Thursday, February 06, 2014

EXPLOSIVE TESTIMONY: Everything Barack Obama Told You About the IRS Scandal is a Lie

Testifying before Congress today, Attorney Cleta Mitchell shredded the Obama administration over IRS-gate, accusing it of committing a variety of high crimes and misdemeanors.

“The IRS scandal is not over. It is continuing to this day. And the Department of Justice investigation is a sham. It is a nonexistent investigation,” a high-powered Washington attorney testified before Congress Thursday morning... Mitchell, who represents many tea-party groups, blasted President Obama’s claim on Sunday that there is no IRS scandal, and his insistence that there was “not even a smidgen of corruption” in the agency’s targeting of conservative groups applying for tax-exempt status.

“The IRS scandal is not just a bone-headed bunch of bureaucrats in some remote office, contrary to what the president of the United States told the American people ... the IRS targeting of conservative groups was politically motivated because the direction came from “political elites in Washington — not in Cincinnati, but Washington.”

The attorney said she knew as far back as October of 2011 that the targeting was being guided by Washington, because when she contacted the Cincinnati IRS agent assigned to one of her clients and offered to try to help smooth the application process, she said she was told, “Oh, there’s a task force in Washington; we can’t do anything until we hear back from Washington.”

Mitchell said the IRS, under Obama, took what had been for decades a process of reviewing applications for exempt status that 4(01) or 501(c)(4) organization that could be expected to take three to four weeks and “converted that process into one that took three to four years, and in some cases is still not over.”

Former federal prosecutor Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., also took dead aim at Obama’s claim that there was no corruption in the IRS targeting conservative groups, especially in the tax-exempt division formerly head by Lois Lerner. He also referred to the fact that investigators have not interviewed clients represented by either Mitchell or Jay Sekulow, Chief Counsel, American Center for Law and Justice, who also testified.

“How can the president say there’s not a smidgen of criminality when Lois Lerner invoked the 5th Amendment, 41 witnesses haven’t been interviewed – including the two that are here right now? How can he possibly draw that conclusion?!” Gowdy demanded.

This came on the heels of Wednesday's testimony in which House Ways and Means Chairman Dave Camp shredded the President's "not a smidgen of corruption" lie:

Mr. Camp unveiled a June 14, 2012 email from Treasury career attorney Ruth Madrigal to key IRS officials in the tax-exempt department, including former director Lois Lerner.

The email cites a blog post about the political activity of tax-exempt 501(c)(4) groups and reads: "Don't know who in your organizations [sic] is keeping tabs on c4s, but since we mentioned potentially addressing them (off-plan) in 2013, I've got my radar up and this seemed interesting."

Interesting for sure. The IRS typically puts out a public schedule of coming regulations, and Mr. Camp noted that in this case "off-plan" appears to mean "hidden from the public."

So, Speaker Boehner and Chairman Issa, where are the subpoenas and interrogatories?

Where is the Select Investigative Committee?

Where the hell are you people doing up there? I mean, besides planning on giving the American people the royal boofoo with your Amnesty crap?


Hat tip: BadBlue News

FANATIC FUNNIES: Bachmann Was Right Edition

Yes, all of this really happened.


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Michele Bachmann Sticks To Accusations About Muslim Brotherhood

A Brief, Illustrated History of the Obama Administration's New Pals, the Muslim Brotherhood


Larwyn's Linx: IRS’s Los Lerner, Treasury Department secretly drafted new rules to restrict nonprofits

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Nation

IRS’s Lerner, Treasury secretly drafted new rules to restrict nonprofits: DC
Obama “Dreamer” hero kills two girls: FlopAce
Government hiding what people are buying with SNAP food stamps: Kathryn Watson

Brian Terry's Brother Slams Eric Holder: Matthew Boyle
A Tale of Two Droughts: Victor Davis Hanson
Think power inequality: Jonah Goldberg

No Keystone Or ObamaCare Bailout Repeal For Debt Ceiling Hike: Ace
Human Rights - another modernist evil: Charlton Teaching
Conservatives: Ready for... Jeb Bush?: Ace

Economy

All Your Children Are Belong to Us: Globl
Outrageous: Politicized NLRB Re-Ignites Election Rule: Sara Noble
Union reps reportedly intimidate VW employees ahead of vote: BPR

Voters in Bankrupt San Bernardino Sweep Pro-Union Types from Office: Mish
Dear Lord - shoot me now. I don't believe what I'm seeing...: Adrienne
Hot New Trend: Carefree Hipsters Go For Funemployment, Starve-cation: IowaHawk (2009)

Scandal Central

Documents show IRS secretly regulated Tea Party groups, hid from public: WZ
New IRS Head Apologizes to Conservatives for Scandal Obama Doesn’t Think Exists: JWF
My Second Open Letter to Mike Lawlor -- On "Nightcrawlers" and Treason Played for Laughs: SSI

Climate & Energy

EPA Bans Most Wood Burning Stoves In a Corrupt Scheme, Fireplaces Next: Sara Noble
Don’t Blame Climate Change for the California Drought : Charles C. W. Cooke
Climate Projection: Mark Steyn

Media

Will Fox Again be Targeted by the Obama Administration?: Hideout
Caution: You’re Entering The Spin Zone: MOTUS
The New York Times achieves Anagnorisis on Obamacare: Moe Lane

The Worst Idea in the World: R.S. McCain
Time laying off hundreds of employees?: R.S. McCain
Megyn Kelly Crushes James Carville Over Obama Whining About Fox: IJR

World

China Military Spending Surges: Breitbart
Susan Rice blasts Israel for 'Personal Attacks': Breitbart
How About a “Comprehensive” Plan to Deport Illegals?: CFP

Groundhog Day for Islam: Daniel Greenfield
US condemns planned construction in East Jerusalem: Times of Israel
Laughingstock: Israeli settlers publish spoof mocking John Kerry’s incompetence: BPR

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

NBC: All Visitors to Sochi Olympics Immediately Hacked: WS
Texas health system attacked, data on more than 400K compromised: Adam Greenberg, SCMag
Verizon denies benefiting from net neutrality ruling, throttling Netflix: Russell Holly

Cornucopia

I swear, you write one little post on how to bring down the grid and you never hear the end of it: Bob Owens
'Il Silenzio.' I have to admit, I wept listening to this.: SSI
Seahawks: We cracked Peyton Manning's hand-signals: Daily Mail

Image: US condemns planned construction in East Jerusalem
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: Fire Mitch McConnell: support Matt Bevin for Senate

QOTD: "The people amnesty helps are Democrats, who get multiple millions of new voters, and the soulless rich, who don’t care about the country and don’t care about the culture. They just want cheap labor.

Instead of standing up for the long-suffering middle class that is the backbone of the Republican Party — much less the lower class lionized in so many Bruce Springsteen songs — Christie sided with Silicon Valley billionaires and Wall Streeters on their servant problem, while also helping Democrats with their demographic problem.

A few months later, Christie doubled down on amnesty by granting in-state tuition to illegal aliens.

There isn’t a wall high enough to stop illegal immigrants from sneaking across the border when the reward waiting on the other side is free health care, jobs, driver’s licenses and college tuition subsidized by American taxpayers." --Ann Coulter

Wednesday, February 05, 2014

TICK TOCK: The Countdown To Government Confiscation Of Your Retirement Savings Has Begun

Writing at Zero Hedge, Nick Giambruno of Casey Research sounds the alarm on President Obama's new "MyRA" program.

Simply put, the new myRA program put forward by Obama is at best a sucker's deal… or worse, it's a first step toward the nationalization of private retirement savings... Even before the new myRA program was announced, there had been whispers about the need for the US government to assume some risk for US retirement accounts. That's code for forced conversion of private retirement assets into government bonds.

...With foreigners not buying as many Treasuries and the Fed tapering, the US government has been searching for new buyers of its unwanted debt. And this is where the new myRA program comes in.

In short, it's ostensibly a new way for people to save for retirement. Of course, you can only invest in government-approved investments—like Treasuries—which probably won't even come close to keeping up with the real rate of inflation. It's like Jim Grant says: "return-free risk."

In reality, a myRA doesn't really provide any significant new benefits over existing options. To me it just looks like a way for the US government to pass the hot potato on to unsuspecting Americans in exchange for their retirement savings.

The net effect is the funneling of more capital to Treasury securities and thus helping the US government finance itself.

...I believe myRA is a way to nudge the American people into gradually becoming more accustomed to government involvement in their private retirement savings.

It's incorrect to assume nationalization couldn't happen in the US or your home country. History shows us that it's standard operating procedure for a government in dire financial straits... In just the past six years, it's happened in some form in Argentina, Poland, Portugal, Hungary, and numerous other countries.

To me it's self-evident that most Western governments (including the US) have current debt loads and future spending commitments that all but guarantee that eventually—and likely someday soon—they will try to unscrupulously grab as much wealth as they can.

To put this news in context, consider that in late 2008 Democrats openly discussed the possibility of confiscating private retirement accounts in order to "strengthen and protect Americans’ 401(k)s, pensions, and other... plans".

SUPREME COURT JUSTICE: Don't Call Lawbreakers Lawbreakers

It would seem that the acts of wantonly breaking our immigration laws and violating U.S. national sovereignty don't qualify as illegal acts, at least in the view of one of our radical, hard left, activist Supreme Court Justices.

Sotomayor: Labeling Illegal Immigrants Criminals Is Insulting


Sotomayor, the first Hispanic on the U.S. Supreme Court, said she didn’t even know what an Ivy League college was when a friend suggested she apply. She wound up attending Princeton and Yale Law School.

On the Supreme Court since 2009, Sotomayor said it was tough at first as justices made references that went over her head. She said joining the high court amounted to joining an ongoing conversation among justices who had served for years... “I figure I may not be the smartest judge on the court but I’m going to be a competent justice,” she said.

Sotomayor was asked at a talk at Yale Law School later in the day about her use of the term “undocumented immigrants” rather than the traditional illegal alien. Sotomayor characterized the issue as a regulatory problem and said labeling immigrants criminals seemed insulting to her.

“I think people then paint those individuals as something less than worthy human beings and it changes the conversation,” Sotomayor said.

Hey, La Raza: no one's painting those individuals as something less than human. We're calling them illegal aliens because they broke our laws. You know, the same laws you took a freaking oath to uphold and protect.

This is the problem with the radical left: they think they can pick and choose the laws they want to enforce. In the end, however, lawlessness begets lawlessness. And when people like this -- presumably the very authorities upon whom the law rests -- belittle the legal system or, worse, ignore it, they are unraveling the fabric that holds the civil society together.

Sotomayor and Obama are, in a subtle way, fomenting anarchy. Because when people believe that even their president and the highest court in the land can simply disregard the written law, they'll figure they can too.

Such behavior is amoral and deeply malevolent.


Hat tip: BadBlue News

ALLEN WEST: Speaker Boehner, find the courage to establish a Benghazi select committee

Guest post by Allen West

This morning I had a chance to visit with a former colleague, someone for whom I have the utmost respect, Virginia Representative Frank Wolf. Rep. Wolf is the author of House Resolution 36, which calls for a Benghazi select committee with subpoena powers to formally and singularly focus on the incidents surrounding the US Consulate attack in Benghazi Libya.

Rep. Wolf shared with me today that he now has 182 cosponsors, all from the House GOP. One has to ask if the Democrats are more aligned with their political party or truth? The 182 cosponsors represent approximately 80 percent of the House Republican conference, and according to former Speaker Dennis Hastert, meet the standard of the “Hastert Rule,” a majority of the majority. Yet this piece of legislation is blocked from being brought to the House floor for a vote.

Rep. Wolf and I mused — actually we both became infuriated — considering how in the State of New Jersey Democrats have established a select committee and are pursuing subpoenas against Governor Chris Christie over traffic lanes being closed. Is it possible that traffic lane closures are more important than the abandonment, murder, and lying that hangs like a dark cloud over the events of September 11, 2012? Have we become so degraded that we do not see the utterly despicable hypocrisy of the Democrats in New Jersey and the liberal progressive media?

Over the weekend, we witnessed the arrogant dismissal of President Obama, who has already referred to Benghazi as a “phony scandal,” as he chided Bill O’Reilly, stating that Benghazi, among other nefarious actions, are just talking points driven by Fox News. The belligerence of President Obama has been enabled by a House GOP leadership reluctant to stop the diluted process of five different committees who must ask for information by way of FOIA requests. Just yesterday before a House Intelligence Committee hearing, Director of National Intelligence, James Clapper, and others were asked when will someone be held responsible for the incidents surrounding Benghazi? The question was met with nearly 10 seconds of silence.

Losing an American Ambassador is not the new normal. Abandoning brave Americans to die is not the new normal. Supplying arms to Islamic terrorist and jihadists and running a covert weapons program is treasonous and represents high crimes and misdemeanors.

BOMBSHELL STUDY: Obamacare to expel millions from workforce

Guest post by Amy Payne

Obamacare moves people further away from jobs and shifts their health care costs to taxpayers. Good news or bad?

The White House took up defensive measures yesterday after the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office released a new estimate: Obamacare will cause the equivalent of 2.3 million people to stop working.

“Double ouch,” said The Washington Post’s Chris Cillizza, outlining exactly what bad news this is for Members of Congress who voted for Obamacare.

Why will people stop working or reduce their work hours? One word: Money.

Under Obamacare, the less money you make, the more money taxpayers give you for health insurance. So when it comes time to consider a promotion or a different job, people will consider whether that move would make them lose their Obamacare subsidies.

Heritage expert Drew Gonshorowski laid this out last year: “Obamacare ultimately discourages low-income individuals from trying to move into higher paying jobs.”

Larwyn's Linx: Immigration-Reform Opponents Suspect a Ruse

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Nation

Immigration-Reform Opponents Suspect a Ruse: Andrew Stiles
Republicans’ Comprehensive Immigration Folly: Thomas Sowell
Schumer, Ryan, Gowdy Holding Secret Amnesty Talks: Politico

The Obamacare Security Nightmare: It Gets Worse: Michelle Malkin
The Belarusian Connection: Bill Gertz
If he Pushes Amnesty, Is Boehner’s Gavel on the Line?: Matt Fuller

Economy

5 Devastating Obamacare Facts From CBO’s Latest Economic Report: Sean Davis
Reid: Obamacare Doesn’t Cost Jobs, It Turns Workers Into ‘Free Agents’: Tatler
Is part-time USA permanent?: David Freddoso

Cruz: This isn't a farm bill, it's a food stamp bill: Scoop
Debt Up $6.666 Trillion Under Obama: Ali Meyer
Obama's Top Economist Likens American Workers to 95-Year-Olds: TruthRevolt

CBO confirms Obamacare subsidies create disincentive to work harder: LI
NYC mayor de Blasio: close public schools for Muslim holidays: Howard Portnoy
Cali asks all public K-12 schools to make salaries public: LAT

Scandal Central

Issa, Jordan To IRS: Withdraw IRS Political Speech Rule: Nice Deb
OF COURSE – IRS Employees To Receive $62 Million in Bonuses: Glob
Wendy Davis used campaign funds to pay for luxury apartments, records show: WFB

And We’re Doing Immigration Reform?: Erick Erickson
Woman who can't afford contraceptives scrapes up enough for congressional run: JWF
Cover Oregon Scandal: ‘If it’s true, someone’s going to prison’: Bryan Preston

Climate & Energy

Free the Keystone XL pipeline, Mr. President: Jonah Goldberg
Sierra Club Warns Obama: Approve the Keystone and It Will Hurt the Democrat Base: Bryan Preston
Environmentalists do billionaires’ bidding in fight against Keystone pipeline: Rachel Marsden

Media

Right Wing News Endorses Matt Bevin for Senate in Kentucky: John Hawkins
Latest ObamaCare Ad Blitz to Target Stupid Young Women: JWF
MAIG tries to sweep Philip Seymour Hoffman under the rug: Bob Owens

Networks Echo White House Spin That ObamaCare Won't Cut Jobs: Matt Hadro, MRC
If I Had a Sickle: Kathy Shaidle
Glenn Beck Calls Out GOP Establishment: Where are the Special Prosecutors?: TPNN

World

Cruz Contrasts U.S. Foreign Policy Reality With Obama’s Utopian Fantasy: Nice Deb
Kerry Blatantly Lies: “Not One Israeli Was Killed By A Palestinian From The West Bank” In 2013: WZ
Barry Rubin, My Teacher, My Friend Passed Away Today: Lid

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

The GOP’s Modern Campaign Technology Is About To Pay Dividends: Dina Fraioli
British spy unit reportedly hit Anonymous with DDoS attacks: CNet
The goofy gag reel of Thor: The Dark World is a raucously good time: Gizmodo

Cornucopia

Obama’s Phony scandals and O’Reilly thrash it out in the Fox’s No-Spin Zone: MOTUS
Ramirez Cartoon – The Obama Constitution: Glob
Letter to My Newborn Daughter: Ben Shapiro

Image: Why are gun grabbers so violent? Coalition to Prevent Gun Violence legislator in jail for beating girlfriend
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: ForAmerica Launches Six-Figure Dump the Leadership Campaign

QOTD: "“Time and again, year after year, the Republican leadership in the House and Senate has come to grassroots conservatives, and Tea Party supporters pleading for our money, our volunteers, our time, our energy and our votes. In return they have repeatedly promised not just to stop the liberal assault on our freedoms and our national treasury, but to advance our conservative agenda. It’s been years. There is not a single conservative accomplishment this so-called ‘leadership’ can point to.

Even worse, on issue after issue they simply capitulate rather than fight for our cause. Conservatives deserve better than this, and now we call for it. We have rewarded the current leaders with many victories on Election Day; they have delivered nothing. They have gone to the well one too many times, and now the well is dry. It’s time for them to go." Brent Bozell

Tuesday, February 04, 2014

LAURA BUSH LAUGHS AT OBAMA: Laura Bush Responds to Obama Whining About Michelle Not Getting Paid

What's the emoticon for a forehead slap?

During the 2012 campaign, Obama whined at a campaign event focused on women’s issues in Colorado that Michelle doesn’t receive a salary as First Lady.

An obvious ploy to win over women voters, he said that First Lady is a “tough job” and he wants to make sure “she’s getting paid the same as men.”

Never mind all of the taxpayer-incurred costs that Michelle accumulates doing her “job” as First Lady, which, as we’ve written before, includes taxpayer-funded vacations.

Former First Lady Laura Bush spoke recently to CSPAN on this very issue, and her response is great.

Our friends at IJ Review report:

In a sneak-peek for a special “First Ladies” interview with C-SPAN, former First Lady Laura Bush responds to a question about whether or not the president’s spouse should get a salary. She replies that she doesn’t “think so,” because “there are plenty of perks.”

Furthermore, Mrs. Bush adds that the real question is whether or not a “First Gentleman” or a First Lady might be expected to maintain a career while married to the President of the United States.


Americans pay a paltry $1.4 billion-with-a-B for the president, his family and their coterie, attendants, and bodyguards.

By comparison, the entire annual cost of the British monarchy is about $128 million, or less than 10 percent of what our imperial president costs us.


Hat tip: BadBlue Gun News.

DEMOCRAT LOGIC COMIX: The Barstool Bandito

The Establishment Republican Apparatus officially unveiled its "principles" for bankrupting the country, Balkanizing it, and building a permanent Democrat majority. You may know it as "Amnesty".


The real story? Money. Personal avarice and ambition, for men like Boehner and Eric Cantor, outweigh any quaint notion of patriotism or love of country.


Bank turns a robbery into a marketing campaign. And it's fantastic!

Who says your typical banker doesn't have a good sense of humor?

A bandit made off with $26,000 of Idaho First’s money following a shootout with cops. A week later, the bank ran one of the funnier ads you’ll see from a financial institution.

January 10 was typically cold in McCall, Idaho, a small resort town with nary 3,000 residents. With temperatures lingering just below freezing, Nathan Davenport decided to hit the ATM ... outside Idaho First Bank. Wearing dark clothes and a mask, he proceeded to cut the bolts off the ATM’s door, then attached a chain to it and ripped the door free with his truck (a stolen truck, of course). Apparently this wasn’t Davenport’s first time hijacking an ATM. The caper took less than seven minutes, and Davenport split with cash totaling $26,120...

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: Babalú
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
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: Fire Mitch McConnell: support Matt Bevin for Senate

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

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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?