Sunday, June 01, 2014
ERIC CANTOR: Brazenly Lying to the People of Virginia in Order to Ram Amnesty Down Our Throats
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Larwyn's Linx: Obama's Deal With the Taliban Directly Violates the Law
Nation
Obama's Deal With the Taliban Directly Violates the Law: PattericoObama (2008): “I Have Never Supported Engagement With Terrorists”: MenRec
AWOL Traitor Traded for Taliban Terrorists?: Pamela Geller
Obama on Veterans Affairs Committee for 4 Years, Still Feigns Ignorance: WZ
Everything You Cannot Know About Obama Is In This Photograph: AmDigest
Obama Just Declared Open Season for Kidnapping Americans: MB
An Americans First Democrat Exposes Another Eric Cantor Lie: VDARE
Carney Quits Circus: Ed Driscoll
Where Things Stand in Mississippi: Ace
A Hillary Presidency Would Finish Off America: Sara Noble
#MSSen: Cruz offers veiled criticism of Cochran: David Freddoso
Obama Golfs with Money Buddy: Dossier
Scandal Central
The Power of the Purse Strings: House GOP Tries to Rein In Holder’s DOJ: HideoutGovernment Expands Its Power Into Hundreds of Millions of American Homes: Sara Noble
The Other Guy Blinked: IRS Backs Down – for now: Hideout
Climate & Energy
Obama Uses Sick Children To Push His Climate Agenda: LoneConSenator: 'Death by Regulation' Means 'We'll All Be Paying a Lot More for Electricity': CNS
A World Turning Against Biofuels: RWN
Media
THE IRONY, IT BURNS: Ezra Klein in 2009: Does The Government Run Health Care Better?: InstapunditBLOWBACK: Sandra Fluke's Hilarious Tweet: Twitchy
‘Leadership fraudfest’: Eric Bischoff rips into President Obama and Hillary Clinton: Twitchy
The NYT asks, “How old is too old to be President?”: Moe Lane
Mental Illness and Mass Killings: RWN
Maya Angelou was truly the Barack Obama of poetry: Cube
Laverne Cox Is Not a Woman: Facts are not subject to our feelings. : Kevin D. Williamson
“Heck of a job, Carney!” You too, Ricky S.: MOTUS
Christian Baker Ordered to Make Wedding Cake for LGBT Bullies: Sara Noble
World
Decapitation, Morality Squads and "Five-Star Jihad": A Month of Islam in Britain: GatestoneThe Shagged Sheep: Mark Steyn
Edward Snowden's Unaired Remarks About September 11: ZH
Here are the Taliban Terrorists Obama Released to Free POW Bowe Bergdahl: Eli Lake
Ayaan Hirsi Ali Questions Why America, the West Can Unite Against Apartheid But Not Sharia: Breitbart
Nearly 800 killed in Iraq's bloodiest month this year: U.N.: Reuters
Edward Snowden, Moscow’s Accidental Tourist: RWN
Hamas Pays Muslim Rioters $1,150 a Month to Throw Rocks at Jews: BCF
Why Spy, China?: RWN
Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)
Smile: Your Selfie Is A Mugshot For The NSA: Natasha Lomas7,000 Vintage Photos From The American Museum Of Natural History: Fastcodesign
Dead and buried: Microsoft's holy war on open-source software: CNet
Cornucopia
Facts suggest vets delayed own tests to make Obama look bad: CubeA Year of Action - May: The War on Spuds: MOTUS
African comedian: Kenyan Obama puts one over America: FOTM
Image: FOTM Caption Contest
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: BOOM: Chris McDaniel for Senate
QOTD: "In 2012, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs paid at least $11.4 million to 174 nurses, mental-health specialists, therapists, and other health-care professionals who, instead of caring for veterans, worked full-time doing union business...
...In total, the VA spent at least $13.77 million on 251 salaried employees performing full-time union work. Others, who were not included on the list provided by the VA, work part-time for unions at the taxpayer expense. In fiscal year 2011, the latest on record, the VA used 998,483 hours of this “official time,” costing taxpayers more than $42 million...
...In Columbia, S.C., the VA pays one health technician a $40,706 salary to work for the American Federation of Government Employees... At that same location, CNN reported in January, a 44-year-old veteran named Barry Coates was forced to wait a year for a colonoscopy, despite intense pain, constipation, and rectal bleeding. When Coates finally got his appointment, doctors found a tumor the size of a baseball — Stage 4 colorectal cancer that had metastasized elsewhere." --Jillian Kay Melchior
Saturday, May 31, 2014
A Wearable Submarine
Developed and built by Nuytco Research, this exosuit is made from hard metal and allows divers to operate safely down to a depth of 1000 feet. The suit has four 1.6 horsepower propulsion thrusters, fiber optic gigabit ethernet, and a host of telemetry devices.
The "Exosuit atmospheric diving system" (ADS) will allow wearers to work in deep water without facing problems with decompression. While still in testing right now, diver Michael Lombardi will be taking it out for its first full exploration mission later this summer, at a location called Canyons, approximately 100 miles off the coast of Rhode Island.
Ironman.
Hat tip: BadBlue Tech News
BOOM: Ted Cruz Wins RLC Straw Poll
NEW ORLEANS, May 31, 2014 — Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Tex., excited the crowd at the Republican Leadership Conference when he addressed them this afternoon. He followed up his appearance with a victory in the event’s 2016 presidential straw poll, which was sponsored by Conservative Intel.
In the straw poll, 633 ballots were cast, which was attended by more than 1,500 people. The results were as follows:
1. Ted Cruz — 30.33 percent
2. Ben Carson — 29.38 percent
3. Rand Paul — 10.43 percent
4. Mike Huckabee — 5.06 percent
5. Rick Perry — 4.90 percent
6. Curt Clawson (write-in) 4.58 percent
7. Jeb Bush — 4.42 percent
8. Marco Rubio — 3.32 percent
9. Rick Santorum — 2.37 percent
10. Paul Ryan — 2.05 percent
11. Allen West (write-in) — 2.05 percent
12. Chris Christie — 1.11%
I’m Here to Chew Bubble Gum and Debunk the 97% Global Warming Myth… and I’m All Out of Bubble Gum
Climate blogger Tom Nelson alerted us to a study of Australian opinion about man’s role in making the planet boil (or not).
People are more likely to believe that humans cause global warming if they are told that 97 percent of publishing climate scientists agree that it does, a new study has found.
Well, yes. If I was told that, say, 97 percent of dentists agree that chewing Trident is better for your teeth than chewing bubble gum, that would make perfect sense. Trouble is, the idea that “97 percent of publishing climate scientists agree” human activity has created an out-of-control global warming crisis is a myth.
To cop the immortal words of Rowdy Roddy Piper in the B-movie classic “They Live”: I have come here to chew bubble gum and debunk this myth … and I’m all out of bubble gum.
One of the most commonly cited studies of the “97 percent” was conducted by a University of Illinois professor and a graduate student who asked the following questions to 10,257 Earth scientists working for universities and government research agencies:
Larwyn's Linx: 9 Top Lies of Outgoing WH Press Secretary Jay Carney
Nation
9 Top Lies of Outgoing WH Press Secretary Jay Carney: TRCan the Legislative Roots of Obamacare Overturn the Law?: PJM
White House Tried To Cover Up Meeting Between Hillary And Obama: WZ
Hillary Clinton Blames Video For Benghazi Attack In New
Widespread Memorial Day Black Violence Ignored by National Media: AT
House Dems unveil new gun bill: Politico
Boehner's intimidation tactics to keep his speakership: iOTW
Elizabeth Esty (D-CT) seems… worried… about her electoral chances: RS
After primary loss, Tea Party stirs Georgia GOP runoff: Fox
Economy
1 in 6 American Men Between Ages 25-54 Are Not Working: WSDespite Thomas Piketty, Voters Reject Economic Redistribution: Michael Barone
`Operation Choke Point' Details Disclosed in Government Memos.: WSJ
Scandal Central
ATF Charged with Creating Fictitious Crimes: Instapundit“Obama Hits Suburbs After Election”: PW
Weekly Update: Fast and Furious Hero: JW
Hillary's Failed Benghazi Spin: Stephen F. Hayes
Woman Who Left Americans to Die: I won't play politics on the backs of dead Americans: JWF
'Dude!' Team Hillary reportedly hires Tommy Vietor for Benghazi spin control yes, that dude : Twitchy
Media
NYT: End Mass Incarceration Now -- A Fisking: TABRolling Stoned: Low-info lies for low-info readers: Tom Blumer
ABC, NBC Ignore GDP Plummet, Again: MRC
Hillary Attacks Critics of Her Benghazi 'Hard Choices': TR
Apple’s newest executive advocating rape and murder of women- a radical homophobic racist: Michael Lofti
Sarah Palin on Veterans Affairs: 'Illegal aliens' get better care: Politico
World
Iranian Power Struggle Reaches New Heights, Threats Exchanged: IPTMuslims Push for Taxpayer-Funded Halal Food in California Public Schools: Outpost
London’s Drive to Become the Sharia Finance Capital of the West: Breitbart
Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)
There Might Be 100 Million Planets In The Galaxy With Complex Life: UniverseTodayHome Depot staffer fired, tapped 30,000 accounts, shared card data: Adam Greenberg
Congressman bankrolled by ISPs tries to halt Internet regulation: Ars
Cornucopia
“If I only had a brain…”: MOTUSThis minor-league-baseball player hit a home run and guess who caught the ball?: Rare
Less Than 25% of West Point Cadets Stood Up For Obama After He Was Introduced: RWN
Image: Obama’s boldest move on carbon comes with perils
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: Dave Brat for Congress: Fire Eric "Amnesty" Cantor!
QOTD: "With his lame duck status and this being his “year of action,” we should be terribly wary of what institutionalized edicts he’s putting in place — and especially, those we haven’t really heard much about. Because fundamental transformation has been given its legal go ahead through ObamaCare, and the offshoots of that re-imagining of the relationship between the people and the government, with the citizens as subjects and the government the sovereign, will be used in any number of ways to constrain liberty and choice, all in the name of the greater good." --Jeff Goldstein
Friday, May 30, 2014
THE FEDERAL INCOME TAX: Then, Now and the Lies They Told
Consider the dichotomy:
100 years of income tax..... pic.twitter.com/FS07Ufsdty
— BOSSY MONICA (@LeMarquand) May 31, 2014The federal government is insatiable.
It has become what the Framers feared.
It has become an unconstrained leviathan that inserts itself into every aspect of Americans' lives and ruins everything it touches. From Fannie Mae to the VA, from the "Great Society" to public sector unions, from the student loan business to Obamacare, it has a track record of failure and a legacy of misery.
And no matter its failures, it never downsizes. It never turns introspective, examines it failures and course-corrects. The elites who become lifetime politicians take an oath to uphold the Constitution and then refute it. Once in office, they revile its limits and scoff at its intent.
We Americans were blessed with the gift of the finest form of government ever seen in human history. And the progressives are trying to throw it all away, following the same ill-defined game-plan of centralized, authoritarian government with top-down decision-making that hasn't worked in all of human history, can't work, and will never work.
Precious little time remains to save this Republic.
6 STARTLING TIME-LAPSE PHOTO SEQUENCES: The Utter Collapse of the Democrat Utopia of Detroit
Killer's Own Words Confirm NRA's Truism: Only Good Guys With Guns Stop Bad Guys With Guns
"It would be impossible to kill enough of my enemies before being dispatched by those damnable cops."
Elliot Rodgers, the UCSB murderer who killed six people, seemed to take a chapter out of the NRA playbook, echoing Wayne LaPierre’s now famous words – “the only way to stop a bad guy with a gun, is a good guy with a gun.”In his 141-page manifesto Rodgers writes:
“Another option was Deltopia, a day in which many young people pour in from all over the state to have a spring break party on Del Playa Street. I figured this would be the perfect day to attack Isla Vista, but after watching Youtube videos of previous Deltopia parties, I saw that there were way too many cops walking around on such an event. It would be impossible to kill enough of my enemies before being dispatched by those damnable cops.”
In other words, the more good guys on the ground, the more likely mass killings can be reduced. So says the killer.
Read more at TruthRevolt
Larwyn's Linx: Dem Luis Gutierrez helping Eric Cantor get reelected to push Amnesty
Nation
Dem Luis Gutierrez helping Eric Cantor get reelected to push Amnesty: Hot AirMary Landrieu: Oh, you bet I support Harry Reid for Majority Leader again: Hot Air
Obama Flack: Hey, You Know Obama Can't Fire Shinseki: Ace
10 Questions on the Obama Administration's Release of Criminal Aliens: CIS
Great: Former Republican Senators Endorsing Democrat Senate Candidates: Ace
Obama: Sure I Suffered Concussions Back When I Never Played Football: JWF
Carney Won’t Say Whether Obama Has Confidence in Shinseki: NRO
Meet Corrine Brown (D-FL), vehement Florida VA booster: Moe Lane
Dave Brat Tells the Truth About Eric Cantor on Amnesty: VARight
Economy
Economy Shrinks 1% in First Quarter: BreitbartDeath Rattle Confirmed – First Quarter GDP Revised To -1%: Treehouse
The Real Minimum Wage Is Zero: Fred Wszolek
Congress May Mandate Paid Maternity Leave, Other Women’s Benefits: PJM
Companies Like Uber Encourage Innovation, Improve Consumers’ Lives: RWN
Piketty’s Envy Problem: Peter Schiff
Scandal Central
Shinseki: All Right, Now I'll Start Actually Doing My Job: AceIRS Scandal Expands to Include Pro-Israel Groups: LI
ILL-inois: $12 million paid in medical benefits to 3,000 dead persons: Marathon
DOD Memo outlines Obama’s plan to use the military against citizens: Bill Gertz
Smoking gun reveals Obama use of military against US citizens: Anthony Martin
Totalitarian Collectivism: BATR
Climate & Energy
Media outlets continue to push climate crisis scenario, and the public isn’t buying. : John FundObama To Announce Coal Regulation Via Executive Fiat (Recession to Follow): Lid
DoD official: Climate change is critical to national security: GSN
Media
Benghazi Is Such a Non-Issue That Hillary’s Democrat Party Enablers Are Meeting About It: DCWhen Bushies blew a CIA cover, it was 'treason'; now, it's a mistake: Byron York
After Weeks of Leftist Harassment, Gay GOP Candidate’s Office Vandalized: GayPatriot
CBS Investigates the Latest on 'Ugly' VA Scandal Without Mentioning Obama's Name: MRC
Mass killers hold culture — and country — hostage: Jonah Goldberg
Killer's Own Words Confirm NRA's Belief: Good Guys With Guns Stop Bad Guys With Guns: TR
World
The Way West Point Cadets React to Obama vs. Bush Tells You Everything You Need To Know: YCReporters Openly Mocked the U.S. State Department’s Spokeswoman Today: Tatler
Obama's empty foreign policy vision falls flat at West Point: The Hill
Kerry: Obama Administration ‘More Engaged’ with World ‘Than at Any Time in American History’: PJM
An American’s Experience with Islamic Apostasy: Raymond Ibrahim
Howard Dean: Media Doesn't Know How To Deal With Obama's "More Sophisticated" Foreign Policy: RCP
Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)
Machines v. Lawyers: John O. McGinnis, City JournalHackers put security tool that finds payment card data into their arsenal: CIO
In case of a Russian invasion, Estonia is uploading its government to the cloud: QZ
Cornucopia
Climate Change Blamed for 'Icy Reception' to Obama Speech: CubeLet’s Debate the Logic of White Privilege: MOTUS
The America We Used to Know is Being Erased: Zion's Trumpet
Image: The People's Cube
Sponsored by: Dave Brat for Congress: Fire Eric "Amnesty" Cantor!
QOTD: "I go to Europe a lot for various speeches. I always get asked how come Obama’s not paying attention to us? I think he is. The problem is the Europeans have to change. This is not -- he can't rely only on America with a different policy. The Europeans have to understand now they're equal partners and more is expected of them. I think that's exactly what the president -- the kind of foreign policy the president wants." --Howard "YEEEHHAHHAHAWWWW" Dean
Thursday, May 29, 2014
AWESOME: Because it isn't powerful enough, Feds announce plan to take over local zoning decisions
...not a word has been heard of late about a truly transformative Obama executive action, his rule on “affirmatively furthering fair housing” (AFFH). That rule will push Americans into living how and where the federal government wants. It promises to gut the ability of suburbs to set their own zoning codes. It will press future population growth into tiny, densely-packed high-rise zones around public transportation, urbanizing suburbs and Manhattanizing cities...You won’t see a more ambitious Obama administration initiative than this. Yet Obama never discusses AFFH. Although a preliminary version of the rule was released in July of 2013, the president didn’t mention it in his State of the Union address. The controversial rule was the subject of a Weekly Standard cover, yet as far as I can tell neither The New York Times nor The Washington Post has ever done a story on AFFH...
[There isn't] an issue more worthy of public debate and discussion in advance of the 2014 midterm election than the AFFH rule and the Obama administration’s “regionalist” housing policies. You can see dry runs for what Obama hopes to do with his new housing rule in recent planning initiatives in the San Francisco Bay Area and the Twin Cities...
How can conservatives help draw the public's attention to these radical and unconstitutional dictates?
HILLARY'S NEW BOOK "HARD CHOICES" AND THE BIN LADEN RAID: 7 Ways POTUS Led From Behind
With her memoir, Hard Choices set to be released in the coming weeks, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and her publishing company have provided an excerpt in which she claims President Obama’s actions during the Bin Laden raid were “as crisp and courageous a display of leadership” that she had ever seen.
Here are 7 reasons that Obama’s leadership during the raid was neither crisp or courageous.
1) Obama Canceled the Mission to Kill Bin Laden Three Times
Clinton writes about one of the strongest examples of decision-making under pressure:
“Perhaps the most famous example from my four years as Secretary of State was President Obama’s order to send a team of Navy SEALs into a moonless Pakistani night to bring Osama bin Laden to justice. The President’s top advisors were divided. The intelligence was compelling, but far from definitive. The risks of failure were daunting.”
The Clinton memoir tries to paint a picture of decisiveness despite “risks of failure” and “far from definitive” intelligence. President Obama made the call despite the numerous doubts. That isn’t necessarily the case, however.
According to a book released in August of 2012, titled Leading from Behind: The Reluctant President and the Advisors Who Decide for Him, a source “with Joint Special Operations Command who had direct knowledge of the operation and its planning,” claims that Obama squashed the kill order on bin Laden in January, February, and March of 2011. Bin Laden was successfully taken down in early May.
2) Obama’s Indecisiveness Was Decided For Him
CITIZEN OF THE WORLD: Incompetence knows no borders
As former VP Dick Cheney summed it up: "We've got a problem with weakness, and it's centered right in the White House. It's as though he wasn't even around when 9/11 happened."
Hat tip: Mark Levin.
Larwyn's Linx: The 'Almost Exclusively White Phenomenon' of Constitutional Conservatism
Nation
The 'Almost Exclusively White Phenomenon' of Conservatism: John BennettEstablishment GOP Takes The 30 Pieces Of Silver To Pass Amnesty: ConHQ
Cuccinelli: Amnesty could destroy the GOP Base: PJM
1,700 vets hidden from VA wait list, wait times for others averaged 115 days: Hot Air
Eric Holder's Money Shot: Mark Steyn
When Obama Called the Plame Leak a Major Crime: GWP
The Elvis Presley Movie Presidency: HayRide
Michelle: Republicans “Playing Politics” with Kids’ Health: Keith Koffler
Rahm Emanuel Wants All Chicago Gun Sales To Be Videotaped: Glob
Economy
Unions Try To Block Veterans From Receiving Civilian Care: LoneConGibson Guitar Knows Why The Feds Raided Them: Bryan Preston
NYT: Recovery Has Replaced Good Jobs With Bad Jobs: S&L
The Saddest, Scariest Millennial Statistic You’ll See Today: Bryan Preston
Have Insurance Through Your Employer? Get Ready For The Obamacare Pain: LoneCon
“A smoking gun in debate over consumer class actions?”: Overlawyered
Scandal Central
UNREAL: Obama Wants Race-Based Legal System in Hawaii: ConTribLabor Secretary Tweets Out Pro-Communism Message: YC
Judge who put Conyers back on the ballot is one of Harry Reid's "nuclear option" confirmees: Poor Richard
Climate & Energy
IPCC findings dispute ABC, CBS, NBC alarmist and flawed Antarctica sea level rise claims: WUWTAl Gore: ‘Global Warming Will Cause Millions of People’s Heads to Explode’: Rash
More wind farms could lead to blackouts: Express UK
Media
Dear Democrats: If this administration can’t get socialism right, how will any administration, ever?: BookwormHuffington Post Article Promotes Anti-Semitic Elders of Zion Libel: TR
CNN Caught Red-Handed Sabotaging Gun Control Poll!: BuzzPo
WATCH: Mark Levin talks to Hannity about Obama scandals, Republicans in DC, and more…: Scoop
L.A. Times: Leaker of Valerie Plame Identity Was
One-Percenter Gwyneth Paltrow Says Internet Criticism as ‘Bloody, Dehumanizing’ as War: Sooper
Hillary’s New Book: 7 Ways Obama Failed to Lead During the Bin Laden Raid: Rusty Weiss
Don’t Stigmatize Murderers!: Ann Coulter
The Intellectual Dishonesty of Obama and Other False Purists: Ron Fournier
World
Ouch: Less Than 25% of West Point Cadets Stood Up For Obama After He Was Introduced: WZNew Ad: 'CAIR Leaders Convicted of Jihad Terror-Related Crimes': TR
Hamas-CAIR Thugs at Work: AFDI “Truth About CAIR” ads defaced with antisemitic vandalism: Pamela Geller
Cheney slams Obama on Afghanistan: Was he around when 9/11 happened?: Scoop
The tea party lives — in Europe: Cal Thomas
TSA check misses empty AK-47 clips in Yemeni man’s luggage: Post
Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)
This cheap and beautiful machine is 3D printing's best chance at going mainstream: VergeSnowden Addresses Critics, Explains Why He Won’t Return to Face Charges: Wired
It’s not a man bra—it’s a wearable technology optimization device: QZ
Cornucopia
Strong Safety: Ann BarnhardtMegyn Kelly Roasts Joe Scarborough: Have Fun with Your ‘Four Viewers’: Josh Feldman
‘A Million Ways to Die in the West’ is a worthy Western sendup: Post
Image: E-cigarettes could save millions of lives, experts tell WHO
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: BOOM: Chris McDaniel for Senate
QOTD: "Obama chafes at ... even-handed analyses. He dismisses them as "false equivalence" because the president won't be happy until every news story casts him as the hero and Republicans as the villains.
In politics and in everyday life, rarely are both sides equally wrong, which is why journalists shouldn't draw false equivalence. [WaPo liberal writer Dan] Balz is an example of how to measure blame fairly, not necessarily equally.
Rarer still is one side 100 percent right, which is why Obama is guilty of false purity. Obama's intellectual dishonesty has prevented him from learning on the job, which is what's required of great presidents—the kind who overcome obstacles that others whine about." --Ron Fournier, National Journal
Wednesday, May 28, 2014
ANOTHER BENGHAZI MYSTERY: Where was the USS Bataan?
Benghazi: The administration deploys an assault ship with 1,000 Marines to Libya after ordering Americans to leave as the country implodes. Where was this ship on Sept. 11, 2012? Where was the president?
The families of the Benghazi dead must be cursing and scratching their heads at the sight of the amphibious assault ship Bataan, with about 1,000 Marines aboard, sailing into the Mediterranean Sea to assist in evacuating Americans if the current round of deadly fighting in Libya worsens.Suddenly the administration is paying attention to the warning signs of a crisis of its own making and issuing concerns about security that were absent when four Americans died begging for help from an indifferent administration and a president who was resting prior to yet another fundraising trip.
Based on escalating security concerns, the U.S. State Department recommended Tuesday that Americans in Libya "depart immediately." In addition to the Bataan and its helicopters, America also has 250 available Marines, seven Osprey combat aircraft and three refueling planes in Sigonella, Italy, AFP reported.
Three years after President Obama supported the move to topple and kill longtime dictator Muammar Gaddafi, Libya has descended into armed chaos, and there isn't even a YouTube video to blame this time.
IF WE CAN JUST SAVE ONE CHILD: The Smallest Victims of the Ruling Elites' Amnesty Blather
There has been a lot of talk from the Obama administration about having more “humane” immigration policies — but the sad fact is that on President Obama’s watch, one of the most inhumane realities of illegal immigration has skyrocketed. Children are crossing the border – and they’re doing it without their parents.
The number of minor children crossing or attempting to cross the U.S. southern border unaccompanied by a parent or other adult relative has exploded from 6,560 in 2011 to an estimated 60,000 for fiscal year 2014. Border patrol agents in South Texas reported over 1,000 such children were apprehended by officials earlier this month, including a 3-year-old boy from Honduras.What explains the dramatic increase?
As a government official from Ecuador told The New York Times, one of the main reasons is a belief held by many in Central America and Mexico that some sort of immigration reform will be passed that allows anyone who can get into the United States illegally to be able to stay.
In other words, the prospect of amnesty is encouraging more illegal immigration – and in this case, the human trafficking of children. Often raised by their grandparents or other relatives because their parents have already come to the U.S. illegally, these children are traveling alone or with human smugglers, called coyotes, who are paid to get them across the border.
And what happens once they’re here? According to the Department of Health and Human Services, by law, the U.S. government must assume custody of “unaccompanied alien children” apprehended by law enforcement who file claims to remain in the United States. The government then contracts with state-licensed facilities to care for the children until it can place them with sponsors.
According to a judge in Texas who has reviewed numerous such cases, the U.S. government is guilty of encouraging this illegal behavior.
OBAMA'S WORDS: Like Sand Against the Wind
For Barack Obama speeches are not just motivational instruments or representations of a desired state of affairs, but feats of political transubstantiation, where, if he utters them, words become reality.
It is a behavior not dissimilar to Adolf Hitler maneuvering imaginary German divisions from his Berlin bunker while Russian troops rampage throughout the city above him.
Delusional is the only term that I can muster to describe the chasm that exists between the words Obama uses and the differing reality into which they are dispensed.
In politics and foreign policy, words have power if they are truthful and followed by corresponding actions. When they lack authenticity, however, words degenerate into the coarse tools of a con artist, receptive only to the cynical or the equally delusional.
It is as if Obama is following the George Burns axiom, the key to success is sincerity, if you can fake that, then you've got it made.
Case in point was his 2014 commencement speech at West Point, which was little more than a collection of false assumptions and imaginary accomplishments.
Larwyn's Linx: Obama Outs CIA Agent: None Dare Call It Treason
Nation
Obama Outs CIA Agent: None Dare Call It Treason: ConHQNancy Pelosi uncertain deaths of veterans at VA qualifies as a scandal: BuzzPo
President Obama’s Five-Step Scandal Manual: Keith Koffler
Hospitals hiking costs on the poor due to … ObamaCare: Hot Air
Government Agency Scraps Employee Ratings To Avoid ‘Discrimination’: DC
Rutgers Professor Blames UCSB Killing Spree on White Privilege: GWP
Look What 42 Years In DC Has Done to Senator Thad Cochran: Jen Kuznicki
#GASen candidate Michelle Nunn doubled salary while laying off 100: Unyielding
Texas Republican Runoff 2014: Rick Perry wins, Bill Powers loses: Cahnman
Economy
New IRS Obamacare Rule Guarantees Massive Job Loss: PubliusPelosi On Best Way To Fix Obamacare: “Single-Payer” Like the VA: WZ
Public Unions Share the Blame For VA Deaths: Betsy McCaughey
US Economy Poised to Accelerate? Bond Market in Disbelief: Mish
Abortions, Crime At All Time High, Detroit Nears Third World Status: Ben Howe
IRS Eyes New Ways To Tax Miles of Frequent Fliers: Ira Stoll
Scandal Central
Behind the White House Leak of the CIA Agent’s Name Is a Real Story: Sara NobleWhite House Announces It’s Investigating Itself After Outing CIA Official: Tammy Bruce
Glenn Greenwald to Publish Names of US citizens that NSA Spied On Illegally: Hacker News
Climate & Energy
The Left Doesn’t Really Believe in Climate Change: Jon GabrielEPA To Unilaterally Push Cap And Trade On Carbon Emissions: BarbWire
Google Honors Rachel Carson, Who Helped Cause the Death of up to 50 Million People: MB
Media
Dear Christians With Guns: Herschel Smith“Nobody Needs.” The Media Attempts To Grant “Absolute Moral Authority” To Gun Control: Bob Owens
The Online Off and the Offline On: Erick Erickson
As Always, Life Continues to Imitate Liberal Fascism: Ed Driscoll
MSNBC’s Touré Apologizes for Equating Holocaust Survival With White Privilege: Glob
Obama scolds female reporter for asking about Afghanistan: FAM
Scenario for a Republican Nightmare in the 2016 Elections: Michael Barone
MTV Partners With CAIR Despite Terror Links: Creeping
White Privilege: Walter Williams
World
The Death Row Maternity Ward: Mark SteynCAIR Officials on Memorial Day: Do Fallen Troops Really Merit Honoring?: GWP
Justice for Taryn and Tanner: Michelle Malkin
Putin’s well-worn fascist lies: Jonah Goldberg
Guardian smears UKIP as "extreme right": Commentator
Prince Charles Calls for End of Capitalism to Save Planet From Global Warming: GWP
Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)
China's Payback for US Hacker Indictments Begins: TNWGoogle made a self-driving car, and it doesn't have a steering wheel: Verge
Skype will soon get real-time speech translation based on deep learning: GigaOm
Cornucopia
Obama 'Madder Than Hell' After Accident Triggers WWIII: CubeBlue on Blue: Hollywood Versus Hornaday: Ed Driscoll
Trump: there's a good reason why Obama dodged a $50 million offer to release student records: Daily Mail
Image: Obama 'Madder Than Hell' After Accident Triggers WWIII
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: BOOM: Chris McDaniel for Senate
QOTD: "...[T]he Left doesn’t really believe in climate change. Their true religion is raising taxes, increasing government, impeding capitalism and reducing national sovereignty. Climate change is just a temporary excuse to achieve those ends." --Jon Gabriel
Tuesday, May 27, 2014
ROBB REPORT: Best Hotel of 2014
The world’s only hotel to occupy a Ludwig Mies van der Rohe–designed building, the new Langham, Chicago (312.923.9988, www.langhamhotels.com), is a worthy tribute to the great Bauhaus architect. Debuted in September in an imposing glass tower along the Chicago River, the hotel abounds with appropriate touches, including Mies-inspired furnishings designed by the luminary’s grandson, Dirk Lohan of the Chicago-based firm Lohan Anderson. The 316-room property—which occupies the first 13 floors of the 52-story tower—breaks with form at times, as in the plush-carpeted guest rooms and suites and the Eastern-inspired Chuan Spa. The David Rockwell–designed Travalle restaurant serves as the hotel’s most authentic interpretation of Bauhaus, with glass walls, clean lines, and minimalist wood-and-metal furnishings. ($295–$6,000)
I'm guessing the suite pictured above is a tad closer to $6,000 a night as opposed to $295.
Hat tip: BadBlue Car News.



















