Friday, January 09, 2015

Larwyn's Linx: The Consequences of Obama's Benghazi Video Lie

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Nation

The Consequences of Obama's Benghazi Video Lie: EIB
Decline and Fall: ProWis
No More Vigils. Vengeance.: American Digest

Supreme Court Shouldn’t Ignore Constitution to Save Obamacare: David Harsanyi
Obama motorcade drives by scandal-plagued Phoenix VA hospital: Justin Sink
AZ Veterans Condemn Obama’s Failure To Stop At Phoenix VA: KSAZ

Conspiracy Lesson: Rick Wilson
Boehner Vows to Fight ‘Tooth and Nail’ Against Obama Amnesty He Funded: CNS
Boehner defends retribution: Scott Wong

Paris attack puts Western world in a bad spot: Jonah Goldberg
New York Times caught scrubbing details about Paris terrorist attack: WZ
DMV expects 100,000 illegals to seek licenses by Friday: Melody Gutierrez

Economy

Obama: Let’s Give Two Free Years of Community College to Everyone!!!: Patterico
The (Real) Bank of America: Michael Grunwald
GOP, Dems pass 40-hour workweek for Obamacare, ignore veto threat: Times

Scandal Central

House may have just thrown brakes on a Hillary presidency: Unyielding
NYC Mayor's Secret Past: Aaron Klein
Saxby Chambliss Transforms From Senator To Lobbyist In Less Than A Week: Doug Mataconis

Climate & Energy

Climate change’s instructive past: George Will

Media

Bill Donohue: Those Cartoonists Had It Coming: Robert Spencer
CNN Jim Clancy: real villains of Paris terror: the Jews: FAM
Mainstream Media Mostly Sides With Muslim Terrorists Following Charlie Hebdo Massacre: MB

Muslim Fanatic Defends Savage Murders by Fanatical Murderous Muslim Savages: R.S. McCain
Media Cowards and the Cartoon Jihad: Michelle Malkin
Jonathan Chait Blasts Fellow Liberals For Walking On Eggshells When Dealing With Islamists: NB

World

What is the Future for a Post-Liberal Europe?: Richard Reinsch
After Paris: The Kremlin’s New Message: 20 Committee
Inside Putin’s Information War: Peter Pomerantsev

Charlie Hebdo massacre: the march of the morons has already started: Simply Jews
Should the West Abandon the Middle East?: Jonathan Spyer
"No Go Zones and Sharia Courts…Europe is Finished.": IPT

What Can France Do Now?: David P. Goldman
Jihadists have declared war, world must respond: Canada's Harper: Julie Gordon
Canada will resettle another 10,000 Syrian refugees, minister promises: CTV News

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

The 9 Best Ideas From CES 2015 : Fastcodesign
Uncommon Carriers: Michael Bobelian
Subliminal Perception: Just How Fast Is The Brain?: Discover

Cornucopia

Tigers Never Change Their Stripes: MOTUS
Viagra has a new spokesman: All the Right Snark
Hillary in Hawaii?: iOTWreport

Image: First picture inside the blood-stained Charlie Hebdo newsroom
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QOTD: "The entire summer, while he was leading these reelection efforts, so forth and so on, [John Boehner] was working a backroom deal with Obama to pass to biggest spending bill in American history, and to fund every penny of ObamaCare. Do you know what the Boehner legacy is, Sean, in the last four years? He’s been the biggest spending, biggest borrowing, most profligate Speaker in American history and that includes Nancy Pelosi. " --Mark Levin

Thursday, January 08, 2015

The Charlie Hebdo massacre demonstrates how incredibly vulnerable our society is to Islamic terror

By Michael Snyder

If just three crazed jihadists can cause this much worldwide terror, what could thousands or even millions of them do? We live at a time when our world is becoming increasingly unstable, and thanks to the Internet hundreds of millions of people can know about a major act of terrorism within minutes of it happening. And that is what Islamic terrorists want. They want to cause fear, panic and terror, but more than anything else they want attention. They want the world to know what they did and why they did it. Even as much of the world recoils in horror in response to the massacre at the offices of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, there are millions of radical Muslims in the Middle East that are greatly celebrating and are hailing these jihadists as heroes. This is the biggest global news story of 2015 so far, and it is going to encourage other jihadists to commit similar attacks. And without a doubt, these kinds of attacks have already been increasing. It is being reported that worldwide suicide attacks by Muslims nearly doubled from 2013 to 2014. Sadly, what we have seen up to this point is probably just the tip of the iceberg.

We live in a society that is absolutely teeming with soft targets. The United States is literally a “target-rich environment” with thousands of schools, shopping malls, movie theaters, sports stadiums and government buildings to choose from. The possibilities for Islamic terrorists are endless.

23 Conservative Leaders Warn Boehner Not to Punish GOP Dissenters

By Rob Bluey

A coalition of 23 leaders in the conservative movement today urged Speaker John Boehner not to punish Republicans who voted against him for the House’s top job.

Boehner, who removed two of those dissenters from the powerful Rules Committee after the speaker vote, is now rethinking the decision, according to Politico. A total of 25 Republicans did not vote for Boehner.

“It is unacceptable and disappointing to see that some conservatives are already being punished by you and your leadership team for disagreements over policy and the direction of the conference. This must end immediately,” the 23 conservatives wrote in a letter from the Conservative Action Project.

Reps. Daniel Webster and Richard Nugent, two Florida Republicans who opposed Boehner, lost their seats on the Rules Committee. Rep. Randy Weber, R-Texas, said he was being punished for voting for another candidate.

“I’ve already lost the authorship of one bill,” Weber said. “Look it shouldn’t be that way.”

Rep. Louie Gohmert, R-Texas, who received three votes for speaker, called Boehner a “sore winner” for seeking retribution.

Some of Boehner’s allies want the speaker to take a tough stand after surviving the most divisive speaker election since 1860. That could spell trouble for Reps. Scott Garrett, R-N.J., and Mark Meadows, R-N.C., two subcommittee chairmen.

Meet the 12 Victims of the Charlie Hebdo Massacre

There are some sick, sick individuals out there. No, I'm not just talking about the animals behind the massacre of artists and writers in Paris. I'm talking about their apologists. People like CNN's Wolf Blitzer. Like Bill Donohue of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights. Like CNN's Jim Clancy. And many, many others.


Courtesy of Black Five, our response to these Islamonazi SOBs is as follows:

Pour les porcs d'amour lâches qui n'ont pas la virilité pour plaire à une souris: apporter. Comme vous l'avez semé le vent, vous pouvez récolter la tempête et il peut détruire ce qui vous soutenez. Que le monde et des milliers d'intensifier dessiner et écrire de vous et ce que vous soutenez moquer. Vous avez tué, et peut tuer plus, mais vous ne pouvez pas tuer une idée, et le rire vous moquer encore et de l'écho à travers les âges. Nous ne sommes pas peur, et nous sommes fiers de dire Je Suis Charlie!

Oh, you know what "media" outlet did publish Charlie Hebdo's cartoons? Al Jazeera.


Hat tip: BadBlue News.

JOHN McCAIN'S "ETHNIC CLEANSING": There's a Soviet-style Purge of Conservatives in Arizona

By Investor's Business Daily

Republicans: Political purges may work in totalitarian states, but in a democracy they can be self-defeating. The senator who called the Tea Party "wacko birds" should realize the GOP's real enemies are called Democrats.

It's been said that all politics is local, and normally a state party's internal squabbles would not be national news. But when they involve a former presidential candidate on an issue that will affect the selection of the GOP's 2016 presidential nominee and chances, we sit up and take notice.

Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., who lost the 2008 election to Barack Obama and who is running for re-election in 2016, wants to pull the Arizona portion of the grass-roots movement known as the Tea Party out by the roots and purge the ranks of the Arizona GOP of precinct committeemen and local party chairmen aligned to the Tea Party.

Local McCain opponent A.J. LaFaro, who has announced that he will not seek re-election to the Maricopa County GOP chairmanship, has compared the McCain organization's attempted party purge of Tea Party supporters to "ethnic cleansing."

Larwyn's Linx: How many corpses will it take before our rulers recognize the obvious?

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Nation

How many corpses will it take before our rulers recognize the obvious?: Jared Taylor
CNN: Employees Should Not Exhibit Cartoons of "The Prophet": Ace
Paris Massacre: Seven Questions and Facts: J. Christian Adams

When Constitutionalism is a Dangerous Thing: The Federalist
Progressivism: America's Internal Enemy: Liberty's Torch
Liars In Congress Are Our First Primary Targets For 2016: CHQ

The Political Disaster of RINOs: Bruce Walker
Okay, so what really happened to Harry Reid?: John Hinderaker
Bill Clinton and the company he keeps: Cal Thomas

Jonathan Gruber Republicans: Angelo M. Codevilla
Boehner Moves To Punish Dissenters, Despite Past Statements: Alex Pappas
‘We Made a Difference Today’: Read Louie Gohmert’s Full Statement: Oliver Darcy

Economy

Empty-Chair POTUS Brags He Saved Auto Industry…At Empty Ford Plant: Tammy Bruce
GOP Senator Suggests Raising Taxes Now That Oil Prices Have Fallen: RWN
Russian Default Risk Surges To New 6-Year Highs: ETF Daily

Scandal Central

Why It’s So Hard for Obama to Call Terrorism Terrorism: Andrew C. McCarthy
‘60 Minutes’ host Steve Kroft exposed in nasty affair: Leonard Greene, Page Six
Jeffrey Epstein And A Long History Of Slime: TSG

Climate & Energy

EPA's Wood-Burning Stove Ban Has Chilling Consequences For Many Rural People: Forbes
The Pontiff and ‘Climate Change’: Larry Elder
Ed Schultz Cheers Obama's Veto Threat, Forgets His Own Support for Keystone: Scott Whitlock

Media

Revolution In America, by Robert Gore: Straight Line Logic
Charlie Hebdo: Martyrs for the Truth: Abigail R. Esman
Peters: If They Had Any Guts, All U.S. Papers Would Print Muhammad Cartoons: Fox Insider

Wolf Blitzer: Charlie Hebdo Went “Over the Line”: Pundit Press
Associated Press Defends Censoring Mohammed Cartoons While Selling “Piss Christ” Pics: WZ
Website and Twitter page of MD news station defaced by ISIS backers: Scoop

Shocking Reactions to the Massacre in Paris: Ann Corcoran
AP, NBC, MSNBC, CBS, Time Magazine All Censor Charlie Hebdo Pictures of Mohammed: Treehouse
Charlie Hebdo Attack Cartoons: Cagle

World

Parisian Terror: Will Europe Finally Wake Up?: 20 Committee
After Paris, Will Obama Continue to Close Gitmo?: Roger L. Simon
Say Islam Is Violent and Jihadis Will Kill You: Debra Saunders

LIVE BLOG: Terror Attack in Paris: Patrick Poole
Is Putin Turning to Terrorism in Ukraine?: Anna Nemtsova
How to fix the NHS: a doctor's prescription: Max Pemberton

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Newly Discovered Antibiotic is a Bacterial Triple Threat: Carl Engelking
Browsing in privacy mode? Super Cookies can track you anyway: Dan Goodin
CES: Here’s what Microsoft is showing behind the scenes: Todd Bishop

Cornucopia

Simple Concept (Caution: NSFW): iOTWreport
The Night of a 1000 Anti-Islam Cartoons: John Hawkins
If You Will Look, You Will See: DiploMad

Image: Okay, so what really happened to Harry Reid?
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QOTD: "...what is most terrifying about the Charlie Hebdo massacre is the fact that we can no longer hide behind excuses about "lone wolf" terrorists who are "unbalanced" or "disturbed." Such descriptions are the way in which both media and public officials have attempted to minimize the impulses behind attacks such as the one in Fort Hood in 2009, or the attempts to behead two police officers in the streets of New York. What today's events in Paris make clear is that this is not the work of individual crazies, and that Islam is, in fact, a part of the equation.

It's time to stop pretending otherwise.

Let's be clear: the killers announced after their rampage that "this was vengeance for the Prophet Mohammed." Some witnesses claim that at least one of the men cried "Allahu Akbar," ("Allah is great"), the rallying cry of Islamic terrorists. And while many Muslim organizations condemned the attack, other Muslims have taken to Facebook and other social media to praise them.

But as CNN's Anderson Cooper said, "This was an attack on journalism." And an attack on journalism is an attack against truth, against insight, against knowledge – against the Enlightenment." --Abigail R. Esman

Wednesday, January 07, 2015

OBAMA'S GREATEST HITS: "The future must not belong to those who slander the Prophet of Islam"

It would appear that some misanthropic misunderstanderers of Islam took those words to heart. The brilliant Mark Steyn explains:

[In my] book After America, I speculate on how future generations will look back on our time from a decade or two hence:

In the Middle East, Islam had always been beyond criticism. It was only natural that, as their numbers grew in Europe, North America and Australia, observant Muslims would seek the same protections in their new lands. But they could not have foreseen how eager Western leaders would be to serve as their enablers. ... As the more cynical Islamic imperialists occasionally reflected, how quickly the supposed defenders of liberal, pluralist, Western values came to sound as if they were competing to be Islam's lead prison bitch.

Among them is the so-called leader of the free world, who stood up before the world at the United Nations and, in service of his Administration's lies over Benghazi, shamefully told the assembled leaders:

The future must not belong to those who slander the Prophet of Islam.

Mission accomplished - at least in Paris. As I wrote two years ago:

Country with abusive, draconian immigration laws offers President Obama help with his "Executive Amnesty"

By Investor's Business Daily

Hypocrisy: Mexico's president tells ours that his country will supply any documents needed for illegal aliens to qualify under Barack Obama's executive amnesty. At the same time, Mexico deports more illegals than we do.

In an Oval Office meeting with President Obama on Tuesday, Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto said that his administration "is ready to give (support) to the Mexican population living in the United States so that they can show the documentation that is necessary to prove that they have been in the United States prior to 2010" to meet the five-year requirement of Obama's amnesty plan and "all the other requirements" to qualify for executive amnesty.

This may be the first time that an American president has sought and received the assistance of a foreign leader to break the laws and violate the Constitution of the United States that he was sworn to uphold and defend.

Obama told reporters how much he appreciated "Mexico's commitment to work with us" on implementing his amnesty plan.

How gracious of President Nieto, whom Obama praised for stemming the flow of illegal aliens from Central America into the U.S. after their transit through Mexico. "In part because of a strong effort by Mexico, including at its southern border, we've seen those numbers reduced to more manageable levels," he said.

We suspect that a manageable level the American people would accept is probably closer to zero. It's interesting that Obama praises Mexico's border security at its southern border while he was woefully and deliberately neglecting border enforcement at our southern border with Mexico.

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

Image: Remembering How Futures Are Built
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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
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: Tell Your Representative to Replace John Boehner HERE!

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!