Monday, March 10, 2014

TOLERANCE: Enlightened progressive hopes that "GOP children get shot in Hoosier Schools"

There's no tolerance like liberal tolerance:


And why is @Cindy_K_2004 praying for the deaths of children? Because Indiana is considering legalizing locked firearms in school parking lots.

Never mind that 18 states already allow guns on school grounds, a measure that makes those campuses infinitely safer from terrorists, mass-murderers and lunatics.

Of course, for the left, emotion always trumps history, facts, logic and reason. Which also explains the financial success stories known as Detroit and Chicago.


Hat tip: BadBlue Gun News

Larwyn's Linx: On the Beach Your Ship is Burning

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Nation

On the Beach Your Ship is Burning: Erick Erickson
The Candyass Conundrum: House of Eratosthenes
Mexican Military Incursion Into Arizona May Point To Cartel Collusion: John Stanton

Why Rand Paul is Winning: Roger L. Simon
Boehner Wants to Wear Us Down on Amnesty: AT
McConnell waves musket, falls flat at CPAC: Joseph Gerth

Discretion: Joe Huffman
GOP guv candidate who appeared in Obama ad is Labor's choice in IL: Marathon
Stick It To The RINOs! — Support Kerry Bentivolio (MI-11)!: NoisyRm

Economy

Rahm Emanuel Screws Voters Out Of A Referendum: Michael Ciric
Big Labor: Wait, this #Obamacare thing we passed is going to hurt *us*?: Moe Lane
Global Debt Exceeds $100 Trillion as Governments Binge, BIS Says: Bloomberg

SC Wants Food Stamp Recipients to Prove They’re Looking for Jobs: RWN
College Grads Now Doing the Jobs High School Grads Used to Do: Leslie Eastman
Game Changer: It Will Be Shocking for the Average American: SHTFplan

Scandal Central

The president's power grab: LAT
'Un-American'? That's Harry Reid, the Senate's lowly smear artist: TribLive
Pat Caddell: "John Boehner has been Purposely Suppressing Anything on Benghazi": Outpost (2013)

Throwing an Issa Fit: Stephen Green
Lerner Won’t Talk Because Holder Has Obama’s Back: Bryan Preston
The IRS now an appendage of Barack Obama’s party: George Will

Climate & Energy

John Kerry Wants US Envoys To Make “Climate Change” Their Priority: Cove
Global warming dud predictions on the Great Barrier Reef: WUWT
Polar Vortex Emboldens Industry to Push Old Coal Plants: Bloomberg

Media

Unbiased Media Alert: ABC’s Jon Karl LOLs At Ted Cruz During #CPAC Interview: Scoop
Judge Jeanine: Obama’s “Contract” is “Null and Void”: Capitalism Institute
Drudge readers surprise GOP elite for prez: Drew Zahn

NSA Chief Pushes For Laws to Silence Journalists - Says Legislation Coming in Weeks: SCG
Fox’s Eric Bolling schools ‘dummy’ Jon Stewart on food stamp abuse: BPR
President, Michelle all smiles after returning from weekend getaway at $2,500-a-night resort: Daily Mai

The Schoolhouse Rock “How Does a Bill Work?” is updated for Obama’s America: Joshua Riddle
‘Deal killer’: Why some conservatives won’t support Ben Carson: BPR
The Square: Aish

World

Cheney: Obama Has No Credibility With Allies: WFB
Kim Jong-Un Orders Massacre of 33 Christians: Rick Moran
Israeli Travelers Restricted by Cruise Line: BCF

Ted Cruz draws line with Rand Paul on foreign policy: Scoop
World View: Ukraine/Russia Crisis Presents Problems for China: Breitbart
UK: School bans all pork products from menu, replaces them with halal meat: JihadWatch

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

US court disallows NSA from holding phone records beyond five years: PC World
Hackers Claim Mt. Gox Still Has Investors' Bitcoins: Gizmodo
WSJ: Americans' Phone Bills Are Going Up: Slashdot

Cornucopia

5 guys who hit on your girlfriend at CPAC in front of you: Patrick Howley
Russia's aggression prompts other nations to change names: Cube
Wake Up and Smell the Bacon!: MOTUS

Image: If All You See...
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: Fire Mitch McConnell: Support Matt Bevin for U.S. Senate

QOTD: "The fights in which conservative now engage against their own Republican Party must be won. The party is dismissive of conservatives already. We all know that...

Still other conservatives have had no desire to get their hands dirty and they are angry at those of us who have dared to fight. But these conservatives — their ships are burning now too.

If conservatives do not win electoral fights against Republican incumbents in 2014, the Republicans will finally conclude the right has become a paper tiger. We are all CPAC and bluster and nothing more. The Republicans will conclude we need not have a seat at the table because we can bring nothing to the table.

...You may have not set your own ship of the conservative movement on the beach or even set it ablaze. But there it now rests in flames. You will either fight and win or be of no use to anyone anymore." --Erick Erickson

Sunday, March 09, 2014

KARL ROVE FUNNIES: the Comic Strip Version of the Truth About the GOP and the Tea Party

@BiffSpackle drops some science on Uncle Ben, who was still repeating the tired fable that the Tea Party somehow hurt the GOP's Senate chances in 2012.


Get the facts.


THE ILLUSTRATED GUIDE: Obama vs. Putin

Guest post by The People's Cube (click the picture to enbiggen)


MITCH McCONNELL PREDICTS GOP ESTABLISHMENT WILL DESTROY THE TEA PARTY: "We are going to crush them everywhere"

There's nothing like the courage and charisma of Mitch McConnell -- when it comes to taking on his own base:

On Sunday, The New York Times reported that Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) stated that he would work to destroy the efforts of conservative organizations seeking to primary mainstream Republicans. “I think we are going to crush them everywhere,” he stated. “I don’t think they are going to have a single nominee anywhere in the country.”

Over the past two election cycles, mainstream Republicans have become more and more upset over the rise of Tea Party-backed candidates who have primaried GOP incumbents, then proceeded to lose general elections. McConnell has been personally attacked by the Senate Conservatives Fund, which supports businessman challenger Matt Bevin. McConnell recently began running an ad targeting both Bevin and SCF. The ad accuses SCF of soliciting “money under the guise of advocating for conservative principles but then spends it on a $1.4 million luxury townhouse with a wine cellar and a hot tub in Washington, D.C.”

The SCF was founded by former Senator Jim DeMint, who currently heads the Heritage Foundation. “Mitch McConnell is, to me, the essence of the problem in D.C.,” said Drew Ryun, head of the Madison Project. McConnell would like groups primarying incumbents like him and Senator Pat Roberts (R-KS) to fade into the woodwork, and hopes they will if defeated in this election cycle: “I know this: Politics doesn’t like losers. If you don’t have anything to point to, it is kind of hard to keep it going.”

Speaking of losing, Mitchie: any comment on Karl Rove's 2012 stellar track record? You remember, that 1 (one) percent victory rate for his American Crossroads PAC?

I believe it's time for brave Mitch to return to the private sector. I support his conservative challenger, Matt Bevin for Senate in Kentucky. If you've had enough of Pillsbury Doughboys like McConnell, I urge you to help out too.


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THE WAGES OF STUPIDITY: Chicagoans face 20 percent hike in energy prices, doubling of property taxes

I can think of only one campaign promise Barack Obama kept: ensuring that energy prices would "necessarily skyrocket."

His words, not mine.

Chicagoans will soon enjoy the wages of stupidity: that is, continually voting Democrat despite the party's comprehensive record of stupidity, corruption, and sloth.

Exhibit A:

Residential electric bills in Chicago will increase roughly 14 to 18 percent in June under a new deal the city has struck with its power supplier, Integrys Energy Services.

That follows an increase in January thanks to higher delivery charges by Commonwealth Edison Co.

...Like the previous deal, the new contract won't include power from coal-fired sources. In addition, 5 percent of the power will come from Illinois wind farms.

Exhibit B:

Perhaps the biggest pension landmine outside of Detroit is Chicago. The Windy City next year must make a $1.07 billion balloon payment—equal to a third of the city's operating budget—on $19.4 billion of pension debt. The pension payment could cover salaries for 4,300 police officers or the resurfacing of 16,000 blocks of road, and Mayor Rahm Emanuel has warned that property taxes may have to double to pay the bill...

...Meantime, the required pension contribution for Chicago schools this year is tripling to $613 million. Chicago unions are pressing the state government to raise property, sales, income and corporate taxes to bail out worker pensions. Chicago's pension funds are only half as well-funded as even Detroit's, if you can believe it, and could run dry by 2020...

You read that right: Chicago's pension funds are half as well-funded as Detroit's.

At what point do the Second City's voters throw in the towel on the Democrat Party? How much pain and suffering do they have to endure before they change direction?


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Larwyn's Linx: Why the GOP Makes Sense for Millennials

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Nation

Why the GOP Makes Sense for Millennials: AmSpec
RNC building list of voters who lost insurance due to Obamacare: Joel Gehrke
“There is no one who can be trusted with political power”: Cold Fury

Sen. Rand Paul Wins Major Presidential Poll: ConTrib
Ted Cruz Wins SCF Presidential Straw Poll: MinorityReport
Blown away: Ben Carson gives AMAZING speech at CPAC: YoungCons

Are bans on high capacity magazines constitutional?: Hot Air
An Open Letter to Lt Vance of the CT State Police: SSI
Some Connecticut police refusing to enforce AW law: David Hardy

The Silence of the Tax Lamb: Debra Saunders
Domestic Cold War: Christian Mercenary
Obama nominee for Surgeon General: banning guns is medicine: Howard Portnoy

Economy

Socialism vs. Capitalism: Which is the Moral System: C. Bradley Thompson
Blue States Scheme to Keep People Dependent on Welfare: GayPatriot
Big Labor: ObamaCare is making income inequality worse, you know: Hot Air

Scandal Central

Senate judiciary committee kills Ted Cruz bill requiring IRS impartiality: Poor Richard
White House doesn't explain how off-budget ObamaCare money got spent: Hot Air
Jeremiah Wright's Daughter Convicted of Fraud: Breitbart

Climate & Energy

Dept. of Energy Uses Phony Climate Change ‘Study’ In Order to Push Spending: BlurBrain
KXL in Perspective: Ace

Media

Ann Coulter on Illegal Immigration and Demographics: ‘No, You’re Raping Me.’: R.S. McCain
Thoughts as I pack to go home from CPAC 2014: DTG
The Dark Debut of Debbie Wasserman Schultz: Susan D. Harris

Pat Caddell: GOP Consultant's Strategy of Do Nothing Is A Hell of A Way To Lose: Marooned
The First Woman President: Matthew Continetti
Conservative gathering reflects challenge for GOP: LAT

World

Ukraine's Military Mobilizes: Trucks, APCs, SAMs, Howitzers, Tanks Rolling Out: ZH
The Iron Curtain Goes Up In the Ukraine: Sara Noble
Mysterious case of ‘two stolen passports’ used on Malaysia Airways flight: EuroNews

Rep. Keith Ellison addresses chapter of Hamas-linked CAIR: JihadWatch
China’s Muscular Civilian Fleet Threatens, Irritates Neighbors: TAI
Report: North Korea to Execute 33 for Contact With Missionary: David Bohon

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

+1 Million Children Stopped Eating School Lunches Because of Michelle Obama: Daniel Greenfield
The largest center fire rifle ever made: Bits & Pieces
This concept makes most email clients look ugly: Verge

Cornucopia

Pictures From Blog Bash at CPAC 2014: Glob
The Obamas’ Advice: Get Out of Bed And Do It Till Your Butt Comes Off: MOTUS
Porsche Is Bringing Two Insanely Rare Spyders To The Amelia Island Concours: FlatSixes

Image: +1 Million Children Stopped Eating School Lunches Because of Michelle Obama
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: Fire Mitch McConnell: Support Matt Bevin for U.S. Senate

QOTD: "Mr. Stewart is the host of a fake news show, the genesis of which probably was a conversation that went approximately like this: Brother-in-Law: “There’s nothing funny on Saturday Night Live except the ‘Weekend Update.’ They should really just do that for the whole show.” Jon Stewart: “Hey…!” Mr. Stewart is among the lowest forms of intellectual parasite in the political universe, with no particular insights or interesting ideas of his own, reliant upon the very broadest and least clever sort of humor, using ancient editing techniques to make clumsy or silly political statements sound worse than they are and then pantomiming outrage at the results, the lowbrow version of James Joyce giving the hero of Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man the unlikely name of Stephen Dedalus and then having other characters in the novel muse upon the unlikelihood of that name. His shtick is a fundamentally cowardly one, playing the sanctimonious vox populi when it suits him, and then beating retreat into “Hey, I’m just a comedian!” when he faces a serious challenge. It is the sort of thing that you can see appealing to bright, politically engaged 17-year-olds.

...The thing is, people actually get their news from his show. Fans, many of whom cannot quite spell his name, swear that the program is “more accurate than any other news show.” Ignore, for the moment, the judgment exhibited in that quotation and focus on the word “other.” In the minds of many of his admirers — and in the minds of those news-site editors who report on Mr. Stewart’s fake news as part of the real news — there is no substantive difference between what Mr. Stewart does and what, e.g., Ezra Klein does (“Ezra Klein Destroys Romney,” “Ezra Klein Destroys David Brooks,” “Ezra Klein Destroys Republican Opposition to Temporary Payroll Tax Cut,” etc.) because for the Left the point of journalism is not to criticize politics or to analyze politics but to be a servant of politics, to “destroy” such political targets as may be found behind one’s crosshairs. For the Left, the maker of comedy and the maker of graphs perform the same function. It does not matter who does the “destroying,” so long as it gets done." --Kevin D. Williamson

Saturday, March 08, 2014

SNOWDEN TESTIMONY TO EU: Suspicionless Surveillance Actually Makes Us Less Safe

Excerpt from Edward Snowden's written testimony to the European Union [PDF]

Looking at the US government's reports here is valuable. The most recent of these investigations, performed by the White House's Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board, determined that the mass surveillance program investigated was not only ineffective -- they found it had never stopped even a single imminent terrorist attack -- but that it had no basis in law. In less diplomatic language, they discovered the United States was operating an unlawful mass surveillance program, and the greatest success the program had ever produced was discovering a taxi driver in the United States transferring $8,500 dollars to Somalia in 2007.

After noting that even this unimpressive success – uncovering evidence of a single unlawful bank transfer -- would have been achieved without bulk collection, the Board recommended that the unlawful mass surveillance program be ended. Unfortunately, we know from press reports that this program is still operating today.

I believe that suspicionless surveillance not only fails to make us safe, but it actually makes us less safe. By squandering precious, limited resources on "collecting it all," we end up with more analysts trying to make sense of harmless political dissent and fewer investigators running down real leads. I believe investing in mass surveillance at the expense of traditional, proven methods can cost lives, and history has shown my concerns are justified.

Despite the extraordinary intrusions of the NSA and EU national governments into private communications world-wide, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the "Underwear Bomber," was allowed to board an airplane traveling from Europe to the United States in 2009. The 290 persons on board were not saved by mass surveillance, but by his own incompetence, when he failed to detonate the device. While even Mutallab's own father warned the US government he was dangerous in November 2009, our resources were tied up monitoring online games and tapping German ministers...

...Nor did the US government's comprehensive monitoring of Americans at home stop the Boston Bombers. Despite the Russians specifically warning us about Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the FBI couldn't do more than a cursory investigation -- although they did plenty of worthless computer-based searching - and failed to discover the plot. 264 people were injured, and 3 died. The resources that could have paid for a real investigation had been spent on monitoring the call records of everyone in America.


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Larwyn's Linx: Ted Cruz calls for abolition of the IRS

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Nation

Ted Cruz calls for abolition of the IRS: Outcast
Three cheers for Darrell Issa: Herman Cain
Profs to Congress: Stop Allowing Obama's Abuses of Power: CI

Oops, despite all the Obamacare hoopla the uninsured remain uninsured: WyBlog
Valerie Jarrett Office Promotes ObamaCare to Muslims: Daniel Greenfield
Trailing in several polls, #MISen Dem shakes up his campaign: David Freddoso

Petrie Dish of Liberty: Christian Mercenary
Connecticut’s Gun Ban Is Worse Than Hitler’s Gun Ban: DC Clothesline
From a Reader: Western Rifles

Economy

The Job Market’s February Crumble: Tom Blumer
Another Mediocre Jobs Report: Keith Koffler
Employment: +175k: Karl Denninger

Not Paying Union Dues, in Michigan: NRO
Another vacation for Obama, this time in midst of Ukraine crisis: TR
More Racebaiting from the AFL-CIO: Marathon

Scandal Central

Obama IRS Hires Al-Qaida Spy: IBD
Did IRS just snub Issa?: Gretawire
Henry Waxman Threatened to Physically Remove Darrell Issa From Hearing: MagNote

Phyllis Schlafly: Republicans are ‘fools’ to back ‘any kind of amnesty’: DC
Understanding Why ‘Who George Zimmerman Is” Was Irrelevant To The Objective: Treehouse
IRS caves on Lois Lerner documents, will provide Congress with ALL of her emails: Daily Mail

Climate & Energy

EPA chief says new U.S. energy rules won't hobble business: Ernest Scheyder

Media

Criminalizing Blogging About NSA Leaks?: VictoryGirls
The “best argument for abortion” was just completely demolished by Matt Walsh: YoungCons
What the F****?: IBA (NSFW)

Has WaPo Awakened from Its Obama Fantasy?: David Gerstman
MSNBC mocks Greg Abbott: ‘matchstick-thin legs dangling in front of him…’: Unyielding
White House: Obama Had a Busy Week: Keith Koffler

Watch: Russia Today Anchor Liz Wahl quits Live on Air: Politisite
Juan Williams: Treatment of Condi Rice by Rutgers a hateful liberal double standard: Hot Air
Mark Levin calls Alan Grayson “A Circus Clown”: Scoop

World

‘Obama’: Leader Of The Brie World: Camp o' the Saints
The Ukraine Folk Dance And What It Really Means: JoshuaPundit
Is George Soros a Communist Agent?: Trevor Loudon (2011)

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Google, Microsoft Challenge Service Providers: Mitch Wagner
Magazine System Designed to Freak Out the Gun-Grabbers: Kevin Lake
The 12 Most Amazing Machines at the Geneva Motor Show: Wired

Cornucopia

Live! From Key Largo! Johnny Rocco! We’ll be here all weekend.: MOTUS
The Case to Impeach President Obama: Eagle Rising
That’s George Washington Lying Bleeding on the Battlefield...: Blaze

Image: Wing cracks lead to Dreamliner production delay
Sponsored by: Fire Mitch McConnell: Support Matt Bevin for U.S. Senate

QOTD: "Oh, Western freedom-loving “left-wing” thinkers! Oh, left-wing labourists! Oh, American, German and French progressive students! All of this is still not enough for you. The whole book has been useless for you. You will understand everything immediately, when you yourself — “hands behind the back” — toddle into our Archipelago." --Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Friday, March 07, 2014

PHOTO: Another Success Story for Socialism!

Fausta translates for us:

This in NOT a demonstration, this is a line to buy food in Venezuela. The result of 15 years of Chavismo.

How sick, ignorant or -- yes, I said it -- evil do you have to be to support the radical left's agenda of centralized government, price/wage controls, and totalitarianism?

That's a rhetorical question. I've concluded that the leaders of today's Democrat Party are both ignorant and evil.


Hat tip: BadBlue Real-Time News

COLOR ME SHOCKED: Obama Surgeon General Nominee is a Radical, Gun-Grabbing Kook

Guest post by Investor's Business Daily

Second Amendment: The administration's choice to be the nation's doctor in chief views gun ownership as a public health issue and not a constitutional right, and wants doctors to query patients about guns in their homes.

Cop-killer Mumia Abu-Jamal's champion, Debo Adegbile, President Obama's defeated pick to be assistant attorney general for the civil rights division at the Department of Justice, is not the only radical on President Obama's wish list.

That list includes gun-grabbing advocate Dr. Vivek Hallegere Murthy, Obama's nominee to be U.S. Surgeon General.

Murthy is the 36-year-old president and co-founder of the anti-gun group Doctors for America, which advocates ObamaCare and gun control laws.

His group, which has been dubbed "Docs vs. Glocks," has pushed Congress to ban "assault" weapons and "high-capacity" magazines.

He also wants to spend more tax dollars on more research to prove that fewer guns mean a lower crime rate, despite the fact that a number of reputable studies prove the opposite.

At a recent hearing before the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, Sen. Lamar Alexander inquired about Murthy's social media comments on firearms, such as this tweet before the 2012 presidential election: "Tired of politicians playing politics w/ guns, putting lives at risk b/c they're scared of NRA. Guns are a health care issue."

Murthy's Twitter timeline is chock-full of his anti-firearms screeds.

Fundamentally Transforming America, Illustrated

Another @BiffSpackle instant classic:


Dialogue by Josef Stalin.


Related: CLASSIC: Fundamentally Transforming America


Larwyn's Linx: On The Revolution In America

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Nation

On The Revolution In America: Camp o' the Saints
Eat Your Own Words, Debbie Wasserman Schultz: Michelle Malkin
Obama's approval hits new low: Dana Blanton

2015 Budgeting battle lines being drawn around military: AmMerc
Obama’s Gun Control Obsession Causes Corporate White Flight: Paul Kersey
Finally, One Obama Radical Bites the Dust: David Limbaugh

Lets Bring In 20 Million More!: ANTTG
President Obama: I'm ‘champion-in-chief’ on immigration: Politico
Pelosi Cuts Lights, Mikes In Oil ‘Debate’: S&L (2008)

Another 2nd Amendment win in California: Toldjah
Blacks' views on concealed handgun permits in Illinois: John Lott
Gary Peters (D CAND, Michigan Senate) is now officially In Trouble.: Moe Lane

Economy

How the president’s health reform will harm the working poor: Joel Zinberg
The Obamacare Disaster Is Now Undeniable: John Podhoretz
HHS Seeks $600 Million For Health Law Enrollment Efforts: KHN

Scandal Central

(EXCLUSIVE) IRS Currently Employing Convicted Terrorist Associate: Patrick Poole
Senate staffers slipped secret CIA documents from agency’s headquarters: McClatchy
No ‘smidgen of corruption’? Lois Lerner still silent on damning Tea Party email: Twitchy

Climate & Energy

Gazprom Threatens to Disrupt Gas Supplies to Europe: John Daly
Offshore Wind Turbines for "Taming Hurricanes": Michael Gersh
Police release details on how Greenpeace pulled off P&G protest: WLWT

Media

Would Salon enjoy an article called, ‘Why I can’t stand Asian musicians who play Beethoven’?: Volokh
Mark Levin accepts “Andrew Breitbart Defender of the First Amendment” award: Scoop
Alleged Bitcoin inventor says Newsweek story is dead wrong: Joe Mullin

The anti-Southern bigotry of @NPR: Sister Toldjah
As the White House Turns: John Hayward
Mark Levin won’t watch Chris Christie’s CPAC speech: Blaze

ABC, CBS Exclude Scientists Critical of Global Warming for More Than 1,300 Days: MRC
Nick Searcy keeps me entertained: This Ain't Hell
‘Like old days!’: Garry Kasparov zings ‘socialist’ MSNBC: Twitchy

World

Iran: Obama Threats "A Joke"; Won't Dismantle Anything -"That's Our Red Line": Breitbart
Kerry didn't like Obama's Jeffrey Goldberg interview either: Matzav
Obama signs Executive Order on Ukraine, imposes asset freeze and restricts U.S. travel: JC Finley

Numerous Points on Putin, Ukraine and Watching the Unthinkable Unfold: Ann Barnhardt
A Must Read From An Elder Statesman - Common Sense On Ukraine: JoshuaPundit
30 Russian Nuclear Bombers Amass - Who Is Russia Preparing To Bomb?: WakeUp

Obama in denial on Russia: Jonah Goldberg
“Russia Has Reportedly Halted All Exports To The US Of Russian Made Ammunition”: SHTFplan
Nigerian Bishop: 180 Christians Killed In Less Than Two Weeks, 20 Churches Destroyed: WZ

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Judge rules that flying commercial drones is legal, for now: Engdaget
HP quietly launches an 8-inch Android tablet for $170: Engadget
Meet K-Glass: 30x faster & more 3-12x more efficient than Google Glass: VB

Cornucopia

How Common Core Killed the Cop Killer Counselor: MOTUS
Beady Eyed: Hopenchange Cartoons
Putin alleges Tea Partiers in Ukraine, wins over US media: Cube

Image: Rep. Issa on IRS hearing: I followed the rules, Rep. Cummings threw a 'hissy fit'
Sponsored by: Had Enough of Mitch McConnell? Let's Fire Him: Support Matt Bevin for U.S. Senate

QOTD: "President Obama’s job approval rating hits a record low this week, as a majority of Americans say his administration has mostly failed at growing the economy, creating jobs, improving health care and the country’s image.

For the first time..., fewer than four voters in ten -- 38 percent -- approve of President Obama’s job performance. Fifty-four percent disapprove. Before now Obama’s worst job rating was 40-55 percent in November 2013. Last month 42 percent approved and 53 percent disapproved (February 2014).

Approval of Obama among Democrats stands at 71 percent, near its 69 percent record low (September 2013). For independents, 28 percent approve, which is also near the 25 percent all-time low among this group (July 2013). And approval of Obama among Republicans hits a new low of five percent.

Overall, a 59-percent majority thinks the White House has mostly failed at creating jobs, up from 52 percent who said the same in October 2012. Likewise, 56 percent feel it has failed on growing the economy. That’s also up from 52 percent." --Dana Blanton

Thursday, March 06, 2014

PIC: How to get state-run media to cover the Benghazi scandal

Via our summer intern @BiffSpackle:



Hat tip: BadBlue Real-Time News

The Ukraine Situation in 90 Seconds

The Commentator drops some science on the Beltway media nincompoops.

1. Crimea has existential-level historic resonance for Russia. In the context of the political-psychological loss of the Soviet Union for Russians, it is inconceivable that Vladimir Putin can now back down over Crimea. The referendum will (must, by fair means or foul) agree to Crimea becoming part of the Russian Federation.

2. The West is led by Barack Obama -- the most incompetent American president in all American history; and a "leader" who does not believe in the Free World, let alone American leadership of it.

3. The European Union is a foreign policy disaster, led, foreign policy wise, by Catherine Ashton someone who supported the Soviet Union in the Cold War.

4. Crimea is now part of Russia. End of story. Putin would have to quit politics to allow any other outcome.

5. The only question is whether Russia's annexation of Crimea leads to other parts of Ukraine in the east following suit.


As China flexes it muscles and Russia amps up its defense budget to #3 in the world, what is Barack Obama doing?

You've got it: he's hollowing out the U.S. military, leaving it incapable of fighting even one major war.

These are dangerous times, my friends. Dangerous times.


Hat tip: BadBlue News.

12 Signs the U.S. is Sinking Into a Deeper, Nastier Recession

Guest post by Michael Snyder

Is the U.S. economy steamrolling toward another recession? Will 2014 turn out to be a major "turning point" when we look back on it? Before we get to the evidence, it is important to note that there are many economists that believe that the United States never actually got out of the last recession. For example, data compiled by John Williams of shadowstats.com show that the U.S. economy has continually been in recession since 2005. So if anyone out there would like to argue that America is experiencing a recession right now, I certainly would not have a problem with that. In fact, that would fit with the daily reality of tens of millions of Americans that are deeply suffering in this harsh economic environment. But no matter whether we are in a "recession" at the moment or not, there are an increasing number of indications that we are rapidly plunging into another major economic slowdown. The following are the top 12 signs that the U.S. economy is heading toward another recession...

#1 We recently learned that the number of new mortgage applications in the United States had fallen to the lowest level that we have seen in nearly 20 years.

#2 Radio Shack has announced that it is going to close more than 1,000 stores. This is just another sign that we are in the midst of a "retail apocalypse".

#3 The ISM Services index just fell to its lowest level in 4 years, and ISM Services Employment just experienced its largest decline since the collapse of Lehman Brothers.

#4 Obamacare is really starting to hammer the U.S. health care industry...

YES, WE CAN: Abolish the IRS

Quite a while back, I'm guessing 10 years ago, Papa B recommended I read a book about taxes called The Fair Tax Book. I remember thinking, "Yeah, right. Like I'm gonna read a book on taxes."

Cutting to the chase, I ended up reading it. And it was fantastic.

It outlined a whole new way of thinking about taxes that is guaranteed to improve the productivity of the economy, increase employment, capture revenues that today are lost to black marketeers, and dramatically improve the fairness of the tax code.

Best of all, it allows the United States to completely dismantle the IRS.

There's no need for the IRS with the Fair Tax.

And the IRS, for its part, deserves to be dismantled.

Consider the latest news regarding Lois Lerner, the Obama administration and the IRS. The entire system is politicized, with the tax collectors now acting as Democrat Party enforcers and thugs.

The IRS has proven itself unworthy of serving the American people. It is rife with corruption, having played a significant role in Barack Obama's 2012 election victory by unlawfully suppressing the conservative vote.

As the graph below demonstrates, the Democrat Party and the IRS are one and the same.


The IRS is now completely politicized and utterly corrupt.

It needs to go.

We need The Fair Tax. Electing conservatives who support the Fair Tax like J.D. Winteregg -- Johnny Boehner's primary opponent in OH-8 -- is a great first step.


PIC: How to get legacy media to focus on the IRS scandal

Via our summer intern @BiffSpackle:


Hat tip: BadBlue News


Larwyn's Linx: First time in history Pentagon plan rejected

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Nation

First time in history Pentagon plan rejected: BPR
To Uphold and Defend: Christian Mercenary
DNC Attendees Can't Name a Single Hillary Accomplishment: CNS

Mary Landrieu and Kay Hagan Call It Quits: Erick Erickson
Sen. Mark Pryor (D, Arkansas) takes a long step towards DOOM: Moe Lane
Wendy Davis Will Cause Democrats to Divert Resources to GA: Erick Erickson

Black Gun History Month and the NRA: Blasted Fools
The RNC Shows Contempt For Sarah Palin: Outcast
Pro-impeachment, anti-Obamacare Democrat pulls primary shocker: BPR

Dem Sen.: Obama knew CIA secretly monitored intel committee: John Hawkins
Only Americans Fear Obama: William L. Gensert
Pryor: Military service makes Tom Cotton feel “entitlement,” or something: Hot Air

Economy

ObamaCare May Cause 10,000 Union Members To Strike: LUR
Dems Differ on Whether Obamacare Insurance Extension Is Political: WFB
Why Britain is f*****: Commentator

Scandal Central

Obama Lashes Out at Senate as DOJ Nominee Rejected: PJM
Obama charged with blocking IRS probe, breaking promises to help: Paul Bedard
Emails Suggest Possible White House Tie to Sebelius Fundraising: Dossier

More Details Revealed Concerning CIA's Spying On Senate Intelligence Committee: TechDirt
Trey Gowdy: Trust me, I’ve been doing this for 16 years; we can get Lois Lerner to talk: Scoop
Lois Lerner, Trey Gowdy, and millions in pension benefits: Unyielding

Climate & Energy

Science and reason vs. political correctness: Victor Davis Hanson
Obama Advisor Attacks AGW Believing Scientist: TR
Great Lakes reaches second highest ice cover on record: WUWT

Media

I Have the Smoking Gun in Obama’s IRS Scandal: Wayne Root
Lessons Of The Ukrainian Revolution For American Dystopia: Herschel Smith
New NRA Ad Targets Obama, Clinton Gun Comments With Fiery Civics Reminder: Blaze

World

Guess What’s Going On While Obama Is Pushing for One-Sided Treaties: Sara Noble
Israeli Navy Captures Iranian Boat Loaded With Syrian Missiles Destined for Gaza : Algemeiner
Pressuring the Wrong Country: Cal Thomas

Military’s top general offers grim outlook on nation’s defense: James Rosen, McClatchyDC
Crimea River: Ann Coulter
While Obama Disarms America, China Raises Defense Spending 12.2% for 2014: WSJ

Congress United on Punishing Russia, Divided on How We Got to This Point: Bridget Johnson
When Progressives, Communists And Radical Theocrats Start To Beat The Drums Of War: NoisyRm
US to Send Fighter Jets to Poland: Tatler

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

No Internet? Facebook Could Fix That with Drones: Zach Miner, CIO
Dyson's bladeless desk fan is very cool but oh so costly: CNet
'Wello' iPhone case can track your blood pressure, temperature and more: Emily Price

Cornucopia

Real Smart: iOTW
Entire NBA Game Movements, Visualized: Gizmodo
5-year-old, dad replicate Dutch masters images: Andrea Shea King

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QOTD: "In 2004, nearly 100 soldiers, mostly Marines, died in the battle to take Fallujah from al-Qaida. Today, al-Qaida’s black flag flies above Fallujah.

Bush won the war, and Obama gave it back.

Obama couldn’t be bothered with preserving America’s victory in Iraq. He was busy helping to topple a strong American ally in Egypt and a slavish American minion in Libya — in order to install the Muslim Brotherhood in those countries instead. (That didn’t work out so well for U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans murdered in Benghazi.)

So now, another Russian leader is playing cat-and-mouse with an American president — and guess who’s the mouse? Putin has taunted Obama in Iran, in Syria and with Edward Snowden. By now, Obama has become such an object for Putin’s amusement that the fastest way to get the Russians out of Crimea would be for Obama to call on Putin to invade Ukraine." --Ann Coulter

Wednesday, March 05, 2014

With Obama's evisceration of NASA, America reduced to hitching rides into space from... Putin

Guest post by Investor's Business Daily

Leadership: Putting an economic and political squeeze on Moscow over the Ukraine crisis could bring another Obama chicken home to roost — our president killed the U.S. space program and made us dependent on Putin.

Since 2011, when America's space shuttle fleet was retired and our space program was dispersed to various museums, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, which proudly put the first human beings, Americans, on the moon some 45 years ago, has largely been fixated on things like monitoring nonexistent climate change and Muslim outreach.

There have been the occasional Mars rover and plans to conduct unmanned chases of comets and asteroids, but our manned presence in space has been limited to hitching rides on Russian spacecraft to fix toilets on the International Space Station (ISS). With the crisis in Ukraine, that might be in jeopardy.

While Russian President Vladimir Putin, currently impaling Ukraine, hasn't indicated he might do this in response to the Obama administration suddenly developing a foreign policy backbone, the unfortunate fact is we've made ourselves dependent on the Russians for manned access to space for the next two or three years.

America's final space shuttle mission ended July 21, 2011, when Atlantis landed at NASA's Kennedy Space Center. Since then NASA has relied on the Russian Federal Space Agency and its Soyuz spacecraft to get astronauts to and from the ISS.

The Atlantis is there still, on display and out of commission. A prototype shuttle Enterprise is on display in New York at the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum after having been towed there on a barge up the Hudson River.

"We don't have the capability today to put a human being in space of any kind, shape or form, which is absolutely, totally unacceptable when we got the greatest flying machine in the world sitting down at Kennedy in a garage there with nothing to do," said Eugene Cerban, the last man and last American to walk on the moon.