Saturday, July 12, 2014

RUH ROH: Federal Judge Demands Answers -- Under Oath -- From IRS As to How Emails Went "Missing"

By Judicial Watch

If there is a case study which perhaps best describes why Judicial Watch is so important and how we are different from any other organization, it is the record of success we have achieved in exposing the Obama Internal Revenue Service (IRS) scandal, in which that powerful federal agency was used to target and harass conservative organizations.

And that success continued this week in federal court, before U.S. District Court Judge Emmet Sullivan, who held a hearing about the supposedly missing 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 (Judicial Watch v. IRS(No. 1:13-cv–1559)).

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 the IRS failed to notify either Judicial Watch or the court concerning the “lost” emails.

You’ll be pleased to know that Judge Sullivan, like Judicial Watch, demanded answers and accountability. The lawyer for the IRS, Geoffrey Klimas, suggested that it would be “appropriate” to wait until its own investigation by the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA) concluded before Judicial Watch or the court get any answers through discovery. Judge Sullivan was skeptical (you can review the hearing transcript here):

THE COURT: More appropriate for whom, though, for the department or the public? I mean, this is an action filed by an organization that seeks documents under the theory that the public likes to know what its government is doing, so appropriate for whom? How would delaying discovery assist this plaintiff [Judicial Watch] and the public in learning what happened here?

MR. KLIMAS: I would submit that letting the Inspector General conclude his investigation serves the public interest. The Inspector General is –

THE COURT: First of all, we don’t know who this Inspector General is; secondly, we don’t know whether his or her report is going to be public, right, right?

MR. KLIMAS: That’s correct.

THE COURT: So what’s — so let’s just stop there. Whose interest does that benefit, other than the IRS and not the public?

Judge Sullivan was not persuaded and demanded answers, under oath, from the IRS within 30 days. Here’s a squib from his court order, which you can read in its entirety here: “For the reasons stated by the Court on the record during the status hearing on July 10, 2014, Defendant IRS is hereby ORDERED to file a sworn Declaration, by an official with the authority to speak under oath for the Agency, by no later than August 11, 2014.”

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Nation

America’s Impending Tuberculosis Epidemic: ChicagoBoyz
Obama: No Consequences for Treason and America’s Final Destruction: Sher Zeve
Citizen militia recruits patriots to protect border; draws warning from the feds: BPR

Nation Without Borders, Nation Without Morals: Sara Noble
Border Ranchers Extend Invite to Nancy Pelosi: Blaze
Michelle Obama: We Can't Wait for Congress to Fix Immigration: Breitbart

Obama puts politics first, border security second: Jonah Goldberg
The Obama Administration’s Human Trafficking: Arnold Ahlert
Feds: Pastors not welcome at immigration camps: Fox

Liberal lawyers ensuring illegal aliens are never deported: Times
Surprise: Obama Uses Weekly Address To Attack Republicans: RWN
Two Robberies at Target Since Asking Citizens to Shop Unarmed: Breitbart

Economy

Black Americans: The True Casualties of Amnesty: A.J. Delgado
How long before the college bubble bursts?: Marfdrat
IRS? VA Scandal? DOJ looking at Obama outhouse parade float: Marathon

Scandal Central

UNREAL: Illegal Aliens Can Board U.S. Domestic Flights Without Verifiable ID : RWN
TheDC Uncovers Another VA Backlog: Months Of Neglected Medical Records: DC
Immigrant illness: What you need to know about scabies and tuberculosis: Fox

Whistleblowers Tell Congress about Culture of Retaliation at the VA: PJM
Restraining Order Filed Against Miss. GOP: WZ
Democrats Deploy Their Mississippi Strategy Against Jody Hice in Georgia: RS

Climate & Energy

Coldest Antarctic June Ever Recorded: WUWT

Media

Perry takes Hannity inside Obama meeting: ‘He’s inept, or there’s something else going on’: BPR
Arpaio: My Tents Are Hilton Hotels Compared to What’s Going On at Illegal Immigrant Camps: GWP
Gutfeld gets the last word when producers say no to ‘impeachment’ graphics: BPR

World

Congressman SLAMS Obama for an ‘Unprecedented Act of Cowardice and Betrayal’ Towards Israel: TPNN
Muslims to Hold Solidarity Action for Gitmo, Palestine During White House Ramadan Dinner: Paramus Post
San Fran police allowed Muslims to attack Jews at pro-Israel demo: Creeping

The Innermost Doll of Failure: Belmont Club
Sending pink slips to a war zone: Post
Multicultural Toronto - Our Mosaic Of Diversity - Scenes From the Pallie Rally In Toronto: BCF

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

How 160,000 intercepted communications led to our latest NSA story: WaPo
Welcome to 'the Matrix': At FedEx's sorting hub, 1 night, 1.5M packages: CNet
Nadella on Microsoft's culture change: 'Nothing is off the table': IT World

Cornucopia

116 Days: III Percent
Fight On!: MOTUS
Homeland Security, Feds Swarm Small Town in Bizarre Unannounced Show of Force: Infowars

Image: Guess Who This Woman Is Going to Marry?
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: Help Turn Trevor Loudon’s Book Into a “Game Changing” Movie

QOTD: "...the real news isn’t the [impeachment] proposal of Palin, but Boehner. Boehner would never go in the water [with his lawsuit against Obama] unless he was reasonably sure it was safe. If he and his merry lupine band are circling, it’s only because they smell weakness. They can taste the fear. Wolves have a developed temporal sense. They know that the prey’s status changes from hour to hour; it may still be strong now, but is it weakening. Awooooo.

The unfortunate truth is that, like a set of Matryoshka dolls, the scenario is repeated recursively. In the outermost doll level al-Qaeda, Isis, Putin and China are stalking America. Further on in unemployment is haunting the average man. And so on. Obama is merely the innermost doll of failure. The only question is which level of doll the wolves get first. The president’s blunders have endangered not just his political life, but perhaps the actual lives of individual people throughout the world.

If he could stop laughing for a moment maybe he’d see that." --Richard Fernandez

Friday, July 11, 2014

The Enemies Within

Trevor Loudon’s The Enemies Within: Communists, Socialists and Progressives in the US Congress is to be turned into a “game changing” movie.

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CHART: Obama's Job Approval by Religion

Gee, this comes as quite the surprise.

Muslims have the most faith in President Obama’s administration.

Among religious groups in the U.S., followers of Islam were overwhelmingly the most approving of the President (72%), according to the results of a Gallup poll released Friday.


Mormons showed the lowest level of satisfaction with Obama (78% disapprove)...

Protestants and Catholics were also among the three groups most dissatisfied with the President’s performance, likely due to his administration’s tense rapport with faith-based organizations seeking religious exemptions from the contraception mandate in the Affordable Care Act.

Conservative critics of Obama have long declared him the “first Muslim President,” though Obama has professed he is a Christian.

As TPNN observes:

In his 2006 book The Audacity of Hope, Barack Obama said, “I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.” In 2012, he reiterated his resolve to have the backs of Muslims by saying during a speech before the United Nations, “The future must not belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam.” He has sent billions of taxpayer dollars to the Muslim Brotherhood. He has released five of the Taliban’s greatest leaders in exchange for an Army deserter. So, it should come as no big surprise which religious group backs Obama by 72%.


Hat tip: BadBlue News.

Newly Revealed Contract Proves Obama Planned Border Invasion

By Investor's Business Daily

Immigration: A federal employment ad posted in January showing that 65,000 unaccompanied minors will enter the U.S. illegally shows that the administration expected this cross-border child abuse and encouraged it.

Concrete evidence has shown up proving our earlier assertion: The breach of our border by waves of unaccompanied alien children was orchestrated by the administration based on a strategy straight out of the playbook President Obama studied as a community organizer. His goal is to get his way on immigration reform by overwhelming the U.S. Border Patrol and collapsing an already weakened system.

The evidence comes in the form a government contract solicited in January by the Department of Homeland Security. The listing asked for "Escort Services for Unaccompanied Alien Children" in expectation of the arrival of 65,000 minors on our southern border without their parents or guardians.

The operative language in the listing is the statement by DHS/Immigration and Customs Enforcement that they expect there "will be approximately 65,000" alien minors requiring assistance. This is a significant increase from the 5,000 minors who are detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement annually. It also strongly suggests not only advance knowledge of the human catastrophe about to unfold but a lack of any effort to stop it.

I Fear for Moldova

By Robert D. Kaplan

"NATO's Article 5 offers little protection against Vladimir Putin's Russia," Iulian Fota, Romania's presidential national security adviser, told me on a recent visit to Bucharest. "Article 5 protects Romania and other Eastern European countries against a military invasion. But it does not protect them against subversion," that is, intelligence activities, the running of criminal networks, the buying-up of banks and other strategic assets, and indirect control of media organs to undermine public opinion. Moreover, Article 5 does not protect Eastern Europe against reliance on Russian energy. As Romanian President Traian Basescu told me, Romania is a somewhat energy-rich island surrounded by a Gazprom empire. The president ran his finger over a map showing how Romania's neighbors such as Bulgaria and Hungary were almost completely dependent on Russian natural gas, while Romania -- because of its own hydrocarbon reserves -- still has a significant measure of independence. In the 21st century, the president explained, Gazprom is more dangerous than the Russian army. The national security adviser then added: "Putin is not an apparatchik; he is a former intelligence officer," implying that Putin will act subtly. Putin's Russia will not fight conventionally for territory in the former satellite states, but unconventionally for hearts and minds, Fota went on. "Putin knows that the flaw of the Soviet Union was that it did not have soft power."

Thus, Moscow's strategy is about taking over countries from within. In this battle, it is precisely during the quiet periods, when an issue like Ukraine drifts off the front pages because of the Middle East, for example, that we should be worried. And remember that weak democracies can be more useful to Russia than strong dictatorships. A ruthless communist autocrat such as Josip Broz Tito in Yugoslavia was able to keep the Soviets out of his country during the Cold War. But a feeble polity, however democratic, such as Romania's neighbor Moldova, offers the Russians many local politicians to bribe.

CONGRATULATIONS TO THE EPA: Now Acting as All Three Branches of Government

By Investor's Business Daily

Big Government: The EPA is now claiming the authority to bypass courts and, on its own, garnish the paychecks and attach the assets of those it accuses of violating its rules. And, as with the IRS, its hard drives also crash.

The Environmental Protection Agency's insatiable lust for power has now gone beyond being the pen and the phone for President Obama's climate change, bypassing both the Constitution and the Congress in enacting rules and regulations that the American people and their representatives did not enact or even support.

Through an announcement in the Federal Register, the agency is claiming that existing federal law allows it "to garnish non-Federal wages to collect delinquent non-tax debts owed the United States without first obtaining a court order." It claims such authority under the Debt Collection Improvement Act of 1996.

These non-tax debts are fines and penalties that the EPA has levied against alleged polluters who often are innocent — farmers, for example, making common-sense decisions in running their daily lives and businesses, who discover a ditch that they dug is now considered a wetland because rainwater occasionally fills it.

"The EPA has a history of overreaching its authority. It seems like once again the EPA is trying to take power it doesn't have away from American citizens," Sen. John Barrasso, Wyoming Republican, said when he learned of the EPA's wage-garnishment scheme, according to the Washington Times.

The EPA authoritarian edicts include recently slapping a $75,000 a day — yes, a day — fine on Wyoming homeowner Andy Johnson for building a pond on his rural property to provide water for his cattle where the Six Mile Creek runs across his land.

Larwyn's Linx: America’s Funniest Home Presidency

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Nation

America’s Funniest Home Presidency: Stephen Miller
DHS preventing reporters, congressmen from doing their jobs: Rick Moran
Obama, the Problem Creator: David Limbaugh

Welcome to Post-America: Camp o' the Saints
Time for States to Reclaim Their Sovereignty: Walter Hudson
Gun Confiscation in NY?: III Percent

Democrat Angrily Claims That Deporting Illegals… is Illegal!: Sooper
Agitprop: WRSA
Actually, Hillary’s Wealth Is Her Greatest Accomplishment: David Harsanyi

Excelsior!: Cold Fury
Crisis at border: diseases long stamped out in U.S. back for encore!: HySci
Hey, Snotty Bloomberg: Mind Your Own Crumbling City: Michelle Malkin

Economy

Why the State and Local Pension Problem Will Get Worse: Steven Malanga
White House Rolls Out Another Gutter Ball: Jon Gabriel
Obama to Take 15-Day Vacation in August: Keith Koffler

Scandal Central

Mexico Announces it Will Fully Assist Guatemala in Flooding U.S. With Illegals: LibertyNews
Mexico’s Southern Border: It Costs $1.30 to Cross a River From Guatemala, in Full View of Police: Sooper
Donor Controversies Slam Bogus "Mississippi Conservatives": Jeffrey Lord

True the Vote Alleges "Stunning Evidence of Election Subversion," Restraining Order Filed!: ConHQ
BOOM: Federal judge orders IRS to explain lost Lerner emails ‘under oath’ : Fox
House Resolution Filed for Arrest of Lois Lerner!: TPNN

Media

PHOTOS: Obama Laughs His Way Through Meeting with Gov. Perry: Tatler
22 times President Obama was definitely interested in a photo-op: Exam
Obama: “I’m... Telling the Truth Now. I Don’t have to Run for Office Again.": FreeLight

ABC, NBC Censor Latest IRS Outrage, CBS Gives Story Only 19 Seconds: MRC
Mark Levin on Impeachment: 'Sarah Palin Is Right': Breitbart
Class: VA Democrat Offers Reward For Nude Photos of Hunter and Texas Tech Cheerleader: PJM

It's Probably a Good Time to Give Obama an Emmy: Ace
Friday, July 10 2014; the Meltdown Begins: MOTUS
Barack Obama opines on border crisis… nowhere near where the border crisis actually is: Moe Lane

World

Hamas’s (and Iran’s) fail-safe strategy: Caroline Glick
Obama Talks to Netanyahu—Did Bibi Tell Barry to Stuff It?: Roger L. Simon
Hamas spokesman encourages Gazans to serve as human shields: JihadWatch

'Israel Under Attack, Obama Remains Silent': Daniel Halper
Obama calls Netanyahu, says U.S. willing to negotiate Israel cease-fire: Times
Dave Brat Slams Obama Administration on Israel: David Steinberg

Image Posted To Twitter Shows Bergdahl Smiling With Haqqani Network Commander In May: WZ
Act of War: Mexico and Guatemala Sign Agreement to Fast-Track Invasion of U.S.: Daily Dose
CAIR Steals My (Intellectual) Property: Daniel Pipes

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Researchers get record broadband speeds out of old-school copper wire: Engadget
Car thief who stole Model S in LA now counts as first death in a Tesla: Geek
Here's every Transformers robot fight scene in one video: Gizmodo

Cornucopia

Scratch 'n Shift: RWN
This is what happened when I drove my Mercedes to pick up food stamps: Darlena Cunha
Reminder: The Charter of HAMAS: CAMERA

Image: Car thief who stole Model S in LA now counts as first death in a Tesla
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QOTD: "It’s easy for Obama to yell at the imaginary congressional boogeyman and the Supreme Court when he’s farthest away as geographically possible without falling into the ocean. That’s been his modus operandi since day one. He doesn’t become the President of inaction. He becomes Barack shaking hands with a guy in a horse-head mask.

Enabled by a desperate media, he can lament that Congress gets nothing done while simultaneously pounding microbrews, shooting nine ball and working on his handicap.

Obama doesn’t want anything to do with the humanitarian crisis in Iraq, Israel, Ukraine and more importantly, our own southern border, because he can’t talk his way through them. It would require putting down the pool cue and working with congressional leaders on how to formulate a solution together.

That part of the job unfortunately can’t be calculated by a Klout score." --Stephen Miller

Thursday, July 10, 2014

WELL, THIS IS A BUMMER FOR THE GUN-BAN CROWD: Murder Rates Drop as Concealed Carry Increases

The Crime Prevention Research Center has released a comprehensive analysis [PDF] of the statistical linkage between murder rates and the dramatic proliferation of concealed-carry permits. The conclusions, it goes without saying, are decidedly negative for the radical, anti-American gun-ban crowd.

...Between 2007 and the preliminary estimates for 2013, murder rates have fallen from 5.6 to 4.4 per 100,000 – a 22 percent drop in the murder rate at the same time that the percentage of the adult population with permits soared by 130 percent. Overall
violent crime also fell by 22 percent over that period of time...

...deterrence isn’t just a matter of whether states have adopted right-to-carry laws. It very much depends on the percentage of the population with permits.


...The six states that allow people to carry concealed handguns without a permit have much lower murder and violent crime rates than the six states with the lowest permit rates. Indeed, the murder rate is 23 percent lower in the states without permits. The violent crime rate is 12 percent lower. The murder and violent crime rates are also lower in the 25 states with the highest permit rates
compared to the rest of the US...

Piers Morgan hardest hit.


Hat tip: BadBlue Guns.

MAKE SURE YOU'RE SITTING DOWN: MS-13 Actively Recruiting Obama's Flood of Illegal Aliens at U.S. Shelters

By Judicial Watch

The nation’s most violent street gangs—including Mara Salvatrucha—are actively recruiting new members at U.S. shelters housing illegal immigrant minors and they’re using Red Cross phones to communicate, a Homeland Security source tells Judicial Watch.

JW has reported extensively on the crisis created by the sudden influx of mostly Central American minors that have crossed into the U.S. through the Mexican border in recent weeks. It has created havoc and will end up costing American taxpayers billions of dollars to house, process, medically treat, feed and inevitably educate the Unaccompanied Alien Children (UAC) which are being dispersed throughout the country. They are bringing in dangerous diseases—including swine flu, dengue fever, Ebola virus and tuberculosis— and occupying our military bases as shelters.

As if all this weren’t bad enough, the invasion is also supplying the nation’s most dangerous street gangs with new soldiers. The Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) and the 18th Street gangs are on a recruiting frenzy at the various facilities housing the newly arrived illegal aliens, according to JW’s source. The MS-13 is a feared street gang of mostly Central American illegal immigrants that’s spread throughout the U.S. and is renowned for drug distribution, murder, rape, robbery, home invasions, kidnappings, vandalism and other violent crimes. The Justice Department’s National Gang Intelligence Center (NGIC) says criminal street gangs like the MS-13 are responsible for the majority of violent crimes in the U.S. and are the primary distributors of most illicit drugs.

The 18th Street gang is considered the largest organized gang in Los Angeles County with about 15,000 members that operate a number of criminal enterprises throughout the region. Last year ten of its leaders were indicted for running a large-scale methamphetamine and drug trafficking business in South Los Angeles. A local newspaper report about the case says 18th Street gang leaders deported from the U.S. in the 1990s helped spread the gang across Central America and into Mexico. It’s not unreasonable to conclude that some of the members are among the tens of thousands of UACs that have entered the U.S. recently.

BORDER CHAOS: Forget Incompetence or Intention, Governor Perry, It's Fundamental Transformation

By Investor's Business Daily

Illegal Immigration: Texas Gov. Rick Perry states the obvious when he suggests that the flood of alien children coming to the U.S. from Latin America just might be a result of "ulterior motives" on the part of President Obama.

Obama is like an arsonist who sets fires to help rescue people from burning buildings. He's asked Congress for $2 billion to deal with a child refugee crisis of his own making, money that could have gone to seal the border instead of having Border Patrol agents acting as glorified baby-sitters by cooking, cleaning and even doing laundry.

A little-noted University of Texas, El Paso study, dated March 20 and titled "Unaccompanied Alien Children (UAC) Project," found that "the biggest issue with UACs is the high maintenance that is associated with caring, feeding and clothing them." These tasks have fallen to the Border Patrol, the guardian of our borders.

It has also fallen to states like Texas, whose governor, Rick Perry, said during a U.S. House field hearing last Thursday that the feds need to reimburse Texas $500 million that the state has spent trying to pick up the federal slack in securing the border.

"We have been fulfilling a federal responsibility," Perry told the panel. "The hardworking people of the state of Texas shouldn't be shouldering that cost."

Perry also told ABC's "This Week" on Sunday, "I have to believe that when you don't respond in any way that you are either inept or you have some ulterior motive."

Larwyn's Linx: The Challenges of Diversity

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Nation

The Challenges of Diversity: Mark Steyn
As Bodies of Dead Illegals Stack Up, Obama Shoots Pool, Drinks Beer: AmPow
Is this man delusional?: Keith Koffler

We Need a New Declaration of Independence for a New Revolution: Publius
Hypocrites Take A Selfish Stance On Border Crisis: Victor Davis Hanson
Border Invasion – The War Of The Worlds: Camp o' the Saints

Obama’s Immigration Lawyers’ Enrichment Act: Michelle Malkin
The White House Responds: Patterico
A Righteous Invasion: Taki's Mag

Death by Paperwork: Betsy McCaughey
Greenwald's Underwhelming Surveillance Scoop: IPT
On Tarring And Feathering: Camp o' the Saints

Economy

Why You Feel Poorer: Pelerin
Obama: Most Expensive President In History: Hannity
$22 Billion in California Homes Sold to Chinese All-Cash Buyers: Mish

Scandal Central

Lois Lerner Emails Reveal She’s Been Hiding Info from Congress: TPNN
Kevin Bacon Please Meet the Mistress of Disaster: Ace
Awesome: Politicians Call For Preemptive Gun Seizures: Bob Owens

Mississippi Update: McDaniel Not Going Down Without A Fight: ConHQ
House Democrat: Obama Can Take Half an Hour to Visit His Border Mess After His 37 Fundraisers: JWF
League City bans undocumented children: Chron

Climate & Energy

EPA now claims it can garnish wages without court approval: Allen West

Media

POTUS Phones US Soccer Team, Talks About…Himself: Tammy Bruce
Simon & Schuster Geniuses Feeling the Heat With Hillary’s Book Tanking Badly: JWF
Author Of Book On How To Survive Running Of Bulls Gored By Bull In Pamplona: OTB

Bonfire of the MSM’s Vanities: Ed Driscoll
Testimony begins Jesse Ventura's defamation case against deceased SEAL's estate: NavyTimes
Chicago Democrats A Protected Species On The National Stage: John Kass

World

US ‘Vetted Moderate’ Free Syrian Army Brigades Surrender Weapons, Pledge Allegiance to Islamic State: Tatler
Ohio Muslim working for Homeland Security sues counter-terror experts for ratting him out: BNI
After 101 days in Mexican prison, Marine Sgt. Tahmooressi arrives for day in court: Fox

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

UK joins the US in banning uncharged devices from flights: Engadget
In Fog Of Cyberwar, US Tech Is Caught In Crossfire: Dark Reading
FireEye caught up in responsible disclosure furore: IT News

Cornucopia

Somebody Didn’t Get the Memo: MOTUS
President Selfie McGlamourshot says ‘I’m not interested in photo ops’: Twitchy
An ex-president’s wife and a Supreme Court Justice walk into a Costco...: Sondrakistan

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QOTD: "Will Obama be hurt as much by the border fiasco as Bush was by the hurricane? No. Though the president has damaged his standing with the public—including many who agree with him on immigration reform—by the indifferent response to the crisis, the mainstream media continues to have his back even as his second term heads inevitably toward lame duck status. There will be no press pile-on about Obama hobnobbing with Democratic donors who paid $10,000 to nosh on barbecue in the presidential presence the way Bush was crucified for his Katrina fly-by.

But what we are witnessing is a humanitarian disaster that was created by a thoughtless administration that has trashed the rule of law on immigration and found itself surprised by a crisis of its own making. As bad as Bush’s hurricane optics were, history will judge Obama’s behavior far more harshly." --Jonathan S. Tobin

Wednesday, July 09, 2014

Single graphic illustrates President Obama's deep and impressive knowledge of the U.S. Constitution

I don't know who this Bob Gorrell fellow is, but I like the cut of his jib.


Which ties in perfectly with Bill Whittle's latest.

You can see Gorrell's gallery here.


Hat tip: LVN.

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