Thursday, January 23, 2014

15 Startling Photos: the Bloody, Anti-Russian Riots in the Ukraine

Two protesters died in Kiev today as anti-government protests intensified.

The crisis began in November when President Yanukovich decided to shun a trade pact with the European Union in favour of closer ties with Russia.

Events became more violent on Sunday after the opposition called for a mass rally to protest against new legislation coming into force on Wednesday which will ban anti-government protests.

Photos from the last several days:



The 3 Types of "Income Inequality" Religious Extremists

Guest post by Biff Spackle

With disturbing regularity, pundits great and meager decry a familiar and reviled foe of progress known as "income inequality."

Under the rubric that income inequality is inherently evil, unfair, or overly capitalistic, three distinct sub-sects of this odd religion have emerged.

The "Wall Street Needs More Regulation" Tribe: Tyler Cowan of George Mason University is emblematic of this group. Cowan is concerned with the growing disparity of wealth between the top one percent and the remainder of society. He believes it is linked to structural problems with our society -- especially Wall Street's ne'er-do-well financial engineers -- that can only be solved by big government.

In 2011, for instance, Cowan wrote that he was unsure whether "the new financial regulation bill [Dodd-Frank] will help" and offered several endorsements of its key features. Cowan seems to have missed the century-long tidal wave of regulation already levied upon the financial industry with government inevitably destroying that which it claims to protect (housing, student loans, etc.).

The thousand-page Dodd-Frank bill -- which was never read by lawmakers -- confers immense and unconstitutional powers on an unelected bureaucrat (Richard Cordray, the head of the CPFB). The law, in fact, nationalizes even greater swaths of the financial industry, hamstrings the free market, and creates yet another massive, authoritarian, Politburo-like policy-maker.

It is but one more complex spiderweb of regulatory edict that is certain to fail just as surely as Fannie Mae imploded in 2008.

Never does Cowan publicly list America's richest people. Of the top 10 wealthiest individuals in America, three are self-made (Gates, Ellison, and Bloomberg). Of the next 10, four are self-made (Bezos, Page, Brin and Zuckerberg, who is 29 years old). In fact, if you descend down the Forbes 400 list, you will find self-made billionaire after self-made billionaire and few of the Wall Street hedge fund operators and bankers Cowan so decries.

In fact, Cowan's vaunted income inequality metric has been driven not by Wall Street but by technological innovation and the network effect.

It has given a bright 23-year old the opportunity to turn down an offer of $3 billion for a company he founded just two years ago.

It has given a bright 17-year old the opportunity to sell a mobile app he developed in high school for $30 million.

In fact, a vast, interconnected, and vibrant fabric of computing machines has and will continue to revolutionize value creation in the United States. And somehow Cowan missed it.

The "Robots Will Steal All Our Jobs" Tribe: Mike Shedlock is the archetype of the robophobes, publishing one fear-mongering article after another, seemingly on a weekly basis. A sampling of his headlines may help offer some perspective into the mindset of this particular brand of Luddite:

Meet "Baxter" the Robot Out to Get Your Minimum-Wage, No Benefits, Part-Time Job, Because He's Still Much Cheaper; Fed Cannot Win a Fight Against Robots
Carl the Robot Bartender Mixes Drinks and Chats With Customers
Future of Medicine: Meet Sedasys - Your New Robot Anesthesiologist
Robotic Outsourcing; Food Preparation Robots Invade China, Japan, US; Who is to Blame, and What Can be Done About It?
$210,000 Cow Milking Robot; Presenting the "Astronaut A4 - A Natural Way of Milking"; How Far Off is the Completely Robotic Farm?

There are more. But the last one is particularly striking: since the dawn of human history, increased automation has marked the cultivation of food. From men tilling fields and picking crops to massive farm machinery and crop-dusters, mechanization of farming has improved the lives of billions of people.

And somehow "robots" will disrupt that trend?

Each new innovation -- a robot is but one example -- creates entire new ecosystems to plan, design, build, and service.

The 1730 invention of the flying shuttle dramatically accelerated the process of weaving and production of cloth. This innovation in turn led to incredible new opportunities for entrepreneurs to supply raw materials, service machinery, create new families of finished products, and the like.

You may know it as the Industrial Revolution.

And always the Luddites like Shedlock predict the demise of good-paying jobs, whether on the farm or at the loom. Never do they seem to contemplate that the process of creative destruction renders obsolete certain roles while simultaneously creating vast and unpredictable opportunities.

Whereas the blacksmith and the elevator operator no longer appear in our society, tens of thousands of new types of jobs have more than supplanted them.

Even the lowly pencil defies the ability of any human to fully comprehend -- let along perform -- its construction.

Automation in the form of ubiquitous robotics is absolutely no different than any other revolutionary improvement in speed, quality and delivery of products and services.

It would seem that Shedlock and his ilk somehow missed the Industrial Revolution and every other transformative period of human history.

The "Statist" Tribe: Paul Krugman, on the other hand, belongs to the dogmatic school of progressive thought. In this case, you can read progressive as Doctrinaire Marxist.

Krugman, whose inane posturing and reflexive hypocrisy have been thorougly exposed as pure, unvarnished idiocy by historian Niall Ferguson, pretends to belong to the Cowan tribe.

But his cheerleading of Communists like Bill DeBlasio gives away the game. Krugman is a Statist; his religion is government; and any of his bleatings -- income inequality or otherwise -- are designed to lobby for increasingly centralized and authoritarian government.

As the French painfully discovered with their one year flirtation with Marxism, collectivism can't work, won't work, and has never worked in all of human history.

And somehow Paul Krugman and his fellow ideologues missed that part of history class.

What's 1,000 times worse than income inequality? Income equality.

In truth, North Korea represents the ideal for those who fight for income equality with its one man at the top worth tens of billions of dollars while the entire civilian population starves, largely impoverished.

In spite of the Democrats' efforts, there is no better society on the planet to simultaneously improve society and to enrich oneself than the United States.

Income inequality -- in fact, wild inequality -- is healthy and desirable.

Perhaps one day the would-be regulators, the Luddites, and the Marxists will pick up some history books and discover the wonders of the free market. But, then again, I'm a dreamer.


Larwyn's Linx: GOP again chooses politics over policy on immigration

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Nation

GOP again chooses politics over policy on immigration: Allen West
More Common Core: Pay Attention, Democrats: Caleb Howe
Fighting back against IRS targeting of conservatives: Nice Deb

A Day of Death: Thomas Crown
The Magnitude of Their Power: Christian Mercenary
Looking for Mr. Jefferson: Clyde Wilson

The Heroism of Wendy Davis: Ann Coulter
To Hipsters Who Think Communism Is Cool: Glob
Sorry About Calling You ‘Uncle Tom’: Larry Elder

Muslims and Political Influence in Chris Christie’s New Jersey: Creeping
GOP establishment: Quit attacking Tea Party and deliver results: Herman Cain
Texas executes man despite opposition from Mexico: AP

Economy

Aetna CEO: We May Just Have to Pull Out of Obamacare: Bryan Preston
Wall Street adviser: Actual unemployment is 37.2%, 'misery index' worst in 40 years: Exam
Hundreds of Patients in Ohio Lose Doctors Thanks to Obamacare: TruthRevolt

Scandal Central

SMOKING GUN: New Documents Reveal Obama’s Anti-Capitalist Agenda: CFP
Allen West: Obama intentionally trying to overload welfare system (Cloward & Piven): Scoop
What does the NSA Know about Obama?: Loudon

Climate & Energy

Trial, and Error: Michael Mann vs. Free Speech: Mark Steyn
Guardian’s catastrophism leads circulation to plummet ?: Anthony Watts
What is your favorite memory of the Global Warming Winter of 2014?: Marathon

Media

Trevor Loudon's Dream Team for 2016 Big Hit at SC Tea Party Convention: Breitbart
Blogging Made Easy, 2: Protein Wisdom
Robert Gates and the taint of the insider tell-all: Victor Davis Hanson

Volokh Conspiracy moving to WaPo: Unyielding
A Message to Obama: SHTFplan
Are you an adult or just a sheep? (Language Warning): NC Gun Blog

World

Obama's Iran Sanctions Relief Could Fund Terrorism Against U.S.: WFB
War and Dishonor: Daniel Greenfield
Stunner! Iranian FM on Nuke Deal: ‘We Did Not Agree to Dismantle Anything’: GWP

Israeli Forces Break Up Al-Qaeda Plot to Blow Up US Embassy in Tel Aviv: GWP
‘Warzone’: Open street battles in Kiev as rioters, police face-off (PHOTOS): RT
How Chinese Oligarchs Quietly Parked Up To $4 Trillion In The Caribbean: ZH

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Ukrainian government texts ominous Orwellian message directly to cell phones of protesters: Verge
Mendix, An App-Builder Platform For The Enterprise, Closes $25M Series B: TechCrunch
Artificial intelligence networks: We, robots: Economist

Cornucopia

Chris Christie’s Staff Blames Bridge Closing on Anti-Islam Video: Daily Rash
Since liberals think gender is an artificial construct, then this shouldn't offend them...: Looking Spoon
Rumor: Barack and Michelle Secretly Preparing Winter Olympic Presentation: iOTW

Image: McDonnell won’t answer questions on Rolex
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QOTD: "Well, I think that we have to stop saying that the president’s economic policies are failing and we start looking at really what the trend is. We’re seeing an incredible growth of the welfare nanny state, We’re seeing the poverty roles explode. We’re seeing the food stamp roles explode. We’re seeing more dependency on the government largess and programs. Look at what just happened kicking part-time workers off of their health care insurance plans. We’re seeing a desperation and a despondency out there that’s being created by this administration.

And it caused me to go back and read about the Cloward/Piven strategy of Richard Cloward and Francis Fox Piven who were Columbia University professors. (And it just so happened that the president went to Columbia.)

They talked about overloading the welfare system to a point where it would collapse, you would cause such chaos and then you would have to move from a welfare system to almost a national income system. And when you think about this 11th extension of unemployment benefits, it’s almost like the federal government’s trying to pay people not to get out there and participate in the job market." --Allen West

Wednesday, January 22, 2014

CONFIRMED: "Electric Drive Vehicles Have Little Impact on U.S. Pollutant Emissions"

Well, if they were rational, this particular report would cause some introspection among Democrats and the radical left (but I repeat myself). Rest assured it won't, because they're not.

A new study from North Carolina State University indicates that even a sharp increase in the use of electric drive passenger vehicles (EDVs) by 2050 would not significantly reduce emissions of high-profile air pollutants carbon dioxide, sulfur dioxide or nitrogen oxides.

“EDVs” is a catch-all term that includes hybrid, plug-in hybrid and battery electric vehicles.

“We wanted to see how important EDVs may be over the next 40 years in terms of their ability to reduce emissions,” says Dr. Joseph DeCarolis, an assistant professor of civil, construction and environmental engineering at NC State and senior author of a paper on the new model. “We found that increasing the use of EDVs is not an effective way to produce large emissions reductions.”

The researchers ran 108 different scenarios in a powerful energy systems model to determine the impact of EDV use on emissions between now and 2050. They found that, even if EDVs made up 42 percent of passenger vehicles in the U.S., there would be little or no reduction in the emission of key air pollutants.

“There are a number of reasons for this,” DeCarolis says. “In part, it’s because some of the benefits of EDVs are wiped out by higher emissions from power plants. Another factor is that passenger vehicles make up a relatively small share of total emissions, limiting the potential impact of EDVs in the first place. For example, passenger vehicles make up only 20 percent of carbon dioxide emissions.

“From a policy standpoint, this study tells us that it makes more sense to set emissions reductions goals, rather than promoting specific vehicle technologies with the idea that they’ll solve the problem on their own.”


When the complete history of the "green" movement is written, it will go down in history as the greatest wealth transfer scam in the history of the world.


Hat tip: Seth

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

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

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)

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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