Friday, December 12, 2014
TOP 12 QUOTES FROM RUSH'S EPIC RANT: Boehner and Obama Have Joined Forces to Destroy Conservatives
1 The news is that the Republican Speaker of the House has thrown in with Barack Obama. I don't care what the Democrats are doing. What does that matter? Holy smokes: John Boehner has just squandered the election results before the Republicans even are sworn in to run the Senate...
2 There is a major falling out taking place in the Democrat Party, and we're supposed to be enthused by this, by the way, we're supposed to be excited by it... we're supposed to look the other way while our Speaker of the House gets in bed with Obama and advances the Obama agenda, takes care of it, amnesty, Obamacare, fully funded, done deal. The election must not have mattered.
3 [Campaign contribution] limits have practically been obliterated, which means that corporate donors can just start giving left and right. It used to be a limit of $37,000. Now it's $737,000, something... You know why? The Republicans put it in... This is how corporate America's gonna defeat the Tea Party. By allowing limitless donations from that crowd under the rubric that it's campaign finance and money is speech and freedom of speech and First Amendment. The theory is that Main Street, Tea Party people can't come close to competing with corporate money.
4 Marlin Stutzman is a Republican from Indiana... he's saying ... that he was lied to by the Republican leadership; that the Republican leadership reneged on a deal they made with him to get his support for the omnibus bill... Stutzman, Republican, Indiana, was one of the last Republicans to vote in favor of the rule allowing the House to fully vote on the omnibus spending bill, the $1.1 trillion omnibus... Stutzman backed the rule at the last minute after the Republican leadership told him that they would pull the $1.1 trillion omnibus bill, once the rule was passed, and they would replace it with a short-term continuing resolution that conservatives, including Stutzman, wanted, and that they would take up the whole thing next year after the Republicans and the new Congress are sworn in, and he was lied to.
Larwyn's Linx: Let's Primary Every GOP Boneless Wonder Who Votes For The CRomnibus
Nation
Let's Primary Every GOP Boneless Wonder Who Votes For The CRomnibus: CHQBoehner CROmnibus passes House 219-206: FAM
Cromnibus passes: here's the roll call vote: Scoop
Jonathan Gruber Lied To Congress About Not Writing Obamacare: DC
Senate GOP: Should we reinstate the filibuster for presidential nominees?: Hot Air
Tea Party Reacts to Obama-Boehner Omnibus Passage With Defiance: Breitbart
The GOP: For Wall Street, Not Main Street: Erick Erickson
The Heroes in the House of Representatives: Erick Erickson
Breaking Down the ‘Cromnibus’ Vote: Roll Call
Hillary Clinton Will Be Called To Testify On Benghazi: Shark Tank
The Cop-Killing Cult of Larry Davis: Michelle Malkin
California Raid Nets Gang Members Connected to Mexican Mafia: LawOfficer
Economy
Obama-NLRB Gives Unions Access To Employers’ Email Systems: LURUnfunded pension liabilities are staggering: Hanford Sentinel
Burger King flees to Canada to avoid Democrats' insane corporate taxes: SRN News
Scandal Central
E-Mails Reveal Regime Scheming To Close Gun Dealers: Extrano's AlleyTed Cruz: No One Is Above the Law, ‘Especially the President’: Daily SIgnal
USAF Major (Ret.) Told He Can’t Watch FNC at Med Facility: LL1885
Climate & Energy
A Global Tax? UN Debates Requiring Members to Report ‘GHG’ Emissions: PJMSkeptics Cleared Off Stage at UN Climate Summit: Climate Depot
Media
Rush Was Right About Government Shutdowns: Jeffrey LordPalin To Congress: “Kill The Omnibus Spending Bill”: Real Revo
Record Number of Americans Want ObamaCare Repealed: Logan Albright
Angry Dad’s Letter to Jonathan Gruber: “You Arrogant B*****D!”: Tammy Bruce
CBS Continues to Ignore Emails of Racist Jokes by Sony Pictures Execs About Obama: MRC
Gruber on Obamacare in 2010: “Full disclaimer, I helped write it”: LI
World
Biden Lectured Ayaan Hirsi Ali On Islam: TRThinking About Torture: Jonah Goldberg
Jihadist Killings Equal to a 9/11 Pentagon Attack Every Day for a Month: Terry Moran
Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)
Fitbit Surge Fitness Watch Early Hands-On Review: CIODisruption and the Uberization of Business: InnovExc
.300 Blackout AR Pistol: Guns & Tactics
Cornucopia
I literally can't even.: BB&BSchoolin’ Gruber…Anyone?: MOTUS
Bitter Fruit: C&S
Image: Mudslide fears for L.A. as 'Pineapple Express' storm pounds West Coast
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QOTD: "What a sad spectacle this [Cromnibus] is, that the principled left and the principled right are joined together against the middle who are hoping to reap the benefits of Wall Street’s campaign donation trough (a trough that has been mostly open to Democrats in the last decade, which is why Boehner knows he will have to depend on Democrats to pass this crappy bill). If this is the only thing Boehner can bring himself to show the testicular fortitude to defend, I really hope liberal Democrats and conservative Republicans refuse to pass anything more than a CR through February. Heck, I’d prefer they passed nothing at all rather than this garbage." --Leon H. Wolf
Thursday, December 11, 2014
Should You Believe What They Tell You or What You See?
Sometimes I wish I could just passively accept what my government monarchs and their mainstream media mouthpieces feed me on a daily basis. Why do I have to question everything I’m told? Life would be much simpler and I could concentrate on more important things like the size of Kim Kardashian’s ass, why the Honey Boo Boo show was canceled, the Victoria Secret Fashion Show, whether I’ll get a better deal on Chinese slave labor produced crap on Black Thanksgiving, Black Friday, or Cyber Monday, fantasy football league standings, the latest NFL player to knockout their woman and get reinstated, Obama’s latest racial healing plan, which Clinton or Bush will be our next figurehead president, or the latest fake rape story from Rolling Stone. The willfully ignorant masses, dumbed down by government education, lured into obesity by corporate toxic packaged sludge disguised as food products, manipulated, controlled and molded by an unseen governing class of rich men, and kept docile through never ending corporate media propaganda, are nothing but pawns to the arrogant sociopathic pricks pulling the wires in this corporate fascist empire of debt.
I’m sure my blood pressure would be lower and my mood better if I just accepted everything I was told by my wise, sagacious, Ivy League educated, obscenely wealthy rulers as the unequivocal truth. Why should I doubt these noble, well intentioned, champions of the common folk? They’ve never misled us before. They would never attempt to use two highly publicized deaths as a lever to keep black people and white people fighting each other and not realizing all races are now living in a militarized police surveillance state supported by the one Party. They would never use their complete control over the financial, political, judicial, and media organisms to convince the masses that voting for one of their hand selected red or blue options will ever actually change anything. They would never engineer the overthrow of a democratically elected government, cover up the shooting down of an airliner, and attempt to blame their crimes on the leader of a nuclear power in their efforts to retain a teetering global empire. They would never overthrow or wage economic warfare on countries that don’t toe the line regarding the continued dominance of the petrodollar in global commerce.
Sadly, I’m cursed with a mind that questions everything and trusts no one in authority or associated with the status quo.
ILLINOIS: Dead Broke and Getting Broker
Imagine a company contributing the equivalent of 30 to 40 percent of its workers’ salaries each year to worker-retirement costs alone. No business could sustain that level of costs and compete, let alone survive.
In fact, the market is littered with companies bankrupted by the ballooning costs of traditional pension plans.
But that’s precisely what the Illinois government is trying to get away with. Illinois’ five state-run pension plans are so deep in the hole that the state – the employer – is now contributing the equivalent of 35 to 127 percent of its government-worker salaries just to keep its pension systems afloat. It’s simply unsustainable.
On average, the government contributes to its pension plans the equivalent of 38 percent of each worker’s salary in order to meet the state’s pension obligations. Those contributions cover not only the benefits workers accrue today, but also the shortfall created by the inherent flaws of Illinois’ politician-run pension system.
For example, to keep both the Teachers’ Retirement System, or TRS, and the State Universities Retirement System, or SURS, afloat, the state contributes the equivalent of 35 percent of an employee’s salary each year.
EXCLUSIVE: Photo of Dianne Feinstein Press Conference, Plus Our Comment o' the Day Award
The level of hypocrisy has jammed the meter's needle up against the peg and wrapped it around.
These hyperventilating, panties-in-a-wad harpies (female, male, and ?) are the same slime balls (alternately, slime-without-balls) who were BRIEFED many times on what was planned and done, as well as wondering if there wasn't more that could be done.
These now-incredulous (golly gee, we never would have guessed) geniuses let the dogs off the leash, loudly commanded, "Sic 'em!" and then jumped up and down, pom poms waving, while they gleefully cheered, "Go team, go! Fight, team, fight!"
Now they're collectively on the fainting couch (getting a tad crowded there, it is), ready to throw under the bus those out on the pointy end of the spear who did their expressed bidding.
As they cry out for punishment for the "doers" of all this "evil" and those at the CIA who gave the orders, they conveniently ignore that it was they, themselves, who ordered the CIA to march forward. If the "foot soldiers" just "carrying out orders" are to be indicted, how about the ultimate order-givers? Does Nuremberg ring a bell?
Chris refers to, of course, the fact that Feinstein, Pelosi and the other weasels were fully briefed on the Enhanced Interrogation program. Further, their very "investigation" failed to interview a single member (not one) of the very intelligence community it claimed to review.
I would call these people pond-scum, but that would unfairly tarnish hard-working algae.
Larwyn's Linx: Cromnibus: a winter festival of unrestrained spending
Nation
Cromnibus: a winter festival of unrestrained spending: John HaywardScalise On The Benefits Of Cromnibus: HayRide
Republican Budget Deal Spits in the Face of Voter Anger: Leon Wolf
The “Torture Report” and American Values: Max Boot
Awash in a Sea of Progressive Lies : DiploMad
Why release a report on the CIA in wartime?: Cal Thomas
This is Not Complicated: Erick Erickson
"The Bastards are Corrupt": Scoop
Pelosi And Reid Reveal Democrats’ '15 Strategy: Government Shutdown: WZ
States Move Forward With Plan To Alter Constitution: IBD
10th State Set to Nullify Obama’s Gun Control: ConTrib
Torture Focus is Poison Pill for Democrats: Jonathan S. Tobin
Welcome to TotCare: Obama's preschool takeover: Michelle Malkin
The Decline And Fall Of The Arkansas Battleaxe: Bob Mack
South Texas College Prof Compares Tea Party to Nazis: CI
Economy
Duck And Cover——-The Lull Is Breaking, The Storm Is Nigh: David StockmanNearly $200,000,000 Spent in Four Months on Illegal Alien Children: Sara Noble
10 reasons the “Free-Market Jesus Paradise” is awesome: LI
Scandal Central
Emails Show IRS’s Lois Lerner Met with DOJ Officials Just Before 2010 Elections: JWFeinstein's Duplicity: 68 Congressional Members Briefed On Enhanced Interrogation From 2001-2007: Lid
'You're Not Going to Be Deported,' Obama Assures 'Ordinary' Illegal Immigrants: CNS
Media
LI wins FOIA suit over David Gregory gun law non-prosecution: William A. JacobsonDon't Cry (Too Much) for The New Republic: Lee Smith
Jon Stewart Uses His Own Mistake to Bash Fox News: LI
One Democrat blasts Feinstein for "Torture Report": FAM
Dick Cheney: Torture Report ‘Full Of Crap’: GWP
Epic: Phil Kerpen Shakes Hands With Gruber, Thanks Him for "Helping Us Destroy Sh*tty Law You Passed”: WZ
World
Military on High Alert So Obama, Feinstein Can Blame Bush: Sara NobleOh My God: Obama Wants AUMF From Congress, But Won't Say What He Wants In It : Ace
NSA's Auroragold Mining Operation : Richard Adhikari
How the Palestinian Authority Manufactures its Own Martyrs: Daniel Greenfield
Because…Moral Equivalence.: MOTUS
The Treasury Department Is Seeking Survival Kits For Bank Employees: NoisyRm
The Other America: Victor Davis Hanson
Russian Sanctions + Low Oil Prices = Pontential Trouble For The West: Hideout
Will Islamic State wring its hands over torture? Not likely: John Kass
Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)
Why Is Gillette Struggling to Compete on Social With the Dollar Shave Club? : Jordan ConComcast sued for turning private home routers into public hotspots: ExtremeTech
2015 Pocket Pistols Buyer’s Guide: Dennis Adler, Tactical Life
Cornucopia
Torcher: HopenchangeDianne Feinstein should keep her head on a swivel: Obiter Dictum
Video: Man Stole Ambulance to Get to Strip Club: PoliceMag
Image: HEY LIBERALS: ISIS Just Threw a Man Off The Roof for Being Gay
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QOTD: "One of the most common and most understandable reactions to the Senate’s “torture report” is that the practices described by Dianne Feinstein’s investigators are contrary to “American values.” On a certain level the assertion is undeniable: torture (and that’s what the “enhanced interrogation techniques” amount to, even if it is not torture as heinous as that routinely practiced by dictatorships) is definitely not an “American value.” But what about incinerating civilians? Is that an “American value”?
The reality is that the U.S. has often done things in the past that, looked at in another light, could be judged as immoral acts or even war crimes. Exhibit A is the strategic bombing of Germany and Japan in World War II which culminated in the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The two atom bombs killed an estimated 190,000 civilians. The non-nuclear bombing of Japan killed at least 330,000 more. That’s more than half a million dead civilians in Japan alone. The toll was not as high in Germany but it was high enough. One bombing raid alone, on Dresden, killed between 25,000 to 40,000 people. The total number of Germans killed in Anglo-American bombing raids has been estimated at over 300,000.
It would be interesting to know what those who now decry the torture of terrorist suspects have to say about the deaths of some 800,000 people, mostly civilians, in these World War II bombing raids. Were Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman, the presidents who ordered these bombing campaigns, war criminals? And if not how can one argue, a so many on the left seem to, that George W. Bush is?" --Max Boot
Wednesday, December 10, 2014
HEY, WHY NOT? Boehner Omnibus Spending Bill Funds Social Security Benefits for Obama's Amnesty Aliens
Pages 958 and 959 of the 1,603-page omnibus spending bill from House Speaker John Boehner include a provision that gives Social Security benefits to illegal aliens under President Barack Obama’s executive amnesty...
...Right after Obama’s executive amnesty announcement, the White House confirmed to the Washington Post that illegal aliens who get amnesty from Obama—paid for by Boehner, and any Republican who votes for this omnibus bill—will have access to Social Security benefits.
By not including language saying that Social Security benefits can’t go to illegal aliens under the executive amnesty—just as they didn’t include language going after funding for the implementation of the executive amnesty itself—Republicans are completely surrendering, ensuring that millions of illegal aliens will get Social Security.
...[A] GOP aide said he’s not surprised Boehner caved to Obama’s amnesty... “I can’t say I’m surprised by this, given the apparent lack of will to protect the American people against Obama’s illegal actions,” the aide said.
I get the feeling that the Oligarchs in Washington can be segmented not as Democrats and Republicans, but as "Traitors" and "Quislings", respectively.
Yeah, you can use that one, royalty-free. It's the least I can do.
Hat tip: BadBlue News.
Why don't you ask him about torture?
The Democrat cruds -- it was an entirely partisan enterprise -- did not interview CIA directors during the time in question; did not interview CIA personnel during the time in question; and whitewashed their own involvement and approval of the techniques.
MAP: Support for Gun Control Across the United States
Couple of large grains of salt with which to digest this map: the provenance of the site is unknown to me. And the political affinity of those that visit could dramatically skew results. In this case, my guess is that this map understates support for gun rights.
Hat tip: BadBlue Gun News.
JUST SUPER: FBI Most Wanted Al Qaeda terrorist "crossed back and forth" between US and Mexico for years
Illegal border crossings have "skyrocketed":
Obtained from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) this month by a mainstream newspaper, the figures reveal that President Obama deported fewer illegal aliens in the last year than at any time during his tenure. This despite the fact that federal agents caught nearly half a million people trying to cross into the U.S. in the fiscal year ending in September. “An even bigger decline came in the numbers of people removed after living for some time in the U.S., mostly after being ensnared in the criminal justice system,” the newspaper reports.
Oh, wait! It gets better. An FBI "Most Wanted" Al Qaeda terrorist crossed freely back and forth between the U.S. and Canada "for years".
The news could not come at a worse time, on the heels of a shocking case reported by Judicial Watch this week involving an Al Qaeda terrorist on the FBI’s most wanted list who for years crossed back and forth into the United States from Mexico. The jihadist, Adnan G. El Shukrijumah (also known as “Javier Robles”), met with fellow militant Islamists in El Paso Texas, according to JW’s law enforcement sources, and even piloted an aircraft into the Cielo Dorado airfield in Anthony New Mexico earlier this year. Shukrijumah is the poster child for the need to secure the perpetually porous southern border.
Instead, Obama has issued an administrative amnesty to millions of illegal immigrants in the U.S. while the border remains particularly vulnerable. The new ICE report says that federal agents removed 315,943 last year, a 14% drop from the previous year. The administration went even easier on illegal aliens with criminal records, removing only 102,000, a 23% drop from 2013 and fewer than half the number of people deported in 2011. Only two-thirds of the illegal immigrants caught at the border were sent back, marking a 9% decline from the previous year.
We get word from Matthew Boyle today that John Boehner's insane "Omnibus" spending bill gives Social Security benefits to Obama's Amnesty aliens.
Rest assured that this means you and I will be paying for the Social Security benefits of terrorists (not to mention gang-bangers, felons, kidnappers, murderers and other illegal alien criminals).
How's your rear end feel?
Hat tip: BadBlue News.
Larwyn's Linx: Memo To House Republicans: If You Fund It You Own It
Nation
Memo To House Republicans: If You Fund It You Own It: CHQGruber Lawyers Up Regarding How Much Money He Made From Governments: Ace
Levin: Gruber hearings pointless; GOP will fund every cent of Obamacare: Scoop
The CIA, Interrogation, and Feinstein’s Parting Shot: Max Boot
Ex-Dem Senator: Why Does Feinstein Support Drones, But Not Torture?: DC
George W Bush declines to back-stab the CIA over waterboarding: Moe Lane
Gruber gets Gowdy-ed: LI
Issa to Gruber: Prepare for a Subpoena, Putz: Scoop
Dear Democrats You Did this to Yourselves: DTG
Second Ferguson Witness Reportedly Found Dead: MB
Senate Democrats Never Heard Anything About This "Torture" Business: Ace
Elizabeth Warren Goes Full Orwell: Ed Driscoll
Economy
Surprise? Ocare Has A Doctor Shortage: CoveObamacare’s Contracting Bonanza in 8 Charts: Jay Hancock
Madoff Ops. Chief Gets 10 Years: FINalternatives
Scandal Central
Leaked Docs: Obama Amnesty Increases Risk of Terrorism: Tea PartyEmail Chain: Obama Intended to Destroy Legal Businesses With Harsh Regulations: LibertyNews
Lois Lerner Met With DOJ To Plot Against Tax Exempts As Early As Oct 2010: Lid
Climate & Energy
The Gods Have Made Them Mad: Jonathan David CarsonClimate Catastrophe: John Stossel
With future uncertain, Colorado shields its water: Stamford Advocate
Media
Obama Cursed Reporters: DossierMississippi Burning – Jessica Chambers Murder: Treehouse
Catalog of Krugman quotes regarding Gruber and Obamacare: Reddit Libertarian
Time Magazine: Lena Dunham Rape Allegation Fake But Accurate: Ed Driscoll
Mara Liasson: Gruber 'Could Be the Undoing of Obamacare': Breitbart
NBC Nightly News Breaks Silence on Jonathan Gruber 32 Days After First Video Surfaced: MRC
Obama gets huffy when Spanish host calls him the ‘Deporter-in-Chief’: Scoop
‘OMG! Hilarious!': Obama says ‘when we make mistakes, we admit them’: Twitchy
CBS’s Pelley Asks Former Acting CIA Director If He Feels ‘Ashamed’ After Release of ‘Torture’ Report: MRC
World
Make No Mistake, Dianne Feinstein Is Releasing The 'Torture' Report For Political Reasons: LidFormer top Obama CIA official defends interrogation program: Marc A. Thiessen
Obama's Reaction to the Senate Report: Torture is Good: Chris Floyd
Ralph Peters: Releasing CIA report will “provide aid and comfort to the enemy”: Scoop
China Takes Nuclear Weapons Underwater Where Prying Eyes Can’t See: NoisyRm
Statement of Geert Wilders during His Interrogation by the State Police: Gatestone
Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)
Glassdoor: Google dethrones Twitter as the best tech company to work for in the U.S.: VBThe Content Marketing Stack: Alltop
The Pirate Bay goes offline after police raid server room: Verge
Cornucopia
The 2014 Hater's Guide To The Williams-Sonoma Catalog: Drew MagaryBumper Sticker o' the Day: Treehouse
The Best Quotes From Jack Donovan’s “The Way Of Men”: John Hawkins
Image: Obama’s immigration taunt: Next president won’t dare reverse my executive action
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QOTD: "As things get worse and the State seems powerless to help, the State will seem less and less legitimate. People will lose their moral connection to it. Laws will seem more like revenue traps and shakedowns. The state will start to seem more like another extortion racket, and, as in Mexico, people will have a harder time telling the good guys from the bad guys." --Jack Donovan
Tuesday, December 09, 2014
BEYOND BENGHAZI: Massive Security Gaps in State Department Security on Hillary's Watch Revealed
The Wall Street Journal elaborates:
State Department investigators discovered numerous security deficiencies in global hot spots when reviewing U.S. diplomatic facilities in 2012 and 2013, suggesting problems were more widespread than previously known.
...The review, which hadn’t been made public before, was undertaken from April to October 2012, toward the end of Hillary Clinton ’s tenure as secretary of state. It provides the best snapshot of security when the U.S. compound in Benghazi, Libya, was attacked in September 2012, leading to the deaths of four Americans, including the U.S. ambassador to Libya.
Congressional panels investigating the Benghazi attacks concluded that State Department officials didn’t beef up security despite requests from diplomats in Libya. The reviews suggest such problems went well beyond Benghazi.
DRONES ARE JUST PEACHY: Ex-Sen. Bob Kerrey (D-KS) Slams Dianne Feinstein for enhanced interrogation hypocrisy
Former Democratic Nebraska Senator Bob Kerrey called out Senate Intelligence Committee Chair Dianne Feinstein on MSNBC’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports” for her “incompatible” positions in support of droning terrorists, but in opposition to using enhanced interrogation.
“Well the other thing is, you’ve got guys out there right now running drones. Dianne Feinstein supports the use of drones,” he noted. “What happens if ten years from now, there is another investigation saying those guys violated international law as well?”
“I mean you’re basically saying, ‘I can’t interrogate Khalid Sheikh Mohammad, but I can put him out with his family and drop a drone [strike] on him.’ There seems to be something incompatible with those two positions.
Well, let's put it this way, Bob: wiping out a terrorist's family with a drone strike is no more hypocritical than Michelle Obama gorging on fast food while insisting that growing kids starve themselves.
Hat tip: BadBlue News.
THE ENERGY BUST: What it heralds for the economy
Are much lower oil prices good news for the U.S. economy? Only if you like collapsing capital expenditures, rising unemployment and a potential financial implosion on Wall Street. Yes, lower gasoline prices are good news for the middle class. I certainly would rather pay two dollars for a gallon of gas than four dollars. But in order to have money to fill up your vehicle you have got to have an income first. And since the last recession, the energy sector has been the number one creator of good jobs in the U.S. economy by far. Barack Obama loves to stand up and take credit for the fact that the employment picture in this country has been improving slightly, but without the energy industry boom, unemployment would be through the roof. And now that the “energy boom” is rapidly becoming an “energy bust”, what will happen to the struggling U.S. economy as we head into 2015?
At the start of this article I mentioned that much lower oil prices would result in “collapsing capital expenditures”.
CONFIRMED: the President Lied to You About the IRS Scandal
It seems rather startling to me that the press would ignore the use of the IRS as a political bludgeon, but -- then again -- anything goes when a Democrat occupies the Oval Office.
Back in February, President Barack Obama said the apparent targeting of conservative organizations by the IRS was not illegal or politically motivated, but rather the result of “some bone-headed decisions,” and that “not even a smidgen of corruption” was at play. A few months — and developments — later, however, the president’s words are even less believable than they were then.
First, nonprofit watchdog group Cause of Action filed a Freedom of Information Act request for documents from the IRS indicating that the agency had been sharing individuals’ private tax data with the White House. (The group was trying to obtain information proving the existence of an independent investigation into alleged unauthorized access to the Koch brothers’ tax returns by former White House senior economics adviser Austan Goolsbee.) When the agency dragged its feet and ultimately denied the request, Cause of Action sued. A judge ruled in Cause of Action’s favor, ordering the IRS to turn over all of the documents by December 1.
Despite the court order, however, the IRS has continued to stonewall, refusing to share the requested records. While the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA) claimed initially that the IRS would comply and turn over more than 2,000 pages of documents, it abruptly reneged, saying in a letter to Cause of Action on December 1 that, yes, they did indeed have 2,043 pages of documents relating to the FOIA request, but that Cause of Action couldn’t see them due to federal privacy laws.
Yes, that's right: through its refusal to release the documents, the Inspector General has essentially confirmed that the IRS shared private taxpayer with the White House.
And, yes, that's a federal crime.
JOHNNY, GET YOUR PRINTER: The Bernanke Era
Larry Kudlow "The long term trend of commodity prices is lower"... come again? pic.twitter.com/aCtE8VYHfB
— zerohedge (@zerohedge) December 9, 2014This may be a good time to reacquaint oneself with the Pyramid of Doom.
Hat tip: BadBlue Money News.
Larwyn's Linx: Boehner to Conservatives: you have to pass the omnibus to find out what’s in it
Nation
Boehner to Conservatives: you have to pass the omnibus to find out what’s in it: RSNow Or Later: Why Not Wait to Fight Over Amnesty?: Erick Erickson
McConnell Plots a Functional, Bipartisan Senate: Roll Call
Obama Didn't Even Bother to Issue an Actual Executive Amnesty Order: Power Line
A Lay Person’s Guide To The States’ Amnesty Lawsuit Against DHS: Federalist
Conservatives Need To Re-Establish Control Of Party And Nation: David Limbaugh
They Don't Want to Stop Crime: Don Surber
Obama wants public schools to create memorials to Michael Brown: RWN
If Profiling Doesn't Work Why Does TSA and Secret Service Do It?: RCP
Mass Rapes at UC Berkeley?: Zombie
Police in WI: Citizens Should Volunteer to Have Homes Searched for Guns: GayPatriot
"Careening Toward A New & Different Kind Of Civil War": ZH
Economy
Obama's Cloward Piven Strategy Explained: ConWifeCollege prof makes students recite anti-American 'pledge of allegiance': Fox
Cromnibus Stalling Behind Closed Doors: Roll Call
Scandal Central
The Pentagon Finally Details its Weapons-for-Cops Giveaway: MuckRockObamacare Architect Jonathan Gruber to Testify on Capitol Hill This Week: Katie Pavlich
North Carolina: More Than 4,000 Charges of Child Sex Assault Filed Against Illegal Aliens in Past Year: UFP
Climate & Energy
The Emperor's New Carbon Credits: Mark SteynFuel prices fall, time for gas tax hike: Pennsylvania's Rendell: CNBC
Kuwait Sees Oil Stuck at $65 for Six Months Until OPEC Moves: Bloomberg
Media
Ann Compton on Obama: He Launches 'Profanity-Laced' Tirades Against Press: MRCChuck Todd Defends Hillary From Claims She Can't Connect With Public: MRC
Predictable CNN Suggests Tea Party Could Destroy GOP: CNS
The Optimistic Democrat: Joe Cunningham
Rolling Stone Editor, 2006: "I Want to Do Stuff That's Biased;" "We'll Write What We Believe": Ace
Sabrina Rubin Erdely’s Old Stories Sure Read Like Bad Lifetime Movies: Mollie Hemingway
World
Iran: Obama Begging To Meet Ayatollah Khamenei, “Knocking On Every Door Just To Meet For A Few Minutes”: WZNAACP Aligns With Terrorists: Sara Noble
Obama and Putin are both Frozen in the Past: James Lewis
Report: Islamic State Claims ‘Radioactive Device’ Now in Europe: Adam Kredo
ISIS Reportedly Beheads Four Christian Children in Iraq for Refusing to Convert to Islam: Matthew Clark
Israeli stabbed in New York Chabad headquarters: Times of Israel
Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)
Operation AURORAGOLD: How the NSA Hacks Cellphone Networks WorldwideThe Intercept: http://ohmyg.viralnova.com/frozen-fog/
This Dangerous Fog In Hungary Froze Nearly Everything In Its Path
ViralNova
The Latest Sony Leak Includes Extra Scripts, Phone Numbers and More: Gizmodo
Cornucopia
Cellophane on Ice: MOTUSOwning A Ferrari For A Year Was A Disappointment: Jalopnik
Is The Obama Regime Implementing His Civilian Army Via Holder’s Civil-Rights-Fabricated-Crisis?: GWP
Image: Detroit by Air
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QOTD: "I think most presidents realize – had a personal connection. I don't think they ever -- we were ever in a confrontation-type moment where they felt the need to apologize. I have seen in the last year Barack Obama really angry twice. Both were off the record times. One, profanity-laced where he thought the press was making too much of scandals that he did not think were scandals. Another where he took us to task for not understanding the limits he has with foreign policy and the way he's dealing with the Middle East and Iraq, and Afghanistan. And I don't find him apologetic. But I find him willing to stand up to the press and look them in the eye, even though it was off the record and just give us hell.
...From his point of view, he may [have a point]. But we cover what we are allowed to cover. And when policy decisions and presidents are inaccessible and don't take questions from the press on a regular basis, I think they get -- they reap what they sow." --Retired ABC News journalist Ann Compton
Monday, December 08, 2014
Analysis of Obama's Executive Amnesty Scheme: It Will Put an End to Secure Communities
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Jeh Johnson testified before the House of Representatives on December 2 that he thinks it's a "bad idea" for Congress to consider a short-term funding bill in lieu of full funding for his department, so that it can implement the stunningly broad sweep of "executive actions" on immigration announced by the president during a nationally televised speech on November 20. He may think so, but it's not at all clear why the House should adopt that view given the executive branch usurpation of authorities granted to the legislature under Article I of the Constitution, and the undermining of an entire system of federal immigration laws.
Concurrent with the president's speech, Johnson issued a series of 10 policy memos outlining the various programs covering 10 key areas that would constitute this "executive action".
One of the 10 memos announced an end to Secure Communities, a program that uses electronic matching of fingerprints to identify alien criminals in near-real-time among the people arrested by police nationwide. It's to be replaced with a new "Priority Enforcement Program (PEP)" ... that uses electronic matching of fingerprints to identify alien criminals in near-real-time among the people arrested by police nationwide.
Don't think, though, that this is just a re-branding of Secure Communities under a puerile new name such as "PEP" in order to escape the controversy that has been its hallmark. Most assuredly it's not — the changes are substantive and damaging.
NO, REALLY, I'M SERIOUS: RNC Braintrust Actually Believes Jeb Bush is a Viable Presidential Candidate
I know for a fact that the RNC is prepping the Jebster for a run because I happened to be at a corporate event a while back and The Smart Bush® made an appearance. Trailing him into the room at a discrete distance was ReiNCe Priebus, ostensible chair of the RNC.
I say "ostensible" because we all know that the RNC is actually run by Tom Donahue, president of the Chamber of Commerce. And Donahue, more than anything else, seeks cheap immigrant labor--the American economy, the American citizenry, and the Constitutional system be damned.
Which explains Jeb Bush's borderline-insane pleas for open borders, Amnesty, and the inevitable voting rights and citizenship for tens of millions of illegal aliens.
In contrast, Kurt Schlichter highlights the weakness of the Democrat's 2016 candidates, headlined by the ludicrously unqualified Hillary Clinton, who -- at best -- represents a third term for
RESET: China Conducts Third Test of Game-Changing "Carrier Killer" Missile System
Defense Threat: China conducts its third test in a year of a hypersonic glide vehicle designed to evade our missile and other defense systems, including the Aegis defense system guarding our carrier battle groups.
As we downsize our military, scale back weapons procurement and development, China proceeds at top speed towards weapons designed to counter our once-huge technical advantage and qualitative superiority. Case in point is the third flight test of a hypersonic glide vehicle (HGV), dubbed the WU-14 by the Pentagon, following earlier tests on Jan. 9 and Aug. 7 of this year.The U.S. Navy is particularly concerned, as an HGV would be a potent weapon against U.S. carrier battle groups in the western Pacific.
A Chinese anti-ship ballistic missile — the road-mobile DF-21D, called a "carrier killer" by some — already poses a potent threat, but it is countered by our extraordinarily capable sea-based Aegis missile defense.
In February 2008, the Aegis missile cruiser Lake Erie shot down a National Reconnaissance Office 2.5-ton spy satellite before it could strike the Earth with its deadly hydrazine fuel tank nearly full.
"The beauty of the HGV (hypersonic glide vehicle) is that it can perform hypersonic precision strikes while maintaining a relatively low altitude and flat trajectory, making it far less vulnerable to missile defenses," says Rick Fisher, a China military affairs expert with the International Assessment and Strategy Center.
















