Monday, June 23, 2014

HILLARY VS. BARACK: Someone's Lyin', Sarah Palin Edition

As Hillary positions herself for another run in 2016, she faces a daunting task. She must distance herself from the very same failed administration in which she played a leading role. Evidence for this new wedge between the Clinton and Obama camps is flying fast and furious (NPI), as evidenced both by her book and Edward Klein's new tell-all, Blood Feud.

To wit, Hillary wrote that the Obama team asked her to attack Sarah Palin in 2008:

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton reveals in her new book that Barack Obama’s team asked her to attack Alaska Governor Sarah Palin after Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) chose her as his running mate in the 2008 presidential race.

"[The Obama camp] immediately issued a dismissive statement and reached out to me in hopes I would follow suit,” she wrote. “But I wouldn’t... I was not going to attack Palin just for being a woman appealing for support from other women,” she wrote. “I didn't think it made political sense, and it didn't feel right. So I said no."

Strangely enough, Obama’s team is pushing back:

...Barack Obama's 2008 campaign manager David Plouffe denied former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's claim in her 635-page, critically panned memoir "Hard Choices" that the Obama campaign requested Hillary attack then-Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin because she was a woman.

"We never tried to do that," Plouffe asserted "We did want her to go out there and speak, but not about Sarah Palin's gender..." Plouffe's statement is in direct contrast to what Clinton wrote in the opening pages of "Hard Choices."

Who's lying? Knowing this bunch of buffoonish crooks, I'd wager both.


Hat tip: The Masked Avenger.

Larwyn's Linx: BOMBSHELL: IRS Canceled Email-Storage Contracts Weeks After "Crash"

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BOMBSHELL: IRS Canceled Email-Storage Contracts Weeks After "Crash": DC
Hillary Blames Obama for Benghazi Cover-Up: Daniel Greenfield
Was throwing Obama under the bus a hard choice for Hillary?: Twitchy

Border so secure that 378 toddlers crossed into the US this year: GWP
The Border Crisis and the Question of Who Gets What: Jerry Kammer
Paul Ryan Just Hammered the IRS: John Dickerson, Slate

Book: Hillary Has Bad Heart, Blood Clots, Fainting Spells, Thyroid Issues: WZ
Silencing Conservatives Could Destroy U.S.: Kurt Schlichter
Learning to Love Cloward-Piven: Stephen McDonald

Hillary energized, but voters show signs of Clinton fatigue: Ben Wolfgang
The Sound and Fury of Endorsements Rock Amash’s World: Rod Kackley
Needed: An Enlightened Citizenry That Values Liberty: Jacob G. Hornberger

Economy

School uses seduction to turn male teachers onto Common Core: EAG
Court Decision in California will Improve Education: Star Parker
Mark Cuban explains student loan bubble crisis: Scoop

Scandal Central

Mega Obama Donor Indicted for Fraud and Manslaughter: Steven Ahle
The EPA was destroying computer files way before those hacks at the IRS: Hot Air
The top 9 times “Obama didn’t know” about scandals: FAM

Board of IRS email contractor Sonasoft wants to get ‘Silicon Valley’s Wannabe Obama’ elected: Unyielding
Eric Holder’s ‘terrorism committee’ has identified the enemy, and it is us: Kenric Ward
The IRS Missing Email Scandal – A Brazen Obstruction Of Justice: NoisyRm

Climate & Energy

Analysis of Obama's Plan to Save the World From Greenhouse Gasses: Mish
The scandal of fiddled global warming data: Christopher Booker, Telegraph
Lies Are All They Have: DailyPundit

Media

Woodward and Bernstein on IRS: Neither press nor Democrats doing enough to get answers: Scoop
How bad is Detroit? Headliner rapper cancels show after mob confronts him: DTG
Trey Gowdy Shows His Humorous Side While Describing His “Dream”: Dancing Czars

Clintons Have Three Cayman Island Accounts: S&L (2007)
Hillary Clinton Net Worth: CelebNewWorth
Greta: Obama ‘Doesn’t Give A Damn’ About Marine Held In Mexican Prison: Pat Dollard

World

Poland's Foreign Minister Blasts Obama Administration: U.S. Alliance is 'Worthless, Harmful...': AmPower
Woodward: Generals Were on their Knees Begging Obama to Keep Some Troops in Iraq: Breitbart
Cheney: Another 9-11 Coming, But 'Far Deadlier': Trey Sanchez

The Man Who Broke the Middle East: Elliot Abrams, Politico
Obama's former CIA chief says we made it very clear ISIS was a growing threat: Poor Richard
Muslim Brotherhood Reveals Obama Ordered Shift of Support from US Allies to Islamist Groups: Daniel Greenfield

Nice: ISIS Posts Photo of Their Members Chilling With Sen. John McCain: RWN
Reports: Judge Who Sentenced Saddam Hussein To Death Has Been Executed By ISIS: ZH
Kurdish oil shipped from Turkey without Baghdad’s permission arrives in Israel: BCF

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

16 year old programmer made something awesome that has politicians terrified: YC
Card Wash: Card Breaches at Car Washes: Brian Krebs
Mountains Soar Above the Appalachians in this Dramatic NASA Photo: UniverseToday

Cornucopia

Homeland Security’s Escort Service Solicitation: Now Servicing Client #9: MOTUS
Attempt At World's Longest Car Jump Goes Awesomely Awry!: BCF
A Human Being Evolves a Little: GoV

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QOTD: "So, NYT is now advocating that US spends our money, earned by our citizens, to take care of little innocents from other countries while neglecting the same little innocents we have here? If NYT's argument has any validity, then shouldn't we take care of any little kid who appears at the border? Do we have the resources, as a nation, to shelter and feed the little innocents of the world? If not the world, then how shall we choose whom we take care of and whom we reject?

It should be obvious to everyone who can think for themselves that the little ones just didn't appear there — they were transported there by the governments involved. You propose to feed them? How about billing those governments for the care of their citizens? That would be fair to the Americans, wouldn't it? How about advocating that, hmmmm?" --An outraged reader of The New York Times

Sunday, June 22, 2014

GEORGE WILL ON MIRACULOUS IRS COINCIDENCE OF CRASHED HARD DRIVES: "Religions Have Been Founded on Less"

Earlier today, on Fox News Sunday, George Will listed six reasons we need a special prosecutor for the burgeoning IRS scandal:

CHRIS WALLACE: Well, usually, mild mannered Congressman Paul Ryan ripping into the IRS chief this week over claims the agency lost thousands of e-mails connected with the IRS targeting scandal. And we're back now with the panel to continue the conversation. The IRS commissioner says back in 2011, when Lois Lerner's hard drive crashed, that she immediately called the I.T. people, asked them to retrieve any of the files that they could. George, how credible?

GEORGE WILL, SYNDICATED COLUMNIST: Incredible. And here's -- let me tell you why we need a special prosecutor in this. One of my pet peeves with current English usage is the treatment of disinterested and uninterested as synonyms. We wish the Justice Department were interested in this. It were a disinterested investigator of this. Instead, it's uninterested in the investigation.

We can no more expect Mr. Holder to investigate this White House than we could have expected John Mitchell to investigate the Nixon White House.

Here's -- we know six things, Chris. We know first the targeting occurred.

Therefore, second, we know that this is worse than article two of the Nixon impeachment count, which said Nixon endeavored to use the IRS. The IRS back then resisted.

Third, we know that this became public in an act of deceit when Lois Lerner planted a question with a friend in an audience to try and get this out on her own terms.

Fourth, we know that she has taken the Fifth Amendment because she has a right to do this when she has a reasonable suspicion that there might be criminal activity involved.

Fifth, we know that from the timeline you put up today, that there has been 13 months of stonewalling on this.

And sixth, now we know that not only her hard drive, but six other people intimately involved in this suddenly crashed in an amazing miraculous coincidence. Religions have been founded on less, ten days after the investigation started.

That's why we need a special prosecutor.

It's gotten so bad even Woodward and Bernstein are ripping old media and the corrupt, hard left Democrat Party.

There's a Pulitzer and a lifetime of riches for a journalist willing to go to the mat on this, but it's not altogether clear whether such a breed still exists in America.


Hat tip: BadBlue News.

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THE FEDS ARE RIGHT: There really is no inflation (unless you count food, gas, electricity and everything else)

By Michael Snyder

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

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The Golden Age of Government under Emperor Obama: Ace
Obama’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: ZH
Nick 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 Lifson
Every 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: Cove
Climate 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: WZ
Was 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 Greenfield
The 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": Reddit
Researchers 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’: Angle
This 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 consequences of open borders will be felt for decades. Over the coming years, Americans will experience Balkanization, an exploding welfare state, and higher taxes to pay for an uninvited influx of largely impoverished, low-skilled and illiterate migrants.

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.


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WHY THE COVER-UP, MR. SMIDGEN? Trail of "Lost" IRS Emails Leads Directly to White House

By Investor's Business Daily

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

By Tim Macy

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

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ISIS now mocking Obama with #BringBackOurHumvees: FAM
Overcrowding, 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”: PW
Obama 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: Scoop

Media

New Poll Finds 65 Percent of Americans Reject Obama on #Immigration: AmPower
Gallup: 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...': AmPower
Why 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: 9to5Mac
DHS 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: CDN
Obama 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

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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

By Reva Bhalla

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

By M.D. Kittle.

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...

These are the priorities of the military under Obama:


I'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

By Jen Kuznicki

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

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Mark Levin, Eric Cantor, and the Media Cocoon: Jeffrey Lord
Politician, 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 West
You Work, They Eat: MB
How Small-Business Friendly is Your City and State?: Mish

Scandal Central

Jay Sekulow: Justice Department Conspired with IRS: Sara Noble
Eric 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: Ace
100 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: Scoop
NPR’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: AmPower
Michigan 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 Velazco
Enterprise 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®: MOTUS
AMC 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

No one questions John McCain's credentials as a war hero. A POW. A man.

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

American Junta

Based upon "The Emerging Junta", by Kevin D. Williamson.


Hat tip: Mark Levin

We know the whereabouts of the "lost" IRS emails

By Mac Slavo

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

Mike Shedlock at Global Economic Analysis points us to an extensive study comparing each state on how well it treats its small businesses. The results are only surprising if you're Paul Krugman, Thomas Piketty or that homeless guy sleeping behind the dumpster at 7/11.

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.
  • California, Illinois, and Rhode Island received an overall grade of "F".
  • Idaho, Virginia, Utah, and Texas received an overall grade of "A+"
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.