Wednesday, January 07, 2015

10 Stunning Facts About the Charlie Hebdo Attacks

1 The Charlie Hebdo attack was carefully planned and likely involved inside information.

Wednesday’s attack must have been carefully planned and based on some inside information. For it came precisely as Charlie’s weekly editorial meeting was under way with a maximum turnout of writers, cartoonists and editors.

2 The attack came just hours after publication of an Islam-focused issue.

The attack also came only hours after the weekly’s new issue went on sale with a cover inspired by a new novel by Michel Houelbeque, which envisions the election of a Muslim as France’s president in 2022.

3 French law enforcement had provided security details to protect the paper's top editors.

The government had provided police protection for four of the weekly’s key editors. The assassination of three of them on Wednesday suggests the protection may have been more formal than real.

4 One of the killers was a known terrorist who had been captured just a few years ago and then freed.

Larwyn's Linx: Mexico's President Praises Obama's Executive Amnesty

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Nation

Mexico's President Praises Obama's Executive Amnesty: Daniel Halper
Audit: DHS Drone Program Ineffective at Border Security: WFB
Did Mario Cuomo's Death Keep Boehner in the Speaker's Office?: Ace

Mitigating the Suck: Erick Erickson
John Boehner Re-Elected House Speaker Despite Conservative Revolt: Publius
Boehner retaliates against the Right: Susan Ferrechio

Let the day begin, let the day begin, let the day…start: PW
La Cosa Boehner – Leave The Gun, Take The Kleenex: Camp o' the Saints
Weber, Backing Gohmert Over Boehner, Says ‘Retaliation’ Has Begun: Matt Fuller

Time for a 2020 Vision, Not Platitudes: Erick Erickson
Jeb Is Hillary’s Weakest Opponent: Dick Morris
"Antipolice violence" bills emphasize need for Convention of States: Quentin Kramer

Economy

Common Core Backers Try to Scare States into Keeping Fed Standards: Independent
France's mistake shows taxing wealth doesn't work: Dan Hannan
Left Wing Loons Protest The Teaching Of Economics: LoneCon

Scandal Central

The Army disciplines a chaplain for mentioning God: RWN
Hackers Took Down Conservative Website Over “BLACKS ONLY” Protest Manual: Treehouse
The Black Brunch Brats: Michelle Malkin

Climate & Energy

Mann and the Legacy of “Bogus”: Steve McIntyre
Keystone Debate to Test Waters of New Senate: Roll Call
White House threatens Keystone veto: Laura Barron-Lopez

It’s official: the Obama administration hates it when you have cheap Keystone oil.: Moe Lane
Americans say build the Keystone Pipeline: AEI
Some traders are betting on $20 oil: William Watts

Media

'Okay Google -- What Went Wrong With Liberalism?': Christopher Chantrill
Politico: Walker Inauguration Speech Prelude to ‘All-But-Announced Candidacy for President’: Stephen Kruiser
Dershowitz presumed innocent in zero-sum defamation game: William A. Jacobson

HuffPo Nitwit Says Constitutional Argument For Gun Ownership Is Weak: DownTrend
Poll: For first time ever voters say “the government” is the biggest problem in America: Nick Sorrentino
A Taste of their Own Medicine: Springer

Al Sharpton’s Viagra Script Found in Apartment of Accused Rapist: MB
My Twitter Conversation With Cher About Republicans and Sonny Bono: Glob
Trust: John Stossel

World

Surprise: White House Unsure If Cuba Has Released 53 Political Prisoners as Promised: Katie Pavlich
House Republican files first plan to defund Obama immigration action: Byron York
Obama, Mexico's president discuss US shift toward Cuba: Yahoo!

NOAA Employee Charged With Computer Breach Met Senior Chinese Official in Beijing: WFB
Why Arabs Hate And Kill Palestinians: Khaled Abu Toameh
The Trouble With Andrew (2011): Edward Klein

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

FBI says search warrants not needed to use “stingrays” in public places: David Kravets
5 Non-Negotiable Requirements for a CMS in 2015: Tjeerd Brenninkmeijer
Microsoft Confirms Public Website Removal from SharePoint Online: Kurt Mackie

Cornucopia

You can't make this stuff up: Woodsterman
Here's how to thank the Congressmen that stood on principle against Boehner: FW
Remembering How Futures Are Built: MOTUS

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QOTD: "They can't believe at TheHill.com that anybody would challenge Boehner.

And do you know why? Do you know why they can't believe that? Because if you read -- you don't have to go very far -- halfway into the story you find out at TheHill.com it is John Boehner who gets credit for all of the new House Republican seats. I kid you not. It is the most amazing thing. And these people think that they are a cut above, they're smarter than everybody else. This is their business, not ours. They know it; we don't. They're sitting in there and they're writing -- and TheHill.com is typical. It's not an outlier. They really think, why would these Tea Party types, why would these Republicans be upset with Boehner? Why, he just led to unprecedented victory for Republicans in the House.

They don't know that Boehner had nothing to do with it. They don't know that the Republicans didn't even mount a campaign. They don't know that it's the Tea Party that engineered this massive Republican majority in the Senate, as well as the House. They really don't know this." --Rush Limbaugh

Tuesday, January 06, 2015

THE DIRTY HALF-DOZEN: The Six Freshmen Republicans Who Lied About Voting Against Boehner as Speaker

Courtesy of RedState, we now have a list of The Dirty Half-Dozen, the six freshmen Republicans who campaigned on explicit promises to vote against John Boehner as Speaker of the House. And then, moments after being sworn in, they promptly violated their promises and essentially spit on their constituents.

These people need to be exposed as the frauds they are. They need to go.

LIAR: Jody Hice of Georgia
Hice said he would support “new leadership, and new leadership with a backbone,” over Boehner.
LIAR: Barry Loudermilk of Georgia
“He will not support Boehner as speaker,” spokesman Dan McLagan said.
LIAR: Glenn Grothman of Wisconsin
“I would have no problem looking for an alternative to Speaker Boehner,” Grothman said...
LIAR: John Ratcliffe of Texas
‘There are other people I would support and think would be a better choice than Boehner'
LIAR: Mark Walker of North Carolina
"[Walker] said he hoped the conference would instead back Rep. Trey Gowdy for Speaker."
LIAR: Alex Mooney of West Virginia
[Mooney] signed [a] pledge promising “to vote against the current leadership...”

Baffling. Sickening. Pathetic. Cowardly. Dishonest.

If one lives in a nearby district, support a conservative primary challenger. Keep firing these bums until we find some honest patriots who do as they say. Not when it's easy, but when it's tough.


Say Sayonara to the Global Economy

By Jim Quinn

The surreal nature of this world as we enter 2015 feels like being trapped in a Fellini movie. The .1% party like it’s 1999, central bankers not only don’t take away the punch bowl – they spike it with 200 proof grain alcohol, the purveyors of propaganda in the mainstream media encourage the party to reach Caligula orgy levels, the captured political class and their government apparatchiks propagate manipulated and massaged economic data to convince the masses their standard of living isn’t really deteriorating, and the entire façade is supposedly validated by all-time highs in the stock market. It’s nothing but mass delusion perpetuated by the issuance of prodigious amounts of debt by central bankers around the globe. And nowhere has the obliteration of a currency through money printing been more flagrant than in the land of the setting sun – Japan. The leaders of this former economic juggernaut have chosen to commit hara-kiri on behalf of the Japanese people, while enriching the elite, insiders, bankers, and their global banking co-conspirators.

Japan is just the point of the global debt spear in a world gone mad. Total world debt, excluding financial firms, now exceeds $100 trillion. The worldwide banking syndicate has an additional $130 trillion of debt on their insolvent books. As if this wasn’t enough, there are over $700 trillion of derivatives of mass destruction layered on top in this pyramid of debt. Just five Too Big To Trust Wall Street banks control 95% of the $302 trillion U.S. derivatives market. The reason Jamie Dimon and the rest of the leaders of the Wall Street criminal syndicate commanded their politician puppets in Congress to reverse the Dodd Frank rule on separating derivatives trading from normal bank lending is because these high stakes gamblers want to shift their future losses onto the backs of middle class taxpayers – again. The bankers, with the full support of their captured Washington politicians, will abscond with the deposits of the people to pay for their system destroying risk taking, just as they did in 2008 by holding taxpayers hostage for a $700 billion bailout.

Only the ignorant, intellectually dishonest, employees of the Deep State, CNBC cheerleaders for the oligarchy, or Ivy League educated Keynesian loving economists choose to be willfully ignorant regarding the true cause of the 2008 implosion of the worldwide financial system. The immense expansion of credit in the U.S. from 2000 through 2008 was created, encouraged, supported and sustained by Alan Greenspan, Ben Bernanke and their cohorts at the Federal Reserve through their reckless lowering of interest rates and abdication of regulatory oversight, as their owner banks committed the greatest financial control fraud in world history. Total credit market debt in the U.S. grew from $25 trillion in 2000 (already up 100% from $12.5 trillion in 1990) to $53 trillion by 2008.

The bankers, politicians, mainstream media corporations, and mega-corporations that run the show lured Americans into increasing their credit card, auto loan, and student loan debt from $1.6 trillion in 2000 to $2.7 trillion in 2008, while extracting over $600 billion of phantom home equity from their McMansions. And it was all spent on things they didn’t need, produced in Chinese slave labor factories. The mal-investment boom was epic and the collapse in 2008 would have purged the bad debt, punished the risk takers, bankrupted the criminal banks, reset the financial system, and taught generations a lesson they needed to learn – excess debt kills. Instead of voluntarily abandoning the madness of never ending credit expansion and accepting the consequences of their folly, the world’s central bankers and captured politician hacks chose to save bankers, billionaires, and the ruling elite at the expense of the common people.

RUSH: It's absolutely unprecedented how the Republican Party is maltreating its base

By Rush Limbaugh

They can't believe at The Hill that anybody would challenge John Boehner.

And do you know why? Do you know why they can't believe that? Because if you read -- you don't have to go very far -- halfway into the story you find out at The Hill it is John Boehner who gets credit for all of the new House Republican seats. I kid you not. It is the most amazing thing. And these people think that they are a cut above, they're smarter than everybody else. This is their business, not ours. They know it; we don't. They're sitting in there and they're writing -- and The Hill is typical. It's not an outlier. They really think, why would these Tea Party types, why would these Republicans be upset with Boehner? Why, he just led to unprecedented victory for Republicans in the House.

They don't know that Boehner had nothing to do with it. They don't know that the Republicans didn't even mount a campaign. They don't know that it's the Tea Party that engineered this massive Republican majority in the Senate, as well as the House. They really don't know this...

There are people at the highest levels of the establishment who believe the myths that they create, and they really, some of them, when they write stories like this that they don't understand why there's so many upset with Boehner. Why, look what he did, my God, he's led the Republicans to the biggest House majority since Truman. They really believe that, folks...

Larwyn's Linx: Jim Jordan on the Verge of a Horatius Moment

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Nation

Jim Jordan on the Verge of a Horatius Moment: Erick Erickson
Republicans with a Backbone against Boehner For Speaker: Julie Borowski
Gohmert says he's rounding up 29 votes to defeat Boehner: Susan Ferrechio

Obamacare: The Real Pain Starts This Year: David Catron
Hilarious: Harvard bitten by the Obamacare monster it helped spawn: Moe Lane
The ‘Equality’ Racket: Thomas Sowell

Two NYPD cops shot by suspect who came out guns blazing: DailyMail
Navy Vet Sues Governor Cuomo After He Has Guns Confiscated: MenRec
ATF Reverses 50 Years Of Practice to Go After Home-Made Gun Makers: AmmoLand

Corruption won't be tolerated. Unless it's massive and benefits the Left: GP
Hillary Out? Democrats Should Beware ‘The National Enquirer’: Roger L. Simon
Top Iowa Democrats Slow to Rally Around Hillary: Reid Epstein, Peter Nicholas

Economy

Teachers Union Funding Wisconsin Anti-Police Protests: Nathan Schacht
How to Eliminate Almost Every Federal Agency: Jason Plautz
Detroit is back? Obama will visit Ford plant idled due to lack of demand: Marathon

Scandal Central

Journalist Computer Intrusion Lawsuit Filed Against U.S. Government: Sharyl Attkisson
Bill Clinton identified in lawsuit against his former friend and pedophile Jeffrey Epstein: Daily Mail
Prince Andrew’s ‘sex slave’ Virginia Roberts ‘is writing a tell-all memoir': Daily Mail

Loretta Lynch questioned over secret deal depriving fraud victims of $40M: Times
Justice Dept. Caught Scooping Up Civilian Data From Fake Cell Phone Towers: Jacqueline Bodnar
Timothy DeFoggi – Obama HHS head gets 25 years for child porn: FAM

Climate & Energy

Pope Francis, the Climate and Leftism: Dennis Prager
Dems Push Keystone XL Amendments That Could Make It Hard For Obama To Veto: Cove
Hurts So Good: When Exactly Are Falling Prices Bad?: Peter Schiff

Media

Joint letter: Conservative leaders call on House Republicans to fire John Boehner: BPR
The immature president. EVIL.: Don Surber
Book Review: The Media and Financial Crises: Comparative and Historical Perspectives: LSE

WashPost: McConnell Pledges to Avoid 'Scary' Excesses and 'Strident Stands' of 'Far Right': Tim Graham
Differences Between Civil Rights Movement of 1963 and Today’s Illicit Nonsense is Stark: Warner Todd Huston
Liberals in Meltdown Mode Over a Former NYPD Officer’s Tweet to Black Brunch Protesters: Sooper

Roger Stone: Obama Makes Nixon ‘Look Like a Boy Scout’: Bret Scher
Boehner lackey attacks Gohmert and Yoho, calls them ‘unprofessional’: Scoop
The Vine: Breeanne Howe

World

Wiping Israel off the maps: Michael Curtis, The Commentator
Cuba: What are the names of the 53 prisoners?: Fausta
Israel Story: Jeff Mesnik

Illegals Can’t Pass Cali's DMV Written Test – It’s Obviously Bigoted: Tony Lee
California Taxpayers to SUBSIDIZE Auto Insurance for Illegal Aliens: CaPoliticalReview
Obama's other immigration problem: Brian Hughes

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Forget the Sony Hack, This Could Be the Biggest Cyber Attack of 2015 : DefenseOne
Audi’s driverless car heading from Bay Area to Las Vegas for CES: Chris Preovolos
CES: Oh, the Amazing Things You Will See: TNW

Cornucopia

HarperCollins Revisionist History and Geography Series: Cube
Cause and Effect: LL101
Son allegedly killed hedge-funder dad after $200 allowance cut: Post

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QOTD: "Even the most politically inept individual could see that all Republicans had to do to run the board was pass a short term continuing resolution funding government at the exact same levels until Republicans took control of the Senate in the new year. That Speaker Boehner chose to pass a spending bill for the entire year instead of waiting to control both chambers is illustrative of either a) complete alignment with the Democrats and President Obama or b) incompetence of an almost unimaginable magnitude.

Neither of those are qualities you want in an individual who holds the third most powerful position in the United States government.

We encourage our members in every state to contact their representatives and ask them to vote for anyone other than Speaker Boehner for the position of Speaker. Boehner has proven time after time he is as out of touch with the average Republican voter as President Obama is out of touch with the average American.

The House switchboard phone number is 202-224-3121." --Matt Nye

Monday, January 05, 2015

HERE THEY ARE: The final 2014 shooting stats from glorious, gun-free, crime-free Chicago!

Courtesy of the experts at HeyJackass.com:


Check out the entire dashboard. One wonders when the loopy denizens of Cook County will finally have had enough and flush the Democrats who have methodically destroyed the state, piece by piece, like a biblical storm of locusts.

Oh, and hey: great job, Rahmmy!


Hat tip: BadBlue Guns.

JOHN EDWARDS REDUX? Enquirer Finds Court Docs Pointing to "Bill Clinton Underage Sex Lawsuit Shocker"

Roger L. Simon is far more hopeful about this story than I am, but his point is valid. If a few more cracks in the dike appear (not that there's anything wrong with that), Hillary may be in a world of hurt.

Say all you want about The National Enquirer, but Democrats of all people should know the scandal rag is one of the few places that does any honest investigative journalism anymore — or even can afford to. Don’t believe me? How do you spell John Edwards? The folks at The New York Times are still trying to get that one right.

Now the Enquirer has another hot story: “Bill Clinton Underage Sex Lawsuit Shocker!” It begins in the mag’s inimitable prose:

Bill Clinton has been identified in a sex lawsuit involving underage girls – and the sleazy scandal threatens to blow up his wife Hillary’s bid to be president!

In a bombshell exclusive, The ENQUIRER has obtained shocking court documents that reveal details of Bill’s close relationship with billionaire money manager Jeffrey Epstein, a convicted sex creep.

According to the legal papers, Clinton traveled on Epstein’s private jet numerous times and partied on a Caribbean island owned by Epstein, who served 13 months for soliciting a minor for prostitution.

BOOM: John Boehner's 10 Most Outrageous Votes as Speaker

By Logan Albright

Tomorrow, the House of Representatives will convene to elect a Speaker of the House. For the last four years, that Speaker has been John Boehner, a man who has continually thrown conservative Members under the bus in order to protect the interests of the republican establishment.

But this year, a growing number of liberty-minded Republicans are turning against the incumbent Speaker, eager for new leadership that will support a principled agenda.

Here are the top ten votes where Boehner caved to the establishment.

1. Repeal ObamaCare

Boehner voted against a full repeal of ObamaCare, the most destructive single law to American liberty in recent memory.

2. Stop IRS Targeting

Boehner voted against a bill to stop the IRS from targeting individuals based on their political beliefs, such as when the agency disproportionately targeted conservative non-profits before the 2012 elections.

3. The Massie Amendment

Boehner opposed an amendment by Rep. Thomas Massie that would have blocked the NSA from collecting Americans’ telephone metadata without a warrant.

4. Delay ObamaCare’s Individual Mandate

Boehner voted against a one-year delay of the ObamaCare individual mandate that is hurting millions of Americans.

5. Raising the Debt Limit

Boehner supported suspending the debt limit until March of 2015, with non accompanying spending reforms.

6. Keep the IRS Off Your Health Care

Boehner voted against a bill that would have blocked the IRS from enforcing or implementing ObamaCare.

Larwyn's Linx: More Republicans Publicly State They Won’t Support Boehner For Speaker

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Nation

More Republicans Say They Won’t Support Boehner For Speaker: Alex Pappas
Conservatives in the House Have Only a Veto Power: Erick Erickson
Who Else Has the Courage to Vote Against John Boehner?: Trevor Loudon

What Problem-Solving Progressives Don’t Get: Andrew C. McCarthy
Chaos erupts at Ferguson protest takes over Wyden town hall: ProgsToday
Today #BlackLivesMatters Imploded: WZ

Ohio Governor Kasich seeks an Article V Convention: Ted Abram, FW
Cops ignore Bratton, turn backs on de Blasio at officer’s funeral: Post
FBI Director: Number Of Police Officers Killed In 2014 ‘Shocking Increase’: WZ

In the House, Voting Present is a Vote for Pelosi: Erick Erickson
GOP Senators Signal Willingness to Compromise With Obama: Tennille Tracy
Top Iowa Democrats Slow to Rally Around Hillary Clinton: WSJ

Economy

Harry Reid is pissed. GOOD.: Don Surber
Obamas Slammed for Dining at Restaurant with $500,000 Fee: Chris Enloe
Obamacare tax surprise looming: Tami Luhby

Scandal Central

Unanswered Benghazi Questions: Fifth in a Series: Sharyl Attkisson
Bizarre sex scandal: Prince Andrew, Alan Dershowitz and Bill Clinton: Rick Moran
Retired Cop Gets Insomnia Treatment, NY State Confiscates His Guns, He Sues: Tammy Bruce

Climate & Energy

Time Magazine’s Bryan R. Walsh (@bryanrwalsh) Must Be Hoarding Water and Tuna: Erick Erickson
Dem ‘very frustrated’ with Obama on Keystone: Cowboy
Multi-vehicle accident involving “Smart Car” leaves 1 dead: Fox 17

Media

What Is It About ‘Progressives’ and Guns?: Michael Walsh
Want to avoid being called a racist? Pay Al Sharpton: Jazz Shaw
Geraldo Rivera turned away from Wenjian Liu’s funeral: FAM

Moms Demand Action Founder: We Win by Bypassing Congress: AWR Hawkins
The Limits of Transarency: Francis Fukuyama
Stuart Scott dies at age of 49: ESPN

World

The Seven Great Powers: Walter Russell Mead
Saudi religious leader OKs rape of children: Jennifer Lawrence
Taliban in Pakistan video shows child justifying violence against Pak's 'apostate army': Business Standard

‘It Doesn’t Need a Fatwa!’: Andrew C. McCarthy
Video of 1950s-era Cuba: How fortunate the Castros came along to put an end to this misery: Babalu
Record meth seizures at California-Mexico border: U-T San Diego

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Feds Developing Microdrones That Could Invade Homes: MB
Researchers seek medical data use without patient permission: Joseph Conn
Disassembling The Incredibly Intricate Rolex Submariner: Digg

Cornucopia

Because Membership Has its Privileges: MOTUS
Sunday Stories: The Genesis of Something New: TTAC
The World’s First Transgender Doll Causes Controversy After Photo Goes Viral: Lecia Bushak

Image: Top Iowa Democrats Slow to Rally Around Hillary Clinton
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QOTD: "Conservatives in the House of Representatives are considering blocking Rep. John Boehner (R-OH) from becoming Speaker of the House of Representatives. They need 29 conservatives to stand shoulder to shoulder to make that happen.

There are allegedly 25 of 29 ready to do it. Of course, last time they had the votes to block the Speaker and they all caved at the end. It would be more surprising if they hung together than if they caved. Caving is what conservatives in the House of Representatives often do.

...Conservatives in the House need to understand that if they want to be a force to be reckoned with, they need to use their veto out of the gate to block the Speaker.

29 of them, voting for someone other than Boehner, will do just that. And doing so will then give them leverage throughout the next Congress." --Erick Erickson

Sunday, January 04, 2015

WARNING FROM DOWN UNDER: How Democrats Plan to Use ‘Amnesty’ to Create a Socialist, One-Party State

By Trevor Loudon

In all the debate about President Barack Obama‘s “Executive Amnesty” for illegal aliens, few have discussed the real reason for Obama’s move.

The president has risked huge “political capital” on a very risky and possibly illegal move, that he believes will define his Presidency and secure his legacy with his “Progressive” base.

Obama is simply after the votes. He believes that by legalizing eleven to twenty million “illegals” and eventually giving them the vote, he will turn America into a permanent Democratic Party “one party state.”

Furthermore, the President intends there to be no turning back. As a long time ally of the the Gramsci-loving Marxists of Democratic Socialists of America, Obama understands that his Democratic Party is now controlled by the unions and that the unions are controlled by DSA and other Marxist groups.

He knows there will be no “20 year window” for the Republicans to build their share of the Latino vote. He understands that if the Democrats win the next one or two Presidential elections, the left will use the power of the state to divide and smash their Republican, conservative and Evangelical Christian opposition – forever.

Obama understands, even if the leadership of the GOP doesn’t, that this is not the old Republican/Democrat turnabout game. This is much more like the Communist takeover of Czechoslovakia in 1948, or the socialization of Venezuela under Hugo Chavez. Obama and his Marxist allies are playing for keeps – and “Amnesty” is one of their main weapons.

REPLACING SPEAKER BOEHNER: Here's How It's Done

By Josh Withrow of FreedomWorks

December’s disgraceful CRomnibus debacle fresh in mind, House conservatives may finally be ready to hand the most powerful gavel in the House from John Boehner to a more principled leader when they vote for Speaker of the House on January 6th. Replacing Boehner is both possible and necessary for a multitude of reasons, but it’s important to understand how the vote works in order to counter the misinformation that has already started coming from those with a vested interest in keeping the status quo.

Under the Constitution, the Speaker of the House must be elected each Congress by a majority of present Members of the House – 218 votes at the current count – and the Speaker election must occur before any other business in the new Congress. Although both parties typically nominate a single candidate before the vote takes place, any Member of the House can vote for any person to become Speaker – they can even vote for someone who is not in Congress at all!

This means that under the current numbers (246 Republicans to 188 Democrats) only 29 Republicans need to vote for someone other than Boehner in order to force another vote. The House will hold as many votes as necessary until one individual gets to the magic 218.

An important point to take away from this is that there is literally no way the Democrats could get the necessary votes to elect a Speaker of their choice unless a large number of Republicans were to join them. The charge that voting against Boehner could lead to a Speaker Pelosi (an accusation that was tossed around last time in 2013 and is sure to come back) is ridiculous and impossible.

At least two conservative members so far, Reps. Ted Yoho (FL) and Louie Gohmert (TX), have stepped up as possible alternatives to Boehner, and many more have publicly refused to vote for him. There's no question at this point that there enough conservatives who are dissatisfied with Boehner's leadership to keep him from a third term as Speaker if they were to stand together.

But voting against the sitting Speaker of the House is a huge political risk for anyone involved – Leadership can kick them off of committees, make it impossible for their bills to get a vote, and even support primary challengers against them. Polls already show a large majority of Republican voters want a new Speaker, but the Republicans in Congress need to hear from you, to know that their constituents stand with them. It’s crucial to send messages and phone calls to their offices to help bolster their resolve.

Tell Your Representative to Replace John Boehner HERE!


Larwyn's Linx: The tea party’s New Year’s resolution? Fire John Boehner

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Nation

The tea party’s New Year’s resolution? Fire John Boehner: Judson Phillips
Massie joins those who will not support Boehner for speaker: Matthew Boyle
Scalise is Guilty of Pandering to KKK: Jen Kuznicki

Millions of Obamacare subsidy recipients may need to pay back-taxes: Moe Lane
The Constitution's horrible, no good, very bad year: William A. Jacobson
Levin and Gruber agreed: No Obamacare subsidies on federal exchange: LI

2014: The Year of Peak Stupidity: Clarice Feldman
Levin Makes Powerful Case for Article V Convention of the States: Matthew Burke
The Admiral of the Atom: Ryan L. Cole

The 25 Most Obnoxious Quotes Of 2014: John Hawkins
The Louisiana Nazis Who Courted Steve Scalise: Jason Berry
Meanwhile, on Another Branch of the Family Bush: OTB

Economy

CDI: Where is the Payoff for Huge US Budget Hikes: DefenseIssues
Stunning data on average compensation in California public sector: Thomas Lifson
In Case You Needed Another Reason to Avoid McDonald’s: MB

Scandal Central

700 miles of U.S.-Mexico border still insecure, congressional investigators say: Stephen Dinan
Illegals line up at DMV for driver’s license in California: FAM
Catching Up...: Treehouse

Climate & Energy

California Global Warming Tax Kicks In As Snow Blankets Ground: BlurBrain
The Great Pause lengthens again: WUWT
Block EPA energy mandate: Jeff Glendening

Media

Wikipedia editor deletes all evidence of Neil deGrasse Tyson’s quote fabrication: Wintery Knight
Snopes is wrong: Communists are leading the Ferguson protests: Common Sense
UCLA professor Jared Diamond gets virtually everything wrong in LA Times column: Bob Owens

NYT Calls Execution Of NYPD Officers ‘Accidental’: DownTrend
Facepalm Stupidity: Vox’s Reason For Wanting To “Abolish The Senate”: WZ
Ben Carson: Obama Gets Pass on Scandals Because Media Think America Is Stupid: Breitbart

How to Become a Cat Lady: R.S. McCain
NYT Loves Big Government: 'Public Sector Is Once Again Adding to Prosperity': Clay Waters
Brilliant And Legal Response To Police DUI Checkpoints – All Without Saying A Word!: Jason W. Stevens

World

Egypt’s al-Sisi Makes Extraordinary Speech on Islam: Roger L. Simon
“Moderate” Syrian rebels burned churches, destroyed Christian graves: Robert Spencer
Cuba Trolls America’s Left for Spies (9/14): Terresa Monroe-Hamilton

Islam Demands Immediate Righteous Acts of Kuffars and the 1 Percent: Bethany Blankley
Saudi Airline May Be Planning To Segregate Passengers By Gender: Flight Club
Tycoon Prince Alwaleed takes Saudi kingdom to task over fiscal policy: MalayMail

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Marriott Wants To Jam Your Wi-Fi For Your Own Good: Helen A.S. Popkin
Montblanc e-strap turns any watch into a smartwatch: Geek
Amazon’s 8th generation fulfillment center is a thing of beauty: Holy Kaw!

Cornucopia

If It’s January It Must Be Time To Dog Sarah Palin Again: MOTUS
Florida State players return home to nasty surprise: Kevin Flaherty
Top 10 circus shots of 2014: ProBallTalk

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QOTD: "It has now been revealed that Democrats planned to control the costs of heath care by denying treatment to sick Americans, according to The Daily Caller.

“The real substance of cost control is all about a single thing: telling patients they can’t have something they want,” admitted Gruber. “It’s about telling patients, ‘That surgery doesn’t do any good, so if you want it you have to pay the full cost.’”

In other words, a group of people would make a determination about whether or not the treatments for an ill person are worth it. It is bureaucrats making health care decisions based largely on costs, and not always what is best for a patient.

That is exactly the type of thing that Sarah Palin and other conservatives warned about back in 2008 and 2009 — but they were mocked by liberals and the media.

The Obama administration has admitted that denying care is the only way to control costs. What happens when the cost of keeping a person alive is simply too high in the eyes of people like Gruber?

It is not a large jump from a group of bureaucrats making decisions about allowable care to the infamous “death panels” that decide how long a sick or elderly person is allowed to live. In fact, it’s no jump at all.

Liberals have shown over and over that they are addicted to meddling with people’s lives. Obamacare has given them a way to control and ration the health care choices that Americans make, using costs as an excuse." --Conservative Tribune

Saturday, January 03, 2015

FULL-BLOWN REBELLION: Another House Republican Says He Will Not Support Boehner for Speaker

My question to House Republicans is simple: are you going to honor your commitment to the voters who elected you or are you simply going to suffer Borg-like absorption into the Beltway establishment?

Will you be on the right side of history or not? What will you be able to proudly tell your grandchildren about what you did to protect this Republic?

Or will you instead knowingly participate in the ugly, corrosive deconstruction of the American form of government?

Over at Breitbart, Matthew Boyle alerts us to another House Republican who has decided to stand up against the Beltway elites of both parties.

Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) issued a statement on Saturday detailing why he’s going to vote against House Speaker John Boehner’s re-election on Tuesday... Massie, who’s entering his second term as a member from Kentucky, now becomes the second Republican House member announcing the coming rebellion against Boehner.

Massie joins Rep. Jim Bridenstine (R-OK) in the fight for fresh leadership, and in his statement he detailed how Boehner and his leadership actually have misled members of the House GOP conference.

...Massie reported focused mostly on Boehner’s work on the so-called “CRomnibus” $1.1 trillion spending bill [stating] that Boehner “schedule[d] a fiscal crisis in a lame duck session on the last legislative day before Christmas to get maximum leverage over rank and file members” and then worked to “mislead members into thinking that a vote on an unpopular bill was postponed, only to then conduct a rushed voice vote on the $10 billion unfunded spending measure with fewer than a dozen members present.”

Boehner also made sure to “give members less than 72 hours to read bills over 1,000 pages long, and,” Massie said, has proven he will “remove members from committees simply because they voted for the principles upon which they campaigned.”

STATE REP. MIKE HILL (R-FL): It's time for state legislators to stand up to a corrupt Congress

By Mike Hill

Our country was founded by men who were vested in a better tomorrow for their countrymen and future generations. The Constitution of the United States and the Bill of Rights are overwhelming evidence of their ideas in what it would take for a country to succeed.

Upon my commission as an officer in the U.S. Air Force, I took an oath to protect and defend the Constitution. Likewise, when I was sworn into the Florida Legislature, I took an oath to protect and defend the U.S. and Florida constitutions.

Congress has recently shown that it does not have the ability, or the desire to govern properly and reduce excess spending. The U.S. debt is steadily climbing due to a lack of congressional and executive self- control. The burden of this debt will be carried by our children and our grandchildren. This is a threat to our nation. How can a country successfully compete with other nations if they cannot financially support themselves? It is time to stand up to the corruption of Washington, letting the Legislative and Executive branches know that “We the People” are fed up with their egregious spending.

I am a member of The Assembly of State Legislatures, which consists of state legislators from around the United States who are aware of Article V of the Constitution, and recognize that the power belongs to the states and the people. The mission of The Assembly is to lay the framework and rules for a convention of the states, as described in Article V, for an amendment to our Constitution.

No amendments have been formally proposed by The Assembly as of this writing; however, the more-popular amendments include a federal balanced budget, congressional term limits, and returning power to the Congress and away from an out-of-control judicial system that usurps the will of the people.

INSIDER UPDATE: Tracking the growth of BadBlue News in 2014

For the six readers who might be interested in the topic, I thought I'd recap some of BadBlue's highlights for 2014.


A little bit of history: years ago I came to the realization that there were thousands of high quality websites that were worth visiting, but I had no effective way of doing so in any reasonable timeframe. Whether the topic was technology or politics -- two particular areas of interest for me -- the sheer volume of stories and sites overwhelmed any ability for me to keep up.

And I needed a way to bypass the media censors. Generic news sites, Google News for instance, are limited by the overt government censorship that's endemic to traditional media outlets. Major scandals that would have devastated a Republican administration -- Operation Fast and Furious, the weaponization of the IRS, and Benghazi, to name but a few -- are routinely hushed up by The New York Times, The Washington Post, and other influential elements of Democrat media.

Not only were generic news sites unsuitable, but RSS readers proved -- to me, at least -- wholly ineffective at managing thousands of websites and tens of thousands of news stories over any given day.

I needed a system to curate stories using automation. That's when the first idea hit me.

Larwyn's Linx: Why I Will Not Vote for John Boehner to Be House Speaker

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Nation

Why I Will Not Vote for John Boehner to Be House Speaker: Rep. Jim Bridenstine
29 Conservatives Can Oust Boehner as Speaker: Daniel Horowitz
GOP Voters Overwhelmingly Boehner Removed as Speaker: Matthew Boyle

There is No Question Scalise Must Resign Leadership: Jen Kuznicki
Nice work, Reagan of the Left.: Ace
What Obama's Amnesty Means for the American Worker: Kenneth Blackwell

Why the Coyotes Were Right: Mickey Kaus
Liberals Waste no Time Pushing Gun Control in 2015: LI
Home Invaders Shot Trying to Rape Man’s 19-Year-Old Granddaughter: R.S. McCain

America Is Being Transformed Into Brazil: Andrew Thomas
Reporter is Maced After Storming a Police Station with Protesters: RWN
Reverend Jeremiah Wright Was Worse Than Scalise: Ron Christie

Economy

2015 Brings ObamaCare Employer Mandate: Tom Borelli
The Obamas Dine with the .01 Percent: Keith Koffler
Thank Gridlock for Economic Turnaround: David Harsanyi

Scandal Central

Unanswered Benghazi Questions: Fifth in a Series: Sharyl Attkisson
The Real Policing Scandal -- Spontaneous Taxation: DTG
JW Files SCOTUS Amicus Brief Against Subsidies for Federal Health Exchanges: JW

Climate & Energy

One of Carvin’s Gaffes: Climate Audit
Cause And Effect, A Hard One For Liberals: Springer's Blog
New Obama Administration nutrition guidelines: "Become a vegan for Gaia": WyBlog

Media

2014: The Year the Liberal Narrative Exploded: Gavin McInnes
Media coverage of Florida melee with police shows how truth is suppressed: Allen West
Harry Reid breaks his face in ‘exercise’ incident: Scoop

The 14 Most Annoying People of 2014: Jim Goad
Washington Post Very Upset That GOP Controls So Much Of State Government: RWN
Next target for #BlackLivesMatter? ‘Shut Down @FoxNews & The @NYPost’!: Twitchy

Vice News Reporter, Jarrod Shanahan, Arrested For Attacking NYPD On Brooklyn Bridge: Treehouse
How To Make Liberals Cry and Protect Their Twitter Accounts Without Really Trying: Sooper
White House Photographer On Obama’s Tiara Photo: “There Was Not Much Urging At All”: WZ

World

A Most Significant “Gaffe”: Liberty's Torch
Italian Girls Appear in Hostage Video: Jawa Report
US vet says fighting in Syria was as easy as buying airplane ticket to Miami: Catherine Herridge

Combat comes to US troops in Iraq: LI
CAIR Issues Handbook On How To Call People “Islamophobes”: WZ
'I want Israel to know: Congress has your back': Israel Hayom

The Immigrant economy and the end of Europe: Vincent Cooper
A World Conspiracy: Brent Parrish
Could Obama Swing the Israeli Election?: Steven J. Rosen

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Red Meat Increases Cancer Risk Because of Toxic Immune Response: Discover
A Glossary of Emerging Terms in the Collaborative Economy: Web Strategist
FCC to vote on net neutrality rules in February: CIO

Cornucopia

Don’t You Love It When Life Imitates Art?: MOTUS
Archeologists discover mythical tomb of the god of the dead in Egypt: Gizmodo
What REALLY Happened to Harry Reid: Sooper

Image: But it hasn’t worked! So why continue this failed policy?
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QOTD: "On Thursday, Senator Reid received treatment at University Medical Center in Las Vegas for injuries sustained in an accident he suffered while exercising at home in Henderson.

A piece of equipment Senator Reid was using to exercise broke, causing him to fall and break a number of ribs and bones in his face.

Senator Reid will return to Washington this weekend and be in the office Tuesday as the Senate prepares to reconvene. His doctors expect a full recovery.

Senator Reid was first brought to St. Rose Dominican Hospital in Henderson by his security detail. He was then transferred to UMC for further testing, where he was admitted overnight as a precaution." --The office of Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV)

Friday, January 02, 2015

TREMENDOUS INFOGRAPHIC: The Political State of Twitter, 2014

Red Alert Politics points us to a fascinating study of Twitter by Echelon Insights (click the image to enbiggeplode).


Hat tip: BadBlue News.

COOL GRAPH: The “1%”... What jobs do they have?

Rectangles are sized according to the number of people in the top 1 percent of households. The darker the color, the higher percentage of people within that occupation and industry that reside in the top 1 percent.


You can get to the original, fully interactive graph through this link at Against Crony Capitalism as I prefer only to link to The New York Times out of matter of necessity.


Larwyn's Linx: When Facts Are Obsolete

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Nation

When Facts Are Obsolete: Thomas Sowell
Top conservatives call for Boehner’s ouster as speaker: Sam Rolley
Jan. 6 House Speaker Vote: Conservative Coup Against Boehner?: Raven Clabough

Top Ten Political Fictions of 2014: Marguerite Creel
Next Up in America: The Liberal Retreat: Walter Russell Mead
The Only Way to "Save" America - the Constitution!: Paul Dowling

Is Drug Testing for Welfare Recipients Catching On?: Rod Kackley
Top Ten Gun Control Zealots Of 2014: Tony Oliva
GOP Legislators Thwart Bids to Expand Medicaid: ABC

Scalise Hit Came From Former Dem Opponent’s Son: Aaron Gardner
"Audit The Fed" Bill Gains Momentum, Yellen Starts Damage Control: ZH
Jeb Bush quits board posts ahead of possible White House run: Reuters

Economy

More than 10,000 events to mark National School Choice Week: Kyle Olson
Final Tally: It Cost America $9.3 Billion to Save GM and Chrysler: Clifford Atiyeh
Valuation: You Got Problems: Karl Denninger

Scandal Central

A Streetcar Named Debacle: Walter Russell Mead
Sharyl Attkisson & Judicial Watch Unite To Sue Dept. of Justice: Lid
Wikileaks: CIA's Brennan on 'witch hunt' when journalist Michael Hastings was killed: Ralph Lopez

Climate & Energy

The Ironies of Oil: Victor Davis Hanson
How to Protect taxpayers from the EPA: Chase Downham
NC Sea Rise Doom: A Lesson In A Warmist Narrative: Cove

Media

Liberals Can’t Argue, They Can Only Bully: John Hinderaker
Obama Will Shut Border Agency To Aid Illegals, Says Aide: DC
Obama Chef Quits Over "Queen of Mean" Michelle: Enquirer

Turns Out That Lamar White Got Even The Most Basic Facts Wrong About Scalise’s Speech: Hayride
Into the New: Erick Erickson
Eric Holder: It’s Racist to Say, “Let’s Take Our Country Back”: ConTrib

Is the Most Powerful Conservative in America Losing His Edge?: Molly Ball
Will Conservatives Give Us a New Constitution?: Steve Byas
Rust Never Sleeps: The Union News

Unarmed White Man Killed by Alabama Police; No Protests, No Riots, No National Media: GWP
2014 Man of the Year: Hillary’s Service Dog: WFB
Top 10 Bumper Stickers of 2014: LI

World

Cotton: 'Appalling' to Consider US Embassies in Teheran, Havana Before Jerusalem: Breitbart
Russia’s Sub Rosa Statecraft: AmInt
Krauthammer: Castros Had To Wait Out 10 Presidents 'Til "Obama Gave Away The Store": RightPundit

Central Europe: A Vanishing Idea: AmInt
Censorship, "Mental Illness" Overrun France: Guy Millière
940 Cars Torched Across France on New Year’s Eve: GWP

Africa to Israel’s Rescue: AmInt
DeBlasio’s Father Backed Appeasing Hitler in 1938: GotNews
'Biggest secret Nazi weapons factory of the Third Reich' discovered underground: Mirror

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

North Korea/Sony Story Shows How Eagerly U.S. Media Still Regurgitate Government Claims: Intercept
Over 700 Million People Taking Steps to Avoid NSA Surveillance: Bruce Schneier
Microsoft's Top 15 Technologies Dropping in'15: Brian Posey

Cornucopia

2014 Missed Opportunity: WRSA
People We Didn't Lose in 2014: Wizbangpop
10 Twilight Zone Episodes You Must Watch: PopMech

Image: AirAsia jet may have made safe landing on sea before sinking, experts says
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QOTD:

"Barack Obama, Eric Holder and Al Sharpton all add to their power by dividing the nation along racial lines.

But why single them out? Every long-term strategy for the Democratic Party at the national level I have seen relies on the Dems collecting 90% of the black vote and a huge disproportion of other ethnics. How can they do that? Well, there is only so much public appetite for yet another well-intentioned but ill-conceived Federal giveaway, so...

Keep Hate Alive!"

--Tom Maguire