Tuesday, June 17, 2014

#READYFORHILLARY: Dana @Milbank and @WashingtonPost Flat Busted Lying About Benghazi Forum

By James Simpson

The Washington Post’s Dana Milbank wrote a column on Monday titled “Heritage’s ugly Benghazi panel,” portraying a forum held the same day at the Heritage Foundation, hosted by the newly formed Benghazi Accountability Coalition, as nothing more than an anti-Islamic hate-fest. This was a serious panel with numerous, widely recognized experts, a couple of whom were also members of Accuracy in Media’s Citizens’ Commission on Benghazi. CCB’s April report, “How America Switched Sides in the War on Terror,” made international headlines.

That report took some serious skin. Diane Sawyer, Bob Woodward, and other stalwarts of the mainstream media, have taken Hillary Clinton to task over Benghazi. With Heritage and others now picking up the baton, something clearly needed to be done. They can’t have Hillary’s chances in 2016 threatened by that Benghazi “old news.” As Hillary herself said, “What difference, at this point, does it make!?”

Enter Dana Milbank, WaPo’s hit “journalist,” who sees Joseph McCarthy, and racist bigots behind every conservative door. He could not, and did not, dispute the facts raised during this afternoon-long forum. Instead he used a now-standard device of the left when confronted with uncomfortable truths. The discussion and topic was discredited by simply describing what was said in a presumptuous and mocking tone. It is a clever way to discredit facts in the reader’s mind without actually disputing the facts. So for example, he wrote:

“The session, as usual, quickly moved beyond the specifics of the assaults that left four Americans dead to accusations about the Muslim Brotherhood infiltrating the Obama administration, President Obama funding jihadists in their quest to destroy the United States, Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton attempting to impose Shariah blasphemy laws on Americans and Al Jazeera America being an organ of ‘enemy propaganda.’”

Most of the above, of course, is true. President Obama did fund the Libyan opposition, which was known to have al Qaeda ties, and those same jihadists turned around and attacked the Benghazi Special Mission Compound, killing Americans. He blatantly supported the Muslim Brotherhood in the misnamed Egyptian “Arab Spring” where one of America’s most reliable Muslim allies, Hosni Mubarak, was deposed.

Obama and Clinton are certainly doing nothing to stop the spread of Shariah in America, and the Muslim Brotherhood has infiltrated the Obama administration. Another report out Monday quoted Mohamed Elibiary, an advisor to the Homeland Security Department and Muslim Brotherhood supporter, writing in a tweet, “As I’ve said b4, inevitable that ‘Caliphate’ returns…” Finally, anyone even remotely familiar with Al Jazeera knows it is an Islamist propaganda organ. The fact that it occasionally does a better job of reporting news than the American mainstream media is simply a reflection of just how bad the American media have become.

But apparently Milbank’s job is not to delve into the facts. Instead, his job is to discredit Obama’s detractors. So he used another standard leftist device as well. He found a convenient straight man to play the victim, innocently asking questions and making statements designed to provoke a predictable response, which could then be attacked with the usual leftist rhetoric. In this case, he utilized a Muslim woman named Saba Ahmed. He wrote, “Saba Ahmed, an American University law student, stood in the back of the room and asked a question in a soft voice…” He quoted her as saying:

GOOD NEWS: Mexican Embassy Says That Mexicans "Illegally" Invading U.S. "Are Not Committing a Crime"

I guess they have a point, considering the fact that the President ignores the very immigration laws he swore to uphold.

Furthermore, with the likes of Obama, the Democrat Party, the unions, Jeb Bush, the RINO establishment, the Chamber of Crony Capitalism, vintage media, and the rest of the DC Ruling Class all agitating for open borders, I got to thinking.

Who in Washington stands with the American citizen?

That's a rhetorical question. No one but a few Constitutional conservatives like Ted Cruz and Mike Lee appear to be on our side. America's side.

MRCTV talks to protesters calling for the release of U.S. Marine Andrew Tahmooressi outside the Mexican Embassy - where a spokesperson for the Mexican Embassy tells them illegal border crossing is "not committing a crime."

"When a Mexican, or any other citizen, crosses a border, let's say illegally, they are not committing a crime. They are doing it illegally, but they are not committing a crime. No, they are not. Check your law," Public Affairs Minister Ariel Moutsatos-Morales says.

Well, I guess we can close the file on that particular issue.


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Larwyn's Linx: Cleta Mitchell to the IRS: Answer this

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Nation

Cleta Mitchell to the IRS: Answer this: Power Line
SCOTUS begins demolition of 2nd Amendment: Protein Wisdom
IRS Commissioner Subpoenaed to Testify on Lois Lerner’s ‘Lost’ Emails: Signal

Leaving From Behind: Mark Steyn
Hanna’s Lies Bring Out Energized Base For Claudia Tenney: Jen Kuznicki
Twenty Seven Shot Over the Weekend in Gun Free Chicago: BuzzPo

NYT: VA went after whistleblowers in a big way: Hot Air
Mrs. Clinton Yuks It Up Recalling How She Helped Free Child Rapist: JWF
Now It's a Race for Cantor's Seat Or Is It?: PJM

The Ticking IRS IT Department Time Bomb: DTG
Surprise! The Vegas Cop Killers Weren't So Right-Wing After All: Ace
N.Y. lawmaker aims to give voting rights to illegal immigrants: Reuters

Economy

Fourth Turning Accelerating: The Burning Platform
Up to 2MM ObamaCare Enrollees to be Questioned on Subsidies: JWF
From barista to bachelor’s degree … and back to barista: James Pethokoukis

Scandal Central

ICE shipping planeloads of illegal immigrants to Massachusetts: BPR
95% of Illegal Aliens Say They Came for New Amnesty Promise: IJR
Benghazi’s Most Important Whistleblower Just Came Forward: Shoebat

Media

Shorter Krugman: ‘Kool-Aid, Anyone?’: R.S. McCain
Metropolitan Opera romanticizes one NYer’s murder: Ronn Torossian
The Principled Left: iOTW

Only CBS Covers IRS Losing Two Years of Lois Lerner Emails: MRC
Neal Boortz: The IRS scandal is now worse than Watergate: Rare Radio
Liberals in Line to Buy Hillary’s New Book Can’t Name Her Accomplishments: R.S. McCain

Progressives and the Unnecessary Lie: Derek Hunter
Six in 10 Americans Dissatisfied with Obama Administration Handling of 2012 #Benghazi Attack: AmPower
CONFIRMED: Oregon School Shooting Stopped by Armed Resource Officers!: BuzzPo

World

America's Iraq Bet Goes Bust: Ace
ISIS Declares All Guns in Iraq Illegal…Except Those Used by ISIS: Nick Leghorn
Apocalyptic prophecies drive both sides to Syrian battle for end of time: Reuters

Army begins Bowe Bergdahl investigation: Susan Crabtree
'My husband told them we were Christians and they shot him in the head': Daily Mail
Tamaulipas: Important Capture of a Brutal Zeta, "El Ricky": Borderland

This War Isn't Over: Cal Thomas
A Bitter Aftertaste: Thomas Sowell
France Starting to Reckon with Its History of Anti-Semitism?: PJM

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

DARPA Closer to Urban-combat Spidey Soldiers: DefTech
What is Project RoseLine and why did it get $4M in federal money?: GigaOm
The story behind the first Photoshop image: Verge

Cornucopia

Oh what the heck, let’s just bunt it.: MOTUS
Andy McCarthy’s Faithless Execution: David Limbaugh
Michael Schumacher out of coma, transfered to hospital in Lausanne: EuroNews

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QOTD: "You'll notice that the dominoes are getting bigger. The Arab Spring was a sappy delusion in which sentimentalist pap about the "Facebook Revolution" ran up against the hard, cruel reality of the only viable alternatives to the dictators. In Benghazi, the powder-puff illusions were blown apart, but realpolitik cynics could conclude it's not an important town, or even an important country, so what's the big deal? In Syria, we strengthened Russia, Iran and the jihad, but it's mostly Assad's hapless citizens who are on the receiving end, so who cares? Between Aleppo and Tikrit, ISIS redrew the map of the Anglo-French Middle East for the first time since 1922 and created a hardcore jihad state, but hey, we can probably blame that on Bush and Cheney, right?

And so the consequences of a shrunken America metastasize - from jihadist gangs in Benghazi to chemical gas attacks in Syria to the world's wealthiest jihad state in western Iraq to nuclear ayatollahs, the biggest domino of all. Any US-Iranian deal will be like that Bergdahl/Taliban one. The purpose of "cooperation" for the mullahs would be to provide cover for getting them into Iraq, while the purpose of "cooperation" for the Obama Administration would be to provide cover for staying out. So Iranians would be on the ground in the Shia south while a few drones and whatnot would bomb the Sunni Triangle. The bombing raids would end, but the Iranians would remain. And a nuclear Iran would be born not as a global pariah but within the context of a Washington-Teheran rapprochement.

... And what of the dominoes beyond? Thousands of nominally "western" citizens - young men from Britain, Canada, Europe and, yes, America - have swarmed to Syria to join the jihad. In Osama's strong horse/weak horse terms, they're riding high. But one day they'll saddle up and return "home" with their western passports, having acquired lots of new and incendiary skills." --Mark Steyn

Monday, June 16, 2014

JEB BUSH SHOWS UP: Anti-Common Core Protest Breaks Out

Correspondent Amalaur files this report from Cincinnati:

I'm walking downtown to go shopping and spotted a protest a block away in front of a private club. I stopped a passerby and asked what was going on. He said that Jeb Bush was in town and, as he is a Common Core advocate, they had come to register their opposition to the national curriculum.

I then walked over and spoke with some of the protesters. They were anti-Common Core and anti-Amnesty.

THE JOYS OF SINGLE-PAYER: At least 175 Veterans Administration whistleblowers targeted for retribution

Those who lobby for a single-payer health care system must either be: (a) exceedingly rich, having never been to a DMV; or (b) exceedingly dimwitted, having visited a DMV and been ecstatic with the service.

The VA, after all, is the ultimate example of a single-payer health care system. And the VA turns out to be at once both less efficient and more corrupt than any DMV anywhere.

Here’s the latest appalling development in the VA hospitals scandal: Emails, audits, and personal statements reveal a systematic silencing of whistleblowers working inside the agency. The NYT reports that the Office of Special Counsel, the federal agency dedicated to probing whistle-blowing cases, is investigating 37 cases in 19 states in which VA employees were punished for speaking out about the fraud in the system. The Project on Government Oversight, a private organization, reports even more cases: 175 former or current employees have come to them confidentially to detail the abuse at the VA.

The NYT interviewed six of these whistleblowers, and here’s just one example:

Dr. Jacqueline Brecht, a former urologist at the Alaska V.A. Healthcare System in Anchorage, said in an interview that she had a heated argument with administrators at a staff meeting in 2008 when she objected to using phantom appointments to make wait times appear shorter, as they had instructed her. She said that the practice amounted to medical fraud, and complained about other patient care problems as well.

Days later, a top administrator came to Dr. Brecht’s clinic, put her on administrative leave, and had security officers walk her out of the building ... Her complaints were corroborated by other Alaska personnel... Dr. Brecht wrote that administrators “schedule fake patient appointments (i.e. commit FRAUD).” They do so, she wrote, “just so our numbers look good to DC (and the administrators get their bonuses for these numbers).”

This is what the culture of large, closed bureaucratic organizations looks like... [It is certain that] more government control over health care isn’t a shortcut to efficiency and competence, despite what American supporters of European-style single payer systems often suggest.


No, single-payer has absolutely nothing to do with the successful delivery of health care. It has to do with power.

Like gun control, smart meters, the IRS, the IPAB, the CFPB, the NLRB, the EPA... the Democrats crave control over you -- and they will use any means at their disposal to get it.


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IPAB: Obamacare's Unconstitutional 15-Person Death Panel Faces Major Legal Challenge

By Eric Boehm

It might sound like the latest new product from Apple, but IPAB is actually the newest major legal challenge to Obamacare.

Last week, a three-judge panel in the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco heard arguments about the Independent Payment Advisory Board, or IPAB, a 15-member panel created by the Affordable Care Act and empowered to make all kinds of decisions regarding health coverage for Americans. The board’s powers are significant, and some say completely unconstitutional, because language in the ACA frees the board from any kind of congressional or judicial oversight.

The board, which many in the right-wing have labeled the ACA’s “death panel” after Sarah Palin coined the term in 2009, would be able to set Medicare policy and health care payment rates for virtually all Americans starting in 2017. Language in the ACA even prevents Congress from being able to repeal the IPAB’s existence after that same year.

“It’s really and truly an unprecedented concentration of power,” said Christina Sandefur, an lawyer at the Goldwater Institute in Phoenix, Ariz., who argued the case June 10 before the 9th Circuit Court.

Those challenging the legitimacy of the IPAB in the Coons v. Law lawsuit argue that it is unconstitutional for a variety of reasons — in particular, they say it violates the Fourth, Fifth and Ninth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution, while also running afoul of the separation of powers that are enshrined throughout the Constitution.

“It consolidates the powers of every single branch of government into one body, and yet it is unaccountable to any of those branches,” Sandefur told Watchdog.org on Friday.

NOT A SMIDGEN OF A SCANDAL: Benghazi Pilot Says Stevens, Smith, Doherty and Woods Could Have Been Saved

By Investor's Business Daily

Scandal: The pilot who flew the survivors of the Benghazi tragedy to Germany says we could have rescued those who died and that the State Department knew who was attacking as it listened to the terrorists on captured cellphones.

In her book "Hard Choices," Hillary Clinton doubles down on the administration's Benghazi lies, writing that President Obama "gave the order to do whatever was necessary to support our people in Libya. It was imperative that all possible resources be mobilized immediately."

Of the terrorist attackers, Clinton, the originator of the Benghazi video lie, says:

"It is inaccurate to state that every single one of them was influenced by this hateful video. It is equally inaccurate to state that none of them were."

We'd like to introduce the former secretary of state to Eric Stahl, a recently retired major from the U.S. Air Force. Stahl was the commander and pilot who flew the corpses of the four killed at the Benghazi mission — U.S. Ambassador to Libya Chris Stevens, information officer Sean Smith and former Navy SEALs Glen Doherty and Tyrone Woods. Also on board were the survivors of the raid. All were taken to the U.S. military base in Ramstein, Germany.

Stahl, who — like Clinton — was for some strange reason never interviewed by the State Department's Accountability Review Board, says, no, we didn't do whatever was necessary and that none of the survivors knew anything about a spontaneous protest or a video that was put forth by her and by Obama repeatedly as the cause.

In fact, says Stahl, the State Department knew that night it was a terrorist attack.

Stahl told Fox News' Bret Baier that members of a CIA-trained Global Response Staff who raced to the scene of the attacks were "confused" by the administration's repeated implication of the video as a trigger for the raid, because it "knew during the attack ... who was doing the attacking."

The administration knew, according to Stahl, because immediately after leaving the consulate in Benghazi and moving to the (CIA) safe house, there were reports "that cell phones, consulate cell phones, were being used to make calls to the attackers' higher-ups."

Larwyn's Linx: Pirro: I’m Worried – And You should Be Too

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Nation

Pirro: I’m Worried – And You should Be Too: Nice Deb
Can Conservatives Give Labrador a Chance as Majority Leader?: Rod Kackley
‘Good Thing President Nobody Is Running Things’: Camp o' the Saints

How Barack Obama Let the Iranians Bully Him Out of Iraq: Erick Erickson
Daughter Learns Terrorist Behind her Dad’s Death Freed for Bergdahl: RWN
False flag PAC attacks Tea Party challenger to prevent Cantor-style upset: LI

On immigrant surge, White House story falls apart: Byron York
Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper is Lying.: RS
VA Lawmakers Block Medicaid Expansion, but Governor Vows Fight: Signal

Lawyer Hillary Vs The Allegedly Raped Child: S&L
For love of country, impeach Obama: Diana West
SC Requires Teaching the Constitution in Schools… Liberals Go Crazy: ConTrib

Economy

Our Decimated Labor Force: Irwin M. Stelzer
Time Lapse Image of Growing US Political Polarization: Mish
FOMC Preview: More Tapering: Bill McBride

Scandal Central

Federal Appeals Court Strikes Down Warrantless Cellphone Tracking: NewAm
Obama Used Commencement Speech To Attack Americans Who Disagree With Him: LoneCon
Meet The “Minerva Research Initiative”, Pentagon’s Preparation For “Mass Civil Breakdown”: NC Renegade

Media

‘Are you kidding?’ – Mitt Romney calls Hillary ‘clueless’ on Bergdahl traded terrorists: Scoop
Thank God David Gregory is there to grill Mitt Romney and hold him to account for Iraq: Treehouse
Romney blasts Hillary Clinton as 'clueless': Dylan Stableford

In 2007, Romney Predicted Events In Iraq So Accurately He Must Have Had A Time Machine: IJR
Obama’s Favorability Rating in the Basement: Hideout
Cross-Eyed Hillary Appears on Conan O'Brien: TR

Laura Ingraham, Luis Gutierrez Face Off on Immigration, Cantor's Loss: Breitbart
In Today’s America, “Mainstream” Means Left: Star Parker
Hillary told secret service agent who refused to carry her bag to ‘get the f*** away from me’: DailyMail

World

ISIS reportedly engaged in mass murder, other war crimes in Iraq: Moe Lane
The Southern Poverty Law Center Stands Up for Hamas: Daniel Greenfield
Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair Calls for Western Intervention in #Iraq: AmPower

Shia Muslims Distribute Khomeini Photos in Baghdad – 2,000 al-Quds Forces Sent to Baghdad: GWP
Obama Releases another 12 Jihad Terrorists from US Military Prison: FreePost
Rebels’ Fast Strike in Iraq Was Years in the Making: NYT

Obama’s “3,000 lives wasted” in Iraq revisited: DTG
Air Force in 'Stand Down' Position as 100 American Contractors Attacked by ISIS Jihadists: FreePost
How did 800 ISIS fighters rout 2 Iraqi divisions?: MilitaryTimes

ISIS continues march; Marines, Army arrive at embassy; Obama golfed a full round: Scoop
Flashback 2012: When Obama Grilled Mitt Romney For Wanting to Keep Troops in Iraq: RightPundit
ISIS-linked group takes responsibility for kidnapping three teens, including one American, in Israel: JihadWatch

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Amazon's MYSTERY mobe: Can 3D touch tech hype live up to reality?: Register
Why Isn't There A Standard Share Icon?: Fastcodesign
Microsoft’s secret Android patents revealed by Chinese government: Verge

Cornucopia

Arturo Prat Don't Give a S***: The hand of god
Veterans Pose As Illegal Aliens To Get help: BlurBrain
ISIS: Brought to you by NASA Muslim Outreach Program: Cube

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QOTD: "The New York Times would like us to believe that there is a “mainstream” in America today because what “mainstream” means is status quo – don’t rock the boat. Because of the massive growth of government over recent years, today’s status quo means acceptance of a great lurch leftward, which has already occurred.

It sounds so measured and sober to call a candidate “mainstream.”

But “mainstream” is not measured and sober.

It means shrugging your shoulders at $17 trillion in federal debt, $4 trillion in federal spending, and a tax code of over 73,000 pages." --Star Parker

Sunday, June 15, 2014

Some Classy Father's Day Cards

Hmmm, I guess I should've gotten one of these.


As U.S. Evacuates Personnel From Iraqi Embassy; President Leads Robust Response From the Golf Course

Total collapse.

It's something this president seems to excel at. Now Iraq has officially joined the roster of Middle Eastern countries that have exploded into violence under Obama's watch, following Egypt, Syria, Tunisia, Libya, Yemen, Bahrain, and Algeria, to name but a few.

Unfortunately, in this case of Iraq, we may have to prepare for a replay of the evacuation of the embassy in Saigon.

22.27 The Pentagon has issued a statement about the security boost and evacuation at the US Embassy in Baghdad. Staff will be evacuated using commercial, charter and State Department aircraft. The US military also has "airlift assets at the ready" should they be needed, Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said:

The evacuations come as Baghdad itself has come under attack from ISIS forces.

he United States said Sunday it was evacuating some staff from its embassy and beefing up security as deadly explosions rocked the Iraqi capital and advancing militant Islamic insurgents released graphic images appearing to show its fighters massacring captured Iraqi soldiers.

The U.S. State Department said in a statement that an undisclosed number of staffers will be moved to Amman, Jordan, or U.S. consulates elsewhere in Iraq not immediately threatened by the insurgent group, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, or ISIL.

Yes, it's another historic Obama "first"!

It is the first time since the U.S.-led invasion in 2003 that the embassy has drawn down its staffing levels in response to a threat posed by violence, and the redeployment was an indication of the level of concern that the unrest could reach even into the fortress-like Green Zone, where members of the Iraqi government also reside.

Meanwhile, the president is reportedly busy taking care of more urgent priorities:

The restless president, who has compared himself to a caged animal on recent wanderings by declaring the "bear is loose," took a long Father's Day weekend away with his wife and older daughter.

The visit to the desert resort area of Palm Springs is one of the ways Obama has been trying to escape during his sixth year cloistered in the White House.

Obama interspersed his four-day weekend with official duties, including Democratic Party fundraising, a speech on climate change and calls to his national security adviser... As his administration announced that some staff were being evacuated from the Baghdad embassy, Obama was on the golf course.

Well, we wouldn't want a major war breaking out in the Middle East -- with thousands of American personnel at risk -- to interfere with the President's golf game.

Can you believe this guy?


Hat tip: BadBlue News

GOOD NEWS: U.S. "Allies" Are Funding the ISIS Barbarians That Are Leaving Iraq Awash in Blood

Apparently, our beloved President is "fundamentally transforming" others areas of the world, too. Josh Rogin at The Daily Beast reports:

The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), now threatening Baghdad, was funded for years by wealthy donors in Kuwait, Qatar, and Saudi Arabia, three U.S. allies that have dual agendas in the war on terror.


...As ISIS takes over town after town in Iraq, they are acquiring money and supplies including American made vehicles, arms, and ammunition. The group reportedly scored $430 million this week when they looted the main bank in Mosul. They reportedly now have a stream of steady income sources, including from selling oil in the Northern Syrian regions they control, sometimes directly to the Assad regime.

But in the years they were getting started, a key component of ISIS’s support came from wealthy individuals in the Arab Gulf States of Kuwait, Qatar and Saudi Arabia. Sometimes the support came with the tacit nod of approval from those regimes; often, it took advantage of poor money laundering protections in those states, according to officials, experts, and leaders of the Syrian opposition, which is fighting ISIS as well as the regime...

...Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has been publicly accusing Saudi Arabia and Qatar of funding ISIS for months. Several reports have detailed how private Gulf funding to various Syrian rebel groups has splintered the Syrian opposition and paved the way for the rise of groups like ISIS and others...

...Under significant U.S. pressure, the Arab Gulf governments have belatedly been cracking down on funding to Sunni extremist groups, but Gulf regimes are also under domestic pressure to fight in what many Sunnis see as an unavoidable Shiite-Sunni regional war that is only getting worse by the day...

I'm not exactly sure who this ISIS group is, but I suspect the Militant Quakers are behind it.

Ever since Obama came to power, these radical MQ groups seem to be increasingly terrorizing the normally peaceful countries of the Middle East: Egypt, Syria, Gaza, the Sinai, and Iraq, to name but a few. I'm sure that's just a coincidence, however.

Maybe someone should ask CAQR, the Council on American-Quaker Relations.


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Larwyn's Linx: Obama Opens Borders to Mexican Gang Members

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Nation

Obama Opens Borders to Mexican Gang Members: Kellan Howell
3 Obama Contradictions Revealed by the Debacle in Iraq: Robert Spencer
The absurdity of McCarthy replacing Cantor as Majority Leader: Exam

Obama Even Worse Than We Thought: Peter Wehner
6 Reasons Obama Lost Iraq: Ben Shapiro
Obama’s Foreign Policy in one Tweet – by a member of his own staff!: Hideout

Influx of Illegal Alien Minors a Disaster; Overcrowded Shelters and Diseases: JW
Caged, diseased, desperate: Shocking pics of illegal immigrants flooding in: Mail
Is it possible Obama is hoping to goad the GOP into impeaching him?: Lifson

Poor, Poor Hillary: Rick Jensen
Kathleen Willey blasts Hillary’s ‘dead broke’ claim: Bob Unruh
Federal deficit for May 2014: $130 billion: Bankrupting

Economy

Democrats Bank on Heavy Student Loan Debt as Election-year Issue: PJM
How to Live With Your Parents: Thomas Purcell
California Can’t Convince Drivers to Trade in Clunkers for Cash: Signal

Scandal Central

White House Claim that Lerner’s Emails Are “Lost” Is Ludicrous: Power Line
IRS Rules: Lerner Required to Keep Printed Copies of 'Lost' Emails: Blaze
BOOM! IRS Head testified in March that they had Lois Lerner emails: Scoop

Climate & Energy

Baghdad's Fall Would Make Current Gas Prices ‘Look Like A Bargain’: RightPundit
Man Burns Massive Amounts of Fossil Fuel To Complain About “Climate Change”: RWN
Fate of Ukraine-Russia gas talks unclear as deadline looms: Reuters

Media

AP on IRS: No ‘evidence’ of outside pressure to target conservatives: Renee Nal
NEW YORKER’s Ryan Lizza Sorta Gets It About Dave Brat: VDARE
Hillary's already running: Carl Cannon

‘Exhausted’ Obama to drive golf balls as ISIS drives on Baghdad, Twitter erupts: BPR
Adam Carolla Rips "Ambush" Interview With NPR Host: "Speech Is Free Unless You Disagree With Them": RCP
ACTOR JAMES WOODS RIPS ON OBAMA: “Who Could Support This Loser Anymore?”: Clash

Harsh Words Provoke Harsh Reactions: Villainous Company
Correct Number Of Mass School Shootings Since Sandy Hook: ZERO: Bob Owens
NAACP Threatens LifeNews for Reporting Its Abortion Advocacy: LifeNews

World

ISIS terror leader's last words in US detention: "See you in New York": Poor Richard
Iraq War Vet Explains How JACKED UP Iraq Is With Blistering Tweet: Clash
Latest turn in Iraq spreads dismay among US veterans: Edward Colimore, Stripes

Stranded Americans in Iraq: Contractors Evacuating, Embassy Diplomats and Staff to Stay Put: IJR
ISIS Carries Out Gruesome Mass Execution of Shiite Soldiers: WZ
#ISIS Posts Sunni Police Chief Beheading in #WorldCup Tweet — WARNING GRAPHIC: AmPower

Erdogan’s Son Caught with Al-Qaeda Financier: Mead
GRAPHIC: ISIS releases PHOTOS of Mass Executions: Pamela Geller
As south heats up, Iron Dome deployed near Ashdod: Times of Israel

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Hookup App Tinder Gets Coveted Anthony Weiner Endorsement On Twitter: BuzzFeed
CSAIL wireless technology measures heart rate and breathing through walls: MIT
LG G Watch International Giveaway: Darcy LaCouvee

Cornucopia

America’s Families Need Strong Fathers: Marco Rubio
Iraq Islamists Suspend Attack While Obama Rests: Keith Koffler
Holy Cow! How Will You Celebrate Father’s Day?: MOTUS

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QOTD: "President Obama spoke on Iraq earlier today, pledging to do nothing and essentially saying nothing, even as that nation is breaking apart, with Islamic militants overrunning Iraq and vowing to capture Baghdad.

In light of the unfolding disaster in Iraq, which is linked to the unfolding disaster in Syria, which is part of a broader failure in the Middle East, which is only one part of an across-the-board failure in foreign policy, which is separate from the failures at home–including healthcare.gov and ObamaCare more broadly, chronically high unemployment, the stimulus and “shovel ready jobs,” a historically weak economic recovery, the lowest workforce participation rate since the 1970s, increasing income inequality, and record poverty–the following needs to be said. Even those of us who were highly critical of Mr. Obama early on, who twice voted against him and worked in campaigns to defeat him, could not envision how epically incompetent he would be.

The harm this man has done is immeasurable. And he still has more than two years left to go.

Mr. Obama belongs in a category all his own." --Peter Wehner

Saturday, June 14, 2014

KIM JONG OBAMA: I Forbid Congress From Photographing Any Illegal Alien Refugee Centers

I don't think the word "transparency" means what President Obama thinks it does.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is welcoming members of Congress and their senior staff to tour a temporary shelter being used to house illegal immigrant children — but the invite comes with a list of rules, including a suggestion that members leave their cellphones in their vehicles.

...The tours are meant to give members and staffers an inside look at how temporary facilities are being used to house illegal immigrant children who came to the U.S. without their parents. The minors, who hail mostly from El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala, are being called “Unaccompanied Children,” or UACs.

Sent to members of Congress and staff by Rose Hacking, of the office of the assistant secretary of legislation at HHS, the invitation comes with the following commands:

No recording devices will be allowed (We may ask you to leave your cellphone in our vehicle)
No questions will be allowed during the tour, but questions will be addressed later
• No interacting with staff and children at the shelter
• We will provide photos of the facility after the tour

...one congressional staffer invited to tour the facility called the planned tours “a dog and pony show... Don’t talk to anyone, don’t record anything you might happen to see, but come visit us and we’ll give you a sanitized story with only the photos and accounts we want you to have,” said the staffer, who requested anonymity.

This isn’t some totalitarian closed society trying this tactic, this is our own government! They clearly wouldn’t be offering up this kind of dog and pony show if they weren’t hiding a very ugly truth somewhere.”

The UACs are part of an unprecedented surge of young immigrants that has overwhelmed immigration agencies at the southern Texas border.

This humanitarian refugee crisis -- something you would normally see in Third World countries -- is the product of Barack Obama's purposeful evisceration of America's immigration laws. Bound by his oath of office to enforce them, Obama has instead chosen to open up America's borders to any and all. Cartel members, the infirm, the disease-ridden, pedophiles, MS-13 members, burglars, the poverty-stricken... no passports, no background checks, no customs inspection, no waiting line, nothing.

All are welcome in Obama's America, no matter the consequences.


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10 Things the Incompetent Buffoon Dave Camp Should Do Right Now to Handle the IRS's "Missing Emails"

Lois Lerner, the malevolent hack who used her position at the IRS to target conservative and pro-Israel groups, was recently held in Contempt of Congress. But the IRS cover-up of her activities continues unabated.

As you may know, the IRS claimed late yesterday that all of Lois Lerner's emails with parties outside the agency were destroyed in an unfortunate and untimely hard-drive crash.

House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-Mich.) on Friday said it was “unacceptable” that he was just learning of this problem now, after a lengthy investigation into Lerner’s involvement in the IRS targeting scandal... “The fact that I am just learning about this, over a year into the investigation, is completely unacceptable and now calls into question the credibility of the IRS’s response to congressional inquiries,” he said. “There needs to be an immediate investigation and forensic audit by Department of Justice as well as the Inspector General.”

Gee, since the DOJ was implicated in the IRS scandal, I'm sure we can count on Eric Holder to spearhead a bold, independent "forensic audit" of the disks in question. What a bunch of nincompoops.

Oh, and the brilliant investigator Darrell "Inspector" Issa was equally peeved.

House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) indicated that he doesn’t believe the IRS is telling the truth... “Do they really expect the American people to believe that, after having withheld these emails for a year, they’re just now realizing the most critical time period is missing?”

This kind of rank incompetence is precisely why Johnny Boehner should have named a Select Committee on the IRS.

In lieu of that rational step, may I offer these clownish fools some instructions for dealing with this criminal behavior.

1. Terry V. Milholland served as the IRS Chief Technology Officer during the years in question and was responsible for all IT activities. Subpoena Milholland now.

2. David Stender served as Associate CIO for Cybersecurity and Chief Information Security Officer at the IRS during the years in question. Subpoena Stender now.

3. Robert N. Crawford served as the Associate Chief Information Officer for Enterprise Services at the IRS during the years in question. Subpoena Crawford now.

4. Lauren Buschor served as the Associate Chief Information Officer for Enterprise Operations at the IRS during the years in question. Subpoena Buschor now.

5. The IRS uses Microsoft Exchange as its email platform. Subpoena the administrator of that system now.

6. Immediately subpoena all backup tapes of the email system, probably held at an Iron Mountain facility, for the years 2010 through 2013

7. Prepare a list of questions for each of the IT executives to include, at a minimum, the following:
      a) Given the redundant infrastructure, disaster recovery and business continuity facilities, and other preparations designed to maintain the IRS's technical operations, describe how the agency could state that a small fraction of the email related to Lois Lerner could be reported as "destroyed".
      b) Describe the logical architecture of backups for the Exchange system including DR sites, offline storage of backup tapes, etc.
      c) Describe the interval of full and incremental backups for the Exchange system.
      d) Describe a scenario in which all backups from Lerner for the years in question could be destroyed.

8. Immediately subpoena all disk drives said to have "crashed".

9. Put each of these officials under oath immediately.

10. Begin forensic investigations of the drives and backup tapes.

How hard was that?

Apparently too hard for the establishment Republican buffoons, who probably want to see a weaponized IRS target conservatives.


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Is America on the brink of economic and social collapse?: David Solway
Vet J.R. Salzman: ‘Why did you throw our sacrifices away?’: Twitchy
AZ to Congress: End 'Unconscionable...Manufactured' Border Crisis: Breitbart

While America Sleeps, A New Era of Terror in America Unfolds: Sara Noble
My Father and Hospitalists: Janine Turner
Fail: Twitchy

Cochran's “Indecent Acts With Animals” Earns $825k from McConnell: Riehl
Thad Cochran: Forget That I Forgot What I Forgot, I Did!: Dan Riehl
Rep. Kevin McCarthy's Immigration-Reduction Report Card: NUSA

5 Disastrous Obama Decisions That Blew Up In His Face: John Hawkins
Debt is No Salvation: Peter Schiff
Liberals Mourn Cantor : John Fund

Scandal Central

A Terrorist Released For Bowe Bergdahl Has A Role In 9/11: Hot Air
IRS claims to have lost key Lois Lerner emails: Moe Lane
DOD linked Benghazi attack to Al Qaeda 2 Days after attack: Dan Riehl

Did The IRS Really Lose Lois Lerner's Emails? Let a Special Prosecutor Find Them: Ron Fournier
Dang! IRS says Lois Lerner's emails done got wiped out in one of them there computer crashes: John Hayward
Rep. Jason Chaffetz: IRS testified that Lois Lerner’s emails were archived: Twitchy

Climate & Energy

EPA Wants To Control Puddles, Little Streams, Backyard Ponds: LoneCon

Media

15 Myths Millennials Accept as Fact: Taki's Mag
Columbine Survivor Pens Open Letter To Obama About Gun Control: Yehuda Remer
Online Journalism Is Suffering Print's Fate: Megan McArdle

Mark Levin: What Kind Of Mind In The White House Would Release Five Mass Murders: Breitbart
Incomie Inequality: Chelsea Clinton’s Salary For Doing Nothing Will Shock You: Sooper
Obama’s image hits record lows in trio of polls: Sean Sullivan, WaPo

World

Terrorist leading the ISIS rampage in Iraq was released from custody by Obama admin in 2009: Poor Richard
From Iraq to Ukraine: The disaster of Obama's world: Commentator
A Guide to ISIS, the Group That’s Tearing Up Iraq: DefenseOne

Amid Iraq Crisis, Kerry Flies to London to Recite Poetry: DC
Palin on Border Crisis: Congress Lacks Guts to Impeach 'Tyrant' Obama over Lawlessness: Breitbart
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Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

New Ruling Shows the NSA Can’t Legally Justify Its Phone Spying Anymore: Wired
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Even better than an app?: Seth Godin

Cornucopia

The Regals Have Landed: MOTUS
SCUM ALERT: Man Who Left Gun In Target Toy Department Identified By Police: Bob Owens
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Friday, June 13, 2014

PILOT WHO RESCUED DOZENS AT BENGHAZI: A Competent Administration Would Have Saved Those Who Died

By Helle Dale


The pilot who flew the plane carrying U.S. diplomatic and CIA personnel from Benghazi, Libya, to U.S. military base Ramstein in Germany on September 12, 2012, broke his silence this week.

His eyewitness account further undermines the Obama administration’s false narrative of the Benghazi terrorist attack.

In an interview with Fox News’s Bret Baier, Eric Stahl, who recently retired as a major in the U.S. Air Force and whoserved as commander and pilot of the C-17 aircraft, made three revelations critically important to the investigation of the Benghazi Select Committee:

1. The CIA staff revealed that they overheard in real time the Benghazi attackers communicating with each other on U.S. State Department cell phones, presumably picked up as they rampaged through the compound. Their communications suggested nothing but a well-coordinated attack. For that reason, the people who were actually on the ground were mystified by the suggestions coming from Washington that there had been an anti-video demonstration in progress.

2. Upon arriving at Ramstein, the survivors were not questioned by the FBI initially, but instead were led away by U.S. ambassador to Germany Philip D. Murphy to be debriefed that same evening. The Select Committee will want to know what, if any, instructions they were given.

3. Finally, Stahl believes that a rescue attempt could have been made out of Ramstein. Rescuers could potentially have arrived in time to fight back the attack on the CIA Benghazi annex that erupted in the early morning and led to the deaths of Navy SEALs Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty. He also logically questions the U.S. military posture in Europe and the Middle East on the anniversary of September 11.

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Dan Riehl gives us a stunning insight into the doddering old fool towering intellect that is RINO incumbent Thad Cochran:

What would Mitch McConnell and his establishment buddies do with a so-called Tea party candidate who bragged about doing “indecent acts with animals”? Because Thad Cochran did it and they not only support him, Mitch McConnell just raised $825,000 dollars for him at a DC fundraiser... “It was an adventure to be out there in the country and to see what goes on,” Cochran said. “Doing all kinds of indecent things to animals.”

And Karl Rove and the rest of the RINO establishment losers dare to complain about stupid comments by Todd Akin? Will they renounce Cochran and support Chris McDaniel, a real Constitutional Conservative? No, of course not. Because they're losers and hypocrites -- the very same halfwits who told us Mitt Romney was the only one who could win in 2012. And that John McCain was the only one who could win four years earlier.

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BILL WHITTLE: Why Benghazi Matters

Here's a portion of Bill Whittle's latest epic Firewall:

Before we get into what Benghazi is, let’s address what it isn’t. It isn’t irrelevant, it isn’t trivial, and it isn’t a “witch hunt” as many prominent Democrats and their supporters desperately want you to believe.

For example, this graphic has been going viral: It shows the date and location of ten embassy or consular attacks during the Bush presidency, with a total of 60 people dead and the number of outraged Republicans set at zero; therefore these attacks happen frequently, therefore Benghazi is a hypocritical, witch hunt staged simply to get Barack Obama and Hilary Clinton.

Unfortunately for the millions of people who have seen this graphic and passed it on, one of them – at least one – knows how to read, think and research.

Kyle Becker, at the Independent Journal Review, took a look at each of these ten attacks. In eight of them, the total number of Americans killed was – zero. It is not the responsibility of the US State Department and the President of the United States to protect the lives of foreign nationals, no matter how tragic or common these attacks may be. Their job is to protect American citizens and especially Consular personnel living abroad.

In 2003, a truck bomb killed 36 people, including nine American defense contractors. President Bush immediately called it a terrorist attack, the Saudis investigated and killed two of the attackers in the raids that followed.

On March 2, 2006, in Karachi, Pakistan, a suicide bomber killed 4, including an American diplomat named David Foy. It was instantly denounced as a terror attack; there were no advance calls for additional security; Mr. Foy was killed instantly with no possibility of rescue; and there was no cover-up or attempt to spin it other than what it was.

Every day in America there are over 6,000 burglaries. But one break-in may be more important than the others, because one of those burglaries – Watergate -- may go directly to the lawfulness, integrity and candor of the President of the United States of America.

Benghazi matters, because it goes directly to the two most important qualities in our elected officials: Competence, and Character.

Let’s go to competence first:

SMART POWER: Obama's Feckless Foreign Policy Threatens to Set the Entire Middle East on Fire

By Investor's Business Daily

Geopolitics: From Syria to Iraq to Afghanistan to Pakistan, the jihadist dream of a caliphate stretching from the Atlantic to the Himalayas is taking shape. It's aided by a feckless foreign policy not seen since Neville Chamberlain.

As President Obama learns about it in the newspapers, the Islamic State of Iraq and Greater Syria (ISIS) is dismembering Iraq, adding Saddam Hussein's birthplace of Tikrit to the list of cities once liberated by the U.S. that are now flying jihadist flags. The war on terrorism is over all right, and Obama lost it.

An American official has told The Blaze that the U.S. Embassy, United Nations and other foreign organizations with a presence in Iraq are "preparing contingency plans to evacuate employees." We might soon see helicopters on the roof of our embassy in Baghdad in a scene reminiscent of the last days of Saigon as Iraq becomes Obama's Vietnam.

Unlike Vietnam, ISIS is not interested in liberating the homeland from colonial oppressors. ISIS and other radical Islamists have long proclaimed a goal of restoring a pan-Islamic state, a caliphate that extends from the Mediterranean coast to the Iranian border. One such Islamic empire, in the seventh century, spanned the Middle East, spread to Southwest Asia, North Africa and Spain, ending with the Mongol sack of Baghdad in 1258.

The largest and most powerful rebel force in Syria is Jabhat al-Nusra, with 7,000 fighters. It's a branch of al-Qaida in Iraq, from which it has received regular payments.

"It's now time to declare in front of the people of the Levant and (the) world that the al-Nusra Front is but an extension of the Islamic State in Iraq and part of it," Iraqi al-Qaida leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is quoted as saying recently in a piece on AlArabiya.net.

"This (ISIS' rise in Iraq) is of great significance," according to an assessment released Wednesday by the Soufan Group, a private security company. A restored caliphate will attract "many more disaffected young people ... from all over the Muslim world, especially the Middle East, lured by nostalgia for al-Khulafa al-Islamiya (the Islamic caliphate), which remains a potent motivator for Sunni extremists."