Sunday, September 21, 2014

Democrat Congressmen Call Wounded Benghazi Heroes "Liars"

By Investor's Business Daily

Scandal: The California Democrat who suggested that his party boycott the Benghazi Select Committee as a waste of time now accuses those who fought on the CIA annex roof of lying "to promote a new book."

The last we heard from Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., a member of the House Intelligence Committee, was in May. That's when he told Chris Wallace on "Fox News Sunday" he thought the planned select committee to investigate the 2012 Benghazi attack was a "colossal waste of time."

Calling the yet-to-be-approved committee a "tremendous red herring," Schiff said: "I don't think it makes sense, really, for Democrats to participate."

Well, the Democrats participated in the committee that conducted its first hearing on Wednesday, and Schiff, along with Rep. Adam Smith, D-Wash., finds himself one of the Democrats picked by House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi to sit on it.

In fact, it was Schiff who proposed that the first hearing focus on the Benghazi Accountability Review Board's post-attack review and recommendations, an idea that committee head Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., accepted.

But Schiff apparently is still not happy about the hearing, which pointed out the State Department's pre-Benghazi neglect of security, ignoring the security recommendations after the 1998 bombings of our embassies in Kenya and Tanzania.

The State Department also brushed off the warnings of Ambassador Chris Stevens himself, who was killed by terrorists in the Sept. 11, 2012, attack on our diplomatic mission there.

The hearing came right after Kris Paronto, Mark Geist and John Tiegen, three CIA contractors who on that night fought terrorists from the roof of the CIA's Benghazi annex building, confirmed that there was indeed a stand-down order given that caused a critical half-hour delay.

Larwyn's Linx: Letting in the wrong refugees

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Nation

Letting in the wrong refugees: Michelle Malkin
Dems block Cruz bill to strip U.S. citizenship from ISIS defectors: Times
DHS Unaware of 40 ISIS Terrorists Who Returned to U.S.: Sara Noble

‘Interceptor’ cellphone towers found near White House, Senate: Times
Is Mexico Really Helping Curb Flow Of Central American Illegals?: VDARE
1,000 Officials Raid L.A. Fashion District, Seize Cartel Millions: PoliceMag

Where Are Obama’s War Protesters?: Rick Jensen
Russian Nuclear Bombers Buzz Alaska, N. Europe: WFB
The Bear And The Dragon Encircle The Eagle: NoisyRm

House Democrats Pummel Republicans in August Fundraising: Roll Call
Most Dangerous: SCC
2nd Person In 2 Days Arrested For Attempted White House Entry: WZ

Ho hum: Obama on vacation again: FAM
ISIS Releases Chilling New Video – IN ENGLISH: GWP
Rand Paul says US intervention made Islamic State stronger: Stripes

Scandal Central

CNN reporter: State Department DOUBTS Tahmooressi’s story: Scoop
‘Out Of Control’: Coalition Of Sheriffs Demand Border Help: NoisyRm
Scene of the Crime (BIG Post): SCC

Climate & Energy

Sunday’s NYC Climate March Is Like Totally Anti-Establishment: RWN

Media

A cynical blogger might think that these White House security breaches were deliberate.: Moe Lane
Leftist media goes after black Benghazi whistleblower. Is that racist?: Allen West
Numbskull David Corn yells "But Bush!" three times in pathetic attempt to defend Obacalypse: Scoop

Krauthammer: Obama micromanagement of military strikes is “scary stuff”: LI
Disturbing Video – Saint Louis Missouri Mob Assault: Treehouse
Latest ISIS victim: Gory Halloween props banned: LI

Photographer Cleverly Shames HuffPo After They Use Her Imgur-Hosted Photo without Permission: PetaPixel
American Spectator Surrenders To Vexatious Litigant and Domestic Terrorist Brett Kimberlin: Ken White
Fire captain injured in ice bucket challenge dies: AP

World

Saving Private Kerry: Daniel Greenfield
Canadian Jihad, Abroad and at Home: GoV
Again in UK: Muslim rape gangs targeted girls in Sheffield, care worker feared being called racist: JihadWatch

You got to know who your enemy is: Cold Fury
Riiight: Infidel Austrian government to create standardized Koran to stem Islamic extremism: BCF
Overwhelming Evidence That John McCain Met With ISIS-Allied Rebels: GotNews

What Did Turkey Trade for Hostages?: Rick Moran
Canada Begins Invalidating Passports Of Citizens Who Have Left To Join Extremist Groups: WZ
Huge Navy drone that is bigger than a 737 takes to the skies for flight across America: Daily Mail

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

More Protection SVP: WRSA
Predicting crime with Big Data ... welcome to "Minority Report" for real: NetworkWorld
Oculus Rift's new prototype brings out the best in virtual reality: Engadget

Cornucopia

The Battle of Victims: Pumping-Up to WIN Because #It’sOnUs: MOTUS
The Village Idiot...: 90 Miles
The Obama Interview We’d Like to See: Keith Koffler

Image: Fence Breach Prompts More White House Security
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QOTD: "Defending Obama against accusations that his delayed response had allowed ISIS to become a major threat, he [Sec. of State John Kerry] claimed that, “Early this summer the ISIL threat accelerated when it effectively erased the Iraq-Syria border and the Mosul Dam fell. The President acted immediately.”

“Immediately” makes Obama sound proactive. Kerry’s testimony was full of similarly active language. He used the word “immediately” three times in close succession. But cheap marketing tricks can’t cover up the fact that Obama’s “immediately” kicked in when ISIS was marching on Baghdad... If you wait until an Al Qaeda spinoff has nearly taken over two countries, then there’s nothing immediate about your actions.

Kerry’s statement was filled with such delayed immediacies. “Deliberately and decisively, we further surged the ISR missions immediately,” he told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee... In fact there was nothing decisive or immediate about it.

Obama significantly delayed the rescue of the hostages leading to the televised beheadings. He responded with air strikes only when actual genocide had begun taking place and Iraq appeared to be on the verge of falling to ISIS.

There’s nothing immediate about any of that." --Daniel Greenfield

Saturday, September 20, 2014

LATEST SENATE POLLING: Rove and the Establishment GOP Nitwits May Have Committed Electoral Suicide

The geriatric and senile Republican establishment could very well have destroyed their ability to take the Senate this year, a year that should have been ripe for a GOP landslide.

From Mitch McConnell's vow to "crush the Tea Party" all the way to rampant vote fraud in Mississippi, the Reince Priebus- and Karl Rove-led band of numbskulls have wagered that corrupting the primary process, demonizing the conservative activist base, and using borderline criminal tactics would unify the party.

As it turns out -- despite an onslaught of horrific news regarding the very real policy failures of Democrat governance -- it now appears that the Senate may not change hands after all. The latest aggregate poll numbers assembled by RCP appear to have Rove's panties in a bunch as evidenced by his hilarious plea for more donations in The Wall Street Journal.

IOWA - deadlocked
KANSAS - deadlocked (Pat Roberts defeated Tea Party-backed Milton Wolf in the primary)
NEW HAMPSHIRE - Democrat Shaheen leads by 12 points
GEORGIA - deadlocked
NORTH CAROLINA - Democrat Kay Hagan leads by 5 points over the establishment's Tillis
LOUISIANA - deadlocked
COLORADO - deadlocked
MICHIGAN - Democrat Peters leads by 7 points
MINNESOTA - Democrat Franken leads by 12 points
ALASKA - deadlocked
ARKANSAS - deadlocked
KENTUCKY - RINO McConnell leads by 3 points

In other words, "The Architect" and his band of highly-paid consultants, lobbyists, and sycophants -- in their selfish bid for "purity" -- could very well have squandered a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.



What a bunch of schmucks.

And anyone who gives Karl Rove a dime deserves everything they get, which is nothing.


RESET, INDEED: Ukrainian President Says That a "New Cold War" is About to Begin

By Investor's Business Daily

Eastern Europe: Addressing a rare joint session of the U.S. Congress, Ukraine's leader warns, like Churchill before him, of a growing and resurgent menace that has committed crimes in his country and threatens the West.

Back in 2009, after the Russian invasion of Georgia, we asked in the editorial recently reprised on the opposite page, "Is the Ukraine Next?" Well, it was. As President Reagan famously put it in a campaign commercial, there was once again a bear in the woods. Only this time we ignored it.

On Thursday, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko gave a 40-minute speech to a rare joint session of Congress alerting lawmakers to the plight of his country under Russia's creeping "Anschluss."

Poroshenko once again pled for meaningful aid, including an affiliation with NATO, and warned that a new Iron Curtain may soon descend as Vladimir Putin tries to reassemble the Soviet Union whose demise he has publicly mourned.

"The war that these men are fighting today is not only Ukraine's war," he said. "It is Europe's, and it is America's war too. It is the war for the free world."

But once again Ukraine's request has fallen far short of being met.

In March, Ukraine asked for arms and ammunition, intelligence support, aviation fuel and night vision goggles. The Pentagon agreed only to provide the Ukrainians with supplies of U.S. military rations known as Meals Ready To Eat, or MREs.

Larwyn's Linx: Why Libertarians Should Vote Republican in November

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Nation

Why Libertarians Should Vote Republican in November: LI
D.I.V.O.R.C.E Agreement: Hannity
‘Hate Speech’: the Left’s Term for ‘Opposing Viewpoints’: Spencer Klavan

Morale: The U.S. Navy Is Fading Away: StrategyPage
Watch: Mark Levin apologizes to families of fallen Iraq soldiers: Unyielding
The Democrat Fall Offensive, foiled by ISIS: DTG

Guess who's running anti-sexual assault program for the White House?: RWN
Cop defies order to ‘celebrate’ Islam, and then …: BCF
White House fence-jumper makes it inside presidential residence: BPR

After Declaring War on Tea Party, Rove Worried About Donations: Tony Lee
No Wave for the GOP : Maggie Gallagher
You won't believe what John Foust said about his own voters: Moe Lane

Economy

Anti-War Liberals Join Fiscal Conservatives in Rejecting CR: CNS
OK, I Get It. Things Are Coming Unglued: Wolf Street
Islamic Welfare Colonists Demand Free Halal Food in Minnesota: MB

Scandal Central

Obama DOJ Refuses to Release Fast and Furious Docs: CFP
IRS Chief Says Press Reports ‘Confusing’ Loss of Emails: Bill Straub
The Obama Scandal List: Two Dozen and Counting: Keith Koffler (2013)

Climate & Energy

An Out-of-Control Agency of Zealots, Destorying Your Freedom: Elephant

Media

The Leftist Mind Explained By @RSMcCain And @Instapundit: Camp o' the Saints
Jeffrey Goldberg: Libtard: Breitbart
Fox’s Shepard Smith mocks Obama flack Josh Earnest and his ISIS coalition happy talk: Twitchy

Just Take it For Granted: Nuking Politics
FIRE Mails First Amendment Warning to More Than 300 Colleges: Instapundit
Michelle O: Americans “Take For Granted” How Much Barack Has Improved the US: GWP

World

Obama’s “Moderate Rebels” Sign Deal With ISIS, Report Says: Alex Newman
John "Mashed Potato Face" Kerry Echoes Obama: ‘The Islamic State Is Not Islamic’: S&L
New Wave of Central American Kids to Reach U.S. Soon, Expert Says: LAHT

Obama Administration Is Paying Monthly Salaries to “THOUSANDS” of Syrian Rebels: GWP
German taxpayers funding anti-Israel hate: Commentator
Growing #Jerusalem unrest sparks fears of a third intifada: Hayom

Dem Rep: 40 American ISIL Fighters Have Already Returned to the United States: WFB
Leon Panetta Slams Obama: ISIS Flourished Because US Left Iraq Too Soon: Lid
Jihadist Murders College Student Brendan Tevlin in NJ, Calls It A “Just Kill”: Tammy Bruce

The Celtic Fringe of the Axis of Extinction: Mark Steyn
Eight Ebola Workers Killed By Locals, Thrown In Latrine: S&L
Putin 'privately threatened to invade Poland, Romania and the Baltic states': Telegraph

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Is Wearable Tech Putting Your Data at Risk?: Rick Delgado
And Then They Came For The Bolt-Actions: Bob Owens
Chased from San Francisco, parking startup pops up in SoCal: Ars

Cornucopia

“God, Get Me Home To My Girls.” SEAL Survived 27 Shots & Completed His Mission: Bearing Arms
Spanking is a disciplinary measure, not child abuse. Get a grip, people.: Matt Walsh
What Everyone Reads: Seth Godin

Image: Ten of thousands of Syrian Kurds flee into Turkey, group says
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QOTD: "...though the GOP establishment blames conservatives for not controlling the Senate, the establishment-backed Senate candidates in the 2012 election cycle lost in battleground states like Virginia, Wisconsin and even Montana, a race that should have been in the GOP column.

On his talk radio show this year, Mark Levin pointed this out: "noting that while candidates backed by Tea Party members like Mike Lee, Rand Paul, and Marco Rubio won in 2010, candidates heavily supported by Karl Rove and Mitch McConnell in Florida, Hawaii, Massachusetts, Montana, New Mexico, and Wisconsin all got clobbered in 2012."

"All backed by Rove. All backed by McConnell. And all losers," Levin said. "We must not allow the Republican establishment and their friendly media to work with the liberal media to spin."

...Levin said that even though "the Republican establishment holds the blame for the GOP's minority status in the Senate," its "leadership wants to twist history to absolve themselves of that blame."

"But for the Tea Party, you'd be nothing, as you were before," Levin told the GOP establishment. "But for the Tea Party, Pelosi would be Speaker."" --Tony Lee

Friday, September 19, 2014

50 Objective Facts that Prove America is in an Unprecedented Decline Under Democrat Leadership

By Michael Snyder

What has happened to America? Please show these numbers to anyone that does not believe that the United States is in decline. It is time for all of us to humble ourselves and face the reality of what has happened to our once great nation. For those of us that love America, it is heartbreaking to watch the foundations of our society rot and decay in thousands of different ways. The following are 50 facts that show how far America has fallen in this generation, but the truth is that this list could have been far, far longer…

#1 According to a survey that was just conducted, only 36 percent of all Americans can name the three branches of government.

#2 Only 25 percent of all Americans know how long U.S. Senators are elected for (6 years), and only 20 percent of all Americans know how many U.S. senators there are.

#3 Even if you include same-sex couples in the numbers, the marriage rate in the United States is at a 93 year low.

#4 For the first time ever, single Americans make up more than half the U.S. population.

#5 31.1 percent of American young adults in the 18 to 34-year-old age bracket are currently living with their parents.

GIRD YOUR LOINS: Are You Ready for Hillary?

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Larwyn's Linx: Obamacare Architect Thinks You Should Die by Age 75

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Nation

Obamacare Architect Thinks You Should Die by Age 75: Jon Gabriel
You Can’t Outsource Our National Security: Christopher Holton
NY Dem: ‘All My Heroes Were America’s Enemies’: MenRec

4 Suspected Terrorists Arrested on 9/10 Near Southern Border: Lid
John Kerry, Master Dhimmi: Carol Brown
The challenge of stopping do-it-yourself jihadism: Jonah Goldberg

Cruz Dominates White House Dossier GOP Primary Poll: Keith Koffler
GFY, NRSC and Karl Rove: Erick Erickson
Democrats Lose Edge with Women Voters: AmInt

Ferguson Lowlifes Make Demands, Issue Threats: MB
Go Away, Hillary: Alan Caruba
AG Holder enforces Sharia, citizens can’t use zoning laws to stop mosques: Pamela Geller

Economy

Boehner and Pelosi Unite to Pass Bill Funding Planned Parenthood, Obamacare, Syrian Rebels: CNS
Report: Cali. Lead Ban to Triple Ammo Prices: Tea Party
Schools stockpile grenade launchers, M16s, armor, other military equipment: EAG

Scandal Central

State Department Used 'Made Up' Name In Order To Ignore Security Needs In Benghazi: TR
Radical Activists on Ninth Circuit say it’s illegal to wear American Flag shirt on Cinco de Mayo: FAM
Mark Levin Goes Nuclear Over Cinco de Mayo Decision: Scoop

Benghazi Annex Security Team Members Challenge Democrat Adam Schiff To A Debate: Nice Deb
Sharyl Attkisson: Obama’s Whereabouts During Benghazi Attacks Are ‘Unacceptably Private’: CBS Philly
WI Democratic Gubernatorial Candidate Blames Consultant For Plagiarized Jobs Plan: BuzzFeed

Media

Gallup: Americans Don't Trust MSM, Say It's Too Liberal: Lid
As Michelle Purges Schools Of Sugary Snacks, WH Machine Sells 590 Calorie Honey Buns: ProgsToday
Mark Levin: An Answer to the 'Outrageous Cherry-Picking of American History' Regarding Race: CNS

Why Do They Make It So Easy?: R.S. McCain
This Time It Is Not Sarah Palin Targeting People for Assassination: Erick Erickson
NBC Gives 'Christie Innocent In Bridgegate' 38 Secs; Devoted Nearly 5 Mins When Scandal Broke: MRC

World

Mark Levin: "A Revolt Going On With Top Generals And Obama": RCP
ISIS Calls For Radicalized Americans To Go To Homes Of U.S. Soldiers, 'Slaughter Them': Breitbart
Archaeologists in Poland Make Horrendous Discovery: Blaze

John "Mashed Potato Face" Kerry"We are at war with the enemies of Islam": Scoop
Australians Now Wish They Were Armed After Latest ISIS Plot Revealed: Nick Adams
There's a Black Market for Ebola Survivors' Blood: Shirley Li

Muslim Asks 3 Sobbing Children to Choose Which of Them Will Be Beheaded First: RWN
Let’s Not Arm Anyone in Syria: Leon Wolf
The aftermath of Scotland’s ‘no’ vote: Spectator

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

On Safe Computing: Liberty At Stake
Home Depot breach put 56M payment cards at risk: ComputerWorld
Hubble Space Telescope finds smallest known galaxy with supermassive black hole: Xeni Jardin

Cornucopia

Rich just rich. Michelle Obama to kids with cancer: Living in the White House ‘can be hard’: BPR
#IWasForItBeforeItWasn’tMyIdea: MOTUS
CIA Posts Hundreds of Declassified Journal Articles: FAS

Image: Archaeologists in Poland Make Horrendous Discovery
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QOTD:

Thursday, September 18, 2014

BUMMERINO: Democrats Lose Female Voters as Bungling of Real Military Conflicts Trumps Bogus "War on Women"

What if they gave a war and we had a Democrat president? As with Carter and Clinton, we're reminded daily of the Democrat Party's unofficial tagline: The Party of Weakeness. Walter Russell Mead -- and friends -- highlight the inevitable reaction of the American public as they come to grips with incompetent ideologues:

The most interesting finding of a recent NYT poll on voter preferences before the midterms: The Democrats have lost their edge with women. Though the NYT write-up of the poll doesn’t mention the change, it shows up in the accompanying graph... When asked “If the 2014 election for United States House of Representatives seats were being held today, would you vote for the Republican candidate or the Democratic candidate in your district?” women favor Democrats over Republicans by one point only, 43 to 42 percent.

This is a huge swing in a short period of time: just one month earlier, women preferred Democrats by 51 percent to 37 percent in response to that question in a similar Wall Street Journal poll. Nobody quite knows what accounts for the shift, but given that support for President Obama’s foreign policy has seen similar big drops among women, it’s likely the recent global unrest is part of the cause.

Perhaps what we are seeing here is the awakening of the under-appreciated “Wal-Mart mom” Jacksonians. Many Americans are default Jacksonians who favor muscular use of force abroad to protect U.S. interests. But when things seem to be going reasonably well, their Jacksonianism lies dormant, and they can appear to be non-interventionists. It is only when threats pile up and the world begins to seem less safe that Americans reveal their true foreign policy colors. Mothers with younger children can, as any student of human nature will tell you, act aggressively if they feel their children’s safety is threatened.


As Mead observes, while the Democrat's phony "war on women" meme has served the party well, it would appear that the rise of ISIS, the invasion of Ukraine, and a catastrophic panoply of disease, chaos, and criminality on the southern border take precedence over free contraceptives for many women.

In other words, reality trumps bullcrap.

Sandra Fluke (pronounced: fluck) hardest hit.


Hat tip: BadBlue News.

Building a New Barn

By Hardscrabble Farmer

Last night I dreamed of buildings. In the dream they were on our farm- a church, a small theater, a haunted house we had once looked at before we bought our place. I went from one to the other examining the flaws and estimating for repairs; rotten framing, new coat of paint, leaky pipes that ran inside the walls. I was overwhelmed by the amount of work ahead of me and in each building were groups of people I didn’t know, a cluster of young girls waiting to dance at a recital, college boys gathered in knots by a fire escape, old men and women in recliners on the porch watching the evening sky.

Everyone nodded at me as I made my way from job to job and at one point an old friend I haven’t seen in years asked me to help him move a fawn across a large field to the safety of the forest before someone accidentally hit it with their car. I remember clearly the mood of the dream- it was neither ethereal nor fantastic, but mundane and simple. I was required to fix what was broken, to make the repairs and work while others went about their lives doing what was expected of them. I recall my work clothes and tools, the turkey leg someone offered me to eat, the fact that nighttime was approaching and there was still so much work left undone.

When I came downstairs this morning it was not quite light but you could see the water vapor ascending from the surface of the pond like a pillar of smoke, obscuring the lower pasture in a lavender haze. I made my coffee and thought about my dream while it was fresh in my mind.

Barack Obama's Real Criteria for Success

By Lawrence Sellin, Ph.D.

Barack Obama, in his own mind, is incapable of formulating scenarios in which the United States, as a capitalist-based western democracy, succeeds.

If narcissism explains Obama's personal behavior, his relationships with others and his self-centered decision-making process, then the nexus of Marxism-Leninism, Black Nationalism and Islam defines him politically, philosophies antithetical to the survival of the Constitution and the American republic.

Frank Marshall Davis was introduced to Barack Obama by his maternal grandfather, Stanley Dunham, who was a close friend of Davis and saw him as a potential role model and father-figure for his grandson. Davis was also a US Communist Party member (number 47544) and became Obama's mentor in Hawaii during the 1970s, right up until Obama left for college at Occidental, which he attended on a scholarship, one likely reserved for foreign students. That would explain why he roomed and associated with foreign students and, incidentally, may not have registered with Selective Service.

In a PBS "Frontline" documentary called "The Choice 2012," former Obama roommate Sohale Siddiqi stated "I didn't consider him American. He seemed like an international individual."

Larwyn's Linx: Where have all the allies gone?

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Nation

Where have all the allies gone?: Victor Davis Hanson
The spread of Rocky Mountain jihad: Malkin
Obama at War With His Generals: Telegraph

Obama at the Gates of Vienna: Jeffrey Lord
Whistleblowers blast VA IG report: Ace
Why do (some) Americans hate America?: Cal Thomas

You Knuckleheads: Camp o' the Saints
Close the Michigan Republican Presidential Primary: Kuznicki
"There was a master race, now there's a master faith": PW

The Scandals are Catching Up With Mary Landrieu: Scott McKay
Mary Landrieu Welcomes Hispanics to the New Democrat Plantation: RS
Generic Congressional Vote Starting to Look Ugly for Democrats: Leon Wolf

Economy

The destruction of traditional mortgage demand: DHB
A New Fed Playbook for the New Normal: Peter Schiff
Dollar Higher as Fed Hinted as Steeper Rate Hike: ActionForex

Scandal Central

Watch Trey Gowdy’s opening statement for Benghazi hearings: Scoop
Gowdy grills first witness in Benghazi hearings; Hillary might be in trouble already: BPR
Citing IRS Wrongdoing, Judicial Watch Asks Federal Court to Permit Discovery: JW

Climate & Energy

"The Barbra Streisand Effect on Steroids": Mark Steyn
Suppose They Gave a Climate Conference and Nobody Came: Roger L. Simon
Marxist Author Naomi Author Klein: US Should Pay ‘Trillions’ For Causing Climate Change: MRC

Media

`Neil deGrasse Tyson is a scientist. But his current job, near as I can tell, is carnival barker.': Bystanders
Networks Black Out Coverage of Benghazi Hearing: MRC
Media Bias (Again) Shines Through in Coverage of Joe Biden’s Anti-Semitic Slur: Leon Wolf

This Is The Worst Thing Ever And We’re All Going To Die.: David Harsanyi
Mark Levin rips Obama for putting politics above war on ISIS: Scoop
Pelosi Won’t Say We Are At War With ISIS But Says “There Is A War On Women”: Surge

World

Fourteen ISIS Terrorists Die in Workplace Accident Trying to Load Chlorine Gas Into Rocket: JWF
President Obama’s 9/10 Strategy in a 9/11 World: RS
Noncitizen income rose 15 times faster than income of native U.S. workers in 2013: Blaze

Dem Senator: Obama's Plan To Train Syrian Opposition Would Cost $100,000 Per Rebel: Breitbart
Russia: ‘Free Syrian Army No Longer Exists’; Rebels Are Coordinating With Terrorists: CNS
How Peace Negotiator Martin Indyk Cashed a Big, Fat $14.8 Million Check From Qatar: Tablet

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

It's A Disaster When They Say It Is: Nuking Politics
How a massive black hole looks in an ultra-dense dwarf galaxy: Mariella Moon, Engadget
Amazon just forked out $4.6 million to own the .Buy domain: TNW

Cornucopia

"One of San Francisco's Famous Painted Ladies Finally Sells": Obiter Dictum
Owner reunited with Jaguar stolen in 1968: Fox
Late Night Unsoothiness: iOTW

Image: Un-Islamic-non-State-Jr-Varsity ISIS in Jerusalem
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QOTD: "Thousands of children in swaths of war-torn Syria, now controlled by dreaded Islamic State militants, can no longer study math or social studies under new diktats issued by the jihadists.

While sports is banned, the children will not be allowed to learn about elections and democracy.

Instead, the children will be subjected to the teachings of the radical Islamist group. And any teacher who dares to break the rules "will be punished."

ISIS announced its new educational demands in fliers posted on billboards and on street poles, CNN reported. " --Times of India

Wednesday, September 17, 2014

AWESOME: Obama-Holder Justice Department Doesn't Punish Known Criminal Activity in Its Ranks

By Judicial Watch

The Department of Justice (DOJ) is responsible for enforcing the law, providing federal leadership in preventing crime and punishing those guilty of illegal behavior yet it allows its own officials to get away with all sorts of appalling crimes and transgressions.

As if this weren’t bad enough, the DOJ also protects its perpetrators, covering up their name and allowing them to keep their lucrative government jobs. Even the agency watchdog, which is charged with rooting out corruption, conceals crucial information about unscrupulous DOJ officials, including those in high-ranking positions. Now a national newspaper chain offers insight into this astounding cover-up scheme with documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), a federal law often used by Judicial Watch to expose government corruption.

The records don’t include names, but they do reveal a “startling array” of transgressions and misconduct in which DOJ officials nevertheless escaped prosecution or firing. It’s like the fox guarding the henhouse because the DOJ is responsible for prosecuting corruption in the public sector. This includes government agencies and elected officials at most levels. The records show that dozens of DOJ officials, ranging from FBI special agents and prison wardens to high-level federal prosecutors, have faced no consequences for criminal behavior or serious misconduct.

In at least 27 cases the inspector general identified evidence of criminal wrongdoing yet no one was prosecuted, the records show. These cases have been kept secret, the news agency’s analysis found, and reveal “more than an underside to federal law enforcement.” It also proves that federal prosecutors have way too much power in deciding whether to press charges, usually choosing not to when it comes to friends and colleagues. In fact, the DOJ Inspector General expressed concern about “two standards of justice at the Department of Justice.”

BEWARE FALSE FLAG SITE "THE AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE": Shares an Office with Far Left American Prospect

I recently stumbled across a website that purports to represent a center-right point-of-view called The American Conservative. Initially intrigued -- considering that Americans can always use compelling conservative opinion sites -- I perused the site and quickly noticed something a bit, well, off.

No fewer than five articles on the front page alone represented attacks on Sen. Ted Cruz -- the brilliant Constitutional conservative from Texas -- and many more attacked Israel and "Islamophobia". The ludicrous crackpot Stephen M. Walt, a notorious purveyor of anti-semitism, is linked as are pseudo-conservatives like Conor Friedersdorf.


in short, I smelled a rat. Using whois, I quickly determined that the domain was owned by one Daniel McCarthy and the offices of the publication are listed as 1710 Rhode Island Ave. NW, Suite 1200 in Washington, DC.

You'll never guess what other magazine has its headquarters in the same office?


That's right: the far left, radical Marxists at The American Prospect, a veritable cornucopia of crypto-Communism.

The American Prospect is a bimonthly American political magazine dedicated to American liberalism. Based in Washington, DC, The American Prospect is a journal 'of liberal ideas, committed to a just society, an enriched democracy, and effective liberal politics' which focuses on United States politics and public policy. Politically, the magazine is in support of modern American liberalism, similar to The New Republic and The Nation.

TAP's writers include the world's dumbest blogger -- Matty Yglesias -- as well as the world's dumbest publisher, Ezra Klein.

Put simply, TAC and TAP share an office and an ideology: a rabid hatred of the Constitution as well as America's history, traditions, culture and mores.

So when you accidentally step on Internet chewing gum like TAC, know you are viewing an apparent false-flag operation that operates like a honeypot.

I haven't provided any links, because this kind of lint isn't even worth the 0.0000000001 calories it would take to click on a link.


Visit BadBlue News instead for real, uncensored news.

STOCK MARKET CRASH DEAD AHEAD! Or not.

R.P. Seawright passes along an interesting historical perspective regarding the stock market. Did you know that, despite the massive, QE-fueled run-up in stocks over the last six years, that we technically remain in a secular bear market?

Market crashes happen. When the next one comes along — and it surely will, perhaps today, perhaps years from now — some number of people will seem to have presciently predicted it. Many more will try to take credit for having done so. Still, since such major catastrophic events don’t happen all that often and since there doesn’t seem to be any good reason to think that any particular person will have it right, acting on such predictions is dangerous business indeed...

As the legendary investor Peter Lynch cautioned, “Far more money has been lost by investors … trying to anticipate corrections than has been lost in corrections themselves.” That’s largely because big crashes (as opposed to corrections — which are common) don’t happen all that often. The worst one-day market loss occurred on Black Monday, October 19, 1987, when the Dow lost over 22 percent of its value. The biggest one-day loss in 2008 was 7.87 percent; in 2001 it was 7.13 percent. Over longer time periods there have been four secular bear market periods (see below, from Doug Short) when peak-to-valley losses were much greater.

...Market crashes occur more frequently than major seismic events at Yellowstone, but they still aren’t nearly as common as they are commonly predicted. So the next time you see an article about Yellowstone predicting impending doom remember that calderas are busy places and the media loves its disasters. There is probably no reason to get too worked up. And the next time you see an article predicting a major market crash remember that markets are wildly busy places and the media loves its disasters there too.


It's nice to have a historical perspective, but one can't help but feel a tad troubled by the greatest money-printing exercise in world history.


Hat tip: BadBlue Money.

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America at the Tipping Point: Chuck Norris
The New Colonizers: David Solway
Multiculturalism Is a Failure: Walter Williams

Obama Declines to Attend Memorial Dedication for Disabled Veterans: WFB
Obama Calls For More Gun Control On Anniversary of Navy Yard Shooting: GSL
NYC: ISIS looking for "lone wolf" terrorists to target city: WZ

Mark Levin torches Elizabeth Warren over comments on Israel: Scoop
Great News: Huckabee vs. Romney Grudge Match in 2016?: Ace
Buffoon John McCain Gaffes Going After Rand Paul: ‘Has He Met With ISIS?’: DC

NYC: Muslim (Brotherhood) Day Parade 2014: Creeping
Border Bridge Protest Organizers to Militia: You're Not Welcome: Breitbart
More review sought in Christie/Shaneen Allen gun case: Philly

Economy

MVP Cuts Medicare For Seniors, Cites Rising Costs of Obamacare: MenRec
The NLRB's contribution to Obama's anti-business crusade: Dr. Mark W. Hendrickson
Many Insurers are Paying for Abortions under Obamacare: RS

Scandal Central

2 Standards of Justice: DOJ Doesn’t Punish Crime Among Its Ranks: JW
Obama is rushing into war against Islamic State: Jonah Goldberg
Surprise Move in Case Against Controversial Cancer Doc: Patch

Climate & Energy

Obama’s Lonely Climate Summit – world leaders are staying home: WUWT
The Lonesomest Mann in Town: Mark Steyn
Bummer: Nature Refuses To Cooperate With Dryer/Wetter Warmist Prognostication: Cove

Media

Networks Ignore Over 100,000 About to Lose ObamaCare: MRC
Poll: 73% Say Media Stoked Racial Strife During Ferguson Riots: WZ
No, the NFL Is Not a Hotbed of Wife and Child Beaters: RS

CDC issues Ebola checklist: 'Now is the time to prepare': Paul Bedard
The Ebola Virus and You and you, and you, and you...: Norman Hooben
Jewish Group Condemns Biden’s ‘Offensive’ Reference To ‘Shylocks’: WFB

Science: Bush vs. Obama declining poll numbers: Ace
Actor Liam Neeson lashes out against gun ownership: John Lott
Combat Veteran Saves the Day, Kills Attempted Murderer: GJWHG

World

Sec. Hagel Announces 1,600 Americans Will Deploy to Fight ISIL: WFB
Turkey welcomes Muslim Brotherhood leaders forced to leave Qatar: JihadWatch
Looting in stars' Mexican beach resort as 24,000 tourists are trapped by Hurricane: Daily Mail

Obama’s Coalition of the Uncertain: Daniel Greenfield
U.N. to dump flood of Muslim refugees on U.S.: WND
The Politics of Islamic Beheading: Dawn Perlmutter

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Build Your Own Drone: Military Grade Drone Can Now Be Printed on 3-D Printers: GWP
Data loss detection tool mines the ephemeral world of 'pastes': Jeremy Kirk
Face the Face: WRSA

Cornucopia

There's Something About Cindy: iOTW
Pic o' the Day: WZ
Clean up on Aisle WON: MOTUS

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QOTD: "U.S. Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel announced 1,600 American personnel will deploy to Iraq as part of the Obama administration’s counterterrorism plan to combat the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL or ISIS).

“The president of the United States has the constitutional and the statutory authority to use military force against ISIL in Syria as well as Iraq,” Hagel said. “[Our] strategy is to increase support for those fighting ISIL on the ground.”

Hagel underscored direct combat against ISIL will be conducted by a coalition of Iraqi, Kurdish, and Syrian fighters." --WFB

Tuesday, September 16, 2014

WHO KNEW? Sharia Law is Compatible with the U.S. Constitution, According to Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA)

By Sara Noble

Maxine Waters is under the impression that Shariah Law can be implemented while our U.S. Constitution is in effect. Anyone who disagrees is an Islamophobe and a hater according to her.

Last week, the Council of Pakistan Affairs and Islamic Society of Orange County welcomed Maxine Waters to a meeting along with other extremists in Congress like Congresswomen Chu and Sanchez, the California Comptroller et al where she made her comments. They would have been controversial ten years ago but in this PC age, the Constitution is controversial.

Congresswoman Waters accused Republicans of attacking the Islamic faith as a national security threat.

That’s patently untrue. It is not Islamic faith Republicans have a problem with, it is radical Islam but she conveniently left that out.

She said that fear tactics accusing Muslims of trying to spread tenets of Shariah into our government has spurred legislation to ban Shariah.

She attacked Rep. Peter King and other Republicans for his hearings on RADICAL Islam. His hearings concerned radical groups like al-Shabob but Maxine claimed it was Islam.

She said she is pushing legislation to ban any racial profiling.

If the people who are trying to kill you are radical Muslims, should you go into senior citizen complexes or Knights of Columbus halls looking for possible terrorists? Maxine’s view of racial profiling is extreme.

Maxine sees the American Constitution and Shariah as nonconflicting. However, having two sets of laws – Shariah and the U.S. justice system – is in itself a conflict.

Maxine minimized the threat of radical Islam and said the Muslim community is actively working with law enforcement.

The biggest problem with her speech is she thinks Shariah law is consistent with the U.S. Constitution. She equates any anti-Shariah law as hate.

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BRILLIANT: Gov. Scott Walker's New Jobs Plan Includes Drug-Testing for Welfare Recipients

By M.D. Kittle

MADISON, Wis. — Three years ago, Wisconsin Aluminum Foundry Co. Inc. was begging for workers and struggling to hire candidates who could simply pass a drug test.

Good jobs, paying $15 to $20 per hour, going unfilled because applicants couldn’t pee in a cup without testing positive for drugs.

“That’s one of the reasons we were hesitant about expanding … ‘Can we fill up and man the expansion property to meet our customers’ requirements?’” Jim Hatt, Wisconsin Aluminum Foundry president, told Wisconsin Reporter in November 2011.

Times have changed.

Hatt said things have slowed up enough so the market is attracting more qualified workers — employees who can pass drug screenings, to say the least.

While business of late has been like “running in mud” as the foundry’s clients take a wait-and-see approach, Hatt said the problem finding good employees remains a problem across the state.

“I think all kinds of businesses are struggling with people passing the drug test,” he said. “It’s not something that’s really driven by the employers, it’s driven by the insurance company.”

Gov. Scott Walker appears to be taking such concerns to heart.

The Republican governor on Sunday unveiled his jobs plan for his next term, should he survive what polls show is his dead-heat gubernatorial race against Madison Metropolitan School Board member Mary Burke, a Democrat and former commerce secretary under Walker’s predecessor, Gov. Jim Doyle.

The 62-page plan proposes more property and income tax cuts, increased tax relief for manufacturing and agriculture, and reduced barriers to business creation, according to Walker’s campaign.

But the most controversial points, at least the ones that have picked up the most attention, are the governor’s proposals to require drug testing for individuals filing for unemployment and for “able-bodied, working-age adults requesting food stamps” through the state’s FoodShare public assistance program.

OBAMATOPIA: Growth in Food Stamps Far Exceeds New Jobs in Illinois

By Investor's Business Daily


Economy In Crisis: A new study by the Illinois Policy Institute shows in the past four years, the number of new food-stamp recipients in the state has outpaced new jobs nearly 2-to-1.

Illinois Democratic Gov. Pat Quinn, locked in a tight re-election battle with self-made billionaire Republican Bruce Rauner, has been arguing that Illinois, arguably the bluest of blue states, has turned the fiscal corner and is on its way back.

The recovery may be slower than Quinn wants it to be — but, he says, it is real.

It is an odd recovery, though, that makes more people dependent on government through food stamps than on a paycheck.

A stunning analysis by Michael Lucci, director of jobs and growth at the Illinois Policy Institute, shows that from January 2010, when job losses in Illinois bottomed out, to July of this year, the state gained only 240,000 jobs. Over the same period, it added 420,000 food stamp recipients.

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Bill and Hillary’s Awkward Iowa Adventure: Seth Mandel
Hillary’s “steak” is not well done: Cal Thomas
5 lies that have shaped the Obama presidency: Post

Our Whiny President: John Hinderaker
Maxine Waters: Shariah Law Is Compatible With U.S. Constitution : Sara Noble
Nutty Pelosi: We Never Treated Bush the Way the GOP Treats Obama: Scoop

Desperate Dem Breaks Out the Guns in New Ad, Runs From Obama: JWF
Cruz Hosts Late-Night Strategy Session With House Republicans on CR: Roll Call
NRSC Loves the Senate Conservatives Fund (Or Just Its Money): Erick Erickson

200,000 from Ebola countries have visas to enter U.S.: Paul Bedard
1997-2002: Mary Landrieu’s Strange Missing Years #LAsen: MinorityReport
Illegal Immigrants Slash Innocent People With Machete in Chicago: LibertyNews

Economy

Walker jobs plan includes drug-testing for those on welfare: M.D. Kittle
Whoops! HHS Screws Up Obamacare Collaboration: GotNews
Anti-gun Billionaires Now Targeting Kroger: NewAm

Scandal Central

Charge: Benghazi Boiler Room Operation Hid Documents: Keith Koffler
HHS Documents Detailing “High Risk” Security Problems with Obamacare Internet Site Uncovered: JW
State Department Official: We Destroyed Benghazi Documents To Protect Hillary Clinton: Treehouse

Benghazi Bombshell: Clinton State Dept. Official Reveals Criminal "Document Review": Sharyl Attkisson
Rand Paul on Hillary’s Iowa Trip: I’d Like to See Her Back in DC Testifying on Benghazi: GWP
Obama’s Greatest Legacy: Remaking the Federal Courts: Signal

Media

Why is the Brendan Tevlin murder so underreported?: LI
Obamas Go 'KaBoom' On 9/11: TR
6 Horribly Racist Comments from Obama Administration Officials: MediaTrackers (2013)

Obama Forced by Events to Reverse Course — and Disillusion Base: Michael Barone
Mid-September Polls Are Not The Last Word On Senate Races: RS
CBS, NBC Continue Fawning Over Hillary In Iowa; Refuse to Cover Scrubbed Benghazi Docs: MRC

The Real Sickness At The Heart Of American Culture: John Hawkins
Tin Soldiers and Urban Outfitters’ Coming: Ed Driscoll
Doctor’s Note Required to Use Chapstick in School, Yet Abortions Available to Minors: LifeNews

World

John Kerry’s Stupid Condescension: Peter Wehner
Obama vs. the generals: Marc A. Thiessen
'In next war, Hezbollah will try to seize Israeli territory': Hayom

Kingdom Come, Kingdom Go: Mark Steyn
Rotherham Child-sex Victim Confronts Muslim Abuser, Gets Arrested for Racism: Daniel Greenfield
UK: Jewish Children Barred From Major Retail Store, Told 'No Jews Allowed': JoshuaPundit

Bolton "Thunderstruck" by Obama's Comments on ISIS: Scoop
Bill Clinton Gets Caught On Camera Trashing Netanyahu At Harkin Steak Fry: Lid
Muslim Fast Food Worker Threatens Customer Who Ordered Bacon on Sandwich: RWN

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Comcast Says Anyone Using Private Browser May be A Criminal, Threatens To Kill Connections: Consumerist
Bound for robotic glory: Jennifer Chu
Insider Credit Card Breach Leads to $400,000 Saks Shopping Spree: Jeff Goldman

Cornucopia

Caption, Please: It Ain't Holy Water
The Left’s political zealotry increasingly resembles religious experience.: City Journal (2010)
As Part of Sharia Crackdown in Syria, ISIS Now Covering Up Goat Genitalia: JWF

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QOTD: "Hillary Clinton reportedly asked wealthy donors and Wall Street executives in the Hamptons how she could best discuss "income inequality" in a potential presidential campaign.

According to a report in The New York Times, Clinton "spent August in the Hamptons, a working vacation that gave her plenty of time to interact with donors," Washington lobbyists, hedge fund managers, and other one-percenters. She reportedly asked them "about how to tackle income inequality without alienating businesses or castigating the wealthy." --Tony Lee