Wednesday, January 22, 2014

Thomas Jefferson, Radical Extremist

Guest post by Michael Snyder

Thomas Jefferson was radically anti-tax, pro-gun and anti-central bank. He loved precious metals, he openly acknowledged a “Creator” and he wanted to add an amendment to the Constitution which would ban the federal government from going into debt. If he was around today, he would be considered a “nutjob”, an “extremist”, a “fascist” and even a “potential terrorist“. But of course Jefferson was none of those things. Rather, Jefferson was a great thinker, the primary author of the Declaration of Independence and our third President. Below, I have shared a list of 13 famous Jefferson quotes (13 for the 13 colonies that originally founded America) that show just how far America has fallen away from our founding principles. I think that most of you will be very shocked when you read this list…

#1 “It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world.”

#2 “If we can but prevent the government from wasting the labours of the people, under the pretence of taking care of them, they must become happy.”

#3 “No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms.”

#4 “I think our governments will remain virtuous for many centuries; as long as they are chiefly agricultural; and this will be as long as there shall be vacant lands in any part of America. When they get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, they will become corrupt as in Europe.”

#5 “To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors, is sinful and tyrannical.”

CHANGE: U.S. Admiral Warns that Red China is Poised to Become Dominant Superpower in Pacific

Guest post by Investor's Business Daily

Power Shift: Despite the White House's much-lauded pivot to the Pacific, the Navy's Pacific commander warns that an increasingly hostile and assertive China threatens U.S. air and sea superiority in the region.

If jaws didn't drop, they should have last week when Adm. Samuel J. Locklear III, chief of U.S. Pacific Command (PACOM), said: "Our historic dominance that most of us in this room have enjoyed is diminishing, no question."

U.S. naval and air superiority, particularly in the Pacific, has been taken for granted. But as Obama administration budget cuts and the effects of sequestration take their toll, our position is being severely challenged by a Chinese military benefiting from years of double-digit spending increases and a commitment from Beijing to push the U.S. out of the area.

Locklear noted the regional power shift at the annual Surface Navy Association conference in Virginia.

"We need to think about all scenarios, not just the ones we've been dealing with over the last several years, where we've enjoyed basic air superiority and basic sea superiority," he said. "There are places in the world where in this century we won't have them."

Yet another message to the entrenched Republican establishment

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Back-story here, courtesy of Allen West.

KERRY KOMIX: Adventures in Negotiation

Back-story:


For John Kerry, illegal alien cop-killers take priority over innocent Americans held overseas.


Hat tip: Mark Levin

Larwyn's Linx: From Martin Luther King to Obama

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Nation

From Martin Luther King to Obama: Daniel Greenfield
Thomas Jefferson Would Be Considered A Tea Party Extremist: Michael Snyder
Stop Giving Obama Radicals the Benefit of the Doubt: J. Christian Adams

Kooks, Neoconfederates, and Article Five: Scoop
Obamacare Death Throes: William Levin
Wendy Davis vs. the Truth: Jon Gabriel

Lessons for Shove Guv Andrew Cuomo: Michelle Malkin
Reeling Wendy Davis: My Origins Story Is Now Off-Limits: Bryan Preston
Explosives placed on Madison County railroad tracks: Fox-2 St. Louis

Economy

Andrew Cuomo is Bad For Business In NY: Glob
CoverOregon has cost $200MM so far without any successful signups: Hot Air
Why the much-hyped Oxfam study on global inequality is misleading: Peth

5 Years: Record 20% of Households on Food Stamps in 2013: Ali Meyer
Target Drops Health Insurance for Part-Time Employees: AmPower
You Won’t Believe How Many Jobs Obamacare Just Cost Michigan: Western

Scandal Central

Drunk Illegal Alien Convicted of Critically Injuring 9-11 Veteran: Virtuous
"Fast and Furious questions linger as IG continues investgation.": SSI
Corzine fails to win dismissal of CFTC's MF Global lawsuit: Trib

Climate & Energy

Climate alarmist and Hockeystick inventor gets in hot water after more hot air: Commentator
Greaaaat: Now We’re Importing Air Pollution From China: Stephen Kruiser
Antarctic climate scientists finally return: ABC covers for the $2.4m failure: JoNova

Media

Media SHREDDED Bush Over WMD: What About Obama's Blatant False Pretense in Syria?: Reaganite
Presidential prospects of Gov. Christie stuck in BridgeGate traffic jam: Dan Spencer
Why The Washington Post passed on Ezra Klein: Dylan Byers & Hadas Gold, Politico

OK to Feel Sorry: Walter Williams
“We need to stop Government from controlling the American People”: MOTUS
Hannity to Cuomo: I’m leaving New York and I’m taking all my money with me: Scoop

World

"Swiss Member of Parliament Oskar Freysinger has had Enough of Islam": SSI
Hostility on the high seas: Iran sends warships to Atlantic Ocean in historic first: Times
Emboldened Iran Is Making War Moves: NoisyRm

Beware an Alliance of the Weak: Martin Kramer
Beheadings, Bombings and New York’s Little Bangladesh: Daniel Greenfield
China Abandons Disastrous Cotton Stockpiling Program; Lessons Not Learned: Mish

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Vehicle-mounted device disables car electronics at 50 meters: PoliceOne
Greenland's blue horizon: Daily Mail
Power Utility Substations At Risk: Kelly Jackson Higgins

Cornucopia

Day By Day: Chris Muir
Casualties: 90 Miles
Note to andrew cuomo .... from, your friend, john ....: Winter Soldier

Image: Multiple detonation casualties for two 15 Kt nuclear weapons for Tel Aviv, Israel
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QOTD: "Should doctors protect patient privacy? Yes, of course.

Should doctors take steps to make sure patients are free to discuss sensitive information (by requesting family members step out if necessary)? Yes.

Should it literally become a “federal case” if doctors fail to follow proper protocol before each medical discussion with patients and their families? I don’t think so.

Federalizing these relatively minor offenses has tremendous potential for misuse and selective enforcement. We’ve seen this in other areas, as in this 2011 Wall Street Journal piece, “As Criminal Laws Proliferate, More Are Ensnared“.

It looks like we may be seeing more of this in health care as well." --Dr. Paul Hsieh

Tuesday, January 21, 2014

NOTHING TO CUT: Meet the Multi-Millionaire Who Collected His Dead Mom's Social Security Checks for 23 Years

Guest post by Laura Trueman

The 2014 omnibus bill contains an increase in funding for running the Social Security Administration (SSA). Maybe now they can stop paying Social Security benefits to dead people.

According to a December Government Accountability Office (GAO) report, SSA systems do not accurately note and confirm the deaths of beneficiaries, resulting in payments being made to dead people—sometimes for decades. The flawed system doesn’t just impact Social Security payments, either. Multiple other federal agencies that pay benefits—from federal pensions to payments to farmers and the disabled—rely on SSA’s flawed death data.

Collecting Dead Mother’s Social Security for 23 Years. Raymond O’Dell made news this week when he was sentenced for collecting his dead mother’s Social Security benefits for 23 years. O’Dell collected $188,000 in benefits, while building a successful Taco Bell franchise. His accountant put his net worth at $4 million (including $431,000 in cash). This week, he was sentenced to pay back the benefits, along with a $20,000 fine, and will serve six months in prison.

There, fixed it for you

The painting View of the World from 9th Avenue is the classic New Yorker cover from 1976:


Nearly 40 years later, we need an updated version:

DEMOCRAT LOGIC COMIX: But They Loved Carter

Via @BiffSpackle:



Hat tip: Mark Levin.

Wendy Davis (D-LIAR) tells her paraplegic GOP opponent to "walk a mile in my shoes"

Texas Democrat and Gubernatorial Candidate Wendy Davis -- you may know her by the name she prefers, "Abortion Barbie" -- has watched her campaign melt down over the last few days thanks to a series of lies and gaffes. Her latest statement, a haphazard defense of her various biographical fables, is a doozy:

We’re not surprised by Greg Abbott’s [her Texas governorship opponent] campaign attacks on the personal story of my life as a single mother who worked hard to get ahead.

Actually, Abbott didn't "attack" her -- "the decidedly non-conservative" Dallas Morning News did. But that said, let's keep going:

The truth is that at age 19, I was a teenage mother living alone with my daughter in a trailer and struggling to keep us afloat on my way to a divorce. And I knew then that I was going to have to work my way up and out of that life if I was going to give my daughter a better life and a better future and that’s what I’ve done. I am proud of where I came from and I am proud of what I’ve been able to achieve through hard work and perseverance.

And I guarantee you that anyone who tries to say otherwise hasn’t walked a day in my shoes.

As Neo-neocon notes:

...I appeared to be the only one making the connection between her “walk in my shoes” remark and that fact that he is a paraplegic...

Stand up, Chuck! Jon Gabriel, writing at Ricochet, offers the executive summary of the Wendy Davis business plan:

Low Information Voters: adding faces to the voices

Guest post by The People's Cube

You may have already seen these LIV thoughts here and here. But what a difference does putting a face to a voice make! The success of the Obamacare graphic (the first one below) made me want to do more with this concept.




Larwyn's Linx: Amnesty Here We Come! GOP Leaders Ready to Sell Out Their Conservative Base

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Nation

Amnesty: GOP Leaders Ready to Sell Out Conservative Base: GWP
Wendy Davis' Ex Demanded She Not Use Drugs Before Seeing Kids: RS
The Latest From Obamacare Central: David Limbaugh

Fact-Free Liberals: Thomas Sowell
Obama blames low approval numbers on racism: John Hayward
Government conspiracy theories aren't crazy: Glenn Harlan Reynolds

Hillary's 'Political Football' Baggage: Warren Beatty
Millennials Unhappy With Obama’s War on the Young: Michael Barone
GOP Leaders Join Obama to Fundamentally Transform America: CHQ

Fed Judge To Chicago: Ban On Guns Doesn’t Prevent Violent Crime: WZ
Hannity to Leave NY After Cuomo's Anti-Conservative Rant: Breitbart
From the Files of Police Squad: No CCWs Allowed?: Ace

Economy

Change: Number of Black Men In Labor Force Hits All-Time Low: WZ
Staples might save Post Office, unless unions get their way: WyBlog
5 States Potentially Headed for Obamacare Disasters: Keith Speights

Scandal Central

Wendy Davis is a stone-cold bitch, basically: NakedDC
Did TX Gov. Candidate Wendy Davis Commit Perjury in Federal Court?: Ken Klukowski
Meet Valerie Jarrett daughter Laura’s computer scandal tinged father-in-law: CFP

Climate & Energy

EPA Administrator Says Coal Rules Necessary Because of ‘Devastating Impacts on the Planet’: PJM
The $128 Trillion Ripoff: Breitbart
Belief That Global Warming Isn’t Happening Grows: Pirate's Cove

Media

The Left’s War on the Free Press: Sonny Bunch
Last week’s TODAY interview with Wendy Davis is suddenly a lot more interesting: ConIntel
'The Economist' Prints Anti-Semitic Cartoon: TruthRevolt

David Zirin, Marxist Sports Blogger: R.S. McCain
Megyn Kelly asks what everyone else is thinking: What about IMPEACHMENT?: YoungCons
20 Great Moments in Liberal Bigotry: IHTM

The Playboy Article (NSFW): RS
The Democrat Party’s Heart Disease: Blasted Fools
RUSH: So white Americans have just figured out Obama is black in the last two years?: Scoop

World

America’s Honor Besmirched: Appeasement Assures War!: J.D. Longstreet
Blaming the victim, with the best of intentions: Rob Miller
Only one in five Israelis trusts Obama on Iran: Times of Israel

Miracle on the Nile: Walid Phares
Four Questionable Claims Obama Has Made on NSA Surveillance: Kara Brandeisky
GRAPHIC: Gruesome Syria photos may prove torture by Assad regimet: CNN

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Hacking expert David Kennedy says he cracked HealthCare.gov in 4 minutes: Jessica Chasmar
Two coders closely tied to Target-related malware, security firm says: Jeremy Kirk
First Ever Universe-Wide Cosmic Web Filaments Captured on Keck Observatory: ScienceWR

Cornucopia

The West: American Digest
He had a Dream...: Diogenes
Lady M’s Eyebrow Re-Vitamization Secret: MOTUS

Image: Photos of Syrian torture victims piles pressure on Assad
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QOTD: "The coming weeks will see the formal start of the GOP House leadership’s attempt to sneak an immigration amnesty through the Republican caucus and into law. We don’t know the exact details of the proposals, but we know enough:

1) There will be some form of legalization (conditional amnesty) for the 11 million illegal immigrants already here... [and] once the bill has passed the Democratic campaign to paint the GOP as racist for not granting general citizenship to the whole group will begin.

2) There will be an attempt to describe Speaker Boehner’s “piecemeal” collection of immigration bills as an “enforcement first” arrangement that will prevent another, future illegal wave despite the incentive created by what will be two successive amnesties. Since Democrats and Latino groups would never go for an actual “enforcement first” approach–e.g., enacting universal E-verify, an exit-entry system, building a fence and waiting a few years for legal challenges to peter out–this claim will necessarily be a fraud...

It takes some chutzpah for Boehner to make his amnesty push now, given the sour jobs news, falling measured support for amnesty, and the need for party unity in the coming midterm elections. You’d think the employment news alone–almost 3 unemployed Americans for every available job–would cause savvy lobbyists to postpone any attempt to push for a massive addition to the unskilled and skilled workforce.... Maybe that could fly in a boom. But now? ...

If you are, get your dialing finger ready. --Mickey Kaus

Monday, January 20, 2014

The Relentless Hillary Clinton

Guest post by Alan Caruba


Who said:

• “We’re going to take things from you on behalf of the common good”

• “It’s time for a new beginning, for an end to government of the few, by the few, and for the few…and to replace it with shared responsibility, for shared prosperity”

• “(We) …can just let business as usual go on and that means something has to be taken away from some people.”

• “We have to build a political consensus and that requires people to give up a little bit of their own…in order to create this common ground.”

• “I think it’s time to send a clear message to what has become the most profitable sector in the entire economy that they are being watched.”

• “I certainly think the free market has failed.”

Was it Joseph Stalin? Lenin? Hugo Chavez? Kim Jong II? All reveal a communist philosophy.

It was Hillary Clinton. Over the years, Hillary has made it clear that the redistribution of wealth—communism—is central to her beliefs and that her regard for capitalism and the free market economy of America is nil.

The election of Hillary Clinton would be an extension of the two terms of Barack Obama and, if possible, worse.

MY OPEN LETTER TO THE "LET IT BURN" CROWD

You know who you are.


COMPARE AND CONTRAST: It's the little things

Via Roger Kimball:



Hat tip: BadBlue Real-Time News

OH, MY: In 5 Seconds Flat, Mark Levin Shreds Obama's Football Idiocy

Can y'all fetch Prezzy an ice-pack?

Mark Levin opened his show today hitting Obama square between the eyes in response to him saying yesterday that he wouldn’t let his ‘son’ play football:

So he wouldn’t let his son play football – this pretend son that he has. It’s like Jimmy Stewart with the pretend rabbit.

Well let me tell you something Mr. President. I wouldn’t let my son be an ambassador under you. I’d much rather that he played football.

You can hear the audio at The Right Scoop.


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Larwyn's Linx: FreedomWorks Polling Suggests a Simple Path for Uniting Republicans

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Nation

FreedomWorks Polling Suggests Path for Uniting Republicans: Rudy Takala
Stopping Tyranny with 'The Liberty Amendments': Spyridon Mitsotakis
Liberals’ worst nightmare about to come true: Jack Minor

Yearning for the Bush League: DiploMad
The Nonsolution: Richard Fernandez
Lawless: Another Obamacare Rule Delayed: Rick Moran

Obama blames America's racism to explain dropping poll numbers: GWP
Collectivist Chump Cuomo to Catholics: You’re Not Welcome in NY: SSI
Democrat Wendy Davis Caught in Major Lies: TPNN

Economy

The Evils of Capitalism: Roger Kimball
Illegal alien with 7 kids: food stamps, housing, cash for 20 years: YoungCons
Cancer patient Josie Gracchi treatment put on hold over ObamaCare: FAM

The Retail Death Rattle: Burning Platform
USPS IG finds sex on the job, stalkers and slashed tires: Michael Conger
NJ Gov. Christie's office denies claims of withholding Sandy aid funds: Fox

Scandal Central

White House Let Muslim Brotherhood Skip Customs Inspections: IPT
Who fed gun-running propaganda to WaPo's James Grimaldi and Sari Horowitz? : Clarice Feldman
Democrats Playing in GOP primary for Texas Supreme Court: RS

Climate & Energy

Sen. Jim Inhofe on Obama Global Warming Claims: He 'Just Made that Up’: RWN
The Unreported Propane Shortage: DTG
US Temps vs. NASA 1988 Global Warming Predictions: Embarrassing Failure: C3

Media

No Mention of Benghazi or Obamacare Lies in Intimate New Yorker Obama Profile: GWP
Uh oh, Wendy Davis’ life story not what it seems: LI
Time's Hillary Cover too much even for the Boston Globe: Peter Wilson

Oh, My: "I Have Never Fought the Word 'Genius' When People Have Said That About Me": Ace
I'm an Eric Cantor Zombie: Tom White
List of 100 Black Conservative Blogs and Websites: Politisite

Happy Anniversary to The Jawa Report – 10 Years of Excellent Blogging: GWP
GOP establishment panics over Christie’s troubles: “I think we need Mitt back”: Hot Air
The #JusticeForDrV Madness: ESPN Offers Belated ‘Condolences’? Really?: R.S. McCain

World

The New Intolerance: Ed Driscoll
Muslims Gang Rape American Woman In Colorado, In Rare And Horrific Ways: Shoebat
Allah vs atheism: ‘Leaving Islam was the hardest thing I’ve done’: Sarah Morrison, The Independent (UK)

The two state solution. So, Israel and...?: Commentator
Implementation of interim Iran nuclear deal begins: Fox
Echoes From The Holocaust: Western Rifle Shooters

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Tesla's toy boat: A drone before its time: Jon Turi
Bird steals camera, films gorgeous aerial footage of penguin colony: Jacob Kastrenakes
Your next phone may charge and receive data through these incredible screens: Appy-Geek

Cornucopia

Richard Sherman’s Email To His Stanford Dorm Is Freaking Hysterical: Joshua Riddle
So Hip It Hurts: Steely Dan’s Donald Fagen looks back.: Ian Feman
NASA: Martian Rock That ‘Appeared’ From Nowhere ‘Like Nothing We’ve Ever Seen Before’: Dollard

Image: Seahawks Cornerback Richard Sherman Gives Fox Sports' Erin Andrews Angry Post-Game Interview
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QOTD: "U.S. border agent Brian Terry was shot on December 14th and died the following day, December 15th. That was the very day the Washington Post writers rolled out the administration propaganda that more regulation was needed to prevent drugs from crossing the border.

Drug cartels have aggressively turned to the United States because Mexico severely restricts gun ownership. Following gunrunning paths that have been in place for 50 years, firearms cross the border and end up in the hands of criminals as well as ordinary citizens seeking protection.

"This is not a new phenomenon," Webb said.

What is different now, authorities say, is the number of high-powered rifles heading south -- AR-15s, AK-47s, armor-piercing .50-caliber weapons -- and the savagery of the violence.

Federal authorities say more than 60,000 U.S. guns of all types have been recovered in Mexico in the past four years, helping fuel the violence that has contributed to 30,000 deaths. Mexican President Felipe Calderon came to Washington in May and urged Congress and President Obama to stop the flow of guns south.

U.S. law enforcement has ramped up its focus on gun trafficking along the southwestern border. Arrests of individual gunrunners have surged. But investigators rarely bring regulatory actions or criminal cases against U.S. gun dealers, in part because of laws backed by the gun lobby that make it difficult to prove cases.

Who fed this poppycock to James Grimaldi and Sari Horowitz? Is the Washington Post the least bit concerned that it was used -- and by whom? -- to provide cover for this lunatic government operation and propagandize its gun grabbing ploy?" --Clarice Feldman

Sunday, January 19, 2014

DEMOCRAT LOGIC COMIX: Dude, where's my jobs?

With a tip o' the derby to Liberal Logic 101:



How to Prevent Another World War

Guest post by James Carafano

Gavrilo Princip was no sharpshooter. He didn’t have to be. His target passed just feet in front of him. Princip plugged the heir to the Hapsburg throne in the jugular vein. Archduke Franz Ferdinand bled out in his car.

That single killing sparked a global slaughter. European security issues had grown so tangled, mangled and confused that no amount of statesmanship or diplomacy could keep the dogs of war at bay.

This year marks the 100th anniversary of the Great War that engulfed the world in violence, toppled nations and empires, and left millions starved or slaughtered. It offers modern civilization only one profitable lesson: If global peace is the goal, don’t live in world like that.

After Napoleon’s defeat in 1815, the European powers ensured general peace by each carving out its own sphere of influence and respecting those of the others. That arrangement generally worked, until the rise of Germany in the last quarter of the 19th century upset the status quo.

FOOD STAMP FUNNIES: The Hilarious Ripoff of American Taxpayers in Pictures #EBT

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Housing Crisis Architect Andrew Cuomo Now Claims Republicans Really Can Stay in New York

Had the media been doing its job during the campaign for the governorship of New York, Andrew Cuomo would be a punchline, not a high-ranking official. Cuomo's role in the housing meltdown -- serving as Secretary of HUD for Bill Clinton -- earned him the nickname "Architect of Ruin". He was the nation's foremost purveyor of subprime loans, using the force of law to compel financial institutions to disregard traditional underwriting norms and instead issue mortgages to those who could never repay them.

Cuomo is a radical Marxist progressive who believes in a single party, totalitarian government and admitted as much himself.

In [a] radio interview [public radio's "The Capitol Pressroom" on Friday], Cuomo detailed what he sees as a "schism" in the Republican Party among an "extreme" faction and a "moderate" faction.

"Are they these extreme conservatives, who are right to life, pro assault weapon, anti-gay, is that who they are?" Cuomo said Friday. "Because if that is who they are, and if they are the extreme conservatives, they have no place in the state of New York. Because that is not who New Yorkers are." ...Later in the [interview], Cuomo said it was "fine" to be opposed to abortion and same-sex marriage, but that it's "not the opinion of this state." ...

In other words, Cuomo took an oath to uphold the United States Constitution, but routinely spits on it instead.

He now claims he was misinterpreted.