Monday, February 24, 2014

OH, MY: Citizens of Ukraine Demand Their Own Second Amendment

Guest post by Mary Chastain

The Ukraine Gun Owners Association wants the new government to add their own right to bear arms to the country's constitution.

As of today Ukrainian Gun Owners Association will start to work on the preparation of amendments to the Constitution, which will provide an unconditional right for Ukrainian citizens to bear arms.

People gathered in Independence Square in Kiev after President Viktor Yanukovich rejected a European Union trade deal for a $15 billion bailout from Russia in November. It was relatively peaceful for three months, but violence escalated on February 18. Over 70 people died during the week and amateur videos showed snipers shooting at unarmed protesters.

People should have the right to bear arms, which will be put in written into the Constitution.

Authorities should not and will not be stronger than its people!

Armed people are treated with respect!

America's founding fathers implemented the Second Amendment because it is a natural right for people to defend themselves.

According to GunPolicy.org, Ukraine's gun laws are described as restrictive. The government owns seven million guns while there are only three million guns for private citizens. A citizen must prove they have a legitimate reason to own a firearm.


Larwyn's Linx: Revolution in Ukraine Highlights the Importance of the Second Amendment

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Nation

Revolution in Ukraine Shows Why Firearm Ownership is Important: CapCom
ObamaCare and My Mother's Cancer Medicine: AmPower
Can Democrats Neutralize Obamacare?: Rich Baehr

“Quiet campaigning for House GOP leadership underway”: Protein Wisdom
Yes, We Should Discuss the Clintons’ Past: Star Parker
Oh No! Another Black Conservative Republican Running For Office: Lloyd Marcus

Harvard’s Rebel Without a Clue: Bruce Bawer
San Diego Sheriff's office punts on "en banc" CCW appeal: John R. Lott
Texas police double as Mahmoudberg’s militia: JW

Economy

The UAW Should Be More Worried About Chihuahua Than Chattanooga: LUR
Ann Coulter Refresher on Economics 101: Supply and Demand: Brenda Walker
Gap’s Minimum Wage Move Adds Twist to Debate: Debra Saunders

Scandal Central

Susan Rice – Still In Cover-Up Mode After All These Months: Nice Deb
IRS Scandal Has Obama Fingerprints All Over It, Experts Say: Tyler O'Neil
REVEALED: Obama’s ‘attack’ on Medicare Part D: Patrick Howley

Climate & Energy

One State Pushes Back Against Obama Administration Proposal To Ban Wood Stoves: John Hawkins
CNN Declares No Two Sides to Climate Change Debate: NB
Supreme Court to look at EPA's carbon rules: CBS

Media

Levin looks back at attacks on Reagan and similarity to today's attacks on conservatives: Scoop
Good-Bye, and Good Riddance: @PiersMorgan Canned at CNN: R.S. McCain
Shameless Susan Rice: No regrets on Benghazi TV appearances: Politiho

Rigor Mortis: Mark Steyn
The Compliance of Science: Mark Steyn
Charles Payne Responds to the Democrats’ War on Work: ‘Are You Nuts?’: TPNN

The New York Times’ Eliminationist Rhetoric: Ed Driscoll
Chris Matthews’ Eliminationist Rhetoric: Ed Driscoll
Reverand Al: MB

World

Does Obama Have Any Foreign Policy Successes?: Keith Koffler
Iran's Nuclear Buildup and American Irrelevance: Daniel Pipes
Not a parody: Obama's nuclear negotiator pleads with Israel to stop making talks harder: Matzav

Thousands of Syrian Islamists Arrive in New Jersey: Sara Noble
Obama's foreign policy objectives: Rich Baehr
Dalai Lama gets ice from Obama, warmth from conservatives: Neil Munro, DC

PLA Officer: China Must Establish South China Sea ADIZ; Will "Fight When Appropriate": ZH
Egypt's government has resigned: state-run website: Reuters
GERMANY: Nazism is dead. What about Islamonazism?: BNI

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Navy develops 'world's smallest guided missile': NavyTimes
Top 10 Fastest Cars Under $50,000: Jason Siu, AutoGuide
Urgent: Please Help Save Net Neutrality in the EU: Glyn Moody

Cornucopia

On Weddings and Conscience: Are Christians Hypocrites?: Russell Moore
In Russia, All Our Justices Are Belong To Us.: MOTUS
This is easily the most “Don’t Mess With Texas” picture I have ever seen…: YoungCons

Image: APD Chief Apologizes for Sexual Assault Comment After Jaywalking Jogger Arrest
Sponsored by: Hand Mitch McConnell a pink slip: Support Matt Bevin for U.S. Senate

QOTD: "What we’ve seen in the Ukraine is the Government using their powers to arrest and murder civilians who can only respond with gasoline bombs and rocks.

The idea is that before some faceless Government bureaucrat orders the troops in they will have to stop and reflect on what they will do if the American population resists.

Only when Government is less powerful than the public can freedom exist.

And the only way the public can hold more leverage than the Government is if they are armed.

If we look through our history books we don’t see many examples of a population destroying itself but we do see numerous examples of a population being destroyed by its Government." --Capitol Commentary

Sunday, February 23, 2014

Well, you don't see that every day: nasty collision between Ferrari 458 and... SmartCar

"Ferrari 458 Speciale and Smart ForTwo involved in nasty Berlin crash":

ANALYSIS: Obama puts national security at risk by gutting defense budget in favor of massive welfare programs

Guest post by James Carafano

Randy Forbes is a lonely man. President Obama’s stewardship of American armed forces has been a dismal failure, yet few on Capitol Hill have waved red flags over it.

Forbes, however, has been waving them furiously.

The Republican congressman from Virginia recently penned a pointed letter to Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel. It’s a warning shot, discharged in anticipation of the Quadrennial Defense Review, the report the Pentagon must deliver to Congress every four years to layout the long-term plans, concerns and requirements for the armed forces.

“The QDR has become an exercise in lowest-common-denominator thinking that fails to light a way forward for our long-term military planning,” Forbes wrote Hagel. The lawmaker fears that the forthcoming QDR will amount to little more than a rubber stamp for slashing military capabilities and lowering readiness.

DEMOCRAT UTOPIA OF ILLINOIS: No money for failing schools; public sector pensions and pay raises get higher priority

Guest post by Benjamin Yount

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — It’s been a parade of disappointment at the Illinois Capitol this month.

Public schools, universities, hospitals, doctors, nursing homes, public health advocates and just about anybody else that receives state money have all trudged to the statehouse to be publicly reminded that Illinois will lose more than $1 billion if the 2011 “temporary” income tax increases are allowed to expire.

“Should we end up having to cut $1.9 billion out of our revenue stream this year…that would mean every single program mentioned as being of interest to (the Illinois Human Service committee) would have to be cut in its entirety,” state Rep. Greg Harris, D-Chicago, cautioned lawmakers Thursday.

It’s not just that the state may take in less in tax dollars. Illinois is also spending more.

Heroes of the Left, Illustrated

Don't let anyone try to convince you that the despots of history were men of the right. They were not and their own words prove it.


Related: HELPFUL GRAPHIC: Political Left and Right Properly Defined


Larwyn's Linx: One Election Away from Losing Our Freedom

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Nation

One Election Away from Losing Our Freedom: Daniel Greenfield
GOP midterm strategy for success against liberal onslaught: Allen West
U.S. Military To Unveil Plan To Cut Personnel Costs: WZ

GOP Questions Allowing Illegal Alien Gang Members To Stay In US: RWN
Queen Michelle versus the young knuckleheads: John Hayward
Ancient Garbage: Freedom's Torch

Cancer, Obamacare Victim at Center of Political Storm: WFB
Harvard's Sandra Korn and the Leftist Crusade for 'Academic Justice': AmPower
Two New MSNBC Hosts Bring News Media-Obama Revolving Door to 30: MRC

Economy

Spendthrift Obama drops all pretense of "austerity" in latest budget: WyBlog
Republicans use Senate rules to con constituents: Andrew C. McCarthy
Whoops: Public Sector Restricting Work Hours Due To Obamacare: RWN

Obamacare Turns Massachusetts From Model To Mayhem: Cove
Pension Reform Case Study: San Jose: Adam Summers
UAW Asks NLRB to Review Vote at VW: Ace

Scandal Central

Senators to FBI: Was Dinesh D’Souza Targeted?: Becket Adams
New York parents furious at program, inBloom, that compiles private student info: NYDN
California senator charged in big corruption case: AP

Climate & Energy

Electricity Price Index Soars to New Record at Start of 2014; U.S. Electricity Production Declining: CNS:
Jeanine Pirro Investigates Possibility of Catastrophic Power Grid Failure: Nice Deb
High Court Climate Case Looks at EPA's Power: Mark Sherman, AP

Media

Dr. Ben Carson Praises Ted Cruz, Pokes Fun At Media’s “Intellect”: Shark Tank
MSNBC on the FCC’s Plan to Regulate Media: Glob
Reagan Deja Vu – Fox RINOS Repeat Same ‘Kamikaze Republican’ Line Agaist Ted Cruz: IM41

Former Justice Stevens: Change 2nd Amendment to Improve Constitution: AWR Hawkins
Dear America, I Miss You: Fuzzy Logic
What we didn't hear in the Sixties: Gail Jarvis

Your husband doesn’t have to earn your respect: Matt Walsh
LGBT Activist Declares: ‘We Need to Start Making Their Lives a Living Hell’: R.S. McCain
“The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon” Tonight...What will it be tomorrow?: MOTUS

World

One rebel’s story from Hrushevskiy Street in Ukraine: Euromaidan PR
Victory for Ukrainian Revolution: Cube
Ukraine – A Look Into America’s Possible Future: NoisyRm

Bolton owns Obama's Middle East 'strategy': Matzav
Open letter to John Kerry from an Israeli: 1389
The Eastern Ukrainians Are Revolting: ZH

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Cover-up? Army historian says report on deadly Afghan battle was altered to absolve faulty gun: Times
Attack Of The Smartphone Zombies! A lack of situational awareness can get you killed: Bearing Arms
Google, LG working on smartwatch to be unveiled in June: CNet

Cornucopia

The exact same issue: WWP
Liberal Hammer Throw: Act Well Your Part
House fit for a tyrant: Protestors storm sprawling, luxury estate of Ukraine's fugitive president: Daily Mail

Image: House fit for a tyrant: Protestors storm sprawling, luxury estate of Ukraine's fugitive president
Sponsored by: Fire Mitch McConnell: Support Matt Bevin for U.S. Senate

QOTD: "The coming crash of U.S. diplomacy is not idle speculation about a remote future. Our declining prestige is already apparent globally; when all three Middle East negotiations fail conclusively, America's influence will fall further. Friends and adversaries alike are recalibrating their policies accordingly...

Not apprehending these realities or foreseeing their consequences debilitates the United States, discourages its allies and emboldens its adversaries. The coming collapse of all three of Obama's negotiations will convince foreign governments that his policies are dooming Washington's Middle East influence to precipitous decline. And since appearance is reality in international politics, America's ability to influence events — in Egypt for example, where the military government is already reverting to pre-Sadat days, purchasing arms from Russia — will sink further. Moreover, the opportunity costs of not focusing on threats elsewhere, such as China's belligerent territorial claims in its coastal waters, are enormous." --John Bolton

Saturday, February 22, 2014

DESPICABLE: Rep. Gary Peters (D-MI) Savages Leukemia Patient for Describing Her Obamacare Experiences

Does it get any lower than this?

Yesterday, Rep Gary Peters (D-MI) began attacking cancer patient Julie Boonstra for daring to speak out against ObamaCare.

Her crime?

She appeared in an Americans For Prosperity television ad and described her devastating and disheartening experiences with Obamacare.

Instead of answering the concerns, Peters had his lawyers try to get the ad pulled from Michigan stations. Here's the copy of the letter Peters' attorneys sent to try and silence dissent (PDF).

Her story of a canceled policy is true not just for her, but millions of Americans.

This afternoon, AFP-Michigan will accompany Julie Boonstra in her visit to Gary Peters home; she wants an apology.


Update: Michigan Democrat Rep. Gary Peters threatens TV station licenses over Obamacare ad

BREAKING: I Endorse J.D. Winteregg over John Boehner in #OH8

I had a chance to speak with John Boehner's primary challengers in OH-8 and came away very impressed with J.D. Winteregg. The man gets it. He gets the dire circumstances that the country is facing and he understands that John Boehner has been a singularly ineffective Speaker of the House. He needs to be unseated.

DRJ: J.D., tell us a little about yourself and your rationale for running against John Boehner.

JD: I'm a teacher part-time and an adjunct professor and am also working on my PhD at Ohio State. I've also lived abroad and gotten a sense of where socialism leads. At the time, it struck me that Marxism could never really take root here. I came back to the U.S. and worked for Sprint in the private sector down south until my Mom was diagnosed with breast cancer. So I came back to Ohio and started working in academia.

My time in the PhD program was enlightening: I was exposed to real progressivism, what they say behind the scenes. I've seen that the progressives are trying to destroy capitalism. The are doing so by undermining Christianity, the family, our economic system, etc.

During the 2012 campaign, I saw the GOP fail to react to the dire threats of progressivism. It was extremely disheartening. I was seeing that the Republicans had no concept of what they were up against. I felt the GOP had to change. We need real conservatives. And seeing Boehner operate as an enabler, I felt as though I had to run against him. We need fresh ideas, youth, articulate conservatism.

DRJ: When you say you view progressivism as a dire threat, help me understand the nature of what we face.

Larwyn's Linx: Democrat politicians caught laughing it up over just how bad Obamacare is

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Nation

Democrats caught laughing it up about how bad Obamacare is: YoungCons
The Great Disappointment of 2013: James W. Ceaser
How Are Socialism, Communism And Fascism All The Same?: NoisyRm

An Open Letter to NJ Gov. Chris Christie : SSI
We Will Not Be Disarmed: We the People Are the Militia: Bradlee Dean
Liberal 9th Circuit: Second Amendment Rights not Limited to One’s Home: CFIF

The Ted Cruz Majority: Jeffrey Lord
Will Democrats Let the IRS Silence Liberal Groups?: Phil Kerpen
An unconscionable silence: Andrew Napolitano

Obamacare Turns Mass. From Model To Mayhem: RWN
Obamacare now enrolling inmates to boost numbers: BPR
Obamacare's Body Count: Nice Doggie

Economy

ObamaCare kills another 33k jobs, cuts hours for thousands more: John Hayward
Hundreds Of California State Employees Paid Over $400K/Year: Mark Bucher
Retired Sheriff: $276,000 per Year Pension Is Not Enough: MB

Scandal Central

Obama's FCC Becomes the Ministry of Truth: AWD
Cartoons: Freedumbing of the Press: Hopenchange
Former CIA official accused of misleading lawmakers on Benghazi: Catherine Herridge

Climate & Energy

Climate Scientist: “Global Warming Nazis” Threaten Humanity: Alex Newman

Media

Battleground Texas, the Texas Media, and Wendy’s Choice: Bryan Preston
Fired for Teaching the Constitution: Interview w/ KrisAnne Hall: Politichicks
Texas Tribune Duped by Dem Operative on Battleground Texas Scandal: Ken Klukowski

Liberals Are Playing Whac-A-Mole For 2016: Glob
FLOTUS: America’s young knuckleheads need ObamaCare: Hot Air
Michelle Obama Twerks With the “Girls,” and More Historical Firsts!: MOTUS

News photographers protest president’s closed meeting with Dalai Lama: Twitchy
Networks Minimize Coverage of Anti-Socialist Protests in Venezuela: NB
Howard Stern: “I will never vote Democrat again, they are Communists.”: Minority Report

World

“Hundeds” of Syrian “refugees” arriving in North Jersey, thousands more expected: Geller
Adviser Fired by Obama for Hamas Meeting Gets Top WH Security Job: JW
EGYPT rejects Barack Hussein Obama’s pick for new U.S. Ambassador: BNI

Apocalypse soon: Ukrainian president reportedly flees Kiev: Hot Air
Venezuela Explodes - Worse Than Kiev: Resister in the Rockies
Triple amputee veteran’s withering letter to Obama: Fellowship

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Google announces Project Tango, a smartphone that can map the world around it: Jacob Kastrenakes
WhatsApp Shows How Phone Carriers Lost Out on $33 Billion: Bloomberg
Open Source Has Changed Everything: CIO Insight

Cornucopia

I'm Melting!!!: Burning Platform
Girl Scout Does Brisk Business Selling Cookies Outside San Francisco Pot Club: NBC-5
Inside The Army’s Spectacular, Hidden Treasure Room: Benny Johnson

Image: President flees Kyiv, Yulia Tymoshenko to be freed from prison
Sponsored by: Had Enough of Mitch McConnell? Let's Fire Him: Support Matt Bevin for U.S. Senate

QOTD: "When Obama jokes about being able to do whatever he wants, then turns around and hits an HBO producer up at a State Dinner for advanced copies of television shows to get him through an extended weekend, how are we as a desperate electorate supposed to react? We tolerate the luxuries afforded to our leaders. Just don't be a d*** about it.

How is a world currently engulfed in flames of revolution supposed to react?
The problem for a President who makes any excuse to hit up a golf course or admits to watching tons of HBO is there are still events in the world happening outside his windows. People are desperate for American leadership and can't wait for the killer on True Detective to be revealed.

Nobody in Kiev is interested in the fallout of the Red Wedding.

Nobody in Venezuela cares about the fate of Zoe Barnes…

At the height of violence that erupted with both protests this past weekend, where was he? Hosting a Hollywood premiere style party for #GeorgeClooney and cast of his film #TheMonumentsMen, in private at the White House, simply because he could. Right now in Kiev, historical statues and art are being burned in front of the world. He was content to remain silent and watch a movie about it happening instead. The real world does not interest this President. The set design does." --Stephen Miller

Friday, February 21, 2014

ACTION NEEDED: Don’t Let the IRS Silence YOU!


Tom Fitton at Judicial Watch:

President Obama’s Internal Revenue Service has quietly announced new rules that strictly limit the ability of 501(c)(4), tax-exempt organizations from carrying out their core missions in the months leading up to federal, state, and local elections. These new rules are seemingly designed to silence the growing conservative grassroots and Tea Party movement in America. Our First Amendment rights are in jeopardy. Please join us in fighting back now!

These new IRS rules will:

  1. Keep citizens from holding their public officials accountable
  2. Silence citizens and chill the very purpose of grassroots groups

'I Love My Doctor'


Papa B sends us this critical medical update.

Q: Doctor, I've heard that cardiovascular exercise can prolong life. Is this true?
A: Heart only good for so many beats, and that it... Don't waste on exercise. Everything wear out eventually. Speed up heart not make live longer; that like say you can extend life of car by driving faster. Want live longer? Take nap.

Q: Should I cut down on meat and eat more fruits and vegetables?
A: You must grasp logistical efficiencies. What does cow eat? Hay and corn. What are these? Vegetables. So, steak nothing more than efficient mechanism of delivering vegetables to system. Need grain? Eat chicken. Beef also good source of field grass (green leafy vegetable). And pork chop give 100% recommended daily allowance of vegetable products.

Q: Should I reduce my alcohol intake?
A: No, not at all. Wine made from fruit. Brandy is distilled wine. That means they take water out of fruity bit; get even more goodness that way. Beer also made out of grain. Bottoms up!

How long will Roll Call Magazine continue to embarrass itself?

That's a rhetorical question. Please consider the ludicrous hack named Taegan Goddard and his ill-named "Political Wire", which would be more aptly named "White House Press Release Wire".


His recent articles are reminiscent of a modern-day Leni Riefenstahl, offering a one-sided view into the clusterbungle known as "Obamacare", which the majority of Americans recognize as the most ill-conceived, unconstitutional, amoral, Marxist, and criminal excuse for a "law" in American history.

Goddard's recent coverage include such gems as:

• "Don’t Believe Those Obamacare Attack Ads"

• "The Stock Market Loves Obamacare"

• "California Enrollment Surges Past Projected Goal"

• "Obamacare Now Needs to Take Root"

• "Healthcare.Gov is Improving: Time to Scrutinize State Exchanges"

• "Assessing Impact of Obamacare on Workforce is an ‘Imprecise Art’"

• "Obamacare Enrollment Still Advances Despite State Opposition"

• "As Insurers Seek Profits, Poor Face Higher Premiums on Obamacare Exchanges"

• "An Abundance of Good News for Obamacare"

• "Obamacare Killing Jobs? It’s a Myth"

Littered through Goddard's coverage of other topics are predictable hits such as "Holder Calls for End to Felon Disenfranchisement Laws", "Obama’s Abuse of Executive Powers Debunked" (someone inform liberal Constitutional attorney Jonathan Turley), "Extreme Weather Reignites Coal Debate", "One Percent Wins But Charity Loses", "Protests Continue Over ‘Greatest Mass Deportation in U.S. History’", "CBO Minimum Wage Report is ‘Remarkably Biased’", "Will an Increase in the Minimum Wage Really Hurt Jobs?", etc., etc., etc.

I can't figure out whether Goddard is an economic illiterate, a malevolent propagandist, or just another Soviet sleeper spy helping to destroy the Constitution.

I'm open to suggestions.

In the mean time, ignore Roll Call and read the uncensored news at BadBlue.com.

MARK LEVIN: Obama has hijacked the institutions of government and unleashed them on the people

20 February 2014, Mark Levin:


The FCC, call it whatever you want, Barack Obama's henchman, Barack Obama's comrades, there, that's right, all over the federal government have hijacked the institutions of government and are now turning them on the people. Whether it's the EPA, or the Department of Justice, the Interior Department, NOAA, this, that or the other, they're using the government, they are using a law against us. Which is the definition of tyranny.

They have abused the First Amendment with wiretaps, and other forms of government action against the media in this country and the media in this country apparently is sadistic. As long as their guy is doing it, well then, do it. So the media in this country no longer stands for free anything. Free speech, free press, any of it. It is the Praetorian guard media -- as I've been saying for years -- protecting this president, protecting his ideology because the people in the media, for the most part, are of the same ilk.

No respect for the rule of law. No respect for the constitution. Now they'll use those things to attack Republican presidents, but they don't give a damn about it when it comes to a radical leftist like Obama. And so it is necessary to remind ourselves who we are, what our power is, what our heritage is as we fight what is increasingly the battle that the Framers fought against tyranny.


Related: President Barack Obama's Complete List of Historic Firsts [Updated]

CALIFORNIA LIVES UP TO THE LYRICS: You can check out anytime you like, but you can never leave

The law of supply and demand -- unless it gets repealed by one of Barack Obama's Executive Orders -- illustrates the stark difference between one of the most regressive blue states and one of the most libertarian reds.

Check this out:


In a nutshell, the makers are fleeing California as the takers assume ever more control.

Ain't a Democrat-controlled Utopia awesome?


Hat tips: Mark Levin Show and Kathleen Pender

Larwyn's Linx: DHS to Buy 704 Million Rounds of Ammo -- Adds up to 2,500 Rounds Per Officer

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Nation

DHS to Buy 704 Million Rounds of Ammo: 2,500 Rounds Per Officer: CNS
Here’s how you control the Obamacare messaging: Allen West
When you walk into a newsroom, just ignore Comrade Jerkoffovich: III Percent

Standing with Matt Bevin: Erick Erickson
Secretary Kerry: Leadership for a New Dark Age?: William R. Hawkins
Nitwit Democrat Domenic Recchia Declared an Obama "Dynasty" in '09: Scoop

How Likely Are Democrats to Lose the Senate?: Sean Trende
Sean Trende projects '14, nearly suffers total protonic reversal: Moe Lane
NJ Back Room Gun Deal: Limited to 10 round magazines: TruthRevolt

Economy

The minimum wage: a regressive tax on the poor and young: John Hayward
Reject Liberalism’s Economic Death Sentence On America: David Limbaugh
Obamacare tax to smack families with hundreds in new costs: Exam

Why Parents Are “Paranoid” About Common Core: Michelle Malkin
Teachers Union Slams 'Completely Botched' Common Core: IJR
Law of Bad Ideas: Mish

Scandal Central

WARNING: Obama poised to kill the free press: RWN
James O’Keefe Catches Battleground Texas engaged in illegal voter registration scheme: RWN
Sen. McCaskill's Husband Benefitted From $20 Million in Stimulus Funds: NLPC

Climate & Energy

WSJ to Kerry: Flat Earthers were the “consensus” position: Hot Air
Agenda 21: Long-Sought Control of Natural Resources and Minds Through Marxism: MagNote
All your LED light bulbs are belong to Big Brother: WyBlog

Media

‘Every Major Repressive Regime of the Modern Era Has Begun with Universal Healthcare’: TPNN
More Evidence Refutes “Record Deportations” MSM Myth: VDARE
Yo, Media: The Last 7 Mass Shootings were Comitted by Left Wing Liberals: TPNN

Washington Post defies petition, publishes Charles Krauthammer’s ‘climate lies’: Twitchy
Thomas Sowell Gets It Wrong on Cruz, Part II: Is He Starting to Come Around?: Patterico
Media Matters Finally Finds a ‘Local’ Story It Thinks Should Be Covered: Stephen Kruiser

Another Four Falsehoods About the Free Market: Sandy Ikeda, FEE
Salon Writer: ‘White Thuggery Marches On, Mowing Down Black Folks’: GWP
Mayor de Blasio’s Vehicle Caught Running Stop Signs, Speeding After Blasting Speed Limit Reduction: MenRec

Krauthammer’s Take: FCC Newsroom Study Latest ‘Trample on What Rights are Remaining’: NRO
The Mann I Love: Mark Steyn
Awesome: Western Rifles

World

Sinister Illusions: Masking Tragedy in Ukraine: Chris Floyd
UN's IAEA Says Iran Secretly Working To Put Nukes On Mid-Range Missile: Breitbart
Venezuelan beauty queen among six killed in continuing protests: BCF

The situation in Ukraine grows more desperate by the hour: Mish
US Votes Absent as Ukraine Burns: Ben Shapiro
Dearborn: Local Muslim calls for sharia patrols at city council meeting: Creeping

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

We Cracked The Code On How The Facebook News Feed Algorithm Works: Sean Davis, The Federalist
HHS Seeking Access to ‘Full Twitter Historical Data’: WFB
Microsoft Issues Emergency Fix For Internet Explorer Zero-Day: Dark Reading

Cornucopia

Winter: Who Predicts it Better - The Government or the Farmers?: MOTUS
The State vs The People: Kiev's Independence Square: Before & After: American Digest
A Hillary 2016 bumper sticker only conservatives would want : Looking Spoon

Image: Stunning photos of Clint Bowyer's car flipping at Daytona
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QOTD: "When the First Amendment was written there was no radio and TV, obviously. So it was newspapers, pamphlets, it was the printed word. There’s literally no federal regulation of newspapers. And the only reason there is in broadcasting is because of this notion that the airwaves are public and the government issues licenses to broadcasters granting them permission to use those airwaves. But still, in the news division of those broadcast outlets, the First Amendment applies. But it doesn’t apply to cable because cable’s not over the air. The FCC has no authority over what’s on cable, even though they try to assert it, but it’s not over the air. So there is no public interest there.

Same thing with newspapers. Newspapers are totally off-limits, and yet the commissioner the FCC says they are “now expanding the bounds of regulatory powers to include newspapers, which it has absolutely no authority over, in its new government monitoring program. The FCC has apparently already selected eight categories of ‘critical information’ that ‘it believes local newscasters should cover.’

That’s right, the [Regime] has developed a formula of what it believes the free press should cover, and it is going to send government monitors into newsrooms across America to stand over the shoulders of the press as they make editorial decisions. … Every major repressive regime of the modern era has begun with an attempt to control and intimidate the press." --Rush Limbaugh

Thursday, February 20, 2014

Your awesome, progressive-crushing juxtaposition o' the day: Ana Marie Cox beclownment edition

The inane and dimwitted Ana Marie Cox is at it again.

Yesterday's Guardian found her whining yet again about America's investors, entrepreneurs and job producers who have been tarred as the evil "one percent."

Specifically, Cox claims that our class system prevents those of modest means from progressing to the ranks of the super-rich.

Because the wealth of the super-rich is just so damn far away, without any rungs in the ladder between, no assistance for that leap of faith that allows those who struggle to hope their struggles can cease.

But, I digress. Consider today's headline from Bloomberg:


As I have pointed out countless times, the Forbes 400 (America's wealthiest individuals) list is populated with dozens upon dozens of self-made billionaires.

It's income mobility that makes America great, you progressive dimwit, not income equality.

It's too bad Cox is genetically impervious to facts, history, logic, and reason.


Hat tip: Jim Geraghty

Mark Steyn explains why the House Republican leadership is a sad travesty of a pathetic joke

This, my friends, is called speaking truth to power.
In Australia, each citizen's share of the [national] debt is $12,000; in New Zealand, it's $15,000 per person; in Canada, $18,000; in the United Kingdom, $28,000. And in the United States it's $54,000 per person — twice as much as Britain, thrice as much as Canada, closing in on five times as much as Australia. And that's before you toss in all the other junk which leaves a total debt burden in the US of close to three-quarters of a million dollars per family. America is on course to be the first nation of negative millionaires.

So, while Canada's got a balanced budget and New Zealand's paying down its national debt and Australia's government debt is about 11 per cent of GDP (versus 100 per cent of GDP in the United States), Americans are supposed to be encouraged because, in a spirit of comity, the bipartisan kleptocracy in Washington has nodded through a plan to make things worse. Former Congressman turned Club for Growth honcho Chris Chocola:

Which brings us to the Ryan–Murray budget, a partial repeal of the sequester. The agreement was a function of the fact that many Republicans in the House simply never wanted to cut spending or limit the size of government.

I served with and respect Paul Ryan. I know the Ryan–Murray budget is not his ideal budget. But that doesn't make the deal any less of a joke. An analysis by the Senate Budget Committee Republicans noted that 56 percent of the offsets for the reversal of the sequester come in FY 2022 and FY 2023 — a decade from now.

Speaker Boehner called that "deficit reduction." I call that a fraud and everyone with any common sense would agree with me. What kind of message does it send to voters when Republican leadership is claiming that you can offset increases in spending today with cuts in spending a decade from now?

It sends the message that the GOP is a joke. Canada, Australia and New Zealand are doing it now, not legislating fairyland cuts that kick in eight years after the legislators' terms of office end. Granted, all those countries have conservative governments, which the US is in no danger of getting any time soon. But here's why the Republican Party really isn't good enough: it's not just that the GOP is less fiscally conservative - by which I mean fiscally responsible - than other conservative parties, it's less fiscally conservative than many left-wing governments. The Liberal Party of Canada spent the "fat" years of the Nineties paying off the national debt, prompting my old comrade Kate O'Beirne to joke, "If only we could get American conservatives to be as fiscally responsible as Canadian liberals" - a jest one could also extend to the Australian Labor Party, which, while certainly profligate in Aussie terms, was a paragon of rectitude compared to Boehner and the gang.

Kate's is a cute joke. Except, of course, that the joke's on us. As Chris Chocola concludes:

So the Republican leadership says the Club for Growth has been "misleading their followers" and has "lost credibility"? That's a bit ironic, coming from a big-spending, debt-increasing, farm-subsidy enabling, entitlement-expanding party leadership that has abandoned its principles . . . all in the name of retaining their own power. And to what end?

When a Congressman talks about reducing spending in 2024, 2027, 2030, laugh in his face, and tell him that, when Representatives are elected for 20-year terms, then we'll listen to his plans for 2034. The bipartisan consensus to ramp up those debt per capita figures is not just an abstraction, but a massive gamble on the future - the future of the dollar as the global currency, the future of your children, and the future of America as a First World nation.

You can read more regarding that last point in Mark's international bestseller After America, personally autographed copies of which are available in hardback, paperback and audio editions exclusively at the SteynOnline bookstore, and whose proceeds will go to fund Steyn's end of the upcoming Mann vs. Steyn trial.


Hat tip: Nice Deb

OBAMACARE: A Comedy of Terrors

Guest post by Richard Larsen

With the stroke of a pen and an utterance from the president, Obamacare’s employer mandate has been postponed yet again, this time until 2016 for some businesses. Headlines across the nation from the mainstream media have praised the delay, declaring it advantageous and good for the nation. If it’s “good for the nation,” why don’t we just delay it indefinitely?

The problem with 2,400 pages of legislation is not what politicians promise the legislation will do, but what it does in reality, including the creation of nearly 40,000 pages of regulations affecting our health care. And the reality with the Affordable Care Act (ACA), as we’re witnessing nearly daily in financial media, is devastating for the economy, the middle class, and our healthcare system itself.

The ACA (Obamacare) was sold to us on the basis that there were 40 million Americans without health insurance and that the Act would rectify the apparent inequity. That actually is the first broken promise of Obamacare. The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) admits that after 10 years of implementation, Obamacare “will still leave 31 million uninsured.” And we’ll have spent $1.93 trillion failing to achieve the primary objective of the Act! And that new dollar figure from the CBO is still likely an underestimate since they’ve revised the figure upward three times already.

The new requirements imposed on employer sponsored insurance (ESI) plans will make the costs increase significantly for employers. Many employers will discontinue their plans altogether, forcing employees to the state exchanges to buy their insurance for themselves.

Last June, McKinsey & Company released results of a study that found, “Overall, 30 percent of employers will definitely or probably stop offering ESI in the years after 2014. Among employers with a high awareness of reform, this proportion increases to more than 50 percent, and upward of 60 percent will pursue some alternative to traditional ESI.” This contrasts sharply with CBO’s original estimates of 7% of employees losing their current ESI, and the president’s promise that none would.

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New Obama Promise: If You Like Your Life, You Can Keep It: Ann Coulter
Planned Parenthood Takes The Lead In Obamacare’s Enrollment Army: WZ

GOP Playing a Prevent Defense: Jon Gabriel
The outdated business model of Diversity Inc.: Victor Davis Hanson
Obama FCC's Newsroom "Study" Is Drawing Plenty of Public Opposition: Blaze

Christians: Empty the Churches and Fill the Streets: Christian Mercenary
CT Media: Police Should Jail Thousands for Failing to Register Guns: GSL
Today's Lesson in Irony: Woodsterman

Sarah Palin Endorses Katrina Pierson in Texas: Breitbart
Ohio: True Conservative J.D. Winteregg vs. Speaker John Boehner: Jared Day
Detroit mom opens fire on three intruders as they try to rob her home: NYDN

Economy

Union Intimidation Continues at Volkswagen’s Chattanooga Plant: Leon H. Wolf
German Union Boss Threatens American Workers After They Reject UAW: LUR
Does The Trail Of Dead Bankers Lead Somewhere?: Michael Snyder

Scandal Central

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The Partisan IRS Needs To Be Reformed Or Abolished: RS
The Benghazi Map: Former Spook

Climate & Energy

Mark Levin torches John Kerry for recent Climate Change remarks: Scoop
Mann and the Oxburgh Panel: Climate Audit
Dirty Business at the EPA: CFP

Media

Historians Begin to Gild Obama’s Reputation: PJM
Bill O'Reilly Does Not Look Out for Me (Anymore): Roger L. Simon
And Now, The Edwin-Edwards-For-Congress Media Hit: HayRide

I Take Exception To Mr. Sowell’s Targeting of Ted Cruz: Primordial Slack
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Kathleen Willey alleges ‘terror campaigns’ against women by Hillary Clinton: Twitchy

Media Blacks Out New Snowden Interview The Government Doesn’t Want You to See: Federalist
Are you serious? Are you serious?: Cold Fury
Government monitors to be placed in newsrooms? This is FUBAR!: Allen West

World

The Al-Shabaab Connection: Gates of Vienna
Obama Draws Another Meaningless Red Line, Warns Ukraine Not To “Step Over The Line”: WZ
Graphic Riot Videos, Pics: Protesters Destroy Armored Vehicle With Molotov Cocktails: Mac Slavo

Report quotes wiretapped exchange between Obama-backed Morsi, 9/11 Al Qaida leader: Pamela Geller
Navy Official: China Training for ‘Short Sharp War’ with Japan: USNI
Farm Bill included amendment ensuring halal food for poor Muslims: Creeping

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

The Unfortunately Innate Nature of Intelligence: Fred on Everything
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Cornucopia

Wednesday Doubleheader: Hopechange
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QOTD: "Ukraine joins the long list of countries that have regressed into deeper shadow under President Obama and his two Secretaries of State, Hillary Clinton and John Kerry.

The list of just those countries we know about because they have have made huge headlines include Iran and its lost Green Revolution, Egypt and the years of chaos begun when the president and his team had four policies vis-a-vis Egypt in as many days, Libya where “leading from behind” was coined, Syria where the red line faded into black, Lebanon and Jordan where the Syrians sought refuge, Iraq where the peace has been forfeited and civil war begun again, Afghanistan where our scamper is underway and the Taliban is waiting, and this week Venezuela and Ukraine where American fecklessness has emboldened the worst of the locals to imprison and kill.

Somewhere Hillary is writing her memoir and using a calculator to add up the number of miles she flew as Secretary of State. She will obsess on that number as it is the only thing her defenders can recall as an “achievement” of her time." --Hugh Hewitt