Tuesday, December 30, 2014
BEST OF 2014: Ameritopia, the Comic Book
Larwyn's Linx: On trying to shoehorn populism into the modern Left. Somehow. Somewhere.
Nation
On trying to shoehorn populism into the modern Left. Somehow.: Moe LanePresident’s NPR Interview: Copious Amount of Cognitive Dissonance: Treehouse
Obama kicks Army wedding off Hawaii golf course so he can play: RedAlert
Liberals' use of black people: Walter Williams
Report: FBI's Sony Inquiry Moves to LA: GotNews
Norm Macdonald Was Right: Sony Hack Was an Inside Job: Glob
Comparing The Two Most Republican Houses In 70 Years: Michael Barone
Support for Common Core could cost Jeb Bush in primary: Miami Herald
Steve Scalise Should Resign From His House Leadership Post: John Hawkins
Chicago Per Capita Murder Rate Exceeds New York and LA: Marie Dennis
Michigan has more food stamp recipients than students: Wynton Hall
10 senators who could lose in 2016: Cameron Joseph, The Hill
Economy
The Pension Crisis Next Door: Scranton, Pa.: Stephen MooreCan you guess who's addressing public vs. private pension disparities?: Daniel J. Mitchell
As Medicaid Rolls Swell, Cuts in Payments to Doctors Threaten Access to Care: NYT
Scandal Central
Unanswered Benghazi Questions: Fourth in a Series: Sharyl AttkissonHouse Majority Whip Scalise confirms he spoke to white nationalists in 2002: WaPo
“Racist” Organization Scalise Spoke To About Tax Policy Employs Many Democrats: GotNews
Climate & Energy
David Bird, Missing Wall Street Journal Reporter, Foresaw an Oil Crash: Pam MartensArctic cold blast, freezing rain/snow expected for New Years Day: WUWT
The $9 Trillion Dollar Carry Trade Blew Up Oil, Russia, and Brazil... What's Next?: ZH
Media
Quite possibly the most racist article you will ever read: Allen WestReporter Slams Obama For Lying About Executive Orders: MenRec
CNN’s Chris Moody: Optics of Obama Forcing Army Couple to Move Wedding ‘Hilariously Bad’: MRC
Garry Trudeau, Call Your Office: Sonny Bunch
Obviously, You Need More Feminist Lectures From Miriam Mogilevsky: R.S. McCain
Church of Global Warming Liberal Media Fret Over How to Spin Record Cold Temps: Betty Butter
POTUS Wants Us To Know ‘Who We Are’ And ‘Who We Are Not’: Tammy Bruce
Chuck Todd and the Rosetta Stone of Liberal Bias : Bernard Goldberg
NPR’s Steve Inskeep To Obama: Have The 2014 Midterms ‘Liberated You?’: Jeffrey Meyer
World
Obama: Iran Can Be 'Very Successful Regional Power': Daniel HalperRussian Nuclear Bombers Again Buzz Guam: Bill Gertz
Ah, So: Normalize Relations With Cuba, Import A Few Legions Of Doctors: R.S. McCain
Taliban Claims America 'Defeated' in Afghanistan: Geoffrey Norman
Obama: We’re ‘Ending Combat Mission in Afghanistan’--But Combat Troops Will Remain to Fight al Qaeda: CNS
Pope Francis Will Fight for Climate Change Funded by Wealth Redistribution: Sara Noble
US finds Israel fourth most 'unacceptable' country: ynet
Russian Nativity Play: Jesus, Mary, and Joseph Stalin: Cube
Aljazeera.net Article In Praise Of Stabbings, Vehicular Attacks: MEMRI`
Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)
The Big Tech Stories of 2015: Rob EnderleThe Fermi Paradox: Tim Urban
The Secret World of Stolen Smartphones, Where Business Is Booming: Matthew Shaer, Wired
Cornucopia
Addled Old Hippie Garry Trudeau Goes Off the Deep End: AceI Don't Think I Got My Christmas Wish: 90 Miles From Tyranny
Year's Best Blogs Named to 'Fab 50': Andrea Shea King
Image: Grim discovery: After 3 days of intense search for AirAsia Flight QZ8501, debris and dead bodies
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QOTD:
Page A1: The economy had a great year! Page A2: Isn't it terrible Congress passed so few laws this year?
— jimgeraghty (@jimgeraghty) December 29, 2014
Monday, December 29, 2014
MARK LEVIN: Yes, this Administration has Blood on its Hands
My blood has been boiling, I've been grinding my teeth, listening to all this, watching this, two dead police officers, murdered. President of the United States issues a statement, a written statement. The attorney general of the United States always wants to debate race (with this "nation of cowards"), nowhere to be found. Another coward, another phony. Yes, they do have blood on their hands. No, they didn't kill these police officers. But they have created an environment with their political war against the cops in this country borne out of Ferguson, Mo., with a police officer there whose career is destroyed, who has a death warrant on his own head, was defending himself and shot a thug who first tried to take his pistol and then returned for more!
And out of that, out of that, the president of the United States and the attorney general of the United States, that piece of crap Sharpton, wherever he shows up, isn't it funny, things seem to happen, usually violence. Out of that we get riots! Stores are burning in Ferguson, Mo. People are throwing Molotov cocktails. People are shooting their guns. The liberal Democrat governor pulls back on the National Guard. The police have to walk around with their hands in their pocket, afraid to do anything to protect the citizenry. Borne out of what? A lie! A fraud! Because Michael Brown didn't have his arms up in the air. He was trying to assault, again, if not kill a police officer!
You won't believe how Common Core tries to teach kids subtraction
...A massive federal takeover of education known as “Common Core” is attempting to impose nationwide academic standards on public schools throughout the entire country. Thanks to the backing of billionaire Bill Gates, endless promotion by the U.S. Department of Education, and financial bribes to state governments by the Obama administration, 45 states and Washington, D.C. have already agreed to implement the full Common Core standards in their schools. Unfortunately, these “standards” are doing to public education what Obamacare is doing to our health care system – absolutely ruining it. Just look at how basic math instruction has changed. Posted below is a comparison between the “old method” of subtraction and the “new method” of subtraction being taught in many of our schools. When I first came across this on Facebook, I thought that it was a joke…
...I thought that there was no possible way that this could be real. I really thought that this must have come from some sort of parody website.
But it is actually true.
Here is another example of this. The following is an incredibly bizarre Common Core math problem and the response by one very frustrated parent that has gone viral all over the Internet recently...
Did the Saudis and the US Really Collude to Smash Oil Prices?
The oil price drop that has dominated the headlines in recent weeks has been framed almost exclusively in terms of oil market economics, with most media outlets blaming Saudi Arabia, through its OPEC Trojan horse, for driving down the price, thus causing serious damage to the world's major oil exporters – most notably Russia.
While the market explanation is partially true, it is simplistic, and fails to address key geopolitical pressure points in the Middle East.
Oilprice.com looked beyond the headlines for the reason behind the oil price drop, and found that the explanation, while difficult to prove, may revolve around control of oil and gas in the Middle East and the weakening of Russia, Iran and Syria by flooding the market with cheap oil.
The oil weapon
We don't have to look too far back in history to see Saudi Arabia, the world's largest oil exporter and producer, using the oil price to achieve its foreign policy objectives. In 1973, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat convinced Saudi King Faisal to cut production and raise prices, then to go as far as embargoing oil exports, all with the goal of punishing the United States for supporting Israel against the Arab states. It worked. The “oil price shock” quadrupled prices.
It happened again in 1986, when Saudi Arabia-led OPEC allowed prices to drop precipitously, and then in 1990, when the Saudis sent prices plummeting as a way of taking out Russia, which was seen as a threat to their oil supremacy. In 1998, they succeeded. When the oil price was halved from $25 to $12, Russia defaulted on its debt.
The Saudis and other OPEC members have, of course, used the oil price for the obverse effect, that is, suppressing production to keep prices artificially high and member states swimming in “petrodollars”. In 2008, oil peaked at $147 a barrel.
Turning to the current price drop, the Saudis and OPEC have a vested interest in taking out higher-cost competitors, such as US shale oil producers, who will certainly be hurt by the lower price. Even before the price drop, the Saudis were selling their oil to China at a discount. OPEC's refusal on Nov. 27 to cut production seemed like the baldest evidence yet that the oil price drop was really an oil price war between Saudi Arabia and the US.
However, analysis shows the reasoning is complex, and may go beyond simply taking down the price to gain back lost marketshare.
“What is the reason for the United States and some U.S. allies wanting to drive down the price of oil?” Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro asked rhetorically in October. “To harm Russia.”
Many believe the oil price plunge is the result of deliberate and well-planned collusion on the part of the United States and Saudi Arabia to punish Russia and Iran for supporting the murderous Assad regime in Syria.
Larwyn's Linx: Crime as Politics
Nation
Crime as Politics: Victor Davis HansonThe TRUE Great Failure of Barack Obama: Moe Lane
The latest battle in the long leftist war: The anti-police protests: John Ruberry
334 blacks killed 2014 in Chicago – no riots: FAM
Black Lies Matter: Bryce Buchanan
Looking Back: The Good, The Bad And The Progressive: Derek Hunter
Why We Need Broken Windows Policing: City Journal
Leftist Protesters Forfeit Any Moral Standing They Might Have Had: GayPatriot
Thousands Support Police In “Sea Of Blue” Rallies Across The Country: WZ
LA police shot at while sitting in their patrol car, LA under tactical alert : Scoop
Everyone Says Jeb Bush Is A Conservative – Except Conservatives: CHQ
Contrary to WH Claims, Only Tiny Fraction of 'Surge' Border-Jumpers Deported: CIS
Economy
The Law of the Lots: AmIntBANNED: Obama to Save You From Evil Donut Sprinkles!: Wizbang
Gerard Depardieu was right! France scraps its 75% ‘super tax’: Twitchy
Scandal Central
The border invasion continues...: RRWBill de Blasio Turned His Back On The NYPD: That’s Why They Returned The Gesture: Jay Caruso
Supreme Irony: That Awkward Moment When Anti-Police Protesters Call Police: WZ
Climate & Energy
Regulation gone wild – Christmas lights are the next target of nanny state: WUWTMedia
Winning Quotes in the MRC’s Annual Awards for the Year’s Worst Reporting: MRCHey GQ, can’t find any crazy Democrats? Here are 16: Kyle Smith
The 50 Best Conservative Columnists Of 2014 (7th Annual): John Hawkins
Searching for the Next Michael Brown: Colin Flaherty
Same Old Script: Chris Muir, DBD
James Woods tweets photo just in time to explain CBS’s RIDICULOUS Obama headline!: BPR
COUNTDOWN! Good Guys of 2014: Watchdog
Media Nearly Silent After NC Cop Thwarts NYPD-Style Assassination Attempt: Bob Owens
Protesters Descend on Redskins Stadium Before Cowboys Game: Sooper
Bob Woodward: The world is CLEARLY NOT safer now than a year ago: Scoop
Hatemail: STFU Edition (Language Warning): Dana Loesch
Ferguson Protestor, Once Lauded for Non-Violence, Arrested for Arson and Burglary: Mediaite
World
Writer at American Thinker: What is America’s survival plan?: RRWOur Administration’s Working Hard to Keep Terror Groups off UAE Terror List: Sara Noble
Canada Rejects U.N. Arms Treaty: Robert Farago
Geert Wilders Was Right: Uzay Bulut
Turns Out ISIS is Bad at Governing: AmInt
Sweden: Immigration controversy heats up as mosque is set ablaze: RRW
Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)
The Enormous Implications Of Facebook Indexing 1 Trillion Of Our Posts: Josh ConstineIsrael-from-space pics take off online: Times of Israel
55 quotes that defined the tech industry in 2014: GeekWire
Cornucopia
Sony: ‘The Interview’ Has Made Over $15 Million Online: VarietyHow Dumb of Me: Norman Hooben
Austrian filmmaker uncovers apparent secret Nazi nuclear complex: JPost
Image: Sony: ‘The Interview’ Has Made Over $15 Million Online
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QOTD: "[The IRS] responding to a subpoena, tells congressional investigators that it cannot produce 28 months of Lois Lerner’s emails because the hard drive they were stored on failed, and the hard drive was thrown away, and the backup tapes were erased, and no printed copies were saved — contrary to the IRS’s own record-keeping policy, which was eaten by the IRS’s dog. “It was just one crazy thing after another,” states the IRS, “and it got us to thinking: All these years we’ve been subjecting taxpayers to everything short of rectal probes if they can’t produce EVERY SINGLE DOCUMENT WE WANT, and here we lose YEARS worth of official records! So from now on, if taxpayers tell us they lost something, or just plain forgot to make a tax payment, we’ll be like, ‘Hey, whatever! Stuff happens!’ Because who are we to judge?”" --Dave Barry's Year End Review (via American Digest)
Sunday, December 28, 2014
HERE THEY ARE: The 2014 Fabulous 50 Blog Award Winners #Fab50
The votes are in. The anxious nominees' fingernails have been chewed down to the quick.
And at least one blogger just excused himself to go to the bathroom (number two, apparently, based upon the length of time he's been gone). So we're more than pleased to announce the winners of the 2014 Fabulous 50 Blog Awards, the most prestigious new media awards in the conservative blogosphere.
Or, at the very least, in the 993 area code.
These awards recognize a variety of blogs and websites operating in the conservative hemisphere of the Internet, all of which have worked tirelessly to promote conservatism, free market capitalism, fiscal sanity, the sovereignty of the individual, and otherwise protect America from the cockroach-like Statists -- some in very unique ways.
So, without further ado, may I have the envelopes, please?
Larwyn's Linx: Not peaceful protests: Promoting a race war that will lead to "communist revolution"
Nation
Not peaceful protests: Promoting a race war toward "communist revolution": ZombieMeet The Agitators Behind The New York Protests And Cop Killings: NoisyRm
'Car plowed us down': LA demonstrators burn flag, block traffic: Twitchy
Muslim Congressman’s Ferguson Panel has Al Qaeda, Taliban Speakers : Tatler
Cops assassinated: the result of allowing an evil lie to grow: Lloyd Marcus
Partners in protest: The anti-Israel, cop-bash link: William Jacobson
A Mississippi Burning – The Curious Case Of Jessica Lane Chambers: Treehouse
A City on the Brink: Matthew Hennessey
'Liberated' Obama builds momentum: The Hill
De Blasio Speaks At Cops Funeral, Thousands of Police Officers Do This: Federalist
Oof: Bill de Blasio spurned by NYPD at Rafael Ramos funeral: Moe Lane
23,000 cops mourn slain brother at funeral: Post
Economy
Surprise: Medicaid Recipients Could See Significant Access Reductions: RWNMarc Cuban Warns of a Massive Crash in the Education Market: Mac Slavo
Dem pols attempt to sic Feds on successful Wisconsin school choice program: EAG
Scandal Central
Unanswered Benghazi Questions: Second in a Series: Sharyl AttkissonSharyl Attkisson: Docs indicate ATF was using Fast and Furious to justify new gun regs: Thomas Lifson
IRS Says it ‘Mistakenly’ Penalized GOP Candidate Christine O’Donnell For a Second Time: RWN
Climate & Energy
Where Have I Seen This Before?: MBSnow leaves thousands of motorists stranded in French Alps: Phys.org
Man Goes To Bear Country To See Bears, Gets Mauled, Blamed On “Climate Change”: Cove
Media
Alone for Christmas: Mark SteynObama, Liberals Shocked; Discover Most Americans Still Want To Choose Own HealthCare: DownTrend
Oh, you wretched tallists!: Sweasel
Listen To Martin Luther King Jr Instead Of Al Sharpton: Hideout
Moonbats Celebrate Christmas by Assaulting Nativity Scenes: MB
Don Lemon Is Officially One Of The Worst Parts Of Journalism In 2014: Uproxx
World
The Destruction of the Middle East: Denis MacEoinThe Jihadist Connection to Epidemic Child Abuse: James Lewis
Van Plows Through Christmas Shoppers, While Driver Shouts ‘Allahu akbar’: IOTW Report
Iranian Army Social Media: IRGC Troops At Lebanon-Israel Border: MEMRI
As Russia’s Economy Collapses, Putin Cancels Holidays: WZ
Kim Jong-Un's People Call Obama A Horrible Racial Slur After The Interview Is Released: Perez Hilton
Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)
Coca-Cola Headquarters Disconnects Office Voicemail in Effort to Increase Productivity: The Daily MealAirAsia Flight Goes Missing Between Indonesia and SIngapore: Slashdot
Outstanding photos of the X-15, the fastest manned aircraft ever made: Gizmodo
Cornucopia
Thanks Sammie, and you can keep the shirt: MOTUSThe baby from Teletubbies reveals herself: Telegraph
$82,000 stolen from "social justice" nonprofit paid for plastic surgery, trips, Victoria's Secret: Trib
Image: Pic Of The Day: Justin Ramos Wears His Father’s Police Jacket At Funeral
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QOTD: "New York City’s anti-cop activists are scrambling for cover now that two NYPD officers, Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu, have been slain in cold blood on a Brooklyn street by a suspected gang member seeking revenge for the deaths of Michael Brown and Eric Garner. For the last several weeks, Gotham has been the scene of nightly, inflammatory protests against the NYPD. An assortment of self-proclaimed social-justice activists have disrupted traffic, assaulted officers, and demanded an end to Broken Windows policing. The city’s progressive elites, including Mayor Bill de Blasio and city council speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito, have accommodated the protesters—offering them aid and comfort in the media, entertaining their wilder claims, and standing silent as they defamed the NYPD as racist killers....
...An institution can absorb only so much slander. Are the cops overly sensitive to criticism? If so, they have good reason: like officers Liu and Ramos, they put their lives on the line every day. They go to work every morning knowing that this could be the day they don’t come home. Not many of us can say that we understand what that feels like. Certainly, few of the angry undergraduates and middle-class trustafarians shutting down freeways and lying down in the middle of Grand Central know anything about it.
Bill de Blasio’s New York is an upside-down world, where a police force responsible for transforming a crime-plagued metropolis into the safest big city in America can be openly defamed—and where two more NYPD families [spent] Christmas in mourning. " --Matthew Hennessey
Saturday, December 27, 2014
SNYDER: Junk Bonds are the Canary in the Economic Coal Mine
Do you want to know if the stock market is going to crash next year? Just keep an eye on junk bonds. Prior to the horrific collapse of stocks in 2008, high yield debt collapsed first. And as you will see below, high yield debt is starting to crash again. The primary reason for this is the price of oil. The energy sector accounts for approximately 15 to 20 percent of the entire junk bond market, and those energy bonds are taking a tremendous beating right now. This panic in energy bonds is infecting the broader high yield debt market, and investors have been pulling money out at a frightening pace. And as I have written about previously, almost every single time junk bonds decline substantially, stocks end up following suit. So don’t be fooled by the fact that some comforting words from Janet Yellen caused stock prices to jump over the past couple of days. If you really want to know where the stock market is heading in 2015, keep a close eye on the market for high yield debt.
If you are not familiar with junk bonds, the concept is actually very simple. Corporations that do not have high credit ratings typically have to pay higher interest rates to borrow money. The following is how USA Today describes these bonds…
High-yield bonds are long-term IOUs issued by companies with shaky credit ratings. Just like credit card users, companies with poor credit must pay higher interest rates on loans than those with gold-plated credit histories.
But in recent years, interest rates on junk bonds have gone down to ridiculously low levels. This is another bubble that was created by Federal Reserve policies, and it is a colossal disaster waiting to happen. And unfortunately, there are already signs that this bubble is now beginning to burst…
GELERNTER: States Can End "Executive Amnesty" Without a Lawsuit
This week, Tennessee became the 25th state to join a lawsuit against the president’s executive amnesty order. The lawsuit may work, but there’s another, more direct, and considerably more interesting redress against executive overreach [first p]roposed in 1798 by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison.
...The nullification doctrine posits that, as the federal government is the product of the Constitution, and the Constitution is a compact of the states, it’s the states that have the final say on any law’s constitutionality. If a state determines that a law exceeds the terms of the compact to which it agreed, it has the right to nullify that law within its own borders.
Jefferson and Madison’s idea was for states to declare the Alien and Sedition Acts null and void. Instead of joining a lawsuit against the executive amnesty, those 25 states could simply deem the executive amnesty null and void, and refuse to recognize illegal aliens’ work permits or issue them driver’s licenses.
Why, you wonder, would that be better than filing a lawsuit? In a certain sense, it wouldn’t — because winning that suit would strike down Mr. Obama’s order in all 50 states. Which is not an unlikely outcome, given the order’s extremely shaky legal footing. However —
The judiciary has consistently ruled against the nullification doctrine, asserting its unique, judicial right to declare laws unconstitutional. But this executive order isn’t a law. And given its extremely shaky legal footing, it isn’t difficult to imagine a federal bench recognizing the states’ right to disregard federal orders that don’t clearly have the force of law. And that would be a tremendous — tremendous — blow against the executive’s assumption of legislative powers.
But in the shorter, directer term: It [nullification] would force the Obama administration to go on offense, suing the states to enforce a law that isn’t a law. And I don’t think that case can be made.
I think this is an intriguing idea. Gelernter notes that your state's governor and attorney general should be contacted, especially if you live in a red or purple state.
Nullification may be a non-starter under normal circumstances, but nullifying non-laws should be anything but controversial.
Hat tip: BadBlue News.
EXCELLENT NEWS: Mainstream, Moderate Muslim Group Cheers Unveiling of ISIS Flag on Mt. Everest
This man @alzouman climbed Mt Everest to hold the book up on the highest point on Earth #HolyQuranBookOfTruth pic.twitter.com/XeAR546Ite
— MuslimMatters (@MuslimMatters) December 27, 2014Of course, he's not just holding up a book; he's also holding up a flag. And not just any flag, the black flag of ISIS.
When even Al-Arabiya is reporting that ISIS has committed crimes against humanity, you may want to rethink the cheerleading, fellows. To wit, "Massacres, beheading boys as young as 15, and amputations and lashings in public squares that residents -- including children -- are forced to watch figure on the list of crimes, as does the widespread use of child soldiers, stoning women to death for suspected adultery and holding women as sexual slaves and forcing them to bear children for the fighters."
Or is ISIS now what passes for moderate, mainstream Islam?
Hat tip: BadBlue News. Reference: "Know Your Terror Flags."
Larwyn's Linx: The Party of the Rich
Nation
The Party of the Rich: Thomas LifsonLikely GOP 2016 Field Diverse but Not Hyphenated: LI
Dear Gop: Show, Don’t Tell: Jonah Goldberg
Obama's Alternate Universe: Sara Noble
Mexican Cartel claims they have kidnapped Border Patrol agent: WAW
Only One-In-Four Obamacare Enrollees Returning To Sign Up Again: Robert Gehl
Erica Garner Tweets Link That Could Get Cop's Family Killed: Sara Noble
Race Rioters Target Fox News HQ: Here’s What They’re Planning: ConTrib
Several arrests made regarding threats against cops: NYPD: Fox
Thousands Pay Tribute To Murdered NYPD Rafael Ramos: Treehouse
Ferguson Protesters Abuse Janitor at Police Union Headquarters: ProgsToday
‘Shots fired’ at Chicago WinterWonderfest brawl: Twitchy
Economy
Justice Department Grants Linked to Cop-killing Rap Video: Alex NewmanCommon Core: Why are 10th graders reading 50 Shades of Grey type books?: EAG
Welfare drug testing pilot program signed into law by Michigan Gov.: FreeRep
Scandal Central
Unanswered Benghazi Questions: First in a Series: Sharyl AttkissonJudge Laura Johnson Frees Thug Who Assaulted Police: MB
Boehner and GOP Allowed Obama to Add thousands of Amnesty Workers With 2015 Budget: Wizbang
Climate & Energy
Tomorrow’s Weather Today: Matthew HennesseyGoogle Goes Off the Climate Change Deep End: Paul Driessen
Oil companies struggle to sell off assets in down market: James Osborne
Media
Loathsome Sharpton: Cops Speaking Out Against NYPD Murders are ‘Cheap Demagogues’: JWFLeft-leaning AP says police killings of blacks is year’s top story; I vote for Meriam Ibrahim: Allen West
Former Washington and Lee student expelled following rape accusation, sues school: CI
We Have a Moral Divide, Not a Racial One: Dennis Prager
Al Sharpton "a Vulgar Human Being" According to Milwaukee Sheriff David Clarke : J4A
HILARIOUS: Boehner Wishes Merry Christmas – Social Media Responds With Anger: RWN
World
Obama Wants Group With Ties To ’93 And ’01 WTC Attacks Removed From Terror List: ShoebatBachmann: Obama Supports 'Agenda' of Muslims Who want to Turn 'U.S.' into 'Islamic Caliphate': Shoebat
I wonder how many more Muslims are now working in DHS?: BNI
Obama Promises to End 'Combat Mission' in Afghanistan 'Next Week': Daniel Halper
Christians on the Run from Iraq : Nina Shea
Winning: The Triumph Of Islamic Terrorism: StrategyPage
Imagine No Religion: Theodore Dalrymple
Nearly 20,000 People Marched In Anti-Islam Demonstration In Germany Yesterday: WZ
Horror night in Swedish Muslim ghetto: gang raped, raped until bleeding with a gun: 10News.dk
Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)
Possible Hack Of Sony, Microsoft Game Console Sites: Scott Neuman, NPRReview: Smith & Bradley Sans-13: Jerking the Trigger
The Greeks designed forerunner of the modern computer: CFP
Cornucopia
The Left Is Upset With This Bad Bad Leroy Brown Parody About Michael Brown: IOTW ReportDon’t Tread on Metal: Nicholas James Pell
Skeptical Football: The NFC South Isn’t The Worst Division In NFL History: 538
Image: ‘Feed the Pigs’: Woman Arrested After Throwing Bacon in Police Department
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QOTD: "Where was President Obama throughout the long night of the Sept. 11, 2012 terrorist attacks in Benghazi, Libya? What decisions did the Commander-in-Chief make and what actions did he take while Americans were under assault on foreign soil? Considering that the U.S. embassy in Egypt had already been overrun earlier in the day, and that further attacks on other U.S. facilities were anticipated throughout the night, how involved was the President in tracking the volatile, regional developments?" --Sharyl Attkisson
Friday, December 26, 2014
Best Public School Signage Evah
I suspect Santa will be bringing former New Jersey principal Antoinette Young a dictionary for Christmas this year.
A large sign outside a New Jersey elementary school that misspelled “December” appears to have cost the principal her $108,000 a year job.
The Bergen Record says the sign outside School 20 in Paterson also notified people of the date for “progress reepor” and contained a backward numeral 1.
City school board member Corey Teague circulated a photo of the error-filled signage and complained why nobody noticed for more than a week. December was spelled “Dicember.”
“If this is how the administration takes care of signage, how can we expect the students to do better? We must be held to a higher standard,” he wrote in an email accompanying the photo.
Days after Teague brought up the sign, education officials announced that the principal, Antoinette Young, was being demoted and transferred to another school.
By all means, libs, let's make sure that the poorest kids and their parents have no choice when it comes to their education.
Let's lock them into failing public schools where there's literally no accountability for teachers or administrators.
Because teachers' unions are for the children, right?
Hat tip: BadBlue News.
WHY, OF COURSE HE DOES: Eric Holder's DOJ Funds Rap Videos Extolling Cop-Killing
The Obama administration’s Justice Department funneled at least $1.5 million in grants to a New York legal-aid group featured in a new rap video that depicts two young black men aiming handguns at a white police officer.
Some may find the lyrics eerily similar to the social media postings of the man accused of shooting and killing two New York City police officers execution-style in Brooklyn on Saturday.The video for “Hands Up,” which also shows a white police officer gunning down a black motorist wearing a hoodie, contains lyrics suggesting revenge for much-publicized deaths of black men in confrontations with police.
Credited to rappers Uncle Murda and Maino, the video is subtitled “Eric Garner Tribute,” a reference to a black man who died while being pinned and restrained on a sidewalk by New York police officers.
The taxpayer money that went to the organization shown in the video, the Bronx Defenders, comes from a Justice Department program named for Edward Byrne, a New York Police Department officer who was shot dead at close range in 1988.
>>> Watch the Entire Video at Bottom
Among the lyrics to “Hands Up”:
For Mike Brown and Sean Bell, a cop got to get killed
’cause I’m black, police think they got the right to shoot me
No jail time, their punishment is death’s duty
… By any means necessary let’s make them respect us
Police investigators say that hours before he shot Officers Wenjian Liu and Rafael Ramos as they sat in their squad car in Brooklyn, Ismaailyl Brinsley wrote these words on his Instagram account: “I’m putting wings on pigs today. They take 1 of ours, let’s take 2 of theirs.”
THE TIME IS NOW: An Article V Convention To Shrink Government and End Political Corruption
Every two years, we hear that the coming election is a historic watershed.
Then on November 5, faced with the choice between making the hard choices needed to tackle our nation’s big challenges and positioning themselves for the next election, most Washington politicians instantly fixate on the next election.
Meanwhile, our national debt and unfunded future promises have mounted to a crushing $100 trillion. Our economy is fueled almost entirely on printed money and is producing too few living-wage jobs. Federal power is so dangerously concentrated that Washington now monitors much of our personal communication and controls the curriculum in our local schools.
Regardless of Republican or Democrat control, we are stuck with the Ex-Im Bank (half of whose taxpayer subsidized loan guarantees go to just one company, Boeing), corn ethanol mandates, the Raisin Control Board and sugar import restrictions (all drive up food cost to benefit a handful of agribiz campaign contributors), and the M1 Abrams tank upgrade program (lives on despite fervent opposition by the sequester-constrained Pentagon because program suppliers are spread across 173 Congressional districts). Congress rams through hyper-complex, purposefully unintelligible 2,000 page bills, unread by members and written by special interest lobbyists seeking economic and regulatory privileges at the expense of ordinary citizens.
Little has changed over the past thirty years, other than that the underlying problems have grown worse. Only by amending our constitution can we force Washington to exercise fiscal discipline, address systemic political money corruption, and relinquish power back to the states and the people.
There are two means provided in Article V to amend the constitution. All 27 amendments to date have been proposed by Congress and ratified by the necessary three-quarters of the states. But our constitution’s framers had the immense foresight to anticipate a Congress so corrupted by political careerism as to be incapable of self-reform and therefore provided a second and as yet unused amendment route. If the legislatures of two-thirds of the states (now 34) pass resolutions applying for a convention to debate and shape proposed amendments, Congress is compelled to call an amending convention. If a convention agrees on the language of one or more proposed amendments, legislatures or conventions of three-quarters of the states (now 38) must agree to ratify.
Twenty-four states, including New Hampshire, have already applied to Congress to call a convention to shape an amendment to require a balanced federal budget, other than in times of emergency. Supermajorities of the American people also want term limits for members of Congress, a smaller federal government, and a means to reign in systemic political corruption. Several national organizations on the right and left are asking state legislatures to apply for a convention to address one or more of these subjects.
Larwyn's Linx: The Use and Abuse of Democratic Freedoms
Nation
The Use and Abuse of Democratic Freedoms: Roger KimballNewspaper Editor: Ferguson Protesters Should Wage War Against Cops: RWN
780,000 Good Men And Women In Blue: RWN
Garner’s daughter posts address of cop in hopes of murder: WAW
SWAT teams guard NYPD stations after social media threats; 7 arrested: Twitchy
Anti-cop punks in Oakland trash Christmas tree, smash windows: Twitchy
Bill de Blasio told NYPD not to arrest bottle throwing protesters: FAM
Michelle Obama's school lunch program based on junk science: Rand Simberg
Why was all-A Grosse Pointe teen killed on Detroit street?: Tresa Baldas
Unions to Recruit Illegals Covered by Obama Amnesty: Tea Party
Feds sign $7.8 million lease to house new immigration workers: The Hill
Will Jeff Sessions Strike Back In 2015?: W. James Antle III
Economy
Unions launch recruiting push for immigrants protected by Obama actions: FoxShocker: Obama Administration Manipulated GDP Data: Howard Richman
New NLRB rules give unions workers’ email addresses and phone numbers: Fox
Scandal Central
House Interim Report on IRS Scandal: IRS No Longer a Neutral Tax Collector: Sara NobleDHS Department Using GPS Devices To Track Illegal Aliens Caught, Set Free At Border: WZ
HHS won’t say if it’s preparing for a Supreme Court Obamacare nightmare: Jason Millman
Climate & Energy
Hot Stuff, Cold Logic: Richard TolDavid Suzuki, High Priest of Global Warming, Torn to Shreds on Australian Public TV: MB
States, biz groups back coal company in EPA climate rule lawsuit: Timothy Cama
Media
The Ku Klux Con Job Award for Smearing Conservatives with Phony Racism Charges: NBA Whopping 95% Of Black Americans Say Racism is a Signature National Issue: DownTrend
Man flips out when flight crew wishes him ‘Merry Christmas’; is kicked off plane to cheers: Unyielding
MARK LEVIN: “Yes they do have blood on their hands!”: Scoop
Top Trey Gowdy Rants From 2014: Western
Airline passenger tossed off plane after going nuts over staff’s ‘Merry Christmas’: John Hawkins
World
Obama's White Whale: Kenneth R. TimmermanNo Christmas Celebrations In Mosul, Iraq This Year: GWP
Santa as Hostage: ISIS Slaughters Reindeer in Christmas Message to Infidels: GWP
Israeli Girl Badly Burnt By Firebomb Tossed At Car: WZ
For third time this week, shots fired at Paris Jewish target: Times of Israel
IDF deploys Iron Dome near Netivot, Beersheba in wake of rising Gaza tensions: JPost
Germany: Over 17,000 Citizens Sing “Christmas Carols” in Streets… Muslims Are Furious: ConTrib
Like leftists here, Muslims torch police cars in Sweden: FAM
Why Does Nobody Want to Play with Turkey?: Burak Bekdil
Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)
How Many Stars Did It Take To Make Us?: Fraser CainGravity Sketch Tablet Lets You Draw In Mid-Air: Fastcodesign
Hubble Sees the Beautiful Side of Galaxy IC 335: Red Orbit
Cornucopia
A Different Kind of Christmas List: 7 Best Unreliable CarMax Cars: JalopnikWhat it looks like inside your car’s engine: Holy Kaw!
How Do VC’s and Angels Value a Company?: P&F
Image: Hillary Clinton looks to shore up support on the left
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QOTD: "Hillary Rodham Clinton, the Democratic front-runner for president, is working hard to shore up support among liberals in hopes of tamping down a serious challenge from the left in the battle for the 2016 nomination.
Clinton has aligned herself firmly with President Obama since the November midterms on a range of liberal-friendly issues, including immigration, climate change and opening diplomatic relations with Cuba. In an impassioned human rights speech this month, she also condemned the CIA’s use of harsh interrogation tactics and decried cases of apparent police brutality against minorities.
The recent statements suggest a concerted effort by Clinton to appeal to the Democratic Party’s most activist, liberal voters, who have often eyed her with suspicion and who would be crucial to her securing the party’s nomination." --Anne Gearan
Thursday, December 25, 2014
COMING SOON: The Sixth Annual Fabulous 50 Blog Awards... #fab50
Every year at this time we are pleased to announce the winners of the Fabulous 50 Blog Awards™, recognizing the year's 50 most important blogs and websites in the conservative world. No debates. No voting. No nominations. Just facts. Immutable truths, chiseled in stone and then forged on Zeus' anvil for all of human history. No prize carries more panache, more prestige, or more sex appeal than a Fab 50 Award, save something you might find in a Crackerjacks box.
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Larwyn's Linx: What Christmas Really Means, And Why The Left Hates It
Nation
What Christmas Really Means, And Why The Left Hates It: Joshua PunditMerry Christmas 2014: A Light Unto All Mankind: Publius
Texas Delivers Epic Bad News to Liberals Waging War on Christmas: ConTrib
The Left Discovers You Shouldn’t Collectivize Guilt : Charles C. W. Cooke
Officer Near Ferguson Kills Black Teen Who Pointed Gun At Him: Clash
Riot Police Needed To Protect Christians at Midnight Mass in STL: GWP
The IRS: Just One of Dozens of Uncooperative Agencies: Kevin D. Williamson
Al-Qaeda’s Younger Brother in Florida: Joe Kaufman
NY Fire House Flees After Cops Next Door Threatened by Black Gang: GWP
Washington Power Is Flowing Away: Michael Barone
Free Men Bear Arms: Captain's Journal
Machine Gun-Firing ex-Police Chief Now Claims He Was FBI Informant: Bob Owens
Economy
Public Pension Doom Begins to Descend: MBThe Shocking-But Not Surprising-Moody's Report on NJ Pensions: SBS
The $800 Billion Leveraged Loan Blacklist?: Pension Pulse
Scandal Central
Feds Preparing for 2015 Surge of Unaccompanied Children Across Border: WSBelatedly Released and Revealing Fast & Furious Docs: Sharyl Attkisson
Corruption at DHS Inspector General's office does serious damage: Dan Cadman
Climate & Energy
EPA can't regulate lead bullets, says federal court: Zack ColmanWe don't need more laws: Glenn Harlan Reynolds
The EPA wants you to build green fires in your fireplace this winter: Blaze
Media
"The Interview” really does subvert North Korea’s regime": Rich Klein2014 Power Rankings: 25 Most Loved and Hated Conservatives in America: IJR
The President, Al Sharpton, and the Corruption of Modern Liberalism: Peter Wehner
Student Reporter under Attack at Brandeis for Reporting On anti-Police Tweets: LI
Pope says Islam is religion of peace, then begs Muslims to condemn violence: Robert Spencer
National Geographic Misidentifies Judaism's Holiest Site: CAMERA
World
Obama State Department Working With Designated Islamic Terror Group to Whitewash Them: FreePostTurkey’s Two Thugs: Claire Berlinski
Spare a Christmas prayer for the suffering MidEast Christians: Nick Gray
No, North Korea Didn’t Hack Sony: Marc Rogers
Malmedy massacre survivor 'wanted to stay as still as I could': Stripes
Navy looking into whether alleged bin Laden shooter told too much: Stripes
Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)
Inadvertent Algorithmic Cruelty: MeyerWebHelicopter Drone Makes First Flight from Navy Destroyer: DefTech
Lockheed Gets NASA Funding for the SR-72 Hypersonic Spy Drone: Erik Schechter
Cornucopia
YouTube will stream 'The Interview' on Christmas Day: ExamTravel Posters from A Pre-Castro Cuba: Beast
Mayweather vs. Pacquiao unlikely to happen: Boxing News 24
Image: Isaac Levitan, "March" (1895)
QOTD: "Consider, if you will, the recent behavior of Salon’s Joan Walsh, who yesterday suggested in earnest that the conservative-led condemnation of the “climate” that supposedly provoked the shootings in New York City represented the unconscionable “politicization” of murder. “To blame the peaceful movement against police brutality that’s emerged nationwide,” Walsh wrote, is “the worst in demagoguery.” “Right wingers,” she added, “are using a terrible tragedy to make sure that no one can find middle ground.” Prima facie, I concur with Walsh, of course. But what, we might ask, has finally led her to this conclusion? After the shooting of Gabby Giffords in 2011, Walsh fretted dramatically about “the rhetoric of violence”; asked aloud, “Will any prominent conservatives denounce ‘reload’ and ‘crosshairs’ imagery?”; inquired dishonestly, “Is it really controversial to suggest that the overheated anti-government rhetoric of the last two years, with its often violent imagery, ought to be toned down?”; described Sarah Palin’s pretty standard political-campaign map as “unconscionable”; hoped that Republicans would find it in their hearts to “listen to Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik, who denounced ‘the vitriol that comes out of certain mouths about the government’ at a Saturday night press conference”; played a remarkably dishonest game of “But Anyway . . . ,” repeatedly noting that there was “no evidence” that Jared Loughner had reacted to any right-wing rhetoric before insinuating in the next breath that he must have; and, when her well was running dry, went so far as to suggest without any attestation at all that the shooter was a registered Republican.
Later, talking characteristically out of both sides of her mouth, Walsh proposed that “even if Tuscon exists in a vacuum,” it would still be the case that the “Tea Party’s violent rhetoric is dangerous.” Naturally, these accusations were part of a trend. Two years earlier, Walsh had cynically blamed conservative talk-radio for a shooting at the National Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C. The perpetrator turned out to be a neo-Nazi." --Charles C. W. Cooke



















