Sunday, December 07, 2014

THE WAGES OF STUPIDITY: Chicago continues assault on business with steep hike in minimum wage

By Investor's Business Daily

Fiscal Policy: A city teetering on the brink of insolvency passes a minimum wage that would reach $13 by 2019, higher than the minimum elsewhere in a state that just elected a Republican governor. What could go wrong?

Ignoring the first rule of holes (when you're in one, stop digging), the Chicago City Council, in a Tuesday emergency session called by Mayor and former White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel, voted 44-5 to raise the city's minimum wage from the current statewide level of $8.25 an hour to $10 on July 1, with future increases bringing it to $13 by 2019. After that, it will be pegged to inflation.

What's the emergency? Emanuel wanted to jump the gun on any minimum-wage bill that might come out of the state legislature in Springfield, particularly after the election of Republican Bruce Rauner as governor. Such legislation is said to bar cities from raising their minimums above the state's. Rauner has said that any minimum-wage increases should be part of a package that promotes growth without reducing competitiveness.

"Raising the minimum wage doesn't help somebody (who is) unemployed, and it doesn't help somebody who's employed and who could get unemployed because of the lack of competitiveness that raising the minimum wage could engender," Rauner said.

The Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce, Illinois Hotel and Lodging Association and Illinois Restaurant Association all lobbied against the Chicago-only increase, arguing that it would give suburban business a 57% labor-cost advantage.

"Competitiveness" isn't found in the leftist lexicon, but the concept of a living wage is. This notion says that employees should be paid based not on the value of their work but on the demands of their lifestyles. Street protests and the lobbying of pandering policymakers have replaced a good education and an improved skill set.

Larwyn's Linx: Tom Cotton: Break the Capitol Phone Switchboard to Fight Obama’s Amnesty

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Nation

Tom Cotton: Break the Capitol Phone Switchboard to Fight Obama’s Amnesty: NRO
House GOP on course to pass funding bill with majority of caucus: David M. Drucker
Obama Tells Ferguson Extremists, “Think Big, Go Gradual”: Sara Noble

‘You are the last line of the defense of liberty!’: Scoop
Obama’s Lobbyist Problem: RWN
Louisiana Runoff Results: Mary Landrieu Loses: Roll Call

WH to Issa: Don’t Sit Gruber Beside HHS Official At Hearing: TP
MO: Robbery of 'Police Bar' goes badly: GunWatch
OH: GOP historic majority to roll back gun control: Breitbart

2014 Shellacking Complete: Landrieu Loses Louisiana Runoff : Glob
Jeb Bush's 'Education Reform' Empire: Breitbart
Giuliani Rips De Blasio for Fomenting Possible Violence: Breitbart

Economy

Feds paid $182,129,786 to house illegals for 4 months: Allen West
Government Owns Over 623 Million Acres. Why Does It Need More?: RWN
"Near Perfect" Indicator Is Flashing A Warning: Michael Snyder

Scandal Central

Obama Lawless Amnesty Costs Exposed: JW
GOP Chairman: We Should Legislate That Not One Person Is Thrown Out or Deported: CNS
Looks like Chicago PD had a stingray out at the Eric Garner protest last night: PrivacySOS

Why I’m Suing the Justice Dept.: Its Unlawful Freedom of Info. Response: Attkisson
Watch Rolling Stone Fraud Journalist Discuss Media Ethics: GotNews
Al Sharpton Declares March on DC to Demand Federal Control Over Local Police: Sooper

Climate & Energy

How the Science Got Settled: Mark Steyn
EPA to farmers: ‘Trust us’: CapitalPress
Since 2008, America’s Oil Supply Has Grown by 50 Percent: Signal

Media

Rolling Stone Walks Back Key Allegations Of Campus Rape Expose: Doug Mataconis
Today’s Neo-Victorian Feminists: Riot
Laura Ingraham: House GOP Leadership Putting Out 'Welcome Mat' for Illegals: Breitbart

“Unauthorized” Aliens With Jobs Outnumber Non-College-Grad Adults Seeking One: WZ
LibRag Warns of “Christian Terrorist Movement,” Real Terrorists Howl In Laughter: Robert Gehl
After 27 Years at CNN, News Host Who Meddled in the 2012 Elections to Protect Obama is Out of a Job: IJR

World

The Best Deal with Iran Is No Deal with Iran: Ted Bromund
Kerry 'dismayed and disturbed' by Iran charges against Washington Post reporter: Fox
Venezuela Cuts Back on Subsidized Oil Exports: AmInt

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

AT&T wants to know why a town is building a 1Gbps network when it already offers 6Mbps DSL: BGR
The autonomous Google car may never actually happen.: Slate
Uber Just Landed Another Billion Dollars. It’s Not Going Anywhere: Wired

Cornucopia

An Art Historian Was Watching ‘Stuart Little' and Discovered Something Incredibly Valuable: IJR
Man Sees Fellow Fan’s Pregnant Wife Texting Another Man, and Does Something About It: RWN
Is President Bill Clinton a Rapist?: Larry Elder (1999)

Image: U.S. Saw Little to Lose in Yemen Rescue Attempt as Execution Neared
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QOTD: "In 2007, there were reports that the Capitol switch board actually stopped working because so many people called, and asked their senators and congressmen to stop an amnesty bill going through at the time, and it stopped... And it helped in 2013 when the House was on the verge of considering something like the Gang of Eight bill in the Senate, so I would encourage you to call your senator, call your congressman next week and in the new year.

...Congress needs to take action using the strongest power that we have which is the spending power under the Constitution to stop President Obama’s unlawful amnesty decree. Pass a short-term funding measure, try to defund these measures now, put the Senate Democrats on record, and then simply fund the government in the new year . . . then we can take action to defund the specific executive overreaches.”" --Senator-Elect Tom Cotton

Saturday, December 06, 2014

Totalitarians vs. Toadies

By Lawrence Sellin

To paraphrase the sage of Oklahoma, Will Rogers, liberals used to be people who did good with their own money.

To paraphrase former British Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher, liberals learned that, by doing so, they would quickly run out of their own money. Whereas, through government, they could satisfy either their altruism or their guilt and do good on a much larger scale using other people's money.

Unfortunately for them, implementing "social justice" by legal mandate, that is, transforming a liberal philosophy into liberal politics, forced them to swim in the same dogmatic waters as communists, where liberals had difficulty drawing a distinction between their policies and those endorsed by the communists.

That dilemma was temporarily resolved by the Great Depression, an economic calamity arguably caused by government through the inappropriate action of the Federal Reserve, which resulted in the "throw out the bums" election of liberal Democrat Franklin D. Roosevelt, who ironically promoted government as the solution. Knowing they could not be elected to high office by truthfully articulating their aims, American communists joined the Roosevelt Administration in droves.

As the Depression dragged on, the size and scope of government increased in a manner not unlike the humorous anecdote about business consultants "if you're not part of the solution, there is good money to be made in prolonging the problem."

Although liberal policies invariably failed and its theoretical basis collapsed, the rhetoric managed to survive, but becoming steadily more extreme in order to nourish a constituency of evolving grievances, from "Income Inequality" to the "War on Women" to the newly-minted "White Privilege."

One subsidiary of the liberal grievance industry is the Congressional Black Caucus, a group seemingly driven by resentment and the desire for revenge, who exploit black "victimhood" to promote policies that, in the end, maintain the victim population and themselves in Congress. Often fervent to the point of hysteria, they are habitually wrong at the top of their lungs.

MELT THEIR SWITCHBOARDS DOWN: Tell Republicans That Obamnesty Must Be Defunded Next Week!

By Chris Chmielenski

The situation surrounding House Speaker John Boehner's plan to fully fund Pres. Obama's executive amnesty is getting dicey!

Reports on Wednesday indicated that Boehner would turn to House Democrats to pass two spending bills -- one that funds most of the government through September of 2015 and one that funds the Department of Homeland Security through the early part of 2015 -- should he lose more Republican votes than he can afford.

But House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi met with her caucus on Thursday and strongly urged them not to commit to Boehner. She told them that by offering support before seeing the final bills, Democrats give up what little leverage they have over the bills' details.

Pelosi's hardline, combined with a growing number of Republicans coming out against Boehner's plan to fund Obama's amnesty, may force him to choose sides -- either Republicans who want to defund Obama's amnesty or Democrats who want more of their own policy goals included in the spending bills.

As radio talk show host, Mark Levin, put it: "Will Republicans fund Obama's fundamental transformation of America?" Or will they uphold their campaign promises and do everything they can to stop Obama?

The constant barrage of phone calls from our activists over the last several weeks has truly made an impact. We still have more work to do, but the fact that Boehner is thinking about turning to Democrats means that a lot of Republicans are threatening 'no' votes on the bills. Those lawmakers wouldn't be bucking leadership if it weren't for the pressure from their constituents.

Larwyn's Linx: Why Obama is OK with GOP funding plan

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Nation

Why Obama is OK with GOP funding plan: Exam
Jindal To GOP: Grow A Pair And Defund Obama’s Amnesty: Surge
What Schumer wants to embrace: Jonah Goldberg

Black Lives Don't Matter: Sultan Knish
3 Black Youth Drag White Woman From Vehicle For Beating: Treehouse
St. Louis Bosnian community sees hammer murder as hate crime: Christina Corbin

Tom Cotton's Plan: Ace
Yes, Stupid Laws Kill People: David Harsanyi
Israel, Ferguson and the global Left: Rich Baehr

Cassidy Headed for Big Victory in Louisiana Senate Runoff: Rich Baehr
How New York Confiscates Guns: GunWatch
Profiling: Sin or Survival Instinct: Lloyd Marcus

Economy

Want to Limit the Use of Police Force? Limit the State: Charles C. W. Cooke
Reversal: WI Republicans to push right-to-work after all: Hot Air
After Trillion Dollar ‘Stimulus’ Obama Whines U.S. Infrastructure ‘Embarrassing’: JWF

Scandal Central

Obama Sues Companies for Complying with Obamacare: Michael Schaus
Landrieu Operative Slanders James O’Keefe, Then Runs When She Sees Him: RebelPundit
Bernie Sanders: Evidence that the Senator from Vermont is a Big “C” Communist : NoisyRm

Climate & Energy

Senator Blunt: New EPA Regs Will Raise Utility Bills 50% Over Next 6 Years: ProgsToday
How the Oceans Stop Global Warming: Power Line
Harvard Law Prof Calls EPA Carbon Rules ‘Executive Overreach’: CI

Media

Feminists Are In Full Mouth-Foaming Meltdown Over Rolling Stone Gang-Rape Retraction: Sooper
Networks Fail to Expose Doubts in Rolling Stone Story; Devoted 11 Minutes to Initial Report: MRC
Journalist Exposed #RollingStone Rape Fraud But No One Would Publish It: GotNews

New Black Panther Party Leader Quanell X: This Country Is on the Verge of a Civil War: Breitbart
Four Times in One Show, Chris Matthews Compares Ted Cruz to Joe McCarthy: NB
Nausea Alert: Barack and Michelle Obama's Love Story Coming to Theaters: MRC

World

ISIS Claims They Have Dirty Bomb, Made from 40 kg of Uranium Looted from Mosul University: Ace
Islamic State group support grows in Jordan town: CNS
Medal of Honor recipient Dakota Meyer to ISIS: Bring it: Kelly Cohen

Interpol Alert Seeks Arrest of MB's Qaradawi: IPT
American, South African hostages killed in Yemen: MyWay
At Israel's MIT, Arab Women (and Men) Are Suddenly Thriving: Peter Coy

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Research says alien life could exist but chances of contact are slim: Engadget
Cogent Now Admits They Slowed Down Netflix’s Traffic, Creating A Fast Lane & Slow Lane: Dan Rayburn
Check Out Google's Interactive Periodic Table of Elements: PopMech

Cornucopia

I’m too sexy for my thumbs; too sexy for my gum, too sexy for my bum…: MOTUS
How Physical Activity Can Benefit the Aging Brain: WSJ
NSFW – PSA – You’ve all seen it – worth repeating!: IOTWReport

Image: Medal of Honor recipient Dakota Meyer to ISIS: Bring it
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QOTD: "This is what we call smart power... Using every possible tool and partner to advance peace and security. Leaving no one on the sidelines. Showing respect even for one's enemies. Trying to understand, in so far as psychologically possible, empathize with their perspective and point of view. Helping to define the problems, determine the solutions. That is what we believe in the 21st century will change -- change the prospects for peace." --Hillary Clinton

Friday, December 05, 2014

AN OPEN LETTER TO REP. MICHELE BACHMANN: I Beg You to Reveal the Truth About Hillary Clinton

Why is this letter addressed to Rep. Michele Bachmann? Because she is one of the few members of Congress with the courage and stamina to stand up to the Beltway elites in both parties. She isn't running for reelection, so she presumably doesn't care whose feathers she ruffles.

Dear Rep. Bachmann:

I have a favor to ask. The favor is not for me personally: it is for every American concerned about the future of this Republic.

I know you are a patriot. I know you are courageous. I know you care deeply about the future of this nation. Therefore I have addressed this request to you and you alone.

Hillary Clinton, like Barack Obama, is a radical leftist who despises the Constitution and the free market. Her troubling history is well-documented, as even The Washington Post observed in 2008 when the editors of that dying journal were trying to get then-Senator Obama nominated.

Hillary Clinton and her husband have some secrets you can help expose.

The Cox Report

The Cox Report was issued in 1999, a time when some House Democrats still put country before party, after an investigation of some shocking transfers of military technology to the Communist Chinese military.

This special committee, created by a 409-10 vote of the U.S. House of Representatives on June 18, 1998, was tasked with the responsibility of investigating whether technology or information was transferred to the People's Republic of China that may have contributed to the enhancement of the nuclear-armed intercontinental ballistic missiles or to the manufacture of weapons of mass destruction... ...The committee's final report was approved unanimously by all 9 [bipartisan] members. The redacted version of the report was released to the public May 25, 1999.

The full report has never been released.

Why might that be?

Because the Clintons appear to have traded military secrets to the Red Chinese in exchange for millions in campaign contributions.

For instance, on 9/13/1995, President Clinton met with John Huang and James Riady (pictured below). During the meeting, Huang expressed an interest in becoming a fund-raiser for the Democratic National Committee.

In this position at the DNC, Huang raised $3.4 million. The DNC was later forced to return nearly $2 million when a Congressional investigation revealed "problems" with the source of the funds. Huang was later convicted of crimes related to illegally reimbursing campaign contributions with Asian funds. Riady was also convicted of related campaign finance crimes. A U.S. Senate campaign finance report stated that Riady had a, "long-term relationship with... Chinese intelligence."

On 3/14/1996, President Clinton signed an order transferring license-granting authority for military/industrial technology from the State Department to the Commerce Department. This order made it easier for the Chinese military (the PLA) to launch American satellites, over objections from the Pentagon and the State Department. During the Clinton administration, focused Chinese espionage efforts made significant headway in the theft of U.S. military/industrial secrets including those concerning nuclear weaponry.

On 5/25/1999, the U.S. House of Representatives released the Cox Report ("Report of the Select Committee on U.S. National Security and Military/Commercial Concerns with the People's Republic of China"), which detailed publicly for the first time China's espionage campaign against the United States. The report was a redacted version of a still-classified report. Approximately 30% of the original report, the unanimous product of a bi-partisan committee, remains classified.

Rep. Bachmann, you can release the full Cox Report.

The Barrett Report

Another little-remembered scandal involving the Clintons, The Barrett Report:

...is a 400 page [document] created by special prosecutor David Barrett. Initially tasked with investigating allegations of lying to the FBI against Henry Cisneros, Secretary of the U.S Department of Housing and Urban Development under U.S. President Bill Clinton, the investigation eventually delved into allegations that President Clinton had used the U.S. Department of Justice and the Internal Revenue Service as political tools against American citizens.

Before the release of the report, three Democrat U.S. Senators, John Kerry, Dick Durbin and Byron Dorgan, forced the redaction of certain pages by attaching a rider to an unrelated appropriations bill.

Cisneros, a former San Antonio mayor, eventually pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of lying to the FBI. He paid a US$10,000 fine and was pardoned by President Clinton on Clinton's final day in office.

So three powerful Democrat Senators did their level best to cover up reports that Clinton used the IRS and the DOJ to attack political opponents!

Rep. Bachmann, you can release the full Barrett Report.

So my request is as follows

Rep. Bachmann: please read the redacted portions of The Barrett Report and The Cox Report into the Congressional Record. The classification of this information is not an issue for members of Congress.

Professor Bruce Ackerman and others have stated that members of Congress "cannot be prosecuted for reading classified material into the public record."

Let's find out what Hillary Clinton and her husband were really up to when they occupied the White House for eight years.

The citizens of this country need to know in order to properly vet this woman for elected office. The citizens of this country deserve to know the truth. Please help us discover the truth.

Thank you for your time and consideration.

Sincerely,

Doug Ross

As an aside, wouldn't you agree that these Democrats are the lowest of the low?


Larwyn's Linx: Don't be Grubered by Boehner's Amnesty Plan

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Nation

Don't be Grubered by Boehner's Amnesty Plan: Daniel Horowitz
Boehner scrambling to find Democrat votes for Cromnibus: RS
GOP Passes Meaningless Bill Designed to Trick Stupid Americans: Ace

Burn This Bitch Down? No, Thanks: Breath of the Beast
Big Government Killed Eric Garner; Where’s The Indictment Against It?: HayRide
Death Is A Fearful Thing, But Not Always Lonely: RabbleWriter

DHS already hiring 1,000 employees to carry out Obama amnesty: Times
The Republicans in Congress Hate Us. Just Like the Democrats.: Erick Erickson
GOP Leadership: 'Are You More Important Than The Country?': Mark Levin

Wilson Poll Indicates A Massive Blowout Is Coming On Saturday: HayRide
Eric Garner's Arrest Overseen by Female Black Sergeant: Ace
Congress Must Fight Back Against Obama’s Lawlessness: David Limbaugh

Economy

GOP funding Obama's "fundamental transformation": Daily Rushbo
Lyft, Uber Et Al Impact US Medallion Market: TTAC
Corporate Bond Bubble Comes Unglued at the Bottom, Investors Begin to Bleed: ZH

Scandal Central

A White House Connection in the IRS Scandal?: Matthew Clark
SPEC OPS SCREAMS: Mike Rogers Covering for his Wife in Benghazi Report!: Patriots
Obama’s Scandal-Tainted BCGB (Best Chicago Golfing Buddy): Michelle Malkin

Climate & Energy

Inhofe Correct on Whackjob Streisand - She admitted key climate role: Climate Depot

Media

Boehner Wants In On The Race Baiting, Says He’s Open To Hearings On Michael Brown And Eric Garner: WZ
MO: People Block Street, Jump on Vehicle, Man pulls Gun: GunWatch
Media Blackout: Black Male Ruthlessly Executes 12-Year-Old Boy Keith Passmore: DownTrend

Lena Dunham 'Raped by a Republican' Story in Biography Collapses Under Scrutiny: Breitbart
Chris Hughes Insulted the President’s Daughters: Erick Erickson
Levin: Eric Holder Is Al Sharpton With A Law Degree: Daily Rushbo

World

Hillary: We Must Empathize With America's Enemies: WS
Iran: We've Developed 2,000-km Range Missiles; Given Hizbullah 300-km Range Missiles: MEMRI
Iranian jets join allies in the fight against Islamic State in Iraq: Telegraph

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

County sheriff finally gets the drone he wanted, ignores privacy concerns: Ars Technica
IDC’s Top 10 technology predictions for 2015: SD Times
Apple mass transit system for Maps detailed in new patent: Apple Insider

Cornucopia

Next Bond Film: SPECTRE, With Christopher Waltz as Blofeld?: Ace
Ferguson, NYC and now the Ongoing Zwarte Piet Controversy in Holland: MOTUS
A Government Plot Against 2nd Amendment Supporters?: Alan Colmes

Image: St. Louis Man Pulls Gun on Protesters After They Attack His Car
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QOTD: "I've been thinkin' about one great lady like the women in my life

She's a mother, a daughter, and through it all, she's a lovin' wife

Oh, there is something about her, this great lady, caring, hard-working, once a First Lady

She fights for country and my family, now it's time for us to stand up

*BOOM BOOM CLAP*

*BOOM BOOM CLAP*

With Hillary

Hillary!

Stand up

With Hillary
" --Ace, "Hillary Country Song So Ludicrous You'll Plotz"

Thursday, December 04, 2014

MUST READ: An Open Letter to Republicans in Washington

By Daniel Horowitz

Dear Republicans in Washington,

Houston, we’ve got a problem. 

We have a president who has made it clear he will unilaterally change laws in a way that will harm America’s economy for years to come – whether they pertain to labor, energy, health care, and of course, immigration.  He openly brags about his newfound ability to “change the law,” and he is only emboldened to continue building on the lawlessness for the next two years.

This begs the deeply uncomfortable and inconvenient question of our time: is there anything this president cannot get away with over the next two years?

Yet, at the same time that Obama has assumed the powers Alexander Hamilton referred to as the prerogative of perpetual and hereditary prince, you have publicly and preemptively ceded all powers Congress has to stop this regime.  You have made it clear to the president that no matter how egregious and unpopular his edicts are with the people, you will not wield the power of the purse in any consequential way.  You have telegraphed to him your fervent belief that Republicans would be blamed for any brinkmanship – no matter the issue, no matter how much you fund critical aspects of government, no matter the results of the election.

This begs the deeply uncomfortable and inconvenient question of our time: is there anything this president cannot get away with over the next two years?  He can violate any and every law on the books, yet what are you going to do about it?  Won’t it lead to a government shutdown?    

And this two-year constitutional crisis is based on the assumption that he doesn’t unilaterally nullify the 22nd Amendment and run for a third term.  Ironically, the only thing stopping him from doing so is Hillary Clinton, not you and your fellow Republicans.  After all, we can’t have a government shutdown.    

Make no mistake about it, immigration is just the beginning.

How Today's Falling Oil Prices Could Lead to a Financial Catastrophe

By Nick Price

The oil and gas boom in the United States was made possible by the extensive credit afforded to drillers. Not only has financing come from company shareholders and traditional banks, but hundreds of billions of dollars have also come from junk-bond investors looking for high returns.

Junk-bond debt in energy has reached $210 billion, which is about 16 percent of the $1.3 trillion junk-bond market. That is a dramatic rise from just 4 percent that energy debt represented 10 years ago.

As is the nature of the junk-bond market, lots of money flowed to companies with much riskier drilling prospects than, say, the oil majors. Maybe drillers were venturing into an uncertain shale play; maybe they didn’t have a lot of cash on hand or were a small startup. Whatever the case may be, there is a reason that they couldn’t offer “investment grade” bonds. In order to tap the bond market, these companies had to pay a hefty interest rate.

For investors, this offers the opportunity for high yield, which is why hundreds of billions of dollars helped finance companies in disparate parts of the country looking to drill in shale. When oil prices were high and production was relentlessly climbing, energy related junk bonds looked highly profitable.

But junk bonds pay high yields because they are high risk, and with oil prices dipping below $70 per barrel, companies that offered junk bonds may not have the revenue to pay back bond holders, potentially leading to steep losses in the coming weeks and months.

FERGUSON: I know exactly who should go to prison

By Don Boys

If there is any justice in this nation then some high profile individuals will to go to jail as a result of their ineptitude, incompetence, and irresponsibility as exhibited at Ferguson. But don’t hold your breath unless blue is your favorite color!

Highly placed officials such as President Obama, Attorney General Holder and Governor Nixon were the epitome of irresponsibility. Frankly, they are responsible for much of the looting, burning, and other illegal activities and should be held accountable. Obama met with the protestors and told them to “stay the course”! He also called for better police training rather than greater personal responsibility, stronger family values, and more church involvement.

Eric Holder went to Ferguson and told college students that he understood “their mistrust” and while he was the Attorney General, he was also “a black man”! Who cares? Moreover, he began a civil rights investigation! Holder is divisive, derisive, and may be a deranged Attorney General.

Soon after the shooting, Governor Nixon made a video promising “A vigorous prosecution must now be pursued.” What incredible malfeasance. He had assumed that Wilson should be tried before the facts were known!

Obama, Holder, and Nixon are the Larry, Curly, and Moe of Ferguson!

Larwyn's Linx: Sen. Sessions Discovers Our Emperor’s Plans for a Mega-Immigration Center

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Nation

Sessions Discovers Our Emperor’s Plans for a Mega-Immigration Center: Sara Noble
Would You Please Click Here to Order John Boehner Some New Balls?: Erick Erickson
Shut Up About Obama’s Amnesty Plan Unless You Do This One Thing: Erick Erickson

On The Garner Case And Our Obligations As Guardians Of The Republic: CoS
NYPD Confirms Eric Garner Organized Crime Member in Staten Island: GotNews
Eric Garner and the Crime Drop: Commentary

Open Letter to Republicans in Washington: Daniel Horowitz
Feds Paid Group $76,000 Per Illegal Alien Child During Summer Surge: Tammy Bruce
Holder Plans Nationalized Police Force That Favors Minority Criminals: Sara Noble

Behold: Mary Landrieu in full meltdown: Guy Benson
Jeb Bush Just Can't Wait to Fight With Base!: Ace
Trey Gowdy says he'll let John McCain stop Obama's Amnesty: Erick Erickson

Economy

On the budget, John Boehner must learn from Brian Mulroney: RS
Obama lays out tax reform demands: Brian Hughes
Fed Yearns for Higher Inflation to Disguise Asset Bubbles: Peter Schiff

Scandal Central

BOMBSHELL SMIDGEN ALERT – Dept. of Treasury Blocks Release of IRS to White House Emails: Treehouse
Ferguson Would-Be Cop Killer May Have Ties to Unindicted Muslim Group: GotNews
LEVIN: Republicans should pass resolution declaring NULL AND VOID all unconstitutional presidential acts: Scoop

Climate & Energy

Climategate Five Years On: Mark Steyn

Media

Dear Media: This Elizabeth Lauten Nonsense Is Why Everybody Hates You: Mollie Hemingway
Study: The Three Most Liberal Occupations are Academia, Entertainment Media, and the News Media: Ace
Media quick to self-censor when they fear damage their stories might do to beloved causes: ¡No Pasarán!

Who Will NBC Be Rooting For Tonight?: Ed Driscoll
It isn’t rape when Democrats do it: RS
Megyn Kelly Is the New Ratings Champ in Key Demographic at Fox News: Stephen Kruiser

Media Breathlessly Reports On GOP Staffer’s FB Post, Largely Ignores Gruber: Pocket
Latest Gruber Video Is The Worst One Of All For The Obama Administration: Lid
Nets Cover Mike Brown Death 23X More than the 130 Killed in Chicago: MRC

World

Midterms Killed Iran Deal: Dick Morris
RINOs Join Democrats In Cutting Military Benefits Right Before Christmas: WZ
World's First Anti-Islam Wine Hits the Market: Ed Driscoll`

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Comcast Ads "Reeducate" Public on TWC Merger's Net Neutrality "Benefits": DailyTech
The Real-Life Community Inside the ‘Abandoned’ Skyscraper From Homeland: Wired
Are you a robot? Introducing “No CAPTCHA reCAPTCHA”: GoogleOnlineSecurity

Cornucopia

The Man Who Stole The Mona Lisa: C&S
Party of Hate: Sondrakistan
Two Things: C&S

Image: Party of Hate
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QOTD: "Comcast hopes to reeducate the public and rewrite history to its benefit, winning public support for its hegemony ambitions

"Together is better" glows one ad. "See why together is better" chimes another. It all sounds like a feel good fantasy, but unfortunately we're talking about the Comcast Corp. (CMCSA) and Time Warner Cable Inc. (TWC) $45.4B USD merger. The "good news" apparently is the pending deal which would combine America's two largest cable service providers, leaving America with little competition -- "Comcastic!"

It's a pretty tough sell promoting the merge given that anyone with basic reasoning skills will recognize that the the merger would seriously reduce competition in the U.S. cable television and high speed internet markets, including virtually eliminating competition altogether in some select U.S. markets.

From a national perspective the merger would put one company in control of more than a third of the broadband internet market (33 to 50 percent depending on how you define "high-speed") and roughly 30 percent of the paid television market. Remove satellite TV and Comcast would control roughly 60 percent of the cable TV market..." --Jason Mick

Wednesday, December 03, 2014

AN UN-CIVIL WAR: 17 States -- and counting -- sue to block Obama immigration order

At least someone is fighting back against the biggest Executive overreach in American history: a president who is literally rewriting federal immigration statutes with lawless and reckless abandon.

James Hohmann at Politico has some of the key graphs.

Seventeen states filed a joint lawsuit in federal court Wednesday to try blocking President Barack Obama’s executive order on immigration... Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott, the Republican governor-elect, took the lead, filing the suit in the Southern District of Texas.

Other states joining are Alabama, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Maine, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, North Carolina, South Carolina, South Dakota, Utah, West Virginia and Wisconsin.

“The President is abdicating his responsibility to faithfully enforce laws that were duly enacted by Congress and attempting to rewrite immigration laws, which he has no authority to do — something the President himself has previously admitted,” Abbott said in a statement. “President Obama’s actions violate the Take Care Clause of the U.S. Constitution and the Administrative Procedure Act, which were intended to protect against this sort of executive disregard of the separation of powers.”

The White House now insists that the president is perfectly free to rewrite federal statutes; unfortunately, the president is also on record refuting that very assertion... on at least 22 separate occasions.

Oopsie.

So Obama's own statements will very likely be used against him in court.

As for the feckless, hapless Republican establishment, well, they appear to have surrendered to Obama, believing that the American people despise a government shutdown more than they despise an onslaught of millions of mostly poor, illiterate, unvetted alien lawbreakers who will be net drains on the U.S. Treasury.

Here's a hint for the Priebus-Boehner-McConnell brain-trust: the American people don't give a crap about a government shutdown, as evidenced by the midterm elections. The American people care about national sovereignty, the federal debt, a welfare state run amok, and dealing with a lawless Executive Branch.

Tell Congress to stop funding Obama's Amnesty plan. Shut it all down if need be. Stop this madness.


Hat tip: BadBlue News.

NET NEUTRALITY: Which set of crony capitalists do YOU prefer?

Net neutrality is not the simple "government intervention versus laissez-faire" debate so depicted by both Republicans and Democrats. Net neutrality, once you peel the onion, is really a dog-eat-dog battle between the incumbent cable/telephone monopolies (often referred to as "the duopoly") and Internet application providers, ranging from Google to the smallest start-ups.

Put simply, net neutrality pits one set of crony capitalists against another.

The question Americans need to ask is: which crony capitalists benefit consumers more: a second-generation Ma Bell monopoly or the entire ecosystem of Internet start-ups, the list of which would require an Access database to track.

In fact, net neutrality really involves a couple of fairly simple questions that require a deeper analysis than the 12-second soundbite that today's consumers often demand.

Should the cable-telephone duopoly be permitted to speed up and slow down the Internet traffic of different application providers in order to extract more revenue? Or should they instead be required to ask consumers to pay for faster bandwidth in an application-agnostic way?

The crony capitalists on the cable-telephone side insist that the government let them do what they want to application providers. This would allow Comcast, for instance, to slow down Netflix delivery to consumers so that either the video provider pays extra fees... or else. Further, Comcast could launch its own competitive video service while degrading Netflix.

Conversely, the crony capitalists among the Internet application providers -- from Google to Lyft -- want the government to ensure a level playing field. They believe that the likes of Comcast should not be allowed to pick-and-choose winners and losers; consumers should.

This begs the question:

Is Internet service a utility, like energy, water or sewer lines?

Given heavy lobbying by the duopoly at the local level, most American consumers have only one choice when it comes to high-speed Internet access. A relatively small percentage of households, even those in heavily populated areas, have only two distinct choices for Internet access.

The duopoly asserts that cable and telephone companies are simple, private entities and should not be regulated in regards to Internet traffic.

Alternatively, the Internet application community contends that Internet pipes are indeed a utility and deserve similar treatment.

What is the duopoly really after?

High Crimes and Climate Grifters

By Alan Caruba

One of the lesser known attempts to prove that renewable energy, wind and solar power, can replace traditional energy sources--coal, oil, and natural gas--just went belly up. It occured in much the same way current wind and solar companies depend on tapping the taxpayer for government subsidies in order to stay in business. Google’s Renewable Energy Cheaper than Coal initiative began in 2007 and shut down without fanfare just four years later.

Two members of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Ross Koningstein and David Fork, worked on the project. Both men have excellent credentials in aerospace engineering and applied physics, respectively, but neither had a clue about climatology. Expertise in one field rarely translates to another unless it is closely allied.

At the start of the project "we shared the attitude of many stalwart environmentalists. We felt that with steady improvements to today's renewable energy technologies, our society could stave off catastrophic climate change. We now know that to be a false hope, but that doesn't mean the planet is doomed."

Environmentalists start off with several thoroughly incorrect beliefs that are not supported by science. The first is that climate change has anything to do with human activity such as carbon dioxide and other so-called “greenhouse gases.”

But the Earth is not a greenhouse. It is always in the process of absorbing and discharging heat via the atmosphere and the oceans. If it retained heat all life on Earth would die. Even after a hot summer’s day, the air will cool at night. Deserts, too, are often cooler at night. As for carbon dioxide, it is a trace gas in the atmosphere at barely 0.04%, but it is also the gas which all vegetation requires. In turn, vegetation gives off oxygen while we humans and other animals exhale carbon dioxide.

Larwyn's Linx: The Boehner-Reid Amnesty Funding Plan

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Nation

The Boehner-Reid Amnesty Funding Plan: Erick Erickson
You Can’t Fix Government with More Government: Jen Kuznicki
Boehner’s Two-Step Plan to Do Nothing About Amnesty: Steve Berman

How to Make Your Own Race Riot: Sultan Knish
The Mike Brown PBS “Lie Chart”: Treehouse
Michael Brown’s Magically Missing Marijuana: MB

Nothing on Terry Bean: Michelle Malkin
The Real Racist Conspiracy In Ferguson: Ben Shapiro
The Appeal of Hillary Drunk: Power Line

Here’s One Of Mary Landrieu’s Less-Friendly Union Thug Supporters: HayRide
Mary Landrieu Supporters Silence Black Activists, Assault Journalist: RebelPundit
RINO Kook Jeb Bush: Obama Amnesty Didn't Go Far Enough: Pat Dollard

Economy

The GOP Will Fund Obama’s Executive Amnesty Plan: Erick Erickson
Owner of Market in Ferguson: I Won’t Rebuild – I Don’t Feel Safe: Nice Deb
Lies About VA Reform Come To Light: Betsy McCaughey

Scandal Central

President Obama's "Deferred Action" Program for Illegal Aliens Is Plainly Unconstitutional: CIS
Jaleel Tariq Abdul-Jabbaar Facebook page and threats: FAM
In a sane world, Sharyl Attkisson would be recognized with the highest commendations in journalism: ¡No Pasarán!

Media

Mark Levin Caller Has a Great Idea About the One Person Who Needs a Body Camera: PJM
You’ve Got To Like Weigel: R.S. McCain
Commie moron Russell Brand FREAKS OUT when confronted by reporter about HIS wealth!: Scoop

Ferguson-Style Mob Violence: Coming Soon to Your Town!: Riot
Mark Levin blasts Obama for holding a meeting about ‘racist cops’: Scoop
Newt on Ferguson: Obama should be saying to people ‘don’t rob stores and don’t disobey police’: Scoop

Charles Barkley says what Obama and Holder should be saying but won’t: Doug Powers
Thomas Sowell: Obama 'Wants to Spread Paranoia' If It Gets Votes: Breitbart
NYT Editor Admits Giving Palestinian Incitement a Pass: IPT

World

Ted Cruz's Anti-'Obama-Clinton' Foreign Policy Has Arrived: Rebecca Nelson
Cruz: You can’t defeat Islamic terrorism if you can’t even utter those words: Robert Spencer
DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson: Obama's Executive Order Is Not Amnesty: Breitbart

Niqabs and Burqas as Security Threats: Daniel Pipes
Oopsie==> Muslim Tries To Throw Firebomb at Israeli Soldiers, Goes Up In Flames: Tammy Bruce
No Second Amendment in the UK: Levi Winchester, Express

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Should scientists attempt to create artificial life?: SingularityHub
5 Open Source Business Intelligence Tools: Paul Rubens
Building Node.js Projects in Visual Studio: Gastón Hillar

Cornucopia

Black Lives Matter: Diann Russell
Heart of Darkness: From Georgetown to Ferguson: MOTUS
Attention All Coppers: Prepare to Go-Pro: MOTUS

Image: IDF PHOTOS: Female Combatant Soldiers Complete Their Training
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: TELL CONGRESS TO STOP FUNDING OBAMA'S AMNESTY PLAN!

QOTD: "The House Republicans will take a symbolic vote against President Obama’s Executive Amnesty.

But they have no intention of stopping him. In fact, they will enable him and fund his plans.

That’s the reality.

Told you so.

Call your congressman now and tell him you think this is a bunch of BS. Demand they stop the President, even if it means shutting down the government to do it.

If we don’t stop him here, on this, we will not stop any of his executive overreaches from the environment to foreign policy to the IRS." --Erick Erickson

Tuesday, December 02, 2014

GRIM, UNPATRIOTIC MILESTONE: National Debt Hits $18 Trillion

Remember when then-Senator Obama said that adding $4 trillion to the national debt was "irresponsible" and "unpatriotic"?

Good times, good times.

That was when the national debt was $9.5 trillion.

It recently hit $18 trillion.

According to CBS News, Obama has presided over "the largest increase" in the national debt "to date under any U.S. president."

The U.S. Department of the Treasury reports that the debt under President Obama has grown nearly $7.5 trillion -- and counting.

In 2012, the then-Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral Mike Mullen, characterized the debt as "single biggest threat to America's national security."

SENATOR SESSIONS: Is the Republican Party Going to Keep Its Promise to Fight Amnesty or Not?

By Sara Noble

The following statement is from Sen. Jeff Sessions‘ website. Judging from his statement, it appears the new GOP draft on amnesty rejects pretty much nothing that Obama is demanding.

It’s all okay with the GOP – work permits, Social Security, Medicare, all of it is okay.

The fact that Congress rejected this five times and that Obama’s actions are illegal seems to be eluding the GOP. The fact that they were elected to stop Obama also seems to have eluded the GOP.

The GOP seem to think the worst thing in the world is to allow Obama to close the government down since he and the media will blame the GOP. It would be so terrible that they will let Obama do anything he wants to avoid it.

RANSOM FOR BOWE BERGDAHL? No Straight Answers Available From the Most Transparent Administration Ever

By Investor's Business Daily

Oversight: A House Armed Services Committee member asks for a probe into reports that money was paid in a failed attempt to ransom alleged deserter Bowe Bergdahl. And where's that Bergdahl investigation report, anyway?

Back on Oct. 16 we noted that the Pentagon had completed its investigation into Sgt. Bergdahl's abandonment of his Afghan post. But the report by Brig. Gen. Kenneth Dahl would not be released, according to an Army spokesman, until the end of a review process that was likely to be conveniently lengthy, lasting at least until after the midterm elections.

It has now been over six months since Bergdahl's May 14 release in exchange for five top Taliban commanders and a month since the administration's electoral thumping. Yet the report has still not been made public.

It presumably contains a conclusion on whether Bergdahl officially deserted and recommended punishment for any offense. It might also deal with reports of a botched cash ransom attempt.

As we noted in June, soon after his May release, Bergdahl was believed to have been held by the militant Haqqani network in the tribal area of Pakistan's northwest frontier on the Afghan border. He was picked up in eastern Afghanistan, near the Pakistani border, by a Navy SEAL team.

The Haqqani network, while designated a terrorist organization, has been described by best-selling author Brad Thor as "80% Tony Soprano and 20% al-Qaida" — a group more interested in cash than a swap of prisoners that would benefit the Taliban.

Larwyn's Linx: Is He Out of His Narcissistic Mind?

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Nation

Is He Out of His Narcissistic Mind?: Marilia Duffles
Obama will shut down the government if GOP tries to stop amnesty: Hot Air
Hastert Rule is unfair to Democrats… or something: RS

Opinions vs. Facts: Thomas Sowell
The DeAndre Joshua Murder: Treehouse
How To Not Get Shot By The Police: John Hawkins

Gallup: Record Number Report Skipping Health Care Due to Costs: Ace
Sessions and Congressional Researchers Reinforce Immigration Hawks: NRO
Boehner gears up to shut GOP immigration dissenters down: Times

Dem Takeover of Senate in '16 Possible but Not a Slam Dunk: Michael Barone
Turns out Harry Reid dumped money into Greg Orman’s race after all: Moe Lane
Holder announces plan to target "racial profiling": Grabien

Economy

Immigration executive order may kill tax break extension: RS
US has 2nd biggest welfare state in the world. But who’s it for?: AEI
Mary Landrieu Floats Higher Taxes: ‘We Should Look At The Gasoline Tax’: WFB

Scandal Central

The St. Louis Murder of Zemir Begic – Not Random At All: Treehouse
TMZ Politics Smashes MSM Over Lauten vs. Child Rapist: NB
Marxist Julie Bosman -- who printed Darren Wilson's address -- wants A-List protection from cops: GotNews

Climate & Energy

Claim: Most of Earth’s carbon may be hidden in the planet’s inner core: WUWT
Is it time to panic in the oil sands?: MacLean's
Earth Is Like Totally Moving Towards A 6th Great Extinction Or Something: Cove

Media

Joe "The Morning Schmoe" Scarborough leads backlash against Ferguson riots: Don Surber
Criticism of the Royal Family Will Not Be Tolerated: John Hayward
The Very Worst of Leftist Loon Brian Wilson of NBC News: MRC

“They Tore up Your Stores…Take the Insurance Money and Run”: Eratosthenes
Al Sharpton: A Snitch and His Unpaid Taxes: MB
Coulter: Police Body Cams Would 'Shut Al Sharpton Down': Breitbart

The last stand of the old line civil rights establishment: Ferguson as Selma: RS
The Torch Is Being Passed to A New Generation of Right-Wing Media: Bloomberg
GotNews Resumes Lawsuit To Get Michael Brown’s Juvenile Record: GotNews

World

Imagine a World Without America? Obama Can: David Solway
Al Qaeda Plot to Blow Up Five European Planes Simultaneously On Christmas: Ace
New Details Released About Woman Beheaded by Muslim in Oklahoma: ConTrib`

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Why did it take antivirus giants YEARS to drill into super-scary Regin? Symantec responds: Register
Futuristic 'Aurora' spy plane travels at SIX TIMES the speed of sound: DailyMail
Google Fiber gigabit Internet comes to Austin, Texas: TNW

Cornucopia

Our Weasel Of The Week Nominations!: Watcher
Dem Reps Make ‘Hands Up, Don’t Shoot’ Protest Gesture on House Floor: Mediaite
Rams, police differ on apology story for players' Ferguson protest: USA Today

Image: Hillary Clinton’s awkward Keystone day
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: BadBlue Gun News

QOTD: "Democratic members of Congress showed solidarity with Ferguson protesters tonight by making the “Hands up, don’t shoot” gesture on the House floor tonight.

New York’s Hakeem Jeffries and Yvette Clarke, along with Texas’ Al Green, all made the protest gesture on the House floor tonight. Green made the gesture in reference to what the St. Louis Rams did, but touted it as a “new symbol” of protest." --Josh Feldman

Monday, December 01, 2014

FASTER, PLEASE: Another City Forced to Obey the Bill of Rights

By Dean Weingarten

Park City, Utah, officials were the latest in a series of local governments that have been forced to respect the Constitution by the Second Amendment Foundation (SAF).   SAF has run up an impressive number of legal wins to protect second amendment rights.   It has become the ACLU of the gun culture. 

In the Park City case, the city had adopted local laws in direct violation of the second amendment and Utah state preemption law.

The city law prohibited all use and possession of firearms; all carrying of concealed weapons; carrying of loaded guns inside a vehicle; showing a gun in an angry or threatening manner (no exceptions for justified use of force); and using a gun in a fight.

A city hall attorney, Tricia Lake, was clear about the illegality of the city's law.  From parkrecord.com: