Thursday, January 16, 2014

Massive Target credit-card hack: More details emerge

Security expert Bruce Krebs has been scrutinizing the massive hack of the retailer Target, which compromised tens of millions of consumer credit cards.

Target has yet to honor a single request for comment from this publication, and the company has said nothing publicly about how this breach occurred. But according to sources, the attackers broke in to Target after compromising a company Web server. Somehow, the attackers were able to upload the malicious POS [point-of-sale] software to store point-of-sale machines, and then set up a control server within Target’s internal network that served as a central repository for data hoovered by all of the infected point-of-sale devices.

“The bad guys were logging in remotely to that [control server], and apparently had persistent access to it,” a source close to the investigation told KrebsOnSecurity. “They basically had to keep going in and manually collecting the dumps..."

...[Russian security firm] Group-IB [may have linked the attack] to a set of young Russian and Ukranian men who appear to be actively engaged in a variety of cybercrime activities, including distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks and protests associated with the hackivist collective known as Anonymous.

Rumors have been floating around the security community that the POS hardware had been compromised at the supplier before it had even reached Target.

Larwyn's Linx: Bic It Where The Sun Don't Shine

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Nation

Bic It Where The Sun Don't Shine: Hopenchange
Re-living History: Christian Mercenary
Despairing statement from a Florida physician will break your heart: Moe Lane

The Great GOP Establishment Amnesty Swindle: Daniel Horowitz
GOP Lays Ground Work to Walk Away From Obamacare Opposition: Erick Erickson
Mitch McConnell’s lead drops big: Dan Riehl

Jim Moran becomes 3rd House Dem this week to retire: Hot Air
Special election suggests Dems’ grip on Arkansas crumbling: David Freddoso

The Truth About Sandy Hook: PJM
Spengler's Universal Laws: American Digest
CT state police seek to question Vanderboegh in gun dispute: Anthony Martin

Economy

Obama the Droughtmaker: Doug Kimball
Scranton Residents Plead for Bankruptcy vs. Higher Taxes: Mish
California Democrat Wants Illegals to Get Free Government Healthcare: Eagle

Scandal Central

Five CMS contracts that CGI Federal still somehow holds: Patrick Howley
8 Terrible Acts of Jim Moran, America’s Worst Congressman: Mollie Hemingway
Republicans Singling Out the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff for Benghazi: Eli Lake

Climate & Energy

Emails Show Extensive Collaboration Between EPA, Environmentalist Orgs: WFB
Farmers, ranchers sue EPA for releasing confidential data to environmental kooks: NRO

Media

The Media: The Illusion of Coverage: Fred on Everything
Is Chris Christie less believable than Tawana Brawley?: Ann Coulter
The ‘Lone Survivor’ Review So Outrageous Beck Will Pay Author to Read It To Marcus Luttrell’s Face: Blaze

Coburn to Congress: ‘The Problem Is Us’: PJM
Why Do We Have ‘Bridgegate’ — But Not ‘Gatesgate’?: Larry Elder
Amerika’s First, Historic, Community Organizer In Chief: With a Bullhorn: MOTUS

World

The cowardice of the new anti-Semitism: Victor Davis Hanson
Kerry's Peace Process Double Standards: Khaled Abu Toameh
Mexico: Military clash with cartel-fighting militias: Fausta

Rep. Trey Gowdy Wants A Subpoena for Hillary Clinton: RWN
Feinstein defends Clinton on Benghazi: No evidence she even knew about it so let’s move on: Scoop
Feinstein Admits 'NSA Reform' Bill Is About Protecting Existing Surveillance Programs : TechDirt

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

What’s Net Neutrality? What Happened to Net Neutrality Yesterday? What Happens Next?: Peter Kafka
Trial seeks to provide hard data to answer FCC's indoor-location questions: Glenn Bischoff
Kvar Presents: It’s a Knife, it’s a Gun, no it’s both!: James Grant

Cornucopia

How Reggie Became Tank...: 90 Miles
Go Ahead and Laugh Now: Feral Irishman
Chabad Rabbi wins his first MMA fight with TKO: Algemeiner

Image: CNN Reporter Covering New Pot Laws In Colorado Looks Completely Baked
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QOTD: "In a paroxysm of patriotic musing, I reflected that Washington is an insular, incestuous, inward-looking city, chiefly interested in itself, so politically inbred as to be in danger of hemophilia, out of touch with reality, having remarkably little understanding of or interest in the rest of the country or the world. Isnl’t this wonderful?

Inbreeding? By comparison with the Yankee Capital, West Virginians are on the outer limits of hybrid vigor. We had Bush I, a mediocrity but no worse, and later Bush II, in whom mediocrity would have been a welcome astonishment. We had Clinton the First, Bill, who was at least intelligent, then almost had Clinton II, who instead became Secretary of State, for which her only qualification was having been First Basilisk. Hillary lost the presidency to Barack Obama, whose only qualification was being black and reading a teleprompter well. Next we are likely to get Hillary anyway, and before that we almost had Kerry, whose only qualification was having married a pickle heiress. He is now Secretary of State, for no discernible reason.

So it goes in the national sandbox." --Fred Reed

Wednesday, January 15, 2014

SURPRISE! Senate Democrats Want TV Networks to Promote Marxist Global Warming Propaganda

Guest post by Investor's Business Daily

Junk Science: Senate Democrats want TV networks to promote climate-change hysteria and follow the lead of Britain's state broadcasting company, which sent its top executives to a green propaganda training seminar.

The mainstream media, long a house organ for Democrats, are about to come under pressure by Senate Democrats led by Sens. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii, who are gathering signatures from colleagues on a letter to the networks telling them they're ignoring global warming, according to a report in the National Journal.

They are seeking to impose sort of a climate change "fairness doctrine" designed to ignore inconvenient truths about climate researchers getting stuck in Antarctic ice that was supposed to have melted in favor of the gospel according to Al Gore.

"It is beyond my comprehension that you have ABC, CBS, NBC, and Fox, that their Sunday shows have discussed climate change in 2012, collectively, for all of eight minutes," Sanders said, citing analysis by the leftist George Soros-linked Media Matters for America, which promotes media bias while claiming to fight it.

"Sunday news shows are obviously important because they talk to millions of people, but they go beyond that by helping to define what the establishment considers to be important and what is often discussed during the rest of the week," he said.

Certainly the Obama administration believes that, having sent U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice out to lie about the Benghazi terrorist attack on five Sunday talk shows.

"The common parlance of the dictator"

Mark Levin on January 14th, 2014:

MARK LEVIN: Here’s Obama today before a cabinet meeting. Some of you have heard this, some have not. Everybody needs to hear it. Go:

PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA: One of the things that I’ll be emphasizing in this meeting is the fact that we are not just going to be waiting for legislation in order to ensure Americans are provided with the help that they need. I’ve got a pen and I’ve got a phone. And I can use that pen to sign executive orders and take executive actions and administrative actions that move the ball forward.

LEVIN: He's just announced that he is going to assume lawmaking powers, he’s just announced that he is going to assume lawmaking powers. He does not recognize the majority in the House of Representatives. I don't know how much more clearly he can say. You know what this is folks? This is a gradual quiet coup, that’s what is taking place. Its gradual, it's quiet in the sense that it's nonviolent, but it's a coup. Cut two, Mr. Producer, go.

OBAMA: One of the things I’m going to be talking to my cabinet about is how do we use all the tools available to us, not just legislation in order to advance a mission that I think unifies all Americans.

LEVIN: Stop. This is the common parlance of the dictator. Assuming that he represents all Americans, that he's a unifying figure, that we just need to concentrate more power in his hands. He will decide what laws are good what laws are bad. He will use executive orders to pass laws that Congress won't pass, and he will ignore laws he doesn't like. And he’ll rewrite laws that he wants to rewrite like Obamacare and so forth. This is the mindset and the language that dictators have. He assumes to speak for everybody. He is above politics, he is God’s gift. He was put on Earth to do just this.

And yet when you go back to the Constitution, oh, written by slaveowners -- men with wooden teeth. They say the officer they say the opposite, they say this is tyranny. I say you are witnessing a gradual yet quiet coup, you just heard what he said.


Related: Compare and Contrast: Karl Marx' 10 Point Program of Communism vs. the Democrat Agenda

DEMOCRAT LOGIC COMIX: The III Percent Solution

Interesting point by Biff Spackle.


Related sites: III Percent Patriots, Sipsey Street Irregulars (yes, I'm a peacemaker), and Oathkeepers.


BUSTED: EPA Officials Caught Red-Handed Conspiring with Radical Enviro-Marxists on Your Dime

Great job by Lachlan Markay, writing at the Washington Free Beacon, who has caught the Obama EPA with their hands in the taxpayers' cookie jar.

Internal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) emails show extensive collaboration between top agency officials and leading environmentalist groups, including overt efforts to coordinate messaging and pressure the fossil fuel industry.

I forget who said it, but I'll believe global warming climate change is a global emergency when they start treating it like a global emergency. That is, using videoconferencing rather than private jets; ordering their groceries online instead of driving to Piggly Wiggly; and selling a few of their 10,000-square foot mansions (I'm looking at you, Al Gore, and it's hard to miss you with your enormous waistline carbon footprint).

Emails show EPA used official events to help environmentalist groups gather signatures for petitions on agency rulemaking, incorporated advance copies of letters drafted by those groups into official statements, and worked with environmentalists to publicly pressure executives of at least one energy company.

As Mark Levin says, "Green is the new Red."

As in CCCP Red.

Critics of the agency and its nonprofit allies were surprised by the cooperation.... “The level of coordination in these documents is shocking,” EELI said in a statement.

Rep. Mike Pompeo (R., Kan.), a member of the Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Energy and Power, said the emails suggest that the EPA is straying from its mission by working hand-in-hand with hardline green groups.

It’s unfortunate that EPA has spent more of its resources promoting and coordinating a political agenda with environmentalists instead of doing its job,” Pompeo said in an emailed statement... "we expect public officials to serve the public interest, not the interests of radical environmentalist groups.”

The emails released by EELI reveal a host of scandalous activities by the EPA:

• Coordinating with radical Marxist groups to hold hearings on coal plants in states that aren't economically dependent on coal to exclude those citizens' voices.

• Using (even more) personal email addresses to avoid public email archiving requirements.

• Conspiring with radical groups to "devastate the [coal] industry" even though clean coal production is critical to electric power generation in the U.S.

• Secretly coordinating with Marxist environmentalists to levy "endangerment orders" against natural gas companies.

Once again, we have proof that the Obama administration is violating federal laws, evading Constitutional checks and balances, and conspiring to destroy America's energy independence.

But, with all that said, according to Mitch McConnell, "It's a sad day."

And maybe Darrell Issa can open up yet another House Oversight investigation on this topic, seeing as how he only has 828 other investigations underway. Certainly at this point a Select Investigative Committee isn't warranted.


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Larwyn's Linx: Levin: We are witnessing a gradual, quiet coup!

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Nation

Levin: We are witnessing a gradual, quiet coup!: Scoop
History Lesson for the President: Betsy McCaughey
Dear Leader Vows to Continue Expansion of Executive Power: Glob

Cruz: Why didn't NSA spying stop Boston and Ft. Hood terror attacks?: TPNN
Obama Bails Out Insurers: Dick Morris
Wendy Davis’s Campaign Mocks Greg Abbott for Being Paralyzed: RS

“Republican Main Street Partnership” is Democrat Funded: RS
More racial bias from Holder, and a message to white Americans: Allen West
Obama using rural school funds for nasty politicking: Outlooks

Economy

Income Inequality: Walter Williams
Bipartisan Spending Deal Keeps 90% of Veteran Pension Cuts In Place: WZ
Ryan Grilled by Hugh Hewitt over Budget Deal Cutting Military Pensions: Breitbart

Why NLRB v. Canning Happened: James Sherk
Killing the Golden Goose: Daniel Greenfield
Gun owner unarmed, unwelcome in Maryland: Tom Jackson

Scandal Central

US government finds no evidence to accuse itself of a crime: ProWis
The Fix is In In the IRS Abuse Scandal: Bryan Preston
FBI won’t press charges in IRS scandal; Issa blasts Holder’s credibility: BPR

Issa Explains Why He’s Against A Select Committee On Benghazi: Nice Deb
Further Proof That Obama Knew the Truth About Benghazi: AIM
Obama Made Sequestration as ‘Painful as Possible’ for Rural Schools: Tatler

Media

WonkBlog's Red Herring: Instapundit
Feinstein reject NYT's Benghazi propaganda: Julian Pecquet, The Hill
CBS Ends 6-Month Censorship of IRS Scandal to Tell Viewers FBI Won't File Charges: MRC

Mark Levin, Kelli Ward, Article V, and the Mt. Vernon Conference: David Leeper
Propaganda And The Conspiracy Against Our Constitution: Publius Huldah
NFL diversity chair compares Lions hiring black coach to Obama being elected president: Marathon

Tamera Mowry Is Not Alone: Michelle Malkin
People Who Paid For Obamacare Are STILL Unable To Get Health Care: RWN
CFOs to Employees: Prepare To Share Obamacare Pain: Minority Report

World

DNC Chair tells Florida press she's for sanctions, tells DC press she's for Obama: WFB
Putin Vs. Obama: Cube
Rouhani: World powers ‘surrendered’ to Iran with nuclear deal: Fox

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

D.C. Circuit Rejects “Net Neutrality” Rule: Jonathan H. Adler, Volokh Conspiracy
NSA put secret implants into “nearly 100,000″ computers: GigaOm
Ancient calendar offers glimpse of biblical times: Hayom

Cornucopia

If he will lie to his wife, he will also lie...: MOTUS
Killary: iOTW
Real-life version of "Breaking Bad" blue meth is showing up on the streets in NM: KTIV

Sponsored by: Send a love letter to the intransigent GOP Establishment: support Matt Bevin for Senate

QOTD: "...the government has decided, after what it will call careful examination, not to charge itself for its own internal lawlessness and vindictiveness.

John Boehner, I will point out for the hundredth time, never appointed a specific select committee to investigate what we all know, despite the FBI’s denials, was, in fact, an “enemy hunt.” And the reason, as I speculated at the time and continue to believe even more firmly now — and to my knowledge, was the first person to make the claim publicly and unabashedly — is that either by omission or (even more likely) at least partial commission, both establishment parties, that is, the ruling class, will have its fingerprints somewhere on this noxious torment of US citizens engaging in political activism, and so neither is eager for any serious investigation into the matter.

One need look no further than the Rovean, establican, Chamber of Commerce, and Facebook/Google-funded “conservative” action groups formed by ruling class embeds who live like cysts on the body politic and who have made it quite clear that they are willing — together, as a matter of pulled resources and a joint rhetorical effort — to decimate and delegitimate constitutionalists and classical liberals who have had the temerity to insist that the government is theirs and doesn’t belong solely to elected representatives who, once appointed to office, are free to line their own pockets, accrue their own perks and power, and disregard the wishes of those by whom they were elected, to understand that both parties likely had a hand in pressuring the IRS into more thoroughly scrutinizing the TEA Party groups. And if that held those groups up, or weakened them during election and primary season? Oh well. Such is life." --Jeff Goldstein

Tuesday, January 14, 2014

DEMOCRAT LOGIC COMIX: The "Reformers"

Lawrence W. Reed, president of the Foundation for Economic Education:



Hat tip: Mark Levin Show

"Obama knew Benghazi was a terrorist attack before he went to bed to rest for a Las Vegas fundraiser"

Guest post by Investor's Business Daily

Deceit: Newly declassified transcripts show top defense officials who briefed Obama on the day of the Benghazi attack described it as a terrorist attack and told the president so, yet he pushed a false narrative about a video.

Just as the new book by former Defense Secretary Bob Gates confirmed what many believed, that President Obama was a politically motivated commander-in-chief who had no faith in an Afghan surge he put 30,000 Americans in harm's way to execute, transcripts of congressional testimony by military leaders confirm that President Obama knew Benghazi was a terrorist attack before he went to bed to rest for a Las Vegas fundraising trip.

Fox News reporter James Rosen examined 450 pages of declassified testimony given by senior Pentagon officials in closed-door hearings held last year by Congress. In those hearings, Gen. Carter Ham, who at the time headed Africom, the Defense Department combat command with jurisdiction over Libya, testified that he learned about the assault on the consulate compound within 15 minutes of its start, at 9:42 p.m. Libya time, from the Africom Command Center.

Ham said he immediately contacted Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Martin Dempsey to say he was coming down the hall at the Pentagon to meet with him.

"I told him what I knew. We immediately walked upstairs to meet with Secretary Panetta," Ham testified, adding "they had the basic information as they headed across for the meeting at the White House."

Rep. Brad Wenstrup, R-Ohio, an Iraq war veteran and Army reserve officer, asked 29-year Army veteran Ham what he told Panetta and Dempsey. "As a military person, I am concerned that someone in the military would be advising that this was a demonstration. I would hope that our military leadership would be advising that this was a terrorist attack," Wenstrup said.

Four Headlines of the Apocalypse

Presented without comment for your consideration:

Fmr. Kerry Aide: Iran Should Not Be Required to Cease Terrorism Against U.S.

A longtime aide for Secretary of State John Kerry is urging senators to oppose a new Iran sanctions measure because it would level tough penalties on Tehran should it carry out a terror attack against Americans anywhere in the world.

Rouhani: World powers ‘surrendered’ to Iran with nuclear deal

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani boasted on Twitter that the United States and other world powers effectively "surrendered" to Tehran with the newly struck nuclear deal.

Obama withholds from Israel details of nuclear accord with Iran

Vice President Joe Biden when he met Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu Monday night, Jan. 13, refused to level with him on the detailed agreements which the Americans claimed were reached by the six powers and Iran in their talks earlier this week on the implementation of their first-stage Geneva accord.

Defense minister trashes Kerry and his peace proposals

Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon lashed into US Secretary of State John Kerry and savaged US-led peace talks with the Palestinians in private conversations, according to a Tuesday report in a major Israeli daily... [saying] Kerry'[s] peace plan as being “not worth the paper it is printed on” and something that won’t provide security for Israel... The report also quotes Ya’alon calling Kerry “inexplicably obsessive” and “messianic” in his efforts to coax the two sides into a peace agreement. Ya’alon said Kerry has “nothing to teach me about the conflict with the Palestinians.

Related: The Atomic Mahdi.


Lies, Damn Lies, and Obamacare

Never forget that Democrats destroyed America's health care system.


Payback time is November.


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Larwyn's Linx: Bombshell Documents: Obama and Hillary lied completely about Benghazi

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Nation

Bombshell Documents: Obama, Hillary lied completely about Benghazi: YoungCons
Supreme Court Hears Arguments on Obama's Claimed Powers: Ace
Every Democrat Voted to Bailout Insurance Companies Under ObamaCare: MagNote

Cloward-Piven Strategy – How Barack Obama is Playing America: Sid Wolf
Us vs. Them: Erick Erickson
Slaves To A False And Demonic Force: Camp o' the Saints

Share One of These to Let the President Know You Haven't Forgotten: Heritage
House GOP May Act on Senate Iran Sanctions Bill: Roll Call
Obama helps to expand Julian Castro's machine in Texas: Cahnman

Politics vs. Education: Thomas Sowell
Rep. Trey Gowdy Wants A Subpoena for Hillary Clinton: RWN
Bloomberg’s Anti-Gun Group Member Gets Jail for Gun Crime: MenRec

Economy

Corey Booker Falls Below 130% of the Intellectual Poverty Line: Ace
Holder, Duncan Unveil Race-based School Discipline Guidelines: Raven Clabough
Government blew $175 million of taxpayer money on... weiner pumps: WFB

Scandal Central

The IRS Is Poised To Silence Conservatives Again – What You Can Do: Nice Deb
Top Secret Benghazi Docs Prove that After Stevens et al Died, Obama and Clinton Lied: Tatler
Report: IRS Harasses Sarah Palin’s Father: Tatler

Climate & Energy

If You Think Communism Is Bad For People, Check Out What It Did To The Environment: Federalist

Media

NBC's Lauer Grills Bob Gates on 'Dangerous or Dishonorable' Criticism of Obama: NB
Candidate Obama debates Barack Obama: YoungCons
Ronan Farrow Tweets About Woody Allen Sexual Molestation: Mediaite

George Orwell Explains in a Revealing 1944 Letter Why He’d Write 1984: 90 Miles
Just Got a Death Threat from the D.C. Area! UPDATE: AZHAR RAFAT of Fairfax, VA.: Ann Barnhardt
Matt Bracken walks the walk: GunRights4UsAll

Should the Church Prepare for the Fall of America?: Joseph Mattera, Ministry Today
If this is accurate, it’s very revealing about Obamacare’s true goals: Bookworm
CNN: Feds investigating Christie's use of Sandy relief funds: Chris Frates

World

Hypersonic Arms Race and Mixing It Up In the South China Sea: Terresa Monroe-Hamilton
Tempers flare, fists fly in Turkish Parliament over Prime Minister Erdogan’s Morsi-like power grab: BNI
Finnish canine magazine publishes factual article on Islam and dogs, usual outrage ensues: BCF

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Target to invest $5 million in cybersecurity education: John Ribeiro
Increased Theft of Apple Devices 'Driving Force' Behind Rise of Larcenies in New York City: Richard Padilla
Google to acquire Nest for $3.2 billion in cash: Zach Epstein, BGR

Cornucopia

The Passion of the Won: MOTUS
Obama Raleigh Protest: NC Renegade
The Fine Art of Feedback: Joseph Finder

Image: The winners and losers of the new spending bill, WaPo
Sponsored by: Send a message to the intransigent GOP Establishment: support Matt Bevin for Senate

QOTD: "In December I applied for new insurance through my job and was approved on Dec. 8th. But on Dec 7th I was sent to the ER and stayed in ICU a week (no worries, I'm totally okay now). But of course that means insurance didn't cover a dime of my bills.
The hospital offers a "charity" program to help people without insurance but I have to prove I have been rejected from Medicaid first. So I spent last night filling out the stupid amounts of paperwork required for that. At the end of my 20+ page packet I got 3 separate voter registration forms for me and anyone else who is needs aid and will probably vote Democrat.

It annoyed me. Mostly because I meet people all the time who don't vote because it doesn't matter. The thing is it is the people who aren't working and live off the government ARE voting and are *constantly* recruited to do so.

This is probably not news to anyone, I just hadn't seen it so literally in black-and-white before now." --Email from Kat

Monday, January 13, 2014

YEP: Harry Reid Blocks Unemployment Benefits for 5 Million Americans to Protect Tax Credits for Illegal Aliens

Guest post by Kenric Ward

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Bowing to a flurry of cost-cutting amendments on a bill extending unemployment benefits, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said he will allow votes on “reasonable” reforms. But he didn’t say when.

Reid’s shuffle comes after Republicans blasted the Nevada Democrat for unilaterally blocking amendments that could yield $70 billion in taxpayer savings.

“I am not surprised that Senator Reid is backtracking,” said David North. The immigration-law expert praised GOP Sen. Kelly Ayotte, R-N.H., for her amendment to halt IRS child tax-credit refunds going to illegal immigrants.

“Whether you are a Republican or a Democrat, you could not fail to be impressed by Sen. Ayotte’s move,” North told Watchdog.org.

The policy analyst with the Center for Immigration Studies, called Ayotte’s gambit “a stroke of genius.”

“It provides money to the unemployed while taking undeserved tax refunds away from illegal aliens,” North said.

Ayotte is among a half-dozen Senate Republicans pressuring Reid and majority Democrats to accept cost-cutting reforms in exchange for their votes to extend relief to up to 5.4 million jobless Americans whose benefits are expiring.

Turning up the heat, U.S. Rep. Sam Johnson, R-Texas, assailed Reid for flip-flopping on the IRS’ handling of the child tax-credit program.

“Why does Reid now support allowing illegal immigrants to receive billions in taxpayer dollars? That’s just wrong,” Johnson said.

Bloomberg's Shame: the Illustrated Scandal

The New York Post has the back-story.


Should this disgraceful hack ever run for office again, I hope people remember his insane priorities.


Hat tip: BadBlue News

CHANGE: 2 simple charts illustrate the imminent fiscal destruction of the United States

While low-information voters and progressives never seem to think ahead more than a day at a time, thoughtful and concerned citizens know what's coming.

With all the talk of tapering and expected hikes in interest rates by the Fed, inquiring minds are likely interested in what happens to interest on the national debt if the Fed ever does hike...

Larwyn's Linx: Cruz: Why aren't Democrats, journalists opposing Obama's lawlessness?

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Nation

Cruz: Why aren't Democrats, journalists opposing Obama's lawlessness?: Scoop
Get Ready For Round 2 Of The Obamacare Cancellations: LoneCon
GOP Expanding the Welfare State Through Amnesty: Matthew Boyle

Paging Sec. Kathleen Sebelius: We Have Another Glitch: Jackie Wellfonder
New Scandal, Same Old Christie : Andrew C. McCarthy
Mitch McConnell: ‘I’m a Big Fan of the Tea Party’: TPNN

Missouri Organizes Multiple States To Defy Gun Control Laws: John Hawkins
What if Americans rebel against the Obamacare mandate?: Byron York
Ted Cruz’ “Dangerous Obama” Comments A Gut Punch For Liberals: IM41

Economy

No Jobs For Americans: Paul Craig Roberts
US Chamber's plan to spend millions to defeat Tea Party in '14: Fox
NYC Principal Enjoys BMW, Fur Coats As Students Live With Rats: GWP

The Union Track Record in Charts: LUR
Milton Friedman: Socialism Is Force – The Worst Kind Of Greed: NoisyRm
Official Unemployment vs. People Not Working: Man-sized Target

Scandal Central

Bridging the Obamacare, IRS, and Benghazi Scandal Gap: Clarice Feldman
Real Scandals: Instapundit
IRS seizes 60M medical records for massive tax fraud investigation: Erin McCann

Climate & Energy

Cold Bad Weather Used To Be From Global Cooling: Cove
Scandal: BBC’s six-year cover-up of secret ‘green propaganda’ training for top executives: WUWT
MUST BE GLOBAL WARMING: Great Lakes froze earlier this year than any year since 1930s: Poor Richard

Media

The Emotionally Disconnected Commander-in-Chief: Ed Driscoll
NYT: Yeah, ObamaCare has made the healthcare system a mess in 2014: Ed Morrissey
FULL SPEECH: Ted Cruz keynotes at Texas Public Policy Foundation: Scoop

Over Two Weeks Ago, Christie Claimed His Staff Gave Him a ‘Full Briefing’ on Bridgegate: Andrew C. McCarthy
Michael Moore vs. Michael Moore: Andrew J. Patrick
Mike Rowe: Among The Joshua Trees

Kerry, Kennedy top Clinton's traitor list: Niall Stanage
Defining the scope of the President’s recess appointment powers: In Plain English: SCOTUSblog
Knockout: It's a crime, not a game!: Bobby Eberle

Monogamy is unnatural: Matt Walsh
The Foreign Press Picks Up On Rumors That The Obamas May Be About To Divorce: John Hawkins
Sen. Mike Lee tweets shocking display of Federal Register, regulations: Twitchy

World

Video: Wasserman-Schultz sells out Jewish community on Israel: Allen West
Robert Gates Accuses Obama and Clinton of Being Unpatriotic: Allergic2Bull
Remembering Ariel Sharon -- a great man who defied stereotypes: Judith Miller

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

What “three revolutionary devices” will the iWatch be?: 9to5mac
Sinclair’s 1984 big shot at business: The QL is 30 years old: Tony Smith
Hackers gain 'full control' of critical SCADA systems: Darren Pauli

Cornucopia

The Hand of God Probably Only Looks This Way from Earth. But What Does That Tell You?: AmDigest
Spotted in the Wild: GLOCK 42: Robert Farago
West Virginians to be without water for days because of chemical spill: LAT

Image: A Herd of Turtles
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QOTD: "President Obama is a frontman, a well selected salesman for an ideology that has never been successful anywhere in the world. He’s just another in the long list of Marxist/socialist “cool” sounding despots who have given us mass graves and national collapse. I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again, President Barack Hussein Obama represents a clear and present danger to this Constitutional Republic we call America." --Allen West

Sunday, January 12, 2014

Real #EconomicViolence, Illustrated

Methinks the hash-tag #EconomicViolence didn't work out the way the radical left thought it would.

ACTION NEEDED: IRS writing regs that allow it to suppress the Tea Party and Constitutional Conservatives

Guest post by James Simpson

The IRS got caught with their pants down last year. So now they are writing regulations that will allow them to do legally what they were doing illegally before. Every time you think these people can sink no lower, they go out of their way to prove you wrong. A cabal of leftist groups sued the IRS demanding they adopt these regulations, whereupon the IRS went out of its way to comply. This is a classic set up. It was probably agreed to in advance between the IRS and the plaintiffs. Now that they are complying, the leftists have magically dropped their suit!

Here is how to fight back. The following was written by Cleta Mitchell, one of the best attorneys in this field. Read it, follow the instructions and pass them around. The following is reprinted verbatim with permission:

DON’T LET THE IRS SILENCE YOU!!

COMMENTS ON THE PROPOSED IRS REGULATIONS FOR C4 ORGANIZATIONS

ARE DUE NO LATER THAN FEBRUARY 27, 2014

Comments can be filed via email:

REMINDER FOR THE NEXT ELECTION: The Media Lies, Flashback to 1980 Edition

As we begin to consider possible presidential candidates for 2016, it's worth using the Internet Wayback Machine to venture back to 1980. Then, a truly conservative GOP candidate had battled the establishment to secure the nomination. The media immediately began to tar that candidate as unelectable, stupid, a know-nothing Hollywood actor, too conservative, too extreme, too prone to starting a war.

So let's venture back to March 23, 1980, where New York Times columnist E.J. Dionne demonstrated his uncanny ability to get every single aspect of the story wrong. It's a knack he continues to exercise even today.


The reason I bring this up: imagine that a truly popular conservative candidate like Ted Cruz, Mike Lee or Rand Paul is able to secure the GOP nomination.

Expect the same kind of ridiculous lies and predictions coming from the establishment, be it The New York Times or NBC News.


The New York Times Clears Hitler of Wrongdoing

Via Dan from New York:


As Dan observes, "Still crazy after all these years."