Saturday, January 25, 2014

BOEHNER ON LENO: An embarrassing, wheezy, boozy debacle that proves he's unfit to be Speaker

Guest post by Ken McIntyre

House Speaker John Boehner didn’t show leadership in his late-night chat with Jay Leno by blaming fellow Republicans for a government “shutdown” over Obamacare, the CEO of The Heritage Foundation’s political action arm said today.

“By now, everyone should understand President Obama was the driving force behind the partial government shutdown because his first and only priority is protecting his failing health care law,” Michael A. Needham, chief executive officer of Heritage Action for America, told The Foundry.

The ever-shakier implementation of Obamacare proves that conservatives who tried to stop it were correct, Needham said.

Boehner, making his debut last night on NBC’s “Tonight Show,” said some in the Republican conference created “a very predictable disaster” in October by disagreeing “tactically” over how to delay Obamacare.

“You learn that a leader without followers is simply a man taking a walk,” Boehner told Leno. “So I said, ‘Do you want to fight this fight? I’ll go fight the fight with you.’ But it was a very predictable disaster.”

The Ohio Republican also took a veiled swipe at Heritage Action [Ed: and other groups], which had argued in favor of efforts by conservatives to defund Obamacare. “My problem was with some Washington organizations who purport to represent the Tea Party, who I think mislead them,” he said. “There’s nothing I could do that was ever conservative enough for them.”

On What The Arrest Of Dinesh D'Souza Should Mean To Americans

As Maetenloch observes:

Coincidence: Hollywood's only conservative group is getting close IRS nonprofit scrutiny

Another Coincidence: James O'Keefe Group Being Audited by NY. Again.

Yet Another Coincidence: Dinesh D'Souza Indicted For Election Fraud

Still Another Coincidence: IRS Proposes New 501(c)(4) Rules That Just Happen to Cover Most Tea Party Groups

Judge Strikes Down Wisconsin's 'John Doe' Subpoenas

Secret investigations targeted coincidently at most prominent conservative groups in WI who can only now legally talk about their harassment. If you want to see what American fascism would look like, well this is it.


Fascism, straight up, to paraphrase a hideous, tattooed fascist.



Francis W. Porretto suspects that time is up. Based upon recent developments, he may be more right than any of us were willing to admit.


Larwyn's Linx: House Conservatives Plot Takedown of GOP Leadership's Amnesty Plans

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Nation

House Conservatives Plot Takedown of Leaders' Amnesty Plans: Matthew Boyle
Feds Finally Crack Down on 2012 Campaign Finance Fraud: Nice Deb
Writing on the Wall Department: Liberty's Torch

An obscure French pamphlet from 1850 predicted today’s America: Blaze
Gallup Poll: Americans Overwhelmingly Reject Amnesty: RWN
Journo QOTD: "the most secretive WH I have ever dealt with": Sister Toldjah

Economy

Anecdotes From Home Depot Employee: Mish
Let’s compare Michelle Obama’s birthday party with Laura Bush’s: YoungCons
Emerging Market Contagion Spreads; Argentina, Venezuela, Turkey: Mish

I know how to ramp margins for one more year!: ScadInvest
Santelli Slams Central Bank Policies: ZH
27,000 Unemployment Recipients Received Someone Else’s Tax Info: NBC CT

Scandal Central

Dissent is Forbidden: Obama Looks to Jail Another Film Maker: JWF
Dinesh D’Souza Indictment Raises Questions: Christopher Spencer
Obama Goes After Me As His Political Enemy, Wants To Destroy My Freedoms: Walid Shoebat

Climate & Energy

Will Obama Discuss “Climate Change” During The 2014 SOTU?: RWN
Ron on Global Warming: Denny

Media

Love in the Time of Obama: Matthew Continetti
Obama blames unpopularity on Limbaugh, Fox News for making him into a ‘caricature’: BPR
Hilarious: State Senator names pro-gun bill “Piers Morgan Act”, Piers Morgan freaks out!: YoungCons

‘Helpless and Hopeless Creatures’: R.S. McCain
5 Horrific Examples of Cultural Decay in America: John Hawkins
Barack Obama's Legacy: The Establishment of Lawlessness in America: MB

Mark Steyn Out At NATIONAL REVIEW?: James Fulford
Brit Hume’s epic rant on abortion inspires Ted Cruz, goes viral: BPR
Hobby Lobby made a Video about Obamacare and Religious Freedom… and it’s Awesome: YoungCons

World

Benghazi Report: We’ve Been Lied To: Susan Brown
Iraqis flee as al-Qaida takes over: Allen West
EXCLUSIVE: New York Times Slammed for Bias on Billboard in Front of Times Square HQ: Algemeiner

Will Chuckie Schumer demand Tina Turner pay his Reich Flight Tax?: W.C. Varones
She Killed Three Men for ‘Fun’: R.S. McCain
Can a Tweet Put You in Prison? It Certainly Will in the UK: Daily Beast

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Coming To Google: Click On Ad, Get Free Ride To Merchant Or Restaurant?: Ginny Marvin
Beware! Bats hide in your jQuery!: SpiderLabs
Freebie: Roundicons Icon Set (60 Icons, PNG, SVG, EPS, AI): Smashing

Cornucopia

American Goskino …: Protein Wisdom
Did you see Lady M’s “shout out” to Big Guy’s dedicated “grassroots army?”: MOTUS
If this “NFL Bad Lip Reading” video doesn’t make you laugh, I don’t know what will: YoungCons

Image: EXCLUSIVE: New York Times Slammed for Bias on Billboard in Front of Times Square HQ
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QOTD: "“I don't know why in the world House Republicans would move on immigration legislation in 2014,” said Representative Jeff Duncan of South Carolina.

Representative Jim Bridenstine of Oklahoma said securing the border is a far more urgent priority than discussing the citizenship of illegal aliens in the U.S. because of the savage violence at the border.

“We have on the border of the United States 100,000 dead bodies just south of our border,” Bridenstine said. “We focus on Syria because that’s where the president wants to focus, while we have a crisis on our own southern border. And it’s because we have an insecure border.”" --Matthew Boyle

Friday, January 24, 2014

Convicted EPA Official: Yes, Obama Wants to Eradicate Capitalism.

And all this time I thought Democrats believed in free will and 'choice':

WASHINGTON — The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee released today the deposition transcript of former Senior EPA official John Beale. Beale was sentenced to prison last month for defrauding the federal government of nearly $900,000 while posing as a secret agent for the CIA.

On page 21 of the deposition, Beale revealed the ultimate goal of the EPA and the Obama administration to “modify the DNA of the capitalist system.” The deposition reads:

“There were several phases of this project as we had outlined it. There’s an enormous boy of literature on the subject. Sometimes it’s referred to sustainability literature, sometimes it’s referred to green economics. And so phase 1 of the project was for me to become very familiar and transversant with that literature. Phase 2 would have been out and interviewing academic experts, business experts, people in other countries that are doing things.

  “And then phase 3 would have been coming up with specific proposals that could be – could have been proposed either legislatively or things which could have been done administratively to kind of modify the DNA of the capitalist system…”

IER Senior Vice President Dan Kish released the following statement in response to Beale’s sworn deposition:

“This is the smoking gun. For years, we have been saying the real agenda behind this administration’s energy and environmental policies is just what President Obama has said it is: to fundamentally transform America.

  “In his testimony under oath, Beale, perhaps unwittingly, has laid bare the administration’s end goal. The President’s policies are not about carbon, they are not about coal, they are not even about energy and the environment. They are about fundamentally altering the DNA of the capitalist system. These policies are not about energy, but power.

  “Beale was ordered by EPA administrator to head the agency’s climate change efforts. Today’s publicly released deposition means that McCarthy has many more questions to answer about her bad judgement regarding Beale and the true nature of the administration’s climate action plan.”

To read the full deposition, click here.

For those asleep at the switch over lo these many years: it's called the Cloward-Piven Strategy. Share with your family, friends and colleagues.

Time's a wastin'.

SHADES OF NAZI GERMANY: Chuck Schumer Calls for Government Suppression of Law-Abiding Citizens

Guest post by Investor's Business Daily

Free Speech: The IRS scandal is not only not over but is getting worse, with a call by New York's senior senator for the already-politicized agency to use its power to tax to destroy the conservative grass-roots movement.

Arguing that the Supreme Court's 2010 Citizens United decision allowed Tea Party groups to "funnel millions of undisclosed dollars into campaigns with ads that distort the truth and attack government," Charles Schumer wants the IRS and other government agencies to take on the Tea Party through their administrative powers.

"It is clear that we will not pass anything legislatively as long as the House of Representatives is in Republican control, but there are many things that can be done administratively by the IRS and other government agencies," Schumer said in a speech before the leftist think tank Center for American Progress.

Calling for the IRS to use its powers to resume war on the First Amendment and free speech he doesn't like in the hopes of electing more Democrats, Schumer said: "We must redouble those efforts immediately."

Schumer was the author of the 2010 Disclose Act that failed to make it through Congress but would have required the disclosure of corporate donors to tax-exempt organizations, and membership and donor lists of the groups running "issue" ads.

"The bill was designed to embarrass companies," Schumer admitted, and its "deterrent effect should not be underestimated."

Advocating the use of government power to harass and intimidate political opponents is nothing new to Schumer. Along with Democratic Sens. Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire, Tom Udall of New Mexico and Al Franken of Minnesota, he sent a similar letter to IRS Commissioner Douglas Shulman in February 2012 asking the IRS to investigate 12 conservative groups he accused of violating their tax-exempt status and engaging in coordinated political activity.

This effort to use government power to fundamentally transform our political system more along the lines of the Venezuelan model includes new IRS rules for 501(c)(4) organizations that would redefine "candidate-related political activity" and make virtually everything such tax-exempt political groups do a taxable activity.

Bad (Blue) News for Mitch McConnell

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Which means the top story earlier today was getting a boatload of social media buzz.


Listen to the interview.

Matt Bevin is the real deal.

If you have the wherewithal, consider helping him out and hand Mitch McConnell a nice fat pink slip.


OBAMAGENICS: The Holmes-Holdren Reproductive Services Act

Guest post by Lee Cary


ObamaGenics wouldn’t be a blue jeans clothing line featuring Mrs. Obama but a bold, new progressive initiative and a descendent of the 20th Century American eugenics movement – the subject of Edwin Black’s book “War Against The Weak.” 
Eugenics was, according to Paul A. Lombardo, author of “Three Generations of Imbeciles,” “entirely consistent with the even larger social movement that was key underpinning of eugenic activities: Progressivism.” (p. 17)

The eugenics movement marshaled support from agencies in 32 states where laws passed concerning the “socially inadequate.” The goal: Purge society of the “unfit.” The tool: Forced sterilizations that numbered about 60,000 between the adoption of the first state eugenics law (Indiana, 1907) and the repeal of the last law (N. Carolina, 2003).

California alone tallied 20,000 sterilizations between 1909 and 1979. But the California count hasn’t stopped. In July 2013, The Center for Investigative Reporting’s website revealed that “Doctors under contract with the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation sterilized nearly 150 female inmates from 2006 to 2010 without required state approvals.”   

Larwyn's Linx: The US Chamber of Commerce Versus America

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Nation

The US Chamber of Commerce Versus America: Michelle Malkin
Obama blows through debt ceiling in 3 months: WyBlog
Tea Party still living rent-free in Schmucky Schumer's head: JWF

CT citizens not registering “assault weapons”, “high-cap” magazines: Bob Owens
SCOTUS Abramski ruling could limit Obama's radical gun-control aims: Emily Miller
DOD Lets U.S. Soldiers Keep Religious Beards, Tattoos, Piercings: Breitbart

Wendy Davis Backers Now Mocking Greg Abbott for Being Paralyzed: LifeNews
Obamacare support hits (another) new low: Bluegrass Pundit
Wendy Davis Touts Her New Idea, Which Is Already State Law: Bryan Preston

News from around the (banana) Republic: Cold Fury
Fact-Free Liberals: Part IV: Thomas Sowell
Quotes: Margaret Sanger, Founder of Planned Parenthood: Diane Dew

Economy

Union leaders getting rich with money taken from members: RWN
Obamas, Bidens spent $295,437 on just one vacation weekend: Paul Bedard
White House warns GOP: Raise the borrowing limit without strings: Times

Scandal Central

Ted Cruz Calls for Special Prosecutor to Investigate IRS: RWN
Of Course: Conservative Group of Actors Being Harassed by the IRS: JWF
Who Paid for Michelle's 50th Birthday Bash? Carney Won't Say.: BPR

Dinesh D’Souza Indicted for Campaign Finance Fraud: Colin Campbell
D'Souza Co-Producer Claims Indictment Politically Motivated!: Scoop
Look At What Wendy Davis Left Off of Her Website: Bryan Preston

Geithner Threatened Standard & Poor's With Retaliation After Downgrade: IBD
New From Citizens United: Hillary’s Benghazi Testimony, One Year Later : Scoop
Fast and Furious: DoJ Inspector General looking into missing third gun: Toldjah

Climate & Energy

Global Warming Scientist To Be Cross-examined Under Oath: Ace
Europe Retreats From Clean-Energy Ambitions: NatlJrnl

Media

AWESOME: CNN interviews Matt Bevin on his race against Mitch McConnell: Scoop
Wendy Davis Fanboi Andrea Mitchell Downplays Dishonest Bio: 'She Slightly Altered Her Resume': MRC
Excited Chris Matthews: Hillary Might Win 60% of the Vote in 'Sweeping' 2016 Landslide!: MRC

Prospects For A Resurgent Tea Party In 2014: Sarah Marie Brenner
Government Privacy Board: NSA Metadata Collection Is Illegal: Ace
Sundance Film Review #1: Afronauts: MOTUS

World

Obama Administration to Israel: Call Off the Jews, Please: Seth Mandel
The world's most ancient Christian communities are being destroyed and no one cares: The Week
Sweden turning to capitalism as money for government spending runs out: Knight

Obama's Iran nuke includes secret side deal: FAM
Military pulls MRI machines for treating troops from war zone: AirForceTimes
‘Top Secret’ Documents Implicate Obamas, Clintons: Shoebat

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

CNN Sites Get Hacked: Syrian Electronic Army claims responsibility: Techland
Google's ready to give away over $2.7 million to folks that hack Chrome OS successfully: Michael Gorman
Developer tells Google about Chrome browser listening risk: Nancy Owano

Cornucopia

Who Goes Nazi?: Dorothy Thompson, Harper's (August 1941)
If Alison Howard Is With Us, Who Can Be Against Us?: Robert Charette
Barack Hussein Soebarkah?: Jason Kissner

Image: If Alison Howard Is With Us, Who Can Be Against Us?
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QOTD: "...the Chamber [of Crony Capitalism] has already spent close to $50 million lobbying for amnesty, and you will realize that the fix is in. All of the top House Republicans – Boehner, Cantor, McCarthy, and Ryan – along with the largest establishment lobbying empire, plan to push amnesty even with Obama in the White House.

Let this seep in for a few minutes. The entire force of the GOP establishment is being applied towards Obama’s most cherished agenda item for his second term, not towards fighting Obamacare and the debt ceiling. While Americans are concerned about out-of-control government, Obamacare, debt, and jobs, these clowns are concerned about illegal immigrants, foreign lobbies, and special interests." --Daniel Horowitz

Thursday, January 23, 2014

EXCERPT: Live Q&A with Edward Snowden: Thursday 23-Janury

Edward Snowden:

Not all spying is bad. The biggest problem we face right now is the new technique of indiscriminate mass surveillance, where governments are seizing billions and billions and billions of innocents’ communication every single day. This is done not because it’s necessary ... but because new technologies make it easy and cheap.

I think a person should be able to dial a number, make a purchase, send an SMS, write an email, or visit a website without having to think about what it’s going to look like on their permanent record. Particularly when we now have courts, reports from the federal government, and even statements from Congress making it clear these programs haven’t made us any more safe, we need to push back.

This is a global problem, and America needs to take the lead in fixing it. If our government decides our Constitution’s 4th Amendment prohibition against unreasonable seizures no longer applies simply because that’s a more efficient means of snooping, we’re setting a precedent that immunizes the government of every two-bit dictator to perform the same kind of indiscriminate, dragnet surveillance of entire populations that the NSA is doing.

It’s not good for our country, it’s not good for the world, and I wasn’t going to stand by and watch it happen, no matter how much it cost me. The NSA and the rest of the US Intelligence Community is exceptionally well positioned to meet our intelligence requirements through targeted surveillance — the same way we’ve always done it — without resorting to the mass surveillance of entire populations.

IT'S OFFICIAL: This sign from the Pro-Life March has gone viral

Via @VictoriaTaft:



BEND OVER, AMERICA: Paul Ryan Introduces GOP Plan For Amnesty

Preamble:

Let this seep in for a few minutes. The entire force of the GOP establishment is being applied towards Obama’s most cherished agenda item for his second term, not towards fighting Obamacare and the debt ceiling. While Americans are concerned about out-of-control government, Obamacare, debt, and jobs, these clowns are concerned about illegal immigrants, foreign lobbies, and special interests. --Daniel Horowitz

I'd encourage you to read the comments at Yahoo! Finance, which are running -- oh -- about 100-to-1 against.

Rep. Paul Ryan on Thursday told Texas business leaders eager for changes to immigration laws that House Republicans will tackle reform in pieces and ruled out negotiations with the Senate on its comprehensive measure.

The Wisconsin Republican didn't offer a timetable ahead of next week's GOP House caucus annual retreat, where Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, has said immigration will top the agenda.

Supporters of an immigration overhaul are renewing hopes that 2014 could bring the first sweeping changes in decades. Ryan expressed optimism at a luncheon hosted by the San Antonio Hispanic Chamber of Commerce but reiterated an insistence among GOP lawmakers that reforms happen piecemeal.

"Let's just say it's eight bills — I don't know. These will represent a smart approach ... We don't want to get into a situation where we end up with some big 1,000-page bill. But we do realize there are things that have to be sequenced."

...President Barack Obama has signaled he's open to a piecemeal approach but has said all the components must be done in the end. Ryan said Boehner will lay out principles that will include border security and enforcement of immigration laws — an area where Ryan says Republicans "have a hard time trusting" Obama.

Ryan, who heads the House Budget Committee, favors a way for immigrants living in the country illegally to "come out of the shadows" without granting amnesty. He told the audience that immigration "is good for America" and the economy but said the government must keep track of who's coming and going.

So the establishment GOP, thanks to tens of millions of dollars slathered around by the Chamber of Crony Capitalism, intends to drop Obamacare as an issue and jam Amnesty down America's throat.

Oh, and it's not just Ryan saying it. Number three doofus Kevin McCarthy, the political equivalent of a ventriloquist's dummy, is on the same page:

The third-ranking House Republican, Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy (Calif.), said he backs granting legal status, but not a new pathway to citizenship, to millions of immigrants in the U.S. illegally... “The principles aren’t written yet, but in my personal belief, I think it’ll go with legal status that will allow you to work and pay taxes,” McCarthy said.

Couple this with the news that the Chamber has already spent close to $50 million lobbying for amnesty, and you will realize that the fix is in. All of the top House Republicans – Boehner, Cantor, McCarthy, and Ryan – along with the largest establishment lobbying empire, plan to push amnesty even with Obama in the White House.

Let this seep in for a few minutes. The entire force of the GOP establishment is being applied towards Obama’s most cherished agenda item for his second term, not towards fighting Obamacare and the debt ceiling. While Americans are concerned about out-of-control government, Obamacare, debt, and jobs, these clowns are concerned about illegal immigrants, foreign lobbies, and special interests.

So they're in favor of legalization, but not citizenship? That's as much of an oxymoron as "Congressional Ethics".

Here's a hint, boys. No amount of money from the Chamber of Commerce will be enough to save Ryan, Boehner and McCarthy from the political wrath of the American people.

No amount.


Hat tip: Mark Levin.

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

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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
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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