Friday, July 25, 2014

STUNNER: Obama sees no maximum limit to the tax rate

You know what they call it when the maximum tax rate hits 100 percent? Answer after the break.

The following excerpt from an interview with Dear Leader was handed to us over the transom by the inimitable James Pethokoukis:

Here is President Obama in a chat yesterday with CNBC’s Steve Liesman:

STEVE LIESMAN: Mr. President, I just want to pivot back one more time to domestic issues. You’ve said a bunch of times that getting the wealthy to pay a little bit more, and you’ve succeeded in raising that top tax rate to 39% or rolling back the tax cuts. Is there a limit there? Is there a limit to how much you believe the government should take from an individual in terms of a top tax rate?

PRESIDENT OBAMA: You know, I don’t have a particular number in mind, but if you look at our history we are still well below what, you know, the marginal tax rates were under Dwight Eisenhower or, you know, all the way up even through Ronald Reagan. Tax rates are still lower on average for most folks. And what that means is that we probably can make some more headway in closing loopholes that folks take advantage of. As opposed to necessarily raising marginal rates.

Obama’s response raises an interesting question: How high does he think tax rates could go without really damaging the economy? As my pal Liesman asked, what is the limit?

The president’s answer certainly suggests, at least to me, that he believes the US is nowhere close to the danger zone. If so, he is merely in sync with top left-leaning economists — such as Peter Diamond, Thomas Piketty, Emmanuel Saez — who argue for top rates in the 70% to 80% range, if not higher. Oh, and at the same time the high-tax crowd would close tax loopholes and increase tax enforcement to limit avoidance.

Answer: North Korea.

In fact, Obama's father was a hard-core Communist. During his time in Kenyan politics, Barack Hussein Obama Sr. challenged Kenya's government for being insufficiently socialist.

"Theoretically, there is nothing that can stop the government from taxing 100% of income so long as the people get benefits from the government commensurate with their income which is taxed," Obama Sr. wrote.

And you wonder where Obama got his economic illiteracy from.


Related: What Barack Obama Hid From His Readers.

Larwyn's Linx: “Hitler’s Long Shadow over Israel”

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Nation

“Hitler’s Long Shadow over Israel”: Protein Wisdom
Obamacare Architect in 2012: States without Exchanges Lose Subsidies: CEI
Feds Mull Moving Hondurans Directly Into US: GWP

Border Patrol: Illegal Surge Is Mostly Families, Not Unaccompanied Kids: CIS
Police arrest 6 for murder, including several MS-13 gang members: WJLA
Cruz warns House colleagues: Don't let Dems fool you on border funding: Hill

Still Fighting: The Delphi Workers Obama Robbed: Michelle Malkin
What is Obama Hiding at His Wealthy Donor Fundraisers?: Leon Wolf
Democrats: The Party of Theft: R.S. McCain

Great news from Hillary: The Russian reset worked: Hot Air
Opposition to Hobby Lobby Decision Highlights Problem With Mandates: RWN
Smart power: Iraqi call for US airstrikes 'under active consideration': NavyTimes

Economy

Hypocrites: Democrats Demanding ‘Livable Wages’ Pay Interns Nothing: RWN
Obama’s dumbest move to date… seizing a foreign bank??: Simon Black
Barack Obama’s Obamacare problem, in one tax form line.: Moe Lane

Scandal Central

Did the EPA Abuse Its Authority to Influence the 2012 presidential election?: Dan Riehl
Landmark Legal Foundation Seeks Sanctions on EPA for Destroying Emails, Text Messages: Landmark Legal
The FEC Embraces Fascism – Implements Conservative Book Banning: Terresa Monroe-Hamilton

FEC Chairman: There’s a ‘move afoot to constrict press freedoms’: Hot Air
`The Evidence Is Still Coming in': McDaniel Seeking Poll Book Access in Mississippi: PJM
The Man Who Wasn't There (cont): Mark Steyn

Media

Idiots at Salon Attempt to Paint Avowed Communist Lee Harvey Oswald as “Right-Winger”: Leon Wolf
Silent Scourge: Barry Rubin’s last book dissects the hegemony of radical thought in America.: PJM
Joe Klein and Andrea Mitchell Face Off Over Israel: WFB

Mark Levin: EPA destroyed massive amounts of evidence, we’re asking the courts to sanction them: Scoop
E.J. Dionne’s Unseemly Whinging About the Judiciary Continues Apace: Leon Wolf
Arianna Huffington ‘Sick’ of Obama Fundraising : Mediaite

Obamacare architect caught LYING about subsidy ‘typo’ on MSNBC: Scoop
Bring Back the Firing Squad: R.S. McCain
John McCain: Obama full of ‘self-pity’: Politico

World

Cruz: "Obama Admin The Most Anti-Israel Admin This Government Has Ever Had": RCP
How the West Helped Hamas Build Its War Machine: Commentary
Hamas Targets Journalists in Gaza for Intimidation: Ace

Kerry to Mother of Fallen IDF Soldier: ‘How’s Your Day?’: WFB
U.N. Says Islamic State Fatwa Orders All Women In Mosul To Undergo Female Genital Mutilation: WZ
"An Iranian judge sentenced a Christian man to have his lips burnt with a cigarette...": Ann Althouse

'Islamic State' Consolidates Power, Enforces Brutal Sharia: Clarion Project
UN a club in need of higher standards: Jonah Goldberg
CHILLING: Children swear allegiance to the new Caliphate, The Islamic State: Scoop

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Galectin Therapeutics: When Good News Needs to Be Trumpeted: Frank Salvato
Health apps ready to collect your vital signs: CIO
The Looming Threat of a Solar Superstorm: PopMech

Cornucopia

An Oral History of Galaxy Quest: Ace
Don’t Rest On Your Laurels; Keep Fundraising as Long as You Can.: MOTUS
The world never cries for murdered Jewish children: Smooth Stone (2006)

Image: 'Islamic State' Consolidates Power, Enforces Brutal Sharia
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QOTD: "What’s important to remember politically about this is if you're a state and you don’t set up an exchange, that means your citizens don't get their tax credits—but your citizens still pay the taxes that support this bill. So you’re essentially saying [to] your citizens you’re going to pay all the taxes to help all the other states in the country. I hope that that's a blatant enough political reality that states will get their act together and realize there are billions of dollars at stake here in setting up these exchanges. But, you know, once again the politics can get ugly around this." --Professor Jonathan Gruber, Obamacare architect, January 18, 2012

Thursday, July 24, 2014

BUSTED: IRS Caught Lying to Both a Federal Judge and Congress

By Investor's Business Daily

Scandal: The tangled web of IRS deceit unravels a bit more with news recycled backup tapes of lost emails still exist and statements before a federal judge that Lois Lerner's hard drive was irreparably damaged were untrue.

Deliberately destroying evidence pertaining to the investigation of possible criminal activity is a crime. So is lying about it to Congress and the courts as part of a cover-up of that activity.

On July 11, U.S. District Court Judge Reggie Walton, at a hearing examining a lawsuit against the IRS by the targeted conservative group True the Vote, told Obama administration lawyers he wanted to see an affidavit explaining what happened with Lerner's hard drive.

He wanted something on the record and under oath that went beyond the tap dancing of recent congressional testimony. Walton also wanted to know the serial number of the hard drive and, if that number was known, "why the computer hard drive cannot be identified and preserved."

In response, the IRS said under oath that the hard drive from Lerner's computer was destroyed and recycled, echoing earlier testimony from Commissioner John Koskinen.

The reason given for Lerner's hard drive — possibly containing incriminating emails from and to the former head of the IRS Tax Exempt division — being destroyed and recycled, according to the IRS in the affidavit, was that a team of its technical experts had determined the drive was irreparably damaged and had to be recycled.

Except that was not true.

MATT BRACKEN: The True History of the Southwest

By Matt Bracken


The fallacies surrounding the history of the Southwest are staggering, chief among them the “Aztlan” fairy tales. What is the truth? How did the Spanish Europeans conquer the Southwest? The “conquistadores” (that means “conquerors”) did it with the lance, and the lash.

For example, in 1541 Coronado entered present-day New Mexico (which included present-day Arizona during the Spanish era) searching for the “lost cities of gold.” One of his first actions upon meeting the natives
was to burn hundreds of them alive in their dwellings for not handing over suspected horse thieves. That is how Spain conquered the natives of the present US Southwest—not with hugs and kisses. It was certainly no love-fest between long-lost brown-skinned soul-mates, as it is often portrayed today by the delusional Aztlaners, who spin the “new bronze race of Mestizos” toro-mierda fable.

By 1821, Mexico City was strong enough to overthrow the even more decrepit and ineffectual Spanish colonial rule. However, the distant provinces of the current U.S. Southwest were far beyond the reach of the authority of the independent but strife-torn and financially insolvent newborn government in Mexico City. These distant northern provinces received neither military protection nor needed levels of trade from the nascent Mexican government. Under Spanish colonial rule, trade with the USA was forbidden, but at least Spain provided trade and Army protection from hostile Indian attacks. Under Mexican abandonment and neglect, the Southwest received neither trade nor protection from Mexico City.

For example, Comanches and Apaches ran rampant in the 1830s in the power vacuum created by Mexican neglect, burning scores of major ranches that had been active for hundreds of years and massacring their inhabitants. Mexico City could neither defend nor keep the allegiance of its nominal subjects in these regions. Nor did it provide needed levels of trade to sustain the prior Spanish colonial era standard of living. Mexican governmental influence atrophied, withered and died at the same time that American pathfinders were opening up new routes into the region.

Increasingly, a growing United States of America was making inroads into the Southwest, via ships into California, and via wagon trains of trade goods over the Santa Fe Trail from St. Louis. The standard of living of the Spanish inhabitants of California, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas subsequently increased enormously, which is why they did not support Mexico City in the 1846-48 war. In fact, the Spanish-speaking inhabitants of the Southwest never considered themselves “Mexicans” at all, ever. They went, in their own eyes, from Spanish directly to American. To this very day, if you want a punch in the nose, just call a Hispanic native of New Mexico a “Mexican.”

Just one side in the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian Conflict is committing War Crimes, each and every day

Perhaps MSNBC's resident nitwit Joy Reid should visit Gaza for a few weeks. You know, to get a firsthand view into the situation.


Depravity and Sickness at the United Nations

By Anne Bayefsky


The UN Human Rights Council held a special session in Geneva on July 23, 2014 to declare effectively that Israelis do not have human rights. The vote was 29 in favor, 1 against and 17 abstentions.

The Obama administration voted against – after joining and legitimizing the virulently anti-Jewish Council for the past five years, and now feigning disappointment for American cameras.

The Europeans abstained because they did not want to upset their violent Muslim minorities, and because their sordid past didn’t leave the resolution’s message too foreign in any case. A few cowardly countries that Israelis have magnanimously befriended over the years also abstained.

But the majority of the UN world cheered – literally. Speakers during the procession of hatemongers at the Council were greeted with applause.

As is their wont, CNN, the New York Times and company derived from this spectacle the lesson that Israel is pathetic, isolated and doomed.

But the real takeaway is the polar opposite.

Larwyn's Linx: US Becoming The Brazil of North America—When Did We Vote For That?

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US Becoming The Brazil of North America—When Did We Vote For That?: VDARE
HUD Will Force Illegal Immigrants on Neighborhoods: Sara Noble
La Raza CEO: 'USA! USA!' Chants 'Made Me Angry': Breitbart

Hey We Should Really Pass That Cornyn-Cuellar Compromise, STAT: Ace
Cruz: Is FAA Ban on Flights to Israel Really an Obama Economic Boycott?: Tatler
Cruz vows to hold nominees until he gets answers on Israeli flight ban: Twitchy

Rick Perry's Bold Border Move: Cal Thomas
US Government Turns Fully Against Americans And Few Seem To Care: NoisyRm
TX National Guard Deployment Sparks Debate Between Border Sheriffs: Breitbart

Just Who is Paying the $10K Coyote Fees for Illegals to Get Here?: Publius
GOP asks: What if Mitch McConnell loses?: Politico
The Odds of a GOP Wave Are Increasing: Josh Kraushaar, National Journal

Economy

Another 16-day vacation in Martha’s Vineyard and lavish house shopping: BPR
Reminder: The Chamber of Commerce is at War with Conservatism: Leon Wolf
Obama: Now I'm Not Bothering to Watch the News, Either: Ace

Scandal Central

In brutal new grilling, Rep. Trey Gowdy shreds IRS commissioner over agency’s shifting stories: BPR
OUTRAGE: Benghazi, Hamas and the State Department!: AWD
Preferred Party of 9/11 Truthers Suddenly Not Big Fans of Conspiracy Theories: Glob

Remember How Obama ‘Stacked’ The DC Circuit Court?: S&L
Fake applicants finding it easy to sign up for ObamaCare, investigators say: JWF
Judges in Health Care Rulings Vote Party Line: ABC

Media

ABC, NBC Ignore Obama’s West Coast Fundraising Trip Amid Turmoil in Ukraine and Israel: MRC
My Battle With the Clintons: Daniel Halper
Democrat Hack David Gregory Getting the Boot From ‘Meet the Press’: JWF

How selective body counts incite more violence: Gatestone
Gov. Martin O’Malley falls asleep during meeting: QuintonReport
Hunting Humans: The Americans Taking Immigration Into Their Own Hands: Newsweek

Dumb Media Gun Story of the Week: Ace
Hillary Clinton Accuses Israel of Being Occupying Force: WFB
Notice the Western media marked Hamas-Nazi propaganda: Zombie (2006)

World

Three Questions for the Hamas Terrorist Apologists: Matthew Clark
For second time, rockets found at UN school in Gaza: Times of Israel
Israel uncovers Hamas tunnel filled with maps, weapons, and IDF uniforms: JPost

Why There Can Never be ‘Peace in the Middle East’: Larry Elder
The Man Who Never Calls: Mark Steyn
SMART POWER: ISIL Is Now a ‘Full Blown Army’ in Iraq: DefenseOne

France's Jews Fled As Rioters Burned Shops To Chants Of `Gas The Jews': LI
How a City in France Became a Mecca for Islamists: Tablet
Cafe in Belgium: Dogs Allowed, Jews Are Not: BCF

Muslim Protesters In Miami Scream: “We Are Hamas!”: WZ
Hamas: Its Nazi Ideology and Record: Crethiplethi
Rep. Kerry Bentivolio: Cartels May Be Behind The Flood Of Illegal Immigrants At The Border: RWN

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Kindle Fire Phone: Our first 5 days with Amazon's smartphone: PC World
Ram Scraper Malware: Why PCI DSS Can't Fix Retail: Dark Reading
SQL injection flaw in Wall Street Journal database led to breach: ComputerWorld

Cornucopia

Lego’s Awesome 1869-Piece Batman Tumbler Kit Tumbles Our Hearts: Car & Driver
Obama’s ‘New World Order’ Quote Will Creep You Out Even if You’re Not a Conspiracy Theorist: Sooper
Behind All The Scandals Is A Lie So Big That It Could Utterly Destroy Obama: Western Journalism

Image: Hope is gone, progressives feel : Betrayed
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QOTD: "The US FAA has extended the ban on flights into Israel’s Ben Gurion Airport, citing increased risk after a Hamas rocket landed within a mile of the airport. Hamas is calling the ban a “great victory,” while several European countries are following up with flight bans of their own.

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) is now asking, is the FAA’s decision really based on risk, or is it a stealth economic boycott of Israel? ... In a press release, Cruz notes that the FAA still allows flights into Afghanistan, Pakistan and Yemen, all of which are under constant terrorist threat ... Sen. Cruz also notes that so far in the current battle with Hamas, the terrorist group has launched over 2,000 rockets. Only one has landed anywhere near Ben Gurion.

...According to Sen. Cruz’s statement, tourism is an $11 billion industry in Israel. Thanks to the FAA’s ban, though, tourist charters are canceling trips at a 30% rate, costing the Israeli economy enormously. At the same time, Secretary of State John Kerry arrive in Israel — at Ben Gurion, incidentally — pledging $47 million in aid for the Palestinians, which really means more money for Hamas.

Taking the impact of these decisions together with Kerry’s previous statements, in which he has accused Israel of being an “apartheid state,” Cruz wonders what is behind the FAA’s decisions — true risk or politics?" --Bryan Preston

Wednesday, July 23, 2014

Obama Will Be Laughing All the Way to the Bank When Our Cities Burn as the Direct Result of His Policies...

By Michael Snyder

Did you know that the number of illegal immigrants that enter Texas each week is greater than the number of babies being born to citizens of that state? The mainstream media is shining the spotlight very brightly on all of the children that are coming over, and there is a reason for that. They are trying to tug on our heartstrings. But there is another part of the story that you aren't hearing much about. By refusing to protect our borders, Barack Obama has allowed hundreds of thousands of gang members to illegally enter the United States and settle in our major cities. In many communities, gang activity is already wildly out of control, and someday our cities will burn because of the foolishness of the federal government.

The Obama administration knows that one out of every five illegal immigrants has a criminal record. And we are not just talking about illegal immigrants taking "upskirt photos" of women like just happened in Texas. We are also talking about rapists, murderers, drug dealers and hardcore gang members.

According to Texas state Senator Dan Patrick, illegal immigrants have been formally charged with nearly half a million crimes in his state over the past four years alone. And he also says that there are "at least 100,000 illegal immigrant gang members" living in his state right now...

KRISTALLNACHT 2.0: France’s Jews Flee Country in Record Numbers As Rioters Burn Shops To Chants Of ‘Gas The Jews’

Hey, France: how's that "multiculturalism" working out for you?

While I had seen the images and videos, I did not realize the depth of the depravity exhibited in the anti-Jewish riots in Paris. HuffPo UK reports, France’s Jews Flee As Rioters Burn Paris Shops, Attack Synagogue:

France’s politicians and community leaders have criticised the “intolerable” violence against Paris’ Jewish community, after a pro-Palestinian rally led to the vandalizing and looting of Jewish businesses and the burning of cars.

It is the third time in a week where pro-Palestinian activists have clashed with the city’s Jewish residents. On Sunday, locals reported chats of “Gas the Jews” and “Kill the Jews”, as rioters attacked businesses in the Sarcelles district, known as “little Jerusalem”.

Manuel Valls, France’s prime minister said: “What happened in Sarcelles is intolerable. An attack on a synagogue and on a kosher shop is simply anti-Semitism. Nothing in France can justify this violence.”


Say, I wonder how those COEXIST bumperstickers are selling in France?

To sum up:

• France's Jews are emigrating to Israel in record numbers after experiencing their own version of Kristallnacht

• Israel is under vicious attack from Hamas, a group with a direct Nazi lineage

• The barbaric ISIL terror group is now "worse than Al Qaeda" according to the State Department and is now "a full-blown Army"

• President Obama has ordered his FAA to enforce a virtual travel ban to the Jewish state, thereby further isolating it from the world

• John Kerry is once again slamming Israel for having the gall to protect itself

• Meanwhile, the Lightbringer™ is out fundraising -- also ignoring a crisis on the border, war in the Ukraine, China's moves in the South Pacific, a health care system in chaos, and a disastrous domestic employment situation -- before he heads off to Martha's Vineyard for a well-deserved respite from golf and speechifying

At what point do the nitwits who supported this man -- twice -- apologize to the rest of us?

That's a rhetorical question, because liberalism is their religion.


Hat tip: BadBlue News

TECHNOLOGY EXPERTS BRING THE THUNDER: 6 Brutal Questions for the IRS Regarding its "Lost" Emails

By Investor's Business Daily

Scandal: An internationally accredited information-technology asset-management firm says the IRS has some explaining to do as our patience is taxed with tales of even more convenient computer crashes.

Private-sector organizations as vast as the Internal Revenue Service typically have redundancy built into their information technology systems, as secure record keeping is the key to managing their businesses and staying in business. Such records, if nothing else, are often required to be kept by law, and often by the IRS itself.

As we have noted, Lois Lerner's lost emails from the critical period when the IRS was serving as a political arm of the Obama administration and targeting Tea Party and other conservative groups suggest by themselves a conspiracy to obstruct justice as well as being a violation of the Federal Records Act, which requires paper copies of such critical emails to be printed and stored just in case of computer problems.

This conspiracy to obstruct justice is further suggested by some Lerner emails that she and the Obama administration wished had been lost — especially one sent by Lerner to a Maria Hooke.

"I had a question today about OCS," Lerner stated in the email. "I was cautioning folks about email, how we have had several occasions where Congress has asked for emails and there has been an electronic search for responsive emails — so we need to be cautious about what we say in emails."

OCS is the IRS' Office Communications Server, a form of online chat system that circumvents email.

When she learned that OCS messages were not set to automatically save, Lerner wrote, "Perfect."

Clearly Lerner had a keen interest in keeping her communications from Congress and the American people.

Lerner's hard drive allegedly crashed, which cannot be verified because her hard drive has since been destroyed and/or recycled. That questionable hard-drive direction came just 10 days after House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp, the Republican from Michigan, first wrote a letter asking if the IRS was targeting nonprofit groups.

Now we learn, as reported by the Daily Caller, that IRS Deputy Associate Chief Counsel Thomas Kane said in transcribed congressional testimony that more IRS officials experienced computer crashes, bringing the total to "less than 20," also saying the agency does not know if these additional lost emails may be backed up somewhere.

On Monday, the International Association of Information Technology Asset Managers, which deals with such technical questions regarding computer hardware and record retention on a regular basis and which has reacted with the same incredulity as the rest of us, released a list of six basic questions the IRS needs to answer.

Larwyn's Linx: How President Cruz Could Kill ObamaCare Without Congress or the Supreme Court

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President Cruz Could Kill ObamaCare Without Congress or SCOTUS: Patterico
A stinging defeat for the government: IncidentalEconomist
Whipsaw: 4th Circuit upholds Obamacare federal exchange subsidy: LI

Exchange You Can Believe In: Mark Steyn
Obamacare Slowly Succumbs to Its Birth Defects: David Catron
Obamacare in Critical Condition: Betsy McCaughey

Perry in Obama's Face: Dick Morris
Elizabeth Warren to La Raza: 'Get Louder' for Amnesty: Breitbart
DREAMers Stage GOP 'Funeral' in Congress: GOP 'Is Dead to Us': Breitbart

The Chamber’s Immigration Stance Hurts Their Georgia Pick: Erick Erickson
Transparency: Iowa governor not told of illegals shipped to his state: Marathon
Georgia Runoff Results: David Perdue Wins GOP Nod for Senate: Roll Call

Economy

The ownership society: Cold Fury
Will big business become the left’s faithful lapdog?: Jonah Goldberg
Beretta To Move All Maryland Manufacturing To Tennessee: DC

Scandal Central

Immigration ‘Reform’: Engineered Destruction of the Middle Class: Michael Cutler
Texas State Senator: 100,000 Illegal Immigrant Gang Members in State: Breitbart
Obama to release illegal teens including 18th Street gang members: FAM

State Dept. warned that terrorists moved NEXT DOOR to Benghazi consulate months before attack: Scoop
Three people died in illegal human experiments carried out by John Podesta backer's firm: Exam
Feinstein criticizes Obama for fundraising during crises: BCF

Media

Pundit: Hillary Is "Finished" as a Political Candidate: Ace
Deneen Borelli Blasts NAACP For Their Shameful Treatment of Black Conservatives: ProgressivesToday
What a Surprise! Michael Moore Is a Filthy Rich Hypocrite: Progressives Today

You Stay Classy, Politico: Ed Driscoll
WaPo Sends Virulently Pro-Palestinian Intern to Cover Small Pali Protest at Israel's US Embassy: Ace
'True Blood' depicts blood soaked massacre at Ted Cruz gala : Mark Whittington

Jenny Beth Martin of Tea Party Patriots: No Border Bailout!: ConHQ
Mark Levin TORCHES Jon Stewart on Hannity: Scoop
Let the Fun Begin: Bill Clinton Reportedly Has a New ‘Secret’ Buxom Blonde Mistress: JWF

Top Kerry Aide Tries To Quash Anti-Fox News Bias Claims By Lying To The Daily Caller: DC
WH Press Corps Protests Blocked Access: Keith Koffler
RUSH: We May Be Going From ‘Rule Of Law’ To ‘Rule Of Party’: Daily Rushbo

World

No more aid to the Palestinian Authority: Cal Thomas
France: “They’re shouting ‘Death to the Jews’ and attacking synagogues. It’s ... out of control.”: JihadWatch
Anti-semitic mob vandalizes and loots Jewish businesses in Paris suburb: WaPo

Why Vladimir Putin Is Kicking Barack Obama’s Behind: Ben Shapiro
No Rest for the Wicked: Jim Geraghty
Pic of The Day: Code Pink Gets Photobombed By Israel Supporter While Giving Anti-Israel Speech: WZ

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Lois Lerner's "Scratched" Hard Drive: Ace
Meet the Online Tracking Device That is Virtually Impossible to Block: ProPublica
In Q2, Facebook drove nearly a quarter of Web traffic: InsideFacebook

Cornucopia

Progressive’s Law of “Millionaire Denialism” as explained by Kemosabe.: MOTUS
Mind If I Play Through?: All the Right Snark
Now More Than Ever: iOwnTheWorld

Image: Pic of The Day: Code Pink Gets Photobombed By Israel Supporter While Giving Anti-Israel Speech
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QOTD: "The D.C. Circuit’s decision today in Halbig v. Burwell is a repudiation of Obamacare and all the lawlessness that has come with it, The Obama Administration, through the Internal Revenue Service, has attempted to dispense revenues to the states without proper congressional authorization, robbing Congress of its constitutionally-provided power of the purse. This decision restores power to Congress and to the people and if properly enforced, should shield citizens from Obamacare’s insidious penalties, mandates, and subsidies. This is a significant victory for the American people and the rule of law, but we must not rest. Americans will continue to lose jobs, pay higher premiums, and receive fewer healthcare choices because of this disastrous law. Every last word of Obamacare must be repealed to restore jobs, growth, and opportunity in our country." --Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX)

Tuesday, July 22, 2014

FALL OF THE LIGHTBRINGER: Media Suicide Edition

Remember when vintage media used to depict the Lightbringer with halos?

Hahahhahahahahahahahhahahahhahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahhahahaha. Good times, good times.


A quote from the forum, dated 3 June 2008:

I honestly don’t know whether to put this in religion or politics. I honestly feel the passion for Senator Obama expressed by most of his followers has equal elements of both - even if they deny it. But I suspect the moderators would move it here to politics if I put it in religion, so here it is in politics. I know this will make many people angry (primarily Obama followers grin ), but I am not looking to debate. I just wanted to display some of the images of Obama because I find the whole media’s marketing - in this case, just the visual elements- behind the man so fascinating.

The Obama Mania and Mass Hysteria (because that’s exactly what it is) that swept Senator Barack Obama to where he currently is was greatly helped by a friendly media eager to see him President. In that regard they have undertaken an effort to visually display Obama as a godlike messiah figure.

And that's about the best succinct explanation -- in layman's terms -- we have for Obama's presidency.


Hat tip: Candy.

CODENAME ENERGIZER: Secret Service says Bill Clinton's buxom mistress appears at Chappaqua moments after Hillary leaves

Ronald Kessler has written a series of great books on the federal government, but his latest may be the capper.

Bill Clinton reportedly has a buxom blond mistress who visits so often when Hillary Clinton isn’t home in Chappaqua that the former president’s Secret Service detail have given her an unofficial code name: Energizer.

...Kessler quotes a supervisor informing a new agent: “You don’t stop her, you don’t approach her, you just let her go in.”

Energizer, who is described as charming and friendly, sometimes brought cookies to the agents... One told Kessler: “It was a warm day, and she was wearing a low-cut tank top, and as she leaned over, her breasts were very exposed. They appeared to be very perky and very new and full … There was no doubt in my mind they were enhanced.”

Kessler also reports that Hillary’s Secret Service detail informs Bill’s Secret Service detail when the former first lady is coming home, so Bill has time to get Energizer off the property and clean up any evidence.

...But once, the warning came late. “The agents had to scramble to get Energizer out of there so there wasn’t some kind of big confrontation.”

Kessler also reveals that Hillary is routinely rude to the agents who are sworn to take a bullet for her.
“Because she is so nasty to agents and hostile to law enforcement officers and military officers in general, agents consider being assigned to her detail a form of punishment,” Kessler wrote.

War on women, indeed.

Our summer intern @BiffSpackle claims the above photo is the only known image of "Energizer", though we have reasons to doubt its authenticity.


Hat tip: BadBlue News.

MUST BE A SLOW NEWS DAY: Obama Just Left on a Coast-to-Coast Fundraising Trip

Slow news day:

Delta Cancels All Israel Flights Over Missile Fear

Wreckage from downed Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 'significantly altered'

Christians in Iraq Told to Face Conversion or Die

White House reportedly dismissed border crisis as 'local problem' in 2013

Hospitals, Insurers Say Subsidies Rulings Further Confuse Obamacare

Things are so sleepy in Washington that our beloved Dear Leader has decided to fundraise some more. Even Dylan Byers, writer for the public relations arm of the Democrat Party (you may know it as Politico), can no longer hide his disgust:

Fundraising on the Titanic


President Obama is set to make a West Coast swing this week, stopping in San Francisco and Los Angeles for fundraisers and photo-ops. As Michael Shear noted over the weekend, Obama's decision to fundraise as the world burns isn't great for optics.

Jennifer Palmieri, the White House communications director, defended the decision. “It is rarely a good idea to return to the White House just for show, when the situation can be handled responsibly from the road," she told Shear at the time. "Abrupt changes to his schedule can have the unintended consequence of unduly alarming the American people or creating a false sense of crisis."

...That this White House can be hypocritical — comically hypocritcal, even — is news to no one who covers it. The salient point is that in the midst of Gaza, Ukraine and the ongoing border crisis, it might not be a bad time to put the fundraising on hold.

Some days I wonder whether all of this is just a really, really bad nightmare brought on by reading The Gulag Archipelago.


Image: AllTheRightSnark.org.

Larwyn's Linx: The brutal Obama policy that's really driving the Border Crisis

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Nation

The brutal Obama policy that's really driving the Border Crisis: Tara Servatius
Obama's Dallas Immigration Visit and the “Faith Leaders” : Treehouse
Obama To Continue With Week's Fundraising Trip Amid Crises: Debra Heine

Rick Perry secures the border, tells Obama "you didn't build that": WyBlog
Bordering on Madness: Thomas Sowell
What America Needs Now: Chuck Norris

Ed Klein on Blood Feud: Ed Driscoll
WH Beer Recipe More Important Than Marine Jailed in Mexico?: Hannity
Obama refuses to cancel fundraisers; doesn't want ‘false sense of crisis’: BPR

Fireworks at NAACP Meeting: Deneen Borelli Verbally Attacked: FW
Charming: Occupy Protester Threatened to Kill Families of NYPD: JWF
At Least 40 Shot Over the Weekend in Gun-Free Chicago: JWF

Economy

Mike Lee Calls for Cutting Government Waste by Repealing 80 Year-Old Law: TPNN
Business Booms Thanks to “Guns Are Welcome” Sign: MB
Goldman Managing Director Found Dead In Apparent Kite Surfing Accident: ZH

Scandal Central

IRS official: Lost Lois Lerner emails may still exist: Susan Ferrechio
DOJ Official Promises They’re Looking into Missing Lerner Emails: Bill Straub
King Barack Rewrites Obamacare... Again: David Catron

Obama Ignored Warnings of Border Crisis for Two Years, Considered It a ‘Local’ Issue: JWF
Austin-Based Company Received $120 Million So Far This Year to Shelter Illegal Children: GWP
Sarah Palin: Obama Knew About Border Crisis Prior to Election, Lied About That, Too: GWP

Climate & Energy

Get Ready for the New England Power Shortage: William Tucker
‘War on Humans’: New Film Exposes the Real Goals of the Radical Environmentalists: Progressives Today
Dishonest global warming reports are good, as long as they promote certain agenda, paper says: GCS

Media

Over 700 Syrians Were Killed Last Week. But Jews Didn't Do it, So the Media Doesn't Care: Breitbart
‘Big Three’ Ignore IRS Official Saying Backup of Lois Lerner’s Emails May Not Exist: MRC
NBC Hails Elizabeth Warren as 'Celebrity' for 'Disillusioned, Disappointed Liberals': MRC

Sen. Ted Cruz Brings Down the House at the Western Conservative Summit – Complete Video: FreeLight
Wendy Davis perilously close to a #DOOM call from… The Daily Beast.: Moe Lane
Jew hating leaflets found on cars in Chicago: FAM

Dionne: You GOP Meanies Make Everything About Obama: Cove
Dear True Blood Writers and Producers...: Sunshine State Sarah
HBO’s ‘True Blood’ Mocks Ted Cruz, ‘Republic**ts’: MRC

World

Fields of Blood: Mark Steyn
ISIS Is Wiping Out The Christians In Towns They Capture: S&L
Why Israel Needs to Finish the Job Now: Spengler

Israel Is the Victim of Mohammed’s War Against the Jews: Daniel Greenfield
The Russian Reset: Hillary's "Brilliant Stroke": Power Line
With ISIS Now Controlling 35% Of Syria And Most Of Its Oil, Iraq Issues Ultimatum To The US: ZH

Obama to Russia: Stop supporting rebels or … you’ll be really isolated, or something: Hot Air
Israel Asks: What Would You Do?: Cove
The Downing of a Malaysian Airliner over Ukraine: A New Instrument of Terror in Play: FSM

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

The Top 10 Engineering Designs to Clean Up Plastics In the Oceans: Deep Sea
How Russian Hackers Stole the Nasdaq: Michael Riley
From AT&T To Verizon: What The Web’s Biggest Players Told The FCC About Net Neutrality: Consumerist

Cornucopia

What Didn't the President Know and When Didn't He Know It?: AmDigest
What’s Your Superpower? Besides Your Awesomeness.: MOTUS
The O By the Numbers: Ed Driscoll

Image: "On photography, cops need to get a clue", by Glenn Harlan Reynolds
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QOTD: "The world has changed a great deal since June 632, but the Middle East hasn’t. The armies of Islamic raiders have traded camels and horses for pickup trucks. They recite their boasts over Twitter and share their grisly trophies using smartphones. But the fundamental attitude that drives their violence has been preserved in museum quality terror.

Israel’s critics are at war with context. They want to talk about Gaza, not Hamas. They don’t want to talk about the worldwide Muslim Brotherhood which Hamas is part of. They don’t want to talk about the Muslim Brotherhood’s invasion of Israel in 1948. They don’t want to address the Muslim Brotherhood’s declaration that “Jews are the historic enemies of Muslims”. Or its Secretary General’s statement that “Every Jew is a Zionist… the Zionist question is but a Jewish question with all that the word entails.”

...Instead of pretending that a few territorial concessions by Jews to the regional Sunni Muslim majority will change anything, we have to address the political and religious territories of 632. Unless Muslims reject that ugly act of ethnic cleansing, their cycle of supremacist violence against Jews and Christians will continue." --Daniel Greenfield

Monday, July 21, 2014

OPEN BORDERS AND THIRD WORLD PROBLEMS: Deadly, mosquito-borne virus spreading at record pace in U.S.

By Michael Snyder

Cases of the chikungunya virus are appearing in the United States at a level that is far higher than anything health officials have seen in recent years, and now there are two confirmed cases of people that have not even traveled out of the country getting the virus.

That means that the chikungunya virus is starting to spread in America, and once it starts spreading it is really hard to stop. Instead of spreading human to human, this virus actually spreads “person-to-mosquito-to-person”. If you live in an area of the country where there are a lot of mosquitos, you should pay close attention to this article.

You do not want to get the chikungunya virus. According to Slate, the name of this virus “comes from a Makonde word meaning ‘that which bends up,’ referring to the contortions sufferers put themselves through due to intense joint pain.” That does not sound fun at all. Fortunately, the U.S. has not really been affected by this disease in recent years, but an epidemic has already been declared in Puerto Rico, and some experts are now saying that it is only a matter of time before we see one in the United States.

From 2006 to 2013, the largest number of cases of the chikungunya virus in the U.S. in a single year was just 65.

But by July 15th of this year there were already 357 reported cases, and health officials are bracing for the worst.

Of course of biggest concern is what just happened in Florida. For the first time, health officials have isolated cases of the chikungunya virus that they know were transmitted locally

GOOD NEWS: Every iPad and iPhone on the planet has a secret back-door allowing unknown parties to take control

Gee, I wonder who could be behind this?

QUESTIONS FOR APPLE: Forensic scientist identifies suspicious 'back doors' running on every iOS device


Forensic scientist and author Jonathan Zdziarski has posted the slides (PDF) from his talk at the Hackers On Planet Earth (HOPE/X) conference in New York called Identifying Backdoors, Attack Points, and Surveillance Mechanisms in iOS Devices... In his talk Zdziarski demonstrates "a number of undocumented high-value forensic services running on every iOS device" and "suspicious design omissions in iOS that make collection easier." He also provides examples of forensic artifacts acquired that "should never come off the device" without user consent.

... Zdziarski's questions for Apple include:

• Why is there a packet sniffer running on 600 million personal iOS devices instead of moved to the developer mount?
• Why are there undocumented services that bypass user backup encryption that dump mass amounts of personal data from the phone?
• Why is most of my user data still not encrypted with the PIN or passphrase, enabling the invasion of my personal privacy by YOU?
• Why is there still no mechanism to review the devices my iPhone is paired with, so I can delete ones that don’t belong?

And his summary slide (page 57 of the PDF) sums it up nicely:

• Apple is dishing out a lot of data behind our backs
• It’s a violation of the customer’s trust and privacy to bypass backup encryption
• There is no valid excuse to leak personal data or allow packet sniffing without the user’s knowledge and permission.
• Much of this data simply should never come off the phone, even during a backup.
• Apple has added many conveniences for enterprises that make tasty attack points for .gov and criminals

Overall, the otherwise great security of iOS has been compromised… by Apple… by design.

Yet another reason to stick with open source. At least you can see what you're getting.


Hat tip: BadBlue Tech News.

SMART POWER: In 2010, Russian Military Hackers Penetrated NASDAQ Stock Exchange With Intent to Wipe it Out

"Reset", indeed!

When the FBI notified Nasdaq of the intrusion, it turned out the company had detected anomalies on its own but had yet to report the attack. After negotiations over privacy concerns, Nasdaq agreed to let U.S. officials into its networks. Investigation teams arrived at the company’s headquarters at One Liberty Plaza in New York City and its data center in Carteret, N.J., where they found multiple indications of an intelligence agency or military.

The hackers had used two zero-day vulnerabilities in combination. A zero day is a previously unknown flaw in computer code—developers have had “zero days” to address it—that allows hackers to easily take remote command of a computer. It’s a valuable commodity, sometimes selling for tens of thousands of dollars in underground markets. The use of one zero day indicates a sophisticated hacker; more than one suggests government. Stuxnet deployed four—a sign that the code’s authors had done advanced reconnaissance and knew precisely how various systems worked together.

Whoever hit Nasdaq had done similar prep work and had similar resources. The clincher was the hackers’ malware pulled from Nasdaq’s computer banks. The NSA had seen a version before, designed and built by the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation (FSB), that country’s main spy agency. And it was more than spyware: Although the tool could be used to steal data, it also had a function designed to create widespread disruption within a computer network. The NSA believed it might be capable of wiping out the entire exchange.

In early January, the NSA presented its conclusions to top national security officials: Elite Russian hackers had breached the stock exchange and inserted a digital bomb. The best case was that the hackers had packed their malware with a destruction module in case they were detected and needed to create havoc in Nasdaq computer banks to throw off their pursuers. The worst case was that creating havoc was their intention. President Obama was briefed on the findings.

And what did Obama do? I was going to construct a multiple choice answer involving golf, fundraising, and golf, but I think you already know the answer.

I've got an explanation for Obama's ambivalence about the Russians nuking an American stock exchange.

Hey, anything that can accelerate the Democrats' Cloward-Piven Strategy is probably just fine by Dear Leader!


Hat tip: BadBlue Tech News.

Larwyn's Linx: Former Border Patrol Agent Warns What’s Coming

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Nation

Former Border Patrol Agent Warns What’s Coming: James Simpson
The True Size of the Adult Immigration Wave, Revealed: John Hayward
Ted Cruz Fox News Sunday interview on stopping Obama’s amnesty: Scoop

No Longer Just: Jack Butler
Has Obama checked out?: Cove
Reports from the “Immigration Surge” Protests: LI

To Understand The Present, Remember The Past (with tweets): Brian Cates
What do Rand Paul and Barack Obama have in common? Foreign policy.: Scoop
Gov. Rick Perry to deploy 1,000 National Guard troops to RGV: The Monitor

Has Citizenship Jumped The Shark?: Derek Hunter
Racial Politics May Determine Who Controls Senate in 2014: Star Parker
Fore! Obama Hits Links For 11th Weekend In A Row, Round #182: WZ

Economy

The cost of liberalism: Detroit’s water war: DTG
As Births Slow, P&G Turns to Adult Diapers: WSJ
New York gun range in business for 73 years forced to close: Fox

Scandal Central

Luis Gutierrez to La Raza: Obama Assured Steps to 'Stop the Deportation of Our People': Breitbart
Operation Choke Point Hearing Reveals DOJ Threats And Strong-Arming: DC
‘Test it on Brits:’ Snowden says GCHQ even worse than NSA: RT

Media

FOX News Buries Competition In Coverage of Ukraine: LI
Cowardly ANSWER Communists Violently Harass Me at Anaheim Police Brutality Protest: AmPower
Spectator: London Rally 'Disgusting Anti-Semitic Spectacle': TR

Angelina Jolie ‘Hates’ Obama; Believes He is Really a ‘Socialist in Disguise’: TPNN
Prominent Cleric Denounces Muslim Brotherhood’s ‘Anal Jihad’ Practices: Mediaite
71 Percent of Obama Voters Regret Voting for Obama: TPNN (2/14)

Stealing Our Country: MB
The New York Times: All The News Hamas Sees Fit to Print: WS
Chicago Tribune reporter John Chase on the record: Why he warned Blago about the wiretap: IP2P

World

For the Sake of the People of Gaza, Support the IDF: DiploMad
Obama Admin Sending Al-Qaeda Reinforcements, To Announce Release of 6 Gitmo Detainees: WZ
Thousands of Christians flee Mosul after ISIS jihadis give them deadline to convert, pay or die: DailyMail

What Really Happened at the Don Yitzchak Abarbanel Synagogue in Paris?: Gates of Vienna
UNRWA Gives Rockets to Hamas; Why is U.S. Still Funding It?: Evelyn Gordon
Canada: Muslim mob chanting “kill the Jews” assaults supporters of Israel: JihadWatch

Kerry Mocks Israel Over “Hot Mic”: “It’s A Hell Of A Pinpoint Operation”: WZ
‘My Bad’ Says State Department Official Tweeting Support for Hamas: Sara Noble
Must Watch Video – Rep. Massie Calls for Release of Secret 9/11 Documents Upon Reading Them: Michael Krieger

Obama Administration Suppresses Talk of Muslim Persecutions: Gatestone
Despite Bomb Threats, Ten Thousand Attend Huge Pro-Israel Rally in NYC: Treehouse
Thousands march in downtown Chicago in support of Palestinians: Trib

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Bye-bye billion-dollar industry: Mink brings 3D-printed makeup home: Alltop
Tired of being spied on? These startups try to keep your secrets safe: VB
One of My Most Frequent Pieces of Advice: Be Politely Persistent: Mark Suster

Cornucopia

Progressive’s Law of “Millionaire Denialism” as explained by Kemosabe: MOTUS
I like the cut of this fellow's jib - Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms Edition: Instapundit
British Royal Guard Plays Game of Thrones Theme Outside Buckingham Palace: Mediaite

Image: Progressive’s Law of “Millionaire Denialism” as explained by Kemosabe
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: MILTON WOLF FOR U.S. SENATE

QOTD: "Zach Taylor is a 27 year veteran Border Patrol agent with supervisory experience. He has testified before Congress as an expert witness on criminal activity in wilderness areas. His message is credible. He accuses the federal government in a coverup that is deliberately shielding critical information from the public.

Taylor says that whoever is perpetrating the border crisis is engaged in a perfect asymmetrical military tactic. While the American people focus on “the children,” he points out that they are actually only a tiny proportion of the people crossing the border. That we are apprehending about 10 percent of the illegal border crossers, and that the other 90 percent are not children. Since only 10 – 15 percent of those apprehended are children, that means we are focused on about 1 percent of the problem. The adults that we are missing are bringing in weapons, personnel and supplies while our attention is diverted by the needs of the children.

He says a very credible informer told him that that the most dangerous crime element in Mexico City is Russian Mafia. That means KGB. Few people know this, but the Soviets entered a secret pact with Mexico very early in the last century, almost certainly with the eventual aim of utilizing Mexico’s strategic position in offenses against the U.S. There is little doubt in my mind that the border crisis is an endgame strategy designed to bring in the people and weapons that will kill us." --James Simpson