Tuesday, February 04, 2014

Larwyn's Linx: Keep Your Doctor, Change Your Senator

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Nation

Keep Your Doctor, Change Your Senator: Glob
Matt Bevin Polls Better Than McConnell Against Democrat: Erick Erickson
Senate Democrats Backed Obama On Vast Majority of 2013 Votes: Roll Call

One Brave Doctor Stands Up to Obamacare: David Limbaugh
Lupus Sufferer: 'Obamacare Has Made My Life a Nightmare': Breitbart
This Pelosi Answer Says So Much: EIB

Republicans to the Rescue?: Thomas Sowell
Obama: ‘Not a Smidgeon’ of Corruption in IRS Abuse: Bryan Preston
Dismal Wisdom for Dismal Times: Fred on Everything

Economy

"May You Live in Interesting Times": Silicon Graybeard
The BLS Can't Hide These Numbers: Allison Martinez
Ohio Gov. John Kasich Wants to Redefine Conservatism: Jason Hart

8th Circuit Says USDA Can’t Keep Hiding Food Stamp Data: JW
Obamacare Rules Trap Some Domestic Violence Victims: PJM
You can’t celebrate America, school says: Todd Starnes

Scandal Central

Another IRS Stonewall: R.S. McCain
Fox News: CIA Director Morell Altered Benghazi Talking Points To Help Obama Politically: Nice Deb
Get your opiates for free: Capitalism meets the zombie apocalypse: Bronte Capital

Media

Will the FCC shut down Fox News now that Obama has blamed them for all his problems?: WyBlog
Networks Tout Obama Dodging Tough Questions From O'Reilly and Attacking Fox News: MRC
Why the “America the Beautiful” Coke Ad Should Not Be Controversial: Victory Girls

NRA calls 2014 elections do-or-die; vows war with Michael Bloomberg, Obama: Paul Bedard
‘Dana Loesch is my hero’: Conservative superstar totally kills it on ‘The View’: Twitchy
Ditch Mitch Snowballing – Matt Bevin Leading Grimes And McConnell: IM41

World

America’s Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan Are Not ‘Ended’: Dennis Prager
Another heartwarming story about funding the Castro regime: BabalĂș
Israel: The innovative nation: Commentator

Coke Balkanizes USA With Super Bowl Ad: Publius
Karzai Arranged Secret Contacts With the Taliban: Scoop
Pretending Tel Aviv Is the Capital of Israel: Daniel Pipes

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Government spying challenge on the way: SCOTUSblog
Suspected Data Breach At Holiday Inn, Marriott Hotels: CIO
A single pound of human body fat looks horrifyingly vile: Casey Chan

Cornucopia

Watch Ben Howe’s “Bankrupt” documentary here - for free: Moe Lane
On Gun Control Activists...: 90 Miles
Monday the Day After Groundhog Day: We Do it All Over Again: MOTUS

Image: An Open Letter to Michael Lawlor, the CT Governor's Hatchet Man on Firearms Confiscation
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QOTD: "An Open Letter to Michael Lawlor, the CT Governor's Hatchet Man on Firearms Confiscation

...As Governor Malloy's volunteer hatchet man on the forcible disarmament of the Connecticut citizenry, it is appropriate that I write you directly on some issues raised by your personal collectivist appetites for control of your fellow citizens' liberty, property and lives, if for no other reason than to politely explain some ramifications of that dictatorial compulsion under the Law of Unintended Consequences and the principles of 4th Generation Warfare, under which the civil war that you seem eager to solicit will likely be fought...

...You know it is quite ironic that on the morning I sit down to write this letter we discover that Adam Lanza (whose evil deeds were the supposed excuse for your Intolerable Act) was something of a twisted fellow traveler of collectivism being an apparently homosexual, environmentalist vegan who was anti-Christian enough to forbid his mother to put up a Christmas tree. "Gee," I thought when I read that, "This kid could have grown up to be a Connecticut Democrat politician." That he provided the bloody excuse for tyrant wannabes such as yourself is certainly the Devil's own joke -- send a collectivist killer to enable future collectivist power. Old Scratch must be laughing his ass off...

...I note that while you were at UConn in 1977 you "participated in language studies in Russia in 1977" at Moscow and Leningrad. You then earned a Master's Degree in Soviet Area Studies from the University of London in 1981. You were, what, 20 when you first experienced the Soviet Union at the height of the Cold War? It must have fascinated you early on in life. Yet after you got your Masters in Soviet Area Studies from the University of London at a time when that and other British universities were prime recruiting grounds for KGB "political warfare" assets, and you subsequently "received a Fulbright-Hays Scholarship to study economic reform in Hungary in 1982," you decided to change course and become, in quick succession, a lawyer, a prosecutor and then a Democrat Party politician.

...Your KGB file might provide some clues along those lines, of course. I had a long chat with a former CIA Cold Warrior who is intimately familiar with the KGB infiltration and subversion tactics of the time of your stay in the Soviet Union. He says that you certainly have a KGB file and had a KGB officer assigned to your case with the object of making an asset of you. No one from the United States got into the Soviet Union back then without the close inspection of the KGB. NO ONE...

And what would the KGB be looking for, I asked? "A lot of dewy-eyed kids were going to the Soviet Union back then with this fascination for the other side. They thought the Vietnam War proved the evil nature of American society and they wanted to see what the other side was like. So they (the KGB) would look for someone with those misconceptions and then look for other vulnerabilities. And their recruitment operations were vast. VAST." What other vulnerabilities? I asked.

"For one, homosexuality or other sexual deviance," he answered... It is a matter of record that after being long in the closet, you "came out" only in 2006...

...So, what about it, Mike? How's YOUR KGB file hangin'? Would you be so kind as to sign a release so an enterprising reporter can delve into the KGB archive and find out who you truly loved back then -- literally and figuratively? ...Perhaps we can find someone who can do it without your permission. After all, as someone who doesn't blink at using the violence of the state police power to work his will on otherwise innocent citizens in contravention to the Second Amendment, you can hardly expect that the Law of Unintended Consequences would not also apply here, now can you?

As I said, we'll continue this conversation on the ramifications of your personal quest for tyrannical power in future letters. Have a nice day." --Mike Vanderboegh

Monday, February 03, 2014

"The Most Dangerous Chart in the World"

That's what Toby Connor of GoldScents calls it.

Last month I warned about the bubble in the stock market, and what was going to happen when it popped. Make no mistake the chart of the S&P is the most dangerous chart in the world. When this parabolic structure collapses, it is going to bring down the global economy.


... I expect the Fed and the plunge protection team to go into full panic mode this weekend, come out Monday morning with guns blazing, and try to stop the selloff. Unfortunately this behavior is what has allowed this parabolic structure to develop. Every time the market has tried to correct over the last year the Fed has prematurely aborted the selloff...


...If on the other hand the selling pressure overwhelms the plunge protection team and starts to spiral out of control next week, then we are witnessing the breaking of the parabola and the end of this bull market...

...Whether the parabolic structure collapses next week or in two months we all know what the Feds response is going to be. They are going to reverse their taper decision and double or triple down on QE. The problem is that when a parabolic structure collapses it can't be put back together. My theory all along has been that when the stock market bubble pops the Fed would then completely destroy the dollar trying to pump it back up and that liquidity would then flow into the commodity markets instead of the broken parabola of the stock market and create another inflationary event similar to 2008.

There are a bunch more where that came from.

Gird your loins.


Hat tip: BadBlue Money.

U.S. Temps in December and January Among Lowest in 30 Years; Portly Tree-Ring Grifters Hardest Hit

I wonder how the matched set of rather corpulent climate grifters are going to try to spin this particular news?

Yes, Virginia, it really has been a cold winter.

The winter months of December 2013 and January 2014 averaged over the contiguous 48 United States were the 3rd coldest Dec/Jan in the last 30 years...

Here’s a plot of the Dec/Jan averages for the last 41 years:
...An interesting feature is that 5 of the last 7 years have been below the 41-year average, which has happened only one other time in the 41-year period...

So, does the cold winter disprove global warming theory? No more than an unusually warm winter proves the theory. It’s just what we used to call “weather”.

Why are tree ring-based temperature "reconstructions" -- like those of Michael "Limp Hockey Stick" Mann -- so particularly galling? As the late John L. Daly explained, "The tree ring is a composite of [many] variables [including sunlight, pests, cloud cover, rainfall, and snow-packing], not merely of temperature. Therefore on the [scant] 15% of the planet covered by trees, their rings do not and cannot accurately record temperature in isolation from the other environmental variables."

Exactly. And it turns out some scientists are now warning we may be witnessing the onset of a new ice age, in which case the blubber of certain portly faux scientists may come in handy.


Hat tip: BadBlue News.

BOOM: Johnny Boehner will have a primary opponent!

Now this is something all Americans can get behind:

BUTLER COUNTY [OH] — Anyone with aspirations to be a countywide officeholder has until Wednesday to be on the partisan primary ballots on May 6...

...The most petition[s] filed have been for Ohio’s 8th Congressional District, currently held by Speaker of the House John Boehner. The district encompasses all of Butler, Clark, Darke, Miami and Preble counties and the southernmost part of Mercer County.

Boehner is guaranteed to have one primary opponent in West Chester Twp. businessman Eric Gurr, who lives in Liberty Twp. There could be at least two other Republicans on this primary ballot in Liberty Twp. resident Matthew Ashworth and Troy resident J.D. Winteregg, who have filed but the elections board has yet to certify their petitions.

Greenville resident Matthew Guyette, who is certified to be on the Democratic ballot for the 8th Congressional District, looks to be facing Miami University professor Tom Poetter, who has filed his petitions but they have not yet been certified.

A while back I proposed a "nuclear option" for dealing with John Boehner, which Mark Levin was kind enough to publicize.

Before we resort to that, I'll be tracking the primary process in OH-8. We may in fact have a credible way to replace the feckless, cowardly and mumble-mouthed Speaker without resorting to nukes.


WHITE HOUSE TRIVIA: All of those dead bodies piling up from Benghazi and Fast & Furious? Those are on Fox

When confronted with rank propaganda like this, I really, really want to drop the f-bomb and other appropriate adjectives. But this is a family blog.

Not accustomed to being asked difficult questions about his failures in office, President Obama attacked Fox News host Bill O'Reilly during a pre-Super Bowl interview on Sunday for daring to demand answers about the Benghazi terrorist attack and the IRS targeting conservative groups.

O'Reilly said, "Your detractors believe that you did not tell the world it was a terror attack because your campaign didn't want that out. That's what they believe." Obama ranted in reply: "And they believe it because folks like you are telling them that." O'Reilly responded: "No, I'm not telling them that, I'm asking you whether you were told it was a terror attack."

Minutes later, while O'Reilly was asking about the IRS scandal, Obama tried to dismiss the topic: "Folks have, again, had multiple hearings on this. I mean, these kinds of things keep on surfacing in part because you and your TV station will promote them.

As the Conservative Tribune puts it:

Obama did in this interview what Obama has always done: Shift the blame to someone else. If something goes wrong in his presidency, it’s the fault of Republicans, racism, Fox News, or anything else that seems like a good scapegoat.

On Obama's desk, there must be a new riff on Truman's sign that reads:

THE BUCK STOPS ANYWHERE BUT HERE


Or:

THE BUCK STOPS WITH FOX NEWS

I don't have the appropriate words in my vocabulary to describe what I think of this kind of behavior.


Hat tip: BadBlue Real-Time News

Larwyn's Linx: GOPsmacked! What are Republican Leaders Doing?

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Nation

GOPsmacked! What are Republican Leaders Doing?: DiploMad
Time to Change. Time to Choose.: Erick Erickson
Meet the Billionaires Behind Hillary Clinton 2016: WFB

Will Obama’s pursuit of executive power backfire?: Ed Morrissey
Cruel, dismissive Obamacare: People are just statistics: Unyielding
Ex-Clinton Aide Urges Pelosi to Apologize for Obamacare: Rick Moran

Dan Bongino's new "GOP" opponent supported Democrats: Jeff Quinton
Big increase in support for concealed handgun laws: John R. Lott
Armed Citizens in Alabama! Vigilantes! Oh My!: Plucking the Yew

Economy

Labor unions utterly betrayed by Obamacare.: Moe Lane
Warped, Distorted, Manipulated, Flipped Housing Market: Jim Quinn
A Soviet Central Planner Would Blush at What House GOP Voted For: Foundry

No, Extending Unemployment Benefits Does Not “Create Jobs”: Patterico
Huckabee to Common Core Creators: Rebrand, Don't Retreat: Breitbart
The Dumbest Generation?: Mike Riggs

Scandal Central

Obama Laughs When Questioned About Benghazi Terror Attack: WZ
Obama blames Fox News for his scores of scandals: GWP
Clinton White House Counsel Can’t List a Single Hillary Accomplishment: Daniel Greenfield

Climate & Energy

Michael Mann the ‘reluctant public figure’ and ‘typewriter expert’: Anthony Watts
Former German Chancellor Warns Green Energy Costs May Trigger Revolt: GWPF
Nanny Bloomberg: World Climate Czar!: Breitbart

Media

O'Reilly Grills Obama on ObamaCare, Benghazi and IRS Scandals; Obama Blames Fox News: Breitbart
Matthew Burke to Congress: Do Your Job, Impeach Dictator Obama: TPNN
Dylan Farrow Exposes Why America Is Slipping From The Shiny City On The Hill: Strata-Sphere

#OccupyResoluteDesk Gives O’Reilly 10 Mins Of Variations On ‘Shut Up, Peasant’: R.S. McCain
Charles Krauthammer Explains Obama's Lawlessness in 50 Seconds: Foundry
“Comic” Bill Maher calls for mass shooting of country music stars: Bob Owens

World

Trying to scare us: Caroline Glick
Obama planning a trip to Saudi Arabia to repair badly frayed ties: Julian Pecquet
Montreal Woman Killed When Her Hijab Became Trapped in Escalator: AmPower

Coke Backs BDS Group Trying to Cripple Israeli Soda Competitor: Adam Kredo
John Kerry Threatens Israel With Boycotts if Talks Fail: INN
In Quitting Oxfam, Scarlett Johansson Has Exposed Two Lies (VIDEO): Algemeiner

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Modern Wheat – Old Diet Staple Turned Into a Modern Health Nightmare: Kris Gunnars
Google’s Grand Plan to Make Your Brain Irrelevant: Marcus Wohlsen, Wired
The 5 Best Real-Time Marketing Moments of the Super Bowl: Brian Morrissey

Cornucopia

The Worst Super Bowl Commercial: Coca Cola Butchers “America The Beautiful”: John Hawkins
‘Real heroes’: NFL legend Joe Namath shows off bracelet tribute to Chris Kyle: Twitchy
Whose Pen is Mightier in the No-Spin Zone? Poll to Follow.: MOTUS

Image: Gabby Douglas' Biopic
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: Fire Mitch McConnell: support Matt Bevin for Senate

QOTD: "I noticed a few days ago, you had a guest post that mentioned ICE's FY 2013 report on illegal immigration.

If you look closely at it, there are some frightening numbers to be found.

Of the illegal aliens (133,000) caught inside the U.S., 82% had been previously convicted of a crime. 52,000 of this group had convictions for violent felonies!

At the border, of the 235,000 caught, 45% had criminal records. 21,000 were violent felons.

These numbers, especially the "caught at the border figures", put to rest any claim that these are just hard working people looking for jobs.

Instead, we are importing the worst of Mexico and Latin America." --The Machiavellian

Sunday, February 02, 2014

Recognize any of these household items? If so, you must remember Jimmy Carter's presidency

Hat tip: Cafe Hayek


Related slide-show: How did we survive?

You don't have to be Kreskin to see an IRS audit in her future

Rebecca Stewart, mother of two residing in Covington, Kentucky, somehow escaped the administration's censors during a live Google Hangout interview with the president. Her comments were absolutely brutal.

I’m probably not the only one whose had really a panicked experience lately trying to figure out if my 10-year-old son can continue with his specialist or not. I know that I can’t keep my plan — which I liked — but as I’m trying to figure out what to do going forward, I’ve spent weeks with days on the phone getting confidently delivered wrong answers, conflicting information.

It's becoming quite obvious to me that a lot of agencies, almost everyone I've talked to, are having a lot of trouble figuring out the rules. So I'm afraid that perhaps average Americans who haven't had the time or ability to do the legwork that I've been able to do are perhaps going to be blindsided by this... my question for you is what are you doing to fix this or simplify this?

The president stumbled through an answer saying someone from the White House would get back to her with answers to her questions and this time they'd be right. Of course, if they're not right, perhaps Obama will just unilaterally rewrite the law for the 16th time.


Hat tip: BadBlue News.

MIND-BLOWING: 45% of aliens apprehended crossing into the U.S.at the border have criminal records

Guest post by The Machiavellian

I finally came across the FY 2013 figures for the removal of illegal aliens and these numbers are mind numbing. If ever there was an argument against tolerating illegal immigration, this is it.

These numbers blow the mantra that “these are good people just trying to make a living” out of the water. It is an absolute falsehood that attempts to hide us from the truth. And, what is the truth?

In FY 2013, ICE removed 368,644 aliens. Of these, 133,551 were caught inside the United States. Eighty-two percent of this group were previously convicted of a crime. In other words, 109,511 aliens with criminal records were loosed upon the citizenry of the United States. If only good, hard working people looking to better themselves crossed our borders illegally, then how is this number even possible?

Larwyn's Linx: Obama’s Weaponization of Government

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Nation

Obama’s Weaponization of Government: Protein Wisdom
How to Confront an Imperial President: Breitbart
Article V Convention: Path of Least Resistance: Robert Berry

Amnesty, but Not for D’Souza: Andrew C. McCarthy
Obamacare refuses to pay for sick kids’ care in Seattle, Washington: Moe Lane
They Don’t Call ‘em the Stupid Party for Nothing: Ed Driscoll

We need to make Progress in understanding what Regress is: Blogodidact
Gowdy Slams Obama for Shredding Constitution: Dancing Czars
Bachmann on SOTU Address: ‘He Declared Himself King Obama’: MRC

Economy

California Gets $155 Million More From Feds To Promote Obamacare: WZ
Mo Money: Fundraising on the Left Coast: MOTUS
Working for the Government: 90 Miles

Scandal Central

Father Of SEAL Claims His Son Was Set Up, Fox Anchor Cuts Him Off: NoisyRm
Time to ignore anything the MSM says about Republicans: Clarice Feldman
Massive military training exercise to be held in February: Savanna Now

Climate & Energy

SLAPPstick Farce: Mark Steyn
Scientists Have Discovered What Is Causing The Cold Weather: 90 Miles
AccuWeather Maps: Monday's Expected Snowfall: ABC-6

Media

Volokh: It Turns Out Conservatives Are More Likely to be Part of a Mixed Race Family: Ace
Firefighters Exploited by Cuomo Over SAFE Act Speak Out – Against the SAFE Act: MenRec
Wendy Davis’ Terrible Week Ends With Her Nabbing a Very Important Endorsement: Bryan Preston

Obama tries to perform without TOTUS: Protein Wisdom
Dinesh D’Souza’s one-on-one debate with Bill Ayers, exclusive Hannity interview: BPR
TSA: Don't Think You're Getting On Board With Your Bullet-Encased-In-Acrylic Keychains: TechDirt

What Moderates? – Karl Rove’s Donations Drop 98% After Targeting Tea Party: IM41
Judge Jeanine RESPONDS to SOTU: this is what you can do with your pen: Scoop
Polls Show No Impact From State of the Union Address: Steven T. Dennis

World

Iranian commander: We have targets within America: Katie McHugh, DC
Ex-CIA Director: Obama’s Dealings with Iran Like Actions of Notorious Nazi Appeaser: Dave Urbanski
Surprise! Man finds himself in audience full of people he saved as children from Nazi camps: Minority Report

What Syria needs now: Israel Matzav
Explaining Oxfam's bigotry against Israel: Commentator
Kerry biased against Israel, soft on Abbas, official says: Times of Israel

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

New Google patent suggests automatically sending your videos and photos to law enforcement: Phandroid
Oldest Known Hearth Found in Israel Cave: NatGeo
Five ways Google could help start an apocalypse: Eric Mack

Cornucopia

Congratulations Budweiser, you just made the best ad of all time: YoungCons
NSA Program For Children Makes Spying on Americans Fun: 21st Century Wire
Political newbie pays for slam dunk Super Bowl halftime ad to call out Obama: BPR

Image: TX Fellowship
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QOTD: "How come no one’s worried about bringing Dinesh D’Souza “out of the shadows”? After all, the poor fellow didn’t do anything wrong — not really. He just wanted to participate fully in our national life, in our democratic process. He didn’t want to hide — he was forced to take cover by our draconian, inhumane campaign-finance laws.

Mr. D’Souza’s real crime, the only offense that really matters in Washington these days, is being an Obama critic. Oh, they say he borrowed a couple of people’s names, but his real mistake was doing it in the Wendy Long Senate campaign. For Obama 2008 donors, borrowing other people’s names seems to have been a requirement.

And look, it’s not like every moment of D’Souza’s presence in this country has been a violation of law — even if it does rub the regime the wrong way. Nor does his day-to-day life ooze identity theft, tax evasion, bank fraud, Social Security fraud, Medicaid fraud, Medicare fraud, food-stamps fraud, and the like. Those crimes, instead, fill out the rĂ©sumĂ©s of our “undocumented” legions. So ubiquitous is illegal-alien crime that the benumbed Beltway ruling class — very much including its Republican-establishment division — now just shrugs and says, What difference, at this point, does it make?" --Andrew C. McCarthy

Saturday, February 01, 2014

OKAY, NOW YOU CAN PANIC: Harvard Economist Withdraws All of His Money from Bank of America

Terry Burnham, former Harvard economics professor, author of “Mean Genes” and “Mean Markets and Lizard Brains,” provocative poster on this page and long-time critic of the Federal Reserve, argues that the Fed’s efforts to strengthen America’s banks have perversely weakened them.


Last week I had over $1,000,000 in a checking account at Bank of America. Next week, I will have $10,000.

Why am I getting in line to take my money out of Bank of America? Because of Ben Bernanke and Janet Yellen, who officially begins her term as chairwoman on Feb. 1.

Before I explain, let me disclose that I have been a stopped clock of criticism of the Federal Reserve for half a decade. That’s because I believe that when the Fed intervenes in markets, it has two effects — both negative. First, it decreases overall wealth by distorting markets and causing bad investment decisions. Second, the members of the Fed become reverse Robin Hoods as they take from the poor (and unsophisticated) investors and give to the rich (and politically connected). These effects have been noticed; a Gallup poll taken in the last few days reports that only the richest Americans support the Fed. (See the table.)

Why do I risk starting a run on Bank of America by withdrawing my money and presuming that many fellow depositors will read this and rush to withdraw too? Because they pay me zero interest. Thus, even an infinitesimal chance Bank of America will not repay me in full, whenever I ask, switches the cost-benefit conclusion from stay to flee.

Let me explain: Currently, I receive zero dollars in interest on my $1,000,000. The reason I had the money in Bank of America was to keep it safe. However, the potential cost to keeping my money in Bank of America is that the bank may be unwilling or unable to return my money.

They will not be able to return my money if:

DEMOCRAT LOGIC COMIX: The Fun Never Ends

Ode to the welfare state.


Some things never change.


Larwyn's Linx: Obama Spills the Beans on the Citizenship Fig Leaf

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Nation

Obama Spills the Beans on the Citizenship Fig Leaf: Daniel Horowitz
Political Auto-Da-Fe: Liberty's Torch
Claim: Chris Christie Knew About Lane Closings: Ace

Did Showdown Kill Boehner's Immigration Dreams?: Jonathan Strong
Republican Fools Are About to Throw 2014 Away: Bryan Preston
Private citizens fire back at Harry Reid: Burgess Everett

The growing distance between Washington and the public it dominates: Dissect
Alinsky's Disciple: FreePost
The War Against Children: Susan Brown

Economy

Obama's New MyRA: The "No Risk, Guaranteed Return" Savings Bond: ZH
Mop Up Operation: Hopenchange
"Secret" Meetings on Greece? Say It Ain't So; Euro Contagion Coming Up: Mish

Experts: Obamacare will be impossible to get rid of: RWN
Bernanke Leaves Fed with Record Balance Sheet of $4.1 Trillion: CNS
That’s an unfortunate ad placement: Troglopundit

Scandal Central

Obama open to executive action on immigration: Meghasyam Mali
Obama Will Take 'Executive Action' to Reduce Prison Population: CNS
Dershowitz, legal experts say vindictive D’Souza indictment came from higher up: RWN

Climate & Energy

Ready To Build The Keystone Pipeline? The White House Says Not So Fast!: Realities

Media

Similarities Between Obama’s America And USSR Frightening And Growing: Dr. Kevin Collins
Another Must-Read from Bracken: Cold Fury
NBC Miami affiliate feels heat after calling GOP ‘Reprehensive Party of Florida’: BPR

World

Betrayed: The shocking true story of Extortion 17: Allen West
Haunting exhibits recalling the grief and terror of 9/11: Daily Mail
45 Years Since the Public Execution of 9 Jews in Baghdad: Israel's Documents

Reinhart and Rogoff: Great Recession may "surpass in severity" the Great Depression: Bill McBride
Calling For Jews To Be Shot Now Legal - Ontario Attorney General: Blazing Cat Fur
Tu Bishvat, a Super Bowl Ad and Israel's Soda Water Company: Rabbi Jason

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News

Hotel Franchise Firm White Lodging Investigates Breach: Krebs
How I almost lost my $500,000 Twitter user name @jb… and my startup: Josh Bryant
Cable lobby will “tweak” bill banning municipal broadband in Kansas: Jon Brodkin

Cornucopia

Grab a Gibson: Cold Fury
The Upbeat Thread: Ace
NFL banned a pro-gun ad during the Super Bowl, NRA’s response is epic: YoungCons

Image: Photos: Boulders just miss Italian home
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: Send a pink slip to Mitch McConnell: support Matt Bevin for Senate

QOTD: "Republicans could be chasing Democrats around from coast to coast on Obamacare alone. But instead, they are picking a 3% issue and picking a fight with their own base over it. And they’re picking the fight now, ahead of most primaries and months ahead of the general elections. There is time for the badness that is “comprehensive immigration reform” to sink in and sink the party. If you think the media won’t take advantage of this and try to get Republicans in primaries fighting among themselves over this, you don’t know the media. Of course they will. That’s what they do...

Pushing immigration now undermines the case that Obama is lawless, since any reform depends on him to enforce it and the Republicans are in effect saying that they trust him. Pushing immigration now undermines the rule of law, which also runs against the ability to cast Obama as lawless. Pushing immigration now does nothing for the millions of Americans and legal aliens who cannot find work in the Obama economy.

Pushing immigration now is weapons-grade stupid. Sens. Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz have struck the right notes on immigration this week. Boehner should listen to them. Stop throwing interceptions, please. Run with the Obamacare ball and wear out the Democrats’ defense. And then break them." --Bryan Preston

Friday, January 31, 2014

WHOA: New Gmail Ads Appear as... Emails

Just spotted this new ad format:



Related: BadBlue Tech News.

BUMMER FOR CLIMATE KOOKS: Final Keystone XL Pipeline Report Reveals No Major Boost in Greenhouse Gas

Guest post by Deena Winter

LINCOLN, Neb. — The U.S. State Department’s final environmental review of the proposed Keystone XL oil pipeline mirrors earlier conclusions that the pipeline wouldn’t significantly contribute to greenhouse gas emissions.

The report reiterated last year’s draft report conclusion that the pipeline is unlikely to significantly impact the rate of extraction of oil sands or the continued demand for heavy crude oil in the U.S.

Now that the State Department’s environmental review of TransCanada’s application for a federal permit to build the pipeline is complete, a 90-day review by various federal agencies will commence to determine whether the pipeline is in the national interest, since it crosses a national border. The final decision is expected to be made by Secretary of State John Kerry and President Obama.

Canadian pipeline company TransCanada first applied for permission to build the pipeline in late 2008, but it ran into a wall of opposition in Nebraska. Nebraska pipeline fighters have taken part in and helped organize protests from the governor’s mansion to Washington, D.C., even as most of the Republican statewide public officials have pushed for approval.

OBAMANOMICS: Unions Trump Bondholders, Again

Guest post by Tyler Durden

First, the Obama administration showed during the course of the GM and Chrysler bankruptcy proceedings, that when it comes to Most Preferred Voter classes, some unsecured creditors - namely labor unions, and the millions of votes they bring - are more equal than other unsecured creditors - namely bondholders, and the zero votes they bring. Five years later we are about to get a stark reminder that under the superpriority rule of a community organizer for whom "fairness" trumps contract law any day, it is now Detroit's turn to make a mockery of the recovery waterfall. As it turns out, bankrupt Detroit is proposing to favor pension funds at roughly double the rate of bondholders to resolve an estimated $18 billion in long-term obligations, according to a draft of a debt-cutting plan reviewed by The Wall Street Journal.

The breakdown to unsecured stakeholders would be as follows: 40% recovery for pension funds, 20% for unsecured bondholders - all this to the same pari class of unsecured creditors. Because just like in Europe when cashing out on CDS in insolvent nations is prohibited as it would suggest that the entire Eurozone experiment is one epic farce, regardless of how much "political capital" Goldman Sachs has invested in it, so in the US municipal creditors are realizing that in the worst case scenario, they will be layered first and foremost by all those whose votes are critical in keeping this crony administration in power.

According to the WSJ the plan calls for recovery to be divided among the unsecureds amounting to $4.2 billion, more than the originally planned $2 billion to settle claims which included about $11 billion in unsecured debt, including $6 billion in health and other benefits for retirees; $3.5 billion for retiree pensions; and about $530 million in general-obligation bonds.

Raping the 11-year olds Americans won't rape

Guest post by The Machiavellian

Last year two illegal aliens, both partners in a string of robberies in the Nashville are, were found guilty of a long string of robberies and the rape of an 11 year old girl.

The first criminal alien from El Savador was sentenced to 40 years for rape, kidnapping, and robbery.

His partner was found guilty of 41 charges, stemming from a string of robberies in South Nashville, which culminated in a rape of an 11-year old girl during one of their crimes. He was sentenced to 75 years in prison.

So... here we have a team of illegal aliens, brandishing guns, robbing homes in South Nashville over a three month period and -- in the process -- raping a child.

Yet there are still those who still condone and encourage the illegal invasion of millions of people across our borders. I can’t buy Sudafed with a license, but robbers, murderers, and rapists are allowed to cross our borders freely.

Only after they have harmed American citizens does the government do something. Think about that. It takes rape and murder for the feds to act.

First, we must control our borders. Secondly, only a limited number of highly vetted citizens from Latin and South America should be allowed to enter our nation.

Of course, for our side, that would dry up cheap labor. And for the Democratic-Marxist Party, that would frustrate their plan to change the ethnic makeup of America in order to increase the dependent classes that vote for them, depress wages, destroy the middle class and their bourgeoisie values of faith, hard work, private property, and capitalism.

They raped an 11 year old girl. Do you really want more of this?


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Boehner's Brainstorm

As Bryan Preston observes, "Republican Fools Are About to Throw 2014 Away."


There's dumb. And then there's RINO Establishment Dumb.


Larwyn's Linx: The Time To Stop John Boehner’s Amnesty Plan Is Now

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Nation

The Time To Stop John Boehner’s Amnesty Plan Is Now: John Hawkins
GOP Amnesty Plan Ignores Will of Republican Voters: JW
Sessions: Amnesty Is an Extraordinary Act of Self-Sabotage: Sara Noble

Mark Levin on how to destroy America: Scoop
Progressives Without Progress: Daniel Greenfield
The Speaker Reaps What the Speaker Sows: Erick Erickson

Obama’s SOTU: 18 Lies and Distortions That Should Concern Us: Sara Noble
GOP Establishment’s War on Senator Ted Cruz Continues: Dan Riehl
Paul Ryan talks about how he’s selling out on amnesty: Minority Report

Support for Obamacare suddenly plummets among the uninsured: ConIntel
Beck Slames Obama "MyRA" Plan: Biggest Heist in History: Blaze
Dear America, I Saw You Naked: Jason Edward Harrington

Economy

School Choice and Common Core: Mortal Enemies: Michelle Malkin
Cruz: GOP immigration plan is 'amnesty': Mario Trujillo
Employees Learn of Increased Health Costs Due to Obamacare: WS

Scandal Central

Alan Dershowitz Rises to the Defense of Dinesh D'Souza: Paul A. Rahe
Trey Gowdy To Eric Holder: ‘Appoint A Special Counsel To Investigate IRS Case’: Nice Deb
TSA Harasses Police Chief: Oath Keepers

Climate & Energy

Yet Another Anti-Fracking Study Bumps Into Reality: Stephen Kruiser
EPA Head to Scientists: 'Speak the Truth' on Climate Change to Meet Obama's 'Needs': CNS
Mayor Mao Bloomberg To Become Grand Wizard Of The Climate Cult Or Something: Stephen Kruiser

Media

Bushies Like Peter Wehner and Rove Fight Against American Greatness: Jen Kuznicki
Book profile: A Conspiracy Against Obamacare – The book based on the blog: Ronald Collins
Malkin 'Brought MSNBC to its Knees' Over Biracial Slam: Jeremy Boreing

Amy Glass: The Epitome of Decadent: A.P. Dillon
Explained: The Media’s Light Touch Toward Barack Obama: Erick Erickson
Poll: NBC, MSNBC Sink to Bottom of Public Trust: John Nolte

"I Stand By Everything I Wrote": Mark Steyn
Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity, Mark Levin End ‘Foolish’ Feud, Prepared to ‘Move Together’: Noah Rothman
Krauthammer: If Obama Was A Republican, He’d Be Impeached: Glob

World

The Iranian Threat & Obama’s Deception: FPM
State Department Adviser on Extremism Urges US to “Befriend” Al Qaeda: Daniel Greenfield
Putin: Who's Godless Now?: Marc Bennetts, Times

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News

What does national security have to do with the Lenovo-Motorola deal?: Marc Perton
Ex-network engineer faces prison after admitting he sabotaged employer's system: IDG
NASA is planning to make water and oxygen on the Moon and Mars by 2020: ExtremeTech

Cornucopia

One-sentence smackdowns for liberal propaganda: Looking Spoon
Cafeteria Nazis Take Lunches from Kids - Toss it in the Trash: FreePost
Who Exactly is Barack Obama?: Kengor/Levin

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Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: A Right Wing News Poll on John Boehner’s Amnesty Plan

QOTD: "We live in Arizona, we’re on the front line of the administration’s unwillingness to enforce immigration law and the Congress’ unwillingness to force the administration to enforce immigration law.

Rep. Ryan, your statements are absolute, utter bulls***. [If that’s offensive to you, come to Phoenix, we’ll take you to the border. You’ll see what “offensive” really is.]

This policy is clearly amnesty and the border will not be secured. You and the spineless Democrats and especially Republican “moderates” who are bought and paid for by the Chamber of Commerce don’t want the border secured. If you did, you’d have been raising hell since any of the previous immigration bills were passed ALL of which required the border to be secured." --Minority Report

Thursday, January 30, 2014

While Obama Disarms America's Military, Red China is Quietly Building Game-Changing Hypersonic Missiles

Guest post by Investor's Business Daily

National Security: While the administration guts the U.S. military, Pentagon experts warn that as soon as five years from now our missile defenses might pose little problem for China's new hypersonic strike vehicle.

Behaving as the world power they are becoming, the Chinese are building state-of-the-art hypersonic missiles that Pentagon officials warn could overpower U.S. defenses in five years.

As we recently mentioned, China's defense ministry has confirmed the Jan. 9 test of a hypersonic glide vehicle, known as the WU-14. It was designed to evade our missile and other defense systems, such as the Aegis sea-based missile defense guarding our Pacific fleet and carrier battle groups.

On Tuesday, shortly before our commander in chief addressed his higher priorities, such as income inequality, in the State of the Union address, Frank Kendall, undersecretary of defense for acquisition, technology, and logistics, expressed concern during a House Armed Services Committee hearing. He is troubled that Chinese military advances such as the WU-14 would overtake the defense capabilities of the U.S. as soon as five years from now.