Monday, July 14, 2014

IN MEMORIAM: The Anti-Bill Ayers

By James Simpson

Few people have heard of Larry Grathwohl, but the anniversary of his death, on July 18, 2013, is fast approaching. We lost an American hero that day, but like many, he died in relative obscurity. That we don't publicly honor such men as a matter of public policy - never mind tradition - is a stark indication of how singularly self-absorbed, careless and contemptuous of selfless sacrifice our political and media classes have become.

Larry served with the 101st Airborne during the Vietnam War, and joined the Special Forces "Hatchet Force" teams. These 40 - 100 man units were sent on search and destroy missions in some of the most dangerous areas, to rescue and/or locate smaller Special Forces squads who regularly got into trouble with much larger North Vietnamese elements determined to wipe them out.

Returning from the war, he learned about activities of the Weather Underground and determined on his own to find out more about them. He subsequently became an undercover informant, first for the Cincinnati police, then the FBI. He was the only person to successfully penetrate the communist group, and his testimony might have sent two of its leaders, domestic terrorists Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn, to jail for a very long time. However, Ayers and Dohrn managed to avoid prosecution on a technicality. As Ayers later said "Guilty as Hell, free as a bird. What a great country!"

Larwyn's Linx: The border crisis isn’t Obama’s Katrina – it’s worse

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Nation

The border crisis isn’t Obama’s Katrina – it’s worse: Noah Rothman
Chicago-Southside Residents Slam Obama Over Amnesty: RebelPundit
Ted Cruz On the Fahrenheit 451 Democrats: NoisyRm

Whistleblower: Ultimate Goal of NSA Is Total Population Control: Tammy Bruce
Holder: ‘Yes, the Immigration Laws Are Being Enforced’: NRO
Holder: 'Homegrown Violent Extremists … Keep Me Up at Night': WS

Obama’s Ongoing Shameful Behavior Against Israel: WZ
Rick Perry: Cut Off Foreign Aid Until Flood of Illegals Stops: RightPundit
Shooting at Israel Rally in LA; Palestinian Counter-Protesters Held: Sooper

Despite Liberal Howls, Supreme Court Hobby Lobby Ruling is Right: Star Parker
‘Dirty Harry’ Reid’s increasing eccentricity: Wesley Pruden
Holder blasts Palin over Obama impeachment call: USA Today

Economy

A ‘Sudden’ Crisis Obama Has Known About for Years: Rick Jensen
Look who's being paid by the Gates Family to market Common Core: Twitchy
Michigan: SEIU Membership Drops 80 Percent: Mackinac

Scandal Central

BUSTED: IRS Caught Playing Hide and Seek with Emails: NoisyRm
Illegal Aliens Chant in Spanish: ‘Illegal are your laws and we're not leaving': GWP
‘Caution’ at the IRS: Herald

Climate & Energy

Global Cooling Deniers Want Other People To Buy Smaller Fridges And TVs: Cove
Disinvestment of Fossil Fuels — Symbolism and Hypocrisy: RWN
Amazing hail storm on a beach looks like the beginning of the Apocalypse: Gizmodo

Media

Orwell Would Be Proud: US Media Admits Divine Right To Decide What Public Needs To Know: ZH
Actor Jon Voight Reads Blistering Indictment of Obama; Calls on Americans to Save the Nation: FreeLight
The Establishment RINO’S Cold War On Right Wing Blogs: ConBlogCentral

Judge Pirro: Obama's ‘Trojan Horse’ of illegal alien child crisis designed to CHANGE the electorate: Scoop
The vanity of John Kerry doomed a ‘fake’ Middle East peace process – Danielle Pletka: Scoop
David Gregory To GOP Congressman: ‘Do You Lament GOP's Stand On Immigration Reform?’: MRC

Media goes silent on stories about illegals committing crimes: FAM
Goldberg Shocked Press 'Isn’t Protesting’ Lack Of Media Access At Border Detention Centers: NB
Megyn Kelly and Mike Huckabee demolish Obama's lack of support for Israel: Matzav

World

Obama Issues Veiled Threats at Israel As Gaza Launches Thousands Of Missiles: Sara Noble
Dem Lawmaker Wants 20 Million or More Illegals to Move Here: GWP
The most pro-Israel country in the World: Matzav

Paris Synagogue attacked by Pro-Palestinian crowd carrying boycott message: LI
Boko Haram top dog voices support for Islamic State and al Qaeda: JihadWatch
Epic Video: This Is What Real Border Control Looks Like: WJ

Why Gaza Doesn’t Have Bomb Shelters: Jonathan S. Tobin
A great quote from Prime Minister Netanyahu: Matzav
Hamas hackers take over Israeli Domino's Pizza Facebook page, hilarity ensues: Elder

‘Oopsie’: Hamas rocket hits Israeli electrical infrastructure, blacks out Gaza: Twitchy
The Problem With Palestinians In One Tweet: Ace
Military assessment says Iraqi units infiltrated by ISIS, Iran-backed militiamen: Fox

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

US Marines Turned A Ship Into A Truck, Watch It Be An Absolute Beast: Jalopnik
Gyrocopter that can hit 112mph on land and in the air goes on sale: DailyMail
Google’s Ingress augmented reality game quietly launches for iOS devices: TNW

Cornucopia

Any Questions?: American Digest
Obama Heads Out to the Golf Course of Course: Keith Koffler
The Right Wing News Survey On Deportation: RWN

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QOTD: "In Chicago, a city of 2.7 million people, fewer than 8,000 people are licensed to own a gun – less than 0.3%. The city’s gun-homicide rate is about 18 per 100,000. In Vermont, by contrast, where 42% of the population are gun owners, the rate of gun murders in 2010 was 0.3 per 100,000. So Chicago has a gun-homicide rate about 60 times Vermont’s, despite Vermonters being 150 times as likely to own a gun. To put that another way, in Chicago the ratio of the gun-homicide rate to the percentage of citizens who legally own guns is nine thousand times higher than it is in Vermont.

That is not a small discrepancy. You can draw your own conclusions — demographics might be of interest, if one is looking for sturdier correlations — but it’s awfully hard to make the case that guns themselves are the root cause here, or that further restrictions of the Second Amendment rights of law-abiding citizens elsewhere in the country are going to solve Chicago’s problem." --Malcolm Pollack

Sunday, July 13, 2014

America's Immigration Policy in Two Cartoons

Relayed by Tyler Durden:



Source: Sunday Funnies

BREAKING: President Calls for Section 8 Housing on Martha's Vineyard to Accommodate Illegal Alien Children

By Biff Spackle

Citing a concern with diversity on the posh resort island of Martha's Vineyard, President Barack Obama today called for a massive local buildup of Section 8 Housing to accommodate thousands of unaccompanied alien children (UACs).

"To paraphrase a famous movie," the President joked, "'I see white people.' In all seriousness, our national mandate for social justice demands that we integrate Martha's Vineyard, which today is a haven for millionaires and billionaires, as well as corporate jet- and yacht-owners, almost all of whom have pasty white complexions. And just think of all of the thousands of construction jobs we'll save or create!"


The President's auto-pen in Washington signed an Executive Order commanding the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to build "not less than three thousand low-income housing units on the north side of the island near Lambert's Cove."

The units, according to the order, will be devoted to housing up to 12,000 illegal alien children and their guardians.

In a prepared statement, former HUD Secretary and current Governor of New York, Andrew Cuomo praised the move. "It's high time the pampered wealthy on the Vineyard experienced some of the pain all of the rich people have inflicted upon society. The residents of the Vineyard need to see what it's like to deal with high unemployment, scabies, high unemployment, tuberculosis, and crappy schools run by iron-fisted teachers' unions.

Obama noted that he would not be vacationing on the Vineyard this year and would instead spend three weeks in Hawaii.

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SECRET FLIGHTS OF ILLEGALS LAND IN BOSTON: Feds Caught Lying About Increase in Refugee Transports

Not only is the Obama administration secretly flying convoys of illegals around the country, but they've officially been caught lying about it.

...Illegal immigrants are being secretly flown to Massachusetts and kept in local lockups in an under-the-radar operation that has alarmed lawmen who are raising health and security concerns amid recent spikes in detainees coming up from Texas during the latest border crisis.

“We’re all becoming border sheriffs now with these people being carted all over the country,” said Bristol County Sheriff Thomas M. Hodgson... “The blame goes all the way up. It’s a travesty and people ought to be upset,” Hodgson said. “This is un-American and has raised the stakes to the public health and public safety threat.”

...On the receiving end of the buses from Hodgson’s facility was Plymouth County Sheriff Joseph D. McDonald Jr., who said he’s seen a jump in illegal immigrants arriving at his jail and had to deal with “scenarios where we’ve had 100-plus detainees coming in at the same time.”...

...After weeks of denying an increase in flights to the Bay State, federal immigration officials finally admitted this weekend that four planes filled with detainees captured at the southern border have been flown to Hanscom and Logan International Airport since April as part of a “large-scale nationwide response” to the crisis.

As Glenn Reynolds observes:

So now you’ve got Massachusetts sheriffs complaining about the feds: “The blame goes all the way up. It’s a travesty and people ought to be upset. This is un-American and has raised the stakes to the public health and public safety threat.”

UPDATE: From the comments:

Secret camps, secret movements of human cargo. Almost Orwellian or Hitleresque... Just as mysteriously as illegals suddenly appear, makes one wonder when legal citizens may start disappearing.

The bar on paranoia has certainly been raised during this era of Hope and Change.

How can this possibly be legal?

Answer: it isn't.

Gee, maybe a lawsuit will help. Not.

There is an answer. A Constitutional answer. But our Constitution demands leaders with virtue and this we do not have.


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Larwyn's Linx: The Democrats' War on Children

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The Democrats' War on Children: Lee Cary
Obama is Robbing the Military to Inflate the Entitlement State: LI
Check out how the Export-Import Bank is using your tax money: Hot Air

The "Office Of Refugee Resettlement": NoisyRm
Democrats demand suspension of all deportations: WZ
Coburn: Let's Verify Immigration Status of Sponsors for UACs: Signal

Illegal Alien Minors Spreading TB, Ebola, Dengue, Swine Flu: JW
McLaughlin Group: Perry Handling of Border Crisis Bodes Well for 2016: Breitbart
RNC Chair Priebus Under Fire: Jeffrey Lord

More Than a Smigden: Stephen F. Hayes
Left Pushes to Criminalize Christianity: Outpost
City pols blast anti-Semitic banner flown above beach areas: NYDN

Economy

11 Things You Didn’t Know You Could Buy With Food Stamps: DC
ICE lets contract for 42,000 pairs of oversized underwear: Rick Moran
HHS Bankrolled Catholic and Baptist Church to Prepare for UAC Invasion: LibertyNews

Scandal Central

Congressman Stockman: Not Even Boehner Can Stop Lois Lerner’s Arrest: TPNN
The Insiders: More IRS smidgens show up. ‘Perfect.’: WaPo
Boehner: “We have a system of government outlined in our Constitution” But I won’t follow it: Outpost

Climate & Energy

SolarCity: Subsidizing the Left’s ‘green’ millionaires and billionaires: Green Corruption
In apologising for having Nigel Lawson on to discuss climate, the BBC has breached its charter: SpecUK
Drought Shaming Pitting Neighbors Against Neighbors On Social Media: CBS Sacramento

Media

‘I,’ ‘Me,’ ‘My’—Obama Uses First Person Singular 199 Times in Speech Vowing Unilateral Action: CNS
Is the Washington Post Running Propaganda For Hamas?: CNS
What’s Wrong With These Photos Proves What Is Wrong About Liberals.: NoisyRm

Harry Reid Slammed By Hometown Paper For ‘Race-Baiting’: DC
Monica Crowley on What the Left Doesn’t Want to Accept – ‘We are in a Holy War’: TPNN
SHOCK: Film Critics Hate 'America': CNS

World

Hamas: We are Not Terrorists; We Just Want to Destroy Israel: Gatestone
Happy News! Sea Hitler Destroyed! Israeli Missile Destroys Gaza Ark: BCF
North Korea Is Telling Its Citizens That Their Team Is In The World Cup Final: OTB

'We were incredibly stupid': Matzav
Hamas Spokesman Encourages Gazans to Serve as Human Shields: MEMRI
More Rockets Into Israel After Israeli Raid Into Gaza: ABC

Egyptians Hoping Israel Will Destroy Hamas: Gatestone
What are the genuine reasons why the FBI and NSA want to keep an eye on these men?: Robert Spencer
USA Being Fundamentally Transformed to Estados Unidos of Central America: CFP

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Advertising Fraud: It’s Time For Asymmetrical Warfare: Ted McConnell
Chinese businessman charged with hacking Boeing, Lockheed Martin: Ars Technica
45m users go Direct on Instagram: DigitalTrends

Cornucopia

Sunday. Top Fault: Laziness: MOTUS
Obama going on vacation again as U.S. invaded: MinorityReport
Mercedes-Benz CLA-Class Review - CLA250 Sport 4MATIC: CarAdvice

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QOTD: "Anyone paying attention to the Internal Revenue Service scandal has been waiting for the next smidgen to drop. Well, two more hit pretty hard this week. At the president’s next encounter with the media, I will scream collusion if no one asks him for his exact definition of a “smidgen,” and if he thinks he has seen a smidgen of corruption yet. At this point, only the most gullible or culpable can continue to claim there is no compelling evidence in this case. Given the delays, lies and stonewalling, there is no viable argument against a special prosecutor.

In a stunning revelation this week, it was disclosed that former IRS official Lois Lerner told colleagues, “we need to be cautious about what we say in emails” and then proceeded to ask the IRS IT department, in an e-mail, “if [instant messaging] conversations were also searchable.” When she was told they were not, she e-mailed back, “Perfect.” This is a smoking gun e-mail in that it makes plain she had a cover-up in mind. There is no other plausible explanation." --Ed Rogers

Saturday, July 12, 2014

IRS UNION BOSS COLLEEN KELLEY: The Missing Link to Obama?

By Lawrence Sellin

On March 31, 2010, the day before the Inspector General's report says the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) began its scheme to target tea party and conservative groups, the White House Visitors Log reveals that President Barack Obama met with IRS union boss Colleen Kelley.

In a notable feat of investigative journalism, American Spectator reporter Jeffrey Lord exposed what appears to be an unholy alliance among the White House, Democrat members of Congress and the thousands of IRS employees, who are members of the far-left, anti-Tea Party National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU).

The NTEU, which supported Obama in 2008 and 2012, through its political action committee, raised $613,633 in the 2010 cycle, giving 98% of its contributions to anti-Tea Party Democrats. In 2012, the figure was $729,708, with 94% going to anti-Tea Party candidates.

NTEU's Kelley has a long history of interaction with the Obama Administration, first meeting in the White House on January 30, 2008, a mere ten days after his first inauguration, which she described:

"We are looking for a return to what we used to call partnership. I don't really care what it's called. For me, it's about collaboration."

Think about it.

IRS union-member employees financed anti-Tea Party candidates, while in their official positions blocked, audited, or intimidated Tea Party and conservative groups and were urged to do so in letters from Senate Democrats Chuck Schumer (D-NY), Tom Udall (D-NM), Al Franken (D-MN), Max Baucus(D-MT, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee which oversees the IRS), Michael Bennet (D-CO), Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), Jeff Merkley (D-OR), Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) and Carl Levin (D-MI), as well as Rep. Peter Welch (D-VT).

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.”

Larwyn's Linx: America’s Impending Tuberculosis Epidemic

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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

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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.

Timed for release in August 2015, “The Enemies Within” will be like no other film ever released in America.

Production standards will be Hollywood quality.

Guiding values, however, will be 100% American.

The Enemies Within will name names and go where no one has gone in modern times in its quest to awaken Americans to the enemies within their own government.

Help restore America by exposing its internal enemies.

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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

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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."

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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