Tuesday, October 28, 2014

Say, how are Mr. Obama's "trickle up" policies working out for the poor and the middle class?

Mr. Obama and his sycophants have long pilloried "trickle down economics" (which only means people get to keep more of their money to save, invest and buy things -- as opposed to the government forcibly taking it, laundering it through their vast federal bureaucracy, and then redistributing it to favored constituencies).

Mr. Obama calls the latter approach "trickle sideways economics."

Others more properly refer to it as "trickle-up poverty."

The UK's Telegraph headlines their recap of the post-2009 malaise in plaintive terms: "Life under Obama sucks... and these numbers prove it" and has a chart that illustrates the point.

Quality of life is poor. Starting at the very bottom, poverty levels point to stagnation. In January 2009 the poverty rate stood at 14.3 per cent. It rose to around 15 per cent and then fell back down in 2013 to 14.5 per cent (but the actual number of those in poverty remained the same from 2012). Things are worse for black Americans, whose poverty rate has risen in that same period from 25.8 per cent to 27.2 per cent...


...Not everyone’s doing badly, of course. The richest 10 per cent are the only group – the only group! – who saw their median income rise from 2010-2013. As the Washington Times points out, that’s the same period in which Barack Robin Hood Obama won re-election painting the GOP as corporate vampires. The richest people have seen their share of taxes decline quite dramatically under this “socialist” president – while, interestingly, the share of federal income tax paid by the middle class has, according to the IRS, slightly risen...

...In short, the middle class has good reasons to be frustrated with Obamanomics – especially given that the President has so often claimed to be on the side of the little man but has largely operated to the benefit of the super rich. In fact, I wouldn’t blame Mitt Romney if he secretly cast a ballot for Obama in 2012.

It's gotten so bad that Joe Biden stated that -- thanks to Obama's policies -- the "Middle Class has been left behind."

As Deroy Murdock recently observed, black Americans are worse off under Obama.

One hopes that more and more of the beleaguered urban poor emulate Chicago activists Paul McKinley, Mark Carter, Joseph Watkins and Harold “Noonie” Ward to exact some political revenge against their oppressors.


Hat tip: BadBlue News.

Larwyn's Linx: If It Damages America, It’s Good for Democrats

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Nation

If It Damages America, It’s Good for Democrats: Dennis Prager
How Barack Obama and Jerry Brown Sentenced Two Police Officers to Death: CHQ
Ex-CBS Whistleblower says Obama agency bugged her PC: Lid

California Forces Churches to Fund Abortions: Chuck Norris
Union Using Images of Battered Women to Defeat Republicans: MenRec
Back to Court: SAF Sues Over Restrictive Chicago CCW Rules: EBGC

Do-Gooder May Have Spread Ebola: MB
U.S. Ebola Commander Quarantined by Pentagon: WFB
Ebola nurse: far left Obama supporter with ties to CDC: GWP

Care About Israel? Vote Republican: Rich Baehr
Vulnerable Senate Democrats Almost Always Voted With Obama: Roll Call
House GOP still hasn’t filed lawsuit challenging Obama actions: Hot Air

Economy

What Hillary meant to say: "If you like your job, you can keep your job": WyBlog
‘Too late, Grandma': Hillary Clinton flip-flops, now says that entrepreneurs create jobs: Twitchy
“The hell with his minimum wage raise, we don’t have any jobs”: LI

Scandal Central

Whatever happened to the IRS targeting scandal investigation?: LI
CONFIRMED: CA Murderer a Known Illegal Alien, Cartel Member, Drug Dealer, Deported Twice: Treehouse
Ex-CBS reporter: Government agency bugged my computer: Post

National effort to scare churches into silence ahead of elections; ominous IRS warning: BPR
Voting Machines in Maryland Switch Republican Votes to Democrat: MB
Death threats: Chicago Black pastor forced to hide family after supporting GOP for governor: Scoop

Climate & Energy

Climate Doomsday draws near: just 37 days to go: WUWT
Fracking Boom Has OPEC Worried as Oil Prices Fall: RS
Post-Islamic Terrorist Attacks, CBC Wonders If Islam Is The “Green Religion”: Cove

Media

Democrat Media, Government: Obama Bumbling on Ebola is "Irrational Panic and Fear": Ace
Let Him Who Has No Metaphor Sell His Robe And Buy One: Herschel Smith
‘#YesWeDid make Jimmy Carter look competent’: UniteBlue hashtag hijacked by reality: Twitchy

Chicago Activists Unchained, Destroy Black Leadership: RebelPundit
Elbert Guillory DESTROYS Kay Hagan in epic new ad: Scoop
Random Thoughts: Thomas Sowell

The Love Affair With Obamacare: Erick Erickson
Rush Limbaugh: 'We Need to Quarantine Chris Christie': Breitbart
Devastating Ad Links Charlie Crist’s Creepy Strip Club Donations To Sex Trafficking: Jerome Hudson

World

The Joint Chiefs Still Get It: This Ain't Hell
Iran's Pragmatic Camp: Exploit Obama's Weakness To Attain Nuclear Concessions: MEMRI
Poster girl for Kurdish freedom fighters in Kobane is 'captured and beheaded by ISIS killers': DailyMail

Hollywood & Terror-funding Qatar: Trevor Loudon
Re-setting the doomsday clock ~ Are we just a half minute before midnight?: Norman Hoooben
Five-Year-Old Boy Hospitalized in NYC With Ebola Symptoms, Just Returned From Guinea: JWF

Help for Middle East Christians: Cal Thomas
Living in Muslim Countries or Muslim-Administrated Places, No "Picnic": Shiloh Musings
In France, Hordes of Clowns Are Ravaging the Countryside and Attacking Citizens: Ace

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

TwC vs. FIOS: Kurt Koller
Futuristic Medical Implant Powered by Sound Waves: Singularity Hub
Windowless Planes Could Take To The Skies In 10 Years: BuzzFeed

Cornucopia

Watch One of the Greatest Political Speeches in US History: Signal
Cuomo to Possible Ebola Victims: Now That You've Got Some Time, Read My Book: MenRec
I don’t think this is what Ronnie meant by our “rendezvous with destiny.”: MOTUS

Image: Climate Doomsday draws near: just 37 days to go
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QOTD: "The left's worst crime in the Middle East is its craven love for tyranny, for grand empires built on race and religion, over the national and political rights of the minority. These Apartheid states are all they care about. Their greatest effort has been set not on resolving the stateless problems of the Kurdish minority, on the national borders of Armenia or ending the Turkish occupation and settlement of Cyprus-- but on adding yet another Arab-Muslim state to the region.

Palestine, the cynical project of Pan-Arabist and Pan-Islamist thugs, is the great obsession of the left. Because if there's one thing that the Middle East doesn't have enough of, it's totalitarian regimes built on Arab and Islamist identity. And the one thing it has too much of is democratic state with a non-Arab and non-Muslim majority. And that one thing is what they are committed to destroying." --Daniel Greenfield

Monday, October 27, 2014

GRAPHIC: Your Jealous Dog

Visualization blogger Robert Kosara points us to this interesting graphic that he labels an example of "data journalism".

A...recent example was on the behavior of dogs in different settings. The data again came from a paper, which even included almost the exact same chart that was used in the NY Times piece. But only almost. The key differences are what turn a boring bar chart into an interesting, readable one: color, spacing, and some cute drawings. Enough for Kaiser Fung to use it as an argument that visualization can be worth paying for.


Here's the actual graphic:



Hat tip: BadBlue Tech News.

Dead Sacramento Police Officers, Rampant Drug Smuggling, And 37,000 Criminal Aliens Who Were Freed Last Year

By Sara Noble

Drug smugglers are welcomed into the United States. We can assume nothing else. If they weren’t, they wouldn’t be allowed to pour across our borders; they wouldn’t be released willy nilly from prisons each year without any accountability: and we wouldn’t have a dormant deportation policy.

If we at least attempted to stop illegal immigration, a 17-year old illegal alien might not have been free to rape and murder his 5-year old cousin. An off-duty officer might be alive today. There is a family of four who might be living their lives as they should be.

There are two law enforcement officers who might not have died this past Friday if we at least deported narcotics traffickers.

Until they had no choice, the newspapers wouldn’t even release the fact that the alleged murderer of the officers was an illegal alien.

The man suspected of killing two deputies and wounding another during a shooting rampage in Northern California was deported twice to Mexico and had a drug conviction, federal authorities said Saturday.

Suspected cop killer Marcelo Marquez aka Luis Enrique Monroy-Bracamonte is an illegal alien criminal who was arrested and deported in 1997 and 2001. He has been living in Salt Lake City with an arrest record for possession of narcotics.

Once illegal aliens get here, there is almost no internal enforcement of our immigration laws.

On Friday, the alleged drug dealing murderer, killed two Sacramento County sheriff’s deputies while he and his wife were on a crime spree.

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Larwyn's Linx: You’re not paranoid, Dems actually do want FEC to silence internet speech

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Nation

You’re not paranoid, Dems actually do want FEC to silence internet speech: LI
Obama’s post-election plans for a secret radical agenda: Paul Sperry
Clinton’s Pardons for Pedophiles: Daniel Greenfield

The Last Week: Erick Erickson
The Wild Variations: Erick Erickson
Obola asks two 2016 contenders to nix popular Ebola quarantines: Moe Lane

Crimes of Exactly What?: Victor Davis Hanson
Good Reason for Mary Landrieu to Be Concerned: Star Parker
It’s Official: War on Women Is Now a Laugh Line: MB

Eyes on the 31 Attorneys General Races : John Fund
The Race Card Cometh Yet Again (Again): Derek Hunter
Polls: Momentum swinging to Republicans: Kyle Balluck

Economy

CalPERS’ $100K club increases 900%: Cal Watchdog
The GOP has an urban problem, and Rick Baker is here to help. : Kevin D. Williamson
Common Core Wears Many Hats: Little Tboca

Scandal Central

The Fast and Furious Cover-up, Hiding In Plain Sight: Power Line
ObamaCare Passed Due to Non-citizens Voting Illegally for Comedian Franken: VDARE
Illegal Aliens Voting Probably Already Tipped One Election for Democrats: RWN

IRS Jumps On Forfeiture Bandwagon, Seizing Your Money With No Proof Of Crime: Advice Goddess
Andrew Cuomo’s “Morelandgate” Scandal: Merely Interesting or Actually Important?: Richard Brodsky
Sharyl Attkisson Questions CDC Over Ebola-Bioterror Safeguards: No Answers Forthcoming: GWP

Climate & Energy

Ron Klain and Solyndra : Andrew C. McCarthy
Obama's War on U.S. Energy: Alan Caruba
11 Scary Movies That Are Secretly About “Climate Change”: Cove

Media

EXCLUSIVE: I’ve Been To Ferguson And The Media Is Misrepresenting The City: Holly Fisher
Claim: Darren Wilson announcement coming after election day: FAM
Liberal NY Times Readers Terrified of Armed Black Folk: GayPatriot

Ex-CBS reporter’s book reveals how liberal media protects Obama: Post
The Scene from 'Fury' That Drives Progs Into the Arms of Their Metrosexual Mommies: AmPower
‘How on EARTH is that FUNNY?!’ – Howard Kurtz calls on Carol Costello to apologize ON AIR: Scoop

Justice Department claims black and Hispanic voters are dumb and unsophisticated: RS
CNN Asks La Raza If New Voter ID Laws Are 'War on Minority Voters': MRC
Black Dem. Professor Says Reagan Did More for Black Education Than Obama: CI

World

The Biggest Lie : Victor Davis Hanson
Report: Islamic State Used Chlorine Gas Against Iraqi Security Forces: Jennifer Lawrence
American journalist working for Iranian TV killed days after exposing Turkey’s support for ISIS: Creeping

The Left's Worst Crime in the Middle East: Sultan Knish
Canada gunman prepared video confirming it was planned jihad attack: Robert Spencer
As number of youths eligible to serve shrinks to 3 in 10, Army adapts recruiting strategy: Stripes

Record police presence in Jerusalem as tensions soar: Hayom
Holy War Erupts in Germany: Sharia Unveiled
Protesters burn city hall as unrest spreads over missing students in Mexico: Manuel Rueda

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Researcher files lawsuit over anonymous PubPeer comments: Kelly Servick, ScienceMag
Open source has won -- let the infighting begin!: Matt Asay
255 Terabits/s: Researchers demonstrate record data transmission over new type of fiber: Phys.Org

Cornucopia

Parking for Liberal Voters Only in Milwaukee: MB
Saint Louis Police: “A Safety Message For Civilians”: Treehouse
Costumes to make zombie Einstein proud: Lauren Biron, Symmetry

Image: Assault charge against former Parris Island sergeant major dropped
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QOTD: "And don’t let anybody, don’t let anybody tell you that, umm, you know, that it’s corporations and businesses that create jobs." --Hillary Clinton

Sunday, October 26, 2014

VILE: Chris Christie sticks a knife in Scott Walker's back

Dan Riehl points us to a disturbing revelation by the Weekly Standard.

As background, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie serves as Chairman of the Republican Governors' Association (RGA). In that capacity, Christie controls the purse-strings of a substantial pot of dough that would normally be deployed to the most competitive gubernatorial races for GOP candidates.

Despite rumors of Christie undermining Walker's campaign by withholding precious funding, GOP insiders had earlier assured the Standard that Christie had Walker's back. It would appear that they were lying.

The RGA had already spent $6 million overall in Wisconsin, the source said, and would spend a total of $10 million or $11 million by Election Day – up to an additional $5 million to shore up Walker in a competitive race. The majority of the money the RGA had spent – and planned to spend – would be on television ads. Those numbers, this source pointed out, compare favorably to RGA spending next door in Michigan ($10 million to date), where Governor Rick Snyder has held a small but consistent lead in public and private polling. “So when all is said and done, we’ll spend more in Wisconsin than Michigan,” the source told us.

That’s not accurate.

...Our “GOP source with knowledge of RGA spending” told us [that] the RGA is committing to just $2 million now – that’s not an increase over their original amount, as RGA officials told the Post, it would appear to be a significant reduction.

What's more, Wisconsin GOP sources dispute the RGA's claim to have spent $6 million to date, putting the figure at closer to $3 million.

...the RGA is now conceding that they are spending more on Michigan ($10 million to date) than Wisconsin... In the RealClearPolitics average of polls over the last three weeks (9/30 through 10/19) [Michigan Gov. Rick] Snyder has a 5.6 point lead.

...In Wisconsin, by contrast, Democrat Mary Burke has led or been tied with Walker in nearly half of the polls taken since April (7 of 16). On Thursday, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported that "Burke and her allies have outspent the governor and his allies on broadcast television, $8.2 million to $7.4 million, according to data compiled by the Center for Public Integrity," but "Republicans are believed to have a spending advantage" on cable. Campaign spending is just one factor out of many that can determine the outcome of a close race, but the race in Wisconsin couldn't get any closer. Walker and Burke are now tied--47.3 percent to 47.3 percent--in the average of polls.

Like 2012 -- when the New Jersey governor threw Mitt Romney under the bus by offering numerous photo ops and a tacit endorsement of Barack Obama after Hurricane Sandy -- it would seem that Chris Christie's number one job is promoting Chris Christie.

If that means sabotaging a potential 2016 rival for the GOP presidential nomination, so be it. Christie is a perfect representative of the GOP establishment; he fits in seamlessly with other selfish "me-firsters" like Karl Rove, Mitch McConnell and John Boehner.


Hat tip: BadBlue News.

VOTER ID: The Ultimate Faux Controversy

By Ed Feulner

If you’ve ever tried to board a plane, cash a check or rent a car, you’ve almost surely had to show some form of identification with your picture on it. For most people, that takes the form of a driver’s license, but there are other forms of photo ID. Millions of Americans produce them every day to do dozens of everyday tasks and think nothing of it.

Why should it be any different when we vote? Anyone can show up and claim to be you. Imagine if all someone had to do was state your name and address. I don’t know about you, but producing a form of ID when I vote gives me some peace of mind that no one else is voting in my name.

The short answer to the above question is that it’s no different at all. In fact, to the extent that it is different, you could say it’s even more important to produce a photo ID for voting. What civic duty supersedes that of voting? It’s a responsibility we must take seriously.

That helps explain why 31 states have some form of voter-ID laws in effect. Some are stricter than others, but all send an important message: Voting is too important not to take fraud seriously. We need to make sure that when someone shows up to vote, he is who he says he is, and not someone else.

You’d think this would be the most noncontroversial thing in the world. Who could oppose voter-ID laws? Some fringe groups? A few, yes, but unfortunately, they’re joined by some people who ought to know better, such as U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder Jr., whose headquarters in Washington requires a photo ID to enter.

Larwyn's Linx: Nuclear Option: Obama Prepares for the Ebola Election

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Nation

The Nuclear Option: Obama Prepares for the Ebola Election: Charles Hurt
The Obamacare news just keeps getting worse: Personal Liberty
Obama’s attempt to allow illegal aliens into the military HALTED: Scoop

Ferguson “Peaceful” Protesters Attack Young White Boy in Street : GWP
Intifada Missouri – Anti-Israel activists may push Ferguson over the edge: LI
Safe And Secure Border Causes More Deaths: LD Jackson

Profile, or Die: Michael Reagan
How Much Cholera Will Obama’s 100,000 Haitians Bring to America?: FPM
Democratic Party: America's Resident Evil: Lloyd Marcus

What does government produce?: Ace
Tea Party allies launch social media turnout effort: Susan Crabtree
'Chamber of Horrors' Is Democrats' Secret Weapon to Keep Senate: Breitbart

Economy

Christmas in October: Jim Quinn
Unions And Liberals Are Working Hard To Kill Jobs: RWN
Hillarynomics: Businesses don’t create jobs: Hot Air

Scandal Central

WaPo Publishes Scientific Evidence of Voter Fraud on a Massive Scale: Patterico
Dems on FEC move to regulate Internet campaigns, blogs, Drudge: Paul Bedard
Valerie Jarrett And Obama Could Be Implicated In The Fast And Furious Scandal: WJ

Suspect Who Murdered TWO Sacramento Deputies Had Been DEPORTED TWICE to Mexico: Sooper
Wisconsin “John Doe” War on Walker wins “Nastiest Political Tactic of the Year”: LI
NY Hospital Not As Ready as Officials Say: Bellevue staffers call-in ‘sick’ after Ebola arrives: TLT

Media

Does Charles Krauthammer Read Patterico?: Patterico
Carson: Declaring martial law, will Obama cancel 2016 elections?: James Richard Edwards
Sarah Palin tells CNN: "Get Ahold Of Your Underlings": C4P

Rightful Liberty: Rock-Paper-Scissors-Lizard-Spock: III Percent
Movie Review: Fury.: SSI
You can lead a Liberal to facts…but you can’t make him think…: Liberal Logic 101

Great rant against Democrats from 82-year old black grandmother who votes STRAIGHT GOP: Scoop
Ebola Nurse Complaining About Quarantine is Left-Wing Democrat, CDC Employee: GotNews
Allen West On Ottawa Attack: “Shut down mosques of perpetrators and deport the Imams”: BNI

World

China’s Submarines Add Nuclear-Strike Capability, Altering Strategic Balance: WSJ
U.S. publicly humiliates Israeli defense minister as his visit to U.S. ends: JihadWatch
As Obama speeds Ebola visas, 80% increase in US rejections of Israeli visa requests: Times of Israel

Maybe Congress Will Finally Stand Up to Obama if He Bypasses Them on Iran: John Yoo
Video: Islamic State stones woman to death for adultery: JihadWatch
Israeli minister: Israel-US relations in 'crisis': ynet

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

The coolest cars you can buy?: TopGear
Facebook Rooms: 5 Privacy Facts: Kristin Burnham
ER Doctor: What Scares Me Even More Than Ebola: LI

Cornucopia

How To Enjoy An Ebola-Free Weekend: MOTUS
Moonbat Snobs Can’t Tell Organic Food From McDonald’s: MB
12 More Viral Photos That Are Totally Fake: Matt Novak

Image: ‘Ebola victim travelled while contagious’
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QOTD: "...Judicial Watch has finally forced the Obama Department of Justice (DOJ) to provide a detailed listing of all the records it has withheld from Congress and the American people about the deadly Fast and Furious scandal and its cover-up. The documents, as we suspected, detail the personal involvement of outgoing Attorney General Eric Holder in managing the DOJ’s media strategy and its response to congressional investigations.

But what really stands out is the disturbing extent to which President Obama’s executive privilege claims over these records are a fraud and an abuse of his office. There is no precedent for Obama’s Nixonian assertion of executive privilege over these ordinary government agency records. The Obama administration is even withholding emails between Holder, his wife Sharon Malone and his mother under absurd claims of executive privilege. Obama, personally and through his authority as president of the United States, claims that the wife and mother of Eric Holder are entitled to know more about the Fast and Furious operation than the American people and the United States Congress." --Judicial Watch

Saturday, October 25, 2014

Janet Yellen Echoes Barack Obama's "Income Inequality" Nonsense

By James Pethokoukis

Fed Chair Janet Yellen recently spoke at a Boston Fed conference on inequality:

The extent of and continuing increase in inequality in the United States greatly concern me. The past several decades have seen the most sustained rise in inequality since the 19th century after more than 40 years of narrowing inequality following the Great Depression. By some estimates, income and wealth inequality are near their highest levels in the past hundred years, much higher than the average during that time span and probably higher than for much of American history before then. It is no secret that the past few decades of widening inequality can be summed up as significant income and wealth gains for those at the very top and stagnant living standards for the majority. I think it is appropriate to ask whether this trend is compatible with values rooted in our nation’s history, among them the high value Americans have traditionally placed on equality of opportunity.

While I could pick through her entire speech, the part I put in in boldface really jumped out. “Stagnant living standards for the majority” for the past few decades? Really?

I don’t think that is correct. According to the Congressional Budget Office, average real after-tax household income between 1979 and 2007, grew by 275% for the top 1%, by 65% for the next 20%, and by 40% for “the 60 percent of the population in the middle of the income scale (the 21st through 80th percentiles).” Those numbers more or less match the findings of researcher Richard Burkhauser who finds a 37% increase in median incomes over that same span. Now, 40% isn’t 275%, but it is also not stagnation.

Here is Manhattan Institute’s Scott Winship on the same topic:

The story over the long-run is one of strong improvement in living standards, driven in part by greater work and higher wages among women, but in part by continued gains in male earnings, declining family size, lower taxes, and more federal and employer benefits. While the range of estimates is wide, a reasonable conclusion from the totality of the evidence is that poor and middle class households are at least 30 percent richer today than their counterparts from 35 years ago.

Of course, we all wish middle-class incomes had risen more — just like we all wish, for instance, the US education system had better prepared a generation of Americans for success in a post-industrial economy facing intense global competition. But too often the stagnation argument is used as a cudgel against the beneficial tax and regulatory policies of the 1980s forward. President Obama has done this repeatedly. But I would expect a more careful, data-driven analysis by the Fed chair.

Follow James Pethokoukis on Twitter at @JimPethokoukis, and AEIdeas at @AEIdeas.

3 Headlines That Explain Barack Obama's Foreign Policy

See if you can deduce Dear Leader's strategy for dealing with a hostile world.

Obama will bypass Congress on Iran sanctions if nuclear deal is reached

In another example of the White House bypassing Congress to avoid a vote it would lose, the Obama administration will not to seek congressional approval to suspend sanctions against Iran if a deal on the Islamic republic’s nuclear program can be reached, The New York Times reported Sunday night.

According to the report by David Sanger, citing American and Iranian officials, Iran has agreed in principle that a “suspension” of sanctions would be enough for them to take away from the negotiating table.

Israeli Minister: Israel-US relations in 'crisis'

"There is a crisis with the Americans and it needs to be addressed as a crisis," Finance Minister Yair Lapid said Saturday after ongoing tensions between Washington and Jerusalem led US officials to block Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon from meeting with senior administration officials during his current US visit.

Larwyn's Linx: Democrats Continue to Step on Rakes

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Nation

Democrats Continue to Step on Rakes: Jon Gabriel
Early Voting for GOP is Unprecedented: "This has never happened before": LI
The White House Gaslights America on Immigration: Leon Wolf

Super: NYC Ebola Patient Traveled Around Entire City Since Last Week: JWF
New Ebola screening is an epic failure: RS
Why are all Ebola patients Obama voters?: Ushanka

"Pro-Gun" Democrat Senator on Tape Advancing Anti-Gun Views: GotNews
A Stark Contrast in Iowa: Phil Kerpen
Why the House Will Stay Republican: Michael Barone

Congressman: "Republic is Dead" if Obama Implements Amnesty: ConTrib
Watch Hillary Say One of the Stupidest Things You'll Ever Hear: Sooper
Martha Coakley Seems To Be Blowing Another Election In MA: Doug Mataconis

Economy

Coburn releases his final government Wastebook: PersonalLiberty
Read Kay Hagan's Pro-Socialist, Pro-Marxist College Thesis: GotNews
Marysville Shooter’s Mom Is High Ranking School Board Official: GotNews

Scandal Central

Obama Covered Up Emails For Eric Holder In Fast And Furious Scandal: Western Journalism
DOJ Stands Aghast, “exasperated”, at Leaks From DOJ: Treehouse
Watch a Milwaukee Election Worker Get Angry at Voters: MediaTrackers

Valerie Jarrett Key Player in 'Fast & Furious' Cover-Up After Holder Lied to Congress: JW
NYC Health Commissioner Wrongly Claims Ebola Patient Self-Isolated: WS
NYPD Stunner: Cops Exit Ebola Victim Apartment, Dump Gloves, Masks In Sidewalk Trash Can: ZH

Climate & Energy

Professor Proclaims We Must Terminate Industrial Civilization Because of Global Warming: MB
Gulp: The Very Scary Climate Cost Of Halloween Candy!: RWN

Media

The Pesky Similarities Between Thomas Duncan and Dr. Craig Spencer Deserve Inquiry: Treehouse
‘Armed citizenry’ is the best deterrent to terrorists, and Canada attack proves it: BPR
Protesters Obstruct Entrance at George Will's Miami University Speech: CI

Idiot Andrew Cuomo: Ebola Patient Went Bowling, Took Cab and Subway, But No Reason to 'Worry': CNS
WAPOs Glen Kessler: KY Democrat Alison Lundergan Grimes Should Be Ashamed of Herself: Lid
BOO-HOO: He's Really Sad He Wasn't Able To Disarm You Before Fleeing Office: Diogenes

Cruising the Web: Betsy's Page
CNN Anchor: You Know What's Funny? When a Woman Gets Beaten Up: GayPatriot
CNN’s Carol Costello Learned Nothing From The Firing of Martin Bashir: Glob

World

Canada on its Knees: Taki's Mag
Russia Continues to Test America's Weakness Under Obama: MB
It's time to beat the Jew haters: Caroline Glick

NYC Hatchet Suspect Posted Pro-Jihad, Anti-US Comments: S&L
NYC Hatchet Attacker’s Facebook Page Featured Islamic Warrior: WFB
Sisi convenes emergency meeting after Sinai terror attack kills dozens of Egyptian troops: JPost

Russian Jets, Ships, Subs Invade Europe: AmInt
Down with the embargo, long live the embargo: Alberto de la Cruz
Transgender troops say they want to serve openly: AirForceTimes

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

FTC: "Tech Support Reps" Pretend To Be From MSFT, FB, Scammed $2.5M From Consumers: Consumerist
Antitrust Experts To FCC: Comcast/TWC Merger Is A Terrible Idea: Kate Cox
The Queen Sends Out Her First Tweet: DigitalTrends

Cornucopia

Oops! No Need to Panic!: MOTUS
Anti-Israel restaurant receives funding from John Kerry’s wife’s foundation: WFB
Oops, he did it again!: Sondrakistan

Image: Egypt's Sinai in lockdown after suicide blast kills 30 troops
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QOTD: "These are deceitful hack politicians and the American people have to decide if they like the direction the country is going in. Do you want chaos on the border? Do you want immigration amnesty? Do you want massive debt? Do you want more redistribution of wealth? Do you want more nationalization of healthcare? Destruction of jobs, outsourcing of jobs? If you like it, then vote for your Democrat. The fact of the matter is none of these Democrats that are running are moderates; they're all radicals. None of them believe in small government. They all believe in massive centralized government. None of them believe in the working man and the citizens of this country. They spend more time worrying about illegal aliens and how they're going to be taken care of and so forth and so on, the Democrat party is a disaster. It's become a radical party. I have problems with the Republican party but the Democrat party really has lost its way and they need to get a good swift kick in the ass in this election." --Mark Levin

Friday, October 24, 2014

KFC Korea introduces a Heart Attack for $4.99

Oh, my.

Anyone heading to Seoul tonight?

KFC is looking to take its heart attack-inducing Double Down sandwich to all new heights. And we’re not sure how we feel about it.

Is it really necessary to create a Double Down with a burger patty sandwiched right in the middle?!

KFC Korea is responsible for this monstrosity called the Zinger Double Down King. If you’re not familiar with the original Double Down, it’s already unhealthy as you could imagine.

First off, bacon and cheese are nestled between two crispy chicken patties that serve as the bun. Now, you can add a burger patty between all of that, and boom: You’ve got KFC Korea’s take on the concoction.

The slogan reads, No bun, all meat.

They say that like it’s a good thing...

Daddy like.


Hat tip: BadBlue Tech.

Okay, which one of you losers broke Twitter?

My world has just come crashing down.



Update: These guys are good. It's back up.


A GOP Majority in the Senate Ain't Enough for Mike Lee...

By Philip Wegmann

HILLSDALE, Mich.—Hillsdale College President Larry Arnn introduced him as “the best statesman I’ve ever known.” But on Tuesday night, Sen. Mike Lee seemed less politician and more political philosophy professor as he diagramed the underpinnings of his conservative reform agenda.

While Lee predicted that Republicans will “win at least seven or eight” new seats to gain a majority in the Senate, he underscored the importance of articulating an enduring conservative message.

“Exposing the emptiness and ugliness of the progressive vision won’t be enough to advance our cause,” the Utah Republican told students. Instead, “we need to demonstrate in word and deed the virtues and the humanity of our vision.”

After the event, The Daily Signal spoke with Lee about President Obama’s handling of the Ebola virus that is plaguing three West African countries and alarming Americans in recent weeks.

Lee described Obama’s presidency as “reckless,” with the Ebola outbreak representing another example of a haphazard administration.

One issue that continues to plague both parties: Obama’s unconfirmed nominee for surgeon general, Vivek Murthy. The Senate has not acted on the nominee since his selection on Nov. 14, 2013.

Liberals have placed blame on Republican “obstructionism,” but Lee said the delay is indicative of systemic Democrat irresponsibility. Pointing to numerous bills “that have passed the House of Representative but haven’t seen the light of day,” Lee argues that “under current Democrat leadership in the Senate, we’ve had nothing but obstruction.”

Inside the IT Organization of the Future

There's an excellent interview with tech visionary Charles Araujo at CIO Insight, in which he explains three phenomena that are radically accelerating business disruption.

The three factors -- the Consumerization of IT, the Criticality of IT, and the Competition for IT -- have melted away barriers to competition and smashed traditional methods of distribution.

...When I grew up in the business, IT was important, but was relegated to the back office. Technology was used to drive efficiency and the speed of transactions, but it was pretty invisible to our organization's customers. When technology failed, it was inconvenient, but that was about it. Today, technology has moved from the back office to front and center of everything. Technology literally powers every single business transaction, every customer interaction and virtually all aspects of the customer experience...

...When I put these three market forces together, I came to the conclusion that there had been a fundamental sea change in the environment in which we existed. Our customer's expectations had changed; they were relying on technology for everything, but they now had choices. And that meant we were going to have to operate differently if we wanted to remain relevant. We simply cannot keep doing things the way we always have and expect our customers to still be our customers. So, I believe that IT—at least as we've known it—is dead. And it's going to be replaced with a very different type of IT organization. One that is smaller, more agile, more customer-focused—and one that spends a lot less time running core technologies...

ISIS Begins Realizing Its "See You In New York" Threat

By Investor's Business Daily

Terrorism: An ax attack on two New York City cops by a Muslim convert with jihadi postings on his Facebook page is yet another reminder of the prophetic warning by the leader of the Islamic State.

Some pundits are downplaying any connection between Zale Thompson, who attacked two New York City cops with a hatchet, and the Islamic State, which has issued a call for such actions by sympathizers in the West. This is an "isolated case," they say, an act by a "nut job" and not by a terrorist conspirator.

The Islamic State is perhaps the world's largest collection of nut jobs. How sane can someone be, taking joy in sawing off the heads of infidels like Steven Sotloff and James Foley, or delighting in kidnapping and gang-raping the Yazidi women of Iraq because they worship a different god? How sane can young women be who leave the West to journey to Syria in the hopes of being incubators for future jihadis?

In the Soviet era, we might have called the likes of Zale Thompson sleepers — individuals hidden in our free society waiting for the call to fulfill their destiny.

The current bevy of homegrown jihadis beheading office workers in Oklahoma and killing policemen and soldiers in Canada may not have been planted here by the Islamic State. But in the age of social media, they have heard their master's voice and responded accordingly.

Carol Costello of CNN gets a very special phone call...

Remember when CNN's idiot broadcaster Carol Costello made light of a violent assault on Bristol Palin, just weeks after condemning Ray Rice? Yeah, those were good times. Good times.


Summer intern @BiffSpackle took issue with the misogynistic, hypocritical behavior of the leftist kook.


Yo, Carol: we want an apology. A real apology. On your show, which -- granted -- gets lower ratings than the spin cycle at the 4th Street laundromat.


Hat tip: BadBlue News.

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Nation

Make Him Own It!: Bill Whittle
Democrats Threaten Riots in Atlanta: Declan Finn
Angst grows over Obama’s unlawful plans for action on immigration: The Hill

The Left-Wing Hipster Democrat Couple That Exposed NYC to Ebola: GotNews
NY City Dr. With Ebola Symptoms Hospitalized, Went Bowling Last Night: GWP
'Quintessential Statism': Mark Levin on Democrats Running From Obama: FNI

Where Was President Obama?: Michelle Malkin
Obama Can’t Help Throwing His Party Under His Bus: David Limbaugh
White House pretends that not trusting them on immigration is crazy-talk: Moe Lane

A Denuded Victory: Leon H. Wolf
Running Scared: Maryland Democrats Play The Race Card: Derek Hunter
GA Senate: Obama Knows What a Michelle Nunn Victory Would Mean: RS

Economy

Blacks hit Barack: 'Worst President Ever, He Chose Illegals Over Americans': Clash
Initial Unemployment Claims Down 18% From Same Week Last Year: BizzyBlog
The Optimistic Column: Taki's Mag

Scandal Central

Obama Asserts Fast and Furious Executive Privilege Claim for... Holder’s Wife: JW
Justice Dept. List of Withheld Fast & Furious Docs is 1,323 Pages Long: Sharyl Attkisson
Oh My: National Park Service Admits It Discussed Plan To Close War Memorials With Obama Officials: WZ

Jaw-Dropping Level of 'Progressive' Voter Fraud Everywhere You Look: Reaganite
It’s Not Just Spying – How The NSA Has Turned Into A Giant Profit Center For Corrupt Insiders: ZH
Who says Obamacare isn't major factor in midterms?: Byron York

Climate & Energy

John Kerry Thinks Climate Change Causes Radical Islam: Sara Noble
Green Billionaire Tom Steyer Leaves Campaign Stop in Gas-Guzzling Suburban: ProgsToday
World food production at record levels: WUWT

Media

Feds Offered Mike Brown Evidence To Newspaper That Refused Information : Treehouse
Brown Family Members Viciously Brawl Over Sale Of Mike Brown Merchandise: Joshua
The Externalization of Responsibility: Monica Lewinsky’s Personal Shame: R.S. McCain

At the Intersection of #GamerGate and the Washington Redskins: Ed Driscoll
Powerful: Jewish college students explain how anti-Semitism has affected them on campus: Scoop
The Nightly News’ Curious Disinterest in the Midterm Elections: Jim Geraghty

Watch DNC Chair DWS interview turn into a train wreck after she lies and can’t back it up: Scoop
Why Does CNN host Carol Costello Still Have A Job?: Nice Deb
Ted Cruz Gets 8 Min Standing Ovation: Ponder Pelosi As Speaker: Maggie Thornton

World

You Can’t Reform Islam Without Reforming Muslims: Daniel Greenfield
This is Horrifying: Erick Erickson
NYC: Axe Wielding Muslim Mad Man Attacks Cops: Treehouse

Canadian Terrorist: Crazy Muslim: R.S. McCain
Islamic State supporters cheer Ottawa jihad shooting: Robert Spencer
How Canada Wound Up With Jihad Problems: TAB

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

The best navigation idea I’ve seen since the Tube map: Rory Sutherland
Which Technologies Do Startups Use? An Exploration of AngelList Data.: CodingVC
Anonymous Shadow Eclipses Other Privacy Projects with Zero Knowledge: DeepDotWeb

Cornucopia

The Early Worm Gets The Bird: Hopenchange
Here's What Happens When Debating a Liberal: AWD
Democratic Fundraising Emails Are Out of Control: Andrew Stiles

Image: Sources: Ottawa gunman had ties to jihadists
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QOTD: "The costs of the Administration’s confused policy on Syria have been sky-high: the rise of ISIS, the irritation of our allies (Turkey, the Sunni Arab states, Israel), and the butchery of civilians on a massive scale. On its one supposed triumph, the Administration appears to have been conned, and it’s getting harder and harder to deny that fact." --Walter Russell Mead

Thursday, October 23, 2014

UN-FLIPPING-BELIEVABLE: Obama Administration Released Illegal Aliens Charged With Murder Into the U.S.

USA Today softens news of Yet Another Obama Administration Scandal™ as best it can, using the headline "U.S. misinformed Congress, public on immigrant release."

Translated into English, it means "Obama Administration Released Illegal Immigrants Charged with Homicide."

New records contradict the Obama administration's assurances to Congress and the public that the 2,200 people it freed from immigration jails last year to save money had only minor criminal records.

The records, obtained by USA TODAY, show immigration officials released some undocumented immigrants who had faced far more serious criminal charges, including people charged with kidnapping, sexual assault, drug trafficking and homicide.

The release sparked a furor in Congress. Republican lawmakers accused the Obama administration of setting dangerous criminals free. In response, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said it had released "low-risk offenders who do not have serious criminal records," a claim the administration repeated to the public and to members of Congress.

The new records, including spreadsheets and hundreds of pages of e-mails, offer the most detailed information yet about the people ICE freed as it prepared for steep, across-the-government spending cuts in February 2013. They show that although two-thirds of the people who were freed had no criminal records, several had been arrested or convicted on charges more severe than the administration had disclosed.