Sunday, November 09, 2014

RED CHINA RISING: Espionage, New Weapons Systems Change the Balance of Power

By Investor's Business Daily

Military Superiority: China's new Shenyang J-31 stealth fighter could be the equal of our F-22s and F-35s, U.S. pilots say, and is just one of the weapons that may thwart America's "pivot" to the Pacific.

The J-31, a fifth-generation stealth fighter, will make its official debut at the Zhuhai International Air Show Nov. 11-16 in southern China's Guangdong province. As one U.S. pilot with F-35 experience told USNI News of the J-31 and other new Chinese fighters: "I think they'll eventually be on par with our fifth-gen jets — as they should be, because industrial espionage is alive and well."

According to the USNI report, it's believed the J-31 was developed using the Pentagon's nearly $400 billion Lockheed Martin F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program.

In June 2011, Chinese hackers staged a cyberassault on Lockheed and other defense contractors, one of an ongoing series of attacks seeking to steal U.S. defense technology.

CHART: Midterm Losses By President

Yep, he's historic, all right:




Hat tip: BadBlue News.

Obama's Partners in Peace Publish 9-Step Plan to Destroy Israel

Hardly a surprise that Jeremiah Wright's Mini-Me (our beloved POTUS) and his Mini-Me (Co-president Jarrett) would repeatedly try to coddle and mollify the genocidal maniacs in Tehran.

This was tweeted out this morning from the Ayatollah Khamenei’s Twitter account. This is the insanity leading a country on the brink of nuclear weapons…


In 2006, historian John David Lewis wrote the single most compelling playbook for dealing with the Mullahs I've yet seen. Entitled "“No Substitute for Victory”: The Defeat of Islamic Totalitarianism", it should be required reading for every American.


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Larwyn's Linx: Cruz and Lee demand answers on immigration from Obama's AG nominee

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Nation

Cruz and Lee demand answers on immigration from Obama's AG nominee: Exam
Conservative Senators Warn Obama on Lawless Amnesty Move: MB
Poll Shows Huge Opposition To Oval Office Amnesty: DC

Report: WH Pressured Media to Suppress Suspected Ebola Cases: RWN
The Others Pouring Across Our Border: Sara Noble
Riding the Wave: Michael Reagan

Arizona Makes a Brilliant Move to Stop Obama Cold: ConTrib
And now, a word from Larry Correia: Exurban League
Does Obama Even Know How to Negotiate?: Megan McArdle

Oh Noes! – Rand Paul Receives Kiss Of Death: Camp o' the Saints
DSCC: On second thought, maybe we’ll help Landrieu: Ed Morrissey
How did it all go so wrong with Wendy Davis?: Jazz Shaw

Economy

Employment Situation Improves in October--Except for African Americans: CNS
How Eva Moskowitz Outmuscled the Teachers Union: Reason
Democrats Still Hate Dirty, Greedy Businesses: Rick Jensen

Scandal Central

Obama AG Nominee Lynch: Voter ID Laws were Passed by Racist Southerners, Must be Stopped: PunditPress
DOJ grants $63 million for social justice school discipline promoted by Bill Ayers: EAGnews
Sharyl Attkisson alleges media helped Obama before election in interview on CNN: Scoop

Climate & Energy

Obama’s 1.6 Billion Dollar Ivanpah Solar Plant Can’t Pay Its Bills – Needs Bailout: GWP

Media

30-year analysis of media, academia’s political donations: undeniable proof of liberal bias: Poor Richard
Marine Calls Out Obama at White House on Election Night: Freedom Outpost
Liberal Compassion on Trial: WFB

On The Rehabilitation Of The John Birchers: Camp o' the Saints
Democrat Party Hollowed Out — No, Eviscerated! — After 6 Years of Epic Obama Failure: AmPower
Alleged Bin Laden Killer: "He Died Like a P***y": Breitbart

USA: Basketball Player Won’t Stand for National Anthem — Because He is Muslim: Geller
On Many Campuses, Hate is Spelled SJP: Daniel Mael
This is what they think of us: Joe Huffman

World

Are people on the left really concerned about the basic rights of women?: Wintery Knight
FBI Evidence: CAIR Leaders are HAMAS USA: Creeping
Lawmakers Slam Obama’s Letter To Ayatollah: WZ

Chinese Media Slams Obama Before Visit: “Obama’s Best Performance Is Empty Rhetoric”: GWP
‘It was the STATE!’ Students torch Mexico City Palace in protest of massacre ordered by mayor: Scoop
Palestinians' "Car Intifada" and Obama's Peace Process: Khaled Abu Toameh

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

2015 Mercedes-Benz S-Class Coupe First Review: A Grand Tradition Continued: KBB
Israeli cyber-security researchers remotely hack a car: AutoBlog
22 Habits of Unhappy People: InfoBarrel

Cornucopia

Live, From The Left Wing…It’s Saturday Night!: MOTUS
PHOTO: LSU fan brings substitute for Tiger mascot: TheScore
Some People Suck... They Should Be Hunted Down and Thoroughly Beaten Senseless...: Feral Irishman

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QOTD: "Rob O’Neill, the man who claims he killed Osama bin Laden, said that “Osama bin Laden died like a p***y” in a series of interviews with freelance journalist Alex Quade that were excerpted on Friday’s “AC 360” on CNN.

O’Neill said “anytime anyone says ‘You know, my brother died at Cantor Fitzgerald, or my mom, whatever’ one thing I tell them is, ‘All right Osama bin Laden died like a p***y. That’s all I’m telling you, just so you know. He died afraid. And he knew we were there to kill him.’”

He also reported that other members of SEAL Team Six “knew we were going to die. we knew we weren't coming back…we all accepted it and nobody was afraid,” but that the victims of 9/11 helped motivate them saying, “we didn’t do it for us, we did it for the people who didn’t want to die.” And “9/11 is very significant. It was the whole reason we were there.” He added that the thought process before the mission was, “we’re gonna die, but we’re gonna die when the house blows up, but knowing that f***face blew up, too.”" --Breitbart TV

Saturday, November 08, 2014

Don't give up your day job, Jesse Berney (if that is your real name)

Jesse Berney, according to his own self-written bio, is a Blue Nation Review "contributing editor, as well as a speechwriter and stand-up comedian in Washington, DC."

I bookmarked his recent article entitled "U.S. Senate 2014: Here’s Who Will Win Every Single Race" so that I could go back and see how well the various geniuses on the Left could predict the mood of the American electorate.

Behold, utter hilarity:

Virginia: "Warner will take this one in a walk."

Alaska: "Begich is going to pull this one out." (Begich refuses to concede though he's down by 4 percentage points).

Colorado: "This one goes to Udall."

Georgia: "Nunn wins a squeaker."

Kansas: "Orman ekes out a victory."

North Carolina: "Hagan takes it in a walk."

Louisiana: "Landrieu will come in a very close second on November 4, then win with a larger margin of victory in the runoff."

The final prediction, according to Berney?

50 Democrats, 47 Republicans, and three Independents. Bernie Sanders is a sure thing to caucus with the Democrats, and Angus King won’t switch if doing so doesn’t put him in the majority. Orman won’t jump to the party he just beat, especially if it means being in the minority. So the Democratic caucus will end up at 53.

Like I said, I’m an optimist. But Democrats seem to be finally figuring out that a more full-throated defense of their values, especially when it comes to a woman’s right to choose, which is playing a key role in many of these elections (just look at the ads) is the path to victory. As long as the economy doesn’t take a sudden turn for the worse, I expect Democrats to surprise much of the punditry on November 4.

You can mock Berney on Twitter at @JesseBerney.


Hat tip: BadBlue News.

GREAT NEWS: Department of Labor Allocated $1.4 Million to Fight Discrimination... In Mexico

By JudicialWatch

As if it weren’t bad enough that the U.S. spends exorbitant amounts of taxpayer funds to support illegal immigrants in this country, it’s allocating north of a million dollars to help the Mexican government combat employment discrimination in Mexico.

Is there no end to the madness? Each year Americans are forced to pay tens of billions of dollars to educate, feed, house, incarcerate and medically treat illegal aliens—most of them from Mexico—in the U.S. and now we’re sending cash south of the border for a cause that’s hardly ours to fund. Uncle Sam will dole out around $1.4 million to help Mexico enforce a two-year-old federal labor law that’s supposed to protect workers, but the Latin American country evidently doesn’t have the resources to enforce it.

The generous U.S. contribution will fund a technical assistance project in Mexico that’s supposed to help the government there combat gender discrimination and discrimination based on sexual orientation in the workplace. This also includes sexual harassment and forced pregnancy testing. The cash will flow through the Department of Labor (DOL), which has funded other similar causes in Latin America in the last few years. In this particular case, the mission is to improve working conditions, raise living standards, protect workers’ abilities to exercise their rights and address the workplace exploitation of vulnerable populations, according to the DOL grant announcement.

Here’s How Conservatives Aim to Stop Obama’s Action on Illegal Immigrants

By Josh Siegel

Aides to conservative members of the U.S. Senate say their bosses are rallying around a strategy to prevent President Obama from taking executive action to move illegal immigrants toward citizenship: Use government funding bills to withhold the money the president needs to implement his plan.

At the same time, some of the Senate’s most conservative members are worried that party leadership could try to strike a deal with Democrats in the lame duck session on a longer-term spending agreement that could limit lawmakers’ ability to defund whatever Obama decides to do.

In a series of interviews with The Daily Signal, conservative Senate staffers said their lawmakers firmly oppose Obama’s acting on his own to allow millions of illegal immigrants to stay in the country. However, they are open to supporting a piecemeal approach on immigration policy that would emphasize border security first.

The results of this week’s election — where Republicans took control of the Senate and picked up seats in the House with a platform opposed to unilateral immigration action by the president — only emboldened their will to fight it, the Senate staffers said.

“We know this issue motivates voters,” one aide said:

This election is validation for that. Voters don’t support amnesty and expanding DACA. It’s one of the only issues that is at the cross section of the economy and national security. We should not run from it. We should embrace it.

DACA, or Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, is the Obama administration program delaying deportation of illegal immigrants who were brought to America as children.

Larwyn's Linx: Eric Holder Uncensored: Fast and Furious Critics Can ‘Kiss My A**’

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Nation

Eric Holder Uncensored: Fast and Furious Critics Can ‘Kiss My A**’: Blaze
The Biggest Loser: WFB
The Five Stages of Democratic Grief: Rick Wilson

Obama on Midterm Voters: “They’d like to see more cooperation”: JWF
Big GOP win a rebuke of the president: Jonah Goldberg
The State Legislative Landslide: Bruce Walker

The Shrinkage of the Obama Majority: Michael Barone
Republicans Now Control 67 of 98 State Legislative Chambers: Rick Moran
Pelosi: Midterm Wasn't GOP Wave, Was 'Ebb' of Dem Voters: Breitbart

A Tea Party Member's Open Letter to the GOP: AWD
Give Back the Senate: Bill Whittle
Ben Carson: First 2016 Presidential Candidate?: Breitbart

Economy

Democrats: “Yeah, Our Economic Message Was Lacking”: RWN
Fed Interest Rate Level That Cripples Economic Growth Is Getting Lower: Insider
Good enough for an Emmy, but not The Container Store: Nicole Duignan

Scandal Central

INSANE: Ferguson “Activists” Deliver Pre-Riot Demands To Police: Bob Owens

Media

"Reporter" Nancy Cordes Pushing Out Daily Kos Propaganda Under Aegis of CBSNews: Ace
Rep. Steve King: Obama Possibly a ‘Narcissist’ Who Wants to Get ‘Martyred’ by Impeachment: Mediaite
Ushanka Election Analysis 2014: Ushanka

One year ago, Obama said, If you don't like my policies, go out there and win an election: Poor Richard
Lunatic CBS Reporter Nancy Cordes Disgraces Herself Again: BPR
Bongino concedes hard fought race to Congressman Delaney: Scoop

World

Obama's State Department Displays Its Contempt For Israel By Disagreeing With U.S. Gen. Dempsey: Lid
Hi ho, hi ho, it’s off to Iraq we go…: Real Revo
Romney hammers Obama on Iran policy, letter to Khamenei: Times of Israel

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Apple’s Design: The Gift That Keeps Giving (1 of 2): John Kirk
Apple's deal with sapphire supplier was a 'heads I win, tails you lose' proposition for Cupertino: ZDNet
TV networks getting that sinking feeling: GigaOm

Cornucopia

The Morning After: RWN
The Martian: Japan News
Here's your typical Obama voter: IOTWReport

Image: Eric Holder Uncensored: Fast and Furious Critics Can ‘Kiss My A**’
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QOTD:

Friday, November 07, 2014

A Most Compelling Idea

By Cold Fury

Limbaugh has a most excellent idea:

Now, Boehner is gonna do his press conference, and I want to expand on something. I got an idea. It’s not a new one. It’s been done before. There will be legislation. In fact, part of stopping Obama is gonna be sending him stuff that we would hope he would sign. He won’t, he’ll veto it. So there will be stuff getting done, but they will be working, they will be coming up with legislation, for those of you who think that’s important. But here’s what I think they ought to do. With every bill the House and Senate come up with that they send to Obama, it must be a package, and the package that’s sent to Obama contains the actual legislation and a letter and polling data.

If you remember, the Contract with America back in 1994, that campaign, one of the promises made in the Contract with America: only legislation that featured 60% support or more of the American people would be passed. It was part of the promise to do the work of the American people, to govern with the will of the American people. The Republicans running for Congress in ’94 promised they would not govern against the will of the people, because the Democrats were and always have. They’ve been doing that more than ever in the past six years.

Virtually everything that’s happened has been against the will of the American people. Amnesty, Obamacare, it’s never had the majority support. So what I think Boehner ought to do, give himself some cover. You know, these guys are looking for cover anyway. So you come up with whatever your legislation, say it’s repeal part of Obamacare, whatever it is, repeal the medical device tax. Fine.

Send it up there and accompany it with a letter from McConnell and Boehner to President Obama complete with polling data showing this is supported by the American people by whatever percentage the poll says and then publicize it, release it. “Today we sent legislation up to President Obama in our effort to get along and our effort to get something done and our effort to compromise,” whatever gobbledygook you want to say, and then include the fact that 60, 65, 67% of the American people support this and want this, and then make Obama react to it.

“But, Mr. Limbaugh, Obama will say he doesn’t care because that means two-thirds didn’t, and he’s got to stand for all Americans.” Doesn’t matter what he does, what you do is what matters. His reaction, we know he’s gonna veto it anyway. The point of this is not for Obama. You assemble this package, this bill and the letter and the polling data for public consumption, so that the public knows what Obama is doing when Obama vetoes something. It’s not a War on Women bill. It’s not something the Democrats and the media lie about and concoct. You submit the bill, a letter explaining it complete with polling data showing massive public support, release that so that the American people know what Obama is vetoing.

So the American people know what Obama and the Democrats oppose, thereby putting gridlock on their shoulders. Thereby putting opposition to getting things done on their shoulders. Thereby making them the obstructionists. The Republicans are simply representing the will of the people. The people want the medical device tax removed. Here’s a piece of legislation that will do it. Sign it, Mr. President. (Obama impression) “Hell, no, screw you, and Michael Jordan, too.” Vetoes it, case closed.

What’s so hard about this?

Well, I’ll just about guarantee it’s way too hard for the GOP to ever figure out. But I’d bet Cruz would be down with it.


Hat tip: BadBlue News.

Obama Threatens Israel With Unprecedented United Nations Vote in Support of Terrorists

Just when you think Jeremiah Wright's Mini-Me has hit rock bottom (e.g., writing secret love letters to Iran's Mullahs), he unveils another pro-Islamist tactic like this:

In a dramatic development, Israeli cabinet members are warning that US President Barack Obama threatened Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that the US may opt not to oppose future hostile UN Security Council votes, unless Israel accedes to American policy demands...

...The threat, at least as leaked, implies that the United States is prepared to abandon Israel in the dock of the world body, a step that could further destabilize relations between the two allies to an unprecedented degree, Kahana said.

The Palestinians, according to one version, are demanding Israeli pull backs to the pre-67′ war lines by 2016, while another version says the UNSC threat refers to halting any and all Israeli construction beyond those areas...

...a recent article in The Atlantic by Jeffery Goldberg – who is commonly seen as reflecting the US administration’s views towards Israel – referencing the US pressure, but from the American point of view:

Citing what he called “red-hot” anger by the Obama administration “over Israel’s settlement policies,” and his view that “the Netanyahu government openly expresses contempt for Obama’s understanding of the Middle East,” Goldberg warned that “Profound changes in the relationship may be coming.”

“This is a precedent and a very dangerous step,” Kahana cautioned about the American threat, and said it was the most chilling thing he’d heard uttered in decades of Israel-US relations.

Unprecedented, indeed. Some would call it "historic."


Hat tip: BadBlue News.

Sen. Ted Cruz fires a warning shot over Harry Reid's bow on "Obama's lawless amnesty"

Sen. Ted Cruz just pimp-slapped Harry Reid:


Senator Harry Reid
Majority Leader
S-221, The Capitol
Washington, D.C. 20510


Dear Leader Reid:

We write to express our alarm with President Obama's announced intention to take unilateral executive action by the end of this year to lawlessly grant amnesty to immigrants who have entered the country illegally. The Supreme Court has recognized that "over no conceivable subject is the power of Congress more complete" than its power over immigration. Therefore, President Obama will be exercising powers properly belonging to Congress if he makes good on his threat. This will create a constitutional crisis that demands action by Congress to restore the separation of powers.

As majority leader of the Senate, you have the responsibility of not only representing the citizens of your State, but also of protecting the Constitution through vigilant exercise of the checks and balances provided under the Constitution. Therefore, we write to offer our full assistance in ensuring expeditious Senate debate and passage for a measure that preserves the power of Congress by blocking any action the President may take to violate the Constitution and unilaterally grant amnesty; however, should you decline to defend the Senate and the Constitution from executive overreach, the undersigned Senators will use all procedural means necessary to return the Senate's focus during the lame duck session to resolving the constitutional crisis created by President Obama's lawless amnesty.

Sincerely,

Sens. Ted Cruz, R-TX; Mike Crapo, R-ID; Mike Lee, R-UT; Pat Roberts, R-KS; Jeff Sessions, R-AL; and David Vitter, R-LA


Hat tip: BadBlue News.

Larwyn's Linx: Cruz, Lee vow to "use all procedural means necessary" to stop amnesty

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Nation

Cruz, Lee vow to "use all procedural means necessary" to stop amnesty: PR
Conservative Senators Warn Obama on Unconstitutional Amnesty Move: RWN
An Illinois Paleoconservative On Luis Gutierrez’s Threats Of “Civil War”: VDARE

President Obama’s Press Conference, Translated: Keith Koffler
Make D.C. Listen: Voters Reject Illegal Alien Rewards: Michelle Malkin
Boehner: Obama ‘Playing with Matches’ on Amnesty, 'Going to Burn Himself’: NRO

Republican Majority, Day One: McConnell Surrenders: Leon Wolf
Republican Gains Deep and Wide: Scott Rasmussen
Why Should We Bother Stopping Obama's Executive Amnesty?: Ace

The Seven Biggest Losers in the 2014 Elections: LiberalLogic
“Anti-Gun Billionaires Buy New Gun Control”: PW
The Black Conservatives Fund Is Setting Up Camp In Louisiana: HayRide

Thanks, Obama! There’s Now 357 People Being Monitored for Ebola in NYC: JWF
Terrific! Minnesota Is Monitoring 48 for Ebola – Already 12 Go Missing: GWP
New Texas governor says he’ll sign open carry bill: Chris Eger

Scandal Central

Ted Cruz: The Era of Barack Obama’s Criminal Lawlessness Is OVER!: Insider
Michael Brown's mother accused in armed robbery: DailyMail
Mongols battle with ATF may have tie-in to Operation Fast and Furious: Frank C. Girardot

Climate & Energy

Lights staying on, insists minister: DailyMail

Media

Surely, the End Times are Upon Us!: Rottweiler
Senator Tim Scott shows GOP how to respond to MSM Dem-bots about combating poverty: Powers
A Tough Night at MSNBC: Ann Coulter

CNN to Obama: ‘It is a fact that your party rejected you’; liberals cringe everywhere: BPR
Through the Looking Glass with Charles Blow: Leon Wolf
George Will: Obama Thinks Electorate Had ‘Inexplicable Tantrum’: Breitbart

CNN anchors try to make Mia Love's win in Utah about race/gender, she disagrees: RCP
McConnell, Boehner's Priorities: 'Commitment to Repeal Obamacare': CNS
Crowd’s reaction when Carrie Underwood makes joke about Democrats losing midterms is priceless: YC

World

Letters to the Ayatollah: Obama’s ‘Keys to Paradise’: Roger L. Simon
Obama: Israel has no more claim to Jerusalem than Russia does to Crimea: Matzav
The Jewish Vote In The 2014 Midterms And What It Means For 2016: Lid

Source says reported letter from Obama to Ayatollah ‘f***s up everything': Fox
Navy SEAL who killed bin Laden revealed. Rob O'Neill named as SEAL Team Six hero: DailyMail
Navy SEALs Told to Shun Spotlight as Ex-Team Member Talks to Fox News: Military

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Russian Cyberspies Caught With Mittens in Cyber Cookie Jar: TNW
The solid gold Apple Watch could cost $5,000: Geek
Behind enemy lines in our war against account hijackers: Google Online Security

Cornucopia

“I stand with those who sat on the sidelines and did not vote.”: MOTUS
This Week in Quotes: John Hawkins
On the Writings of Julius Caesar: Razor

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QOTD: "I declare this National Republican Gloating Week. We kicked the Democrats’ collective posterior, beat them at their own game, seized territory in deep-blue states, outperformed the MSM polls (often by double digits), killed them in GOTV efforts, in technology, in social media, in mail-in ballots and in the voting booth.

Next week, we can roll up our sleeves and get to work. But today is for savoring." --Jon Gabriel

Thursday, November 06, 2014

A Warning for Boehner, McConnell, Priebus, Rove, the RNC, and (especially) the Chamber of Crony Capitalism

Election 2014: A Conservative Victory by The Conservative Victory Project


The American people sent an unmistakable message to Washington:  Voters expect Republicans in Congress to listen and fight for the conservative agenda they ran on.

-  Every single newly elected Republican Senator ran on the full repeal of Obamacare. In most competitive races it was the top issue. Over 40,000 ads against Obamacare were run on behalf of winning candidates. The Republican House and Senate must now keep those campaign promises and use reconciliation to send a bill repealing Obamacare to the President. 
 

-  All but one of the newly elected Republican Senators ran a strong campaign in favor of securing the border and opposing amnesty for illegal immigrants. 
 

-  Every single newly elected Republican Senator ran in support of an agenda for hard-working middle class Americans that reduces spending, lowers taxes, and balances the budget-not in support of corporate welfare, bloated government spending bills, and endless debt-ceiling increases. 
 

-  Far from downplaying social issues, every newly elected Republican Senator is pro-life and supports legislation that would protect unborn life after five months of pregnancy. The liberal candidates who painted pro-life candidates as engaged in a “War on Women” were routinely criticized and defeated.

Simply put, successful candidates ran as conservatives and won.

Oppose a Lame Duck Surrender

The Washington establishment is already calling on Republican leaders to capitulate to the Left in the Lame Duck. This means that opportunities to pursue conservative reforms next year will be lost.  New and returning Republican members should only vote for Leaders in the Senate and House who commit not to cave-in to President Obama and outgoing Majority Leader Reid in the Lame Duck.  The newly elected Republican Congress must have the opportunity to govern and return competence to a broken Washington.

KNIVES ARE OUT: Harry Reid Rips Bumbling Community Organizer Whose Only Skill is Reading a Teleprompter

WaPo's Paul Kane has the details of Harry Reid's temper tantrum. Reid's chief of staff, David Krone, just went public with his six-years-too-late concerns about nominating an inexperienced, back-bencher state senator with a nice logo to the office of POTUS.

Nahanni, can you pass the popcorn, dear?

...tension [inside the Democrat Party] blew up Tuesday when Krone’s comments about Democrats’ dismal showing in the 2014 midterms went public. He accused Obama of paying “lip service” to concerns about helping finance the midterm elections and said the president was an anchor that took down Democrats across the country, costing them the Senate majority.

“The president’s approval rating is barely 40 percent,” Krone said. “What else more is there to say?”

ISIS, Ebola, food stamps and rampant unemployment: what's not to like?

Krone joined Reid’s team as deputy chief of staff, helping guide him through a rocky 2010 reelection, and for the past four years as chief, Krone has channelled Reid. So his comments can reasonably be viewed as Reid’s views of Obama.

Nahanni, pass the butter, please.

EH, I THINK I'LL TAKE A RAIN CHECK: The solid gold Apple Watch could cost $5,000

Pass the Kleen-Ex, Tito: Ryan Whitwam has the bad news for the Apple fan-bois (and gurlz).


Apple pre-announced the much anticipated Apple Watch a few months ago, but neglected to discuss a price or exact launch date. Rumors are now pointing to a Valentine’s Day (February 14th) release in the US and a higher price than expected. The mid-tier stainless steel watch will sell for a somewhat high $500, but Apple will reportedly also offer the 18-karat gold “Apple Watch Edition” version for a whopping $5,000.

Any watch priced at $5,000 is a serious luxury item, and this device doesn’t even have all the intricate clockwork that watch enthusiasts love to geek out over. The rumored price is much higher than previous estimates based on similarly sized gold accessories. Jewelers estimated the gold watch could cost about $1,200. This version of the watch will also come with sapphire crystal and exclusive strap options. Still, that’s a lot to spend on a device that will be replaced with a new version in a year.

The entry-level Apple watch ("The Sport") is said to cost "only" $350.

Thanks, but I think I'll stick with my mechanical timepiece, which hasn't required a battery in -- oh -- about 25 years of continuous use.


Hat tip: BadBlue Tech.

WHERE ARE THE DAMNED HANDCUFFS?

That's the question posed by Karl Denninger:

(Washington, DC) – Judicial Watch announced today that the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) admitted to the court that it failed to search any of the IRS standard computer systems for the “missing” emails of Lois Lerner and other IRS officials. The admission appears in an IRS legal brief opposing the Judicial Watch request that a federal court judge allow discovery into how “lost and/or destroyed” IRS records relating to the targeting of conservative groups may be retrieved. The IRS is fighting Judicial Watch’s efforts to force testimony and document production about the IRS’ loss of records in Judicial Watch’s Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) litigation about the IRS targeting of Tea Party and other opponents of President Obama(Judicial Watch v. IRS (No. 1:13-cv-1559)). The lawsuit is before U.S. District Court Judge Emmett G. Sullivan.

The law requires that an FOIA search encompass all "reasonably retrievable" records, from which the party served can then argue for exemptions from disclosure.

It does not permit the target to choose not to look at its pleasure.

The foundation of any legitimate government is the Rule of Law.  

We have lost that in this country, and until it is restored no progress will be made on any of the other issues that face us.

It's that simple, whether you're conservative, liberal or otherwise.


Amy Miller points to some relevant and maddening context.

The IRS admitted to Judge Sullivan that the agency failed to “submit declarations about any of the foregoing items because it had no reason to believe that they were sources from which to recover information lost as a result of Lerner’s hard drive failure.” [Emphasis added] Department of Justice attorneys for the IRS had previously told Judicial Watch that Lois Lerner’s emails, indeed all government computer records, are backed up by the federal government in case of a government-wide catastrophe. The Obama administration attorneys said that this back-up system would be too onerous to search. In the October federal court filing, the IRS does not deny that the government-wide back-up system exists, and acknowledges to the court that 760 other email “servers” have been discovered but had not been searched.

The IRS also refuses to disclose the names of the IRS officials who may have information about the IRS scandal, citing unspecified threats. The IRS says it pulled documents about the scandal from various employees into a “Congressional database” and that it has only searched this one “database” for missing records. Incredibly, the IRS has not searched any of the IRS’s regular computer systems for any missing records and admits that it has only searched a “database” that it knows does not contain the missing records being sought by the court, Judicial Watch, and Congress.

In other words, multiple agencies of the Obama bureaucracy have thumbed their collective noses at the law and federal judges.

The rule of law means absolutely nothing to the Left, and it's high time they were held to account.


Hat tip: BadBlue.

Larwyn's Linx: A Democrat Waterloo

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Nation

A Democratic Waterloo: Victor Davis Hanson
Elections 2014 Aftermath: Blue Is Blue / Red Is In The Pink: Camp o' the Saints
Four Lessons from the 2014 Election: PJM

Arrogant Obama Has Learned Nothing: Jonathan S. Tobin
In Wake of Massive Rebuke, Obama to Proceed With His War on America: JWF
Lessons for the GOP for 2016: Ben Shapiro

Dear Republicans: No One Elected You to Work with Democrats: Leon Wolf
A Rejection of Liberal Democratic Governance: Fred Barnes
Some Gutless Republicans Owe some Apologies to Ted Cruz: Leon Wolf

A Night of Historic Firsts for the Republican Party and America: Rusty Weiss
Right Elects More Blacks, Women to Senate Than Left: IOTWreport
Republicans Steamroll Democrats in National Smack Down of Obama: DownTrend

Historic: Scott First Black Sen. Elected in South Since Reconstruction: TheRepublic
Wave election had impact far down the ballot: John Lott
Oregon rejects drivers licenses for illegals: Times

Scandal Central

Does Impeachment Loom For Obama Over Fast & Furious?: Bob Owens
'Idiot cronies': Holder accused Issa of wanting to 'suck up to the gun lobby': Kelly Cohen
IRS Admits to Court it Hasn’t Searched for Missing Lerner Emails: JW

Climate & Energy

Big Climate Flops Out: Mark Steyn
Bummer: New GOP Senate Gearing Up To Cause Climate Mayhem: Cove
The day ‘climate change’ became irrelevant in politics: WUWT

Media

Mark Levin: Republican leadership just handed the power of the purse back to Obama: Scoop
Ben Shapiro destroys the idea passing amnesty will solve Republican’s Hispanic problem »: Scoop
GOP Must Denounce Racial Politics and Acknowledge Constitutional Conservatives are Not Racist: Jen Kuznicki

WOW! Wounded Obama LOSES IT! Lashes Out at White House Reporter: GWP
Devastating: Reporter Asks Obama Why He’s Only Met With McConnell with Once or Twice: GWP
Obama, The Day After: Rick Wilson

Savor This: Jon Gabriel
Obama in a “funk”: Silvio Canto
Jay Carney to GOP: Your Party Is Racist — and ‘You Know It’: Larry Elder

For ‘We The People’ It’s *Morning* in America, For NYT It’s *Mourning*: Tammy Bruce
Chris Matthews: Obama Lost Because of "Sycophants" Who Tell Him Everything He Does Is Right: Ace
Chris Matthews: Obama ‘misses the main point of politics,’ will fight with Mitch McConnell: RedAlert

World

Iran nuclear talks like bargaining with the devil: Cal Thomas
Palestinian driver hits Israeli soldiers in West Bank: France24
The cost of gun control: Here is one bill paid in full.: Gun Free Zone

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

This video will bring you as close to piloting the A-10 Warthog as you can get without actually flying it: Aviationist
Love And Aggression: The War Of Human Psychology: SWR
This Visualization Shows Why So Many States Are Legalising Cannabis: Gizmodo

Cornucopia

Let’s Be Bad Winners: Glob
Lurkers Come Out And GLOAT: Ace
The Winning and Losing Women of Election 2014!: Sooper

Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: TED CRUZ

QOTD: "On Tuesday, Mark Levin said it’s now time that conservatives take back the GOP once and for all. And he said Republicans must not relinquish the power of the purse during the lame-duck sessions of Congress...

"We gotta kick the liberals out and then take back the Republican party,” Levin declared. “We must get a conservative nominated in 2016... “How many more times are we going to beat our head against the walls” with McCains and the Romneys in presidential elections?

The scholar and former Chief of Staff to Ronald Reagan’s Attorney General Ed Meese said the country is in a post-constitutional period. He warned Republicans not to surrender before the next Congress even starts.

He said that if Republicans leaders work with Democrats on a "massive omnibus budget bill” during the lame-duck session, “then they’ve just surrendered the power of the purse and they have nothing left to rein in Obama.” Levin said that the Framers felt that the power of the purse was “so crucial” that they gave most of it to the House of Representatives “because it’s the people’s house.”

He warned Republican leaders like current Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and House Speaker John Boehner to not work with Democrats to pass an omnibus bill during the lame-duck session." --Tony Lee

Wednesday, November 05, 2014

Retired Marine gets threats after guarding Canadian war memorial

Jeff Schogol, writing at Marine Corps Times, offers us an excellent testimonial to a true American warrior and patriot.

Retired Marine Maj. “Fox” Sinke says he has received threatening phone calls from Arabic speakers since he stood guard at Canada’s National War Memorial last week.

But as he told police: “If they’re looking for a fight, they came to the right guy.”

Sinke said he received at least two phone calls on Tuesday from people who screamed at him in Arabic and then hung up.

“The only words I recognized were ‘kill you,’ because I’ve heard them before,” he said.


When Sinke told police about the phone calls, he added, “I promise you this: If they come here, they’ll die here.”

A Caliphate grows in Sweden

By Investor's Business Daily

Political Correctness: The perils of multiculturalism and open borders have reached critical mass in Sweden. There are Muslim enclaves where postal, fire and other essential services — even police officers themselves —require police protection.

A police report released last month identifies 55 of these "no-go zones" in Sweden. These zones are similar to others that have popped up in Europe in recent years. They formed as large Muslim populations emigrating to politically correct and tolerant European states refuse to assimilate and set up virtual states within a state where the authorities fear to tread.

Soeren Kern of the Hudson Institute has documented the proliferation of these zones. They are de facto Muslim micro-states under Shariah law that reject Western values, society and legal systems. In these districts non-Muslims are expected to conform to the dictates of fundamentalist Islam or face violent consequences.

"A more precise name for these zones," says Middle Eastern expert Daniel Pipes, "would be Dar al-Islam — the House of Islam or the place where Islam rules."

Muslim immigration to Sweden has been fostered by an open-border asylum policy. In the 1990s, the country welcomed 100,000 refugees fleeing the conflict in the Balkans.

Matt Bracken Opens Up a Can on the Washington Post

On the night of the elections, the most transparent administration ever dumped more than 64,000 pages of documents related to Operation Fast and Furious, the ill-fated Obama gun-running operation.

The Washington Post -- in its usual effort to spin the news in favor of the administration -- failed to note that the documents were turned over only after years of litigation, pursuant to a federal judge's ruling against the Holder Justice Department for its patently bogus claim of "Executive Privilege".

Author Matt Bracken, commenting at WaPo's site, torched the Obama press release distribution outlet, and provided an excellent synopsis of the true motivation behind the eminently diabolical plot to eradicate the Second Amendment.

"The operation targeted Mexican gun traffickers, but two rifles involved were linked to the killing of U.S. Border Patrol agent Brian Terry."

That is the official MSM Koolaid line, but it's a lie. Under Operation Fast and Furious, there was no attempt to track the guns after they crossed the border. We didn't even inform the Mexican government or law enforcement, or seek their cooperation in tracking the guns, because tracking the guns was not the objective. The objective was to buttress the false meme being promoted by Obama, Holder and Hillary Clinton that "90% of the guns found at Mexican murder scenes came from America." The actual objective, by spreading this lie, was to turn Americans against the 2nd Amendment.

300+ Mexicans and a pair of American agents murdered with F&F guns were the price Obama, Holder and Clinton were willing to pay. Mass murder abroad was the price they were willing to pay for a political objective at home. And what did we hear from American Pravda? Crickets. Operation Fast and Furious was pure evil, mass murder for political purposes, and the MSM was a willing partner.

American Pravda's motto today is "It's not a scandal if we don't report it!" "Look, a squirrel! Celebrities are having scandals! Pay no attention to our own government conducting a mass-murder operation to attain a political objective!" And with the help of the collaborating MSM, it worked.

The Washington Post just spent another week celebrating their Watergate scoops with the passing of Ben Bradley. How many people were murdered in the Watergate scandal? Zero, compared to 300+ Mexicans and at least 2 American federal agents.

And what do we get from the WaPo? Crickets, and an occasional article promoting the absurd cover story for Operation F&F, that it was intended to track the guns in Mexico.


Editor's Note: I recently finished Matt Bracken's outstanding trilogy on Kindle -- "ENEMIES, FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC" -- and I can't recommend it highly enough. Buy it and read it now. Don't worry, I'll wait here.