Friday, July 04, 2014
Top 6 Concept Photos of Apple's Forthcoming iWatch
Zombie-like, because they always seem to be wandering around aimlessly, murmuring "anyone have an iPhone charger?". Based on my observations, the average battery life of an iPhone is roughly equivalent to my attention span. I thought the point of a wireless device was not to have to have a wire attached to it?
Anyhow, Apple's forthcoming iWatch is generating a lot of interest and I've seen -- courtesy of BadBlue Tech News -- a lot of neat concept photos of how it might look. Here are six that caught my attention.
6. 9to5Mac - a Movado-style luxury watch:
My take: clean, but not exactly sexy or innovative in appearance.
Larwyn's Linx: Obama's Child Refugees: an Alinskyite Campaign of Manufactured Crisis
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Obama's Child Refugees: an Alinskyite Campaign of Manufactured Crisis: AmPowerColorado DMV Site Crashes as Illegals Allowed To Get Driver’s Licenses: WZ
Obama Refuses To Visit Border While He’s In Texas For Fundraiser: WZ
An immigrant surge en route to a Third World USA: Wesley Pruden
Obama's Border Patrol: Taxpayer-Funded Coyotes: Rush
DPS: Cartels helping immigrant children enter US illegally: El Paso Times
San Diego Border Patrol: Airplane of Illegals Arriving Every 72 Hours: Breitbart
Resentment Behind The Waning Patriotism Of Liberal Americans: Jonah Goldberg
Open Borders: TB Outbreak in Sacramento is America’s Future: Cleo Eiben
Ronald Reagan on the 4th of July: MRC
The Lasting Relevance of the Declaration: Scott Rasmussen
Supreme Court ruling revives ObamaCare backlash: Jim Angle
Economy
'Exploding' Disability Roles Have Become 'Permanent Welfare': BreitbartHHS releases 1,296 pages of regulations ahead of holiday weekend: Exam
Is Christine Lagarde the Most Dangerous Woman in the World?: ZH
Scandal Central
Vet Dies 500 Yards From ER While Waiting For Ambulance To Arrive: RightPunditBorder Patrol: Obama aiding, abetting, facilitating smuggling of illegals: Scoop
‘Costs Are Staggering’: Democrat Judge Forces Dallas To House 2,000 Future Democrat Voters: Pat Dollard
What a Woman Found Outside a Texas Walmart Should Alarm You: MadWorldNews
Coming to a bus station near you - or Murrieta: HyScience
Pro-Cochran PAC hit with FEC complaint over $250K loan: Clarion-Ledger
Media
Only CBS Covers New Poll Labeling Obama as the 'Worst President' Since WW II: MRC‘La Raza’ President calls anti-illegal protesters ‘extremists,’ ‘appalling’ and ‘outrageous’: Scoop
Hillary Clinton disses USA, taking plans for the 4th of July elsewhere: BPR
World
White House debating whether to ally with… God help us… Syria.: Moe LaneRECOMMENDED READING: “Al-Arian Contempt Case Dropped”: Global MB Watch
Finding a patsy in Benghazi: Times
ISIS’s Chilean spokesman: Fausta
Feds Hand Out Border Pass To Mexican Snitch: TSG
Obama negotiated for release of Bowe Bergdahl, won’t do same for 72-Year-old U.S. contractor: Unyielding
Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)
Qualcomm to boost wireless performance to gigabit levels with Wilocity acquisition: ExtremeTechHappy birthday boson! Six outstanding Higgs mysteries: NewScientist
A Social Generation Comes of Age at the World Cup: Clickz
Cornucopia
Louis Zamperini And Memorial Day: Cal ThomasFourth of July 2014: “A republic, Madam, if you can keep it.”: MOTUS
Epidemic Deaths in U.S. Caused by Abortifacient Deprivation: Cube
Image: AMAZING: Enormous Sand Storm Swallows Phoenix
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: Thad Cochran's Senate Enablers
QOTD: “To pick up on Charles [Krauthammer]'s point, there were studies that did show that extending unemployment benefits would actually add a percent to unemployment rate and that's possibly been proven now... The other question, though, when you look at labor participation being so low, that you have to look at the disability roles, which are exploding. And disability has become a form of permanent welfare for a lot of folks. It's not that hard to prove a mental illness, or mental issues, or pain issues. And there's this explosion of law firms on daytime TV advertising on places like Fox that will help you get disability. And yet you have to wonder if you likewise clamp down on disability, if you might see some of the people go back into the work force because, again, it's enforced poverty. You are stuck in -- you are ghettoized in a level of poverty whereas a job has the potential to increase your income, disability does not.” --Nina Easton
Thursday, July 03, 2014
ANATOMY OF A CONSPIRACY: Graphic Illustrates the IRS-FEC-DOJ-Senate-Obama Collusion to Target Political Opponents
As a handy guide, JW has created an awesome graphic and timeline:
For a helpful tabular version, please see BUSTED: The Complete IRS Scandal Timeline in Spreadsheet Format.
GOOD NEWS: Obama Seeks Alliance with Iran and Syria to Combat the ISIS Threat He Helped Create!
And now, his administration is reported to be considering an alliance with the Syrian dictator thanks to a complete foreign policy meltdown in Iraq.
There’s a battle raging inside the Obama administration about whether the United States ought to push away from its goal of toppling Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad and into a de facto alliance with the Damascus regime to fight ISIS and other Sunni extremists in the region.
As President Obama slowly but surely increases the U.S. military presence on the ground in Iraq, his administration is grappling with the immediate need to stop the ISIS advance and push for a political solution in Baghdad. The 3 1/2-year grinding civil war is Syria has been put on a back burner for now. Some officials inside the administration are proposing that the drive to remove Assad from power, which Obama announced as U.S. policy in 2012, be set aside, too. The focus, these officials argue, should instead be on the region’s security and stability. Governments fighting for survival against extremists should be shored up, not undermined.
A "political solution" to a Jihadist group so extreme (ISIS) that Al Qaeda cut ties with them? Good one. That's some quality Comedy Central material right there.
“Anyone calling for regime change in Syria is frankly blind to the past decade; and the collapse of eastern Syria, and growth of Jihadistan, leading to 30 to 50 suicide attacks a month in Iraq,” one senior Obama administration official who works on Iraq policy told The Daily Beast.
In effect, the American government has been in a limited partnership with the Assad regime for almost a year. The U.S., Russian, and Syrian governments made a deal last September to destroy Assad’s stockpile of chemical weapons—and relied on Damascus to account for and transport those weapons, in effect legitimizing his claim to continued power.
As far back as last December, top White House officials, including Deputy National Security Advisor Tony Blinken, have suggested that the rising threat of extremism was creating a “convergence of interests” between the U.S., Russia, and its allies in the Iranian and the Syrian governments to come to a political deal before the Islamists became too powerful.
Interesting. I hadn't realized the U.S. has allies in the genocidal Syrian regime and its Iranian puppet-masters who have pledged to wipe the Great Satan (the U.S.) and the Little Satan (Israel) from the face of the Earth. Partners!
Of course, sensible folks have yet to talk sense into the Obama administration.
... “The people who think Bashar al Assad’s regime is the answer to containing and eventually eliminating the Islamic-based threat do not understand the historic relationship between the regime and ISIS. [They] don’t understand the current relationship between Assad and ISIS and how they are working on the ground together directly and indirectly inside Syria,” Robert Ford, the recently departed U.S. ambassador to Syria, told The Daily Beast. “The people who think Assad’s regime survival is essential have not explained how his survival would solve the problem of extremism in Syria.”
Oh, it gets better.
Some administration officials are also suggesting that Iran could be a partner in a post-war Syria, helping to ensure security there during a transition period, after which Assad would negotiate his own departure.
When it comes to this administration, one has to ask: is it incompetence or evil?
As an aside, The Daily Beast's Eli Lake and Josh Rogin should be running neck-and-neck in the Pulitzer competition this year, but given that they both speak truth to power, the odds of their seeing such an award are roughly akin to me being able to sneak a pizza out of Michael Moore's mansion.
Hat tip: Moe Lane.
FOREIGN MEDIA REVEAL: Obama Administration's Lawless Policies Responsible for Child Refugee Crisis
When it comes to dissecting the true reasons for the Obama Refugee Crisis on the southern border, for instance, we discover Malaysia's The Star, where Reuters' Jose Cortes offers us the straight scoop.
Executive summary: while the cartels are responsible for spreading rumors about “permisos,” “permits,” or free passes for those who make it into the United States, the author of that notion is Obama himself.
Driven from home by threats of gang violence and extortion and drawn to the U.S. by hopes of education and opportunity, Carlos, a 15-year-old from San Pedro Sula, Honduras, is stuck in southern Mexico, living in a shelter and trying to figure out how to get to California.
He says he has an uncle there, who told him that in America he can go to school and find a job. He says that back in Honduras there's a local gang that wants to kill him. He's thinking of climbing on board "La Bestia", or "The Beast", one of the freight trains that carry thousands of illegal immigrants north through Mexico.
Speaking last week from the rail yards in the town of Ixtepec, Oaxaca, Carlos is one of the thousands of young people hoping to reach the U.S. from their impoverished and violent homes in Central America. In the eight months ended June 15, the U.S. has detained about 52,000 children at the Mexican border, double the figure the year earlier. There's no telling how many have gotten through...
...Some combination of hope and fear is driving these children, but the hope side of it is probably illusory. Human traffickers are spreading rumors that illegal immigrants will receive permits to stay in the U.S, while some news stories published in Central America reinforce the idea that children who make it to the U.S. will be treated leniently...
...In fact, there have been some policy changes in the past few years that may be fuelling the rumour mill. In 2011, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) gave immigration officials discretion to weigh various factors in apprehension, detention, and deportation, particularly in the case of children.
And in 2012, Obama's administration said young immigrants who had been in the United States since 2007, and never been convicted of a felony among other requirements, could apply for a two-year authorization to stay and work in the country.
Donald Douglas concludes his analysis with more candor than is legally approved for antique media:
A humane presidential administration would take decisive action to protect these children. Migrants would be turned back at the border. The U.S. government would rebuke Mexico for its callous porousness, and the State Department would be warning foreign government of sanctions for encouraging their citizens to flood the American Southwest.
Of course, none of this is happening, because the Obama White House is mounting a demonic Alinskyite campaign of manufactured crisis, putting untold alien migrant lives at risk, to say nothing of the dozens upon dozens of American communities now fearing for their safety and trying to protect themselves from Third World diseases.
Of course, a humane administration wouldn't have sent thousands of assault weapons to the Mexican Cartels, or gone to sleep while ignoring cries for help from an Ambassador's mission in Libya, or used the IRS to target its political opponents, to name but a few.
Hat tip: BadBlue News.
Larwyn's Linx: The masks–and gloves–are off
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The masks–and gloves–are off: Cold FuryThe Case for a Boring Man : Kevin D. Williamson
One Supreme Court Justice Away From Anarchy: Sara Noble
Declarations Of War Part 3: The Trumpets Have Sounded: Liberty's Torch
Drug Cartels Threaten Ranchers, Use Children To Invade The US: Sara Noble
WH: No change to immigrant surge strategy: Justin Sink
America’s DNA: ‘The Federalist Papers’: Cal Thomas
Rangel: Tea Party Like Confederate Dixiecrats: Breitbart
Thad Cochran Conference Call Descends Into Chaos: Roll Call
Economy
Today's Meme: Obama Is Giving Up: AceSchool board president rips Michelle O over lunch program: EAG
Michigan Workers Discover Obamacare Means Impoverishment: Outcast
Scandal Central
Sen. Cruz Releases 5th Report On Obama Regime’s Exec Overreach: Nice DebMcDaniel campaign now has 4900 double votes for Cochran: FAM
McDaniel says NEW allegations of fraud against Hinds county GOP chairman: Scoop
Media
Dear Emptyheaded Left Wing Writers: AceRush: You Can’t Dump Your Dog on the Street – But Can Dump 50,000 Kids From Central America: GWP
George Takei on Hobby Lobby: What If a Muslim Chain Imposed Sharia Law?: PJM
Newspaper Apologizes to Readers For Endorsing Obama in 2008: Cassy Fiano
MSNBC's Deutsch: Hobby Lobby Case Is No 'War On Women', But We 'Can Make It About That': TR
The funniest tweets from low-information voters you will ever see!: YC
World
Three Funerals.. And The End of The Beginning: JoshuaThe Lost Spring: U.S. Policy in the Middle East: Walid Phares
UK: Fundamentalist Fun and Games: Samuel Westrop
Obama Seeks An Escape From The Middle East: Victor Davis Hanson
Chinese Military Creates High-Level Cyber Intelligence Center: WFB
‘We will take Spain back’: Syrian jihadists: Pamela Geller
Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)
It Would Be Amazing if This iWatch Concept Was Real: GizmodoAll the solid surfaces in the solar system stitched in one brilliant map: Gizmodo
Nine Things Digital Leaders Do: CIO Insight
Cornucopia
Obama's Brownshirts: "It's not fascism when we do it!": CubeFreedom: It’s a Generational Thing: MOTUS
The bikini top from Chicago that went viral: ChiBiz
Image: ‘We will take Spain back’: Syrian jihadists
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: Senate Conservatives Fund
QOTD: "Barack Obama has been anything but boring. “May you live in exciting times” may be a fake Chinese curse, but the wisdom communicated therein is real. Thought experiment: Consider the presidency of Barack Obama from the point of view of the sort of person who is likely to support such men. Having vanquished George W. Bush, he has now given us: a military mess in Iraq complete with the deployment of U.S. troops and a mission that is probably unachievable; the continuing disintegration of Afghanistan and its reversion to a jihadist safe haven; an economy that is shrinking significantly and probably is dipping back into recession; a defense and intelligence apparatus that is abusing its powers and the trust of the American people in ways that are not obviously related to defeating terrorist plots; millions without health insurance; millions out of work; corruption in our public institutions, ranging from the IRS to our universities; a self-aggrandizing political elite that is busy enriching itself through the vulgar exploitation of political connections while incomes for ordinary Americans stagnate or decline; etc. There has been a great deal of excitement, but if you voted for Obama because you were angry about the wars, the surveillance state, and the economy, things aren’t looking any better at all." --Kevin D. Williamson
Wednesday, July 02, 2014
Obama's Self-Described "Brown Shirts": We'll Jail Anyone Who Tells Public About Illegal Alien Disease Crisis
Todd Starnes explains in his detailed summary ("Medical staff warned: Keep your mouths shut about illegal immigrants or face arrest"):
A government-contracted security force threatened to arrest doctors and nurses if they divulged any information about the contagion threat at a refugee camp housing illegal alien children at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas, sources say.
In spite of the threat, several former camp workers broke their confidentiality agreements and shared exclusive details with me about the dangerous conditions at the camp. They said taxpayers deserve to know about the contagious diseases and the risks the children pose to Americans. I have agreed to not to disclose their identities because they fear retaliation and prosecution...
...The sources said workers were guarded by a security force from the BCFS, which the Department of Health and Human Services hired to run the Lackland Camp... The sources say security forces called themselves the “Brown Shirts.”
“It was a very submissive atmosphere,” the counselor said. “Once you stepped onto the grounds, you abided by their laws – the Brown Shirt laws.”
She said the workers were stripped of their cellphones and other communication devices. Anyone caught with a phone was immediately fired... “Everyone was paranoid,” she said. “The children had more rights than the workers." ... She said children in the camp had measles, scabies, chicken pox and strep throat as well as mental and emotional issues.
...A former nurse at the camp told me she was horrified by what she saw... “We have so many kids coming in that there was no way to control all of the sickness – all this stuff coming into the country,” she said.
Not to worry, my friends. Jeb Bush says they're bringing all of these diseases to the United States for noble reasons. So just ignore the outbreaks of contagious, deadly diseases from the Third World.
Hat tip: The People's Cube.
Is the Republican establishment using race-baiting and voter fraud?
Apparently, the Republican establishment will use any means necessary to suppress spontaneous outbreaks of democracy among ordinary Americans.
Incumbent and Republican establishment darling Senator Thad Cochran (R-MS) faced a tough challenge in the June 3rd Republican primary from Tea Party-backed State Senator Chris McDaniel. Although Cochran maintained a lead over McDaniel in terms of campaign finances, the primary results did not provide a clear winner. McDaniel (49.5%, 155,040) received more votes than Cochran (49%, 153,654), but a third candidate, Thomas Carey (1.5%, 4,789), took just enough votes so that McDaniel did not receive the 50% of the vote necessary to avoid a runoff.One week later, the Republican establishment was stunned when House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA), who was in line to be the next House Speaker, was crushed in his primary by Tea Party-backed economics professor Dave Brat, who received 55.8% of the vote compared to Cantor's 44.2%.
That result set the stage for an epic battle between a battered Republican establishment and a rejuvenated Tea Party in the June 24, 2014 Mississippi Senatorial run-off between Cochran and McDaniel, a contest the Republican establishment knew it could not afford to lose.
The Republican establishment went into full panic mode when a WPA Research poll conducted between June 9th and 10th showed McDaniel's lead over Cochran among 500 likely GOP primary runoff voters had shot up to eight points, 49% and 41%, respectively.
Clearly, Cochran was losing ground among Republican voters and the Republican establishment likely then decided that it could only close the gap by adopting Democratic Party tactics and soliciting cross-over votes from registered Democrats.
Cochran used Democratic Party talking points about Tea Party candidates, leveling personal attacks against McDaniel, calling him an "extremist" and "dangerous."
Larwyn's Linx: Business Insider: Obama got “destroyed” at the Supreme Court this year, huh?
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BI: Obama got “destroyed” at the Supreme Court this year, huh?: Hot AirThe Interesting Mississippi ‘Street Money’ Interview: HayRide
True The Vote Sues Mississippi over Cochran Alleged Voter Fraud: Breitbart
Obama threatens to overrule Hobby Lobby ruling: Poor Richard
The Left’s Hypocritical Love Affair With Court Decisions: Glob
Dem Mega-Donor Wants to ‘Penalize People’ For ‘Climate Risk’: Signal
Return to sender! Illegals shipped to California blocked by protesters: FAM
Reminder: Obama planned refugee crisis to “force his hand” on amnesty: PW
Near Rioting as Obama Regime Dumps Illegal Aliens in Murrieta: AmPower
The MSM's Reverse Trayvon Martin Scam: VDARE
Amateur SWAT is Worse Than Regular SWAT: WeaponsMan
Interview With Bill Ayers – The Kelly File: Trevor Loudon
Economy
How One State Made the Minimum Wage Meaningless: Rob PortUN to intervene in Detroit water shutoffs: WND
Burger King Selling Gay Whopper: Gay Patriot
Scandal Central
Exclusive: Inside the VA’s Spin-’N-Stonewall Machine: Michelle MalkinLois Lerner discussed new IRS ‘scrutiny’ guidelines same month emails disappeared: Hot Air
Irs Emails ‘Lost’ — And So Is The Outrage: John Kass
Climate & Energy
Globaloney: NOAA Quietly Changes Warmest Year Back to 1936 Without Comment: PubliusNOAA quietly reinstates 1936 (not 2012) as hottest year on record: Poor Richard
Tropical Storm Arthur threatens July 4th plans along East Coast: Fox
Media
Why I Left 60 Minutes: Charles LewisO'Reilly: 'Unbelievable' Four Liberal Justices Want to Give More Power to Feds: Breitbart
The Ronan Farrow Comedy Hour’s pitch-perfect parody of liberal elitism: Noah Rothman
Why Barack Obama won’t just unilaterally fund access to abortifacients.: Moe Lane
I Don’t Want A Revolution: Camp o' the Saints
What Kind of Scandal Would End Obama's Presidency: TAB
World
ISIS and Their Historical Caliphate Cobblers: StrangeHistoryUndaunted ISIS Begin Building Their New Caliphate Into a State: PJM
FLASHBACK—Obama: ‘We’re Leaving Behind a Sovereign, Stable and Self-Reliant Iraq’: CNS
The Encouragers: Jihadists' Agents of Influence: Gatestone
The Obama Administration’s Wake-up Call in Iraq: Signal
Israel Faces Death Once More: Gatestone
Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)
Drug Shortages: The Scary Reality of a World Without Meds: Reader's DigestThe U.S. Navy is quietly building a big, secretive special operations 'mothership': The Week
Amazon customizes low-cost instances for remote desktops, databases: IT News
Cornucopia
Ladies, Check Out the 20 Hottest Conservative Men In The New Media for 2014: RWNUterus Dialogues: PW
Video: Lois Lerner’s excuses used during IRS audit by taxpaying citizen…hilarious!: MinorityReport
Image: Return to sender! Illegals shipped to California blocked by protesters
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: Senate Conservatives Fund
QOTD: "My feeling about the NRSC is that they should be on de facto probation until 2016. Specifically, I want to see how they handle Mike Lee’s reelection bid in Utah. Lee’s going to face headwinds there from establishmentarians who loathe him for his role in the shutdown last year; they’ll also be eager to symbolically undo his tea-party-propelled victory over Bob Bennett in 2010. If the NRSC really is all about protecting incumbents, it should be decisively on Lee’s side against the Romneys and Huntsmans and other business-class Republicans eager to knock him off. If they’re not, then obviously they’re picking favorites based on ideological bent, at which point conservatives might as well pull the plug and let the donor class fund the NRSC entirely. If the committee can’t even defend a serious legislator like Lee who’s taken the lead in reorienting Republican policies towards helping the middle class, they’re beyond hope. That’s third-party territory." --Allahpundit
Tuesday, July 01, 2014
BOOM: True The Vote Sues Mississippi GOP -- and by Extension, the GOP Establishment -- Over Vote Fraud
True the Vote, the citizens initiative pursuing “free and fair elections for all Americans,” and 13 other plaintiffs have filed a lawsuit in federal court against the Mississippi Secretary of State and the Republican Party of Mississippi over the June 24 primary election runoff in which Sen. Thad Cochran edged tea-party challenger Chris McDaniel.
The lawsuit asks the court to grant immediate access to voting records to inspect for possible illegal voting. It asserts that “defendants failed to properly abide by federal election record maintenance and open records provisions codified in the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 (NVRA). Records made partially available to the plaintiffs indicated ‘double-voting’ from Democratic to Republican primaries – potentially diluting votes in violation of the Equal Protection Clause.”
The complaint explains that the National Voter Registration Act supersedes Mississippi law.
“All we are asking is that the Mississippi State Republican Party follow the law; allow their designated county representatives to inspect the poll books and ballots, give them the review time they are permitted by law, and allow them to uphold their responsibility to Mississippi voters … True the Vote has been inundated with reports from voters across Mississippi who are outraged to see the integrity of this election being undermined so that politicos can get back to business as usual. Enough is enough,” said True the Vote President Catherine Engelbrecht.
McDaniel won the June 3 state GOP primary with a margin too small (about 1,500 votes) to avoid a runoff. Cochran won the runoff with 7,000 votes, allegedly by convincing thousands of black Democrats to cross over and vote for him in the runoff.
One campaign flyer in particular claimed McDaniel intended to prevent blacks from voting. A radio announcement implied that McDaniel was going to defund welfare and urged blacks to vote for Cochran: “By not voting, you’re saying, ‘Take away all of my government programs, such as food stamps, early breakfast and lunch programs, millions of dollars to our black universities …’”
THE TET OFFENSIVE REDUX: The Sunni Ramadan Campaign
In February 1968, the North Vietnamese Army and the Viet Cong launched a general offensive in Vietnam during Tet, the Vietnamese New Year. From mid-1966 onward, the North Vietnamese had found themselves under increasing pressure from American and South Vietnamese forces. They were far from defeated, but they were weakening and the likelihood of their military victory was receding. The North Vietnamese decided to reverse the course of the war militarily and politically by marshaling available forces, retaining only limited reserves and going on the offensive throughout South Vietnam.
The attack had three strategic purposes. First, the North Vietnamese wanted to trigger a general uprising against the Americans and the South Vietnamese government. Second, they wanted to move the insurgency to the next stage by seizing and holding significant territory and resisting counterattack. And third, they wanted to destabilize their enemy psychologically by demonstrating that intelligence reports indicating their increasing weakness were wrong. They also wanted to impose casualties on the Americans at an unprecedented rate. The American metric in the war was the body count; increasing the body count dramatically would therefore create a crisis of confidence in the U.S. public and within the military and intelligence community.General Offensives and Crises of Confidence
From a military standpoint, the offensive was a failure. The North Vietnamese military was crippled by its losses. While seizing Hue and other locations, the North Vietnamese were unable to hold them. But they succeeded psychologically and politically by raising doubts about U.S. intelligence and by creating a political crisis in the United States. In war, perception of the enemy's strength and will, and confidence in your own evaluation of those things, shifts the manner in which one fights. The U.S. intelligence estimate before Tet was more right than wrong, but by marshaling all forces for a general offensive, the North caused U.S. trust in that evaluation to collapse. Even though the North Vietnamese were militarily far weaker after the offensive, the military failure proved less relevant than this creation of a crisis of confidence.
ROLL OUT THE WELCOME MAT: Ready for a Flood of Illegals to be Dumped in Your City or Town?
Tens of thousands of immigrants who illegally crossed the Mexico border into Texas are in the process of being released into communities throughout the nation rather than being indefinitely detained or immediately deported, a congressman told Watchdog.org.
The releases have already started and the Border Patrol did not disclose how many. At least 60,000 Central Americans have entered the country illegally this year, though some news reports say the figure is as high as 170,000. An effort is under way to place children in foster homes or with relatives already living in the U.S., said Rep. Louie Gohmert, R-Texas.
The adults are being given a “notice to appear,” something like to a traffic ticket that requires they show up for a deportation hearing. Following that notice, they are simply being released. Those who return for the hearing will face a federal immigration judge to determine their fate.
“You know good and well they won’t show up and we won’t go looking for them,” Gohmert said. “When they get their piece of paper saying report back on such a day at such a time, they take that as their legal permit to stay in the country and they go do what they want.”
A senior Los Angeles County Sheriff’s detective who routinely deals with illegal immigrants said a “massive number – 80 to 90 percent” do not show up for deportation hearings. Detention is not even being considered because Homeland Security facilities are not equipped to hold a large number of people, said the detective, who spoke on a guarantee of anonymity.
Larwyn's Linx: Boehner won't act on immigration; Obama vows to go around Congress
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Boehner won't act on immigration; Obama vows to go around Congress: WZObama Blasts Republicans For His Violations Of Immigration Law: Sara Noble
The left loses their minds over Hobby Lobby decision: Hot Air
The ♡bamaCare!!! Compendium of Doom: Stephen Green
On the Texas-Mexico Border: The View From The Front Line: Genevieve Wood
No Borders, No Rules = Dictatorship!: Joe Messina
SCOTUS Pummels Obama…Hobby Lobby Wins: BuzzPo
The Day the Establishment Died: Blaze
Cochran Campaign Busted in Illegal Vote Buying Operation: iOTW
The Curse of Cain: Daniel Greenfield
New Allegations Point to Cochran Campaign Vote Buying Scandal: RS
Human Chain Being Formed In Laredo To Block Illegals: Sara Noble
Economy
6 Reasons Liberals are Incapable of Governing: John HawkinsTeachers Unions Use Common Core to Force Crappy Teachers On Kids: DC
Illinois mom elated after defeating powerful union in Supreme Court: Fox
Scandal Central
IRS staredown not going away: The Hill31 Year Old Veteran Begging The VA Not To Let Him Starve To Death: John Hawkins
At Last: A Congressman Looking to Disarm All Those Federal Agencies: Publius
Vote Fraud Allegations: Cochran Campaign Paid $15 per Vote: John Hawkins
Mark Levin explains SCOTUS Hobby Lobby decision: "The First Amendment was damaged": Scoop
McConnell: ‘Nice Family Fight’ of Primaries Over, Time to Unify to Take Senate: PJM
Media
After Boys Found Murdered, CNN Questions if They Were Kidnapped: TRAfter Weeks of Silence, Obama Issues Statement on Murdered Boys: TR
Andrea Mitchell: Hillary Clinton “a little bit out of touch”: Hot Air
Is Brit Hume Rove’s Lackey Now?: Jen Kuznicki
Three Biggest Lies Liberals Spread about the Hobby Lobby Ruling: MRC
Why Government Isn’t Working And How To Make It Better: Michael Barone
World
ISIS declares caliphate, calls on all jihadist networks to obey: Hot AirThree Kidnapped Israeli Teens Found Dead in Hebron: WFB
The Time for Meaningful Action Has Come: David Solway
Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)
Active malware operation let attackers sabotage US energy industry: Ars TechnicaAll the NSA Revelations in One Easy-to-Read Chart: Gizmodo
'Super-Earth' is closest planet yet that could support life: Engadget
Cornucopia
“Bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive!” Or vice versa.: MOTUSMegyn Kelly Calls Out Bill Ayers in a Big Way During Highly-Anticipated Interview: Blaze
Is the .380 ACP an Adequate Caliber for Defensive Use?: ActiveResponse
Image: Tropical Depression Forms Off U.S. Coast
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: Senate Conservatives Fund
QOTD: "Bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive!: Even as bumper sticker slogans go, it was a bit dubious from the start. Now it looks like it was actually the other way around.
The claim seemed bogus from the moment the angry mob in Cairo chanted “Obama! Obama! There are still a billion Osamas!” right up through this month’s resurgence of al Qaeda in Iraq.
And as far as GM goes, it appears that rumors of its survival may have been exaggerated as well. Despite life support efforts that included the removal of crushing debt from its books and infusions of billions in special future tax breaks, GM managed to lose one-third of its value in less than 2 years. And now it’s official: GM really hasn’t made a car in the past 20 years that hasn’t been recalled!
GM wouldn’t exist today butt for a U.S. government bailout; apparently the same can be said of al Qaeda in Iraq. Maybe we should stop bailing out losers at home as well in the Middle East. And here’s another idea: how about we focus on taking guns away from al Qaeda instead of U.S. citizens?" --MOTUS
Monday, June 30, 2014
Law of the Land Comix
Obamacare isn't the law of the land. It's an ever-evolving set of lawless dictates from bureaucrats and other miscreants in Washington.
It must be destroyed, defunded, repealed or otherwise nuked from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.
And any so-called Republican who refuses to commit to such a course of action should be expelled from consideration as a serious candidate.
Hat tip: BadBlue News.
VA hospitals fund solar panels while veterans die waiting for doctors
Veterans Administration hospitals have spent at least $420 million on solar panels and windmills while vets wait months — or even lay dying — to see a doctor.
In total, VA hospitals reported 23 deaths due to 76 instances of delayed care, an April 2014 VA fact sheet said. Then on June 5, Acting Veteran Affairs Secretary Sloan Gibson revealed that at least 18 Phoenix patients died while waiting for treatment on a secret list kept off the books. It is not clear if that number is in addition to the 23 deaths reported earlier. During the past month, the scandal has resulted in the resignations of both the VA secretary and the leaders of its health care component.
According to a June 3 audit, 100,000 veterans had lengthy wait times for appointments. Of the nation’s 216 VA hospitals, 37 percent will require further investigation.
A whistleblower revealed Tuesday that seven of the patients listed on the Phoenix VA hospitals waiting list are already dead. That same Phoenix facility spent $20 million to build the nation’s largest solar carport. Phase one of the project was completed in 2011. The hospital also had an $11.4 million shortfall that year, an Inspector General’s report stated.
Larwyn's Linx: Hillary "Disrespects" Obama
Nation
Hillary "Disrespects" Obama: Power LineObama's Got a Cutesy Plan to Reconnect with Voters: Ace
Government of the Cronies, by the Cronies, for the Cronies: James V. DeLong
Letting the IRS Get Away with It: Mark Steyn
Abuses Too Far: Erick Erickson
Valerie Jarrett Won't Rule Out Run for Office: Daniel Halper
Obama Weekly Address: Virtually Out Of Ideas: Cove
The 1,000th performance of the Obama “Nothing Is My Fault” tour: John Hayward
Obama blames GOP for his failed presidency: RS
White House: Amnesty for DREAMers' Parents as Early as Fall: Breitbart
Harry Reid Doesn’t Want Dems To Take Tough Votes: Cove
For Wendy Davis, pink sneakers amazingly fail to build lead: Hot Air
The Leaders of the 2nd American Revolution: Trevor Loudon
Conservative Response to Cochran Win: Bruce Walker
EPA water proposal rattles ag industry: Des Moines Register
Scandal Central
Dems: Obama Must "Borrow" Congress' Constitutional Power to Pass Amnesty: AceNoel Canning Decision Exposes President Obama’s Insane Belief in his Own Primacy: RS
McDaniel Supporters Barred From Continuing To Review Voter Rolls AFTER Fraud Found: RWN
GOP official at center of election dispute charged with DUI: Sun-Herald
Judicial Watch: IRS Made False and Misleading Statements – “They Are in Real Trouble”: GWP
Lois Lerner’s Lawyer has LIED multiple times, says Darrell Issa: Scoop
Climate & Energy
Huge Ocean Whirpools Help Drive Weather And Climate: CoveAntarctica sets new record for sea ice area: WUWT
Britain at risk of power blackouts next year as spare electricity falls to 2%: Mirror
Media
Broke-A-Hontas: Hillary gave “dozens” of free speeches: HideoutAndrea Mitchell: Hillary is ‘Out of Touch’: WFB
McDaniel Blows it in Mississippi by Ignoring Blacks: Star Parker
Examples of Serious Crimes of Illegal Aliens: FAIRUS
GUNS ENCOURAGED: Colorado Restaurant Invites Armed Customers: Bob Owens
One dead, 4 wounded in Los Angeles BET Awards party shooting: Trib
World
Military Bans Bibles But Forces Soldiers to Adhere to Islamic Practices During Ramadan: GWPBenghazi terrorist pleads not guilty before judge (as if he has the rights of a U.S. citizen): Stripes
Sources: Obama to nominate ex-P&G head to lead Veterans Affairs: Fox
Pledge Allegiance to New ‘Caliph,’ ISIS Demands of World’s Muslims in Ramadan Declaration: CNS
ISIS Releases Chilling New Video of Prison Being Blown Up With Prisoners Inside: RightPundit
Without allies against ISIS, US finds itself in the same camp as Iran, its sworn enemy: JPost
Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)
Google Declares War on the Firearm Industry: Michael SchausFacebook researcher: 'We care about the emotional impact of Facebook': PC World
Culture is a bigger barrier to DevOps than legacy infrastructure, say experts: Anh Nguyen
Cornucopia
NYC Creates Public Defender System for Immigrants: AP“So What Line Has To Be Crossed… Before We Start Mowing Them Down To Make Our Point?”: Bob Owens
To The Leftists: Enjoy It While You Can: WRSA
Image: Benghazi terrorist pleads not guilty before judge (as if he has the rights of a U.S. citizen)
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: Senate Conservatives Fund
QOTD: "... the GOP Establishment and their paymasters have to win every battle in order to survive. We don’t. We only have to survive as an “army in being.” We will pick off incumbents (Cantor and Bennett) and prevent the elevation of establishment cronies (Dewhurst and Crist) and we will bleed them on a hundred battlefields in a war of attrition. The loss to senile adulterer Thad Cochran will be seen in retrospect as the time when the tide began to turn. The GOP establishment had to spend millions of dollars and they had to illegally recruit Democrat voters in order to haul Cochran’s moldering, putrescent near-corpse over the finish line. One has to wonder how many of their donors will pony up money in 2016 for another bloody round of primaries with the presidency in the balance." --Streiff
Sunday, June 29, 2014
ISSA: Lerner’s Lawyer ‘Outright Lied’ to Congress
During separate appearances on CNN’s “State of the Union with Candy Crowley,” House Oversight and Government Reform Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., and William Taylor, former IRS official Lois Lerner’s lawyer, offered contrasting thoughts on her role in a computer crash that destroyed two years worth of emails.
The IRS notified Congress earlier this month that Lerner, former head of the Internal Revenue Service’s tax exempt division, and several other agency employees lost emails between January 2009 and April 2011 — the time period during tea party groups were subject to additional scrutiny by the IRS — due to a computer crash. In addition, hard drives housing those emails were destroyed after computer specialists rendered them irretrievable.Issa accused Lerner’s attorney, Taylor, of having “said things and been not correct, or disingenuous, or outright lied a number of times” during a discussion about the lack of printed copies of Lerner’s lost e-mails with CNN host Candy Crowley. Lerner, Issa said, likely “broke some laws” by providing the Department of Justice with information on tea party and conservatives groups.
Taylor, however, defended his client and accused Republicans of playing “election-year politics.”
“It’s convenient to have a demon that they can create and point to,” Taylor said of the GOP’s treatment of Lerner.
Read more at Daily Signal
BOOM, BABY: Federal Court Grants Hearing on IRS Email Destruction
IRS failed to notify Judicial Watch or the Court that it had “lost” emails in key lawsuit
(Washington, DC) – Judicial Watch today filed a Motion for Status Conference, and within hours was granted a hearing in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia to confer about the emails of Lois Lerner and other IRS officials, which were the subject of longstanding Judicial Watch Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests and a lawsuit, and which the IRS now claims to have “lost” (Judicial Watch v. IRS(No. 1:13-cv–1559)). The hearing is scheduled for July 10.
The emails Judicial Watch has sought since May 2013 cover portions of the same period for which the IRS on June 13, 2014, notified the House Committee on Ways and Means were lost or destroyed. Yet, according to the Motion for Status Conference, the IRS failed to notify either Judicial Watch or the court concerning the “lost” emails:
Plaintiff’s FOIA requests and the Committee’s request indisputably seek the same emails of Lois Lerner and the other IRS officials, including Nikole Flax, from January 1, 2010 to the present. Despite the obvious relevance, IRS has still not notified the Court or Plaintiff of the destruction of emails and whether the same issues relating to production of emails of Lois Lerner or the other six IRS officials exist in this lawsuit. Plaintiff only learned of the destroyed records on June 13, 2014, when the news media reported on the existence of IRS’s letter to Congress about the status of the emails.
In May 2013, Judicial Watch submitted four separate FOIA requests for IRS communications concerning the review process for organizations seeking tax exempt status. One of the FOIA requests specifically sought Lerner’s communications with other IRS employees and with any government or private entity outside the IRS regarding the review and approval process for 501(c)(4) applicants from January 1, 2010, to the present. A second request sought communications for the same time frame between the IRS and members of Congress and other government agencies, as well as any office of the Executive Branch. After the IRS failed to provide the information, Judicial Watch filed a FOIA lawsuit on October 9, 2013.
The Judicial Watch Motion for Status Conference contends that its FOIA lawsuit led to the discovery of the “lost” emails:
As revealed in the announcement by the Committee, IRS confirmed that it first knew of the lost emails in February 2014. See Exhibit 3. This was during the same time frame IRS made its first production of responsive records to Plaintiff in this case on February 26, 2014. See IRS’ Status Update Report (ECF No. 15). The timing of these events reveals that the discovery of the supposedly lost emails was triggered by this lawsuit. However, IRS has still not informed this Court or Plaintiff regarding the missing emails in this litigation.
According to the Judicial Watch Motion, the IRS subsequently may have intentionally omitted material information from the court:
DREAM TEAM: The Leaders of the Second American Revolution
So this is what I would do if were a man like Ted Cruz.
I'd want to get that coalition together now, early, before Jeb Bush gets any money and any support. I'd want to rebuild that Reagan coalition. So I'd be going to these groups right now. And the first thing I'd say to them: I'm going to run and run early.
And I'm to put Allen West on my VP ticket.
And then, for you libertarians, I'm going to make Rand Paul my Secretary of the Treasury and he can do what he damn well wants to the Federal Reserve and the IRS. He can take them down, abolish them, do what he wants.
And then you energy voters, Sarah Palin, Secretary of Energy. Drill, baby, drill, Drill in your backyard if you want to. Two dollar a gallon gas for every American family. Keystone pipeline, open it up!
Scott Walker, Secretary of Labor. Right-to-work all over, folks, every state.
Herman Cain, Secretary of Commerce. De-regulate, de-regulate, de-regulate. EPA gone, OSHA gone, the whole lot.
John Bolton, Secretary of State. Tell your enemies where to get off, rebuild your alliances.
Ambassador to the United Nations... no one.
Dr. Ben Carson, Secretary of Health and Human Services. End the welfare culture in this country.
Attorney General, Mark Levin. Stick it to the vote fraudsters, people.
And for the Christians, who often don't care about politics, but they do care about the education of their children, I'd say to them: vote for me this time and we will get rid of Common Core, we're going to get rid of the Department of Education, we're going to protect your home-schooling rights because David Barton will be Secretary of Education.
You could fill the whole cabinet, folks. Fill it now.
Would you rally to a team like that? Would you get out of bed every day, can't wait to get to the phone banks, and open your checkbook, and knock on doors to get those people in power.
And wouldn't it unify the base? Because everyone's getting something. You might not like Sarah Palin, but you love Allen West. You might not like John Bolton, but you like Rand Paul.
It's inspiring, with a clear policy direction. You know what you're going to get. Because where else do you work your butts off for a nebulous promise. We don't do it in business. We don't do it in our education. We know what we're going to get. That's why we work. With this team, we will work like nothing else.
And think about it, folks. You've never had a bigger team of Constitutionalists, conservatives, and libertarians, than you have today. Far more than Reagan had. And you've got all of these millions of people just itching to save their country. You've got all of these leaders out there that can't wait to gut the federal government.
You put the base with the leaders and who is going to stand in your way? Imagine, right now, you put your eggs in one basket. And they can demonize a Mitt Romney. Try and demonize 20 hard-core, Constitutional conservatives, a bunch of Rottweilers, who don't take any crap from anyone... who are all backing each other up.
You've got a team, folks. You win football with a good team. Why not win politics that way? Because you've done it before.
You didn't have a founding father, guys. You didn't just have George Washington. You had George Washington and Thomas Jefferson and Sam Adams and Benjamin Franklin and James Madison.
It was a team that won the first American Revolution and you need a team to win the Second American Revolution.
I love this idea. I love it.
Pass it on.
Hat tip>: BadBlue News.
Larwyn's Linx: Obama Goes Back to Phony Scandal Claims
Nation
Obama Goes Back to Phony Scandal Claims: LIIllness, Tight Quarters for Illegals Recipe for ‘Public Health Crisis’: Signal
Brave New Charity: The Hillary Clinton Fund for Broke Politicians: CommonCents
Barney Fife Meets Delta Force: Charles C.W. Cooke
The Blueing of Texas: iOTW
Mississippi Aftermath of The Republican Un-Civil War: Jen Kuznicki
‘Suffer Not Yourselves To Be Betrayed With A Kiss’: Camp o' the Saints
Some GOP senators reportedly uneasy with tactics in MS runoff: Hot Air
The Liberty Strategy: VARight
The Obamification Of America: Michael Reagan
My Real Life Concealed Carry Encounter: Jody Lewis
States Encourage Bilingualism, Balkanization With Diploma Seals: ABC
Economy
Multiple Democrats come up with the same “surprising” proposals: Jazz ShawStudy: All Employment Growth Since 2000 Went to Immigrants: NRO
U.S. GDP Shrinks at Fastest Rate in 5 Years: AllGov
Scandal Central
5 Questions for Senators Mitch McConnell and Jerry Moran: Daniel HorowitzHow to Fight Back Against the GOP Establishment’s Worst Treachery Yet: Steve Deace
Walking Mistake Sebelius: “I Made Some Mistakes”: WZ
Climate & Energy
Canada pulls the plug on the U.S. Keystone Pipeline – will send oil to Asia: WUWTWould Three 1,000-Foot Walls Tornado-Proof the Midwest?: Marfdrat
Global warming news: Parts of Lake Michigan and Superior still have temps in 30s: Marathon
Media
'Killing O'Reilly': Jason Mattera Fires Back at Bill for Condemning his Hillary Confrontation as 'Crude': GJWHGNY Times investigation reveals NY Times did fine on IRS coverage: Hot Air
Dips*** Kook Max Brooks Compares Tea Party to... Nazis: Breitbart
World
5 New Signs of the West’s Myopia About the Jihad Threat: Robert Spencer'Infidels must wear red collars and shave heads': 'Nazi' vision of Muslim Britain: DailyMail
Report: Israel tells U.S. it would act to save Jordan from Islamists: Haaretz
Gop: Just Say ‘No’ To Ex-Im: Larry Kudlow
Obama Isn’t an Introvert, He’s a Narcissist: Daniel Greenfield
Jews barred from African Union summit: Geller
Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)
Facebook ran secret psychological experiments on users: iMoreGoogle's cardboard VR headset is no joke -- it's great for the Oculus Rift: CNet
Pley Is like Netflix for LEGO: Dave Greenbaum
Cornucopia
Actress Amy Adams Gives Soldier Her First-Class Seat: Cathy BurkeAnother Day, Another Crisis: MOTUS
Why Americans Dislike Soccer: RWN
Image: Iraq receives Russian jets as it battles militants to take back Tikrit
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: CALL FOR VOLUNTEERS TO OVERTURN MISSISSIPPI VOTE
QOTD: "Mitch McConnell, John McCain, Karl Rove, Thad Cochran, Haley Barbour, the NRSC, et al, must answer for this [the race-baiting ads supporting Cochran]. To say they were not involved in blatantly racist behavior is not good enough. They’ve yet to condemn this activity let alone demand that those behind it be exposed." --Mark Levin





















