Friday, March 28, 2014

Reporter denied access to "White Privilege" Conference

Guest post by Adam Tobias

MADISON, Wis. — We are fully aware of who Wisconsin Reporter is.

Stephanie Puentes tried to keep the smile from stretching across her face as she made that comment Thursday after denying my request to cover the White Privilege Conference here in Madison.

When I came back Friday morning, Puentes, a conference media representative, clearly seemed agitated. Puentes told me she was quite familiar with the previous stories I had done leading up to the seminar, which examines the concept that minorities may not be afforded the same privileges as white people.

And, again, she wouldn’t let me in.

Did it have anything to do with the story I wrote in early February, disclosing that taxpayers are underwriting at least $20,000 — and likely much more — of the cost of the forum at the Monona Terrace Community and Convention Center?

Or maybe it was because of my other piece Wednesday quoting Niger Innis, national spokesman for the Congress of Racial Equality, who called the White Privilege Conference an irrelevant and frivolous waste of taxpayer money.

Puentes insisted I wasn’t allowed in because I had not registered online in advance or called the conference’s offices ahead of time to make arrangements.

It’s not as if I didn’t try.

QUOTE O' THE DAY: Delusional or Irrational, There Can Be Only One

Democrat Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's latest bizarre assertion is troubling on many levels. His statement that he never called those who had lost their health care thanks to Obamacare liars -- after he clearly and publicly did so -- can be explained in only one of two ways. If he believes his latest statement, he's clearly delusional. Or, he's an irrational liar. Either way, we lose.

But Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC) said it better than I could.



Hat tip: BadBlue News

Larwyn's Linx: ‘A Criminal Organization Masquerading as a Political Party’

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Nation

‘A Criminal Organization Masquerading as a Political Party’: Ed Driscoll
Nancy Pelosi strongly backed gun-runner for terrorists: WZ
Does Harry Reid have Dementia?: IJR

The Horrendous Criminal Enterprise Known As The Democrat Party: Nice Deb
Brace Yourself For More Obama Executive Orders: Katie Pavlich
Obamacare Navigators Helping People Enroll At Mexican Consulates: PatUpd

MSNBC and Obama Tanking Together: R. S. McCain
A Whole Lotta Democratic Corruption Going On: Michelle Malkin
Don’t Assume Liberals Always Put Principles Before Profits: Jonah Goldberg

Our Time Is Up: Liberty's Torch
House Leaders Sideline Anti-NSA Lawmakers: DefenseOne
Will South Carolina Retire “Liberal Lindsey” Graham?: NewAm

Economy

Obamacare: Taxpayers in the Hole for $1.5 Trillion: Ed Morrissey
Teacher Describes Bullying, Intimidation for Opposing Common Core: MoTorch
U.Va. student sues state, ABC agents for $40 million: Richmond Times

Scandal Central

Leland Yee (D): The craziest criminal complaint against a lawmaker you’ve ever read: Freddoso
Harry Reid's Payments to His Granddaughter Have Doubled : PJM
Reid's Kin May Have Benefited Beyond Gift Purchase: RCP

Illegal Immigrants Released into Texas to Ease Over-Crowding: Breitbart
Democrat Campaign Workers Charged With Fraud, Forgery: MenRec
IG finds ex-ATF official took outside job while on federal payroll: CNN

Climate & Energy

The Coming Paradigm Shift on Climate: AT
The EPA Must Be Defunded: Bridget Johnson
Climate Scientist Demands IPCC Remove His Name From Report: Cove

Media

President Obama’s War on Journalists: AIM
Ebony Editor: I Don't Talk To Whites or Conservatives: TR
Condi Rice Blasts Obama on Weakness, Leadership: Stephen F. Hayes

Nancy Pelosi (D-CA 12): KeyWiki Progressive/Marxist Profile: Trevor Loudon
This Week In Quotes: Double Edition (March 14 – March 27): John Hawkins
NYT Compares Obama to the Pope: Each 'Burst' Forth 'as a History-Making Change Agent': NB

World

U.S. Gives Russia Free Military Equipment Used By Army, Marines: JW
Lining Putin’s Pockets: Senators Want Obama to Call Off Contracts with Russian Arms Giant: PJM
No Food but New Hairstyle for North Korea: Politisite

Showdown In Ukraine: Putin’s Quest for Ports, Oil, Pipelines & Gas: ZH
Obama Gives Pope Vegetable Seeds, Francis Gives Obama Writings on Morality: CNS
Doppler effect analysis on Satellite pings disclosed MH370′s final route: Aviationist

Top US Official: China Will Soon Place Long-Range Nuclear Missiles On Submarines: AFP
Obama And Nuclear Terrorism: RWN
Victim Breaks Down in Footage From Aftermath of Brutal Anti-Semitic Attack in France: Algemeiner

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Microsoft brings Office to iPad, makes iPhone version free to all: Ars Technica
Twitter sneaks in photo-tagging feature: Register
Time Dilation Drug Could Let Heinous Criminals Serve 1,000 Year Sentences: Slashdot

Cornucopia

Will you fire on American citizens?: Dave Hodges
From a Reader: Western Rifles
Top 10 Worst Vehicles to Drive in a Zombie Apocalypse: AutoGuide

Image: A scene never to be repeated again: a sky filled with black stealth fighter jets
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QOTD: "The California Department of Motor Vehicles is setting up new facilities to process driver’s license applications for illegal immigrants alone.

Last year, Gov. Jerry Brown signed into law a bill..., which will allow illegal immigrants to obtain the documents beginning Jan. 1, 2015.

The bill was signed along with a number of others laws seen as favorable to undocumented immigrants.

As part of the driver’s license application process, immigrants will have to acknowledge that they are undocumented. But [the bill] protects applicants from criminal prosecution." --Chuck Ross

Thursday, March 27, 2014

DESPOTIC: Democrats wage all-out war on bloggers

Guest post by Rick Manning

The First Amendment is a pesky thing to politicians. It allows, nay encourages, the exact kind of diverse political speech that those in power loathe. Born out of the legacy of the Revolutionary War pamphleteers and their radical thoughts of freedom, today these liberty lovers take the form of citizen journalists utilizing the Internet to push ideas, advocate, report and uncover stories that aren’t being told, afflicting the powerful and holding them accountable. This has been at the heart of press freedom, not the corporate media empires that are often little more than government propaganda machines.

Now, Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), not content to just continue her long running attempt to put a dagger into the right to keep and bear arms, is leading the charge to create a federal government sanctioned journalist licensing system that threatens the First Amendment as well.

Her Orwellian titled “Free Flow of Information Act of 2013”, which is also known as the “media shield bill” has passed out of the Senate Judiciary Committee and is expected to gain the votes necessary to get out of the Senate. Proponents of the bill, are advocating that journalists be licensed by the federal government so that they can be protected from potential prosecution from a government insisting that their confidential sources be revealed.

In a scorching legal rebuke to Feinstein, Senators Jeff Sessions, Ted Cruz, Mike Lee and John Cornyn argue vehemently against the law in a Minority View report writing,

BOOM: Write-in Tea Party Candidate Smashes Establishment GOP and Democrat Candidates

Guest post by Erich Pratt, Gun Owners of America

Earth to the Republican Party: Ronald Reagan called and he wants his party back.

Both Republicans and Democrats alike were stunned when a write-in candidate trounced the establishment picks for their respective parties in a state senate race last week.

The Republican Tea Party candidate, Scott Wagner, garnered 48 percent of the vote in Pennsylvania, as compared to the meager totals by the establishment Republican (27 percent) and the Democrat (26 percent).

Out of more than 22,000 votes cast, Wagner garnered 10,654 write-in ballots. This marks the first time in state history that a write-in candidate has won a state senate seat.

To be honest, this kind of shellacking from a write-in candidate is virtually unheard of anywhere in the country. It takes a huge volunteer effort to run against one’s own party, and this recent coup shows that the angst against tone deaf Republican establishment types is substantially growing.

Not surprisingly, GOP officials have ruthlessly attacked Tea Party candidates around the nation, as they almost always run in Republican primaries.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) told the New York Times recently that Republicans are going to “crush” the Tea Party everywhere. “I don’t think they are going to have a single nominee anywhere in the country,” he said.

Never mind the fact that four of the most popular Senators in the country -- Ted Cruz of Texas, Mike Lee of Utah, Rand Paul of Kentucky and Marco Rubio of Florida -- were Tea Party-backed candidates when they first got elected.

And ignore the fact that a write-in Tea Party candidate just won his race in Pennsylvania.

In that state senate race, the establishment Republicans were attacking Wagner for being an “environmental violator.”

NO NEED TO PASS AMNESTY, NITWITS: Obama signed unlawful Executive Orders nullifying immigration law

Of course, none of this outrageous behavior will stop the unions and corporatists who are bound and determined to destroy the United States of America. Breitbart's Matthew Boyle reports:

Fully 98 percent of individuals deported from the United States in 2013 were either criminals, apprehended while illegally crossing the border, or had been previously deported, according to a new analysis from Senate Budget Committee ranking member Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL)... “The evidence reveals that the Administration has carried out a dramatic nullification of federal law,” Sessions said...

Obama's well-known executive action granted virtual amnesty to so-called DREAMers – individuals who claim to have entered the country as minors under their parents' guidance... Two are lesser known executive actions include an Aug. 23, 2013, DHS directive “expanding that [summer 2012 executive DREAM Act] amnesty to illegal immigrant relatives of DREAM Act beneficiaries” and a Dec. 21, 2012, DHS directive “reinforcing that almost all immigration offenses were unenforceable absent a separate criminal conviction.”

...Only 0.2 percent of an estimated 12 million illegal aliens in the U.S. who were actually placed into removal proceedings in 2013 in 2013 did not have a violent or otherwise serious criminal conviction on their record. Only .08 percent of the total number of illegal aliens placed into removal proceedings were neither repeat or serial immigration law violators nor convicted of a serious crime. Even with that .08 percent of removals who were not caught crossing the border or being a serial immigration law violator or being convicted of serious crimes, Sessions’ staff notes that ICE officers who communicate with his office say that there is likely some other serious security risk for allowing them to stay in the country that is cause for their removal.

The findings stand in stark contrast to liberal calls on Obama to reduce deportations. Top Hispanic Democrats recently met with Obama at the White House recently about the issue, prompting an announcement about a review at the Department of Homeland Security about how to deport illegal aliens in a more “humane” fashion.

The report was enough to prompt a chorus of outrage from Sessions' like-minded colleagues in the House, who slammed the Obama administration for enacting amnesty by fiat.

This is another clear warning to anyone who thinks immigration reform is possible under President Obama,” said Rep. John Fleming (R-LA). “He has repeatedly shown a willingness to enforce the law selectively, while looking the other way when it doesn't fit his agenda.”

As Sen. Sessions observes, "The Administration’s actions are breathtaking and without precedent. American citizens have both a legal and moral right to the protection our immigration laws afford; those rights have been systematically ignored, resulting in a massive loss of income and wages for the most vulnerable Americans. The Administration has abandoned its duty to faithfully execute the law and protect U.S. sovereignty, resulting not only in a collapse of immigration enforcement but a grave jeopardy to the American system of law and justice itself."

This is truly criminal behavior on the part of this president, his party, and this administration. Remember in November.


Hat tip: Mark Levin

Larwyn's Linx: The Shape of a Post-American World

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The Shape of a Post-American World: Daniel Greenfield
Demands Grow for Trey Gowdy to be Next Speaker of the House: Capitalism
State AG Strikes Back Against the Fourth Branch Empire: Camp o' the Saints

Ukrainian Lesson: Fools and Their Guns Are Soon Parted: Moonbattery
The Indomitable Spirit of An Armed Citizenry: Christian Mercenary
Enemies in DHS-FEMA exercise: "Free Americans against Socialist Tyranny": SOL

Ted Cruz talks to Mark Levin about IMF victory, neutered Democrats, 2014: Scoop
Astro-turfed Support for Common Core in Georgia: PJM
My First Trip to the Pot Shop: Michelle Malkin

Iowa Democrat’s Brazen Contempt for Iowans at Fundraiser: Tammy Bruce
Anti-Gun Democrat Arrested for Trafficking Guns: GWP
Christie will either veto magazine bill or kiss Presidential run goodbye: Bob Owens

Economy

AFL-CIO president: Citizenship for illegals will create American jobs: DC
The Real Inflation Fear - US Food Prices Are Up 19% In 2014: ZH
Los Angeles In ‘Crisis’ — 10 Steps To Fix It: Larry Elder

Obama Administration: Free Cell Phones and Bus Fare to Convicts: GWP
Obama Family Flights to/in Africa, Hawaii Cost Taxpayers $15.8M: CNS
Millions Wasted on Obamacare Ads, Young Aren’t Buying: Tammy Bruce

Scandal Central

Harry Reid gave Donors "holiday gifts": Politisite
FreedomWorks Releases “ObamaCare Autopsy” Report : FW
"News photos showed Yee, a Democrat... in the backseat of a patrol car": Patterico

Woman Arrested For Late Payment of $5 Dog License: Reason
Man Arrested for Drinking Iced Tea Urged to Take a “Deal” from Prosecutors: Daily Sheeple
Man brutally beaten by NYPD for sleeping on a couch in a synagogue: PSUSA

Climate & Energy

17 News Companies Support FOIA Lawsuit Against Michael Mann: MRC
“Climate Change” Will Make UK Dryer. And Wetter. And Hot. And Cold: Cove
Washington mudslide warned about 15 years ago by geologists: Daily Mail

Media

#FL09: Grayson attacks Mark Levin’s ‘gullible’ audience: David Freddoso
MSNBC, CNN in Race to the Bottom: Jon Gabriel
Poll: Obama’s disapproval rating hits a new high: WaPo

Screw You. Mickey Kaus!: Ann Coulter
Poll: Majority of Americans Now Think U.S. “Weaker” Under Obama: WZ
Over 600 People Walk By Two Lost Girls: Can You Blame Them?: PJM

World

Obama's FutureWar Battle Plan: Ace
Kerry Spokeswoman: Israel Discriminating Against Muslims: Daniel Greenfield
Why ‘Moderate Islam’ is an Oxymoron: VDH's Private Papers

Navy Losing Sailors Over Relentless Focus On Political Correctness, Not “War Fighting”: RWN
Austria: Muslims Outnumber Catholics in Vienna Schools: Gatestone
Games World Leaders Play:Thermonuclear War. The Goal is - WTF!: MOTUS

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

U.S. Navy Explores Beaming Solar Power From Space: SingularityHub
Oculus fallout proves nobody understands what Kickstarter truly does: Fund hope: PC World
Maker Movement and 3D Printing: Industry Stats: WebStrategist

Cornucopia

Let them eat s***: Golden Geese News
New Vocabulary Word: Woodsterman
Documenting Sodom: No Praying...: Act Well Your Part

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QOTD: "The civilized world faces economic, demographic and military crises that it has a limited time frame in which to meet and resolve. If it fails to do that, the civilization in which we have grown up and which we have known all our lives will die and a long interregnum of darkness will follow in its wake." --Daniel Greenfield

Wednesday, March 26, 2014

ANOTHER DAY, ANOTHER HARRY REID GAFFE: Obamacare Site is Fine, Clueless Americans Don't Know How to Use Internet

Guest post by Katrina Trinko

It’s not that HealthCare.gov is a nightmare. Instead, it’s the fault of incompetent Americans.

That’s the jist of what Senate majority leader Harry Reid (D–Nev.) said today, when asked by a reporter about the Obama administration’s decision, which was reported on last night, that people could claim they had tried to sign up before the March 31st deadline and still enroll in Obamacare in April.

“There’s no hiccup or delay,” Reid said. “We have hundreds of thousands of people who tried to sign up and they didn’t get through.”

Noting that everyone could use the Internet “like my grandchildren who can handle everything so easily on the Internet,” Reid talked about people who “need a little extra time.”

“The example they gave,” he added, referring to a Connecticut public radio station’s broadcast, “is a 63-year-old woman came into the store and said, ‘I almost got it. But every time I just about got there, it would cut me off.’ We have a lot of people just like this, through no fault of the Internet, but because people are not educated on how to use the Internet.”


Read more at The Foundry

Guess Where Your Ruling Class Republicans Will Be Next Week?

Based upon reporting by Erick Erickson


I support J.D. Winteregg, Boehner's conservative challenger in Ohio. I urge you to help out if you can. Boehner needs to return to wherever it is he came from.


Hat tip: Mark Levin

SOUNDING THE ALARM: Obama doing to the U.S. military what no enemy on Earth could do

Guest post by Alan Caruba


I began March with a look at the way President Obama is undermining the U.S. military and did not think I would have to return to this topic for a while. I was wrong.

A March 25 article in The Washington Times was titled “Obama to Kill Navy’s Tomahawk, Hellfire Missile Programs in Budget Decimation” and on March 21, The Wall Street Journal published a commentary, “America’s Incredible Shrinking Navy.” When you add those to The New York Times February 23 article, “Pentagon Plans to Shrink Army to Pre-World War II Level”, you’ve got sufficient reason to begin to realize something very ominous is occurring.

This concern is heightened by the way dozens of high ranking officers are, in the view of some observers, being purged. A number of retired generals are speaking out about it. One of them, retired Army Major General Paul Vallely has charged that Obama is “intentionally weakening and gutting our military and reducing us as a superpower, and anyone in the ranks who disagrees or speaks out is being purged.” Retired Army Major General Patrick Brady agrees saying, “There is no doubt he is intent on emasculating the military and will fire anyone who disagrees with him.”

The world, over the course of human civilization, has always been a dangerous place. Much of the history of mankind is a history of wars, large and small. In the last century the U.S. military was involved in two world wars, a Korean conflict, a war in Vietnam, and the Gulf War to drive out Hussein’s Iraqi forces after he invaded Kuwait.

The Russian seizure of Crimea in the wake of the protests that has left Ukraine in disarray has put all of Europe on edge and raised questions about the readiness of NATO. A look around the world sees China increasing its military strength, particularly at sea.

The Middle East to include much of northern Africa is a hotbed of turmoil. And, of course, Iran continues to contribute to it, aiding Syria’s regime along with the Russians, supporting Palestinian terror organizations that threaten Israel, while pursuing its own nuclear weapon capabilities.

Larwyn's Linx: DC Circuit to Decide Whether Obama Administration Can Rewrite Laws

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Nation

DC Circuit to Decide Whether Obama Administration Can Rewrite Laws: Breitbart
The 15 Dumbest Anti–Hobby Lobby Signs at the Supreme Court : NRO
Time for Congress to Telecommute: Ben Shapiro

Jeb Bush Praises Illegals as ‘Risk Takers,’ Has Common Core Ally in Hillary: PW
Ted Cruz’s full interview with Cavuto: Scoop
Ted Cruz, Veteran of 9 SCOTUS Arguments: First Amendment on Trial: Foundry

#NCSen: Kay Hagan's Numbers are Even Worse Than Obama's: David Freddoso
House Democrat courts trial lawyer donors by mocking Iowa farmers: Exam
Gun Control Resistance Done Right: Outcast

Economy

Scott Walker has now cut Wisconsin taxes by $2 billion: RedAlert
If We Raise Minimum Wage, Why Stop At $10 An Hour?: John Kass
The Unavoidable Incompetence of the Federal Reserve: Max Keiser

Bizarre Arguments And Behavior: Walter Williams
Dick's Sporting Goods Now Discriminating Against Gun Owners : FreePatriot
Illinois: Gov. Quinn budget makes tax hike permanent: Trib

Scandal Central

Federal Election Commission looking into Harry Reid’s ‘holiday gifts’; Updated: Twitchy
Feds Raid Illinois Democrat in Child Pornography Investigation: R.S. McCain
Illinois School Redefines 2nd Amendment: TR

Climate & Energy

Fifteen Foolish Forecasts: How did environmentalists get it so wrong on Earth Day 1970?: IHTM
Study: Many US weather stations show cooling, maximum temperatures flat: WUWT
Progress: Indiana Clean Coal Plant Uses More Energy Than It Produces: GWP

Media

Michelle Obama, Control Freak: Keith Koffler
The Greatest Opening Line in the History of Campaign Commercials: Charles C. W. Cooke
Race of Philly attackers revealed – will it matter to media now?: Allen West

VIDEO: Mother of 5 Says Obamacare ‘a Kick in the Gut’: Tatler
Jon Karl to Dear Leader: Was Romney Right?: AWD
Mark Levin reads an op-ed and you’ll NEVER guess who wrote it: Scoop

Where the Culture War Really Started: DTG
Debbie Wasserman Schultz jolts Twitter with anti-Obamacare tweet: BPR
We finally know who is responsible for black mob violence.: WGBAL

World

Obama: Russia Is Just An Insecure "Regional Power": Ace
Iranian Supreme Leader Denies the Holocaust as Crowd Chants 'Death to America': Breitbart
Sweden: Police humiliated and beaten up in Muslim area: JihadWatch

Britain's Baby Burnings: First Things
Keith Ellison (D-MN 5) – KeyWiki Progressive/Marxist Profiles: NoisyRm
Is It Official? Has Puerto Rico Failed?: American Interest

EXCLUSIVE: Venezuela Declares War, Directs Militia Against Students, Schools Preaching Capitalism: WZ
White House Thinks Anti-Semitism Is “Disappointing”: Tom Wilson
North Korea fires ballistic missiles after US meets with Asian allies: Stripes

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Super-Cheap Paper Microscope Could Save Millions of Lives: ABC
Target missed opportunities to stop hack, Senate report says: The Hill
Yet another survey shows Comcast and TWC are hated by their customers: BGR

Cornucopia

WTF? LOL Cats Deployed to Help Us #GetCovered.: MOTUS
Dumbest Man On Cable News: Obamacare “Isn’t a Catastrophe, It’s a Godsend”: WZ
Florida Woman Fumbled Suit Over Public Poo: Courthouse News

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QOTD: "Whatever the origins of the events in Ukraine, the United States is now engaged in a confrontation with Russia. The Russians believe that the United States was the prime mover behind regime change in Ukraine. At the very least, the Russians intend to reverse events in Ukraine. At most, the Russians have reached the conclusion that the United States intends to undermine Russia's power. They will resist. The United States has the option of declining confrontation, engaging in meaningless sanctions against individuals and allowing events to take their course. Alternatively, the United States can choose to engage and confront the Russians.

A failure to engage at this point would cause countries around Russia's periphery, from Estonia to Azerbaijan, to conclude that with the United States withdrawn and Europe fragmented, they must reach an accommodation with Russia. This will expand Russian power and open the door to Russian influence spreading on the European Peninsula itself. The United States has fought three wars (World War I, World War II and the Cold War) to prevent hegemonic domination of the region. Failure to engage would be a reversal of a century-old strategy." --George Friedman

Tuesday, March 25, 2014

SAD DAY FOR KENTUCKY WILDCAT FANS: Mitch McConnell Celebrates Duke National Championship

Yes, the Beltway Elite really are this out of touch:


In related news, Christian Laettner just endorsed Mitch McConnell.

I, on the other hand, support Matt Bevin for U.S. Senate.


SICK, DELUSIONAL OLD FOOL: Harry Reid Blames Russia's Invasion of Ukraine on... Republicans

Guest post by Investor's Business Daily

Politics: Harry Reid blames Russia's annexation of Crimea on Republicans who didn't act fast enough on a sanctions package. But he ignores Obama's appeasement as president and push when a senator to disarm Ukraine.

The Senate Majority Leader's latest claim is consistent with other utterances out of his parallel universe, including calling Stage IV cancer patients liars about Obamacare's collateral damage and asking why we'd want to save one child with cancer.

"Since a few Republicans blocked these important sanctions, Russian lawmakers voted to annex Crimea, and Russian forces have taken over Ukrainian military bases," Harry Reid said Monday as the Senate began debate on a package of sanctions and aid.

"It's impossible to know whether events would have unfolded differently if the United States had responded to Russian aggression with a strong, unified voice."

The man who makes Vice President Joe Biden look competent by comparison ignores the fact that since the House and Senate passed different versions, quick action on sanctions would have been impossible and that it was Reid and the Democrats who refused to bring up the House version as is.

The Senate version wasn't a clean bill, having attached provisions that would increase the power of emerging countries in the International Monetary Fund and shift some $63 billion from a crisis fund to a general account that Republicans feared would leave U.S. taxpayers on the hook for more foreign bailouts.

BUMMER FOR VOTE FRAUD DENIERS: 4 of 5 Americans Favor Requiring Proof of Citizenship to Vote

You can't get four of five Americans to agree what color the sky is, so this is strong evidence that the vast majority of citizens still love and respect the franchise.

A federal judge last week upheld the right of states to require proof of citizenship before allowing someone to register to vote. Voters continue to overwhelmingly support such a requirement.

A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 78% of Likely U.S. Voters believe everyone should be required to prove his or her citizenship before being allowed to register to vote. That’s up from 71% a year ago. Just 19% oppose that requirement. (To see survey question wording, click here.)

Twenty-nine percent (29%) believe laws that require proof of citizenship before allowing voter registration discriminate against such voters. But more than twice as many (61%) say such laws do not discriminate, up three points from 58% who felt that way in March of last year. Ten percent (10%) are undecided.

I guess the one of the five who favored vote fraud was Al "Not So" Sharpton.


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Political Smutmonger David Brock Decries Political Smutmongers

Guest post by D-Day

I have a new favorite word – smutmonger. After reading countless stories about the “recovered” Clinton smutmongerer David Brock today, I found it ironic that the one blasting smutmongers runs a super PAC with the sole mission of tracking candidates to smutmonger them. Guess I shouldn’t be surprised reporters have left that out of their reporting.

SHOT: Politico: David Brock blasts ‘political smutmongers’
Brock: “Call off the political smutmongers,” he said, according to a prepared copy of the speech released by his team. “…Give the American people the presidential campaign they deserve, one based on real issues and on the public record. Ask —‘is it relevant to someone’s performance in public office?’ —before attacking.”

CHASER: NYT: Trailing G.O.P. With Cameras, Seeking Gaffes
Aaron Fielding quietly stalks his prey — Republicans — with his video camera, patiently waiting for a political moment worthy of YouTube. At 27, he is a full-time “tracker” for American Bridge 21st Century, a new Democratic organization that aims to record every handshake, every utterance by Republican candidates in 2011 and 2012, looking for gotcha moments that could derail political ambitions or provide fodder for television advertisements by liberal groups next year.

Larwyn's Linx: Desperate Times, Desperate Dems

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Nation

Desperate Times, Desperate Dems: Tom Blumer
Will any 2016 Republican hopeful stand up for a strong defense?: Hugh Hewitt
Democrat Mark Begich now trailing in polls for Alaska Senate: FAM

John Boehner Must Be Ousted From Office To Save the Republic: Jen Kuznicki
McConnell said to press GOP Senators 'to Join Harry Reid’ on Vote: Blaze
Internal probe clears Chris Christie in Bridgegate, Democrats freak out: WyBlog

Pew's Activist Obamacare Poll: Ace
School’s asks if first-graders have sexual identity issues: EAG
Idaho Governor Signs Federal Gun Law Nullification: VictoryGirls

Economy

Indiana is the first state to pull out of Common Core: ConTrib
Literacy Is Knowledge: City Journal
US labor participation rate falls below UK's (for first time in 36 years): Unyielding

Scandal Central

Obama to Kill Tomahawk, Hellfire Missile Programs: WFB
No Justice Dept. Charges Against Woman Who Voted 6 Times for Obama: Adams
Operation Something Bruin: Herschel Smith

SEIU joins federal safety inspectors on visits to non-union businesses: DC
Minneapolis Restaurant Hosts 7th Annual Nazi-Themed Christmas Party​: TR
Pro-Israel Students Called ‘Kike,’ ‘Dirty Jew’ at University of Michigan: WFB

Climate & Energy

What Kind of Fool Am I?: Mark Steyn
Much-touted 2006 Polar Bear survey used to list them as ‘threatened’ …now invalidated: WUWT

Media

MRC Study: Network TV Buries ObamaCare’s Bad News: MRC
“Female Temple University student, 19, is hit in the face with a BRICK by gang of children”: Protein Wisdom
200 teens RIOT in Louisville Sat night robbing, assaulting people: Scoop

Republicans and Blacks: Thomas Sowell
Rick Klein: Drudge 'Was Right'; AB Stoddard on the White House: 'Not Good to Use the Word 'Liar'': Breitbart
Dem Rep Wants Democrat Party to Come Out For Repeal of Second Amendment: Bearing Arms

World

#FullCommunism — Carton Of Eggs In Venezuela, Now 23 Dollars American: WZ
Information Warfare: The Chinese Police Join The Cyber War: StrategyPage
Hiding in Plain Sight: Jihadi Activism on Twitter: PJM

Jimmy Carter Calls Jewish Settlements In West Bank An “Israeli Invasion,” “Occupying Troops”: WZ
New Anti-Semitism Tailored for Evangelicals: Gatestone
The Muslim Agenda: Gates of Vienna

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

A thin lifeline for XP users: New Malwarebytes suite will support the older OS: PC World
High Speed Click Fraud: Over One Third Of All Internet "Traffic" Is Fake: ZH
Judge: IP address ain't a person, dude: TorrentFreak

Cornucopia

Manly Obama pictures released to counter shirtless Putin: Cube
The Obamas Abroad: Looking For the Secret Trap Doors: MOTUS
World Trade Center daredevils release video showing their incredible 1,776-foot leap: The Week

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QOTD: "The issue on which Democrats are most vulnerable, and have the least room to maneuver, is school choice. Democrats are heavily in hock to the teachers’ unions, who see public schools as places to guarantee jobs for teachers, regardless of what that means for the education of students.

There are some charter schools and private schools that have low-income minority youngsters equaling or exceeding national norms, despite the many ghetto public schools where most students are nowhere close to meeting those norms. Because teachers’ unions oppose charter schools, most Democrats oppose them, including black Democrats up to and including President Barack Obama.

New York Mayor Bill de Blasio’s recent cutback on funding for charter schools, and creating other obstacles for them, showed a calloused disregard for black youngsters, for whom a decent education is their one shot at a better life.

But did you hear any Republican say anything about it?" --Thomas Sowell

Monday, March 24, 2014

BECLOWNMENT COMPLETE: Matt Drudge Knows More About Obamacare Than White House, Leftist Media

Guest post by Investor's Business Daily

Health Reform: Despite White House claims no one has to pay ObamaCare's individual mandate tax until next year, a Web heavyweight points out that self-employed individuals file their estimated taxes this year for 2014.

In what could be the tweet heard around the world, Internet icon Matt Drudge tweeted at 11:09 a.m. Friday:

"Just paid the ObamaCare penalty for not 'getting covered' ... I'M CALLING IT A LIBERTY TAX!"

A mere 22 minutes later, White House spokesman Jesse Lee tweeted: "Flat lie, no fee for previous year."

Lee's tweet shows just how little the White House knows about business, particularly small business, and the self-employed individuals such as Matt Drudge who file as small businesses and who each year must not only settle up for the prior year by mid-April but must also pay their first-quarter estimated taxes for the current year.

The Obama administration's media sycophants were no better informed, with the Washington Post's Greg Sargent blogging by midafternoon:

A TIMELINE OF LAWLESSNESS IN PICTURES: Rewriting Obamacare, Over and Over Again

Guest post by Kelsey Harris and Amy Payne

Obamacare is now four years old. But unlike most 4-year-olds, it still can’t walk on its own. It’s been tripping and falling over itself for years.

Just in the last year, the Obama administration has delayed or changed so many parts of the law—not to mention the technical “glitches”—it’s tough to keep up. Bloomberg Businessweek looked at the law’s recent track record and inspired us to take a visual tour.

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The White House announces the Obamacare marketplaces won’t be able to handle the menu of health plans originally promised.

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Obamacare’s employer mandate that requires all employers with 50 or more employees provide coverage to full-time workers gets delayed one year.

U.S. Tornado Map: 1950 to 2012

Now if I just had an overlay of mobile homes in the U.S. to compare this to...

NOAA's Storm Prediction Center website has historical data about tornadoes, and they've even plotted the data on a map...


...In addition to the tornado paths that have a beginning & ending coordinate, I also plot a single 'point' for the tornadoes that only have a beginning coordinate in the data (this fills-in a lot of points in Florida, for example).

I make the state borders gray, rather than black, to de-emphasize them -- the red tornado data is the most important thing, and should stand out the most.

Yet another reason to live in the Florida Keys.


DUDE: Now, That's Customer Service!

The only thing more callous than this would be to receive a piece of junk mail from Publisher's Clearinghouse announcing your loved one's death.

Families of MH 370 Victims Told About Their Deaths Via Text Message


It's hard to imagine receiving a worse text message than the one sent to the families of the 239 people aboard Malaysian Air flight 370.

Here's the text message that was sent to relatives (the Chinese translation you see here is generated by the user's phone)...


...The message came shortly before Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak told a packed press conference that data from Britain's Air Accidents Investigation Branch and the satellite company Inmarsat indicated that the airplane went down in a remote part of the Indian Ocean and that all aboard were presumed dead.

Even a postcard would have been more heartfelt than a text message, for heaven's sake.


Hat tip: BadBlue News