Saturday, August 09, 2014

CHRIS CHRISTIE: Enemy of the Second Amendment

The Michelin Man is attempting to resurrect his presidential ambitions after "Bridgegate."

The portly purveyor of populist pablum ("We just have to win") has a troubling record when it comes to fighting Islamofascism, Common Core, the Global Warming Climate Change Scam, Amnesty for illegal aliens, and Obamacare.

But it is Christie's hatred for the Second Amendment that is most disturbing. Consider this story: "Single Mom with Concealed Carry Permit Faces up to 11.5 Years for 'Honest Mistake' of Bringing Gun into NJ":

Philadelphia single mom Shaneen Allen got a concealed carry permit (CCW) and handgun after being the victim of two separate robberies in the past year. After an "honest mistake" in which she drove into New Jersey with the gun in her car, she also received a court date and faces up to 11.5 years in prison for violating NJ gun and ammunition laws.

Fox News reports that Allen was pulled over on October 1 for an "unsafe lane change" after entering NJ and told the officer she had a CCW and a .380 handgun in the vehicle. The handgun was "loaded with hollow-point bullets."

Allen was charged with "unlawful possession of the weapon and possession of hollow-point bullets." She had only owned the gun for one week prior to her arrest and has no criminal record.

Mediaite.com reports that when Allen appeared in court on August 5 she learned that "she faces a maximum of 11.5 years in prison—ten for the [weapon] possession, 18 months for the bullets." Moreover, the judge in the case "refused Allen the ability to enter into a 'pretrial intervention' program to avoid jail time."

The prosecution offered Allen a "five year... plea bargain with no option for parole for 3.5 years."

Allen is the single mother of two young sons.

Chris Christie isn't a conservative. He isn't electable. He's a jerk.


HOLY SHNIKEYS: ESPN Contributes $6 to the Average Cable Bill, Whether You Watch it or Not

In an era of consumer choice and pricing transparency, cable companies and telcos offer neither. You want to pick your own channels? F*** you. You want to create your own bundles of services? F*** you.

The cable companies and telcos are the last vestiges of Ma Bell, the government-sponsored monopoly; and they are clinging to their monopolistic power by their fingernails. They take massive amounts of cash and slather it over K Street like butter on Michael Moore's waffles. Which is why they routinely receive the worst customer service ratings imaginable.

Consider Exhibit 1,029:

TV programming is a main driver of cost in your cable bill—and the price for both is going up.


...Cable and satellite providers such as Comcast, Time Warner Cable or DirecTV pay networks like ESPN and TNT a certain amount per customer for programming each month.

The wholesale cost per network is expected to increase 36% by 2018 according to media-research firm SNL Kagan estimates. Cable providers currently pay a total of $28.32 for a few dozen channels, depending on the provider and the cable package, with ESPN taking over $6 of that. Meanwhile median price paid for each channel a subscriber gets is 14 cents. ESPN is estimated to cost $8.37 per month in 2018, an increase of 39%... Despite the rise in programming costs, which cut into its cable TV margins, cable companies continue to generate healthy profits by bundling TV with phone and broadband, a high-margin product. Cable companies also add in ancillary fees on bills like equipment charges.

Interestingly enough, this issue relates directly to net neutrality. Net neutrality isn't a conservative or progressive issue: it's a liberty issue. Should a few monopolies control your access to content or not? Net neutrality says they shouldn't be able to discriminate, period.

If we had actual competition in Internet or cable access, net neutrality's opponents would have a point. But the corporatist oligarchy -- a handful of cable- and telco companies -- spends enormous amounts of money and influence assiduously avoiding competition.

In 2006, Daniel Berninger wrote one of the best summaries of net neutrality I've read:

ISIS Threatens To Kill Creator of Muslim Superhero Comic Series...

Relayed by Weasel Zippers, an important story from Digital Spy:

Muslim comic creator of The 99 threatened by ISIS


Which is ironic because the creator of The 99 wanted to show the “message of tolerance and peace” in Islam...


The Muslim creator of The 99 comic series has been threatened with death by ISIS.

The jihadist group known by the full name of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant have called for the murder of Nayef Al-Mutawa, who they accuse of mocking Allah.

“Who can kill Nayef Al-Mutawa who makes fun of Allah’s names?” wrote ISIS on Twitter, according to Kuwait Times.

“Whoever finds him, kill him, and he will be rewarded.” […]

The 99 centres around a group of superheroes, each of whom embodies one of the 99 attributes of Allah.

Al-Mutawa created the series with the explicit purpose of celebrating the “messages of tolerance and peace” in Islam.

Which reminds me: I keep checking CAIR's Twitter feed to see if they've denounced the genocide of non-Muslims by the barbaric throwbacks called ISIL. Here's what I've found.


Those are crickets.


Hat tip: BadBlue News.

PARDON MY CHORTLING: California's Cap-and-Trade Scam to Spike Gas Prices as Much as $.70 a Gallon

Thanks to their religion of global warming, Democrat politicians will cause gas prices in California to rise as much as $0.70 a gallon next year.

...Beginning in January, fuel suppliers in California will have to comply with the Cap and Trade program. The 2006 initiative seeks to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the state. And it seems generally expected that the coming change will lead to higher gasoline prices.

Projected increases range from 10 cents to 69 cents a gallon. In San Diego County, where the average price on Friday of a gallon of self-serve regular gasoline was $3.894, that would be a significant jump into the $4 or more territory...

...Some politicians are worried about possible spikes in gas prices. Sixteen Assembly Democrats have sent a letter to Gov. Jerry Brown’s administration asking for a delay in the program, and a bill has been introduced that would postpone the change.

Political consultant Mike Madrid said politicians have good reason to be concerned. Voters would likely blame incumbents if gas prices go up, Madrid said.

“If gas prices were to go up 15 cents, you would start to see some political shake out. If it goes up 25, 30, 40 cents? You would see an earthquake," he said.

Are Democrats concerned about their insane policies, their impact on energy prices, the increased flight risk of businesses and productive individuals, and the ever-diminishing prospects of a once-great state?

No, of course not. They're worried about themselves -- their reelection chances.


Hat tip: BadBlue Tech.

Larwyn's Linx: You Want Nazis?

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Nation

You Want Nazis?: Mark Steyn
The Rebirth of Evil: Liberty's Torch
Warmonger Elizabeth Warren Supports Obama’s Air Strikes in Iraq: Glob

Sure Why Not: HHS Emails Are, Get This, Missing: Ace
Obama's War: Jon Gabriel
Voter ID Laws Winning, Obama and Holder Losing: Publius

The Bill Comes Due for a Decade of ‘Nuance’: Ed Driscoll
Lined Up and Executed: Horrific new photographs of ISIS atrocities: Daily Mail
Obama a Few Weeks Ago: “World Is Less Violent Than It Has Ever Been”: WZ

The Man Who Wouldn’t Be King: Kevin D. Williamson
50 Things Barack Obama Has Done Wrong: John Hawkins
Cory Booker’s amateurish, maybe homophobic, campaign staff: Moe Lane

Economy

Oops: In '09, Obama told Delphi to avoid taxes via corporate inversion: CFP
Argentina’s Default: A Devastating Lesson in Unfunded Govt. Liabilities: RWN
‘Michelle Obama has gone too far': Twitchy

Scandal Central

Federal Court Smacks Down Eric Holder’s Attack on NC Voter ID: Adams
20+ Obama Officials Lost/Destroyed Emails After Probes: S&L
HHS: Hey, some of our e-mails Congress wants are missing too: Hot Air

Climate & Energy

Population Controllers Call Babies "Carbon Legacies," a Threat to the Environment: LifeNews
Coal Miner Gives Heartfelt Testimony Regarding Obama’s EPA Policies: Hideout
Kerry: Starving Africa Shouldn’t Build More Farms Because It Would Contribute to Global Warming: IJR

Media

Networks Avoid Scandal-Plagued Democratic Senator Exiting the Race: MRC
Polls: Americans Have Had Enough: MB
#ISIS Hashtag Triggers #ObamaForeignPolicyInThreeWords Contest: MOTUS

Guess who attempts to clear up Obama's flip-flops: Norman Hooben
Krauthammer: “The President Is The Problem": Nice Deb
Gawker: Racist App Helps You Avoid Dangerous Areas: S&L

World

ISIS Sweeps The Middle East In A Method Reminiscent Of Genghis Khan: NoisyRm
Wipe ISIS Out. All of Them: Jawa
Yazidis Throw Children Off Mountaintop to Keep Them From ISIS: Sara Noble

6 Ugly Signs of Resurgent Worldwide Antisemitism: Robert Spencer
Hamas Executes One of Its Leaders - Then Blames Israel: Gatestone
Gut-Wrenching Picture Shows Yazidi Children Dying On Mountain Surrounded By Jihadists: WZ

The black flag of ISIS is flying in London: Spectator
Anti-Semitism in Britain makes me feel ashamed: Spectator
Dutch Jewish Advocate: Rising Anti-Semitism a "Crisis": IPT

Islamic State jihadists remove crosses from churches, burn manuscripts: Robert Spencer
Why Obama's campaign in Iraq could require 15,000 troops: NavyTimes
BREAKING: ISIS Captures ‘Hundreds’ of Yazidi Women: Tatler

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Steve Jobs was 'central figure' in Silicon Valley hiring case, judge says: CompWorld
Apple will reveal its wrist gadget next month, says Apple watcher John Gruber: Verge
Meet the most insanely authentic flight sims ever: Battle of Stalingrad and Ilya Muromets: PC World

Cornucopia

THE LAST WORD: Suffering and devotion under the Khmer Rouge: AP
Reagan aide Jim Brady's death ruled homicide: Times-Union
Tom Steyer, Billionaire Climate Hero: A.F. Branco

Image: Another day, another ISIS crucifixion
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QOTD: "Argentina’s central planners have pursued a slew of defunct monetary policies of the Keynesian, Monetarist and Mercantilist variety. Repeated default is the fruit of that labor.

Today, spendthrift governments who betray the trust of their creditors are the new normal. Over-indebtedness followed by default is becoming commonplace. It has been creeping up in the US, from Detroit to Jefferson County, and soon perhaps the entire Commonwealth of Puerto Rico (a US territory).

In a free world, no one in their right mind would give their hard-earned capital to Western governments. Sadly, we do not live in a free world. There is not a free market for money or credit in Argentina or the US. Guided by unfair laws and insidious regulations, people continue to entrust their wealth to institutions that are actively betraying them – promising to pay out in worthless, devalued paper." --Dickson Buchanan

Friday, August 08, 2014

COLOR ME SHOCKED: Chevy Volt Resale Values Plummet as Lease Returns Hit Market

By Mark Modica

It has been two years since General Motors admitted that there was little demand for the Chevy Volt (as reported here) due to there being "no plug-in market." Their answer was to "create market" to drive sales for the politically popular but economically-nonviable Volt. GM manipulated sales for the Volt through the use of subsidized leases at a time when President Obama's favorite, green wonder-car was being criticized for low sales as it failed to live up to the early hype.

GM was able to use taxpayer money in the form of electric vehicle tax credits to help drive down costs to lessees. Taxpayers chipped in $7,500 for each Chevy Volt placed on the road for terms as low as two years. The taxpayer subsidies, along with inflated residual values and other GM incentives, provided for low monthly lease payments and led to a full two-thirds of all Volt "sales" being attributed to leases. That's about three times the lease rate for the overall industry.

So, what happens to resale values of vehicles with little mass appeal that are forced upon the public with subsidies and manipulated leases? The result was predictable; those leased vehicles are now being returned and resale values are plunging. Having won many awards in the past, the Chevy Volt is now the front-runner to be the recipient of the highest depreciating vehicle award.

A search on the Manheim auction site, a primary indicator of vehicle wholesale value, shows that 81 Chevy Volts, model year 2012, were sold at auction for the week ending August 2nd. The average price was $14,871 for vehicles that are only two or three years old, primarily coming off of the manipulated leases. That equates to an absurd loss of values for Chevy Volts of about 65% in only two or three years.

15 Photos of the Barbaric Treatment of Iraqi Christians You'll Never See in Legacy Media

Caution: Extremely graphic photos follow, which were provided by Catholic.org. Please use discretion in viewing the photos that follow the warning box.


The Islamic State has warned Christians, possibly for the last time, saying "there is nothing to give them but the sword." Across Northern Iraq, Christians are huddled in refugee camps, trapped in the desert, or trapped in their homes, waiting for death.


A week ago, Christians were warned to either leave the city of Mosul and other areas under Islamic State control, or they would have to pay a tax or be put to death. Today, nobody has heard from those Christians and nobody knows what is happening to them.


Are they being quietly "put to the sword" as this militant strain of Islam asks they be?


The Human Rights Watch reported on July 14 that homes in Mosul were painted with red letters to indicate Christian homes. Other homes of Shiite Muslims were also adorned...

THE UGLY TRUTH: The United Nations Promotes War Crimes

by Anne Bayefsky

As the terrorist organization Hamas breaks yet another ceasefire, it operates with the firm belief that it will be protected on the international stage. That’s because the modern United Nations has become an instrument of war, just seven decades after it was founded “to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war.”

It is time to face an ugly truth: The U.N. encourages terrorism. U.N. enablers on the ground in Gaza and U.N. broadcasters in the diplomatic comfort zones of Geneva and New York are partners in incitement to genocide against Israel, the Jewish state.

Think back to Rwanda, where a radio station broadcast that Tutsis were “cockroaches.” The message received was that killing was justified, that Tutsis deserved what they got. Such broadcasts were criminal.

It is time to face an ugly truth: The U.N. encourages terrorism. U.N. enablers on the ground in Gaza and U.N. broadcasters in the diplomatic comfort zones of Geneva and New York are partners in incitement to genocide against Israel, the Jewish state.

The demonization of Israelis by the United Nations is similarly venomous, regardless of the diplomatic facade.

On July 30, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon accused Israel of “attacking sleeping children.” On July 23, U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay told the U.N. Human Rights Council that Israel exhibited “disregard for…the right to life.” She alleged that it "was shockingly evident for all to see in the apparent targeting of…children playing.” On July 14, U.N. Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) Commissioner-General Pierre Krähenbühl told the press that Israeli crimes included “attacks against...civilians.”

Alleging that Israelis are baby-killers is not some throwaway line. It’s incitement.

Larwyn's Linx: On Vigilance And Means Of Redress

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On Vigilance And Means Of Redress: Camp o' the Saints
Long Shadows: Mark Steyn
70-Year Old Warning About America’s Road to Totalitarianism: Sara Noble

Obama Accuses United States of Human Rights Violations: Keith Koffler
Lying Past The Graveyard: Camp o' the Saints
Readin’, Writin’ and Social Justice Agitatin’: Michelle Malkin

Obama remains consistent in his indifference to slaughter: Jonah Goldberg
Obama OKs air strikes in Iraq, begins humanitarian mission: AFTimes
Remember this one?: WZ

Another Border Agent Killed by Illegal Aliens: RWN
Democrats putting on brave face for 2014 House races: Moe Lane
Does Steve Scalise hate his caucus?: DC

Economy

Next Time Teachers’ Unions Say Teachers Need Raises, Show 'Em This: Tatler
College Democrats of America Exec Equates Israel With Nazi Germany: TR
Dead Broke Clintons Downsizing August Vacation To $100K: LoneCon

Scandal Central

Obama administration quietly eviscerating Obamacare’s individual mandate tax: Moe Lane
Issa: More Than 20 Obama Officials ‘Lost or Destroyed’ E-mails After House Launched Probes: NRO
"Too big to jail" is real, according to the Attorney General of the United States: American Banker

Climate & Energy

The Left is Very Skilled at Language Tricks: Elephant
Tom Steyer: If we kill Keystone, we will have a carbon tax: Scoop
The EPA’s Newest Abhorrent Abuse of its Permitting Power: Aubrey Neal

Media

Brother Of Journolist – Secretive Leftwing Network Redux: NoisyRm
Steven Colbert's Bizarre Infomerical for Hillary Clinton: Ace
Uber Liberal Actor Robert Redford Suing New York Over Too Many Taxes: Treehouse

Liberals Suddenly OK With Putting Political Opponents in a Bullseye: Glob
$12 Million Buys Soros, Steyer White House Meeting; Media Ignore: MRC
Obama Official Deleted Obamacare Emails Sought By Congress: Patrick Howley

World

Leader: ISIS is ‘Systematically Beheading Children' in 'Christian Genocide': CNS
Ralph Peters: Genocide is Looming For Yazidis And Nobody’s Paying Attention: Nice Deb
Christians flee Islamic militants in Iraq: USA Today

Russian bombers penetrated U.S. airspace at least 16 times in past 10 days: Times
Hamas: The War Isn't Over Until Our War-Demands Are Satisfied: Ace
Russians mock Obama with racist birthday message: Times

State Department’s Harf: The Iraqis Need to ‘Pull Themselves Together’: Bryan Preston
"Everyone Must Participate": MEMRI
Australia: Muslim group outraged at anti-terrorism laws: Robert Spencer

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

How to See What Web Sites Your Computer is Secretly Connecting To: How-To Geek
BMW i8 vs Porsche 911 Carrera (2014) twin test review: Ben Pulman, Car
Google’s latest invention: a data-warehousing system named Mesa: VB

Cornucopia

Smidgen: A.F. Branco
Bye-bye American Pie! It’s been a Sweet Ride.: MOTUS
Not One Child: Winter Soldier

Image: Hamas: The War Isn't Over Until Our War-Demands Are Satisfied
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QOTD: "There had always been a degree of Jew-hatred in Europe, for hundreds of years, mostly at a low-level simmer - denial of full property rights, etc. But it only turned genocidal in the Third Reich. Just to walk that back very calmly to the anniversary we mark this week, the Great War destroyed the German Empire, the most cultured society on the Continent and the one in which Jews were most assimilated, and with a high degree of inter-marriage. What followed the German Empire was the Weimar Republic - ie, going to the grocer's with a wheelbarrow full of worthless marks. By 1930, millions of Germans were in the market for a scapegoat. Who to blame for the ruination of a great nation? "International bankers"? We all know who that means...

Half the country's Jews wound up leaving for Britain, Mandatory Palestine and America before the Second World War began, and that suited Germans just fine: All they wanted was for Jews to be ...elsewhere, just as today Palestine's supporters in the west increasingly want Jews to be ...elsewhere. Not many people circa 1933 thought they were signing on for enforced population displacement, trains to the east, concentration camps, gas ovens... The idea of a "final solution" was in that sense unimaginable.

But our generation doesn't have that excuse. Today's Jew-hate is worse than 1930s Jew-hate precisely because, unlike 80 years ago, it's déjà vu all over again. We can't plead ignorance." --Mark Steyn

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

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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.