Sunday, June 22, 2014
TRY THIS ONE WEIRD TRICK TO SLASH YOUR TAXES!
Comrades!
This weird trick can help reduce any penalties or survive any audit by the glorious IRS.
When confronted by the Auditors of Redistribution, one must simply state: "I have lost my tax records from the past seven years due to a computer glitch." That statement will be unarguable from their standpoint.
Forward Comrades! The fundamental transformation of the IRS continues!
Read more at The People's Cube
THE FEDS ARE RIGHT: There really is no inflation (unless you count food, gas, electricity and everything else)
Have you noticed that prices are going up rapidly? If so, you are certainly not alone. But Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen, the Obama administration and the mainstream media would have us believe that inflation is completely under control and exactly where it should be. Perhaps if the highly manipulated numbers that they quote us were real, everything would be fine. But of course the way that the inflation rate is calculated has been changed more than 20 times since the 1970s, and at this point it bears so little relation to reality that it is essentially meaningless. Anyone that has to regularly pay for food, water, gas, electricity or anything else knows that inflation is too high. In fact, if inflation was calculated the same way that it was back in 1980, the inflation rate would be close to 10 percent right now.
But you would never know that listening to Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen. In the video posted below, you can listen to her telling the media that there is absolutely nothing to be concerned about...
And it is really hard to get too upset with Janet Yellen.
After all, she reminds many people of a sweet little grandmother.
But the reality of the matter is that she is simply not telling us the truth. Everywhere we look, prices are aggressively moving higher.
Just the other day, the Bureau of Labor Statistics announced that the price index for meat, poultry, fish, and eggs has just soared to a new all-time high.
This is something that I have repeatedly warned would happen. Just check out this article and this article.
And it isn't just meat prices that are going up. One of the largest coffee producers in the entire world just announced that it is going to be raising coffee prices by 9 percent...
Larwyn's Linx: The Golden Age of Government under Emperor Obama
Nation
The Golden Age of Government under Emperor Obama: AceObama’s Metastasizing Culture of Lawlessness: Keith Koffler
Obama Steps Up ‘Asylum and Release’ of Illegal Immigrants: Sara Noble
DHS advises ‘alien children’ escorts: ‘Do not handcuff family units’: Renee Nal
Mass graves with bodies of immigrants discovered in South Texas: Fox
Sheriff Paul Babeu: Obama 'Doesn't Get It' on Illegal Immigrant Crisis: Max
Declarations Of War: Liberty's Torch
Jew-hating wing of Presbyterian Church gives divestment game away.: Moe Lane
Huelskamp: Final Goal of Gay Marriage: Destroy Institution of Marriage: CNS
Is the Mississippi GOP Corrupt?: R.S. McCain
Inside the Obamas vs. ‘Hildebeest’ Clintons feud: Edward Klein
Florida governor signs five pro-gun measures into law: Chris Eger
Economy
What Piketty Didn't Say - 13 Facts They Don't Tell You About Economics: ZHNick Rahall (D-WV) tries the mediscare play: Jazz Shaw
GM quality manager warned board of serious problems in 2002: AutoNews
Scandal Central
IRS contracted with email archiving company in 2005: Thomas LifsonEvery Senior V.A. Executive Was Rated ‘Fully Successful’ or Better Over 4 Years: Instapundit
America’s expanding police state: Tammy Bruce
CPFB Grants Itself Authority to Shut Down Any Business at Anytime: Katie Pavlich
Six Facts You Should Know About Unaccompanied Minors: Joe Guzzardi
Congressional Dems Bully Washington Redskins, Ignore Obama Scandals: Sara Noble
Climate & Energy
Jon Stewart Knows The Best Way To Turn Skeptics Into Climate Change Alarmists: CoveClimate Change Is A Moral Issue For People Of Faith Or Something: Cove
Melting Yukon ices reveals 5,000-year-old archaeological treasures: MacLeans
Media
U.S. Media Being Restricted From Covering Mass Border Crossings Of Illegals: WZWas Dinesh D’Souza’s Book Banned from the New York Times Bestseller List?: Rick Moran
Comedian Michael McDonald has career advice for the arrogant IRS chief: Twitchy
Liberal Media Bias Is Alive And Well: Rick Jensen
Gov. Scott Walker Responds to Media Coverage: Ace
Rangel’s Re-Election Campaign Holding “Uncle Charlie’s Flash Mob Dance Party”: WZ
World
Al Qaeda Hits Baghdad —- Obama Hits the Beach: Daniel GreenfieldThe Hard Lessons of Iraq: Michael Reagan
Mosul's Christians Say Goodbye: Christian Cary
Official White House Readout: Obama Didn’t Mention Jailed Marine with Mexican President: RWN
Shadowy Iranian spy chief helped plan the Benghazi attack: Kenneth R. Timmerman
Ten questions Hillary Clinton should be asked but probably never will: RWN
A few more data points. England, justice and islam: Vlad Tepes
South Korean soldier goes "postal" killing 5 and wounding 5 others in "work place violence": Rob Janicki
Stealth Jihad Meets PC America: William Kilpatrick
Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)
"ISIS taking down a Shī'a mausoleum in ar-Raqqa province Syria": RedditResearchers get closer to solving lithium-ion battery life degradation: VentureBeat
Where Will The Next Pandemic Come From? And How Can We Stop It?: PopSci
Cornucopia
The Obama Death List: A Staggering Account of Suspicious Deaths and ‘Working Theories’: AngleThis is the way the ‘Aussies’ do it: Trenches
Wife of Jeremy Meeks, 'handsome mug shot' subject, is 'furious' at Internet attention, report says: Fox
Image: Inside the Obamas vs. ‘Hildebeest’ Clintons feud
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QOTD: "Lately, Bill Clinton has become convinced that Obama won’t endorse Hillary in 2016. During a gathering at Whitehaven, guests overheard Bill talking to his daughter Chelsea about whether the president would back Joe Biden.
“Recently, I’ve been hearing a different scenario from state committeemen,” Clinton said. “They say he’s looking for a candidate who’s just like him. Someone relatively unknown. Someone with a fresh face.
“He’s convinced himself he’s been a brilliant president, and wants to clone himself — to find his Mini-Me.
“He’s hunting for someone to succeed him, and he believes the American people don’t want to vote for someone who’s been around for a long time. He thinks that your mother and I are what he calls ‘so 20th century.’ He’s looking for another Barack Obama.”" --Edward Klein, Blood Feud
Saturday, June 21, 2014
SCANDAL: Young, "Easily Identifiable" Cartel Gangbangers Being Released Into U.S. Neighborhoods by Obama
The short-term ramifications, however, will be equally serious. Writing at Western Journalism, B. Christopher Agree explains:
The recent rise in unaccompanied minors illegally crossing America’s southern border in recent weeks has led to serious criticism of existing immigration laws and lax border security. While the influx is seen by many as a symbol of a broken system, however, a large number of Americans still believe officials should allow these children to stay in this country and reunite with family members already here.
A recent revelation by authorities might just change some minds.According to an investigation by Action 4 News in Harlingen, Texas, underage gang members are being released without supervision into American neighborhoods near the border and beyond. San Juan Police Chief Juan Gonzalez explained that such a policy could have tragic consequences in our society ... “They are not your average person that wants to better their lives,” he said.
The majority of these thugs are easily identifiable, according to the National Border Patrol Council ... “they are usually pretty predominant with their tattoos,” noting they typically display “a lot of face tattoos.”
Nevertheless, when gangsters under the age of 17 – and without a U.S. criminal history – are detained by border guards, they are subsequently sent on their way, free to terrorize American neighborhoods.
...“We know that the MS-13 [gang] has a lot of factions here in the U.S.,” he confirmed. “We know they are all over the U.S.”
Their numbers are only increasing, the report found, as gang leaders in Mexico recognize they can send their youngest members across the border with a virtual guarantee that they will be integrated into our society ... Concerns about increased violence associated with America’s current open borders policy are only compounded by reports that illegals are bringing with them diseases that were all but eradicated in America.
In short, this administration is releasing violent, hardened criminals into the United States, an act that would normally see members of both parties calling for impeachment.
That was in the old days, when we had a real Democrat Party and Republicans with some spine in them.
Those days appear to be long gone.
Hat tips: BadBlue News and B.B.
WHY THE COVER-UP, MR. SMIDGEN? Trail of "Lost" IRS Emails Leads Directly to White House
Scandal: One of the seven people, including Lois Lerner who lost emails from the period of Tea Party targeting by the IRS, served as chief of staff to former IRS head Steven Miller. She also made 35 visits to the White House.
The funny thing about emails is that they are never orphans. When you send one, there's always a recipient who has his or her own copy. The "lost" Lois Lerner emails had recipients. How about subpoenas to all of them during the Tea Party targeting period? That should help find what we need to know — or maybe not.
It seems six more IRS officials have lost critical emails from that period, a seeming statistical impossibility that shouts out a conspiracy to obstruct justice, and more violations of the Federal Records Act, which requires paper copies of these emails to be printed and stored just in case of computer problems.
One of those officials who received Lerner emails and also lost them was Nikole Flax, chief of staff to former IRS Commissioner Steven Miller. Miller, who was fired in the wake of the targeting scandal, visited the White House more than most Cabinet members.
Flax, as the Daily Caller reports, "made 31 visits to the White House between July 12, 2010, and May 8, 2013, according to White House visitor logs."
While not quite as numerous as another former IRS Commissioner, Douglas Shulman, who made some 118 visits — including one he testified was for the Easter egg roll on the White House lawn — Flax's visits dovetail nicely with key points in the IRS scandal.
GOOD NEWS: Radical Anti-Gun Mayor Bloomberg Pours a Quarter Million Dollars Into Thad Cochran's Campaign
Michael Bloomberg just gave Mississippi gun owners 250,000 more reasons to vote for Chris McDaniel in the Republican primary runoff election.
Bloomberg, who has pledged to spend $50 million to push gun control this year, put a quarter of a million dollars into a “super pac” that’s supporting the incumbent, Thad Cochran.
With just one week to go before the election, the other side is obviously getting nervous and is going all out to prop up the establishment candidate.
But Gun Owners of America is all in for Chris McDaniel, a state senator with a record of standing up for your gun rights.
McDaniel will be more than just a good vote in Washington – he will be a pro-gun leader.
McDaniel’s record in the legislature earned him GOA’s highest rating. Here are a few things McDaniel accomplished recently:
- * Sponsored the Mississippi Firearms Freedom Act.
- * Sponsored a concealed carry reciprocity bill that was signed into law.
- * Co-sponsored legislation expanding concealed carry in three consecutive years.
- * Sponsored a “tax holiday” for gun owners and sportsmen in 2012.
These are the bold, principled stances we need U.S. Senators taking while in Washington, D.C.
There are already too many wall flowers in the Senate who won’t stand up to Barack Obama and Harry Reid. We need more fighters.
That’s why GOA is supporting Chris McDaniel in this election next Tuesday.
And that’s why I’m asking you to get involved today.
Please visit Chris McDaniel online and chip in $5, $10, or $20 to help this pro-Second Amendment warrior.
We may not be able to keep up with Bloomberg’s millions, but if gun owners across the country unite behind Chris, he will be able to keep his message on the airwaves to get voters to the polls.
So please go to McDaniel’s website today to join in this important battle.
Larwyn's Linx: ISIS now mocking Obama with #BringBackOurHumvees
Nation
ISIS now mocking Obama with #BringBackOurHumvees: FAMOvercrowding, Filthy Conditions at Illegal Alien Detention Centers in AZ, TX: AmPower
Angry Virginians Say 'No' to Obama's Plan to House Illegals: Breitbart
"Lost" Emails IRS Exec Visited White House 30 Times: Katie Pavlich
IRS’s Own Employee Manual Proves They Are Lying: iOTW
Trail Of Lost IRS Emails Might Lead To White House: IBD
Le Deluge - Obama is Quickly Becoming Louis XV: Bill Whittle
Obama Threatened Veto of Spending Bill Over McConnell Amendment.: Instapundit
One Graphic: Hillary Clinton’s State Department Accomplishments: Sooper
Comical Spin Following The Trouncing Of Eric Cantor: RWN
Are The Two Political Parties About To Crack Up?: RWN
"Warren Wing" Pushes Democrats To Far Left as Moderates Purged: WZ
Mexican Army Troops In Arizona, Shooting at U.S. Citizens: GunsSave
Texas Militia Arrives at the Border: Angle
4 more MS-13 members charged in violent racketeering conspiracy: GSN
Scandal Central
“White House Learned of Lerner’s Crashed Hard Drive 6 Weeks Before Congress”: PWObama Megadonor Indicted For Manslaughter And Other Stuff: Chuck Ross
Unraveling Benghazi: Is Mike Rogers Part Of The Problem?: Micah Morrison
IRS Chief: ‘I Don’t Think an Apology Is Owed’ for Lost Emails: Blaze
‘This Is Unbelievable…Nobody Believes You’: Paul Ryan Unloads on IRS Commissioner: Blaze
Congressman Steve Stockman introduces "The Dog Ate My Tax Receipts Act": WyBlog
Climate & Energy
“Scared to death for our country”: Energy exec says Obama killing low-cost energy with EPA: ScoopMedia
New Poll Finds 65 Percent of Americans Reject Obama on #Immigration: AmPowerGallup: Only 31% of Americans Approve Of Obama's Handling of Immigration: Lid
Kim Strassel and the WSJ on the Lost IRS Emails: Walter Olson
Bret Favre encourages Mississipi voters to stand with Thad Cochran; liberty will fight back: PW
Black Pastor on Obama: ‘This is the Most Immoral President We’ve Ever Had’: TPNN
Why Comedian Is Completely Fed Up With MSNBC: Blaze
World
Liar-in-Chief Barack Obama Claims #Iraq Troop Withdrawal 'Wasn't a Decision Made by Me...': AmPowerWhy The Democrats Own Iraq Now: Instapundit
Oh, Senator John McCain, you gots some 'splaining to do!: The Immoral Minority
Seeing the UN Plain: Corruption as a Way of Life: DiploMad
Collapse--Part II, The Rise of the M3: DiploMad
ISIS Holds Public Execution Celebration Complete With Music and Small Children Watching: GWP
A ‘new anti-Semitism’ rising in France: WaPo
Poll: Vets Overwhelmingly Prefer George W. Bush Over Obama As Commander In Chief: WZ
NYPD headquarters turned into pre-Ramadan taqiyya fest: Creeping
Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)
WSJ: Apple planning multiple iWatch models with as many as 10 health-related sensors: 9to5MacDHS IG finds security flaws in system that produces RFID-enabled 'green' cards: FiercGovIT
Google’s Nest will buy security camera startup Dropcam for $555 million: AndroidAuthority
Cornucopia
Obama Executive Order: Girlfriends, close associates to be buried in National Cemeteries: CDNObama in 3D: Even Better Than the Real Thing: MOTUS
Supercharged Ferrari which won top races in the 1950s on sale for record-breaking £10m: DailyMail
Image: One Graphic: Hillary Clinton’s State Department Accomplishments
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QOTD: "The problem is not one regime or another. The problem is not creating yet another Arab state in "Palestine." The problem is not our insensitivity. The problem is Arab Islam. The deep, deep pathologies of Arab Islamic societies are out for all to see . . . yet again. And our great, overpaid liberal mass media with all their highly "educated" anchors and pundits, what are they covering? They are attacking Governor Romney for daring to say that we should never apologize for our core beliefs. The media and many at State, including the increasingly unhinged Hillary Clinton, claim that the unrest we now see in the Arab world, unrest which takes the form of attacking US embassies and murdering our people, is due to some obscure video made in July by some obscure person who has yet to be fully identified. Perhaps, then, it was in anticipation of this film that Osama bin-Ladin had his crazies fly planes into the Pentagon and the World Trade Center?" --W. Lewis Amselem, 2012
Friday, June 20, 2014
The Intrigue Behind Iraq's Meltdown
Events in Iraq over the past week were perhaps best crystallized in a series of photos produced by the jihadist group the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant. Sensationally called The Destruction of Sykes-Picot, the pictures confirmed the group's intent to upend nearly a century of history in the Middle East.
In a series of pictures set to a purring jihadist chant, the mouth of a bulldozer is shown bursting through an earthen berm forming Iraq's northern border with Syria. Keffiyeh-wrapped rebels, drained by the hot sun, peer around the edges of the barrier to observe the results of their work. The breach they carved was just wide enough for the U.S.-made, Iraqi army-owned and now jihadist-purloined Humvees to pass through in single file. While a charter outlining an antiquated interpretation of Sharia was being disseminated in Mosul, #SykesPicotOver trended on jihadist Twitter feeds. From the point of view of Iraq's jihadist celebrities, the 1916 borders drawn in secret by British and French imperialists represented by Sir Mark Sykes and Francois Georges-Picot to divide up Mesopotamia are not only irrelevant, they are destructible.
Today, the most ardent defenders of those colonial borders sit in Baghdad, Damascus, Ankara, Tehran and Riyadh while the Europeans and Americans, already fatigued by a decade of war in this part of the world, are desperately trying to sit this crisis out. The burden is on the regional players to prevent a jihadist mini-emirate from forming, and beneath that common purpose lies ample room for intrigue.
WISCONSIN'S SECRET WAR: Humiliated in court, Democrats take their lawless "probe" to the media
MADISON, Wis. — Smacked by two judges in their legal effort to take down Gov. Scott Walker, prosecutors in Wisconsin’s secret John Doe investigation have taken their case to the friendlier court of mainstream media.
Citing 268 pages of documents released Thursday, the Associated Press and the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel laid out the prosecution’s argument that conservative organizations and others illegally coordinated political activities with Gov. Scott Walker.
Looking at the same documents, two judges have already ruled that John Doe prosecutors have absolutely no evidence of wrongdoing.
U.S. District Court Judge Rudolph Randa, who last month shut down the investigation through a preliminary injunction, described the prosecutors’ claims against Walker as “simply wrong.”
“The prosecutors’ coordination conspiracy is the conspiracy to do things that are not only legal, but are absolutely protected by the U.S. Constitution,” said a legal expert with knowledge of the lawsuits. The source asked not to be identified due to his proximity to the case.
The documents, selected by prosecutors for the 7th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals, provide the public’s first real look at the well-organized liberal effort to unseat Walker.
As Obama hollows out our military and the Middle East burns...
Thanks @TheLadyValor for helping DIA celebrate #LGBT #PrideMonth this week! http://t.co/lhmCIgk2dI pic.twitter.com/ApoyEXgg18
— DIA (@DefenseIntel) June 20, 2014I'm sure our warriors are horrified at the spectacle this "CINC" has made of our armed forces.
A person's sexual preference is immaterial to the armed forces.
News flash: the military is not a laboratory for experiments in social engineering.
Its function is protect the national security interests of the United States. Which fully explains Obama's priorities.
Hat tip: BadBlue News.
IT'S COME TO THIS: Senile, Doddering Beltway GOP Begs Democrats to Support Thad Cochran in MS Primary
Today’s news tells us that Senator John McCain is going to be stumping for Thad Cochran in Mississippi, in his Senate primary runoff with State Senator Chris McDaniel.
John McCain, Mitch McConnell, Haley Barbour, and Thad Cochran against Sarah Palin, Rick Santorum, Chris McDaniel, The Club For Growth, FreedomWorks, Senate Conservatives, talk radio’s Constitutional Conservative Mark Levin, Sean Hannity, and throngs of teenage volunteers. The Cochran campaign, beleaguered by his own words about doing indecent things to animals, not knowing what happened to Eric Cantor in Virginia, and testaments to nice guy Obama and from Harry Reid, are bringing in more examples of the problem in Washington to fight the liberty message of the people of the State of Mississippi.If put on a stage together, you could clearly see the status quo versus the remedy, the septuagenarians of spending versus the ferocious freedom-fighters, the impotent versus the potent, the problem versus the solution.
But few know the true back story on this race. It was Cochran who didn’t want to run, but was pushed to, by the Mississippi and DC elite. It was McDaniel who defied Barbour on his plans for Mississippi’s educators, and stood for Mississippi law. Barbour has it in for McDaniel, and has lied about him repeatedly to save the seat for a couple of years so that Barbour’s Mississippi machine could fill a vacancy. All they have to do is get past this runoff.
The Cochran campaign is using Democratic operatives to try to get Democrats to vote for him in the primary, a move that is, as I understand it, against Mississippi law. Barbour is working hand-in-hand as a lobbyist, with Democrat radicals to move forward on amnesty. It was Haley Barbour, who, in 2001, prior to becoming Governor, worked as a lobbyist for the Mexican government, even though he denied it, on issues, ‘including “immigration/human capital” and “treatment of Mexican citizens who cross the border,’” according to the LA Times.
Larwyn's Linx: Mark Levin, Eric Cantor, and the Media Cocoon
Nation
Mark Levin, Eric Cantor, and the Media Cocoon: Jeffrey LordPolitician, Heal Thyself: Jon Gabriel
ISIS celebrates Pro-Caliphate Muslim DHS Adviser: Ace
Feds Advertised In Jan. For 'Escorts' For 65,000 Illegal Alien Children: WZ
Outrageous: Obama Hatched Illegal Immigration Scheme in Jan.: Sara Noble
Obama’s Manufactured Border Crisis: Bethany Stotts
The naked self-interest of the bureaucratic class: Jonah Goldberg
Obama: ‘Our Future Rests’ On The Success Of DREAM Kids: NRO
Rick Perry Unloads On President Obama’s Failure To Secure Border: DC
What Tradition Is Barbour and Cochran Protecting?: Jen Kuznicki
NY-22: Laughable Lies of Liberal Republicans: Michelle Malkin
Mike Lee, Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz Chart ‘Road to Majority’: Josh Siegel
Economy
Rodney King, baby: EBT recipients threaten riots after card outage: Allen WestYou Work, They Eat: MB
How Small-Business Friendly is Your City and State?: Mish
Scandal Central
Jay Sekulow: Justice Department Conspired with IRS: Sara NobleEric Holder’s ‘terrorism committee’ has identified the enemy, and it is us: Kenric Ward
IRS boss faces ‘cover-up’ claims ahead of Hill hearing on missing emails: Fox
Climate & Energy
Russian Spy Agencies Funding, Supporting Anti-Fracking Groups in Europe: Ace100 percent consensus finally acheived on climate: WUWT
Democrat-Invited Witnesses Refuse To Endorse Obama Climate Alarmism: NoisyRm
Media
FANTASTIC: Jason Mattera catches up with Hillary Clinton at a book signing: ScoopNPR’s new poll of battleground states brutal for Democrats: Hot Air
Hillary Clinton Asked To Inscribe “Hard Choices” To Ambassador Stevens: Daily Surge
GOP Sen: Hillary Planted Benghazi Cover-up, Disqualified to Be President: Breitbart
NBC/WSJ Poll Cooks Its Common Core Questions, Fabricates Claim of Strong Majority Support: Tom Blumer
Liberals Are Afraid of Scott Walker: Jonathan S. Tobin
World
I GUESS WE CAN'T BLAME BUSH: Iraq's Non-Existent WMDs Fall Into the Hands of ISIS: AmPowerMichigan Gov. Snyder: Help Me Bring More Muslim Refugees to U.S.: Schlussel
London's "Largest Mosque in Europe" Closer to Reality: Soeren Kern
Did Obama not mention our Marine in his call today with Mexico’s President Nieto?: Gretawire
Iraq: Further Down the Rabbit Hole of Unknown Unknowns: MOTUS
The #Iraq War Comments @TheDemocrats Would Like You To Forget: Glob
Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)
The Fire phone is Amazon's ultimate hardware weapon: Chris VelazcoEnterprise Email 101: Understanding The IRS Email Loss: Ace
Mediterranean Diet Reduces Children's Risk of Being Overweight: Benita Matilda
Cornucopia
Home, Home of the CHANGE®: MOTUSAMC Debuts First Look at 'Better Call Saul', Orders Second Season: AceShowBiz
1964 Jaguar E-Type barn find has Bugatti racing pedigree: Fox
Image: The Fire phone is Amazon's ultimate hardware weapon
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QOTD: "Today’s news tells us that Senator John McCain is going to be stumping for Thad Cochran in Mississippi, in his Senate primary runoff with State Senator Chris McDaniel.
John McCain, Mitch McConnell, Haley Barbour, and Thad Cochran against Sarah Palin, Rick Santorum, Chris McDaniel, The Club For Growth, FreedomWorks, Senate Conservatives, talk radio’s Constitutional Conservative Mark Levin, Sean Hannity, and throngs of teenage volunteers. The Cochran campaign, beleaguered by his own words about doing indecent things to animals, not knowing what happened to Eric Cantor in Virginia, and testaments to nice guy Obama and from Harry Reid, are bringing in more examples of the problem in Washington to fight the liberty message of the people of the State of Mississippi.
If put on a stage together, you could clearly see the status quo versus the remedy, the septuagenarians of spending versus the ferocious freedom-fighters, the impotent versus the potent, the problem versus the solution." --Jen Kuznicki
Thursday, June 19, 2014
ISIS Runs Ad Campaign Featuring its Members With... John McCain
It is his decision-making as a politician, however, that has dramatic and far-reaching ramifications for every American. Those decisions have -- almost uniformly -- been wrongheaded and ill-conceived.
Exhibit 4,059:
Isn’t it nice to know that the US government is talking out of one side of their mouths and doing the complete opposite on the other side? Remember in 2013 when John McCain made that trip to Syria to hang out with ISIS radicals? Now, ISIS is using that photo of them hanging with John McCain as propaganda for themselves.
...This 2013 photograph of John McCain is being circulated by members of ISIS as a photo of him with members of some of their members in Syria... The poster does not specify which of the men is actually from ISIS or “Al Qaeda In Iraq” as they were once called.
Gee, are they ISIS or "Al Qaeda in Iraq"? I'm so confused. Maybe we can check their laminated membership cards.
Hat tip: BadBlue News
We know the whereabouts of the "lost" IRS emails
A Congressional inquiry into the targeting of Tea Party and Conservative organizations by the IRS has revealed that thousands of emails from IRS head Lois Lerner and at least six of her subordinates have been lost to history after the hard drive which stored them was reportedly thrown away. The loss of the emails makes it nearly impossible to track down and verify what actually took place and whether or not the Obama administration was directly involved in the harassment of independent groups that didn’t agree with the President’s political platform.
Without the emails their is no accountability, despite the fact that the President Obama has repeatedly claimed that transparency and the rule of law would be touchstones of his Presidency. “Starting today every agency and department should know that this administration stands on the side not of those who seek to withhold information, but those who seek to make it known,” said President Obama at a press conference on the day he took office in January of 2009.The President’s past statements run contrary to the events playing out on Capitol Hill today, where the IRS has claimed that the emails have been “lost forever.”
Congressman Darrell Issa pointed out the ridiculousness of the claims saying that such records could only disappear because of deliberate destruction.
“Official records, like the e-mails of a prominent official, don’t just disappear without a trace unless that was the intention.”
It turns out that Senator Darrell Issa is right. Records like these don’t just disappear without a trace.
We know the whereabouts of the lost IRS emails and they could likely be accessed and shown to the American public within 24 hours.
THE BLUES: Report on how each state treats its small businesses turns out exactly as expected
Thumbtack, in partnership with the Kauffman Foundation, conducted a Small Business Friendliness Survey... Jon Lieber, Chief Economist at Thumbtack, provided the survey data in spreadsheet form. In turn, the folks at Tableau Software worked with me to create the following interactive map.
...Lieber writes "We've partnered for the third year in a row with the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation to conduct a survey of about 13,000 small businesses nationwide that use our site. The survey asks small business owners and operators what makes for a business friendly environment and uses the responses to rate which are the most and least friendly states and cities for small businesses. States and metro regions are rated across 11 different metrics."
...Thumbtack put together a slightly different interactive map of small business friendliness that shows less fields than I do, but instead gives A-F grades and changes from last year.The states that are grayed out did not provide sufficient replies, so it's possible all of the blue states aren't truly the worst of the worst when it comes to opportunity. Hahhahahhahhahahah. Just kidding. Hat tip: BadBlue News.
- California, Illinois, and Rhode Island received an overall grade of "F".
- Idaho, Virginia, Utah, and Texas received an overall grade of "A+"
SURPRISE: The NSA Now Owns Bitcoin
Bitcoin has a flaw. It's always been there.
Satochi Nakamoto (the nom de guerre of the mind behind Bitcoin) designed this flaw into the software because of one false assumption. What was that assumption? He believed that it was possible to build an open and free economic system built purely on simple self-interest (selfishness). Lots of people make this mistake (famously, Greenspan believed that selfish decision making would prevent the banking crisis of 2008).
It's not, obviously. Eventually, selfishness will lead one group to rig, cheat, control, etc. the system so they can get better returns. That's exactly what happened. Here's the flaw they exploited.
When a single entity ("a single miner" or "a mining pool") controls over 50% of the transaction processing it can control the entire system. This means they can "see" every transaction, spend the same coins more than once, and deny transactions they don't approve of.
That's finally happened. According to analysis from Cornell researchers, a mining pool called GHash has now reached 51% for large stretches of time (effective "ownership" is likely much less).
Here's the new boss:Who is Ghash? No clue. Obviously, this is bad thing for an "open and decentralized" currency.
However, the ability of anyone to pull this off does make the next step inevitable. If Ghash isn't already an NSA , it most likely will be the NSA. From the NSA's perspective, Bitcoin is a wet dream. How so?
- A threat that can be "pwned" by throwing lots of computer hardware at it? That is what the NSA specializes in.
- The NSA is a place where a $1 billion program to thwart "terrorist" financing can be justified in an instant. Simply, they can outspend everyone else and buy the best talent to design the mining hardware they use.
- The hack pays for itself as it grows (it earns bitcoins from mining). One competitive advantage an NSA mining pool has? It can afford to give nearly all of the money it earns for other miners in its pool back to them.
Have fun.
PS: Any economic system that doesn't use enlightened self-interest is doomed to failure.
PPS: Bitcoin's boiler rooms trying to pump it up to make a buck, hate this post.
Read more at Global Guerillas
Larwyn's Linx: We Don't Need No Stinkin' Emails!
Nation
We Don't Need No Stinkin' Emails: Mark SteynIRS continues to flail about in Lerner case; consequences to ensue: Moe Lane
The immediate dividends of Cantor’s defeat: RS
We are a People of self-made Heroes: III Percent
The Hillary Gaffe-athon, Domestic Terrorist-Slash-Gun Owner Edition: Hewitt
The GOP Creates a Squirrel for Hillary: Wilderness
You Bet This Is Swiftboating: Ann Coulter
Obama to Congress: If I Decide to Declare War on Iraq, I'll Email You: Ace
CT High School Blocks Student Access To Conservative Web Sites: 54° 40′
"Child Migrants" Surge into NYC, Overwhelming the System: Ace
Perry orders surge of TX state troopers along Mexican border: Poor Richard
Illegal Immigrants Treated Better Than Homeless in US: Kristin Tate
Economy
The Affordable Care Act isn't so affordable in New Jersey: WyBlogSurprise: Obamacare Will Cost Way More Than Predicted: Ace
Social Security closes offices as baby boomers age: AP
Scandal Central
Catherine Engelbrecht: “This administration is rattling the very foundations of this republic”: ScoopJudicial Watch Smoking Gun Busts Open IRS Scandal, Again: Tom Fitton
IRS Promises Soros-funded Group It Will Further Regulate Nonprofits: MRC
IRS Officials: ‘Oops, Lerner’s Hard Drive Is Gone Too’: Stephen Kruiser
Terrific: Single-Payer VA Routinely Fails to Respond to Reporter Inquiries: By Jim Geraghty
Communists Call Cops, Shut Down 'Right-Wing Blogger' at Portland State Open Public Meeting: AmPower
Climate & Energy
Eight Thumbs Down!: Mark SteynWho’s Responsible For The Latest Attack on America’s Power Grid?: Joshua Krause
Senators propose 12-cent gas tax increase: KATC-3
Media
Protecting the Precious: Erick EricksonNBC’s Chuck Todd: The Public is Saying ‘Your Presidency is Over’: TR
With ‘Oodles of … Insider Cred,’ Cantor Can Write His Ticket: PJM
Massively Popular Hillary Clinton Down to 44% Public Approval in NBC Poll: JWF
The Redskins Get Their Trademark Yanked by Aggrieved White Liberals: RS
Ted Cruz educates Democrats on consequences of their anti-free-speech bill: Scoop
Survey: Over Half The Country Thinks Comcast-Time Warner Cable Merger Is A Terrible Idea: Consumerist
Patent Office’s Rejection of Redskins Trademark Violates First Amendment: Ace
Isn't It Odd to Hear Obama Praising Capture of a Benghazi Terrorist After Releasing 5 from Gitmo?: FNI
World
Thanks to Barack Obama, Al-Qaeda Controls More Territory Than Anytime in History: GWPNew ISIS Video Shows Shia Soldiers Being Taunted Before They Are Executed: WZ
Intelligence Chairman on Iraq: ‘We Have a Very Narrow Window to Get This Right’: PJM
Brigitte Gabriel schools Muslim woman claiming all Muslims are portrayed badly: Scoop
Vox Explains: Israel Is The Worst: Federalist
Ignoring the Elephant: Caroline Glick
Middle East Holds Few Attractive Options For Obama: Victor Davis Hanson
Slaughter In Iraq — Bush’s Fault?: Larry Elder
Honduras to ask U.S. not to deport Honduran kids: CNN
Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)
The NSA now owns Bitcoin: Global GuerillasStalker: A creepy look at you, online: Erica Fink, CNN Money
US marshals leak list of possible Bitcoin buyers: Register
Cornucopia
A Master Shares His Secret: Nuking PoliticsHillary 2016: She’ll make the trains run on time: PW
The 20 Hottest Conservative Women In The New Media for 2014: John Hawkins
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QOTD: “I think that it’s now up to the citizens to take a long hard look in the mirror and get reengaged in this country. Because this administration is rattling the very foundations of this republic and we need not kid ourselves about where this is going if we just allow it to continue.” --Catherine Engelbrecht, founder of True the Vote, targeted by multiple government agencies
Wednesday, June 18, 2014
MARVELOUS: As Obama Touts Partnership With Iran, Mullahs Warn U.S. Against Intervening in Iraq
In fact, it was only hours ago and yet it was instantly repudiated -- in stark and degrading terms -- by Iran's radical nut-job leaders.
Adam Kredo fills us in:
The head of Iran’s armed forces on Tuesday called the United States “supporters of terrorists” and warned the Obama administration against any intervention in Iraq, where extremist terrorists are seeking to depose the American-backed government.Iran’s warning came less than a day after senior Obama administration officials expressed optimism about partnering with Tehran and signals that the White House may be misreading Iran’s intentions in Iraq.
The State Department in recent days has taken heat for ignoring its own warning about Iran’s efforts to destabilize Iraq. U.S. official have instead conducted a full court press to convince the nation that Iran and America have a “shared interest” in the region...
...Iranian General Hassan Firouzabadi, chief of staff of the country’s armed forces, slammed the United States and blamed former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for sponsoring terrorist groups in Iraq and the region... Clinton’s State Department, the general claimed, “created terrorist groups” and is now “displeased with the results of the recent elections in Iraq and is cancel election results.”
Iranian officials say that they can handle the Iraq terror group Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) without any U.S. assistance.
Well, that appears to have been the fastest foreign policy bust in American history, though certainly not Obama's first encounter with utter and complete humiliation on the foreign stage.
Hat tip: BadBlue News.
COMPUTER CRASH? Try Obstruction of Justice
Scandal: The IRS descends into criminal enterprise, with word of a 26-month gap of lost emails from the very period it was illegally targeting Tea Party groups. Computer crash? Try obstruction of justice.
Just as the claim that President Nixon's secretary, Rose Mary Woods, inadvertently hit the "erase" button instead of "pause" gave impetus to the drive to impeach Nixon, so too should the IRS announcement that it can't find two years of Lois Lerner's emails lead to a criminal investigation of this administration and creation of a select committee.In April we wrote, "Lois Lerner Should Go To Jail." We think so now more than ever and also that she shouldn't be the only one to be measured for an orange jumpsuit. As in Watergate, this fish rots from the head.
We are reminded how, during his Arizona State University commencement speech in 2009, President Obama noted that ASU had refused to grant him an honorary degree and "joked" that "President (Michael) Crowe and the Board of Regents will soon learn all about being audited by the IRS."
The joke was not funny then and is less funny now. It was a predictor of administration behavior. Lerner's knowledge of and participation in planning to use the IRS as a political weapon, in coordination with the White House, is why she twice invoked the Fifth Amendment in her congressional visits, even as she was cooperating — or is it coordinating? — with Eric Holder's Justice Department.
As Joseph Curl notes in the Washington Times, the Articles of Impeachment against Nixon charged that he "endeavored to obtain from the Internal Revenue Service, in violation of the constitutional rights of citizens, confidential information contained in income tax returns for purposes not authorized by law, and to cause, in violation of the constitutional rights of citizens, income tax audits or other income tax investigation to be initiated or conducted in a discriminatory manner."

















