed sex poodle" is the phrase a Portland masseuse used to describe Gore's behavior.

HIGHLIGHTS OF SECDEF ROBERT GATES' NEW BOOK: For Obama, Every National Security Decision Was Political

Former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates has a new book coming out this month. Entitled "Duty: Memoirs of a Secretary at War", it provides an inside view into the dysfunctional gaggle of political hacks inside the Obama White House.

Highlights from Washington Post:

Obama, after months of contentious discussion with Gates and other top advisers, deployed 30,000 more troops in a final push to stabilize Afghanistan before a phased withdrawal beginning in mid-2011. “I never doubted Obama’s support for the troops, only his support for their mission,” Gates writes.

If you as the Commander-in-Chief don't support the mission, you then truly don't support the troops.

It is rare for a former Cabinet member, let alone a defense secretary occupying a central position in the chain of command, to publish such an antagonistic portrait of a sitting president...

...the book simmers with disappointment in Obama, it reflects outright contempt for Vice President Biden and many of Obama’s top aides... Biden is accused of “poisoning the well” against the military leadership. Thomas Donilon, initially Obama’s deputy national security adviser, and then-Lt. Gen. Douglas E. Lute, the White House coordinator for the wars, are described as regularly engaged in “aggressive, suspicious, and sometimes condescending and insulting questioning of our military leaders.

..."“Hillary told the president that her opposition to the [2007] surge in Iraq had been political because she was facing him in the Iowa primary. . . . The president conceded vaguely that opposition to the Iraq surge had been political. To hear the two of them making these admissions, and in front of me, was as surprising as it was dismaying..."

How the Obama administration dismantled the United States government -- and how we can rebuild it

Guest post by Ken Hoagland

Obamacare is a flea bitten dog that never would have been enacted without wholesale and deliberate falsehoods said over and over again by Barack Obama and every Democrat cheerleader. It never would have been enacted without legislative sleights-of-hand and backroom bribes offered to key Democrats.

It never would have been enacted and Barack Obama would likely not have won a second term without the willing negligence of a toothless “watchdog press” who refused to independently investigate or report obvious lies.

Now we will be bitten by this dog and indeed, as many as five million people who have lost insurance (that they liked) have already felt the teeth. It will get worse. Although not widely reported, another 100 million Americans with workplace coverage (by HHS’ own estimates) may be dropped by employers and forced into more costly coverage through security-challenged exchanges.

Many of those already forced into Obamacare have seen their trusted doctors dropped from networks and even with subsidies, deductible thresholds so high that savings are just a fiction. Another fiction. And those people with severe illnesses who have been canceled and lost the best hospitals and specialist care may have already been condemned to death by their own government “helping them”.

As the American people absorb body blow after body blow from this destructive fraud, our system of government has, itself, been battered so that this President can have his “signature” issue. By unilaterally changing the so-called “Law of the Land” so many times Obama has rendered Congress all but irrelevant. While this may sound good to those frustrated with divided government, it is nothing less than the strangling of the very heart of our Constitutional system of representation.

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":



Hat tip: BadBlue News.

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:



Hat tip: Liberal Logic 101.

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