Thursday, June 26, 2014

UN-FLIPPIN-REAL: GOP Establishment has "no regrets about going all-in against flawed primary candidates"

Suffice it to say that when Karl Rove, Mitch McConnell, Haley Barbour and the rest of the Beltway hacks want to leak information to the outside world, they prefer the Democrat press release service called Politico. Just hours ago, Alexander Burns revealed the brilliant slash-and-burn strategy of The Architect™ and Friends.

Establishment-aligned groups have already spent some $23 million on independent expenditures propping up favored House and Senate candidates in contentious primaries...

...The scope of the effort to suppress activist-backed candidates has been broader and costlier than is widely understood, covering at least 20 House and Senate primaries ... [t]he loose coalition of establishment forces encompasses two dozen advocacy groups, industry associations and super PACs that have raised and spent millions on behalf of Washington’s chosen candidates.

Nearly a third of the establishment money has come from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. The business lobby’s spending in this year’s toughest primaries has about equaled the $7 million that the conservative Club for Growth and the Senate Conservatives Fund have spent together on the most fractious elections — excluding races, like the Senate campaigns in Arkansas and Alaska, where there’s been no meaningful clash between establishment-sanctioned outside groups and the activist right.

And the $23 million figure isn’t even close to a full accounting of what D.C.-backed candidates spent to win their nomination fights. Candidates themselves, including Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and Sens. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and John Cornyn of Texas, have collectively spent tens of millions more from their campaign accounts.

Top Republican strategists and party officials say they have no regrets about going all-in against flawed primary candidates. In a perfect world, they say, the whole expensive ordeal would be unnecessary. With conservative outside groups routinely bumping off incumbent lawmakers and prized recruits, it’s simply the cost of doing business — now and perhaps for the foreseeable future.

Let me rephrase the salient sentence: Rove, Barbour and McConnell "have no regrets about going all-in against flawed primary candidates".

Flawed primary candidates?

That would be Thad Cochran, an incumbent with 42 years in Congress, who literally has such diminished mental faculties that he couldn't even debate his opponent. Un-freaking-believable.


Hat tip: BadBlue News.

THE SCIENCE IS SETTLED: Only 40 Percent of Liberal Democrats "Proud to be American"

Perhaps they can emigrate to a country they're actually proud of:

If you are a “solid liberal” in the United States, you are unlikely to be “proud to be American,” according to a new Pew Research poll.

The Washington Post explains:

According to a new Pew Research Center study, only 40 percent of consistently liberal Americans say they often feel proud to be Americans.

The other 60 percent say that doesn’t describe them. [...]

By contrast, more than seven in 10 “steadfast conservatives” and eight in 10 “business conservatives” say they are generally proud to be Americans.

The poll results also show that only half of liberals see themselves as “typical Americans.”

The poll also shows many liberals don’t liken themselves to your average American. Just 51 percent say they feel as though they are ”typical Americans” — as compared to three-quarters of conservatives and at least two-thirds of all the other groups.


Don't these feelings strike you as both utterly bizarre and stunningly ungrateful? These Democrats are blessed to live in the greatest country on Earth; the most beneficent, charitable and opportunity-rich society in the history of the planet.

In little more than two hundred years, Americans empowered the individual; defeated slavery, Nazism, military Shintoism and Communism; refined mass production; invented human flight; created 75% of all medical innovations on the planet; put a man on the moon; invented the telephone, the Internet and the search engine; and advanced humankind in millions of other ways, in every field and endeavor.

And these Democrats prefer some other land, some other country.

Would that they would move there, permanently.


Hat tip: BadBlue News.

WAR: Steal a Page From Murkowski's Playbook and Write in Chris McDaniel in #MSSEN and Matt Bevin in #KYSEN

On Tuesday, Mitch McConnell and the Republican establishment crossed the Rubicon and then burned the bridge to cinders. It is now clear, thanks to leaks to Politico and a gloating editorial in The Wall Street Journal by Karl Rove, that the entrenched GOP establishment resorted to the most despicable tactics imaginable to prop up the pathetic, barely coherent incumbent Thad Cochran.

I refer, of course, to the actions of Rove, the Chamber of Commerce, Haley Barbour, et. al. in tarring U.S. Senate candidate Chris McDaniel as a virulent racist. In doing so, they not only attacked their own base, they not only stole a primary election using illegal tactics, but they also abandoned any semblance of principle.

WAR: THE MURKOWSKI PLAYBOOK

Truly disgusted, I thought to myself: why not use their own tactics against them? After incumbent Beltway RINO Lisa Murkowski lost her GOP primary in 2010 to Joe Miller, she ran in the general election as a write-in candidate. She won, becoming the first to win as a Senate write-in in 50 years.


I don't believe in sitting out elections. There are fairly conservative Senate candidates running in several states, and it would be a mistake to abandon them on the battlefield.

That said, Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and Thad Cochran (R-MS) must both be made to pay a heavy price for their unconscionable actions.

WRITE IN CHRIS McDANIEL, CRUSH THAD COCHRAN

Chris McDaniel has a viable legal challenge against Cochran's outrageous victory. Had only Republicans voted in the, er, Republican primary, McDaniel would have won in a crushing landslide, by approximately 25,000 votes. As it turns out, however, more than 30,000 Democrats voted in the GOP primary, many of them illegally. Those Democrats who voted in the primary several weeks ago and voted again in the Republican primary broke state law.

Chris McDaniel is said to be considering a write-in candidacy.

Please contact Chris by calling his campaign office at 601-283-2156 or by email at info@mcdaniel2014.com and urge him to run.

He deserves to win -- and he can win.

WRITE-IN MATT BEVIN, CRUSH MITCH McCONNELL

Mitch McConnell needs to go. It is his hidden hand that is behind a range of attacks on conservatives, both overt and covert.

I urge you to contact Matt Bevin and ask him to file as a write-in candidate in Kentucky (he has until 24 October to do so, but obviously the sooner the better). I've already done so, asking him on Twitter.

IF THE GOP WANTS WAR, IT IS WAR THEY WILL GET

McConnell and Cochran must be defeated. I urge you, rather than sitting it out, to support their write-in opponents.

#RememberMississippi.

#WAR


Larwyn's Linx: GOP Establishment Turns Out Democrat Voters in Primary

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Nation

GOP Establishment Turns Out Democrat Voters in Primary: R.S. McCain
McDaniel: “We’re not going to concede right now, we’re going to investigate”: Scoop
This is Treachery: Daniel Horowitz

Anti-Amnesty Hawk Matt Salmon Named to Immigration ‘Working Group’: Breitbart
Invasion On Our Borders and The Last Gasp of "White America": Sara Noble
Criminal Illegal Alien 'Stash Houses' Thrive Along Texas-Mexico Border: AmPower

To Impeach or Not to Impeach: David Solway
Obama’s ‘lawlessness’ now beyond ‘partisanship’: Jerome R. Corsi
In L.A., Even the Buses Are Racist: Outcast

16 Reasons Why the United States is Going to Hell in a Handbasket: Survivalist
Sec. of Education should put his money where his mouth is: Hughey Newsome
Supreme Court: No Cell Phone Searches Without a Warrant: FW

Economy

BRUTAL: Q1 GDP revised sharply downward to -2.9%: Ed Morrissey
Collapse: “This Is A Monstrous Negative Revision”: SHTFplan
Thanks, Obama! 1st Quarter GDP Was Actually a Disastrous -2.9%: JWF

Scandal Central

The EPA… has had some convenient hard drive crashes, too.: Moe Lane
Report: Lois Lerner Tried to Get a Sitting GOP Senator in IRS Trouble: Tatler
HUGE: EPA refuses to turn over subpoenaed documents, citing hard drive failure: Poor Richard

Exposed: How The Va Red-Flags ‘Disruptive’ Vets: Michelle Malkin
The Shocking Hidden Agenda Behind the Border Crisis: Ion Mihai Pacepa
WH Counsel Can’t Name One Person She Worked With During 6-Month Stint at IRS: CNS

Climate & Energy

EPA employees warned to stop defecating in the hallways: Hot Air
Who Knew That Stealing A/C Units Is Now A Federal Offense Under The Clean Air Act?: Cove
Warmist Offers $10,000 Bet To Disprove “Climate Change”: Cove

Media

CBS Maintains Blackout on Speaker Boehner's Lawsuit Against Obama White House: MRC
NYT: Publisher Won't Make Back Hillary's Large Book Advance: Daniel Halper
Anti-Gun Columnist Asks If It’s Time for the Government to Kill “Gun Nuts”: Dan Cannon

World

Terror warning: Syria fighters with U.S. passports and non-metallic bombs bound for America?: Hot Air
House Intel Chair: Obama Had Specific Intel On ISIS Activities In Iraq, Failed To Act: WZ
Kerry issues stern warning after Syria bombs Iraq: AP

Revisionist History Prevails On Iraq Invasion: Victor Davis Hanson
“Nightmare scenario”: ISIS encircling Baghdad: JihadWatch
Groups seek UN aid for Detroit water shut-offs: DetNews

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

PayPal Two-Factor Authentication Broken: Dark Reading
How U.S. Bank Is Taking its Customer Experience to the Next Level: BankTech
Attackers fling Stuxnet-style RATs at critical control software in EUROPE: Register

Cornucopia

We Have Her Name: iOTW
If you must whine, at least whine like a girl.: MOTUS
Planetary Panoramas - 360 Degree Night-Sky Time-Lapse: Vincent Brady, Music by Brandon McCoy

Image: Postcards From Hell
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QOTD: "Obama wanted out of Iraq, and ran in 2008 with a promise to do just that. A year after the troop pullout, during a 2012 debate, Mitt Romney said he wanted a residual force to remain. Obama pointedly disagreed, saying that leaving “10,000 troops in Iraq … would tie us down.”

Incredibly, Obama now blames the Iraqis for his refusal to leave any troops. Obama says he wanted legal protection for the soldiers left behind and that Iraq’s parliament would not provide it. So Obama happily walked away, blaming it on “a decision made by the Iraqi government” to reject the offer of “a modest residual force.” Obama sure had no difficulty in quickly working out an agreement — via diplomatic notes, without the approval of Iraq’s parliament — for the recently promised 300 “advisers.”" --Larry Elder

Wednesday, June 25, 2014

BOOM: IRS Needed Lois Lerner Emails To "Disappear"

By Investor's Business Daily

Scandal: The IRS canceled a contract with an email storage contractor weeks after Lois Lerner reported lost personal files and before other IRS officials had their hard drives crash as Tea Party-targeting investigations began.

Timing is everything, the saying goes, and sometimes the timing of events is also very curious, as in the case of the lost emails of Lerner and at least six other officials at the very same time the IRS canceled its contract to back up and preserve those emails as required by federal law.

Lerner's computer supposedly crashed in June 2011, an alleged event the IRS concealed from the American public and congressional investigators for two years.

This event, which cannot be verified because her hard drive has since been destroyed and recycled, occurred just 10 days after House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Rep. Dave Camp first wrote a letter asking if the IRS was engaging in targeting of nonprofit groups.

This shouldn't have been a problem because, as the Daily Caller reports, the IRS had a contract beginning in 2005 with Sonasoft, an email-archiving company based in San Jose, Calif.

The company advertises that it provides "Email Archiving Done Right" and "Point-Click Recovery" and in a 2009 tweet boasted: "The IRS uses Sonasoft to back up their servers, why wouldn't you choose them to protect your servers?"

Perhaps this is what IRS Commissioner John Koskinen was referring to when in March testimony before the House Oversight Committee he assured Rep. Jason Chaffetz that the reason requested emails were difficult to provide was that IRS emails "get taken off and stored in servers."

Later we would be told that the emails were lost forever and, as we noted, Koskinen was lying in March, when he said they were somewhere, or in June, when he said they were nowhere to be found. Let us ponder another possibility: that the emails were taken off and stored in Sonasoft servers, emails that would be deleted when the IRS contract for their storage ended. They were not lost, but, in effect, deliberately destroyed.

"A Complete Collapse of Reason"

By Baron Bodissey

Last November Pope Francis issued an exhortation entitled Evangelii Gaudium in which he made the following assertions about Islam:

In order to sustain dialogue with Islam, suitable training is essential for all involved, not only so that they can be solidly and joyfully grounded in their own identity, but so that they can also acknowledge the values of others, appreciate the concerns underlying their demands and shed light on shared beliefs. We Christians should embrace with affection and respect Muslim immigrants to our countries in the same way that we hope and ask to be received and respected in countries of Islamic tradition. I ask and I humbly entreat those countries to grant Christians freedom to worship and to practice their faith, in light of the freedom which followers of Islam enjoy in Western countries! Faced with disconcerting episodes of violent fundamentalism, our respect for true followers of Islam should lead us to avoid hateful generalisations, for authentic Islam and the proper reading of the Koran are opposed to every form of violence.

As has been reported here at length over the past couple of weeks (see the list of links at the bottom of this post), a Muslim imam was invited to participate in the “prayer for peace” event at the Vatican on June 8. The esteemed alumnus of Al-Azhar University went off-script, however, and asked Allah to help him gain victory over the unbelievers.

The Vatican at first denied that any such thing had happened, and an edited video of the event was released that supported their denial. However, as we reported last week, the end of Sura 2 Verse 286 from the Koran that the imam quoted — which had been judiciously removed from the publicized version — was most assuredly included in the cleric’s Arabic-language prayer.

To provide context for this momentous event, the following information is instructive. Regular readers should bear with me; I know you’ve seen this all before.

’Umdat al-salik wa ’uddat al-nasik, or The reliance of the traveller and tools of the worshipper is commonly referred to as Reliance of the Traveller when cited in English.

The Revised Edition (published 1991, revised 1994) is “The Classic Manual of Islamic Sacred Law ’Umdat al-Salik by Ahmad ibn Naqib al-Misri (d. 769/1368) in Arabic with Facing English Text, Commentary, and Appendices”, edited and translated by Nuh Ha Mim Keller. The publisher is listed as amana publications in Beltsville, Maryland.

This an authoritative source on Sunni Islamic law, because it is certified as such by Al-Azhar University in Cairo. There is no higher authority on Sunni Islamic doctrine than Al-Azhar; it is the closest equivalent to the Vatican that can be found in Islam.

Consider this passage from Reliance of the Traveller, chapter O, o9.0:

CHRIS McDANIEL: We're Not Conceding, We're Going to Fight the Corrupt #MSSEN Election!

The Right Scoop just captured tape of GOP Senatorial Candidate Chris McDaniel on the Mark Levin Show describing the nature of his controversial, razor-thin loss to incumbent Thad Cochran.

It would appear that the GOP establishment -- Mitch McConnell, Haley Barbour, and the Chamber of Crony Capitalism in particular -- stooped to the lowest of low campaign tactics to convince Democrats (and blacks in particular) to vote in the Republican primary.

Consider the following flyer sent out on behalf of Cochran to African-American communities after it was determined that the incumbent had virtually no chance of winning the primary.


Click here for a close-up.

Rush Limbaugh today pilloried the GOP establishment for its complicity with these tactics.

“The Republican establishment sought victory via Democrat voters in the runoff, and they got them. Without the African-American vote from Democrat-leaning counties, Thad Cochrane would have lost by eight or nine percent last night,” Limbaugh said, calling the tactic “reprehensible.” ... Limbaugh cited a flyer, posted by journalist Charles Johnson that suggested McDaniel and the tea party wanted to prevent blacks from voting in the Mississippi runoff election on Tuesday. Cochran’s critics allege the longtime senator’s campaign was behind the flyers.

McDaniel is fighting back, as well he should.

We haven’t conceded and we’re not going to concede right now. We’re going to investigate.

Naturally sometimes it’s difficult to contest an election, obviously, but we do know that 35,000 Democrats crossed over. And we know many of those Democrats did vote in the Democratic primary just three weeks ago which makes it illegal.

We likewise know that we have a statute, a law in our state that says you cannot participate in a primary unless you intend to support that candidate. And we know good and well that these 35,000 democrats have no intention to do that. They’ll be voting for Travis Childers in November. We know that. They know that. And so that makes their actions illegal.

So we’re going to be fighting this.

Good man.

We need fighters. We need warriors who will fight the entrenched, doddering, senile, Jabba-the-Hut-like GOP establishment just as hard as they fight Obama and the rest of the Marxist left.

Chris McDaniel is our kind of fighter. You can support him here.


GOOD NEWS: Justice Department MRAPs Spotted in Florida

Passed over the transom from a reliable source in USAF Spec Ops. What's the contingency this is for, you suppose?

Since when was the DOJ engaged in active enforcement? Don't they control the federal law enforcement agencies?


I need someone to tell me why the JUSTICE DEPARTMENT needs MRAPs.


My wife took these photos on I-10 in North Florida on our way home from Jacksonville last weekend. I was impressed with the size of these vehicles and thought they were kind of neat until we both saw they were owned by the Justice Department.

Well, young man, I simply refer you to Obama's very own references to building a "civilian national security force that's ... just as powerful as our military."

His words, not mine.


WHAT'S THE RUSH? Boehner Announces House Will File Lawsuit Against Obama Over Illegal Actions

By Monica Sanchez

House speaker John Boehner said today the House will file a lawsuit against President Barack Obama regarding his use of executive actions, according to a report from Roll Call.

“This is about defending the institution in which we serve,” Boehner said. “What we’ve seen clearly over the last five years is an effort to erode the power of the legislative branch.”

“I believe the president is not faithfully executing the laws of our country,” he added, “and [on] behalf of the institution and our constitution, standing up and fighting for this is in the best long-term interest of the Congress.”

During his presidency, Obama has utilized his executive authority to push through several initiatives without obtaining the approval of Congress, including hiking the minimum wage for federal contractors.


Read more at 7 Times Obama Ignored the Law to Impose His Executive Will

Larwyn's Linx: The Merger of the Party and the State

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Nation

The Merger of the Party and the State: Mark Steyn
Cloward-Piven Everywhere: Tom Blumer
Flashback: When the Media Crowdsourced Sarah Palin’s Emails: Bryan Preston

Welcome To The Executive Dictatorship: Ben Shapiro
Boehner "Working on" Congressional Lawsuit Against Obama: Lid
Boehner says he's 'all in' to remain as speaker: AP

Congratulations to GOP on pyrrhic victory in Mississippi: John Hawkins
Dan Bongino wins Republican Primary Victory in MD-6: FW
Tea Party wins: Clawson crushes Democrat Kook in #FL19: FAM

Chris McDaniel: Republican Primary Decided By Liberal Democrats : RightPundit
La Raza Demands Amnesty Vote from New Majority Leader McCarthy: Breitbart
Mexico soccer fans force ramp shutdowns on I-5 in Pacoima: LAT

Economy

Doubling Down On Operation Choke Point: NoisyRm
Virginia Dem Grills IRS Chief, Discovers Dems' 2014 Campaign Strategy: Hot Air
The Education Establishment’s Success: Walter Williams

Scandal Central

IRS Failed to Share News of Lost Lerner Emails: Keith Koffler
IRS claims no criminal wrongdoing done, based on… feelings!: Moe Lane
Woodward And Bernstein Compare Benghazi, IRS Scandals To Watergate: TR

Operation Zero Footprint: The bombshell truth about Benghazi?: Allen West
IRS Commissioner: ‘I Do Not Remember’ How I Was Told Lerner Emails Lost: WFB
This Rep Just Did To The IRS Commissioner What Every American Has Always Wanted To Do: WJ

Climate & Energy

What Is the EPA Hiding From the Public?: WSJ
Greenpeace Executive Commutes 250 Miles By Airplane To Work: SAB
Court issues mixed ruling on emissions: Charleston Gazette

Media

Krauthammer: Only Reason Regime’s Not Getting Pilloried Over IRS Scandal – Is The Press: Nice Deb
Mark Levin: Democrat Response to House IRS Inquiry a 'Cover-up,' 'Criminal Corruption': Breitbart
CNN's Bash: Cochran Supporters Admit Dems Made the Difference: Breitbart

Chelsea Clinton Buys $10.5M NYC Apartment, Says She Can't 'Care' About Money: Breitbart
CNN vs. White House: WFB
RINO Hack Steele Blasts Cruz, Perry for 'Playing Political Football' with Border Children: Breitbart

World

Report: Kurds offered to help stop ISIS months ago — but didn’t hear back from the White House: Hot Air
A Questionable Game Of ‘Shut Up’ On Iraq: Jonah Goldberg
Price to Avoid Another Benghazi? House Leaders Question $461M Training Center: Josh Siegel

Homegrown jihadis arrested in Texas: Allen West
Shots Fired from Mexico to Harass Texas-US Law Enforcement: Breitbart
Texas Ranchers Under Attack : NRO

European Reports Show NSA's Successes: IPT
United Nations Seeks US-based Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration Specialists: SHTFplan
Gang of 20 Attacks Jewish Kids In Paris Library: TR

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Welcome to 1984? Google acquires Dropcam, Nest opens up to third parties : ExtremeTech
Microsoft Restores Exchange Online Service after Tuesday Outage: Kurt Mackie
Google Glass Hardware Just Got a Spec Bump: Gizmodo

Cornucopia

Here’s How Little Chelsea Clinton Cares About Money, In Dollars : Celina Durgin, NRO
Team Organizing For America moves forward to the semi-finals: MOTUS
‘Second look at #SMOD?’: Stephen Kruiser opens up on GOP: Twitchy

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QOTD: "When future generations try to understand how the world got carried away around the end of the 20th century by the panic over global warming, few things will amaze them more than the part played in stoking up the scare by the fiddling of official temperature data. There was already much evidence of this seven years ago, when I was writing my history of the scare, The Real Global Warming Disaster. But now another damning example has been uncovered by Steven Goddard’s US blog Real Science, showing how shamelessly manipulated has been one of the world’s most influential climate records, the graph of US surface temperature records published by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

Goddard shows how, in recent years, NOAA’s US Historical Climatology Network (USHCN) has been “adjusting” its record by replacing real temperatures with data “fabricated” by computer models. The effect of this has been to downgrade earlier temperatures and to exaggerate those from recent decades, to give the impression that the Earth has been warming up much more than is justified by the actual data. In several posts headed “Data tampering at USHCN/GISS”, Goddard compares the currently published temperature graphs with those based only on temperatures measured at the time. These show that the US has actually been cooling since the Thirties, the hottest decade on record; whereas the latest graph, nearly half of it based on “fabricated” data, shows it to have been warming at a rate equivalent to more than 3 degrees centigrade per century.

When I first began examining the global-warming scare, I found nothing more puzzling than the way officially approved scientists kept on being shown to have finagled their data, as in that ludicrous “hockey stick” graph, pretending to prove that the world had suddenly become much hotter than at any time in 1,000 years. Any theory needing to rely so consistently on fudging the evidence, I concluded, must be looked on not as science at all, but as simply a rather alarming case study in the aberrations of group psychology." --Christopher Booker

Tuesday, June 24, 2014

24 Questions About the Massive Surge of Illegal Aliens on Our Purposely Unguarded Southern Border

By Ronald W. Mortensen

Much has been written about the large numbers of unaccompanied minors illegally entering the United States. However there are a myriad of questions that need to be asked and answered about the effect that this will have on the United States. Here are a couple of dozen:

Who Is Paying?

  1. Are American taxpayers covering the $1.4 billion to $2 billion costs to care for children illegally entering the United States while still continuing to provide hundreds of millions of dollars of foreign assistance to the home countries of these children?

  2. Is the United States using the funds set aside for foreign aid to these countries to cover the costs incurred by their children illegally entering the United States and to send them home? If not, why not?

Impact on Education

  1. What happens to the tens of thousands poorly educated young people who don't speak English once they arrive at their final destinations in the United States?

  2. How much will it cost taxpayers to teach these children English and bring them up to grade level so they can eventually graduate from high school?

  3. How do public schools take thousands of poorly educated teens who don't speak English and prepare them to graduate from high school?

  4. What percentage of these teens and other unaccompanied minors who illegally enter the United States will drop out of school?

Impact on Criminal and Gang Activities

  1. How many young men being allowed to enter the United States illegally already have gang ties in their home countries?

JUST PEACHY: Member of Obama DHS Advisory Council Cheers Inevitability of a Global Caliphate

By John Rossomando

A member of President Obama's Homeland Security Advisory Council known for controversial Twitter posts that seem to support the Muslim Brotherhood wrote Friday that it is "inevitable that 'Caliphate' returns."

Mohamed Elibiary has been controversial since he was first appointed to the taskforce in 2010. He was closely associated with Shukri abu Baker, former executive director of the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development - one of five people convicted for illegal Hamas support in 2008. Elibiary argued that there was a "lack of evidence" in the HLF case and suggested that it was a political prosecution.

He previously praised the late Muslim Brotherhood ideologue Sayyid Qutb, whose ideas have undergirded the modern jihadist movement – especially his call for violent jihad and for the purification of Islam from the forces of unbelief – on Twitter.

Qutb believed that if the Caliphate – abolished in 1924 – ever were to be re-established, that a vanguard would need to replace the regime of one country with an Islamic state, much as the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) aims to do in Iraq and Syria.

Baghdad served as the capital of the Abbasid Caliphate from 762 A.D. until the city was sacked by the Mongols in 1258 A.D.

"#Silly. As I've said b4 inevitable that 'Caliphate' returns. Choice only whether we support #EU like Muslim Union vision or not," Elibiary wrote in response to question from David Reaboi, who formerly worked for the Center for Security Policy in Washington, D.C., about the ISIS rampage through Iraq last week.

Elibiary responded to a question from Reaboi asking if there was a need to be "outraged" about CNN reports about religious restrictions ISIS was imposing in Iraq.

KOSKINEN'S LIES: Evidence Abounds That the White House Orchestrated IRS Targeting of Opponents

By Investor's Business Daily

Scandal: The endless stream of IRS visitors to the White House and the involvement of campaign donors in the Tea Party-targeting scandal belie the claim by the head of the agency that there is no White House involvement.

The first thing investigators often ask in pursuit of criminal activity is who would benefit. That the Obama administration, burned in 2010 by the rise of the Tea Party and by the Citizens United decision, would benefit from the IRS' targeting and harassment of Tea Party groups spawned by grass-roots opposition to big government in general and ObamaCare in particular is beyond dispute.

Yet IRS Commissioner John Koskinen repeated the argument by Democratic members of the House Oversight Committee at Monday night's hearing that enough evidence was in to dismiss the idea that the IRS scandal was a cover-up directed from the White House.

That did not sit well with Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., who noted that those who blame the GOP for raising a possible White House connection ignore some inconvenient facts. "It was Jay Carney that perpetuated the myth that it was two rogue agents in Ohio. It wasn't any of us. Was that accurate?" Gowdy asked the IRS chief.

Gowdy also noted President Obama's insistence to Fox News host Bill O'Reilly that there was not a "smidgeon of corruption" at the IRS — an odd statement coming from a supposedly above-the-battle chief executive as investigations by both the Congress and the IRS Inspector General were still going on. That is, unless he was getting updates and assurances from IRS personnel all along.

Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, asked Koskinen how it was that he waited two months to tell Congress that critical Lois Lerner emails from the Tea Party-targeting period had been lost when Treasury and White House officials learned of it in April, the same month Koskinen says he was told by someone he can't remember on a date he can't remember. Koskinen said he has no idea who at the IRS told them about it. Well, somebody did, and there's no shortage of IRS candidates.

Larwyn's Linx: The Jihadi Menace Gets Real: Welcome to Obama's Brave New World      

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Nation

The Jihadi Menace Gets Real: Welcome to Obama's Brave New World: Mead
Hillary Clinton Can’t Stop Sticking Her Solid Gold Foot in Her Mouth: Glob
What Congress can do about Obama’s rewriting of laws: George Will

Trey Gowdy brings the heat to IRS hearing: Twitchy
The Difference Between Republicans And Democrats: Cal Thomas
A Lame Duck Country?: Thomas Sowell

Did You Know the Border Fence is Racist?: AWD
Obama Walks To Chipotle In D.C. For Lunch, Customers Ignore Him: WZ
Guess Who Didn’t Honor Chipotle’s Gun Ban?: Sooper

McDaniel Monday: 31 Solid Reasons to Vote for Chris McDaniel: Keith Plunkett
Will conservatives miss a golden opportunity in #NY22?: Rusty Weiss
Cruz: Illegal Alien Children Tortured, Mutilated Thanks to Obama Actions: CBS-11

Economy

Almost Half of All Detroit Residents Can’t Pay Their Water Bill: VictoryGirls
McAuliffe Follows Kasich’s Lead for Obamacare Money: Jason Hart
Queerly Elementary Promotes Homosexual Agenda in K-12 Schools: MB

Scandal Central

Did Koskinen Actively Mislead Congress?: Ace
IRS Chief Admits: WH Wrong that Scandal Was Just 'Rogue Agents': Breitbart
IRS Commissioner John Koskinen is Major Democratic Donor: WFB

CNN Reports on VA Whistleblower Saying Vet Deaths Continue Being Hidden: Sooper
IRS Commissioner Koskinen: "I Do Not Remember" How I Learned of Lerner's Lost Emails: RCP
Clinton inadvertently admits she may have violated law over Benghazi: Allen West

Climate & Energy

SCOTUS: EPA overstepped law in regulating CO2: Walter Olson
Supreme Court Fails to Rein in EPA: Signal
New EPA Regs Issued Under Obama Are 38 Times as Long as Bible: CNS

Media

Morning Joe: If a GOP Prez Lost IRS Emails, It Would Be NYT Lead Story Every Day: TR
Pardon me for not being optimistic about where we are heading as a nation.: The Z Man
Washington Post Punk E.J. Dionne Spins for IRS Misdeeds: ‘Trying To Do What Needs To Be Done’: MRC

NYT publish Walmart hit-piece, fails miserably, Walmart response==LEGENDARY: Joshua Riddle
Book: Oprah Winfrey calls Michelle Obama 'tiresome,' prefers Hillary Clinton: Paul Bedard
GOP Candidate Smeared as an Arlen Specter Liberal . . . by an Arlen Specter Donor: Deroy Murdock

Obama Schedule || Monday, June 23, 2014: Keith Koffler
Republicans Won’t Pass Immigration Reform: Debra Saunders
LA Mayor Exemplifies America’s Decline: Dennis Prager

World

Obama Flips on Immunity for U.S. Troops in Iraq: Eli Lake
Saudi Arabia working with Mossad against Iran, WikiLeaks suggests: Hayom
Defiant bikers as horse riders of jihadi Islam: India Tomorrow

Megyn Kelly Hammers Spokeswoman Marie Harf on 'Devastating' #ISIS Threat in #Iraq: AmPower
Former KKK Grand Wizard Congratulates Presbytarian Church USA on Israel Divestment Vote: Joshua Levitt
New horsepower for war zones: Special Forces saddle up: Jim Michaels, USA Today

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Google Glass links to EHR: Bernie Monegain
Should Everyone Learn to Code?: TNW
6 Recent Real-Life Cyber Extortion Scams: Ericka Chickowski

Cornucopia

Americans, rise and become positive difference makers!: Allen West
American Student Trapped In Giant Vagina Sculpture: TR
It’s Only Monday and I’m Already Down So Low It Looks Like Up To Me: MOTUS

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QOTD: "A group more radical than al-Qaeda, better organized, better financed, commanding the loyalty of thousands of dedicated fanatics including many with Western and even U.S. passports? And this group now controls some of the most strategic territory at the heart of the Middle East?

Welcome to President Obama’s brave new world. After six years in office pursuing strategies he believed would tame the terror threat and doing his best to reassure the American people that the terror situation was under control, with the “remnants” of al-Qaeda skittering into the shadows like roaches when the exterminator arrives, Obama now confronts the most powerful and hostile jihadi movement of modern times, a movement that dances on the graveyard of his hopes." --Walter Russell Mead

Monday, June 23, 2014

STUNNING: John Kerry "Shocked And Humiliated" On First Day Of Middle East Meltdown Tour

By Tyler Durden

John Kerry came, saw and as usual made a horse ass out of himself.

From last night:

Secretary of State John Kerry voiced strong U.S. support for Egypt's new president and signaled that Washington will continue the flow of military aid in an American welcome of the post-coup government.

Mr. Kerry said that the U.S. had recently released $575 million in assistance for Egypt's military and that he was confident 10 Apache helicopters would be delivered to Egypt soon.

"I am confident that we will be able to ultimately get the full amount of aid," Mr. Kerry said in his first stop on a regional tour focused largely on responding to the crisis in Iraq. "I am confident…that the Apaches will come and that they will come very, very soon."

Then from this morning:

Three Al Jazeera journalists were sentenced to seven years in jail by an Egyptian judge on Monday for aiding a "terrorist organization", drawing criticism from Western governments who said the verdict undermined freedom of expression.

And then:

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said that he had phoned Egypt's Foreign Minister Sameh Shukri on Monday to register Washington's "serious displeasure" with the sentencing of three Al Jazeera journalists to seven years in jail.

"Today's conviction is obviously a chilling and draconian sentence," he told reporters in Baghdad.

"When I heard the verdict today I was so concerned about it, frankly, disappointed in it, that I immediately picked up the telephone and talked to the foreign minister of Egypt and registered our serious displeasure at this kind of verdict," he said.

So... Kerry immediately "picked up the phone and talked" to someone upon this latest public humiliation of the "top" US diplomat. Is it the same someone who will be signing the receipt on the delivery notice of the 10 US Apaches, and the confirmation of the $575 million inbound wire from the US Treasury?

The Guardian sums it up best:

ANOTHER REPUDIATION FOR THE GLOBAL COOLING DENIERS: Coldest Fall and Winter in the U.S. in 102 Years

Steven Goddard relays the following graph that illustrates the startling dichotomy between the global cooling deniers' rhetoric and this little thing we like to call unadulterated data.


Which reminds me: Christopher Booker well summed it up the other day at London's Telegraph, noting that, "Any theory needing to rely so consistently on fudging the evidence ... must be looked on not as science at all, but as simply a rather alarming case study in the aberrations of group psychology."

In fact, warmal colding is a complete fraud, the product of generous government grants (at our expense), the same United Nations that brought you such classics as "Oil For Food", and carbon trading hustlers like Al Gore.

For those unfamiliar with the climate grift, I long ago prepared a brief history of the scam, complete with pictures and small words for Democrats.


Hat tip: BadBlue News

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.

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Nation

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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