Wednesday, July 09, 2014

BILL WHITTLE: I want to know where you live, Mark Zuckerberg

Another riveting must-watch Firewall by Bill Whittle.


Today I want to make three points regarding the current, artificially created emergency on the southern border, as children are used as innocent pawns to force an issue in order to gain political power.

First.

President Obama has said that if congress does not act, he will, through executive order, simply dictate a solution.

Godwin’s Law states that the longer an internet discussion goes on, the likelier it is that someone will invoke the Nazis. Invoking the Nazis is considered bad form, you see – it’s a sign of desperation and hyperbolic exaggeration.

Well, I’m not going to invoke the words “Nazi” or “Hitler.”

So: shortly after assuming power, the legally appointed chancellor of Germany and the leader of the National Socialist German Worker’s Party was faced with a looming national crisis. The National Socialist Chancellor appeared before the democratically elected parliament of the German Republic, known as the Reichstag. This Chancellor asked them to vote on what became known as the Enabling Act of 1933. It was pretty simple, really: he asked the legislature to approve his ability to create law on his own – through what could be best described as emergency executive orders. The Reichstag approved this request by the National Socialist Chancellor of Germany, giving him the power to dictate law as he saw fit.

The constitutionally limited, democratically elected German Republic simply voted itself out of existence, and half of the representatives of the Reichstag were cheering the National Socialist leader of their own party as they did so.

Now, of course, that could never happen here – not in America. Why if an American President were to stand before congress and tell the legislative body that he would assume the power to write his own laws if they did not provide the legislation he desired – well, here in America that President would be booed and mocked and jeered out of the room – he’d be arrested and impeached. Right?

MACALLEN, TEXAS: The View From Ground Zero

Last year, on the way to Blogcon, I struck up a conversation with "Rancher X" (a more clever pseudonym would have been "The Lone Rancher", but I missed that opportunity), who owns a sizable ranch near MacAllen, Texas. That two hour conversation led to a startling article entitled "CHAOS AND CORRUPTION ON THE SOUTHERN BORDER: A Texas Rancher Speaks", that describes the realities of a border area that more resembles a war zone than sovereign American land.

In any event, I dropped a note to the rancher this evening that read:

How are you holding up there? Hope you and your family are all doing well. Aren't you at the nexus of all of the craziness? Would love a firsthand report if you have time.

Thanks, Doug

The response came shortly thereafter:

The City of McAllen is doing their best to get the people fed and bathed and off to a bus to somewhere else because we are one of the poorest regions and we really are saturated and can’t support long term residents who have no ability to legally work.

And if people can’t work and they are left on the streets, it will lead to more crime here.

So, we just can’t have these people wandering the streets of the border and we need them to get on the bus and on to their destinations.

With all this news coverage, for once, we are getting plenty of support sent here to help the community move the immigrants through to other regions in the USA faster.

It's great to get these people on their way to other states because we are a poor region and we want to help them get to the Midwest where people welcome them and can afford to support them in the schools and such. They need to get to wealthier communities that have more money in their school districts to set up special classes for them and housing projects to give them homes since they don’t have work permits.

The media is hyping it and the politicians are always happy to show up where their are cameras.

That’s great for the border region because a lot of federal funds are now getting sent to move the people to the interior of the country where there is more space for them.

Here on the border, we are very crowded with poor people so we just can’t absorb any more.

This sounds like someone who is resigned to an open border and is simply hoping for the best.

I urge you to read the earlier article -- "CHAOS AND CORRUPTION ON THE SOUTHERN BORDER: A Texas Rancher Speaks" -- which is a firsthand account of a rancher dealing with a tsunami of lawlessness.

The politicians in both parties who support this madness are literally endangering every man, woman and child in this country.


Larwyn's Linx: Sarah Palin: 'It's Time to Impeach' President Obama

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Nation

Sarah Palin: 'It's Time to Impeach' President Obama: Breitbart
Cruz and Palin on Lawlessness and Impeachment: Ace
La Razis Attempts to Intimidate Murrieta Anti-Illegal Protesters: VictoryGirls

President who created border crisis not eager to resolve it: John Hayward
Obama's 'Mariel boatlift': Peter Lucas
Sheriff: Feds Releasing Criminals Deported 10-15 Times into Arizona: Breitbart

Never Let A Self-Produced Horror Show Go To Waste: Ben Shapiro
MS-13 makes its mark: PW
States Constitutionally Required to Educate Illegal Immigrant Kids?: AT

Economy

More Than 50% of Central American Immigrants on Welfare: Breitbart
Obama border funding: Most money to care, feed, transport illegals: Byron York
Spending and Morality: Walter Williams

Scandal Central

A Life Ruined: The Corrupt Players of the MS Senate Race: Jen Kuznicki
The NRSC-Mississippi Thing Smells Fishier And Fishier: HayRide
House Veterans Affairs Committee to hear from whistleblowers tonight: LI

600% Increase in Illegal Alien Children Arriving Since Obama’s 2012 Executive Order: FreeLight
Why Is Obama Pushing Illegal Immigration When We Can’t Take Care Of Millions Of Our Own?: Michael Snyder
Food Stamps Sold on Facebook, eBay: JW

Climate & Energy

EPA refutes green group played key role in carbon rule: Hill

Media

I Watch MSNBC So You Don't Have To™: R.S. McCain
Terrorism is terrorism; Obama's border policy is a "man-caused disaster": Marathon
Mitt Romney 2016 slogan could be: “Actually, I was right about everything”: LI

A Call to Vigilance: Charlie Daniels
Is Google trying to make sure no one sees “America”?: YC
Untamed Cruz refuses to play nice with GOP campaign arm: Cameron Joseph, The Hill

The worms turn: Lib reporter calls border crisis Obama’s Katrina moment.: Allen West
Hollywood, Where Liberal Values Reign — Except At The Box Office: Jonah Goldberg
O’Reilly: Obama Said for Years the Border Was Secure – ‘The Public Was Sold a Lie’: GWP

World

Great: Iraq Informs UN That "Terrorists" Have Seized Major Chemical Weapons Facility: Ace
Obama, Muslim Brotherhood, and Mideast chaos: Presidential Study Directive 11: Raymond Ibrahim
The threatening face of anti-Israel boycotters in America: LI

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Department of Blogging Extinction: Technorati Rankings Are Dead: BizWk
Facebook — the Big Tobacco of Social Media: Curtis Silver
Guy turns jar of warm liquid into ice just by putting his hand inside: Gizmodo

Cornucopia

“Something there is that doesn't love a wall” – Mending Wall: MOTUS
All Together Now, "Freedom Isn't Free!": Gate To Liberty
Watch: Could Obama Be Supporting The Rise Of ISIS?: WJ

Image: In today's episode of "Obama On The Loose", he drinks a beer and plays pool
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QOTD: "Actually, the total number of people who have surged across the border during that time period is much larger – more like 300,000 delivered to American cities by the federal government just since April – but 50,000 of them are unaccompanied minors. None of these people will ever be deported, and they know it. That’s why they’re here. Wait until prospective “migrants” hear that Obama has abandoned even the pretense of holding expedited deportation hearings.

If you think the Obama Administration feels some sense of duty toward protecting the border and American citizenship, this is sheer lunacy – he’s doing exactly the opposite of what everyone knows is the only way to slow the flood of illegals. The accurate belief that they’ll receive “permiso” – permission to remain in the United States indefinitely, with the American Ruling Class dead set on creating a “pathway to citizenship” for them as quickly as possible – is what has drawn them here. Just last week, Obama’s hot talking point was that all of those folks were deluded to believe this, the victims of “misinformation” spread by their lousy governments and ambitious smuggling gangs. But now everyone in the southern hemisphere can pick up the paper and read how Obama wants to fast-track money to accommodate their needs, while putting “expedited deportation” on a slow track that leads right off a cliff." --John Hayward

Tuesday, July 08, 2014

EPA Goes on Road Show to Missouri to Spread Lies and Misinformation About its Farmland Takeover

The radical leftists running the Environmental Protection Agency are once again on the warpath, this time proposing rules that will place their countless legions of bureaucrats in control of puddles, ditches, ponds, and private farmland in general.

The Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) chief is traveling to Missouri this week to promote among farmers the agency’s proposal to redefine its jurisdiction under the Clean Water Act... The agency has faced some of the harshest backlash to the rule from agricultural representatives, who say that farmers will either have to obtain permits or be outright banned from common farming practices like digging ditches or building fences.

EPA chief Gina McCarthy says anyone who opposes the rule is a liar.

...[she] told reporters that much of the opposition to the rule relies on myths.

“Unfortunately, I think there’s a growing list of misunderstandings that have been floating around,” she said. “And so part of the reason to go down to Missouri is to clarify those issues and to try to knock down some of the misunderstandings.”

McCarthy went on to say that most of the farmers' concerns are illegitimate. Because faceless bureaucrats in Washington know more about farming than farmers.

“While there are some legitimate concerns out there with the rule and many issues that we teed up ourselves in the rule to try to seek comment, we’re hearing some concerns that really are, to put frankly, they’re ludacris,” [sic] she said.

Yes, the EPA's rules are quite reasonable (yo, Timothy Cama, it's ludicrous, not the host of Pimp My Ride). Consider one of the examples offered by Wisconsin Ag Connection:

...[F]armers harvesting hay may be exempt from needing a CWA permit only if they follow NRCS Conservation Practice Standard No. 511: four pages of criteria covering timing of the harvest, moisture content of the hay, length of the cut hay, stubble height and much more.

Yes, any farmer who opposes the thousands of pages of regulatory overreach is simply being "ludacris".

Anyhoo, there is some pushback in the Senate, which I encourage you to support.

Sen. John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) is trying to use a bill aimed at preserving federal lands for hunting and fishing as a vehicle to block the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) attempt to redefine its jurisdiction over the nation’s lakes and rivers...

“This legislation will stop the Environmental Protection Agency from taking over all private and state water in the United States,” Emily Schillinger, a spokeswoman for Barrasso, said in a statement, adding that the rule proposed in March would “significantly expand federal authority under the Clean Water Act.”

This is nothing less than an unconstitutional and totalitarian takeover of the farming industry.

As for the rationale behind it, I simply refer you to this.

UNCLE BEN TO COSTCO: Your Virtual Book-Burning of America Has Turned Into a Real Boycott

Uncle Ben blind copies us on the following email to top executives at CostCo:

Gentlemen,

I understand (and I hope my understanding is incorrect) that Costco has directed that copies of “America: Imagine the World Without Her” written by Dinesh D’Souza be removed from its stores. I have not read the book or seen the movie, nor do I have any immediate plans to do so.

However, I am deeply troubled by any retailer refusing to sell a best-selling book for no apparent reason, except possibly because the retailer's management disagrees with the author's views. D'Souza is hardly a fringe author and his book is selling briskly on Amazon.

Costco is an excellent organization, and my wife and I enjoy shopping at its warehouses. However, we refuse to support any store that is effectively engaging in censorship or playing political favoritism in the selection of merchandise it decides to make available to its customers. Consequently, unless and until Costco changes its position (or offers a legitimate explanation for its decision), we will be taking our business elsewhere.

Best regards,

[Signed]


As an aside, America: Imagine the World Without Her is currently Amazon's #1 selling book.


The Mother of All Meltdowns

By Dan from New York:

An "incident" here and an" incident" there, to America’s eyes and its media, they all seem unconnected. But the origin of the current chaos circling the globe has a nexus - 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, where the man in the White House has, with malice aforethought, opened the Gates of Hell.

Buckle up friends, and say your prayers. This is going to be one for the ages.


Hamas rockets reach Jerusalem and Tel Aviv

Floodgates open as ISIS takes over swaths of both Syria and Iraq

Iran nuclear talks: Ayatollah Ali Khamenei rejects pressure from West


Israel mulls Gaza ground invasion

In Deep South Texas, a Daily Tide of Poor Migrants

Yemeni Shi'ites capture city after fighting kills 200

Chicago mayor: 82 shot, 14 dead over weekend is 'totally unacceptable'

Afghan candidate rejects election results as violence escalates

Ukraine crisis: Bridges destroyed outside Donetsk

The Islamization of Belgium and the Netherlands in 2013

BBC investigation reveals Gaza pictures not what they claim to be

Libyan ex-general battling Islamist militias faces dwindling support

Editor's note: can America really survive another two-and-a-half years of this administration?


Larwyn's Linx: Reports Indicate We Now Have Active Tuberculosis in the Immigrant Camps

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Nation

We Now Have Active Tuberculosis in the Immigrant Camps: Bryan Preston
Congressman Barred From Child Immigration Facility Now Plans 7-12 Visit: CNS
MS-13 gang members and jihadists let in over the border as children: CFP

Black and White Americans Protest Together Against Illegal Invaders: GWP
La Raza brown berets in Murrieta ready to start trouble: FAM
Constitution, Not Illegal Immigration Is ‘Central To Our Way Of Life’: Cal Thomas

Obama Classmate: He is a "Real Life Manchurian Candidate”: Outpost
Why isn't the LEFT freaking out about Eric Holder still having a job?: RS
Chicago Celebrates Holiday With Nine Dead, 53 Wounded: JWF

On Speaker Boehner and “manning up”: Hot Air
Boehner explains his stupid strategy: Thisainthell
Judge: Will Not Tolerate 1st Amendment Protests Against Illegals: Outpost

Economy

A Primer On Race: Thomas Sowell
Obamacare's next threat: A September surprise: Politico
Bond Anxiety in $1.6 Trillion Repo Market as Failures Soar: Bloomberg

Scandal Central

Ted Cruz Just Called For An Investigation Into The Runoff In Mississippi: HayRide
DISGRACEFUL: NRSC Reportedly Linked to Racist Anti-Tea Party Ads in Mississippi: GWP
Obama Admin dumping illegals into conservatives areas to change voter demographics : NoisyRm

Out-of-control 9th Circuit says young illegals can get drivers licenses in Arizona: Scoop
Cruz: Children Being Sexually Abused, Mutilated as 'Direct Result of President Obama's Lawlessness': TR
Secret Service Watched This Woman For Months: WaPo

Media

Robert A. Heinlein's Soaring Spirit of Liberty: FEE
No, ‘Illegal’ Is Not Like the N-Word: Walter Hudson
President's 'secret' schedule: celebrity dinners, golf outings, even public appearances Obama hides from us: Mail

Exiled to Racistville: Taki's Mag
Skeptical NBC: Israeli Air Strike Hit 'So-Called Terror Sites': MRC
BBC staff told to stop inviting cranks on to science programmes: Telegraph

Report: Costco Is Removing Conservative Author’s Bestselling Book From Its Stores Nationwide: Blaze
America — Imagine The World Without Her: David Limbaugh
Presidential Imperialism: R.S. McCain

World

How Iraq Was Lost: Walter Russell Mead
More Obama-Muslim Brotherhood cooperation revealed: Smells like treason to me.: Allen West
Bill Clinton's Speaking Fees: "Your TD service charges at work".: SDA

Obama Skips Border Visit to Fundraise with Violent Revenge Fantasy Film Director: Bryan Preston
China thinks it can defeat America in battle: The Week
IDF launches ‘Operation Protective Edge’ in Gaza after days of rocket attacks: Unyielding

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

ReWalk rehab exoskeleton goes home with a patient: Engadget
LG announces the G Watch, an Android Wear smartwatch built in ‘close collaboration’ with Google: TNW
Feds Charge Carding Kingpin in Retail Hacks: Brian Krebs

Cornucopia

Disabled veterans lose funds from unpublicized benefits: Stripes
Lance in Purgatory: The After-Life: Esquire
Declaration Of Arms Before Independence: Chuck Norris

Image: Israel launches further air strikes on Gaza and warns of ground attack
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QOTD: "I am opposed to all attempts to license or restrict the arming of individuals, such as the Sullivan Act of the State of New York. I consider such laws a violation of civil liberty, subversive of democratic political institutions, and self-defeating in their purpose. . . . France had Sullivan-type laws. When the Nazis came, the invaders had only to consult the registration lists in a district. Whether the authorities be invaders or merely local tyrants, the effect of such laws is to place the individual at the mercy of the state, unable to resist. . . .

As to such laws being self-defeating, the avowed purpose of such laws as the Sullivan Act is to keep weapons out of the hands of potential criminals. You are surely aware that the Sullivan Act and similar acts have never accomplished anything of the sort? That gangsterism ruled New York while this act was already in force? That ‘Murder, Inc.’ flourished under this act? Criminals are never materially handicapped by such rules; the only effect is to disarm the peaceful citizen and put him fully at the mercy of the lawless."" --Robert A. Heinlein

Monday, July 07, 2014

Are we seeing a replay of 1930 in Wall Street's secretive "Dark Pools"?

By Pam Martens

On June 2 of this year, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), a self-regulator of Wall Street’s broker-dealers, dropped a bombshell. For the first time, FINRA released trading data for Wall Street’s dark pools – unregistered stock exchanges that the SEC recklessly allows to trade stocks without making the bids and offers public, along with many other details.

The bombshell, that mainstream business media has yet to comprehend, was that the same mega Wall Street banks whose share prices crashed in the 2008 financial crisis are today not only running dark pools for stock trading but they’re trading the stock of their own corporate parents – to the tune of tens of millions of shares a week. Those Wall Street banks include JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America Merrill Lynch and Citigroup.

What could possibly go wrong in this arrangement?

Two days after Franklin D. Roosevelt was sworn in as President on March 4, 1933, he declared a nationwide banking holiday lasting to March 13 to stem a mushrooming banking panic and bank runs. The spark that ignited the accelerating panic was the collapse of the Bank of United States in 1930. At the time of its collapse, it was the fourth largest depositor bank in New York City, holding an astounding $268 million for over 400,000 small time depositors. It was the largest banking collapse in the nation’s history at that point.

The name of the bank, incorrectly suggesting it had U.S. government ties, fueled press coverage of the collapse and started other bank runs around the country.

The bank was founded by two men from the garment industry, Bernard Marcus and Saul Singer. Like the dangerous structure of today’s biggest deposit-taking banks, it had a stock trading arm, the Bankus Corp. It was through that trading unit that the bank manipulated the price of its own stock, using the money of depositors, and then used the shares as collateral for loans. Banking examiners later determined that other banks had acted similarly.

It was a clear-cut recipe for disaster that no regulator took action to preempt until, at the height of an economic collapse, Congress passed the Glass-Steagall Act on June 16, 1933, creating Federal Deposit Insurance for bank deposits while also banning banks taking insured deposits from owning stock trading houses.

That legislation protected a nation from the insatiable greed of stock speculators for almost 70 years until its repeal under the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act on November 12, 1999 under the Clinton administration and at the behest of Citigroup and other Wall Street mega banks who sold naïve editorial boards and a gullible Congress on the benefits of the one-stop banking supermarket model.

OBAMA FINALLY UNITES BLACK AND WHITE AMERICANS: In Opposition to La Raza and His Illegal "Amnesty" Program

It's come to this: the radical Latino racial separatist group La Raza (which literally stands for "Master Race") is in Murrieta ready to battle U.S. citizens over control of the border.

La Raza or “The Race” which is a group of Hispanic Supremacy group has dispatched their brown beret thugs for when the buses arrive from San Diego and protesters try to block them. La Raza brown berets are ready to cause trouble the second they see something they don’t like. This could get really nasty.


Black and white American patriots are together standing against this lawless disrespect of American's sovereignty and its borders. Jim Hoft reports:

A group of black Americans spoke out in support of protecting women and children in America before worrying about the rest of the world. This occurred at the Murrieta California Border Patrol Station on July 4th, 2014.

The young man pictured [at right] said...

"If somebody brought six children to your house and you've got no job, are you going to take them in?"

"Are you going to try to find out where they came from? Are you going to try to send them back? What are we going to do for the people who are here who are starving already? Why would we add to the problem?"

The woman [at left] added...

"It’s just too much. We've already got starvation, kids walking without with... shoes."

"We are already taking that on in America."

"We don’t need other people’s kids to bring more problems.”

As Hoft reminds us, the unemployment rate for Black Americans remains abnormally high, despite the massive "Stimulus"; "Cash for Clunkers"; HAMP; HARP; HAAP; Obamacare; Recovery Summers II, III, IV and V; and countless Obama pivots to jobs.

Black and White and Latino and Asian Americans deserve better. They deserve a President who puts their interests and that of America before those of illegal aliens.


Hat tip: BadBlue News.

INCOMPETENCE OR TREACHERY: You Make the Call

By Lawrence Sellin

For many, it is difficult to decide whether Barack Obama is intentionally trying to destroy the United States or that he is doing so as a consequence of some type of ideology-induced stupidity.

The damage wrought through the implementation of his absurd and impractical liberal "solutions" to national problems is readily evident.

When Barack Obama was inaugurated on January 20, 2009 the national debt of the United States was $10,626,877,048,913. As of Jun 26, 2014, the debt was $17,512,592,730,102.

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), in 2007 on the eve of the recession, there were 146.6 million Americans working. Today, after six years of the Obama Administration, there are 145.8 million Americans in jobs, 800,000 below the previous peak. Since Obama came into office in 2009, 7.2 million people have left the workforce, making the true unemployment rate 8.3 percent, not 6.1 percent. Median household income is down almost $2,300 from what it was when Obama took office. Real wages are lower than they were in 1999. Growth in the first quarter of this year was a negative 2.9%, the biggest downward revision from the agency's second GDP estimate since records began in 1976.

In April, prior to the present massive and growing surge in illegal minor immigration, Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) said Obama has created an "open borders" situation by failing to enforce U.S. immigration law. One could fairly conclude that the current crisis was a deliberate policy decision because the Obama indicated that he would expand Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), a program that offers amnesty for illegal immigrant children and provides an incentive for exactly the type of mass illegal invasion we are witnessing on our southern border.

There should be little doubt that Obama's open borders policy is meant to fundamentally transform the country's demographics, produce millions of additional Democratic voters and welfare recipients and permanently undermine the national security of the United States.

Larwyn's Linx: Senator Accuses President Obama Of Actively Allowing Terrorists Into Country

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Nation

Senator Accuses Obama Of Actively Allowing Terrorists Into Country: WJ
Traffickers Exploit Obama's Permiso System of Backdoor Amnesty: AmPower
Obama Orders 290,000 Illegals to Take Up Residence Inside the US: RWN

Obama offers electoral advice to the GOP: RS
This means Warren: Obama backs challenger to Hillary: Post
Hillary Clinton’s ‘altruism’ sure seems to benefit the Clintons quite a bit: Powers

Obama regime to bring in riot squad against Murrieta protesters: Kristin Tate
Dem Rep.: Obama knew illegal immigration spike was coming a year ago: Scoop
Invasion: AmPower

Our Petulant President: Derek Hunter
General: Mexico Border Security Now ‘Existential’ Threat to U.S.: Molly O'Toole
"If I were Ted Cruz...": American Digest

Economy

Why liberals are abandoning the Obamacare employer mandate: Politico
How Many Times Will You Be Lied To?: Market Ticker
How A Spam Newsletter Caused a Bank Run in Bulgaria: Lambert Strether

Scandal Central

VA Whistleblower Reported Problems To White House, Which Leaked Complaint to VA: WZ
DHS Sec. Johnson refuses to say whether illegal immigrant children will be deported: Fox
GOP Rep: DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson 'Shameful' for 'Making Things Up': Breitbart

The House GOP Should Man Up Instead of Resorting to Political Theater in the Courts: Erick Erickson
Darrell Issa Whines Again: DOJ Is Holding Up Criminal Investigation of IRS Scandal: Nice Deb
House GOP Letter to Obama: End Policies Giving Illegal Aliens Special Treatment: NUSA

Media

ABC’s Raddatz Peddles Obama Talking Points On Border Crisis in Interview With Rick Perry: MRC
NBC Promotes Illegal Immigrant: ‘The Dream Of A New Life In America’: MRC
Princeton Student to Obama “I Want My American Dream Back”: CI

What about *your* gaffes, Hillary?: Toldjah
Boehner blasts Obama's 'flippant dismissal' of Constitution in op-ed: Hill
Dinesh D’Souza’s America: Is It Also Yours?: VictoryGirls

Obama’s 2012 straw man: Bain Capital: DTG
Despicable Jesse Ventura lawsuit against widow of ‘American Sniper’ Chris Kyle begins Monday: Sooper
How does the Red Cross spend donor money? It’s a “trade secret”: Hot Air

World

A blazing indictment of Obama administration decisions on Iraq: Michael Barone
Fed Up With Dead Jews: Shmuley Boteach
Forgotten people: Half a million Israelis in shelters and the world's reaction...: Matzav

Radioactive Material That Could Be Used in A Dirty Bomb Stolen Off Mexican Truck: RWN
All 294 US diplomatic outposts on high alert over threats from Islamic State: JihadWatch
Before Boston Marathon bombing, bomber posed with black flag of jihad at local mosque: Robert Spencer

The United States’ global leadership has eroded: Lawrence Summers
Diplomats: Iran Nuke Talks Make Little Progress,: ABC
Dieudonne still thinks dead Jews are a laughing matter: Matzav

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

9 of 10 online accounts intercepted by NSA are not intended surveillance targets: NetworkWorld
The Rise of Thin, Mini and Insert Skimmers: Brian Krebs
Foxconn may replace 'iPhone 6' assembly line workers with 'Foxbot' robots: Apple Insider

Cornucopia

If 70s Moms Had Blogs...: Wide Lawns
Heart-breaking story of stolen 9/11 flag has a very happy ending on the Fourth of July: Sooper
My 30 Favorite Tweets For June of 2014: John Hawkins

Image: Three suspects confess to murdering Palestinian teen
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QOTD: "Obama’s suggestion that he is being uniquely mistreated at the hands of Republicans in Congress rings especially hollow in light of the fact that the previous Democrat occupant of the White House was literally impeached by the Republican Congress he faced in his second term. And yet Clinton was able to get roughly twice as much production out of Congress in terms of substantive legislative accomplishments in his last two years than Obama has in the previous year. The reason for this is simple: Whatever Clinton’s personal and ideological failings (and they were legion), he was not a complete failure as a leader. One of the necessary qualities of a leader is being able to convince intransigent followers to row in the same direction as you, at least sometimes. Clinton had this ability; Obama just doesn’t. Moreover, he has never from day one shown any interest in developing it or cultivating it." --Streiff

Sunday, July 06, 2014

Top General: Mexico Border Security Now ‘Existential’ Threat to U.S.

Methinks Major General Kelly may soon be entering an early and unplanned retirement.

A top United States general in charge of protecting the southern border says he’s been unable to combat the steady flow of illegal drugs, weapons and people from Central America, and is looking to Congress for urgent help.

Marine Corps Gen. John Kelly, commander of U.S. Southern Command, has asked Congress this year for more money, drones and ships for his mission – a request unlikely to be met. Since October, an influx of nearly 100,000 migrants has made the dangerous journey north from Latin America to the United States border. Most are children, and three-quarters of the unaccompanied minors have traveled thousands of miles from El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras.

“In comparison to other global threats, the near collapse of societies in the hemisphere with the associated drug and [undocumented immigrant] flow are frequently viewed to be of low importance,” Kelly told Defense One. “Many argue these threats are not existential and do not challenge our national security. I disagree.”

...Gen. Kelly says the poverty and violence prompting the migration have created a real threat to U.S. national security. Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala have the first, fourth and fifth-highest homicide rates in the world and “have left near-broken societies in their wake,” he said.


Comforting, ain't it?


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DELIGHTFUL: 90% of online accounts intercepted by NSA weren't targets; program expanded dramatically under Obama

"Ms. Smith", writing at Network World, offers us an incisive summary of the latest Snowden revelations.

Although NSA officials were not sure about what all documents Edward Snowden took with him, they’ve changed their tune a few times after some new leak proves their previous proclamations to be false…like when former NSA Chief Keith Alexander admitted to lying about phone surveillance stopping 54 terror plots. Despite a year of NSA officials claiming that Edward Snowden had access to reports about NSA surveillance, but no access to actual surveillance intercepts, that ends up being lie too.

Snowden gave the Washington Post a sampling of actual intercepted communications; after months of reviewing about 160,000 intercepted emails and instant messages and 7,900 documents taken from over 11,000 online accounts, the Post said nine out of 10 account holders in the large cache of intercepted communications were not even surveillance targets. In fact, the collateral damage is astounding. The Post reported:

Nearly half of the surveillance files, a strikingly high proportion, contained names, e-mail addresses or other details that the NSA marked as belonging to U.S. citizens or residents. NSA analysts masked, or “minimized,” more than 65,000 such references to protect Americans’ privacy, but The Post found nearly 900 additional e-mail addresses, unmasked in the files, that could be strongly linked to U.S. citizens or U.S. residents.

The intercepted communications were collected from 2009 to 2012, during President Obama’s first term; under the President, formerly a “constitutional law professor,” the Post noted that the NSA’s domestic collection program underwent a “period of exponential growth.” Interestingly, a research paper released last week explained how the government can exploit legal and technical loopholes in order to conduct warrantless surveillance on Americans...

LA Times: Drug Cartels and Obama Administration Actively Collaborating to Profit from Illegal Immigration

When even The Los Angeles Times dares to speak truth to power, you know things have gotten completely out of control. Such is the situation on our southern border, where tens or hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants have swarmed into our country seeking an "Obama Amnesty".

And the interests of Mexico's powerful drug cartels and the White House are aligned in this endeavor. For the former, the motivation is cash. And for the Obama administration, the reward is the promise of votes in the form of a veritable panoply of new Democrat voters, largely uneducated, dependent upon the state for subsistence, and completely unfamiliar with America's history, culture, and traditions.

Brian Bennett reports.

President Obama and his aides have repeatedly sought to dispel the rumors driving thousands of children and teens from Central America to cross the U.S. border each month with the expectation they will be given a permiso and allowed to stay.

But under the Obama administration, those reports have proved increasingly true.

The number of immigrants under 18 who were deported or turned away at ports of entry fell from 8,143 in 2008, the last year of the George W. Bush administration, to 1,669 last year, according to Immigration and Customs Enforcement data released under a Freedom of Information Act request...


...The previously unavailable deportation data are likely to fuel the political debate over whether Obama administration policies are partly responsible for the 52,000 children and teens who have surrendered to or been caught by Border Patrol agents since last October, spurring fresh concerns about U.S. border security and immigration law.

...Organized crime groups in Central America have exploited the slow U.S. legal process and the compassion shown to children in apparent crisis, according to David Leopold, an immigration attorney in Cleveland.

He said smugglers, who may charge a family up to $12,000 to deliver a child to the border, often tell them exactly what to say to American officials.

"The cartels have figured out where the hole is," he said.

Did you ever think you'd see the day when the Democrat Party, the White House, and the Mexican drug cartels would all be working hand-in-hand to dismantle the United States? Well, that day has arrived.


Hat tip: BadBlue News.

Larwyn's Linx: 7 reasons to be hopeful about America’s future

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Nation

7 reasons to be hopeful about America’s future: Dustin Hurst
Obama Orders 290,000 Illegals to Take Up Residence Inside the US: RWN
The Left’s Hobby Lobby Doublethink: Ed Driscoll

Liberty: the road not taken: John Hayward
The Lawyers Behind the Lawsuit against Obama: Ian Tuttle
Boehner Is Bringing a Whistle to a Gunfight : Andrew C. McCarthy

ABC: "Do nothing" Senate? Reid protecting Democrats from hard votes: John Lott
The 26 Most American Comebacks In The History Of The World: BuzzFeed
Yes, We Can: DML Daily

5 Arrested in Murrieta as Demonstrators Await Buses of Immigrants: KTLA
Murrieta immigrant detainee protests keep growing: LA Times
Border Agent Contracts Scabies After Handling Undocumented Immigrants: NBC

Economy

Independence in 1776; Dependence in 2014: Chris Edwards
Tipping Point: Most Americans Now Receive Government Benefits: Forbes
The Obamas Travel Tab: Over $44.35 Million In Taxpayer Cash: DC

Scandal Central

Bikers rally to ‘Free our Marine’ Andrew Tahmooressi from Mexican prison: Scoop
Obama's Border Crisis: Rich Lowry, Politico
Voter fraud probe in Minnesota state legislature (Democratic) primary.: Moe Lane

Climate & Energy

Global warming computer models confounded as Antarctic sea ice hits new record high: Daily Mail
Pause Hits 17 Years, 10 Months: Cove
Will EPA's Increased Politicization Scuttle Long-Term U.S. Energy Boom?: Morris Beschloss

Media

GE-Sponsored Site Accuses Israel of War Crimes: WFB
And now a word from United States’ chief executive troll: Real Revo
You Think I’m Mean? Well, Cry Me a Rivers...: MOTUS

Behind that "Hillary Clinton Says She’s Donated All University Speaking Fees" headline: Ann Althouse
Idiot Dana Milbank: Losing The Senate Would Be Good For Obama Or Something: Cove
New Documentary “We Ride to DC” Blows Lid Off Mainstream Media’s Agenda: Leah Barkoukis

World

The Growing Shadow of ISIS: Dr. Rich Swier
U.N. Slams Australia's Tough New Border Laws: Breitbart
Iran: Muslim cleric, university professor says Jews use sorcery to undermine the Islamic Republic: JihadWatch

Obama Will Be Remembered As Radical Islam’s Enabler: Sara Noble
How Obama Lost the Middle East: Victor Davis Hanson
State Department keeps ignoring Marine in Mexican jail, but finds the time to criticize Israel: Scoop

ISIS Occupies Cathedrals in Mosul – Replace Crosses With Islamic Flag: GWP
Unbelievable! ISIS Terrorist Supporters Hold Rally Today in Holland: GWP
Taliban launch rocket attack on Kabul oil tankers: BBC

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Facebook Mood Manipulation: 10 Bigger Problems: InfoWeek
The house that Google built: what the Nest API means for you: TechRadar
15 Most Useless Workouts Ever: Workout Plan

Cornucopia

Blake Carter, former Navy defensive back, dies at 27: Bill Wagner
First Lady Michelle Angry At Being Portrayed As “Angry”: Big Hairy News
Why Obama's Columbia Years Went AWOL: JOM (October, 2008)

Image: FDNY firefighter dies fighting blaze in Brooklyn high-rise after becoming trapped
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QOTD: "We haven’t had anything resembling a free market in medicine, or health insurance, in decades. It was government interference that screwed things up enough to make ObamaCare politically feasible. It is highly unlikely that the market-distorting concept of “employer-provided insurance” would ever have existed, absent wage controls that forced employers to offer benefits instead of pay. Imagine what both insurance and medicine might cost, if they were shaped by the sort of consumer forces that fill our store shelves with inexpensive high-quality goods. How complicated of an insurance system would we need, if free-market competition made everything cheap and simple enough?" --John Hayward

Saturday, July 05, 2014

"The EPA Is Nuts"

By Mike Buffington

Farmers are up in arms around the country over a proposal by the EPA to extend the federal government’s control over water.

Since 1972, the federal government has had control over “navigable waters” in the nation. That was later expanded to include wetlands near such rivers.

Now the feds want to expand the definition to include such things and ditches, farm ponds and places that only have water as runoff during heavy rain.

It’s another crazy plan by the federal government to extend its reach even further into our economy and daily lives. Bureaucratic regulations are now swamping many industries, especially those that produce energy and power needed to fuel our economy.

The move to extend the power of the federal government into farm ditches is another example of this overreach. But the nation’s agricultural interests would have a better argument against the proposed rule if it weren’t already so tied at the hip with the feds. Through a slew of federal programs, the nation’s largest corporate agriculture companies are getting billions of taxpayer dollars in the form of subsidies. The American Midwest is awash in federal money going to large farm interests.

They may have one hand out trying to block this new water rule, but at the same time they have the other hand out asking for cash. Not a pretty picture for the American taxpayer no matter how you slice it.


Read more at Barrow Journal

Some dude flew a drone into the middle of a bunch of detonating fireworks and this is what it looked like

I seldom have time to sit through entire videos, but this one is really cool.



Hat tip: BadBlue News.

Top 10 Images Spotted on Twitter Yesterday, the #4thOfJuly

Lotsa good stuff in the stream yesterday and I was lucky enough to grab a handful or two:


Larwyn's Linx: Some Dare Call It Fascism

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Nation

Some Dare Call It Fascism: Liberty's Torch
The Town Where Obama's Illegal Alien Partners Hit a Human Wall: AmPower
Ten quotes: Obama’s journey from ‘yes we can’ to ‘so sue me’: Peter Sullivan

Welcome to Your Government-Provided Health Care Utopia: Ace
Feds Threaten Journalist With Prison Over Report On Illegals: Kit Daniels
Murrieta: Americans arrested to make way for illegal immigrants: Renee Nal

Texas Congressmen React After Visiting Border Crisis Epicenter: Breitbart
I’m A Conservative And They Lied When They Said I Hate You: John Hawkins
Proposed Texas School Textbook Destroys Declaration of Independence: TR

Hillary's Authenticity Problem Could Cost Democrats the Election: John Sexton
Rick Perry Or Ted Cruz For 2016?: RWN
Nevada Woman Dies After Suing Over Delayed Obamacare Coverage: Signal

Economy

Happy Dependence Day: Karl Denninger
The Kids are Alright: Living in Dorms counted as Living in Parents' Home: CalcRisk
Chicago taxpayers owe $1MM for gun rights case city lost: Marathon

Scandal Central

A Timely Reminder—What did the President Know…?: Roger Aronoff
V.A. employee: They had us stop work on V.A. applications so we could work on Obamacare: Unyielding
Fireworks at Supreme Court over emergency injunction applied against “accommodation”: Hot Air

Climate & Energy

Astronaut Calls Global Warming Hoax “Biggest Fraud in the Field of Science”: MB
High court is right’s backstop: Niall Stanage, The Hill
EPA: We're seeking to reduce regulation: Baxter Bulletin

Media

Peggy Noonan: Our Deeply Strange President Has Given Up and Checked Out: Ace
Congressman: Obama created crisis at border to create new voters and overwhelm the system: Scoop
Murrieta: Star Illegal Alien Supporter Used Racist Anti-White Slurs During Counter-Protest: GWP

My Fourth Of July Post: Knuckle Draggin'
MSNBS Likely Shocked About Results of Second Amendment Polls on Their Website: GSL
Gender Theory: Beyond Parody: R.S. McCain

World

It’s Not the Occupation, It’s Islam: Daniel Greenfield
Why Do Terrorists Target Children? A guest post by the distinguished historian Prof. Anna Geifman: Spengler
Just In Case You Forget What Barbarians They All Are.... Money or Not: American Digest

The eternal allure of the Caliphate: Molly Guinness
Jews attacked at entrance to Qalansawe, car torched: Israpundit
More rockets hit Israel, clouding Egyptian-mediated ceasefire efforts: Times of Israel

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Are we mad to have let a maverick scientist create a virus that could wipe out 400 million people?: Daily Mail
Moto 360 Release Date, Price & Specs: All You Need To Know: KnowYourMobile
Jason Calacanis: Google's Matt Cutts Killed Mahalo & Wants Revenge: SEO Roundtable

Cornucopia

The Value of Veterans as Innovators: James L. Herdt
America: Ace
Stressed at work? Meditating really does work - and you'll see a difference in just three days: Daly Mail

Image: US Rep Juan Vargas (D) CA-51 calls for arrests of demonstrators who interfere with federal agents
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: Thad Cochran's Senate Enablers

QOTD: "There can be no peace until Muslims understand that the Mohammedan conquests were a genocidal atrocity that destroyed entire peoples and cultures. Only then can they honestly condemn ISIS for trying to repeat those atrocities. And only then will they be able to live in peace with the rest of the world." --Daniel Greenfield

Friday, July 04, 2014

ISIS, LATEST MISUNDERSTANDERERS OF ISLAM, NOW IN GAZA STRIP: Publicly Threaten Jews With Holocaust 2.0

Two stories on the front page of BadBlue News caught my eye, both involving the Al Qaeda offshoot group known as ISIS.

1. ISIS Already in Gaza Strip:
Hamas seems to be losing control of the dozens of terror cells in the Gaza Strip.

Hamas prevented local journalists from covering the ISIS rally in the Gaza Strip last month as part of its effort to deny the existence of ISIS in the Gaza Strip. But Hamas seems to be trying to cover the sun with one finger.

The Gaza Strip is no longer only a threat to Israel, but also to Egypt. The only way to confront this threat is through security cooperation between Israel and Egypt.

2. ISIS Threatens Holocaust Against Jews:
A Twitter post Thursday by supporters of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), now calling itself the Islamic State (IS), has promised a Holocaust against the Jews.

"The Real Zionist Holocaust is Predicted in the Hadiths! The Hour [resurrection] will not take place until the Muslims fight the Jews and the Muslims kill them, and the tree will say: "Oh, Muslim, servant of God, there is a Jew behind me, kill him! THE PROMISED Holocaust," the terrorist group's Islamic State Media a graphic posted on its @ISIS_Conquests's Twitter account said.

This hadith has proven popular with Islamic extremists of all stripes, ranging from IS to Hamas – and even on television in the Middle East ... Anti-Semitic propaganda has played an important role in the terrorist group's recruitment effort. Its leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, placed Jews on the side of evil in a speech posted Tuesday on the Internet in which he called on Muslims to join him.

"O ummah of Islam, the world today has been divided into two camps and two trenches … The camp of Islam and faith, and the camp of kufr (disbelief) and hypocrisy … all being led by America and Russia, and being mobilized by the Jews," al-Baghdadi said.

In another such video released on Twitter, IS told jihadists to "Break the crosses and destroy the lin­eage of the grand­sons of mon­keys."

Click the image to enbignify.

Not to worry, however: only half a year ago, our heroic president called this virulent strain of Al Qaeda "a JV team". That was right before they successfully invaded large swaths of Syria and Iraq. In which case, I'd hate to see the Varsity.


Hat tip: BadBlue Real-Time News.