Saturday, October 04, 2014

INTRIGUING: North Korean General Photographed While Smiling

Good catch by John Jay at Winter Soldier:

i don't care what anyone writes about all of this. it is all nonsense, unless you recognize one singular fact... the north korean general who is in charge of the north korean military, sat as a table with south korean political and no doubt intelligence people across from him, and smiled.

he smiled.


i am 66 years old. in my entire life, i have never seen a north korean military officer and/or official smile.

you can read a lot of things about all of this. none of it will talk about anything as significant as that smile. that smile sent chills up and down the spines of rooskie and chinese officials, everywhere: they know what it means.

As Jay notes, during the entire Korean confict, DPRK officials always sat motionless and never, ever, ever smiled.

So a public smile might indeed confirm rumors that the fat, inbred war criminal running North Korea may be incapacitated or -- better yet -- dead.


NEW COMIC TALE: The Plot Against the Middle Class

Another exclusive from our summer intern @BiffSpackle:



Hat tips: Kyle Smith and BadBlue News.

SERIOUS QUESTION: What Possible Reason Could Obama Have for Refusing to Ban Travel From Ebola-Ravaged Countries?

The most politically correct, "progressive" countries on Earth have banned travel from Liberia and other Ebola-plagued countries for the simple reasons of sanity and safety. It's a called a quarantine, a state of isolation used by humankind to secure safety from communicable diseases since the beginning of recorded history.

But history, logic, facts and reason find no home in this administration. State Departmet spokesman Jen Psaki insists that "screenings in West African airports and observation of passengers in the United States, will be sufficient to prevent the 'wide spread' of the virus."

But if, as the White House insists, that Ebola isn't a national security threat, why has it ordered 4,000 U.S. troops to deploy to West Africa?

In fact, the State Department has insisted not only that we allow travel from countries ravaged by the deadly disease, but that we also fly medical personnel to the U.S. from Africa, including many who have treated Ebola patients. Apparently using GoToMeeting is too practical for this administration to consider as an alternative to travel.

Is it just me or does it seem that though Obama wants disease to decimate the American citizenry?

This is a man who wants to change the character of the United States by remaking the voter base, primarily through deeply unpopular actions on illegal immigration. This is a man who sides with illegal aliens -- on a consistent basis -- over taxpayers, recently stating that "no force on earth can stop us" (with the word "us" referring to an audience of illegal aliens).


This is a man who has repeatedly threatened to use "a pen and a phone" to unlawfully rewrite federal immigration statutes to legalize millions of illegal aliens.

This is a man who has repeatedly stated -- and acted upon -- his intent to "fundamentally transform America."

One can only hope that, as the San Antonio Express-News reported earlier this week, that this insane remaking of America has dire consequences for the Democrat Party in 2014.


Hat tip: BadBlue News.

Interactive College Football Fandom Map

Neat graphic based upon Facebook 'likes':

The New York Times has mapped out college football fandom in the U.S. based on Facebook likes, and the result is outstanding.

This map seems to be more scientific in its procedure than Reddit’s “hate maps,” and also gives us a seemingly accurate, legitimate glimpse into college football fandom across the country. You can also search fandom by zip code.



Hat tip: BadBlue Sports.

Larwyn's Linx: Obama Stubbornly Refuses Ebola Travel Ban

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Nation

Obama Stubbornly Refuses Ebola Travel Ban: Jon Gabriel
Ebola: Clusterf–k – Stage One: Camp o' the Saints
2014 Dem Nightmare Come True: Obama puts his policies “on the ballot”: LI

Can We End the Crazy Diversity Visa Lottery Yet?: Michelle Malkin
CDC have not contacted second family in Ebola 'quarantine' for 24 hours: Daily Mail
Obama Boasts That He Rode to Event With Illegals in His Car: RWN

Obama to Illegal Invaders–No Force on Earth Can Stop “Us”: VDARE
DHS Search of Mobile Home Park Linked to Missing Liberian Muslims?: GotNews
Feds say mistakes on Dallas Ebola case shouldn’t cause worry: Dallas

A Loss of Confidence in American Institutions: Irwin M. Steltzer
Democratic Congresswoman Sent Letter Praising Holocaust Denier: Patrick Howley
New debate over health care subsidies: Lyle Denniston

Economy

315,000 drop out of the workforce, now 92.6 million!: FAM
Lower Unemployment, No Thanks to Democrats: Phil Kerpen
YEA! 315,000 drop out of workforce, reducing unemployment to only 5.9%!: Burning Platform

Scandal Central

Obama Puts Criminal Aliens on Street (Again): JW
Experts: All It Takes to Get Past the Airport's Temperature-Screening is a Lie and Some Ibuprofin: Ace
Head of CDC Insanely Gibbers That Containing Ebola in West Africa Will Increase Our Own Risk: MB

In 2010 Obama Nixed CDC Quarantine Regulations Aimed At Preventing An Ebola Outbreak: Surge
Before last two elections, unemployment dropped "unexpectedly": PunditPress
Rebranded ACORN entities said to engage in ObamaCare fraud: Fox

Climate & Energy

Climate Science Is Not Settled: Steven E. Koonin (former Obama administration undersecretary of Science)
With global conflict at the door, world leaders pursue futile climate efforts: Steve Goreham
Latest global warming lunacy: Fewer boys may be born due to climate change: Marathon

Media

Biden Beclowns Himself Again Right Before Libs Go Back to Talking About Sarah Palin's Stupidity: Doug Powers
MSNBC Points Finger at NRA For 'Making the Ebola Crisis Worse': Matthew Balan
American Sniper Trailer Has Chris Kyle Fans Giddy: Bob Owens

Watch: Mark Levin Just Completely Dismantled Obama Piece By Piece In A Matter Of Minutes: WJ
The Case for Panic: Matthew Continetti
Code Pink to exploit Ferguson “Weekend of Resistance” to bash Israel: LI

World

Obama Hitting ISIS Everywhere But Where it Matters: Michael Rubin
Jeh Johnson dodges question from Bret Baier about Khorasan Group being ‘core Al-Qaeda’: Scoop
Why Obama Refuses to support anti-Islamist, Secular Moslems: Manda Zand Ervin

ISIS Murders British Hostage Allan Henning: Jawa Report
Escape from North Korea: 'How I escaped horrors of life under Kim Jong-il': Telegraph
Dereliction of duty: Obama skipped nearly 60 percent of intelligence briefings: Allen West

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Why America's Not Ready For An Ebola Outbreak (In 1 Photo): ZH
JPMorgan Chase breach affected 83 million customers: CIO
Important Ebola Note: Ann Barnhardt

Cornucopia

Psaking Our Way to Health, Safety and Security. We are so Psaked: MOTUS
The NBA Has Discussed Eliminating Free Throws: Athlon
Kobe Bryant doesn't do LA traffic, takes flight home from practice instead: FoxSports

Image: Americans panic over Ebola
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QOTD: "...despite the heat of the battle around Kobane the United States and its Gulf allies did nothing to strike at Islamic State forces besieging the Kurds. It would be as if Franklin Delano Roosevelt declared that the United States would enter the war against Japan, and then proceeded to bomb Argentina. Given that President Obama has insisted that he approve every strike inside Syria, the only logical conclusion is that Obama does not want to protect Kobane, perhaps out of deference to Turkey, which is suspicious of any Kurdish entity.

This is shortsighted: Syrian Kurds may not be perfect, but they are largely secular, moderate, and tolerant. And despite their links to the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) which once waged an insurgency inside Turkey, those days are over: The Turks and PKK have been in peace talks and have abided by a ceasefire for over 18 months.

As the Islamic State advanced on the Iraqi Kurdish capital of Erbil, Obama scrambled to utilize airpower to stop the terrorist advance. That he will not do so in an analogous case inside Syria shows the complete lack of strategic coherence to U.S. actions. If military action is going to be effective, it should occur where the fighting is: not dozens of miles away." --Michael Rubin

Friday, October 03, 2014

GUN-RUNNING: Andrew Tahmooressi vs. Eric Holder

By Investor's Business Daily

Veteran Neglect: A Navy and Marine Corps veteran asks a House panel why an administration that says it leaves no one behind has let a soldier with post-traumatic stress disorder sit in a Mexican jail for six months.

From the famous "latte salute" to the Marine holding the presidential umbrella, President Obama's respect for our men in uniform has been open to question. Unless, of course, they desert their post in Afghanistan to try to join the Taliban, like Bowe Bergdahl. Then you have the parents to the White House and trade the Taliban general staff to obtain their release. After all, we leave no one behind.

Except, maybe, for Marine Sgt. Andrew Tahmooressi.

Jill Tahmooressi, Andrew's mother, has never been invited to stand by the president on the White House lawn. Nor has she ever received a phone call from President Obama, as she testified Wednesday before a House Foreign Affairs subcommittee. Presidential calls of support are reserved for basketball players like Jason Collins, whom Obama called to say "he was impressed by his courage," according to a White House spokesperson, for announcing that he was gay.

For our part, we are impressed by the courage of Sgt. Tahmooressi, who served two tours of duty fighting the Taliban in Afghanistan, and his mother. Her son fought the enemy instead of trying to join them. And for making a wrong turn into Mexico while carrying legal American firearms in his trunk as he journeyed to San Diego for treatment of his PTSD, he now sits in a Mexican jail ignored by the country he risked his life for.

FINALLY: Harvard Introduces "All Gender" Restroom

Society has been bound for far too long by traditional gender roles, if you rely on the "progressive thinkers" at Harvard.


The end is nigh.


Hat tip: BadBlue News.

MARYLAND: Brave Female County Commissioner Runs a Write-In Campaign Against Corrupt Unions

By James Simpson

Robin Bartlett Frazier's story personifies the threats we face nationwide by the corrupting influence of public employee unions. For the last four years Robin has been District 1 Commissioner in Carroll County, MD. You may have seen her on the Megyn Kelly show when she was interviewed after saying in a public meeting that she would be arrested if necessary but would not stop praying before meetings and invoking the name of Jesus Christ. The video is posted here.

She and fellow Commissioner Richard Rothschild were pretty much the only voices on the five member board for spending restraint, cutting taxes, reducing government, protecting property rights and protecting freedom. The power of their arguments often won the day despite the fact that two of the other three commissioners were hardcore RINOs and the third went whichever way the wind was blowing.

She and Commissioner Rothschild spearheaded the effort that turned Carroll County into the first “Second Amendment Sanctuary County” following the state legislature passing Governor O’Malley’s unconstitutional gun control bill last year. There is a stunning video on her website where a full house cheers wildly when she talks about it. Really inspiring talk. The three hapless RINOs on the Board saw the writing on the wall and fell in behind, so it was a unanimous decision in favor of the 2nd Amendment. Her leadership has also prevented the County planning board from adopting many regulations that threaten private property.

DON'T WANT THOUSANDS OF ILLEGAL ALIENS SHIPPED IN SECRET TO YOUR TOWN? Tough.

By Kathryn Watson

One small Virginia town is the target of a racial discrimination complaint from a fair housing group and a shuttered college, the potential beneficiary of a plan to house minors who crossed the U.S.-Mexico border illegally.

Word broke this summer the federal government — at the original suggestion of Virginia Secretary of Health and Human Resources Bill Hazel and Secretary of Education Anne Holton — was pursuing a contract with the closed St. Paul’s College in Lawrenceville to house what could be hundreds of immigrants.

Locals made it clear they had serious concerns, and about 1,000 people showed up at a June 19 town hall meeting in the Southern Virginia town of 1,300 to protest.

The federal government consequently backed down and looked elsewhere to house the teens and younger children.

Now, the private St. Paul’s College — which would have received a much-needed $160,000 a month to house the youth — and the fair-housing group Home Opportunities Made Equal of Virginia, are filing a housing discrimination complaint with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development against the town of Lawrenceville, surrounding Brunswick County and Brunswick County’s elected Sheriff Brian Roberts.

HOME and St. Paul’s College allege the county, town and sheriff “orchestrated and implemented a plan to block the deal,” the complaint obtained by Watchdog.org reads. “Purported concerns by these individuals are grounded in false stereotypes about Latinos and reflect discrimination based on race, color, and/or national origin.”

The complaint argues that anyone in the country — not just legal residents — is protected by law.

Larwyn's Linx: Flashback April 2010: Obama Kills Bush Quarantine Rules

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Nation

Flashback April 2010: Obama Kills Bush Quarantine Rules: S&L
Ebola? ISIS? Secret Service in Disarray? Time for an Obama Fundraiser!: JWF
Obama: My 'Policies Are On the Ballot. Every Single One of Them.': Daniel Halper

Sen. Obama in 2008 sent ambassador to Iran to assure them he's an ally: GWP
Obama Attacks Fox News for Exposing Obamacare's Failures, Again: Scoop
Ebola and Enterovirus: More American Blood On Obama’s Hands: CHQ

Principles for American Renewal: Reince Priebus
Wrong ideological choice has cost Obama dearly: Jonah Goldberg
NRO: Moms Demand SWATting: Bob Owens

RINO Abuse of the 80% Rule…and other purity dilemmas: Jen Kuznicki
Jerry Moran’s Morons: Erick Erickson
It Looks Like a GOP Wave; the Question is How Far it Goes: Michael Barone

Economy

Bend Over and Smile America......The Next Big Bailout.: Diogenes
Wyoming Elementary School Bans Kids From Speaking English: WZ
Are we better off today than back in October 2008?: James Pethokoukis

Scandal Central

IRS Cover-Up: IG Report Exposes IRS Lying to American Public: Matthew Clark
Obama's Limitless Government: Daniel Henninger
State Dept's Psaki on Obama's Intel Briefings: "...He Receives Those Whenever He Can": RCP

In just two weeks, Obama proven completely wrong about Ebola: Byron York
Dallas Paramedic: Bull crap We Weren’t Contacted After Working in Ebola Exposed Ambulance: Breitbart
Obama Plan to Stop Ebola: Hand Out Flyers to People Coming From Ebola-Ravaged Countries: MB

Media

Obama 2005: The Avian Flu Is Very Dangerous and It's Coming to America: Ace
Reporter Destroys Dem Sen. Mark Udall’s Claim Obama Hates to See Him Coming: FreeLight
Midterms: PBS Devotes Six Minutes to Hyping GOP Divisions: MRC

Megyn Kelly Shreds Jen Psake over Obama abandoning Iraq: Scoop
Mark Levin Calls for Commission on ISIS Failures: Breitbart
Winchester Lands $50 Million Ammunition Contract With DHS: Herschel Smith

SEIU ‘Organizer’ Busted For Possession Of Crack Cocaine, Other Drugs: LUR
PBS Promotes Obama Claim Economy Better ‘By Every ... Measure’; Lou Dobbs Shreds: Curtis Houck
NBC Cameraman Diagnosed with Ebola: Glob

World

Deliberate? Liberia hopes first documented US case will “mobilize more global resources”: Treehouse
ISLAM: ISIS Beheads 3 Female Kurdish Fighters And Then Parade Their Heads Online: Clash
Robert Spencer interviews former member of Oklahoma beheader’s mosque: Pamela Geller

Dozens Of Americans Openly Support ISIS And Follow The Same Radical Michigan Cleric: WZ
State Dept. Blames Assad Regime for ISIS – Which Wants to Destroy It: Lauretta Brown
Islamic State seizes Hit, assaults Iraqi military headquarters in Anbar: LWJ

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Doctor dons Ebola protection suit to protest ‘asleep at the wheel’ CDC: AJC
Firechat Enables the Crowd to Become the Internet –Bypassing Central Powers: Jeremiah Owyang
Finally, the flying car may have landed: Guardian

Cornucopia

After A Kidnapping and Murder In Arkansas, Realtors Nationwide Turn To Concealed Carry: Bob Owens
Al Haymon's ultimate power move could take big-time boxing back to network TV: Scott Christ
Obama's Speeches...when the last line tells it all!: Norman Hooben

Image: Islamic State overruns Iraqi military base in Anbar
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QOTD: "BRIAN KILMEADE: About the president missing over 50% of his intelligence briefings. Why would he choose to do that in a time in the world when it is so full of terrorist activity?

JEN PSAKI, STATE DEPT: Well, I have no validation of those statistics. I have to say, I’ve worked for the president for 6 years, there’s a range of ways that you can get your intelligence briefings on the road, in the White House and I know that he receives those on a daily basis whenever he can." --RCP

Thursday, October 02, 2014

FACT BOMB: Hamas is ISIS and ISIS is Hamas

A speech by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the United Nations


I come here from Jerusalem to speak on behalf of my people, the people of Israel. I've come here to speak about the dangers we face and about the opportunities we see. I've come here to expose the brazen lies spoken from this very podium against my country and against the brave soldiers who defend it.

Ladies and gentlemen, the people of Israel pray for peace. But our hopes and the world's hope for peace are in danger. Because everywhere we look, militant Islam is on the march. It's not militants. It's not Islam. It's militant Islam.

Typically, its first victims are other Muslims, but it spares no one. Christians, Jews, Yazidis, Kurds -- no creed, no faith, no ethnic group is beyond its sights. And it's rapidly spreading in every part of the world.

You know the famous American saying: "All politics is local?" For the militant Islamists, "All politics is global." Because their ultimate goal is to dominate the world.

Now, that threat might seem exaggerated to some, since it starts out small, like a cancer that attacks a particular part of the body. But left unchecked, the cancer grows, metastasizing over wider and wider areas. To protect the peace and security of the world, we must remove this cancer before it's too late.

Last week, many of the countries represented here rightly applauded President Obama for leading the effort to confront ISIS. And yet weeks before, some of these same countries, the same countries that now support confronting ISIS, opposed Israel for confronting Hamas. They evidently don't understand that ISIS and Hamas are branches of the same poisonous tree.

28 words that Democrats really wish President Obama didn't say today

By Masked Avenger


Today, Obama said 28 words that 2014 Dems from coast to coast wish he didn’t say, “I am not on the ballot this fall. Michelle’s pretty happy about that. But make no mistake: these policies are on the ballot. Every single one of them." So much for all those Dems trying to convince voters they aren’t Obama’s rubberstamps.

President Obama was at Northwestern University on Thursday to deliver an economic speech that, he and his team hoped, would lay out the case for why the public is better off today than they were six years ago -- even if they didn't feel it in their everday lives. Instead, Obama just gave every Republican ad-maker in the country more fodder for negative ads linking Democratic candidates to him.

Here are the four sentences that will draw all of the attention (they come more than two thirds of the way through the speech): "I am not on the ballot this fall. Michelle’s pretty happy about that. But make no mistake: these policies are on the ballot. Every single one of them." Boil those four sentences down even further and here's what you are left with: "Make no mistake: these policies are on the ballot. Every single one of them."

You can imagine Sen. Mark Pryor of Arkansas or Sen. Kay Hagan in North Carolina or Alison Lundergan Grimes in Kentucky grimacing when they heard those 28 words. That trio has spent much of the campaign insisting that this election is NOT about Barack Obama, that it is instead about a choice between themselves and their opponents.

Top 5 Rejected Reality TV Shows for Conservatives

Don't know about you guys, but I'd love to see any one of these.

Survivor: Jihad Edition - Comedian Bob Saget hosts an uproarious glimpse into the life of "martyrs" as 16 budding Jihadists vie to be the sole survivor. Each week, a series of difficult physical and mental challenges weed out a "loser", who must then perform a suicide bombing mission against soft targets in Hollywood. The season finale promises to be a ratings bonanza as the two finalists, armed only with machetes, fight to the death with the winner receiving $72 cash and Eternal Consciousness.

Big Border - Watch the hilarious hijinx unfold as we fill a 4-bedroom home in El Paso, Texas with 30 randomly selected illegal aliens and then lock the doors. Which ones belong to MS-13 vs. the Mexican Mafia? Which suffer from Ebola or TB? Which are drug- or human-smugglers? And which ones are just "doing it for love"? The last man or woman standing gets a Green Card courtesy of the Obama administration.

Iron Chef: White House - Michelle Obama's lovingly maintained garden on the south lawn of the White House is the centerpiece of this special edition of Iron Chef. Michelle and her daughters compete to create edible concoctions from the various Luffa-textured vegetables growing in the renowned D.C. soil. The first person to have an entire three-course meal consumed by any of the tasting panel -- three homeless individuals plucked from one of the capital's many "Obamaville" tent cities -- wins a complete set of 1959 Cory Flavorseal® Cookware.

Larwyn's Linx: Radical Out, Radical In

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Nation

Radical Out, Radical In: Matthew Vadum
Pesky questions about those AWOL Afghan soldiers: Michelle Malkin
Now Is Not the Time to Turn the Country Around: Frank J. Fleming

Spreading the Blame Around: Cal Thomas
Ebola? Two Liberian Muslims Went Missing in Virginia: GotNews
HAMAS ON CAMPUS – US Collegiate Terrorist Supporters Exposed: Jim Hoft

Senate Forecast: October 1st, 2014: AOSHQ
Elbert Guillory torches Mary Landrieu: Scoop
Elizabeth Warren: Money talks and populist bullcrap walks: RS

Days of Future Past: Jonah Goldberg
With ISIS Threatening US, DOJ to Restrict Religious Profiling: RWN
Oklahoma Mosque Insider Reveals "Secret" Radical Teachings: Norvell Rose

Economy

Lessons from a Catastrophe: Stephen Eide
Obamacare is Working: MagicValley
Bill Gates' 'Interference in Catholic Education’: Cardinal Newman

Scandal Central

The White House Won't Meet With Marines But They Will Meet With Beyonce!: Clash
Barack Obama Bans Flights to Israel, But Not Flights From Ebola Affected Countries: Erick Erickson
Secret Service Director Julia Pierson resigns amid recent White House security breach: Chron

Climate & Energy

It blows and sucks: Proliferation of wind farms draws backlash: Marathon
Happy Anniversary: 1 October Marks 18 Years Without Global Warming Trend: WUWT
Latest “Climate Change” Scare: Walruses Congregating In Large Numbers: RWN

Media

Devastating Video: Free at Last of Mary Landrieu?: LI
FCC Considering Banning Redskins Name As ‘Obscenity’: S&L
The New York Times is eliminating approximately 100 newsroom positions: Gawker

"...Heads Buried Deep In The Sand...": NukingPolitics
‘SNL won’t be able to spoof this': Guess what Obama learned about from the news: Twitchy
Three words. Tetris. The movie.: Hot Air

World

Obama’s Blame Game Underscores U.S. Intelligence Problem: Rachel Marsden
Obama Soils Himself At The UN With Weakness, Appeasement And Israel Bashing: JoshuaPundit
OK Jihadist Who Beheaded Colleen Hufford Was Not Fired; Ritual Slaughter was “Premeditated” : Geller

Our Double Standard on Civilian Casualties: IPT
U.S. Soldiers in “War” with ISIS Not Eligible for Medals?: Matthew Clark
ISIS Renting Villas in Istanbul: Aydinilik Daily

One First World Country Barred Travel To & From Ebola Stricken Areas: GotNews
Ingraham: 'Why Did Obama Let Ebola Virus Into The United States?': Breitbart
CIA Asks to Destroy Email of Non-Senior Agency Officials: Steven Aftergood

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Ebola's warning for an unprepared America: WSJ
Suit Tests Cars2Go Immunity After Car Crash Kills Bar-Hopping Young Woman: DBR
Iceland's Bárðarbungu volcano - drone photography: Synthstuff

Cornucopia

I was told attendance was optional. And that we’d be marked on the curve.: MOTUS
Building The Hoover Dam: All Day
The Mountain From ‘Game Of Thrones’ Crowned Strongest Man In Europe: NESN

Image: Elbert Guillory torches Mary Landrieu
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QOTD: "A Colorado insider said Democratic Gov. John Hickenlooper has done “everything you could possibly do wrong” in his campaign against his Republican challenger Bob Beauprez, MSNBC’s Kasie Hunt reported.

“He’s angered some Democrats over gun control; he’s also gotten into some trouble over the death penalty,” Hunt said. “He’s given a reprieve to a criminal out there, that’s gotten a lot of negative attention from Republicans.”

Hickenlooper and Beauprez squared off in a televised debate Wednesday night, during which Hickenlooper defended his reprieve of convicted murderer Nathan Dunlap, who shot and killed four people at an Aurora, Colo., Chuck E. Cheese’s in 1993." --Washington Free Beacon Staff

Wednesday, October 01, 2014

THIS CHANGES EVERYTHING: What the Second Confirmed Case of Ebola in the U.S. Means

By Michael Snyder

The day that many of us hoped would never arrive is here. Ebola has come to America. Air travel between the United States and the countries of Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone should have been totally shut down except for absolutely essential personnel but it wasn't. And now our nation may end up paying a great price as a result. On Tuesday, the CDC announced that there is a confirmed case of Ebola in Dallas, Texas. We know that this individual is a male and that he traveled by air from Liberia to Texas on September 19th. At that time, he was not exhibiting any symptoms. It is being reported that he started developing symptoms on September 24th and that he sought out treatment two days later. Incredibly, he was turned away and sent home. Then on September 28th he went to a hospital again and this time he was admitted for treatment. That means that he could have potentially been spreading Ebola to others for at least four full days before finally getting treated at a hospital. Now he is in intensive care at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas. The CDC says that "there is no doubt that we will stop it here" and is promising that "it will not spread widely in this country". The CDC better be right on both counts.

TRIVIAL PURSUIT FOR LEFTISTS: Didja Know Global Warming Causes Shifts in the Earth's Gravity AND Islamist Terror Attacks?

By Investor's Business Daily

Climate Change: A startling claim has been made by the European Space Agency. It says that loss of ice in the West Antarctic has caused a shift in Earth's gravity. So are polar bears about to drown or fly off into space?

To the list of things caused by global warming, including rising seas, fiercer and more frequent storms, forest fires and widespread disease, we can now add a weakening of gravity due to melting ice.

Based on measurements from a European Space Agency's satellite, researchers have said that so much ice loss has occurred in West Antarctica that there's been a decline in Earth's gravitational pull in the region.

Although the researchers assure us the gravity's loss from November 2009 to June 2012 is too small to actually cause things to levitate into space, it's cited as one more example of the impact of so-called man-made global warming.

Climate-change zealots seem obsessed with the West Antarctic ice sheet, which holds less than 10% of the continent's ice . The 2004 science fiction movie "The Day After Tomorrow" opened with a portion of the sheet shearing off as a prelude to planetary doom.

But on Sept. 25, 2013, the Washington Post reported that Antarctic sea ice had grown to a record extent for the second straight year — some 19.51 million square kilometers. In June of this year, the Post noted a possible new record ice extent is "part of a puzzling 33-year trend in increasing sea ice around Antarctica."

DISCOVERED: President Obama's Secret Strategy Playbook!

By Nuking Politics

Confronted now with the undeniable fact that his response to ISIS actions is doomed, Mr. Obama chooses, once again, to blame others. This time it's the intelligence community, whose daily briefings haven't explained the problem adequately, you see. The problem with this is that over the last 6 years, Mr. Obama has declined to attend nearly 60% of these briefings, being engaged in more pressing matters such as partisan politics and golf.

These briefings have provided a consistently accurate assessment of the situation in the Middle East, and of terrorist activity throughout the world. This information would have been used by a Commander In Chief worthy of the title to guide his decision process. Mr. Obama displays an unsettling lack of concern for the threat posed by Islamic extremists to this country. Instead, what passes for planning is guided by political expedience. "Al Qaeda is on the run"…"ISIS is a JV team"..These are not indicators that inform policy making, these are slogans intended to prevent his "base" from waking up.

In Mr. Obama's mind, reality is a cruel beast that he can safely ignore as long as liberals are willing to blindly go along with it. If he spent half as much time trying to do the right thing as he spends making excuses and blaming others…but, no. He's gotten past liberals for six years doing it this way, so why change now?

Death by Political Correctness

By Lawrence Sellin

Barack Obama said "ISIL is not Islamic. No religion condones the killing if innocents."

That definition includes: al- Qa'ida, Abu Sayyaf, Gama'a al-Islamiyya, Hamas, Hizballah, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, Jaish-e-Mohammed, Lashkar-e Tayyiba, Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, Asbat al-Ansar, al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb, Jemaah Islamiya, Ansar al-Islam, Libyan Islamic Fighting Group, al-Shabaab, al-Qa'ida in the Arabian Peninsula, Boko Haram, al-Nusrah Front, Ansar al-Shari'a in Benghazi, Ansar al-Shari'a in Darnah, Ansar al-Shari'a in Tunisia - Well, you get the idea.

As noted recently by Diana West, Americans continue to be perplexed as to how the Obama Administration and the media keep repeating the politically correct propaganda that Islam has nothing to do with jihad. Such widespread, politics- and mass-media-driven brainwashing is not new.

Larwyn's Linx: Obama Has Missed 60% Of His Daily Intelligence Briefings

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Nation

Obama Has Missed 60% Of His Daily Intelligence Briefings: S&L
Our Lying President and His Lying Press Secretary: Peter Wehner
Armed contractor with criminal record was on elevator with Obama in Atlanta: Stripes

Under the ACA, the Doctor Won’t See You Now: AmInt
Who Gets Priority Care Under The Obamacare Medicaid Expansion?: TR
Noticed that the GOP has given up battling against Obamacare?: Erick Erickson

Obama's Mixed Messages on War: Jonah Goldberg
Obama's Narcissism a Threat to National Security: David Limbaugh
Who Are You Calling the Party of the Rich?: Mona Charen

Tea Party revolt imperils Kansas: Alexandra Jaffe
Surprise: After Waves of Illegal Aliene, Tuberculosis Hits El Paso: Katie Pavlich
CDC Confirms First Ebola Case Diagnosed In US, In Dallas Hospital: ZH

Economy

Even More IRS Employees Caught Stealing Taxpayers' Identities: J.D. Tuccille
Stage Production for 18-Minute Obama Speech Cost $94,360: Elizabeth Harrington
Pentagon Wastes More Than $100M On Unnecessary Vehicles a Year: WFB

Scandal Central

Roland Burris (D) tried to cash in* while still a US Senator.: Moe Lane
Court: Obama Admin Can’t Hide Investigation into Former White House Adviser: WFB
Saying ‘no’ to undocumented kids lands town in hot water: Kathryn Watson

Media

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Obama and The Bell Curve: Steve Sailer
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Reporter Barred From Reporting at Michelle Event: Keith Koffler
Federal Judge Rules Residents Of Detroit Must (Gasp!) Pay Their Water Bills...: WZ
Author Stephen King: ‘Under Circumstances Obama has done Terrific Job”: MRC

World

Allen West rips Obama for blaming intelligence on his leadership failure: Scoop
'ISIS and Hamas -- branches of the same poisonous tree': Hayom
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Coming to America: MOTUS
ISLAM IN THE NFL: CHIEFS Safety Penalized For Muslim Prayer In End Zone: Clash
Turkey? Antisemitic? Who, Me?: Burak Bekdil

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Solving the offline issue with low-code tools: Guy Wright
There’s Really No Way To Screen for Ebola at Airports: DefenseOne
Ebola: EVERYONE SETTLE DOWN: Ace

Cornucopia

Aaron Rodgers Says that He Does Pre-Snap Smoking Gesture in Tribute to Jay Cutler: Big Lead
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QOTD: "...Obama's admission on "60 Minutes" was delightful. From the Man Who Said "There is no military solution in Iraq and there never was” came this: "That's why it's so important for us to recognize part of the solution here is gonna be military. We just have to push them back, and shrink their space, and go after their command and control, and their capacity, and their weapons, and their fueling, and cut off their financing, and work to eliminate the flow of foreign fighters."

In other words, do exactly what George Walker Bush did." --Don Surber

Tuesday, September 30, 2014

Desperately Seeking a Weaker United States

By Alan Caruba


The news that the U.S. Air Force, joined at long last by some of the Arab nations most threatened by the Islamic State (ISIS), began bombing their headquarters and military sites in Syria was long overdue, but welcome. It took time because Obama had originally dismissed ISIS as a threat.

It no doubt took time to get Jordan, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, and Saudi Arabia to team with the U.S., but missing from the action is Turkey that borders Syria and Egypt. Turkey has become increasingly Islamist, but appears determined to stay out of the war with ISIS. By initially refusing to provide arms to Egypt, Obama drove it into the waiting arms of the Soviet Union, but has since reversed its policy and is seeking to woe Egypt back as an ally.

In a September 23rd column, Bret Stephens of The Wall Street Journal opined that “…every President gets things wrong. Mr. Obama is not exceptional in those respects. Where he stands apart is in his combination of ideological rigidity and fathomless ignorance. What does the President know? The simple answer, and maybe the truest, is: not a lot.”

Obama’s combination of ideology and ignorance is analyzed in an extraordinary book by Douglas E. Schoen and Melik Kaylan, “The Russia-China Axis: The New Cold War and America’s Crisis of Leadership.” It provides a fact-filled look at his failure to provide leadership to a nation that other nations have looked to for leadership and protection since the end of World War II.

Indeed, in addition to the ISIS videos of Americans and others being beheaded, it has taken the outspoken criticism of retired U.S. generals to mobilize public opinion to support a return to the battlefield. It is a battlefield that Obama has fled at every opportunity, pulling out all of our troops from Iraq and planning to do the same in Afghanistan.