Saturday, February 15, 2014
ALLEN WEST: Obama's despotic actions were predicted by Montesquieu
As I look back on this past week, I have to summarize it in one word: crisis.
Domestically we face a constitutional crisis with a president who doesn’t believe he must adhere to our fundamental system of governance. If you have some time, take a read through or refresh yourself on the “Spirit of the Laws” by Charles-Louis de Secondat, Baron de La Brède et de Montesquieu in 1748.
In that simple treatise, Montesquieu presented the idea of the separation of powers, checks and balances, and coequal branches of government. These ideas were adopted by our Founding Fathers, more specifically, James Madison, as he wrote the Constitution of the United States and the Federalist Papers – which I believe President Obama, the self-proclaimed constitutional scholar, has never read.
Montesquieu said, “When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty. The same monarch or senate would enact tyrannical laws and execute them in a tyrannical manner.”
Montesquieu believed liberty was impossible if the judicial branch was not separated from the legislative and executive powers. He believed if the judiciary were combined with legislative power, individual life and liberty would be vulnerable to arbitrary control. Even worse, if the judiciary were combined with executive powers, judges would be oppressive and violent.
In the worst case of all, the same person or body would control all three powers.
Montesquieu, a champion of individual dignity and liberty, raised his voice against the despotic rule of the Bourbon monarchy of Louis XIV who boasted, “I am the state.” Montesquieu knew well that “constant experience shows us that every man invested with power is apt to abuse it, and to carry his authority until he is confronted with limits.”
But as Montesquieu stood up to the despotic rule of the king, who will stand up to the despotic rule of Obama?
If no one accepts this mantle and casts down the gauntlet, the constitutional crisis we face will only be exacerbated. The cancer will further metastasize.
We are in the sixth year of Obama, and I predicted if we reelected this charlatan to a second term it would be the greatest Pavlovian experiment the world has ever known. America would reward the most abhorrent of behavior — and lo and behold, “yes we did.” America is in crisis. Who will be our Montesquieu? Who will stand in the arena as our Maximus?
Hat tip: BadBlue Real-Time News
If We Continue Down Europe's Path, Our Lives Will Look Like This:
Becoming more like Europe is not a good thing. But that is the path that we are currently on. For the most part, Europeans live in a socialist “Big Brother” system in which the government completely dominates your life from the cradle to the grave. Of course there are differences from country to country, but generally speaking the lives of most Europeans are very tightly regulated. You see, the truth is that high levels of individual liberty and freedom are considered to be “dangerous” by the European elite. They believe that if we are all allowed to just do whatever we want that it would result in utter chaos. They are convinced that life is better when those that are smarter (them) control the lives of everyone else. In essence, Europe is like a giant religious cult in many ways (minus the religion). With each passing year, the number of rules and regulations governing the daily lives of Europeans steadily grows, as does the level of control. If you try to live outside of that control, you could very well find yourself in a direct confrontation with the authorities very rapidly.
Just consider what is happening in Germany. Authorities there have stated repeatedly that they do not believe in having any “parallel societies”, and therefore everyone must participate in the system that the government has established.
That includes all children. In Germany today, almost all forms of homeschooling are illegal. In fact, one judge shockingly ruled that one set of parents could not have custody of their children because they might move them to another country and homeschool them there…A judge has issued a stunning verdict in a homeschooling case in Germany, ordering that the parents cannot have custody of their children because the family might move to another country and homeschool, posing a “concrete endangerment” to the children.
Dirk and Petra Wunderlich’s case made international headlines in August when 20 armed police arrived with a battering ram and forcibly took their four children from their home in Darmstadt, Germany, and enrolled them in public school... the children, ages 7 to 14, were taken into police custody. They were allowed to return home three weeks later when their father and mother, given no choice by the federal bureaucracy in Germany, agreed to allow their kids to attend public schools despite their objection to the social and religious instruction there.
Are you starting to see what I meant when I compared Europe to a cult?
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1839: The First Selfie in History
Philadelphia, November 1839. "Robert Cornelius, self-portrait facing front, arms crossed. Inscription on backing: The first light-picture ever taken. 1839." One of the first photographs made in the United States, this quarter-plate daguerreotype, taken in the yard of the Cornelius family's lamp-making business in Philadelphia, is said to be the earliest photographic portrait of a person. View full size.
FIVE FOR FREEDOM: Primary Races of Critical Importance
Georgia: - May 20, 2014 - Support Paul Broun, M.D. to replace Sen. Saxby Chambliss (RINO-LUZER)
Kentucky: May 20, 2014 - Support Matt Bevin over Sen. Mitch McConnell (RINO-LUZER)
South Carolina: June 10, 2014 - Support Lee Bright over Sen. Lindsey Graham (RINO-FAILURE)
Texas: March 4, 2014 - Support Rep. Steve Stockman over Sen. John Cornyn (RINO-LUZER)
West Virginia: May 13, 2014 - Support Pat McGeehan over Rep. Shelley Moore Capito (RINO-LUZER)
Rep. Steve Stockman (R-TX) has a decidedly uphill battle against Cornyn and the primary is just a couple of weeks away.
Help get the word out to your friends and family in Texas: support Steve Stockman and put a boot to Cornyn and the RINO establishment.
Larwyn's Linx: They Call Me Hater
Nation
They Call Me Hater: Sally ZelikovskyThe Great Fraud: Bryan Preston
Obamacare Lawlessness Is All Political: David Harsanyi
A nation of laws: two sets of ‘em: Cold Fury
"I don't give a damn what they say!": Jason Howerton
Obama to House Dems: Fight for My Agenda Even if it Costs You Your Job: Tatler
Ninth Circuit Victory: The End of the Beginning: Clayton E. Cramer
One for the History Books: TAC
Ninth Circuit strikes California’s restrictive rule against licensed carry: David Kopel
Why I Refuse To Cheer The GOP “Establishment”: Ace
Where Is the Red Line of Impeachment?: Cindy Simpson
Sleeper U.S. House Race in Northwest Texas: Cahnman
Economy
Obama's Opulence on Your Dime: Whatever He Wants: Marilyn AssenheimUAW Loses at VW: Bill McMorris
Alex Sink (D-FL): Mass unemployment from Obamacare ‘exciting prospect’: BPR
Scandal Central
Democrats Pull Out the Stops on Weaponized IRS: Moonbattery10 Prison Security Techniques Being Implemented on the American People: Marlon Brock
Illegals Rule the Roost: GJWHG
The IRS, the Democrats’ cat’s paw: Ed Rogers
Obamacare Changes in One Infographic: Katie Pavlich
New York Cancels Court Date Against James O’Keefe, Project Veritas: PV
Climate & Energy
ND pumps record 313.5M barrels of oil in 2013: Cowboy ByteCalifornia's Drought Isn't Due To Global Warming, But Politics: IBD
Who Invented the Light Bulb?: Elizabeth Palermo
Media
It turns out the 'Evil' Koch Bros are only the 59th biggest donors in American politics: Mark Tapscott5 Ways Liberals Make War on Women: John Hawkins
Beck Describes Contentious Meeting With Top GOP Member: Erica Ritz
World
Iran and the New Axis of Evil: Terresa Monroe-HamiltonIran TV mocks Obama’s bricks comment: ‘Take just one brick and knock it against your head’: BPR
China Shows New Mobile ICBM on Internet: Bill Gertz
Our Insane Open Borders and Easy Entry for Terrorists: RWN
Egypt's coup leaders aren't friends, they hate us: Ahmed Abdel-Raheem
Michael Behenna, jailed for Killing al-Qaeda member, finally given Parole: Shoebat
Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)
S. Korea Diverts Network From Huawei Networks: SlashdotTrevor Paglen Documents The Invisible; Analyzes Government Secrecy Through Photography: Zach Sokol
Why Fads Fade: The Inevitable Death Of Flappy Bird: Nir Eyal
Cornucopia
Decorated War Hero, Airborne Ranger Emasculated By Wife At Local Mall: DuffelBlogThe People's Valentine: Safe Guide to Dating Dictators: Cube
Valentine’s Wishes From the RED Zone: MOTUS
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QOTD: "Obama had pulled the Census Bureau under the purview of the White House as one of his first acts as president. The bureau’s longstanding independence from politics was endangered from the beginning of the Obama administration.
At the same time that unemployment numbers [by the Census Bureau] were being faked and the IRS was targeting Obama’s opponents to render them ineffective during the 2012 election, Obama claimed to have put al Qaeda on the run. That claim went up in literal smoke on the night of September 11, 2012, when terrorists struck the U.S. diplomatic facility in Benghazi, Libya. Obama’s whereabouts and actions that night remain a mystery, but he and then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and then U.S. Ambassador to the UN Susan Rice pushed a fabrication — that the attack was sparked by a protest against an obscure YouTube movie. That lie was designed to create just enough confusion to get past the election, and thanks to CNN’s Candy Crowley’s intervention during the presidential debates, it did.
Obamacare rolled out disastrously in October 2013. The website that the president was forcing Americans to use to purchase health insurance that was in many cases more expensie than what they had before, and covered less, using shrunken provider networks, did not work. President Obama claimed that he had no idea that Healthcare.gov would fail, that he knew nothing about the implementation of his signature policy. Now evidence has emerged that he met with HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius 18 times in the weeks leading up to Healthcare.gov’s rollout. It’s possible that he did not know about the impending disaster, but given his track record, the mostly likely explanation is that he did know and is lying about that now." --Bryan Preston
Friday, February 14, 2014
MOLON LABE: Connecticut Criminalizes The Second Amendment
Gun Control: In a massive display of civil disobedience, tens of thousands of state residents have refused to register what the left calls assault weapons, instantly making them criminals guilty of a felony.
The legacy of the Connecticut residents who used their privately owned firearms to help overthrow the tyrannical colonial rule of King George III, who probably considered their muskets the military-style assault weapon of the day, apparently lives on.
Connecticuters in the tens, perhaps hundreds, of thousands have refused to comply with a law, adopted after the December 2012 massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School, requiring them to register what gun-control advocates consider assault weapons by the end of 2013.
As the Hartford Courant reports, as of Dec. 31 some 47,916 applications for assault weapons certificates had been received by state police. By some estimates, this represented as little as 15% of the rifles classified as assault weapons owned by Connecticut residents.Estimates by people in the industry, including the Newtown-based National Shooting Sports Foundation, place the number as high as 350,000.
As columnist Dan Haar notes in the Courant, this means that "as of Jan. 1, Connecticut has very likely created tens of thousands of newly minted criminals — perhaps 100,000 people, almost certainly at least 20,000 — who have broken no other laws. By owning unregistered guns defined as assault weapons, all of them are committing Class D felonies."
The AR-15 is among those that must be registered, and represents 50% to 60% of all U.S. rifle sales in recent years, federal figures show. It was the weapon used by Adam Lanza in the Newtown, Conn., shooting and by James Holmes to kill 12 people and wound 58 in a crowded movie theater in Aurora, Colo.
Many such weapons are classified as military-style assault weapons simply on the basis of their "scary" (at least to liberals) appearance.
WHEN A GOVERNMENT RUNS OUT OF MONEY: Obama Lays Groundwork To Confiscate 401k and IRA Plans
This morning Reuters obtained a leaked proposal disclosing that European Union officials are looking for new and innovative ways to fund their immense debt levels. As noted by Zero Hedge, they’re no longer turning exclusively to central bankers to simply print more money as needed.
Because last year’s bank bail-in forcing the confiscation of funds from average depositors in Cyprus worked so well, EU regulators and bankers have determined that they’ll use a similar method to fund their future endeavors.In a nutshell, and in Reuters’ own words, “the savings of the European Union’s 500 million citizens could be used to fund long-term investments to boost the economy and help plug the gap left by banks since the financial crisis, an EU document says.”
… The solution? “The Commission will ask the bloc’s insurance watchdog in the second half of this year for advice on a possible draft law “to mobilize more personal pension savings for long-term financing”, the document said.”
Mobilize, once again, is a more palatable word than, say, confiscate.
This is what happens when governments run out of money.
But if you think this is limited to just Europe, then consider the words of President Barack Obama in his recent State of the Union address.
For all intents and purposes, a similar groundwork is being laid right here in America.
They’ve already taken over the health care industry… why not nationalize our retirement savings while they’re at it?
Larwyn's Linx: Obama's New Unilateral Law: Making America's Small Businesses Sign a Loyalty Oath
Nation
Obama's New Unilateral Law: Making Businesses Sign a Loyalty Oath: AceShould the President Be Impeached?: Jeffrey Lord
Hot Off The Presses: Devastating New ‘Executive Power’ Video: Scoop
Ted Cruz on debt ceiling hike: in November, Americans will remember: TPNN
Obama's Fate: J.R. Dunn
9th Circuit Smashes San Diego's Concealed Carry Restrictions: Damon Root
Dirty Dozen: Senate Republicans Who Voted to Silence Cruz: Dean Garrison
Keywords: Barack Obama, Cult of Personality, 2010-2020, Democrats: Moe Lane
SCF levels harshest attack yet on Mitch McConnell: Exam
Quinnipiac Study: Concealed Carry Results in Fewer Murders: TruthRevolt
Thousands of CT Gun Owners Refuse Unconstitutional Gun Control Law: Publius
Cuomo aide caught breaking gun law, quickly receives waiver: Will Rahn
Economy
Five Years Later: How’s that Wreckovery Working Out?: Michelle MalkinWhy even have a debt limit?: AWD
Paul Krugman's Greatest Hits: American Digest
Scandal Central
Vulnerable Dems Want To Sic IRS On Opponents: S&LHomeland Security to Activate ‘National License Plate Recognition Database’: DC Clothesline
Flashback: Valerie Jarrett’s Father-in-Law Head of Communist Youth: MagNote (2011)
Mexico: A Different Kind of Gun Story: DiploMad
No names announced during debt-ceiling vote so GOP sellouts could secretly switch: Hot Air
8 Police Officers Fire 103 Times At 2 Unarmed Women Delivering Newspapers: Jonathan Turley
Climate & Energy
Time to end the Secret Science at the EPA: ExamEPA bans wood-burning stoves; fireplaces could be next: RWN
Illinois Electricity Customers Forced to Get 'Smart Meters' or Pay Fine: WS
Media
Surprise! GOP Fights FCC on Behalf of MSM Freedoms: AnchoressTweet of the Day, @BarackObama And Imperial Presidencies edition: Moe Lane
Americans Don’t Like Obama’s End Runs: Keith Koffler
The Golden Egg: The Hillary Papers and the Death of the Mainstream Media: WFB
Mann vs. Steyn: The Trial of the Century: RCP
Why Do Liberals Have To Ruin Everything?: Glob
Americans: Where Have You Gone?: David Limbaugh
RUSH: This Is Way Beyond A Banana Republic Now. This Is Stalinism.: NoisyRm
‘That’s a joke, right?’ Joe Scarborough floated as possible 2016 GOP presidential candidate: Twitchy
World
Who’s afraid of Barack Obama?: PostOlympic coverage sweeps Soviet horrors under the rug: Jonah Goldberg
French Reporters Scolded For Oval Office Selfies: My Philthy-delphia
UN Small Arms Treaty: 80 Million Determined Gun Owners Should be Quite an Obstacle: David Risselada
UN to Vatican: Your Theology Violates Child Rights: Parental Rights
John Podesta, Obama regulation czar, also helped UN develop radical new global agenda: George Russell
Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)
Proposed federal law would require smartphone 'kill switches': AppleInsiderAncient Reptile Live Birth Discovered in 248-Million-Year Old Fossil: Benita Matilda
Deadly Monster Winter Storm Batters US Eastern Seaboard: UniverseToday
Cornucopia
Emperor: 90 MilesNY Fashion Week: It’s not just an exhibition, it’s a competition: MOTUS
This Bride Is About to Do Something So Unique While Walking Down the Aisle...: Blaze
Image: Ancient Reptile Live Birth Discovered in 248-Million-Year Old Fossil
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: Send Senate Conservatives Fund As Much As You Can NOW
QOTD: "David Axelrod, President Obama's top strategist when he defeated Hillary Clinton in 2008, wants Democratic donors to focus on the 2014 elections, rather than Clinton's likely campaign.
"With the Senate seriously at risk, and the Koch Brothers spending prodigiously, shouldn't Dem funders be focused on '14 and not '16 races?" Axelrod tweeted Thursday afternoon, in what appears to be a very thinly veiled allusion to the Clinton machine that is already coming together." --Joel Gehrke
Thursday, February 13, 2014
CHART: Top 10 sites consuming the most Internet bandwidth
Twitch, the startup which lets players broadcast and watch live streams of video gaming action, is not yet a huge public company. Yet it ranks among these web titans as one of the largest sources of broadband traffic during prime-time hours, according to a new study from the cloud and network infrastructure firm DeepField.
Twitch announced today that is now has more than 1 million different users broadcasting on its platform each month. That helped it push more traffic across the web than big names in the streaming video and music business like Hulu, Amazon, and Pandora. "We don't keep track of our share of global internet traffic, so that chart was news to us," says Matt DiPietro, Twitch's vice president of marketing. "But I think it was gratifying for our infrastructure team to see, because they have been working like crazy to help us keep up."
The rapid rise in broadcasters is due in part to a new platform for Twitch's streaming service, a home-console system. Before the release of the newest Playstation and Xbox units, Twitch was for PC gaming only. "About 20 percent of our broadcasters are now coming from the Playstation 4," says DiPietro. "That shows us there is a whole new audience with a hunger for the ability to stream their games." Twitch also integrates with the Xbox One, though that feature has not officially rolled out yet.
In order to deal with its rapidly rising bandwidth, Twitch is upgrading its "points of presence" — locations where it owns or rents servers — so that it has enough horsepower near big audience clusters to deliver smooth video. "We just finished a 400 percent expansion to our Chicago site and the same in Stockholm. We are looking to do the same for our audience in Russia, Korea, and Brazil," notes DiPietro. The company is using the $20 million it raised back in September of 2013 to fund this expansion.
But don't worry, the forthcoming merger between Comcast and Time Warner Cable is bound to improve Internet performance and customer service!
BREAKING: New Fed Chief Just as Delusional as the Last One
On Tuesday, new Federal Reserve Chairman Janet Yellen went before Congress and confidently declared that "the economic recovery gained greater traction in the second half of last year" and that "substantial progress has been made in restoring the economy to health". This resulted in glowing headlines throughout the mainstream media such as this one from USA Today: "Yellen: Economy is improving at moderate pace". Sadly, tens of millions of Americans are going to believe what the mainstream media is telling them. But it isn't the truth. As you will see below, there are all sorts of signs that the economy is taking a turn for the worse. And when the next great economic crisis does strike, most Americans will be completely and totally unprepared because they trusted our "leaders" when they told us that everything would be just fine.
It is amazing how deceived people can be. Just consider the case of 56-year-old Brian Perry. He is a former law clerk that has applied for nearly 1,500 jobs since 2008 without any success. But he says that he is "optimistic" that he will get another job soon because he believes that the economy is recovering...
By his own count, Brian Perry has applied for nearly 1,500 jobs since being let go as a law clerk in 2008. The 56-year old Perry lives in Rhode Island, where the 9.1 percent unemployment rate is 2.5 percentage points above the national average.
Perry remains optimistic that a job is forthcoming. He thinks a more robust economy would create better opportunities for the long-term unemployed like him.
Let us certainly hope that Perry does find a new job soon. But if he does, it won't be because we are experiencing an "economic recovery". Just consider the following facts...
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Larwyn's Linx: 100 Percent of 501(c)(4) Groups Audited by Obama IRS Were Conservative
Nation
100 Percent of 501(c)(4) Groups Audited by Obama IRS Were Conservative: TPNNNobody Trusts the Government: Daniel Greenfield
Ron Fournier on Obamacare: White House thinks Americans are stupid: Scoop
Primary Them All: Erick Erickson
12 GOP Senators Join Democrats to Increase the Debt Ceiling: TPNN
Why bumbling, buffoonish, incoherent Speaker Boehner capitulated: Russell Berman
An Orwellian nation of Obamathink: Victor Davis Hanson
Did I Move?: Ann Coulter
Does Obamacare cover Nancy Pelosi's much-needed psychiactric care?: Nice Deb
No Wonder Obama Was so Desperate to Pack the D.C. Circuit: Commentary
CMS announces Obamacare site will be down two critical days this month: Toldjah
Wendy Davis totally supports that 20-week abortion ban now: NakedDC
Economy
Michelle O.’s Dinner Dress Cost More Than Annual US Poverty Level: GWPObamacare, the Jobs Killer: James Hall
Stakes Just Raised In UAW Bid To Unionize VW…: LUR
Scandal Central
DOJ Argues Against Rules to Prevent Foreigners From Voting: J. Christian AdamsNew Benghazi Bombshell – House Report Blames White House For Security Lapse: NoisyRm
JW Gets Map of Military Fleet Positions During Benghazi Attack: Judicial Watch
Apparently they won't be exactly running on Obamacare after all: Ace
Ohio National Guard Training Envisions Right-Wing Terrorism: Jesse Hathaway
Alabama State Representative: I Object to a Biracial Marriage: Ace
Climate & Energy
The One-Party State of Climatestan: Mark SteynGood News: EPA unilaterally redraws borders of Wyoming: Judson Berger
Justin Gillis, New York Times’ Environmental "journalist", still trying to salvage global warming scam: WUWT
Media
My Fourth Open Letter to Mike Lawlor: Of anti-Catholic jihads and spitting on your heritage.: SSITweet o' the day: WZ
#BOWDOWNWednesday: Frugal fashionistas show Michelle Obama how it’s done: Twitchy
CNN Report On Ray Nagin Corruption Lacks Single Mention of the Word Democrat: Glob
Mayhem At FL State Fair: Hundreds Of Black/Hispanics Riot and Fight With Police: Treehouse
White House transcript hides Obama’s chattering-class gaffe : DC
Liberal Constitutional Lawyer: left SILENT on Obama lawlessness because of ‘CULT OF PERSONALITY’: Scoop
Wake Me When Someone ‘Comes Out’ — As a Black Republican: Larry Elder
BuzzFeed Ignores Wendy Davis Flip Flop On Late Term Abortions: Glob
World
Venezuela: Huge demonstrations UPDATED: FaustaEgypt: U.S. Embassy official in contact with Muslim Brotherhood arrested: Robert Spencer
Obama's partner in peace, Iran: We're ready for 'decisive battle' with Israel, US: Times of Israel
Europe Considers Wholesale Savings Confiscation, Enforced Redistribution: ZH
All You-Know-What Is Breaking Loose In Venezuela: Stephen Kruiser
Ten reasons why the BDS movement is immoral and hinders peace: Alan M. Dershowitz
Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)
Admiral: ‘Iron Man’ Prototypes Coming in June: DefTechAmid political pressure, FCC to propose Net neutrality fix: Marguerite Reardon
Genome of America’s Only Clovis Skeleton Reveals Origins of Native Americans: Western Digs
Cornucopia
Michael Behenna wins parole!: Allen WestThe Gigapixel ArtZoom of Seattle: American Digest
Towering Over Our Little French Friend in Tall Cotton…Candy: MOTUS
Image: Michelle O.’s Dinner Dress Cost More Than Annual US Poverty Level
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QOTD: "I’m afraid this is beginning to border on a cult of personality for people on the left. I happen to agree with many of President Obama’s policies. But in our system it is often as important how you how you do something as what you do. I think that many people will look back at this period in history and see nothing but confusion as to why people remained so silent when the president asserted these types of unilateral actions. You have a president who is claiming the right to basically rewrite or ignore or negate federal laws. That is a very dangerous thing. It has nothing to do with the policies, it has to do with the power...
...A system in which a single individual is allowed to rewrite legislation or ignore legislation is a system that borders on authoritarianism. I don’t believe that we are that system yet. But we cannot ignore that we’re beginning to become a system that is a pretense of democracy if a president is allowed to take a law and just simply say I’m going to ignore this, or I’m going to shift funds that weren’t appropriated by Congress to this area.
The president’s state of the union indicated this type of unilateralism that he has adopted as a policy. Now, many people view that as somehow it is empowering. In my view it is dangerous, that what he is suggesting is to essentially put our system off line. This is not the first time that convenience has become the enemy of principle. But we’ve never seen it to this extent." --Constitutional Lawyer Jonathan Turley, a liberal
Wednesday, February 12, 2014
JUST ANOTHER REMINDER, MR. PRESIDENT: You swore to faithfully execute the law, not rewrite it!
Presidential Power: After making yet another unconstitutional and illegal change to ObamaCare, the president tells his French counterpart that it's good to be king of the United States, even if this emperor has no clothes.
In times past, tyrants would rule with scepter and sword. President Obama, as he recently stated, says he needs only his pen and his phone, something the Founding Fathers did not envision when they threw off the yoke of King George III and proclaimed a republic united under a Constitution that bowed to the consent of the governed.A republic, Ben Franklin is said to have remarked, if we can keep it, a struggle that gets harder with each passing day of this administration.
"I am not a dictator," Obama once said at a press conference, "I'm the president."
In his case, that's a distinction without a difference as he has proceeded to evade both the laws passed by Congress and the restraints placed on his office by the Constitution.
"That's the good thing as a president, I can do whatever I want," Obama quipped while visiting Monticello, Thomas Jefferson's home in Charlottesville, Va., with French President Francois Hollande.
DEMOCRAT LOGIC COMIX: Someone Call Eric Holder
Enjoy, New York City!
Hat tip: Mark Levin.
AWESOME: Union Front Group Got Taxpayer Funds From Department of Labor to Push Minimum Wage Hikes
The U.S. Department of Labor handed over $275,000 in taxpayer-funded grants in 2009 to an organization that claimed to be a charitable nonprofit with tax-exempt status from the Internal Revenue Service.
But that organization was not officially certified as a 501(c)3 charitable nonprofit until 2010, documents show.
The Restaurant Opportunity Center, or ROC-United, a national organization working to raise the minimum wage and improve working conditions for restaurant workers by combing the labor organizing muscle of powerful unions with Occupy Wall Street protest tactics, got the grant anyway.
The group is organizing several high profile events this week to highlight the $2.17 national minimum wage for tipped workers.
In the 2009 grant application, ROC United submitted a letter to the Department of Labor that showed the IRS had granted tax exempt status to ROC New York — an affiliated but legally separate organization — even though the $275,000 grant would flow to ROC United.
The department was either fooled by the application or didn’t check it closely enough.
Larwyn's Linx: Sen. Cruz vows to force 60-vote threshold to raise debt ceiling in Senate
Nation
Sen. Cruz vows to force 60-vote threshold to raise debt ceiling in Senate: ScoopGOP votes to restore COLA, but kicks debt can down the road: Allen West
Levin Shreds Boehner; Says He Must Be Replaced: Breitbart
Cruz, Paul top huge Tea Party poll; Christie, Bush dead last: Paul Bedard
Eric Holder exposes himself in Sweden: Neil Munro
I believe that it is time for the Beck Song in the #sdmayor election.: Moe Lane
An End to Fair Elections: Betsy McCaughey
Money in Politics and the Hypocrisy of the Left: Power Line
Congressman Nadler: Republicans “Just Want People to Starve”: MenRec
SCF Targets Boehner Over GOP’s debt ceiling surrender: Dan Riehl
King Obama: OlBroad
Uhm, Illinois partners with The Onion to sell Obamacare: NakedDC
Economy
Why Democrats Hate Work: Ben ShapiroFirst Lady Tweets Pic of Her Dogs Living Better than You Do: Bryan Preston
The Privileged People: John Stossel
Scandal Central
It's a scandal much worse than New Jersey: JWFObama’s New Delay of Employer Mandate Violates Plain Language of Law: CNS
Eric Holder: Return voting rights to felons after release: Times
Culture of Corruption Postscript: The Hilda Solis Files: Michelle Malkin
One down: Eric Holder stepping down: DC Clothesline
Announcement of AG Eric Holder's Departure may be Premature: NewAm
Climate & Energy
CNBC Host: Al Gore a ‘Charlatan,’ and a ‘Villain.’: Sean LongBerkeley Climate Scientist: IPCC Predictions ‘Getting Worse’: Sean Long
About that "settled science": Daley Gator
Media
Halperin: Wow, this ObamaCare change just “screams of politics,” huh?: Ed MorrisseyNBC White House Producer: #BOWDOWN to Michelle O!: TruthRevolt
Hilarious article from The Onion: “Conservative Acquaintance Annoyingly Not Racist”: YoungCons
‘Impeach the President’: Erick Erickson
Tim Scott tells Hannity what really gets under his skin about attacks on Black conservatives: Scoop
Palin tells Hannity GOP needs to reload, not retreat – on her 50th birthday: Scoop
World
Obama's Hollow Promises Abroad: Daniel PipesThe Winter Olympics week Carnival of Latin America and the Caribbean: Fausta
Awesome! – French Reporter Nails Socialism And Anti-Capitalism In Front Of Obama: IM41
Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)
11 Graphs That Show Everything That is Wrong With The Modern Diet: Kris GunnarsIntricate 3D Printed Materials Lighter Than Water And As Strong as Steel: SingularityHub
Minnesota Now Offering Enhanced Drivers Licenses: Keloland
Cornucopia
“Because Work is a Beautiful Thing” No, wait; that’s not right.: MOTUSHomeland Security Drops all Pretense with “Zombie Max” Purchase: Joe for America
Sad News: Shirley Temple Black, Beloved Child Star & Diplomat, Passes at Age 85: Frugal Cafe
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QOTD: "The trouble with Obamacare is its enormous complexity, which very few people fully understand. Legislators and citizens alike have to stumble in the dark as Obama decides where and how and when the legislation is applied. Someone complains? He can save the day with his pen and his phone. But he only picks up for powerful interests, not the millions of individual Americans negatively affected by Obamacare. The president simply puts them on hold or hangs up altogether." --Natalie deMacedo
Tuesday, February 11, 2014
A country built on a Himalayan mountain of fallacies
“Economics is haunted by more fallacies than any other study known to man. This is no accident. While certain public policies would in the long run benefit everybody, other policies would benefit one group only at the expense of all other groups. The group that would benefit by such policies, having such a direct interest in them, will argue for them plausibly and persistently. It will hire the best buyable minds to devote their whole time to presenting its case. And it will finally either convince the general public that its case is sound, or so befuddle it that clear thinking on the subject becomes next to impossible.
In addition to these endless pleadings of self-interest, there is a second main factor that spawns new economic fallacies every day. This is the persistent tendency of man to see only the immediate effects of a given policy, or its effects only on a special group, and to neglect to inquire what the long-run effects of that policy will be not only on that special group but on all groups. It is the fallacy of overlooking secondary consequences.” – Henry Hazlitt – Economics in One Lesson
Saturday was the first day since a double shot of snow and ice storms hit the Philadelphia metro area on Monday and Wednesday I had a chance to drive around Montgomery County and witness the devastation firsthand. Over 750,000 homes lost power at the height of the ice storm on Wednesday and over 100,000 remained without power this past weekend. The mainstream media has become such a farce and propaganda machine for vested interests, it is essential to verify with your own eyes everything they report as fact. Their purpose is to entertain the consciously ignorant, exaggerate threats to keep the low IQ multitudes fearful, and function as mouthpieces for the ruling class. Deceitful corporate executives, mendacious government apparatchiks, and oblivious teleprompter reading media talking heads have been utilizing cold weather as an excuse for every poor earnings announcement, horrific employment report, and dreadful decline in retail sales. It certainly has nothing to do with decades of stagnant household income, awful monetary and fiscal policies, or the consequences of Obamacare.
We have become a delusional state dependent upon fallacies to convince ourselves our foolhardy beliefs, ludicrous economic policies, corrupt captured political system, and preposterously fraudulent financial system are actually based on sound logic and reason. Some fallacies have been perpetrated intentionally by the ruling class to manipulate, sway and deceive the populace, while others have been willfully employed by millions of techno-narcissistic iGadget addicted zombies as a substitute for thinking, reasoning and taking responsibility for the course of our nation.
You have men who constitute the unseen true ruling power of the country making a conscious and intentional effort to peddle fallacies to the masses in order to manipulate, mold, and corral them in a manner beneficial to the ruling power, financially, politically, and socially. The ruling class has been hugely successful in their capture of the public mind, creating a vast majority of the willfully ignorant who desperately grasp at fallacious concepts, beliefs, and storylines in order to avoid dealing with reality and being accountable for their actions and the actions of their leaders.The fallacy being flogged by government drones and the legacy media about companies not hiring new employees because it has been cold and snowy during the winter is beyond absurd, except to someone who lives in the cocoon of Washington D.C. or regurgitates words processed on a teleprompter by paid minions of the ruling class. If you live in the real world, run a business, or manage employees, you understand weather has absolutely nothing to do with your decision to hire an employee. An organization takes weeks or months to hire employees. They don’t stop hiring because it snowed on Wednesday or the temperature was below normal. The contention that hiring has been weak for the last two months due to weather is outlandish and based upon flawed logic and warped reasoning. It is so illogical, only an Ivy League economist could believe it.




















