Thursday, June 12, 2014

Larwyn's Linx: Cloward-Piven at the Border

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Nation

Cloward-Piven at the Border: John Hayward
Cantor Loses By 11 Million Voters: Ann Coulter
White House 'aiding and abetting felonies' by delivering 'flood' of illegals: DailyMail

Pelosi Fretting Over 2014 Midterms After Shocking Cantor Upset: HayRide
A 23 Year-Old Took Out House Majority Leader Eric Cantor: HayRide
Almost 40% more people turned out in VA-07 last night than in 2012 : Scoop

House Bill to Impeach Eric Holder Now Has 26 Co-Sponsors: ConTrib
Chicago police, ATF form Intel Center to fight “three-percenters”: Chris Eger
Hillary: I Was Once Poor Like You: RWN

David Brat's Victory Helps the GOP -- and the Establishment, Too: Ace
Cantor’s Defeat Shows Impact Of Obama’s Cynical Immigration Strategy: Morris
SecDef Chuck Hagel Run Over By Bus: Cube

Economy

19 Reasons to Laugh If You're Told The Economy Is In Good Shape: Snyder
Obamacare And The CBO — No Longer ‘Giddy’: Larry Elder
The big bank that blessed Brat's upset of Eric Cantor: Michael Santoli

Scandal Central

Obama’s inhumane retribution against Jan Brewer: Selena Owens
More On Bergdahl: The Anissa Files: Liberty Speaks
US agents heard Benghazi jihadis using State Dept. cell phones to call jihad leaders: JihadWatch

Climate & Energy

The Axis of Denialism: Mark Steyn
“EPA Pumps Up Benefits of Proposed Carbon Regulation”: PW
VA Spent Tens of Millions on Ads, Audits, Green Energy: WFB

Media

Establishment Media Start Dropping Bombs on Dave Brat: Bryan Preston
Why Cantor Lost – This Picture Says it All: VARight
Eric Cantor paid a lot for steak, should have paid for ads against David Brat: NakedDC

Washington Post: "ABC News’s Diane Sawyer destroys Hillary Rodham Clinton on Benghazi": John Lott
New York Times: 'Potent Voices of Conservative Media' Helped Brat Defeat Cantor: NB
Airbrush Alert: Ed Driscoll

Dave Brat talks to Chuck Todd, says he didn’t win by immigration alone: Scoop
First to Godwinize David Brat is…the Wall Street Journal?: Ed Driscoll
Lawsuit Alleging Silver Allowed Sexual Harassment in NY Assembly Moves Forward: MenRec

World

Meet Mohammed Fazi, one of five exchanged for Bowe Berdahl: Thomas Lifson
Iraq Asked U.S. To Bomb ISIS Staging Areas Before They Took Mosul, Obama Said No: WZ
Al Qaeda Militants Capture US Black Hawk Helicopters In Iraq: ZH

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Star Trek-Style Holodeck Coming into Focus at Lowe’s: Singularity Hub
Even Toilets Aren’t Safe as Hackers Target Home Devices: Amy Thomson
Radical human brain modification using high-powered lasers has been perfected: John Hewitt

Cornucopia

What are my rights at various “checkpoints”?: Flex Your Rights
Aggressive police raids for thee, but not for me: Radley Balko
They Said It Couldn’t Be Done: MOTUS

Image: SecDef Chuck Hagel Run Over By Bus
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QOTD: "We see the country slipping away, at least the kind of country that we want. Why is it so hard for these guys to articulate our principles? They talk about Reagan, but they're Rockefeller Republicans. And what's ironic about this is the main opponent to Reagan in 1980 was George H.W. Bush, and now it's Jeb Bush, his son, who seems to be the main opponent to conservatives who are trying to rally behind a candidate in order to take this country back. And when I say take the country back, I mean from a president who is an imperial president, who every day says he's going to act unilaterally and does across the board. We wake up in the morning,w e don't know the next outrageous thing he's going to do, and Congress acts like it has no power, it has power, it has the power of the purse, it's got the power to do other things, and it needs to do it. And they're afraid of Obama, they're afraid to take these steps, and you can see there is a growing anger among many American people, not just Republicans.

I'll tell you one other thing: You look at this election 2012 with Obama. Obama should have been beaten by a halfway decent presidential candidate in the Republican Party who could articulate the principles of the party and expose Obama's fecklessness and weakness. We didn't do it. Millions of people stayed home. And who were they? Reagan Democrats. Blue-collar Democrats. Stop chasing ethnic groups, stop chasing genitalia, talk to the American people about liberty, opportunity. Explain to them that Obama's wrong and we need to unleash the American people and the economy." --Mark Levin

Wednesday, June 11, 2014

DEAR SEN. McCONNELL AND SPEAKER BOEHNER: Here are the Terms of Your Surrender

My Dear Speaker Boehner and Senator McConnell,

The American people are tired. They are tired of your hatred for the conservative base, your insults of the American people, and your utter disregard for the Constitution.

In your petty quests for power, you both spend more time, energy and resources plotting against your party's base rather than fighting the most lawless and destructive president in American history. The national debt will have doubled under this President, the IRS and other arms of the government have been weaponized, the Justice Department is busy race-baiting and attacking Obama's political opponents, China and Russia are rapidly arming up, Iran is rolling non-stop to acquire nuclear ICBMS, and the Middle East is on fire.

And still you focus on pathetic political infighting, as if this is some sort of game.

We've had quite enough, thank you.

The following are the terms of your surrender and they are non-negotiable:

1. Speaker Boehner: you will, on or before the departure of Eric Cantor from the position of House Majority Leader, name a suitable and real conservative to that role (e.g., Jeb Hensarling or Jim Jordan).

2. Senator McConnell: you will, on or before the departure of Eric Cantor from the position of House Majority Leader, name Senator Ted Cruz to the post of Ranking Member on the Senate Judiciary Committee and, should the Republican Party take the Senate, will name him Chairman of that committee.

3. You will both cease pushing for any Amnesty, immigration or other deal until the border is secure from the unfolding humanitarian and refugee crisis.

Failure to meet these requirements will result in the following actions:

1. Speaker Boehner: I will do my level best to encourage the 30 percent of Ohioans who supported your primary opponents to vote for your Democrat rival. As you know, it would not take many Republicans to defect to unseat you. There is no point in having a Republican Speaker of the House if he or she has no desire to resist the increasing epidemic of lawlessness.

2. Senator McConnell: Likewise, I will do my level best to encourage the 40 percent of Kentuckians who supported your primary opponent to vote for your Democrat rival. Again, it would not take many defections to unseat you -- and based upon the polling, you could lose regardless. I am convinced that there is absolutely no point in having a Republican Senate Majority Leader who is unwilling to fight.

These are my terms and they are non-negotiable.

A reply is unnecessary. Your actions will suffice.


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After Releasing Terrorists and Arming Them With Stinger Missiles, Obama Rails Against Guns to Promote a "Safer Society"

My memory may not be the best, but didn't the biggest mass-murder in history occur on 9/11/2001 when 3,000 people perished at the hands of Islamofascists?

Coming then as it does on the heels of the release of five of the most vicious, bloodthirsty terrorist generals in history, Obama's latest anti-Constitutional screed strikes me as unintentionally idiotic.

President Barack Obama Tuesday suggested that the U.S. government should follow Australia’s example in dealing with shooting sprees, which involved strict gun bans on semiautomatic and automatic weapons.

Gee, doesn't the U.S. have a Second Amendment which protects the government from encroaching on the citizens' right to keep and bear arms? And isn't Australia missing such a citizen protection clause in their highest law?

“Australia had a mass shooting [in 1996] similar to Columbine and Newtown, and just said, ‘That’s it, we’re not seeing that again,’ and basically imposed very severe tough gun laws and they haven’t had a mass shooting since,” Obama said, after he was asked for his reaction to recent shooting episodes in California and Oregon. Those laws included the confiscation of nearly all handguns and rifles.

You mean gun control like that enacted by Chicago and Washington, DC which have both banned handguns for decades?

But the country needs “commonsense rules in place that make a dent in what’s happening,” he said, after an emotional appeal to the students and young people who were watching the Tumblr broadcast, which was advertised as a question-and-answer session about student debt... “My greatest frustration so far is that this society has not been willing to take some basic steps to keep guns out of the hands of people you know who can do just unbelievable damage,” he said.

You mean like keeping firearms away from the mentally ill, as the NRA has repeatedly suggested? Basic steps like that, which might require committing the truly insane as we did before the ACLU and the rest of the left wing radicals got their hands on the mental health system?

Does it seem odd to you...

MARK LEVIN TRANSCRIPT: Here's What I'm gonna do, Mitt Romney and Orrin Hatch, if you go after Mike Lee

Transcript of Mark Levin, 6/10/2014


You know what I've heard? On good authority, that Mitt Romney and Orrin Hatch want one of Mitt Romney's sons to go after Mike Lee in the Republican fight -- should there be one -- because they want to get rid of Mike Lee.

Who are the purists, exactly?

Who are the "Big Tent" guys, exactly?

Now let me tell you what I'm gonna do if these fools pull that. Listen to me, Orrin, I'm talkin' to you.

I'm going to go into your state and expose you. For your lies on this show.

I'm going to go into Utah, Mitt Romney, and expose you for the incompetent campaign you ran. The fact of the matter is, Mitt, while you play Mr. Nice Guy, you were behind the scenes trashing Republicans all the way to your "victory".

Let me tell you something, Mitt: You cost us. You cost us four years of Obama with your feckless campaign. Attacking one Republican after another in the primary... and it's like you surrendered in the general election. You're no Mr. Nice Guy... and, I know, the Republicans listening to me... folks, behind the scenes, this guy is trying to crush the conservative movement.

This "severe conservative"... he's going around the country endorsing every single establishment Republican he can against citizen candidates. It's time to wake up!

But if they... and you know I barely travel for anything... but if they.. I will go into Utah myself --and bring everyone I can find -- we will expose these people -- and let's have it out!


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Larwyn's Linx: Virginia Shocker: Cantor Canned

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Nation

Virginia Shocker: Cantor Canned: R.S. McCain
What Cantor’s Defeat Means: John Podhoretz
Chaos erupts at Cantor election night headquarters after his departure: WaPo

Bergdahl fiasco: Obama throws Chuck Hagel under the bus: Exam
Hatch, Romney Warned on Challenging Mike Lee: All-Out War: Scoop
Jarrett Met ‘Four Or Five Times’ With Illegal Activists: DC

Military Bases: Obama’s New Illegal Alien Dumping Grounds: Michelle Malkin
Current Refugee Crisis is Pure Cloward-Piven: TAB
Obamacore: Bad to the Core: Betsy McCaughey

Prosecute the President: Ben Shapiro
Police: Armed Civilian Who Stopped Las Vegas Attack a 'Hero': AWR Hawkins
Shootings Up 43% in NYC, But At Least There’s No More Stop and Frisk: JWF

Economy

People Heading To The ER In Droves Under Obamacare: Cove
Why Piketty's Book Is Garbage.: Instapundit
3 Major U.S. Airlines Fight to Cancel Cheaper International Travel: DS

Scandal Central

Hillary: Amb. Stevens In Benghazi 'By His Own Choosing': TR
Internal Memo Reveals High-Level Dissent on Border Surge Policies: CIS
Middle Eastern Men Are Getting Driver's Licenses With Hispanic Names: PoliceOne

Climate & Energy

Obama and Showtime Admit to Exploiting Extreme Weather Events to ‘Shift’ Public Opinion: MRC
Some Dems See “Climate Change” As A Winning Issue: Cove
Trampling Democracy to Fight Climate Change: Ramesh Ponnuru

Media

Review: Holder Is ‘Obama’s Enforcer’ of Racialist, Lawless DOJ Agenda: J. Christian Adams
MSNBC Host: Some Conservatives Shouldn't Be Allowed To Hold Office: TR
A Word To The Idiots Who Are Blaming Eric Cantor's Loss On Tea Party Jew Hatred: Lid

Mark Levin on Hannity: The Republican Party leadership better wake up!: Scoop
Brit Hume: Talk radio may have helped Dave Brat win, overcome money disadvantage: Scoop
Reuters Poll: Obama’s Approval Rating Falls To Just 37.5%: WZ

A Word To The Idiots Who Are Blaming Eric Cantor's Loss On Tea Party Jew Hatred: Lid
WHOA: California Court Destroys Teacher Tenure Systems: Ace
Barack Obama: historically ignorant AND astoundingly hypocritical!: Moe Lane

Reading between the lines of Clinton’s ‘Hard Choices’: Jonah Goldberg
Clintons So ‘Broke’ They Had To Steal WH Furniture: S&L
Dead Broke? Hillary’s Up to Her Old Games: Dick Morris

World

White House: Some Soldiers Can Be Left Behind: Cove
Mosul falls to al-Qaeda as US-trained security forces flee: Hot Air
UNREAL: Hillary Blames Stevens For His Own Benghazi Murder: ConTrib

White House: The Taliban Five Aren't As Bad As You Think: ForPol
Obama finds a patsy: Sec. of Defense Hagel taking the fall for ‘bonehead Bergdahl trade’: BPR
White House: 90 staffers knew about Bergdahl swap, but Congress couldn’t be trusted: BPR

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

This company will print the Internet and deliver it to your house: Caitlin Dewey, WaPo
Banks: Credit Card Breach at P.F. Chang’s: Brian Krebs
Evernote hit by denial of service attack: ComputerWorld

Cornucopia

The Obama Impeachment Bible: Jeffrey Lord
Is Obama’s Illegal Alien Release Program an Impeachable Offense?: CHQ
One Picture: 50 Years of Federal Intervention in Eduction: DS

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QOTD: "The president was never interested in working with the opposition in Congress, since he always regarded those who were not on his side politically as not worth the effort to persuade (after all, he believed he had the mandate and the power to roll over them). The 2010 elections and the loss of the House proved disastrous for the White House agenda as a result. When you use straw men to mock the other major political party, while never talking to them, accepting their input, or showing any interest in compromise, it should come as no surprise when the legislative path becomes stagnant for nearly four years. As a result, the president has resorted to executive actions without the consent of Congress or, at times, in seeming contempt or disregard for the law. The Bergdahl decision fits the pattern, which can also be seen in ignoring statutory deadlines and requirements of Obamacare, bypassing Congress in the environmental area to give greater leeway to the EPA to create new law, abusing his recess appointment power, and making unilateral enforcement decisions on immigration policy ." --Rich Baehr

Tuesday, June 10, 2014

HEH: The Least Trusted Name in News

The science is settled:


Fortunately, MSNBC has a plethora of eloquent analysts like Al Sharpton, which should do wonders for their trustworthiness in the future.


SAY, @GOPLEADER ERIC CANTOR: How's That Amnesty Deal With @BarackObama Working Out For Ya?

An immense upset just occurred in Virginia's Congressional District 7. Dave Brat -- Tea Party Challenger -- just unseated the sitting House Majority Leader Eric Cantor.

Cantor, of course, had been secretly conspiring with the most lawless president in American history to pass various forms of Amnesty.



Gee, I guess Amnesty isn't the winning issue that Jeb Bush, Mitt Romney and the Chamber of Crony Capitalism say it is.

Well done to Dave Brat and all of the Constitutional conservatives who supported him. You can help him out here for the General Election in November.


Hat tip: BadBlue News

MAP: The Second-Largest Religion in Each State

At The Washington Post, Reid Wilson offers us this interesting perspective:

...Christianity is by far the largest religion in the United States; more than three-quarters of Americans identify as Christians. A little more than half of us identify as Protestants, about 23 percent as Catholic and about 2 percent as Mormon.

But what about the rest of us? In the Western U.S., Buddhists represent the largest non-Christian religious bloc in most states. In 20 states, mostly in the Midwest and South, Islam is the largest non-Christian faith tradition. And in 15 states, mostly in the Northeast, Judaism has the most followers after Christianity. Hindus come in second place in Arizona and Delaware, and there are more practitioners of the Baha’i faith in South Carolina than anyone else.

Over at WaPo, there's a county view and a few other interesting charts.


Hat tip: BadBlue News.

SURPRISE: Networks Refuse to Disclose Obama's Role in Humanitarian Crisis on Our Unprotected Southern Border

When it comes to "fundamentally transforming America" -- candidate Obama's stated agenda -- I think we can officially hang the Mission Accomplished banner on the U.S.S. Refugee Crisis.

Late last week, detention centers along the U.S.-Mexican border were crushed with a new surge of unaccompanied illegal immigrant children, yet two of the Big Three networks have barely touched this new headache for the Obama administration. And not a single reporter or anchor on ABC, CBS or NBC have cited Barack Obama’s extension of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) as cause for a humanitarian crisis that has led to children as young as 9-years-old illegally crossing the border without their parents.

How many children have died, been subject to assault, and otherwise abused making the trek from Central America?

Curious how the progressives' old saw -- you know, "If we can only save one child!" -- is ignored completely when the deaths of countless kids helps advance their agenda.

NBC’s Ned Potter, in a June 8 Nightly News story, painted a stark picture of children leading other children across the border. However, he never mentioned Obama’s extension of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) as a cause of this “humanitarian crisis.”

...Over on CBS Charlie Rose and Norah O’Donnell invited Republican Senator Marco Rubio to discuss the topic on the June 10 edition of CBS This Morning, but neither one of the co-anchors asked the Florida senator if Obama’s extension of the (DACA) was even partly to blame. Rose, however, did find time to push Rubio on immigration reform, as he pressed: “You got into some political pushback on immigration reform. When will we see thorough immigration reform?”

Even the Sacramento Bee lays the blame for an "international crisis of unaccompanied migrant children at U.S. border" on President Oprompter.

...a sudden surge – from 13,625 in 2012 to 24,668 last year – in children traveling north on their own. Homeland Security officials expect 90,000 unaccompanied minors to be detained by border patrol this year, maybe more. And those are just the kids caught; it doesn’t include the many stranded alone in Mexico’s dangerous border towns.

More likely, the migration is a result of ambivalent immigration policy that is sending mixed signals abroad. While the Obama administration has deported a record 2 million people, the administration has also extended a compassionate arm to undocumented children. It’s no surprise, then, that there’s a widespread belief in Central America that if kids can survive the treacherous journey and get across that border somehow, they will be allowed to stay.

These deaths, these injuries, this abuse of children -- not to mention the utter disregard of the American citizenry -- is on Barack Obama and the rest of the Democrat Party.


Hat tip: BadBlue News

Larwyn's Linx: Cruz: Immigration Crisis 'Direct Consequence of Obama’s Lawlessness'

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Nation

Cruz: Immigration Crisis 'Direct Consequence of Obama’s Lawlessness': TR
Obama Dismantles Immigration Law, Creates an Immigration Crisis: Sara Noble
Obama using Cloward-Piven scheme to collapse immigration system: PR

Hillary: 'It Doesn't Matter' If Bergdahl Deserted: TR
Hillary: We 'Struggled' to Buy 'Houses' After White House: WS
2001 was Hillary’s Year of Great Fortune, not of being “dead broke”: LI

Here's Why Eric Cantor Should Be Defeated: ConHQ
The Prisoner Swap Deal: Thomas Sowell
Obama Thinks He Has It Rough Now?: Rich Baehr

'I've Had Enough': When Democrats Quit on Obama: Ron Fournier
It Has Happened Again, And You Still Sit On Your Arse: Karl Denninger
VA says more than 57,000 patients are waiting for first visit: WaPo

Economy

Obama is driving the country to ruin: Michael Goodwin
The Continuing Obamacare Nightmare: David Limbaugh
Chicagoans brace for property tax hike to pay for public-sector pensions: MP

Scandal Central

White House doesn’t even know if new Executive Order on student loans is constitutional: Scoop
US State Dept Still Won’t Say If It Paid to Get Bergdahl Back: Bryan Preston
How the Taliban Wound Up with Stingers: Black Five

Media

Pat Caddell: Bergdahl Press Conference Obama’s “Jump the Shark” Moment: Nice Deb
When Harry Met Hillary: Mark Steyn
Regulators wreck Uber innovation: Glenn Reynolds

World

Hillary Rewrites Her History on Israel: Noah Pollak
Five Damning Letters: Muslim Brotherhood Infiltration of Administration: Shoebat
Iran's Plan to Destabilize Egypt: Gatestone

Rampant Rumors of Amnesty in Central America: Why illegal minors are flooding America: Scoop
America Cannot Do a Damned Thing: Mona Charen
Jihadists Have 170,000 Missiles Aimed at Israel: Pamela Geller

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Virtual reality headset Oculus Rift meets the Bloomberg terminal: QZ
How the NSA Could Bug Your Powered-Off iPhone, and How to Stop Them: Wired
Google Embraces Docker, the Next Big Thing in Cloud Computing: Cade Metz

Cornucopia

Rand Paul: Swap 5 Dems for Marine Held in Mexico: ‘I’m Thinking John Kerry, Hillary …”: CNS
Good News! The Boob Belt is back.: MOTUS
War Gear Flows to Police Departments: NYT

Image: Hero of Seattle campus attack: Shooter looked sad
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QOTD: "Pentagon data suggest how the police are arming themselves for ... worst-case scenarios. Since 2006, the police in six states have received magazines that carry 100 rounds of M-16 ammunition, allowing officers to fire continuously for three times longer than normal. Twenty-two states obtained equipment to detect buried land mines.

In the Indianapolis suburbs, officers said they needed a mine-resistant vehicle to protect against a possible attack by veterans returning from war.

“You have a lot of people who are coming out of the military that have the ability and knowledge to build I.E.D.’s and to defeat law enforcement techniques,” Sgt. Dan Downing of the Morgan County Sheriff’s Department told the local Fox affiliate, referring to improvised explosive devices, or homemade bombs. Sergeant Downing did not return a message seeking comment." --Matt Apuzzo, "War Gear Flows to Police Departments"

Monday, June 09, 2014

SHOCKA: Obama Signs Executive Order Authorizing Even More Wealth Redistribution

By Lindsey Burke

President Barack Obama signed an executive order today expanding “Pay-As-You-Earn,” the already generous repayment option available to students with federal loans that factors in their current income when calculating their monthly student loan payments.

Before 2014, students had access to a plan that capped monthly loan payments at 15 percent of a student’s discretionary income—defined as “the adjusted gross income minus the federal poverty line that corresponds to your family size and the state in which you reside”—with any remaining balance being forgiven after 25 years, or 10 years for those working in “public service.”

Not content with that generous option, the Obama administration issued regulations last November that created the new Pay- As- You- Earn plan, which caps what students can be required to pay to just 10 percent of discretionary income. Under the new Pay- As- You- Earn program, loan forgiveness begins after just 20 years—not 25—and the 10- year forgiveness for government workers and those working in public service still applies.

The pending executive order will extend Pay- As- You- Earn to an additional 5 million borrowers. The option currently is open only to students who took out loans after 2007, but the White House will extend the option to all borrowers who meet income eligibility.

RICHMOND TIMES-DISPATCH BECLOWNS ITSELF AGAIN: Claims Eric Cantor is the New "Ronald Reagan"

By Kenric Ward

RICHMOND, Va. — Just in time for Tuesday’s Republican primary, the Richmond Times-Dispatch proclaims Rep. Eric Cantor the new Ronald Reagan.

Equally absurd, the newspaper’s editorial board uses Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid as benchmarks to prove the congressman’s “conservative” bona fides.

The editorialists positively swoon over Cantor’s climb up the House ladder. The seven-term congressman’s ascension to majority leader proves his “enduring” leadership, they opine.

Fact is, Cantor increasingly rankles his constituents in the 7th Congressional District, arguably the most conservative in Virginia. A Daily Caller poll shows Cantor struggling unexpectedly against challenger Dave Brat.

Voters are restless about Cantor’s zig-zag politics on immigration. They are uneasy about his coziness with Wall Street, and his role in the multibillion-dollar taxpayer bailouts of banks deemed “too big to fail.”

In his latest pivot, Cantor says he’s ready to work with President Barack Obama to grant amnesty to illegal immigrants. It’s for “the kids,” he says.

STOCKMAN: Reagan Recovery Generated 150 Times More Jobs Than the Obama Malaise... So Far

David Stockman, President Reagan's Office of Management and Budget from 1981 to 1985, has a great blog called Contra Corner. His latest column is a stunning riposte to the media's claim that the total number of jobs in the U.S. have finally returned to the pre-crash high.

Yes, the nonfarm payroll clocked in at 138.5 million jobs and thereby retraced for the first time the point at which it stood 77 months ago in December 2007. This predictably elicited another “milestone of progress” squeal from the mainstream media.

So you have to wonder. Did these people skip history class? Do they understand the vital idea of “context”? Are they so mesmerized by paint-by-the-numbers agit prop from Wall Street and Washington that they have come to mindlessly embrace the notion that any number that is better than the last “print” is all that it takes—regardless of composition, quality or longer-term trend?


Thus, consider the ancient days of the Reagan era. Back then there were actually 15.0 million new jobs by the time that 77 months had elapsed after the June 1982 bottom. And these were honest-to-goodness new jobs that had never before existed, not born again jobs of the type that CNBC has made a “jobs Friday” fetish out of ever since the Great Recession was officially declared over in June 2009.

So if you want to try a little “context” absurdity recall this. So far we have created a trifling 100k “new” jobs since the last cyclical peak. During the equivalent 77 months in the Reagan era the US economy actually generated 150 times more jobs!

Stockman reinforces the age-old truism of TANSTAAFL ("There ain't no such thing as a free lunch") that anyone over the intellectual age of six inherently knows. Which excludes all Democrats.

6-years of ZIRP have left the world’s financial system booby-trapped with tottering pyramids of debt and rampant carry trades and financial speculations. Why would this be assumed to comprise the kind of stable and productive financial environment that would enable the current business cycle expansion to go on for years into the future, thereby eclipsing every record from far more stable times of decades past?

So a 77 month jobs drought is a big deal, yet search the financial press and you will find no mention. And not just because of the benchmark set in the Reagan era. During the 77 months after the 1990 peak nearly 10 million net jobs were created; the working age population expanded by 12.2 million; and the conversion rate was not zero, as during the recent go round, but actually more than 80%.

In a nutshell, Reagan's recovery was 150 times more powerful than Obama's. Which we kinda knew in our heart of hearts, but now we have actual confirmation.


Hat tip: Lee Cary.

Larwyn's Linx: Obama: Freeing Top Terrorists a Unanimous Decision of "My Government"

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Nation

Obama: Freeing Top Terrorists a Unanimous Decision of "My Government": MB
Why Are Establishment Republicans Supporting Thad Cochran?: Star Parker
Dianne Feinstein Introduces Federal Bill to Confiscate Guns: Nick Leghorn

Ted Cruz: Blacklisted and Loving It — Right Into The White House: NoisyRm
Perfect is the Enemy of the Good: NoisyRm
Ted Cruz country: Katie Glueck, Politico

Robert Bergdahl: In His Circles: Liberty Speaks
Bergdahl's father now under scrutiny himself: Idaho Statesman
The Taliban Swap and ‘High Crimes and Misdemeanors’: Andrew C. McCarthy

California Counties Releasing Convicted Convict Illegals onto the Streets: RWN
Armed CC Civilian Stops Mass Killing in Vegas : BuzzPo
Grade School Students Brainwashed to Celebrate Gay Sex in Oakland: MB

Economy

The Bluest State: Aaron M. Renn
The Madness Of Crowds And The Great Insanity: ZH
GM Is Alive. Drivers Are Dead. Any Questions?: PJM

Scandal Central

Gitmo Detainees Awaiting Move to Prison in Thomson, Illinois: GWP
Obama to Release Osama’s Bodyguard From Gitmo to Start a "Farm": GWP
Obama’s DOJ Accuses Glock Executives Of Corruption And Fraud: GWP

Media

Reel 'Em In: Ace
Bill Whittle Goes There – Is Obama Evil or Stupid?: LI
Must Watch Video: Morgan Freeman Shuts Down Race-Hustlers in Less Than 30 Seconds: RWN

Dianne Feinstein: Umm, Obama May Have Misled Us About Taliban "Cone of Silence" : Ace
Liberal Activist Is Brutally Raped in Haiti by a Black Man – Blames White Men: GWP
Candy Crowley actually asks John McCain if Bergdahl less worth saving than he was as a POW: Scoop

Ben Shapiro's Obama Solution: 'Prosecution Not Impeachment': Breitbart
NSA Whistleblower: Snowden Never Had Access to the JUICIEST Documents: ZH
Jaden Smith Cast As Trayvon Martin in Will Smith Produced Film: NewsNerd

World

Member of Taliban's elite Supreme Shura among 5 transferred to Qatar: LWJ
Was Bowe Bergdahl's father in contact with Al Qaeda?: Thomas Lifson
The Charter of Hamas, Obama's "Partner in Peace": CAMERA

The Taliban/Bergdahl Swap, Gitmo, and the Revenge of the Lawyer Left: Andrew C. McCarthy
A D-Day Veteran Politely Declines Obama Invitation: John Fund
Two B-2 Spirit stealth bombers have just arrived in UK for a quite unusual overseas deployment: Aviationist

Obama Won’t Allow Bergdahl To Speak To Anyone Until He Agrees To Carry Obama's Water: Pat Dollard
The 30-Year Democratic Campaign to Be the Pro-Troop Party Implodes: Noah Rothman
38 Points From 1963 – It Is Happening – The Communist Takeover of America: GOP The Daily Dose

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

“You could be liable for $150k in penalties—settle instead for $20 per song”: Ars Technica
Check out iOS 8′s Time-lapse camera mode in action: 9TO5Mac
A Computer Has Passed the Turing Test For the First Time: Gizmodo

Cornucopia

EPIC: If this isn’t the most American Craigslist ad I have ever seen I don’t know what is: YC
The Coming Crash in Ammunition Prices: TTAG
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QOTD: "Reagan was unelectable … or was until he was elected. Lincoln was unelectable. Bush 41 was a shoo-in … until he wasn’t. The history of elections in the United States is strewn with egregious predictions and declarations. Dewey Defeats Truman! Except, well, he didn’t.

...It’s a favorite insiders’ game in Washington DC to pronounce someone as unelectable, especially if he is a DC troublemaker, rabble-rouser, or boat rocker. It’s the DC equivalent of Damning With Faint Praise, where you can pretend to like someone while cursing him as ‘unelectable.’

...Electability as peddled by press and politicos is a myth. It is arrogance of pretended knowledge. To the voter I say this: vote your conscience. To the candidate I say this: speak your mind and speak your heart; speak to the voters only, do not play the pundits. You are as electable as the voters — individually — decide you are on election day.

We are the electorate. Speak to us. Listen to us. We will vote for you. And the gods of Olympus and DC be damned.”" --Citizen Scribe

Sunday, June 08, 2014

ANOTHER SHOE DROPS IN THE BENGHAZI SCANDAL: Taliban Now Targeting U.S. Troops With Stinger Missiles

Kenneth Timmerman, writing in The New York Post, breaks open another shocking chapter in the Benghazi scandal.

The Obama administration isn’t only giving the Taliban back its commanders — it’s giving them weapons... Miliary records and sources reveal that on July 25, 2012, Taliban fighters in Kunar province successfully targeted a US Army CH-47 helicopter with a new generation Stinger missile.

The helicopter and all aboard survived the attack as it was able to crash land. But what had hit the Chinook?

The next day, an explosive ordnance disposal team arrived to pick through the wreckage and found unexploded pieces of a missile casing that could only belong to a Stinger missile.

Lodged in the right nacelle, they found one fragment that contained an entire serial number.

The investigation took time ... But when the results came back, they were stunning: The Stinger tracked back to a lot that had been signed out by the CIA recently, not during the anti-Soviet ­jihad.

Can you guess where the Taliban got Stinger missiles with which to target U.S. troops?

If you guessed the smartest President ever and the smartest Secretary of State in history, you're in luck!

...the US Special Operations community believe the Stinger fired against the Chinook was part of the same lot the CIA turned over to the ­Qataris in early 2011, weapons Hillary Rodham Clinton’s State Department intended for anti-Khadafy forces in Libya.

They believe the Qataris delivered between 50 and 60 of those same Stingers to the Taliban in early 2012, and an additional 200 SA-24 Igla-S surface-to-air missiles.

That's right: Hillary's State Department tried to turn over advanced anti-aircraft weapons to anti-Khadafy forces -- this is what appears to have been happening in Benghazi -- and they ended up with the Taliban.

Care to guess where the five bloodthirsty barbarians loosed in Qatar will turn up?

That's a rhetorical question, which means only drones, sycophants, progressives, liberals, and other miscreants will try to answer it (e.g., by yelling "Bush!" at the top of their lungs).

And when a passenger jet is downed thanks to this deranged, evil plot, what will they say then?


Hat tip: BadBlue News and Weasel Zippers

IBD: President Committed a Felony in Freeing Five Terrorist Leaders

By Investor's Business Daily

National Security: Federal law prohibits any person — repeat, any person — from providing material assistance to terrorists, including human assets. But that's what the president did in releasing five Taliban commanders.

When iconic interviewer David Frost asked former President Nixon about the legality of his actions in the Watergate affair, Nixon said "when the president does it, that means that it is not illegal."

That's an attitude seemingly shared by the current occupant of the Oval Office.

As former congressman and Afghanistan veteran Allen West points out, President Obama signed into law only months ago the National Defense Authorization Act, which makes it a crime to offer or provide any material support to terrorist groups. It makes no exception as to who and under which circumstances.

The Taliban is considered a non-state terrorist group to which Obama has returned five of the worst terrorists held at Guantanamo. They are not foot soldiers and this exchange was not at the end of a war, when prisoner swaps often happen. They are four-star general equivalents who will return to the battlefield to target and kill Americans again. If that's not material assistance, what is?

"Is there the possibility of some of them trying to return to activities that are detrimental to us? Absolutely," Obama said during a news conference in Poland.

But fear not, he said, because "we will be keeping eyes on them." Oh, good, we can always risk more American lives on top of those already lost capturing them the first time.

"This is aiding and abetting the enemy, which goes along with the collusion of this administration with Muslim Brotherhood-affiliated organizations and supplying weapons and arms to Islamists," West wrote in the Washington Post.

Larwyn's Linx: The Obama ‘Recovery’: As Bad as (or Worse than) the Great Depression?

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Nation

Obama ‘Recovery’: As Bad as (or Worse than) Great Depression?: Tom Blumer
The President's Very Real Military Problem: Diane Dimond
Bobby Jindal: Obama’s ‘Catch and Release’ Policy Towards Terrorists: Rotten

Obama Dumping Contagious, Disease-Exposed Illegal Aliens Across US: GWP
Dumping of Illegal Aliens in AZ Will Continue Feds Say, Congress Silent: IS
DREAM Act Supporters to Blame for Humanitarian Catastrophe: BarbWire

Another Lie: Bergdahl’s Health Was Fine: Political Insider
CBO Quietly Drops Forecast That Obamacare Will Cut the Deficit: Fiscal Times
Prof explains how guns made Civil Rights movement possible: Chris Eger

Social Science Abstract of the Week: Power Line
Race Pimps Fine with Openly Racist Convenience Store: Onan Coca
Young Republicans Reject Current Texas GOP Platform: Sarah Rumpf

Economy

Obama Renews Work Permits For 520,000 Illegals: Neil Munro
President Obama to order help for student loan debtors: Nirvi Shah
USDA to Spend $1.9 Mil Researching Outlawing Combo Platters: FPM

Scandal Central

Senior Military Leaders Advised Obama NOT to Make Swap With Taliban: GWP
Gun Shop’s Insurance Policy Canceled Because They Sell, Wait For It… Guns: GSL
POW, Deserter or Traitor? Military Back Pay, Compensation May Lead to Big Payday: IJR

Cops In Texas Seize Millions By 'Policing for Profit': Forbes
Indiana woman stripped by jailers and left naked for 7 hours: NC Renegade
Turning Search Warrants into Death Warrants, and SWAT Teams into Death Squads: Rutherford

Climate & Energy

Jason Stverak: It’s A War On People, Not Coal: SAB
EPA proposal all wrong: US must strike balance between energy needs, green dreams: Joe Manchin
EPA puts smiley face on jobs losses: Hope Star

Media

Chomsky: Obama ‘Determined To Demolish The Foundations Of Our Civil Liberties’: DC
MARCUS LUTTRELL: Obama should've had families of men who died looking for Bergdahl in Rose Garden: Scoop
Judge Jeanine Criticizes Obama Over Prisoner Swap, Demands Impeachment: Breitbart

World

Compare and Contrast: June 6, 1944 and June 6, 2014: DiploMad
Marking the 70th Anniversary of D-Day with . . . "interpretive dance"?: SSI
D-Day vet, 89, snuck away from care home to go to 70th anniversary commemorations in Normandy: Daily Mail

SHOCK: For First Time Ever Pope to Allow Reading of Quran and Islamic Prayers at Vatican: RWN
Dearborn has “free speech” zone, everywhere else not free (like sharia): Creeping
US Armed Forces color guard to march in gay pride parade: Stripes

Music is Haraam: GoV
NY Times: Bergdahl Desertion Really Fault Of Unit Discipline, Afghanistan War: RWN
Obama’s Amateurish Trade Could Harm Americans: RWN

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

US military reveals 'gecko gloves' that let soldiers scale vertical walls: Daily Mail
The Best Museum Perks You've Probably Been Missing Out On: LifeHacker
How to Lose Weight Fast: A Proven 3-Step Plan That Works: AuthorityNutrition

Cornucopia

Ever Wished That Calvin and Hobbes Creator Bill Watterson Would Return to Comics?: Pearls Before Swine
D-Day battle images merged with photos of tourists on the same spots: Gizmodo
I’ll trade you 5 Gitmo terrorists for one Costco Key Lime Pie: MOTUS

Image: If you are wondering why Michelle Obama is running for the Senate, you're racist
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: BOOM: Chris McDaniel for Senate

QOTD: "I asked a former member of the Navy SEALs' elite Jedi Unit (the same unit that killed Osama bin Laden) to tell me how he feels about the whole episode. "Betrayed and angry ... both those words apply," he said.

Let's call this man Tommy, for his civilian life must necessarily remain as clandestine as his military service. He said he stays in touch with some 700 special operations forces team members, who all took umbrage with the president's national security adviser, Susan Rice, when she declared that Bergdahl had served "with honor and distinction."

"The White House is whitewashing the ill deeds of this deserter and is lying to the country on mainstream media," Tommy told me. And like all the other military men, he insists that Bergdahl must now account for his actions and face a military tribunal or court-martial.

None of those I interviewed is a lawyer, but each offered the opinion that the commander in chief committed an impeachable offense by ignoring the law that requires a president to give Congress 30 days' notice about any prisoner exchange." --Diane Dimond

Saturday, June 07, 2014

KLAVAN: Fake global warming is one of the most serious fake problems not actually facing our nation today

Great rant by Andrew Klavan at Truth Revolt:

It’s time to take an hysterical and panicky look at fake global warming. Fake global warming is one of the most serious fake problems not actually facing our nation today. According to smarmy billionaire Al Gore, we must take useless and expensive actions immediately or the polar ice caps will be completely melted by two thousand and thirteen... which will be catastrophic when last year arrives.

And the polar bears — oh, the polar bears! Studies reveal that over the last twenty years, as computer models of the climate have progressively damaged computer models of their habitat, the polar bear population has steadily increased. But that’s only in real life! In the computer models, the poor creatures are dropping like flies.

Let’s examine the distorted facts. Between the years 1950 and 2000, the earth’s temperature increased approximately nine tenths of a degree Centigrade. Over the exact same period, the price of butter in Morris County New Jersey rose from 77 cents a pound to nearly four dollars. According to climate change logic, this means that if we give government the power to lower the price of butter in Morris County, the temperature should once again sink back to the levels of the 1950’s. And weren’t the 50‘s a fine old time! Who wouldn’t want those temperatures back again?

I realize there are some superstitious troglodytes who don’t believe in science. They insist we have to go on powering our country with oil and gas instead of using sustainable energy from the holy Vitraya Ramunong tree from that great, great movie Avatar. We’ve explained to them that 97 percent of scientists believe in global warming, but it means nothing to them, even though the number 97 percent has been scientifically selected as the most panic-inducing random number available.

You can watch the entire rant here and subscribe to Klavan's updates. Highly recommended.


WELL, THIS IS INTERESTING: Looks Like Bowe Bergdahl's Father Was in Contact With Al Qaeda

Liberty Speaks co-blogger "Lady Liberty" contacted me earlier today with some interesting information.

It would appear that the father of Bowe Bergdahl, the AWOL/deserter swapped for five bloodthirsty terrorist leaders, has been in communication with member(s) of Al Qaeda.

On Google Plus, Robert Bergdahl's contacts include one "Anissa bint Yusuf Zaid Ibn Youssef."


And just who is Anissa? From this link (translated), she would seem to be a 10-year member of an Al Qaeda technology support team.

I thank Allah (Subhana Wa'a Ta'laah) for guiding me on the path of truth, righteousness and justice, which is the Path of Jihad. Agradezdo my beloved brothers and sisters of the Scientific and Technological Committee of Al 'Qaida and TTP, as also to the various centers Translations of the Jihad, Al Al'Qaida General Command and the Taliban who have allowed me to develop and exhibit my work over 10 years.

There's a lot more going on with Robert Bergdahl than what's been marketed in the media. Remember the reason for his beard?

As for the beard, Robert Bergdahl grew it as a way to mark the time since his son was captured in 2009, and also as an attempt to curry favor with his son’s captors, according to the Post account. He studied Pashto, a national language of Afghanistan, in an effort to familiarize himself with the culture of the place where his son was a prisoner.

Based on Bergdahl's YouTube channel, however, there's more than meets the eye.


The age and history of these social networking accounts point to the fact that they are genuine.

From all appearances, the elder Bergdahl: (a) was in contact with a longstanding member of Al Qaeda; and (b) very well could have been a convert to Islam.

It's a pity the NSA -- with its massive surveillance program, unlawfully monitoring the conversations of every American citizen -- didn't let us know these salient details ahead of time.

As for Robert Bergdahl shaving his beard now that his son's been released, well, I wouldn't hold my breath.


Credit for discovering these connections goes to "Lady Liberty".

SOWELL: Obama is not a socialist

Thomas Sowell confirms the fact that we have our very own Eva Perón:

One of the reasons why both pro-Obama and anti-Obama observers may be reluctant to see him as fascist is that both tend to accept the prevailing notion that fascism is on the political right, while it is obvious that Obama is on the political left.

Back in the 1920s, however, when fascism was a new political development, it was widely — and correctly — regarded as being on the political left. Jonah Goldberg’s great book “Liberal Fascism” cites overwhelming evidence of the fascists’ consistent pursuit of the goals of the left, and of the left’s embrace of the fascists as one of their own during the 1920s.

Mussolini, the originator of fascism, was lionized by the left, both in Europe and in America, during the 1920s. Even Hitler, who adopted fascist ideas in the 1920s, was seen by some, including W.E.B. Du Bois, as a man of the left.

It was in the 1930s, when ugly internal and international actions by Hitler and Mussolini repelled the world, that the left distanced themselves from fascism and its Nazi offshoot — and verbally transferred these totalitarian dictatorships to the right, saddling their opponents with these pariahs.

What socialism, fascism and other ideologies of the left have in common is an assumption that some very wise people — like themselves — need to take decisions out of the hands of lesser people, like the rest of us, and impose those decisions by government fiat.

For some eerie parallels of our current situation with that of Argentina's collapse, please see the illustrated tale entitled "Don't Cry for Me, America."