Saturday, February 08, 2014

MUST SEE: Powerful and frightening testimony on Obama intimidation

Guest post by James Simpson

I am proud to call Catherine Engelbrecht, President of True the Vote, (www.truethevote.org), a friend. I have written about their amazing organization and its singular achievements in exposing vote fraud a number of times. For example, here, during the Wisconsin recall of Governor Scott Walker, and here, in a widely-read research report on vote fraud for Accuracy in Media. The following testimony, which she delivered this past week before Congress, was at once incredibly inspiring for her singular bravery, and frightening, because it poignantly reveals the depth of the Obama administration’s utter contempt for the American people and the laws governed by it.

Catherine, her husband, their company and her nonprofit, have been repeatedly targeted, first in frivolous lawsuits by the Texas Democratic Party (which the Democrats lost, every single one, but they didn’t care, because it cost about $1 million for Catherine to defend – money fortunately provided by others as they are not rich), then outrageous, unprecedented demands from the FBI, the IRS and the ATF. Watch her testimony and share it.

This administration is literally revealing itself to be a tyranny. We all need to wake up before it is too late if it is indeed not too late already. The IRS has now proposed a new regulation that can only be described as a despotic attempt to throttle free speech. If codified, this rule will make legal, the criminal suppression of conservative groups that they have been engaging in since 2010, and continue to engage in. Add your comments to the chorus of outrage rising across the land against this IRS proposed rule that will literally destroy free speech. Submissions may be sent electronically via the Federal eRulemaking Portal at http://www.regulations.gov, please include this citation: IRS REG-134417-13.

Larwyn's Linx: The Renegade Jesse Myerson

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Nation

The Renegade Jesse Myerson: R.S. McCain
I've Been Trying Since November—But I Still Can't Sign Up for Obamacare: WS
A Nation Governed by Traitors: Hideout

Is your pre-existing condition really covered under Obamacare?: Hideout
Who’s Up for Yet Another Obamacare Delay?: Bryan Preston
What can a mere rifle do?: WeaponsMan

White House Tells Ocare Insurers To Let Consumers Change Plans: RWN
Obama May Decree... What Would Surprise You At This Point?: Ace
Black conservatives afforded no safe quarter: Allen West

Another completely insane proposal from Elizabeth Warren: FPM
BREAKING: "No, Liberals Don't Control the Democratic Party": Ace
Donna Freaking Edwards: C&S

Economy

January Jobs Report: Another Disaster: Hot Air
A primer of sorts on the Saturday activist left #MoralMarch in NC: Toldjah
Unemployment- Lousy Numbers And The Pretzel Brigade: MinorityReport

Scandal Central

ACLJ Head: Newly Discovered IRS Emails a “Smoking Gun” – Warrant Special Prosecutor: Nice Deb
Rep. Gerry Connolly Doesn’t Want to Touch IRS, FBI, ATF Abuses But Defends Lois Lerner: MagNote
IRS abuse target files formal ethics complaint against Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD): Bryan Preston

Climate & Energy

If A Tree-Ring Temperature Falls in the Forest: Mark Steyn
Former Interior Secretary Ken Salazar: Oh, Hey, the Keystone Pipeline Is Cool Now.: Jim Geraghty
Global warming: 80 percent of Great Lakes covered in ice: Marathon

Media

Lott hammers ABC News for the network’s deceptive anti-gun propaganda: Bob Owens
NBC calls Genocidal Communism “one of modern history’s pivotal experiments": Scoop
SNUBBED! Breitbart editor orders reporters to skip any mention of RedState Ben Howe’s film: DC

What Do Liberals Say to a Black Conservative?: MRC
Doubling Down on Obamacare: Lynnley Browning, Newsweek
‘Those dancers are spinning like Iranian centrifuges’: Jim Geraghty live-tweets Sochi opening ceremony: Twitchy

Scratching My Head Over Hot Air’s Take On Mitch McConnell’s Polling Data: IM41
CNN touts Obama's 'very moving' religious liberty speech; omits Obamacare attacks on faith: NB
The Most Corrupt Village in America: Daniel Greenfield

World

By the Waters of Babble-on – and on and on and on.: Blasted Fools
Top language spoken by refugees admitted to US during Obama reign: Arabic: Creeping
US Mocks Russia’s Surveillance State While We Live in a Super Spy State: Sara Noble

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Hackers aren't the problem at Sochi, surveillance is: Russell Brandom
In 3.5 Years, Most Africans Will Have Smartphones: Jon Evans
800000-Year-old Human Footprints Found in UK: Benita Matilda

Cornucopia

Military Records and “the Records Fire”: This Ain't Hell
I survived 4 near-fatal errors on a single shift: Keith Bettinger, PoliceOne
Irony Piers Morgan’s Security Detail Has AR-15s He Doesn’t Want You To Have: WZ

Image: What Do Liberals Say to a Black Conservative?
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QOTD: "Enough people have had enough genuine headaches, stress, frustration, and misery from the Obamacare rollout — either through canceled plans, higher premiums, higher deductibles, higher co-pays, not liking the selection on the exchange, long waits when they call the help line, the website crashing, the website not sending the right information to the insurance company, their company reducing 401(k) benefits to cover the new costs of plans under Obamacare, their insurer talking about either doubling their rates or departing the exchanges, or they're witnessing the end of the era of small group medical practices, they're one of the 22,000 folks who have errors in their records that cannot be changed, they're being denied specialty treatment at the hospital by insurance providers on the state exchange, etc, etc.

None of those people want to hear the success stories and happy talk. I'm sure in a nation of 317 million people, you can find somebody who's happy with their deal under Obamacare. But it's a raw deal for millions of Americans, and they're not going to be receptive to an ad that tries to tell them otherwise. If you're a Democrat, better to try to change the subject." --Jim Geraghty

Friday, February 07, 2014

Uhm, any of y'all seen Reggie Love's bong?

Hey, it's not me.

It's the Internets:

President Barack Obama left many viewers with the impression that he was stoned on drugs during his interview broadcast Friday night on NBC as part of the network’s coverage of the Sochi Olympics opening ceremony. The session with Bob Costas was taped Thursday by remote with Obama at the White House and Costas in Sochi, Russia.

This screen capture posted to Twitter by M. Joseph Parry shows Obama with droopy eyelids, bloodshot eyes and a droopy mouth.
Parry commented: “Uh, I am pretty sure President Obama is high in this NBC sports interview.”

...Parry was not alone in his observation. Twitter lit up with user’s astonishment at Obama’s stoned appearance in the interview.

Obama was a stoner in high school and college to the point he reportedly sucked the last wisp of pot smoke from the interior roof of cars when he and the choom gang, as he and his druggie friends called themselves, got high...

To be fair, I'm pretty sure Reagan was a stoner, too.


Related: Obama's Complete List of Historic Firsts

SMACKDOWN: RINO-cum-Democrat Charlie Crist Faces Startling Accusations of Corruption

You may remember a politician called "Charlie Crist", if that is his real name. In 2010, Crist served as a moderate Republican Governor of Florida who felt he rightfully deserved a U.S. Senate seat. And he was the establishment favorite until a rising tide of Tea Party and Constitutional conservatism rejected his inane brand of mush and instead promoted a man named Marco Rubio to the position.

Crist behaved as one might expect of a mushy centrist. Rather than backing the winner of the primary, he -- like Arlen Specter and Dick Lugar -- quickly rejected the GOP and sought affirmation as a Democrat. He is now running for Governor under the banner of the ass donkey, but a stunning accusation has catapulted his campaign into unwelcome limelight.

Charlie Crist, the former Republican governor of Florida now seeking his old seat as a Democrat, has received the worst type of attention at the start of his campaign: a jilted former fundraiser testifying under oath that judicial nominations were up for sale on Mr. Crist’s watch.

The testimony this week by Scott Rothstein, a onetime Crist fundraiser and prominent lawyer convicted of running a $1.4 billion Ponzi scheme, stunned court observers across Florida and rocked Mr. Crist’s nascent candidacy to oust Republican incumbent Gov. Rick Scott.

...Rothstein testified that as a fundraiser he had a “quid pro quo” relationship in which he was able to encourage Mr. Crist, then the Florida governor, to name judges to the bench in Broward County who would rule favorably for his law firm.

“For certain contributions, people were appointed to the bench ,” Rothstein said in testimony reported by local news media. “I was able to convince him to do a lot of things. He knew how that game was played. I expected him to do certain things in exchange for large contributions.”

Rothstein, who was sentenced to 50 years in prison, also testified that he used his position on a commission that nominated judges for the 4th District Court of Appeals to suggest judicial appointees Mr. Crist wanted...

Color me tan. And shocked. Shocked, I say.


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7 reasons why believing this teachers’ union is a very bad idea

Guest post by Mary C. Tillotson and Dustin Hurst, Watchdog.org

In this cute little post, the American Federation of Teachers, a union for government educators, takes some nasty shots at vouchers, private schools and school choice. Neat. It’s too bad for the AFT’s few hundred readers that nearly everything the union wrote is wrong.

Thankfully, Watchdog.org can set things straight.

1. Voucher schools are as safe as public schools, if not safer

Despite what the teachers union wants to scare you into believing, private schools are just as safe as public schools, if not safer. Need some evidence? Take a look atthis shocking series about the violence in Philadelphia’s public school system, which saw 4,000 teacher assaults in a single year!

Maybe the union should be asking if public schools are safe.

2. If students don’t like teachings, they can leave

7 Reasons Believing This Teachers Union Is A Very Bad Idea

Sure, some might find teaching creationism unacceptable. The data show, however, that only a small fraction of private schools teach that concept.

Keep in mind that the beauty of school choice is on display here: If a student or parent doesn’t like the curriculum, they can say adios to that school.

We wonder how well that would work in the public school system.

Larwyn's Linx: Unnecessary Evils

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Nation

Unnecessary Evils: Christian Mercenary
Attorney Cleta Mitchell tells Congress: IRS Investigation is a SHAM: Scoop
Cop-Killer Advocate Nominated for DOJ Post by Obama: Chris Gacek

Harry Reid and the Goose-Stepping Senate Democrats: Dan McLaughlin
Mitch McConnell: Yikes: Erick Erickson
Boehner: Amnesty stalled because GOP has doubts about Obama: WaPo

The Left’s Valentine to Defiant Jihad-Enabler Lynne Stewart: Michelle Malkin
Bloomberg Group Sought to Confiscate Guns From the Law-Abiding: MenRec
Murdered Border Patrol agent’s brother shames Holder: RWN

Economy

“Going Dictator” - a Brief How-To Course: MOTUS
Duke: 44% of U.S. firms consider cutting employee health care: Paul Bedard
Abraham Lincoln vs. Barack Obama: Ace

Free the job-locked poets!: Jonah Goldberg
The Party of Less Work: Rich Lowry
The New Workers’ Party: Mona Charen

Scandal Central

Witness at IRS Hearing: ‘I Will Not Retreat; I Will Not Surrender’: CNS
Report: Emperor Obama Considering 3 Year Extension of His Obamacare Decree: WZ
Two Americas: Biden Niece Avoids Jail Time for Assaulting Cop: JWF

Trey Gowdy Blasts Obama for Prejudging IRS Tea Party Scandal: GWP
NSA Defender Explains How Even Though NSA Spies On Americans, It's OK To Say They Don't: TechDirt
Troubling new details about the violent police raid in Iowa: Radley Balko

Climate & Energy

Satellites show no global warming for 17 years 5 months: Watts
Obama’s Plan to Bankrupt Coal Continues Without Congress: Ben Howe
Vilsack: Obama ‘Expects His Cabinet to Be Forceful and to Act’ on Climate Change Without Congress: CNS

Media

Krauthammer: Carney’s Words to be ‘Emblazoned on the Tombstone of Liberalism’: Ed Driscoll
Enough already: Cold Fury
Leno’s Last Monologue: Worst Thing About Losing This Job? I Have To Sign Up For Obamacare: Scoop

World

Terrorists Attacked Major Power Grid in San Jose Dress Rehearsal; FBI: “Nothing to See Here”: Debbie Schlussel
Throwing Terrorist Caution To The Whirlwind: NoisyRm
Saamer Akhshabi GA Tech PhD Student Burned by Molotov Cocktail in Atlanta?: MagNote

Iran’s bomb in the basement: Caroline Glick
In Sharp About Turn, AIPAC Joins Obama in Call to Delay Iran Sanctions Vote: Algemeiner
Leaked Audio Features State Department Big Trash-Talking the EU Over Ukraine: Ace

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Report: The NYPD Is Testing Google Glass: Jamie Condliffe
Take a trip down memory lane to Google's first data center: Seth Rosenblatt, CNet
Twitter Says DOJ's Settlement On National Security Requests Not Good Enough: TechDirt

Cornucopia

Rejoice! You have been liberated by the Red Army!: Cube
Abnormal Psych 101: Sondrakistan
If Obama Had Really Spoken His Mind…*This* Would Have Been His SOTU Address: Tammy Bruce

Image: Rejoice! You have been liberated by the Red Army!
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QOTD: "The Democrats once styled themselves the party of workers. Now, they are the party of people who would have been workers, if it hadn’t been for Obamacare." --Rich Lowry

Thursday, February 06, 2014

AND THEN THERE WERE THREE: Meet John Boehner's Challengers in the OH-8 Republican Primary

I'm going to perform some due diligence on the trio opposing John Boehner and then try to rally your support for the heir apparent:

The Speaker of the House, Rep. John Boehner has drawn three GOP primary challengers – Matthew Ashworth of Hamilton, Eric Gurr of Middletown, and J.D. Winteregg of Troy. On the Democratic side, four candidates filed: Matthew Guyette of Greenville, Tom Poetter of Oxford, Morton Meier of Hamilton, and Robert Edward Crow of Youngstown (congressional candidates are not required to live in the districts where they run.)

The way Al Jazeera puts it (no link, for obvious reasons):

...a man by the name of J.D. Winteregg announced he would challenge Boehner on May 6 to represent Ohio's Eighth Congressional District. He joined two others: Eric Gurr, a businessman, and Matthew Ashworth, founder of the United Tea Party Alliance, a group affiliated with FreedomWorks, a conservative nonprofit organization with millions at its disposal to target Republicans who are perceived as insufficiently doctrinaire [sic].

Of the three declared opponents, Winteregg appears to be the most serious threat. He avoids the inflammatory statements of some of his tea party [sic] associates, and he has impeccable conservative credentials. He cut his teeth working for the Senate Conservatives Fund, a PAC founded by former South Carolina Sen. Jim DeMint, who is now the head of the Heritage Foundation, a leading conservative think tank. The Senate Conservatives Fund was founded expressly to purge the GOP of perceived apostasy [sic]. October's government shutdown was the purest expression of its politics [sic].

Visit J.D. Winteregg's website for starters and read his 2013 interview with the Examiner.


As Obama Disarms, China Moves to Solidify Its Control Over the Pacific

Guest post by Investor's Business Daily

Balance Of Power: Beijing may soon declare another air defense identification zone over the disputed Paracel and Spratly Islands and possibly the entire South China Sea as its military power matches its territorial ambitions.

China's plans to define a second new air-defense identification zone, this one in the South China Sea, were reported in the Japanese newspaper Asahi Shimbun. Such a move would follow Beijing's announcement in November of an ADIZ in the East China Sea encompassing the Japanese Senkaku Islands that Beijing claims as its own.

China denies it has any such plans, claiming the news is merely a Japanese provocation. But Beijing has long declared the South China Sea to be its territorial waters and has laid claim to the Spratlys in the southeastern part and Paracels about 200 miles off Vietnam.

After the implementation of the East China Sea ADIZ, Chinese defense spokesman Yang Yujun said in November that "China will establish other Air Defense Identification Zones at the right moment after necessary preparations are completed."

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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Muslim Brotherhood Leader Meets Obama in White House

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House Members Demand Answers on Depth of U.S. Involvement With the Muslim Brotherhood

Tsarnaev Warning Came as Brennan Purged Material 'Offensive' to Muslims

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
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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...