Thursday, August 07, 2014

OLD MEDIA: Ignorant or Racist?

By Richard Larsen

There are only two possible explanations for the anti-Semitic statements, tweets, demonstrations, and promulgations of the past few weeks after Israel began defending herself from the onslaught of missiles from the Hamas-held Gaza Strip; sheer ignorance or blatant racism. In some cases it could perhaps be a combination of both. Much of the culpability for the biased representation of the conflict in Gaza rests directly on the shoulders of the mainstream media who should know better.

The rationalized justification for the latest attacks on Israel traces back to an incident in June when three Israeli teenaged seminary students (one of whom was an American) were kidnapped, and subsequently killed, while hitchhiking in the West Bank. They disappeared on June 12 and their bodies were discovered eighteen days later in a field near Hebron. Hamas was blamed for the abductions and murders, and the night the bodies were discovered, the terrorist group began launching missiles into the heart of Israel. Nearly 1,000 missiles have been launched by Hamas against Israel since that fateful night, and Israel has responded by destroying the tunnels used by Hamas to infiltrate Israel, and by targeting the group’s missile and munitions storage sites, which are often strategically placed in schools, hospitals, mosques, and residential areas.

Clearly, Israel is fighting for her very existence, and fighting back against those who attack her. Self-defense is a natural human right, and the first responsibility of a nation to protect its citizenry. Yet in spite of these verities, Israelis are vilified for fighting back and refusing to turn the other cheek.

Mia Farrow has been posting pro-Palestinian comments over the past several days on Twitter, including, “What is Israel’s long-term plan for Gaza? They can’t kill everyone.” Madonna posted a photo with the comment, “These flowers are like the innocent children of GAZA! Who has a right to destroy them? No One!!!! CEASE FIRE!” Dozens of celebrities have been vocal in their anti-Israeli denunciations. There have been a few notable exceptions.

Across the pond it has been even more strident, as typified by a letter from Spanish actor Javier Bardem that was published in a Barcelona paper last week. Bardem wrote, “This is a war of occupation and extermination against a whole people without means, confined to a miniscule territory without water and where hospitals, ambulances, and children are targeted and presumed to be terrorists.” A hundred Spanish celebrities, including Academy Award winners Penelope Cruz and Pedro Almodovar, endorsed the letter.

"Not since the Civil War has the United States been so politically divided."

By Lawrence Sellin

From whence shall we expect the approach of danger? Shall some trans-Atlantic military giant step the earth and crush us at a blow? Never. All the armies of Europe and Asia...could not by force take a drink from the Ohio River or make a track on the Blue Ridge in the trial of a thousand years. No, if destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of free men we will live forever or die by suicide. --Abraham Lincoln

In a manner reminiscent of a pubescent potentate, President Barack Obama appears to be both disengaged and autocratic as he recklessly attempts to implement his catastrophic domestic programs and a feckless foreign policy.

The maniacal pursuit of goals so at odds with the country's values and traditions, or even its survival, can only be attributed to a flawed character and an uncompromising devotion to a demonstrably unworkable leftist ideology.

Obama, who often mistakes himself for a messiah, displays many of the characteristics of a narcissist: expecting constant praise and admiration; has a grandiose sense of self-importance; expecting others to go along with his ideas and plans; lacking empathy and taking advantage of others to achieve his own ends; regularly shows arrogant, haughty behaviors or attitudes; exaggerating his achievements or talents; thin-skinned, being easily hurt and rejected.

Narcissists are frequently detached from reality, emotionally distant from others and have a deficit of self-awareness.

Hey, Remember When Jimmy Carter Personally Begged a Nazi-Hunter to Go Easy on a Captured SS Executioner?

Good times, good times.

Dan Friedman relays a 2006 article by former Justice Department official Neil Sher, who had played a key role in tracking down Nazis for the DOJ's Office of Special Investigations. Sher was renowned Nazi-hunter who worked in the Reagan administration under Attorney General Ed Meese.

...OSI announced the loss of citizenship and removal from the United States of a former Chicago resident. Martin Bartesch admitted to our office and the court that he had voluntarily joined the Waffen SS and had served in the notorious SS Death’s Head Division at the Mauthausen concentration camp where, at the hands of Bartesch and his cohorts, many thousands of prisoners were gassed, shot, starved and worked to death. He also confessed to having concealed his service at the infamous camp from U.S. immigration officials.

In Bartesch’s case, OSI researchers uncovered iron-clad documentary evidence of his direct, hands-on role in the Nazi genocide. Among the SS documents captured by American forces when they liberated Mauthausen was what we described as the Unnatural Death Book, a register of prisoners killed, along with the identity of the SS guard responsible for the murder.

ACTION NEEDED: Tell the @RNC That We #RememberMississippi

From Tea Party Patriots:

Today we need to make sure the RNC hears from the grassroots all across this country.

Call to Action:

  1. Call the RNC at 855-987-7019 and demand that they take up and pass the resolutions offered by Ed Martin, Chairman of the MO GOP to a) censure Henry Barbour (nephew of former RNC Chair Haley Barbour) and b) censure any other Republicans involved in the race-baiting in Mississippi.
  2. Sign our petition to censure Henry Barbour.
  3. Read our case study on what happened in Mississippi.
  4. Read why Ed Martin, Chairman of MO GOP is moving to censure Henry Barbour.


The actions in Mississippi cannot be ignored by the RNC. Doing so would make them complicit in the despicable acts that occurred.

Please make your voices heard today and forward to your friends who value freedom, election integrity, and simple human decency.

Remember Mississippi,

Hat tips: Jen Kuznicki and BadBlue News.

Larwyn's Linx: Obama Will Drop a Nuclear Bomb on Immigration Law

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Nation

Obama Will Drop a Nuclear Bomb on Immigration Law: Sara Noble
Jon Karl asks Obama if he has the right to violate Constitution: Scoop
Weimar America: Fred on Everything

What I Saw During Our Vote To Secure The Border: Rep. Marsha Blackburn
Border Surge Began Just After Obama's First Executive Action: John Sexton
The Democrats’ 2014 problem in one sentence: Moe Lane

Democrat Support for Amnesty Threatens Their Most Loyal Voters: Larry Elder
Our Increasingly Insane Political Class: Ed Driscoll
Meet OIRA: Secretive White House Office With Massive Regulatory Power: ZH

NRSC rescued Pat Roberts, reports Politico: LI
No, the Racist Mississippi Primary Ads Weren’t Funded by Democrats: RS
Justin Amash’s absolutely amazing victory speech: WaPo

Economy

Obamacare Cited As New York Hospital Cut Jobs, Services: MenRec
Fair share: Al Sharpton and his group owe $4.7 million in unpaid taxes: Hot Air
How All 50 State Economies Are Doing, Ranked From Slowest To Fastest: Insider

Scandal Central

Hundreds of Unlawful Voters in One Virginia County: Keith Koffler
Idiots at Vox: The president becomes more powerful when Congress doesn’t act: Hot Air
Pro-Hamas Prof Tweets ‘F**K you Israel…You Too Obama’ – Then Loses University Job: ProgsToday

Climate & Energy

BLM, local law enforcement tensions near breaking point in the West: LAT
Of Course: WaPo Warns that Climate Change May Hasten Spread of Ebola: GWP
Oil sands moratorium? You’re going to need a stronger case: MacLean's

Media

Washington Post: Obama Doesn't Have 'License to Tear up the Constitution': CNS
WSJ: ‘Total Disconnect’ Between Obama’s Economic Rhetoric and How Americans Actually Feel: WFB
Nearing 2014 Finish Line, Pelosi Stumbles: RWN

Why is scandal-plagued Andrew Cuomo not getting the Christie treatment in the press?: Hot Air
Only CBS Acknowledges Gov’t Missing $619 Billion From Agency Budgets: MRC
All the Things that MSNBC Is: Ed Driscoll

Anti-Israel Political Cartoons from the Middle East: Shawarma
Our Border And Israel’s Two Front War: With Hamas And The White House: Hugh Hewitt
BOOM! Ben Shapiro slams CNN guest, tells him he is emboldening Hamas to kill more children: Scoop

World

1,500 Iraqi Civilians Were Slaughtered Yesterday by ISIS, and Obama Issued a Statement: Nina Shea
The other tunnel threat – from the North: Anne's Opinions
Hamas funded the murder of three Israeli teens, says ringleader: Robert Spencer

Obama’s Unsavory Africa Dinner: Keith Koffler
Obama’s monsters ball: How the White House opened its doors to some of Africa’s most evil dictators: Daily Mail
Kerry to Africans: Don't Create Farms For Starving Children Because It Will Cause Global Warming: WZ

Thousands Dying of Thirst on Mountaintop to Avoid ISIS Slaughter: Sara Noble
Remember When Obama Called ISIS 'Jayvee'?: Jim Geraghty
A Geography of Horror: AmInt

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

This is how you'll charge a Moto 360 smartwatch: The Verge
Future Carrier to Feature More Prebuilt Parts: DefTech
Ebola outbreak could be much worse than thought: CBS

Cornucopia

The Nixon resignation at 40: Cal Thomas
…In which we continue to fall down the rabbit hole, darkly: MOTUS
After Ten Years of Space Travel, European Probe "Rosetta" Enters Orbit Around... A Comet: Ace

Image: BLM, local law enforcement tensions near breaking point in the West
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QOTD: "...back in January, President Obama referred to ISIS as “jayvee,” as in, “junior varsity” ... “The analogy we use around here sometimes, and I think is accurate, is if a jayvee team puts on Lakers uniforms that doesn’t make them Kobe Bryant,” Obama said, resorting to an uncharacteristically flip analogy.

The group President Obama dismissed as ”jayvee” now “controls a volume of resources and territory unmatched in the history of extremist organizations,” makes $3 million per day selling oil on the black market, are battling for control of Iraq’s largest dam and the power supply for the city of Mosul, are spreading into Lebanon, are threatening to starve or slaughter “at least 40,000 members of the Yazidi sect,”, is organizing protests in the Netherlands and is stepping up its recruitment of Westerners." --Jim Geraghty

Wednesday, August 06, 2014

DEMOCRAT LUIS GUTIERREZ: Who is the self-proclaimed "Martin Luther King" of Hispanics?

One of the loudest voices on the Democrat side of the aisle lobbying for anarchy as it pertains to immigration law is an Illinois Congressman named Luis Gutierrez.

Gutierrez styles himself a modern-day "Martin Luther King" for Latinos and recently bragged that he is lobbying Barack Obama to violate immigration statutes and grant amnesty to 5 million illegals through "executive action".

Just days ago Gutierrez resorted to the most rabid and vicious forms of race-baiting imaginable, claiming that those Americans who want their laws enforced despise Hispanic children.

Lastly, not only do they treat the children that are in such need of protection, it is almost as though they despise and hate all of our children. Because even the children that came before them that have pledged allegiance to the flag of the United States all of their life in this country, and the president has afforded them an opportunity to become legal. They want them in an illegal situation, an undocumented situation... And let me just suggest to everybody that an election was held in November 2012, after the president made that decision, and the American people thought was a good decision.

Hey, schmuck: the Constitution wasn't up for election in 2012. The law is the law. You in Congress wrote the damn law. The president signed the damn law. It's not up to you, or a president, or any other radical, would-be despot to violate the law without consequences.

You want to change the law: well, go ahead, putz. In the mean time, you swore an oath to uphold the Constitution and the laws of the land, so I'd advise you to start doing so.

And exactly what is this vicious race-baiter's real background? The invaluable Discover the Networks site gives us the full dossier.

"GAMECHANGER SALON": The Secret, 1,000-Member Group of Radical Leftists Who Seek to Control and Censor the News

Awesome work by Brian Sikma of MediaTrackers, who used a Wisconsin Open Records law to reveal a secretive, left-wing club of journalists and political operatives who seek to control your access to news.

A prominent CNN commentator, the top two political reporters for The Huffington Post, a Reuters reporter, the editor of The Nation magazine, a producer for Al Jazeera America television, a U.S. News & World Report columnist, and approximately two dozen Huffington Post contributors are among the more than 1,000 members of Gamechanger Salon. Founded by leftwing activist Billy Wimsatt, the group is a secretive digital gathering of writers, opinion leaders, activists and political hands who share information, ideas and strategy via a closed Google group.

The group’s existence was discovered by Media Trackers through an open records request filed with a University of Wisconsin professor who happened to be a member of the network.

...Sally Kohn, formerly a Fox News contributor, now works for CNN reliably echoing pro-Obama Administration talking points and championing leftwing ideas as a network commentator. Kohn is also a member of Gamechanger Salon, and e-mails show that she occasionally approached the group’s membership and asked them to promote her television appearances.

...Amanda Terkel, the “Senior Political Reporter and Politics Managing Editor at The Huffington Post,” is a member of Gamechanger Salon along with The Huffington Post’s Washington bureau chief, Ryan Grim.

In mid-July, Terkel and Grim jointly wrote a piece about a leftwing effort to push Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D) to run for president. The pair of reporters heavily quoted Erica Sagrans, a fellow member of Gamechanger Salon and leading organizer of the “Ready For Warren” effort, and cited Billy Wimsatt’s support for the project. Wimsatt’s work as founder of Gamechanger Salon and the reporters’ own membership in the group, along with Sagrans’ membership, went unreported.

...A former New York Times freelance columnist who now works as an energy and commodities reporter for Thomson Reuters is also a member of Gamechanger Salon. Anna Louie Sussman is listed as an “investigative reporter and journalist” on the Gamechanger Salon membership list, and while her beat focuses on energy issues, she has also writes about “local and international human rights and social justice issues” according to her website.

Katrina vanden Heuvel is the editor and publisher of The Nation magazine, a prominent and well-known periodical of leftwing political and social thought. She is also a member of Gamechanger Salon and a regular opinion writer for the online edition of The Washington Post.  ...   Not once does she appear to disclose her membership in Gamechanger Salon along with some of the very people she writes about.

25 Ebola Facts Every American Should Know

By Michael Snyder

What would a global pandemic look like for a disease that has no cure and that kills more than half of the people that it infects? Let's hope that we don't get to find out, but what we do know is that more than 100 health workers that were on the front lines of fighting this disease have ended up getting it themselves. The top health officials in the entire world are sounding the alarm and the phrase "out of control" is constantly being thrown around by professionals with decades of experience. So should average Americans be concerned about Ebola? If so, how bad could an Ebola outbreak in the U.S. potentially become? The following are 25 critical facts about this Ebola outbreak that every American needs to know...

#1 As the chart below demonstrates, the spread of Ebola is starting to become exponential...

#2 This is already the worst Ebola outbreak in recorded history by far.

#3 The head of the World Health Organization says that this outbreak "is moving faster than our efforts to control it".

#4 The head of Doctors Without Borders says that this outbreak is "out of control".

#5 So far, more than 100 health workers that were on the front lines fighting the virus have ended up contracting Ebola themselves. This is happening despite the fact that they go to extraordinary lengths to keep from getting the disease.

#6 There is no cure for Ebola.

#7 The death rate for this current Ebola outbreak is over 50 percent, and experts say that it can kill "up to 90% of those infected".

#8 The incubation rate for Ebola ranges from two days to 21 days. Therefore, someone can be carrying it around for up to three weeks without even knowing it.

#9 For the first time ever, human Ebola patients are being brought to the United States. And as Paul Craig Roberts so aptly put it the other day, all it would take is "one cough, one sneeze, one drop of saliva, and the virus is loose".

Larwyn's Linx: Murder in the Rio Grande Valley: ‘This is Coming to a Town Near You’

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Nation

Murder in Rio Grande Valley: ‘Coming to a Town Near You’: Michelle Malkin
Patrolmen Without Borders: John Stossel
Good Citizenship: Woodpile Report

Liberty Or Slavery: Bob Belvedere
Leave Us Alone: Erick Erickson
Border Patrol murder suspects deported numerous times: Jana Winter

Surprise! White House Lied About Insurance Company Bailouts: RS
Cleveland: Two shot in park just before Mayor's anti-crime rally: Marathon
John Kerry Intimidates Putin: Daniel Greenfield

RINOs Can’t Figure Out Why Romney Lost: Jen Kuznicki
Major Car Trouble for Ohio Dem: WFB
Amash Beats Back Crony Republican's Primary Challenge: Reason

Economy

Updating the Reagan v. Obama Economic Rout: Tom Blumer
"The US Is Bankrupt," Blasts Biderman, "We Now Await The Cramdown": ZH
Obama Will Not Rest, Until He’s Done With Golf That Is: WFB

Scandal Central

Rape, Death, and Police Pursuits Continue as Illegal Immigrants Flood Texas County: Bob Price
The Arrogance of Eric Holder: Matthew Vadum
Bergdahl Roommate: Chairman of Joint Chiefs Told Us Bowe Was A Deserter: DC

How the Media Craft Victory for Hamas: Ben Shapiro
CT: State Cops Can Detain You Simply For Being In The Vicinity Of an Arrest: TechDirt
Many American Hospitals Unready for Ebola: Betsy McCaughey

Climate & Energy

Electricity Prices Hit New Record Under Obama: Daniel Greenfield
BOMBSHELL: Study shows greenhouse gas induced warming dropped for the past 14 years: WUWT
What The Oil Headlines Miss: Interview with Michael Levi: James Stafford

Media

JournoList 2.0 Discovered: RS
DREAMers Entrapment Attempt on GOP Rep Backfires: TR
Juan Williams: U.S. Marine Trapped In Mexico Is Not A “Serious Issue” Worth Obama’s Attention: WZ

Mark Levin RIPS Juan Williams for calling Tea Party racists for disagreeing with Obama: Scoop
How Progressive is Joe Biden? He’s Already Living 200 Years in the Future: Ed Driscoll
Go home, MSNBC. You’re drunk.: Moe Lane

World

Unprecedented! Italy, India, Finland and France Expose Hamas Human Shield Strategy: Andrew Marcus
Kerry’s Gaza cease fire plan violates two treaties and federal law: RS
“Kill All the Enemies of Islam”: GoV

Israel Can Thank Hillary For Hamas Terror Tunnels: IBD
The empty spaces in Gaza: Alan M. (Obama) Dershowitz
Yvonne Ridley wants to make Scotland “Judenrein”: Sheik

Israel abandoned: Melanie Phillips
Islam and Christian genocides in Turkey: Robert Spencer
Palestine and Double Standards: Bret Stephens

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Report: 6 Tested in NYC Tested for Ebola; News Withheld from Public: Breitbart
Surface damage mounts at Microsoft as red ink reaches $1.7B: CompWorld
Women's bodies blend into a city's background with just bodypaint: Sploid

Cornucopia

A Study Found That Horses "Talk" With Their Ears: Feral Irishman
California husband and wife die 4 hours apart after 62 years of marriage: Fox
Open Thread Tuesday: Ebola in America: MOTUS

Image: Kim Jong Un Went to a Lubricant Factory
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QOTD: "On behalf of the American people – including Muslim communities in all fifty states – I want to extend best wishes to Muslims in America and around the world. Ramadan Kareem.

Ramadan is the month in which Muslims believe the Koran was revealed to the Prophet Muhammad, beginning with a simple word – iqra. It is therefore a time when Muslims reflect upon the wisdom and guidance that comes with faith, and the responsibility that human beings have to one another, and to God.

Like many people of different faiths who have known Ramadan through our communities and families, I know this to be a festive time – a time when families gather, friends host iftars, and meals are shared. But I also know that Ramadan is a time of intense devotion and reflection – a time when Muslims fast during the day and perform tarawih prayers at night, reciting and listening to the entire Koran over the course of the month.

These rituals remind us of the principles that we hold in common, and Islam’s role in advancing justice, progress, tolerance, and the dignity of all human beings." --President Barack Obama, August 21, 2009

Tuesday, August 05, 2014

Next Phase of Middle East Conflict Will Make Gaza Look Like a Picnic

By Alan Caruba


“We have been very clear to the Assad regime, but also to other players on the ground, that a red line for us is we start seeing a whole bunch of chemical weapons moving around or being utilized. That would change my calculus. That would change my equation.”


Obama said that on August 20, 2012 in remarks to reporters. Realizing that he was close to having to engage in some kind of military action against Bashar Assad, Syria’s dictator, he was bailed out by the Russians who stepped in to remove the stores of poison gas and then, except for the “red line” gaffe, everyone promptly forgot about it.

The insurrection against Assad began in March 2011 and by September 2013 there were an estimated 120,000 dead Syrians and a million or more refugees. The conflict turned from local to regional as the extremist Islamic State (IS) emerged. It is backed by Iran and Turkey, but only for the purpose of defeating Assad, not for declaring itself the new Caliphate.

IS is now in control of much of Syria’s northern region and has taken control of central Iraq, challenging Baghdad as well as its Kurdish sector. On Sunday Islamic State fighters overtook the Lebanese city of Arsal where 100,000 Syrian refugees had fled. There were attacks in Tripoli as well. There is no accounting for how many have been slaughtered by IS at this point.

On August 4, The Daily Star, Lebanon, reported “The jihadist Islamic State of Iraq and Greater Syria (ISIS) group executed seven members of a single family from the Ismaili minority in the central Syrian province of Hama overnight, state media and an activist group said Monday. ‘An armed terrorist group committed a massacre in the Mzeiraa area near the town of Salmiya, killing seven people, including two aged 13 and 15 years old,’ Syrian state news agency SANA said.”

Three days earlier Breitbart News reported “The Islamic State, formerly known as ISIS, told Palestine the terrorist group will join its fight against the ‘barbaric Jews’ but urged patience until ISIS is finished in Arab countries.”

Hamas, Hiroshima, and Sleeping Giants

By Investor's Business Daily

Threats: As a somber anniversary nears, "proportional response" has replaced "victory" in the lexicon of war. But no nation facing an existential threat should apologize for winning or for saving the lives of its own people.

The other day Navi Pillay, the United Nations' high commissioner for human rights, after a meeting of the U.N.'s Geneva-based Human Rights Council, said that Israel, despite dropping leaflets, dummy bombs and even sending text messages and using social media to warn citizens in Gaza, was not doing enough to protect civilians — and "international law has been violated, in a manner that could amount to war crimes."

Among a litany of Israeli sins, Pillay even said that Israel's refusal to share its Iron Dome missile-defense technology with Gaza's "governing authority," otherwise known as the terrorist group Hamas, constituted a war crime, since it meant that Israeli citizens weren't dying in proportional numbers.

"No such protection has been provided to Gazans against the shelling," she said.

Pillay has in the past condemned the ongoing mass killings in Syria, South Sudan, North Korea, China, Pakistan, Sudan and Iran, all of which have served or are currently serving on the Orwellian-named council. And while she did condemn Hamas for using civilian areas and buildings to launch rockets at Israel and for storing 20 rockets at a school in Gaza operated by the U.N. Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), Pillay routinely reserves her harshest criticisms for Israel.

In 2008, for instance, she accused Israel of "egregious war crimes" merely for defending itself against Hamas rockets.

UNRWA, in a statement, says it found the weapons in "the course of the regular inspection of its premises," adding that the school was vacant.

But, as a senior Israeli official told the Times of Israel, it goes a bit beyond that. "The rockets were passed on to the government authorities in Gaza, which is Hamas," the official said. "In other words, UNRWA handed to Hamas rockets that could well be shot at Israel."

This situation brings back memories on how UNIFIL, the U.N. Interim Force in Lebanon, stood by for years, silently watching Hezbollah import its missiles and other weapon and dig its bunkers, all in preparation for using Lebanon and its people as human shields in the terrorist group's unprovoked attack on Israel.

BUT THEY'RE DOING IT FOR LOVE: Half of All Federal Crimes Occur Near U.S.-Mexico Border

By Judicial Watch

Crime is so high along the Mexican border that nearly half of all the criminal cases filed by federal prosecutors in the United States last fiscal year were concentrated in a handful of districts located in that region, according to the U.S. government’s figures.

It’s not as if this is new, but to see it spelled out in a government report with a detailed breakdown is truly alarming. The statistics illustrate that the Mexican-border region is a cesspool of crime that’s costing American taxpayers a chunk of change not to mention loads of grief. There are 94 federal court districts in this country and the five located near the southern border see a large portion of criminal cases, according to the Justice Department’s annual report on criminal prosecutions. The five federal districts also have the biggest number of defendants actually convicted of federal crimes.

Of the 61,529 criminal cases initiated by federal prosecutors last fiscal year, more than 40%—or 24,746—were filed in court districts neighboring the Mexican border. This includes Arizona, New Mexico, Southern California, Western Texas and Southern Texas. The two Texas districts each had more than double the convictions of all four federal court districts in the state of New York combined, according to the DOJ report. The Western Texas District had the nation’s heaviest crime flow, with 6,341 cases filed by the feds. In Southern Texas 6,130 cases were filed, 4,848 in Southern California, 3,889 in New Mexico and 3,538 in Arizona.

Not surprisingly, most of the offenses were immigration related. In fact, 38.6% of all federal cases (23,744) filed last year involved immigration, the DOJ report confirms. Nearly 22% (13,383) were drug related, 19.7% (12,123) were violent crimes and 10.2% (6,300) involved white-collar offenses that include a full range of frauds committed by business and government professionals. This is hardly earth-shattering news in fact, the nation’s southern border region has for years been known for its high crime rate compared to the rest of the country.

However, the problem has escalated at an alarming rate in the last few years. Last spring Judicial Watch reported that violence in the region has gotten so out of control that both Mexican and American journalists have largely stopped reporting it out of fear that drug cartels will retaliate against them and their families. Around the same time a small town paper in Reynosa, the twin border city of McAllen in south Texas, bravely ran a story describing the fear and panic that filled the streets during a three-hour firefight between rival drug cartels.

Larwyn's Linx: The Real Win For Conservatives In The GOP Border Bill

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Nation

The Real Win For Conservatives In The GOP Border Bill: CHQ
Moderate Groups Want to Run Grifter Wing Out of the GOP: PJM
Steve LaTourette: Pots, Kettles, and the Corrupting Nature of DC: Erick Erickson

The U.S. is Racist for not Paying for Every Child in the World: RWN
Two Illegal Aliens Murder Texas Border Patrol Agent in Front of His Family: Sooper
Inside “Gamechanger Salon,” The Left’s Action Network: RS

National Review Gives Michael Mann a Hockeystick Suppository: WUWT
Obama Says He Hasn't Decided on Mega-Amnesty: Ace
Obama’s Unprecedented Impeachment Dare: David Limbaugh

While Illegals Get Billions, Obama Forces Out 550 Army Majors: Dollard
Public servants acting as public masters: Glenn Harlan Reynolds
On Border, a Huge Win for the Hard Right Constitution: Michael Tomasky

Economy

The IRS cannot be fixed: it must be abolished and replaced with the Fair Tax: Exam
Public Pension Funds Are in Trouble: AmInt
Unions Lose and the Public Wins Big in Wisconsin: Signal

Scandal Central

Leaked CBP Report Shows Entire World Exploiting Open US Border: Breitbart
Don’t Impeach Obama, Censure Him: John Fund
$7,060,259,674,497.51--Federal Debt Up $7 Trillion Under Obama: CNS

Climate & Energy

Oil prices - When ISIS takes Baghdad: OilVoice
EPA goes from Environmental Protection Agency to Extremist Political Agenda: RS
EPA’s far-reaching regulatory authority undermines democracy: Slade Blackwell

Media

Americans support Israel and the press hates it: Noah Rothman
Steve LaTourette and Grift Versus Theft: Leon Wolf
Choom Gang Reunion on the Golf Course: Breitbart

Salon making big progress in its efforts to put The Onion out of business: Doug Powers
‘Another winner’! MAD Magazine busts Obama on his birthday : Twitchy
Crash of Civilizations: LI

World

Terror’s War on Civilization Grows: AmInt
Newly Discovered Hamas Combat Manual Reveals 'Benefits' of Human Shields: Grid
Saudi King Abdullah: Current Gaza war a collective massacre solely caused by Hamas: Matzav

Indicting Hamas for War Crimes: Michael Curtis
Was a UN School in Gaza Really Bombed? (Update: No, It Wasn’t): Rick Moran
Wiesel Calls on Obama to `Condemn Hamas' Use of Children as Human Shields': PJM

While West Dithers, ISIS Creates Facts on the Ground: Commentary
ISIS Seizes Iraq's Largest Dam: Daniel Pipes
India Takes Turn at New Global Sport: Ignoring John Kerry: AmInt

Hamas Leader Says There Are No Human Shields So Here Are 10 MORE Examples: Lid
The Big Squeeze – Egypt Destroying Hamas Tunnels at Sinai Gaza Border…: Treehouse
Should Jews leave Britain?: Douglas Murray

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Jerry Pournelle on the New "Dean Drive": Ace
Harvard Students Make Cake: Sprayed From A Can And Nuked In The Microwave: DC
Airplanes Can Be Hacked Through Wireless In-flight Entertainment System: Hacker News

Cornucopia

Not One Shred of Irony: MOTUS
GROSS: Take A Wild Guess What A Drone Caught Some Muslims Having Sex With : Clash
Hot-Crazy Matrix: Tactical Life

Image: ‘Another winner’! MAD Magazine busts Obama on his birthday
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QOTD: "What sort of future is there in Britain for Jews? I would submit that there is a future. But what is becoming increasingly clear is that the price of that future is that Jews will increasingly be expected to distance themselves from Israel. There is a fair amount of evidence from the Jewish community suggesting that this process is already underway. Once it is complete then those ‘good’ anti-Israel Jews will be able to proclaim victory. But the same force that they encouraged to come for their co-religionists will then just as surely come for them. And then where will they hide?" --Douglas Murray

Monday, August 04, 2014

As Obama Golfs and Fundraises, China Unveils First-Strike Nuclear Missile Targeting U.S. Cities

By Investor's Business Daily

Nuclear Threat: Beijing's strategic military buildup continues with the unveiling of a road-mobile missile capable of delivering up to 10 atomic warheads anywhere in America. Time to show some flexibility, Mr. President?

While President Obama was playing the back nine, and as it was confirmed that the Russians had developed a cruise missile, the R500, which violates 1987's Intermediate Nuclear Forces treaty, the Chinese were busy as well. They now have a mobile intercontinental nuclear missile with no other purpose than to make war against the U.S.

The announcement of the DF-41's existence was not exactly approved by the Chinese government. As the Telegraph reports, the inadvertent original government Web post appeared to have been deleted on Friday, but the Chinese newspaper Global Times, which seems to have a penchant for revealing Chinese military developments, posted a screen capture.

The Telegraph account notes that the DF-41 is designed to have a range of 7,500 miles, according to a report by Jane's Strategic Weapon Systems, putting it among the world's longest-range missiles.

The Pentagon said in a June report the new missile is "capable of carrying multiple independently targetable re-entry vehicles," as many as 10.

THE REAL WAR ON WOMEN: Obamacare's Destruction of Home Health Care Disproportionately Hits Females Hardest

By Nicole Rusenko and Melissa Quinn

The Affordable Care Act, popularly known as Obamacare, authorized the Department of Health and Human Services to cut or increase categories of Medicare spending. Last year, then-HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced home health care funding would be slashed by 3.5 percent annually until 2017. Industry analysts say these cuts disproportionately affect women—who make up the majority of home health care beneficiaries, caregivers, and professionals in that sector of health c are.

Robert Moffit, senior fellow in The Heritage Foundation’s Center for Health Policy Studies, said:

Congress does need to control the growth in Medicare spending. But the best way to do that is to inject free market competition into the program to control cost. In the meantime, Congress could secure solid home health care savings by adding a modest co-payment to that program. This is much better than simply cutting payments to home health agencies, which could reduce their participation and thus undercut seniors’ access to care.


At 'tech' news site Mashable, the important work of spreading antisemitic Hamas propaganda is never done!

Check their latest libel out:


No link. You can Google it if you're interested.

For a brief history of Mashable's love affair with Hamas, please see "SURPRISE: 'Tech' news site Mashable is a front for the Nazi-aligned Hamas terror organization."

Oh, and then there's this: "Newly Discovered Hamas Combat Manual Reveals 'Benefits' of Human Shields."

Don't look for any of these facts at Mashable.


HELPFUL COMPARISON CHART FOR JOURNALISTS: The Palestinian people vs. the Israelis

So simple even John Kerry can understand. Maybe.



Hat tip: @BiffSpackle.

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Nation

Is Barack Obama plotting a coup?: Power Line
Democrat Senators Call for Resignation of Obama’s CIA Director: Outpost
Steve LaTourette and the Circle of Jerks: Erick Erickson

How to fight Democrats' ugly rhetoric on illegal immigration: Realities
Watch Drug Smugglers Trot Into the United States: Sentinel
The Obama Endgame Emerges: Douglas Herz

1984 Redux: Orwellian Illegal Immigration: Victor Davis Hanson
Obama throws tantrum over GOP border bill: RS
Gov. Perry Warns Increased Illegal Aliens From Islamist Terror States: Scoop

Communist-Hamas Protest Demands Israel's Extermination in LA: AmPower
Rep. Beto O’Rourke (D) deletes retweet: Israel’s Iron Dome an ‘atrocity’: Scoop
GOP sees signs of Jewish voters drifting away from Democrats: Niall Stanage

Economy

Assigned no work, federal employees revel in Internet porn: Kevin D. Willamson
Obama’s Own Stimulus Predictions: We’d Be Better Off Without It: Ben Howe
11,472,000 Americans Have Left Workforce Since Obama Took Office: Ali Meyer

Scandal Central

The Age of Obama: Guy Somerset
22 Jihad Training Camps in the US – FBI Refuses to Take Action: Santo Lippo
Gov. Snyder Welcoming Unaccompanied Minors, Calls for Immigration Reform: Courtney Bledsoe

Climate & Energy

After brutal winter and cool summer, UK paper blames Toledo water crisis on global warming: Marathon
Mythical Carbon Pollution Is “An Affront To God” Or Something: Cove
Climate Change Not so Global: WUWT

Media

Meet The Press Wonders Will Israel ‘Achieve Victory, But Lose Battle Of Wider Public Opinion’: NB
Supporters of Israel mock jihadists with #HamasBumperStickers, libs outraged: Twitchy
New Yorker Editor David Remnick Whines That Obama ‘Has Been Stifled At Every Angle’: CNS

The Left’s Obsession with Fox News: Jon Gabriel
Liberal Jehmu Greene tries and fails to shout down Tammy Bruce in immigration debate on Fox: Scoop
Does Nancy Pelosi Understand When Someone Is Falsely Accused of Rape?: Newsalert

Political Cartoonist Implies Obama Consumes Illegal Narcotics, GOP Wishes POTUS Death: Ed Driscoll
Darkness Falls: Mark Steyn
‘Spoken like a truly ignorant bigot': Juan Williams’ latest suggestion is ‘desperate’: Twitchy

Real Life in Texas 70 Miles North of the Border: MB
A Week of Nancys: MOTUS
Follow-up on Liberal Fascist Violence in Tinley Park: MB

World

Kerry: Netanyahu is such “a stubborn head” that he “refuses to understand anything”: Pamela Geller
Gaza's Civilian Casualties: The Truth Is Very Different: Richard Kemp
Hamas censors British journalists. Why don’t we care?: Spectator

Valerie Jarrett: White House Can't Condone Israel's 'Killing of All of These Innocent Children': Breitbart
Do Democrats Regret Stripping Anti-Hamas Language From Their 2012 Platform?: Lid
Calgary Herald's Erika Stark - Good Girl: SDA

Welcome to the 1930s: Roger L. Simon
“Palestinians” present Egypt with draft of Gaza truce demands: JihadWatch
Islamic State grabs Iraqi dam and oilfield in victory over Kurds: JihadWatch

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Ebola Fears in UK After Passenger Becomes Ill on Gangway and Dies: GWP
Ebola: Sunday Evening More: WRSA
Is your Dropcam live feed being watched by someone else?: PC World

Cornucopia

The Best Quotes From “Buyology: Truth and Lies About Why We Buy”: John Hawkins
South Korea threatens North Korea with gigantic inflated condoms: Cube
Batman creator's personal comics to be auctioned: Fox

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Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: Kansas Senate Race Down to Single Digits!

QOTD: "Try a brief experiment. Google rates of health problems, education, and hunger in terms of illegal immigration (using the appropriate euphemisms), and then all sorts of studies pop up from social scientists and bureaucrats, the themes being that racism has led to inequality and lack of parity. Then look up rates of criminality, incarceration, graduation rates, and public assistance predicated on illegal status, and you will either hit a brick wall, or quickly learn such data is “problematic.” It is quite Orwellian how research is predetermined to find the host culpable, but never to suggest the guest is at fault.

If immigrants came in manageable numbers, if they arrived in legal fashion on the basis of ethnically blind and meritocratic criteria, if the host believed in the melting pot and promoted integration, assimilation, and the mastery of the English language, if the arrivals were reminded why they were leaving their homelands and why they were entering the United States, then we could manage. But, alas, the very opposite of these criteria is true.

It has become a cachet of elites to mouth platitudes about “comprehensive immigration reform” as they carefully construct their own apartheid existences in Nancy Pelosi style. They are not so much immune from the ramifications of their own ideology as found guilty of racial bias and prejudice by their very efforts to talk in the abstract in a way that offers them psychological recompense for never living that way in the concrete." --Victor Davis Hanson

Sunday, August 03, 2014

OPERATION CHOKE POINT: Shutting Down Perfectly Legal Businesses for Political Reasons

By Iain Miller

Can the government shut down legal but politically disfavored businesses? If an ongoing federal regulatory campaign continues, that may be precisely what happens. In recent months, a federal government regulatory initiative called Operation Choke Point has gained increased public and media attention. Operation Choke Point is ostensibly a joint effort by various regulatory entities—the Department of Justice (DOJ), Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, and Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) most prominent among them—to reduce the chances of Americans falling victim to fraud in a variety of “high-risk” industries, predominantly payday lending. It uses existing regulatory powers to provide heightened supervision of banks that do business with the third party payment processors that provide payment services to these industries.

However, this seemingly laudable aim conceals a worrying reality. There is nothing illegal about most of these industries (at least not yet). But because they have been designated high-risk, banks are cutting off dealings with many processors and companies preemptively. As a result, many companies and individuals that have done nothing wrong have been frozen out of banking services.Without the links to banks, their financial lifeblood is choked off indeed.

Operation Choke Point echoes—and may in fact be modeled on—the federal government’s takedown of the otherwise legal American online poker industry in 2011. In that instance, regulators targeted payment processors that dealt with gambling businesses. As a result, banks became wary of doing business with those targeted payment processors. Finding their lifeblood cut off, some companies had no choice but to turn to less scrupulous processors or disguise transactions with them, leading to criminal liability—which in turn allows DOJ to close down the industry. Operation Choke Point appears to be heading down this road.

Obama's Rogue IRS Strikes Deal With Atheists To Monitor Churches -- But Not Mosques

By Investor's Business Daily

First Amendment: Government's assault on religious liberty has hit a new low as the IRS settles with atheists by promising to monitor sermons for mentions of the right to life and traditional marriage.

A lawsuit filed by the Wisconsin-based Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF) asserted that the Internal Revenue Service ignored complaints about churches' violating their tax-exempt status by routinely promoting political issues, legislation and candidates from the pulpit.

The FFRF has temporarily withdrawn its suit in return for the IRS's agreement to monitor sermons and homilies for proscribed speech that the foundation believes includes things like condemnation of gay marriage and criticism of ObamaCare for its contraceptive mandate.

The irony of this agreement is that it's being enforced by the same Tax Exempt and Government Entities Division of the IRS that was once headed by Lois "Fifth Amendment" Lerner and that openly targeted Tea Party and other conservative groups.

Among the questions that the IRS asked of those targeted groups was the content of their prayers.

Those who objected to the monitoring of what is said and done in mosques for signs of terrorist activity have no problem with this one, though monitoring what's said in houses of worship is a clear violation of the First Amendment. Can you say "chilling effect"?

Congress can make no laws prohibiting the free exercise of religion. So it's not clear where the IRS gets off doing just that by spying on religious leaders lest they comment on issues and activities by government that are contrary to or impose on their religious consciences. Our country was founded by people fleeing this kind of government-monitored and mandated theology last practiced in the Soviet Union.