Monday, January 12, 2015

CARTOON O' THE DAY: John Kerry Stands With Charlie

From the brilliant Stilton Jarlsberg:


So true.

Also, John Kerry is whining about all of the progressives who are criticizing the administration for playing hooky during this weekend's solidarity march.

To be fair, the NFL playoffs were on.


Hat tip: BadBlue News.

Legendary Cartoonist R. Crumb Weighs in on Charlie Hedbo

Robert Crumb was the iconic cartoonist of the sixties counterculture.


It would seem he's not impressed with the "bravery" of the media as it pertains to Islamofascism.

The hat tip goes to Jake Tapper, who notes the President's absence from the weekend's solidarity rally as follows: the President of France was the first to visit the U.S. after 9/11.


3 of the Best Global Warming Images Ever

Spotted at Stormfax:


Related:
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  • Let Them Eat Dirt

Larwyn's Linx: On Radical Islam: You Have Exactly Three Choices

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Nation

On Radical Islam: You Have Exactly Three Choices: Karl Denninger
The Colonization of the West by the Third World: HillBuzz
France Declares War on Radical Islam, Eric Holder Refuses: Leah Barkoukis

Tweet of the Day: Great Moments in World History: WZ
White House to Host Home-Grown Terrorist Summit: Keith Koffler
Feinstein: Mass Casualty Attack By Terrorists Possible: Kate Scanlon

The Party of Snobbish Elites: Victor Davis Hanson
Prepare for yet another immigration showdown: Quentin Kramer
Female Gun Store Owner Shoots 3 Robbers Who Killed Her Husband: BlurBrain

So They Were Actual Muslims Then?: Erick Erickson
Clash of Civilizations: “It is time for the West to change.”: Protein Wisdom
As If On Cue...: Derek Hunter

Boehner: It hurts when critics call me 'spineless, or a squish': David M. Drucker
Boehner Re-elected Speaker . . . And You Got Played: RWN
Boehner embrace of GOP rebels nudges House to right: Charles Babington

Economy

Betrayed single-payer fanatics throw temper tantrum in Vermont: Moe Lane
#FreeCommunityCollege – You Morons Can’t Afford It!: Steven Crowder
The Unions-Driven Crisis That Could Be Coming to a City Near You: Stephen Moore

Scandal Central

Report: No U.S. Representation At Rally, Holder Didn’t Show Up: WZ
Obama doesn’t even send Kerry to Paris: FAM
Obama Helping to Ban Reenactments of 1889 Land Rush Because it’s ‘Racist’: Publius

Climate & Energy

Biofuels Have Never Made Less Sense: AmInt
Vent Your Heating & Cooling Frustrations with Ecovent: SoundAndVision
How OPEC Weaponized the Price of Oil Against U.S. Drillers: Bloomberg

Media

This isn't national news? EVIL: Don Surber
Charlie Hebdo Could Never Have Existed on an American College Campus: CI
These are the biggest hypocrites celebrating free speech today in Paris: Kabir Chibber

Newspaper Office in California Vandalized Simply For Using The Word ‘Illegals’ In Headline: RWN
Mental Midget Anti’s Using Hebdo Attack To Push Gun Control: Extrano's Alley
Why Has George Clooney Remained Silent About ‘Charlie Hebdo’?: Publius

World

50 World Leaders at Paris Anti-Terror Rally But Guess Who’s Missing?: Clash
Obama spent his day watching NFL playoff football: FAM
Pushing Back Against Free Speech Hypocrisy In Britain: VDARE

Venezuela puts food distribution under military protection: Rick Moran
Hacktivists declare war on terrorists; it’s more than Obama’s done anyway: BPR
In Honor Of Charlie Hebdo: WZ

I’m Running Out of Ways to Defend Islam: Allen Clifton, ForwardProgressives
The U.S. Marines' 5 Most Lethal Weapons of War: National Interest
Calling Islamism the Enemy: Daniel Pipes

Islam’s wars betray a deadly problem: John Ruberry
Is Boko Haram Using Abducted Girls as Suicide Bombers?: Patrick Goodenough
Can Islam Be Reformed?: Dennis Prager (2011)

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Blaming The Gun For The Battle Losses: Herschel Smith
Your Own Private Two-Person Submersible Is Here: John Wenz
Men Who Post Lots of Selfies Show Signs of Psychopathy, Says Study : Darren Orf

Cornucopia

The End of Outrage: MOTUS
Two Familiar Things to Comfort You: Ace
Chris Christie Lampooned as Dallas Cowboys Cheerleader: OTB

Image: Amedy Coulibaly shot and killed at grocery store in Vicennes - Uncensored and uncut
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QOTD: "In terms of profile, these jihadist murderers fit it perfectly, to an almost comical extent: angry young losers, drug users with criminal records, coming from broken families, known unpleasantly in their community as violent troublemakers. There was even the obligatory aspiring rap artist cliche. These are essentially spree killers seeking an ideology to justify their murderous urges, and in Salafi jihadism they found it: that being the hate-based worldview of choice for many would-be terrorists these days, anywhere. When travel to foreign jihad was added to the Kouachi dossier, the French intelligence services had something to work with, but not enough to keep them off the streets for long. It was inevitable that the security apparatus — which can only track so many targets in “real time” or something close to it, and resources are always finite — placed other, more dangerous-looking jihadists higher on the list to be watched than the Paris killers." --20 Committee

Sunday, January 11, 2015

Cost to New Jersey Taxpayers to Protect World's Largest Dallas Cowboys Cheerleader Rises 1,800 Percent

By Mark Lagerkvist

No matter who paid for Chris Christie’s ticket to the Dallas Cowboys vs. Green Bay Packers football game on Sunday, the New Jersey governor ran up the score on taxpayers.

The travel costs of state police troopers assigned to protect the governor are 18 times higher than when Christie took office, a New Jersey Watchdog investigation found.

New Jersey spent nearly $1 million on travel expenses for its state police Executive Protection Unit during Christie’s four years and nine months as governor, according to documents obtained under the Open Public Records Act. Last year, Christie traveled out-of-state on more than 100 days while visiting 36 states, Mexico and Canada, primarily on personal and political trips that were not official state business.

The current average monthly travel costs to protect Christie for a single month are 50 percent more than former Gov. Jon Corzine’s entire final year in office, according to state records. For 2009, EPU’s expenses were only $21,704 – compared to $32,933 per month for the first three quarters of 2014.

Spokesmen for Christie did not respond to New Jersey Watchdog’s requests for comment.

The governor announced he will pay is pay for his own travel and ticket to the game in Green Bay. Last week, Christie acknowledged Cowboys owner Jerry Jones paid for him, his wife and their four children to fly to Dallas on a private charter jet as well as their VIP seats at the Jan. 4 game against the Detroit Lions – an admission that stirred controversy about ethics and gifts to the governor.

The dramatic increase in EPU travel costs coincides with the political rise of an ambitious governor considering a run for the White House in the 2016 election:

The 4 Biggest Hypocrites Praising Free Speech in Paris Today

Kabir Chibber of Quartz helps bust the tyrannical hypocrites who today claim to stand with Charlie Hedbo. Here are the four of the worst offenders.

Foreign minister Sameh Shoukry, Egypt
Three al-Jazeera journalists—Peter Greste, Mohamed Fahmy and Baher Mohamed—were jailed for seven years for spreading false news and supporting the now-banned group, the Muslim Brotherhood. The trio had denied the charges. On New Year’s Day, the country’s top court ordered a retrial... Reporters Without Borders ranks Egypt as second in the world for the number of journalists arrested, including this photojournalist who describes his 16 months behind bars as an “endless nightmare.”
Prime minister Ahmet Davutoğlu, Turkey
Turkey held almost 50 journalists in jail two years ago. There are seven journalists in jail at the moment, mainly for producing propaganda for outlawed political parties.
King Abdullah, Jordan
Mudar Zahran, a Palestinian writer for The Jerusalem Post, was sentenced to as much as 15 years in jail with hard labor for writing about the king’s dependence on Israel for power. He told the the paper he was charged with “inciting hatred and attacking Jordan’s image and the image of its one nation.” He spoke from the UK, where he has been granted asylum.
Prime minister Enda Kenny, Ireland
Perhaps most surprising of all in these circumstances, Ireland has had “blasphemy” as a criminal offense on its books since 2009. Already one Muslim has threatened legal action against any Irish publication that reprints Charlie Hebdo’s front-page depiction of the Prophet Muhammad. Blasphemy is punishable with a fine of up to €25,000 ($29,500), but there are plans to hold a referendum to abolish it... Blasphemy is defined by the Irish as “publishing or uttering matter that is grossly abusive or insulting in relation to matters sacred by any religion.” It doesn’t sound like the drafters of this law would have much time for the people at Charlie Hebdo.

Hat tip: BadBlue Tech News

QOTD: Right of Return

By Dan from New York

Sent via a friend:

“This attack only underscores the need for France to immediately engage in negotiations with French Muslims that will result in the creation of two states for two peoples, living side by side in peace and security, with Paris as a shared capital..."

Similar notion expressed here:


Related: The 751 No-Go Zones of France.


Larwyn's Linx: "Smoking Ruins And Crying Widows"

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Nation

"Smoking Ruins And Crying Widows": Springer
The meaning of peace in Islam: Diane Weber Bederman
Blasphemy for Me, But Not For Thee: Matthew Continetti

Obama Imported 300,000 Muslims Into the US in 2013: WAW
Guess who else Obama is dumping onto your state welfare troughs?: BNI
Obama absent as world leaders gather to protest Islamic terror: Thomas Lifson

GOP Makes First Move Against Obamacare: AmInt
The coming Republican failure on immigration: Byron York
GOP sets up fight over Social Security disability fund: Joseph Lawler

Enough Part 3: Coping With The Objectors: Liberty's Torch
Je Suis Sick and Tired of Cant: Clarice Feldman
Obama’s remarks on Paris shooting ‘Shariah-compliant’: WND

Jeb In 94: I Would Do ‘Probably Nothing’ For African-Americans: Scott Greer
Centrist angst over Dems' leftward lurch: Susan Crabtree
2015: The year Democrats change Obamacare?: Silvio Canto, Jr.

Scandal Central

HHS execs living large, flying first class around the world: Luke Rosiak
The U.S. Govt. vs. Gen. David Petraeus: Sharyl Attkisson
GOP senators slam FBI's recommendation to charge David Petraeus: Justin Green

Climate & Energy

Ben Santer tries to explain ‘the pause’ in global warming: WUWT
How To Prepare For The Imminent 30-Year Cold Spell (You’ve Probably Never Heard Of): OTGN
More Mann Grafting: Steve McIntyre

Media

Leaked Newsroom Emails Reveal Al Jazeera Fury over Global Support for Charlie Hebdo: NRO
Moderate Muslims Criticize the Charlie Hebdo Attacks: Patterico
On week Islamists murder over ‘offensive’ cartoon, Obama’s DOJ hammers Redskins: Scoop

Dem Dilemma: Hillary “very old, slow” but Elizabeth Warren unelectable: Flopping Aces
Cultural Marxism Strikes Again in Aftermath of Gun Store Robbery: Treehouse
CNN’s Cuomo and Amanpour suffer self-inflicted beclownings covering terrorist attack in France: Doug Powers

World

There was no “Intelligence Failure” in Paris: 20 Committee
Report: Jihadist Sleeper Cells Activated Throughout France: Treehouse
German paper that printed French cartoons firebombed: Fox

2,000 Dead in Boko Haram Assault on Africa?: BattleSwarm
Two Muslim Heroes of Paris Terror Attacks : LI
Muslim Behavior/Terrorism Correlated With Population Size: Common Sense Evaluation

Those who refuse to learn from history etc: Cold Fury
Boko Haram Sends 10-Year-Old Girl as Suicide Bomber To Market…. 20 Dead: Treehouse
For first time since WWI, Paris’ Grand Synagogue closed on Shabbat: JTA

Negotiators head to Iran nuclear talks under pressure for a deal: Charles Hoskinson
When I Questioned the History of Muhammad: Tom Holland
Old Nazis Never Die: Nicholas Kulish

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Sony Pictures CEO: call to Google got 'The Interview' out: Tami Abdollah
The Latest Russian Fighter Jet Blows America's Away: Federico Pieraccini
Flexible spinal cord implants will let paralyzed people walk: Jon Fingas

Cornucopia

Just When You Think It Couldn’t Get Worse…: MOTUS
People's Cube commissars stage mock show trial in Ferguson: Cube
Cartoon: BYOD Meets Internet of Things: Dark Reading

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QOTD: "Can you imagine the media reaction if just one Christian murdered just one person as a reprisal for some offensive joke or provocative cartoon? We’d be ready to ban the entire religion in this country. Progressives are so desperate to prove that Christianity is just as violent as Islam that they frequently cite the murder of abortion doctors as an example. Only, none of those attacks were carried out in the name of Jesus. As far as I’m aware, none of the murderers shouted “Praise be to Christ” when they pulled the trigger. And how many incidents are we even talking about here? I’ll tell you: eight. Eight abortionists and abortion clinic workers have been killed in the U.S. in the past 40 years. It’s happened once in the last decade and a half. Once.

Yet Christians are held to such a high standard that even these extraordinarily rare killings, not even done in the name of the faith, and always condemned by nearly every prominent Christian, are cited in almost every conversation about religious violence. Meanwhile, Muslims just gunned down 12 people over a cartoon this morning, and what do we immediately hear? Islam is a religion of peace.

A White House spokesman came out within hours of the attack and spent about 40 seconds condemning the violence before immediately repeating this same slogan. While another dozen bodies lay dead in the street, we’re told that it all happened at the hands of a “peaceful” religion. (But at least he didn’t repeat Obama’s quote from 2012: “The future must not belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam.”) This is a sick joke. Islamist militant wreak havoc across the globe, and the best our simpering, kowtowing, politically correct leaders can do is continuously suck up to the religion that produces these travesties like it’s operating some kind of terrorist assembly line. It’s pathetic. It’s shameful." --Matt Walsh

Saturday, January 10, 2015

SHARYL ATTKISSON: The U.S. Government vs. David Petraeus

By Sharyl Attkisson

The New York Times reports federal prosecutors are recommending felony charges against former CIA Director Gen. David Petraeus for allegedly providing classified information to a civilian author and journalist with whom he allegedly had an affair.

In light of the news, it’s worth looking at the following excerpt from my book: Stonewalled.

Meanwhile, another controversy is waiting to boil over within the Obama administration: a sex scandal involving the CIA’s Petraeus. The timing is—intriguing. Only after the Benghazi attacks, as Petraeus’s loyalty to the administration falls into question, does everything turn sour for the spy chief.

In the immediate aftermath of the Benghazi attacks, Petraeus first draws ire from some administration colleagues for not reading from the Carney-Obama-Clinton-Rice book of fiction. While they’re pushing the spontaneous protest narrative, he’s disclosing full information on the suspected al-Qaeda links, to House Intelligence Committee members at a classified briefing, according to those present. Then the talking points his agency approves for public dissemination on September 14 say that the CIA provided warnings on September 10 that the U.S. Embassy in Cairo, Egypt, could come under attack and that Benghazi was in a precarious state. Clinton’s state department sees the inclusion of that damning information in the CIA’s original proposed talking points as a “knee-jerk cover-your-ass moment” on Petraeus’s part. One official later tells me, “We thought, Why are you guys [Petraeus’s CIA] throwing us under the bus? . . . They made it seem like the State Department was given a warning they ignored. [But] no specific warning was given.”

Emails indicate that on September 15, 2012, a CIA representative sent Petraeus the final version of the talking points that had been revised “through the Deputies Committee” after “State voiced strong concerns with the original text.” The CIA’s references to terrorism and early warnings had been removed.

Petraeus expresses disapproval of the final version, writing that he would just assume that they not be used. But his deputy, Morell, and the White House give them the green light.

Is all of this the beginning of the end of Petraeus’s career as CIA director?

Let’s look at a timeline constructed primarily using government accounts:

In November 2011, Petraeus, who’s married, allegedly begins an affair with his biographer, Paula Broadwell.

IT'S TIME: The Cruz Coalition Is Coming!

Based upon a speech by the invaluable Trevor Loudon.


Could you support a ticket like that? Let me know in the comments.

Oh, and let Ted Cruz know on Twitter. It's time we started taking this country back.

The Official Apologist for Murder and Terror of The New York Times: Nicholas Kristof #CharlieHebdo

By Abigail R. Esman

On the day when journalists were massacred in Paris, while blood still ran wet where they had fallen, and as eye witnesses described the killers' shouts of "Allahu Akbar" – "Allah is great" – the New York Times' Nicholas Kristof asked the world not to judge the killers too quickly: most urgently, he said, don't jump to the conclusion they are Muslims.

Really? Even when they sounded the Muslim prayer? Even when they called their deeds, loud and clear in the streets of Paris, "vengeance for the Prophet"?

Here's what Kristof did not do: condemn the killings. Praise those who had been slaughtered. Express horror at their execution. And admit that men who praise Allah after committing mass murder are, religious profiling or not, probably going to turn out to be Muslim.

It just kind of is that way.

(Interestingly, in listing a number of Islamic terrorist attacks on Western targets, he also failed to mention that Muslims were involved in the attacks of 9/11. Ask yourself why.)

Instead, he begged his readers not to judge. He repeated the clichéd platitudes about the "majority of Muslims" having nothing to do with Islamic extremism, and praised, not the editors and cartoonists of Charlie Hebdo, but non-Muslims who rose to the aid of Muslims who feared reprisals after the recent (Muslim-led) hostage crisis in Sydney, Australia.

What he might have done, but didn't, was take a lesson or two from the New Yorker's George Packer, a man who actually knows a thing or two about Islamic extremism, and about the courage of journalists confronting it: he was one of them. At around the same time Kristof seems to have been penning his column, Packer wrote:

Larwyn's Linx: 6 Times The Obama Administration Said Its Job Was to Promote Islam

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Nation

6 Times The Obama Administration Said Its Job Was to Promote Islam: Breitbart
Urgent: Obama Tells States They Can’t Block His Immigration Order: Sara Noble
House’s DHS funding bill makes enforcement a priority: LI

Just two or four dangerously stupid Muslims: MagFarm
Islamophobia: Thought Crime of the Totalitarian Future: FPM
Lamenting Liberty Lost: Andrew Napolitano

Obamacare and the Irritation Factor: Scott Rasmussen
Obama's math doesn't add up on free tuition, critics say: Brian Hughes
U.S. to Shutter 15 European Bases Under Cost Cutting Plan: WFB

GOP takes first shot at blocking Obama's Amnesty dictate: Susan Ferrechio
The Media’s Main Bias is Anti-American: Leon Wolf
Four observations prompted by the Paris attack: Paul Mirengoff

Economy

The waiter, bartender, retail worker recovery continues: BizzyBlog
Average CalPERS Pension 5 Times More Than Social Security Payouts: CalPolicy
Greek minister moves to allay fears of bank run: Guardian

Scandal Central

Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane (D) *may* be indicted soon: Moe Lane
Obama’s Hawaii vacation is over, now it’s time for us to pay the tab: Watchdog
'Every single French Jew I know has left Paris': DailyMail

Climate & Energy

Keystone Fight Is About Much More: Phil Kerpen
High Flying EPA Head Gina McCarthy: Doing Nothing On Climate Change Is “Scary”: RWN
EPA Moves to Count Methane Emissions from Fracking: SciAm

Media

WaPo Baffled to Discover Terrorists Don’t Obey Gun Control Laws: GayPatriot
Steyn destroys media for making Islam the victim: Scoop
Gutfeld Calls Out CNN's Amanpour for Labeling Terrorists 'Activists': FNI

The Sleepwalkers: American Digest
Nicholas Kristof & the Spirit of Charlie Hebdo: Abigail R. Esman
He Has a Pen, But Does He Know How To Use It?: MOTUS

World

Islam is the Most Violent Religion in the World, But Let’s Keep Calling it ‘Peaceful’ Anyway: Matt Walsh
Canada: Muslim cleric says cartoons of religious leaders should be outlawed: JihadWatch
Paris hostages run for their lives as 'at least four' in siege are dead: DailyMail

With the Paris Attack the European Civil War Just Began: John Zmirak
Murder of Innocents: Boko Haram Sacks Baga: AmInt
Saudi Arabia: Activist Raif Badawi's 1,000 lashes public flogging to commence after Friday prayers: IBT

2016 and Paris: It’s the Jihad, Stupid!: Roger L. Simon
69% of French Muslims (4.14 million) back the Islamic State, poll finds: MuslimStats
Charlie Hebdo jihad mentor’s wife lives on welfare in UK: JihadWatch

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

RetailNext Attempts Real-Time Targeting in Malls: DMnews
Pew report: Instagram use growing quickly, Facebook stagnant: InsideFacebook
The 9 Greatest Movie Car Chases of All Time: Supercompressor

Cornucopia

Spread Near And Far: Bracken On Petraeus: WRSA
"This is the Jihad of the Ummah. So France, are you ready for more attacks?”: The Intercept
Perhaps France deported the wrong immigrant element: Obiter Dictum

Image: Paris hostages run for their lives as 'at least four' in siege are dead
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QOTD: "Since 1939, France has had the kind of “Common Sense Gun Control Laws” that groups financed by Mike Bloomberg claim to favor (although the laws don’t go far enough, in their view, because they still permit a small number of private citizens to own firearms.) The editorialists at the Washington Post are baffled why France’s strict gun laws failed to prevent the Charlie Hebdo massacre.

A genuinely troubling question: Why didn’t France’s gun laws save the Charlie Hebdo victims? ... There is no right to bear arms for the French, and to own a gun, you need a hunting or sporting license which needs to be repeatedly renewed and requires a psychological evaluation.

You mean the Mohammedan terrorists refused to apply for gun permits or sit for psychological valuations, but decided to get guns anyway? Jamais dans la vie!

Even a dumb hick from flyover country could explain why gun control laws fail; because criminals and terrorists don’t obey gun laws. But the leftists at the Washington Post clearly are too educated to understand that." --Gay Patriot

Friday, January 09, 2015

Congress itself implicated in new Obamacare scandal

By Judicial Watch

They didn’t fess up willingly. But after we applied the appropriate pressure, government officials responsible for operating the Washington D.C. Obamacare “Small Business Exchange” have finally admitted that Congress is taking advantage of health benefits its members and staff are not entitled to claim.

At least 12,359 members of Congress, congressional staffers, and their spouses and dependents currently purchase health insurance in D.C.’s Small Business Exchange even though Congress far exceeds D.C. law’s 50-employee limit for participating in the exchange. That’s why we filed a lawsuit in October on behalf of Kirby Vining, a D.C. taxpayer, against the D.C. Health Exchange Authority. In a court filing, the D.C. government conceded that, under D.C. law, the U.S. Congress is not permitted to obtain insurance through the District’s Small Business Exchange. But members of the political class, true to form, do not believe the rules apply to them. How do we know?

Our lawsuit cites applications filed by the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate with the D.C. Exchange Authority. The applications, which were obtained through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request, show that the House and Senate claimed to have only 45 employees each. They also show that the House and Senate attested to having “50 or fewer full-time equivalent employees.” Congress employs upwards of 20,000 people. D.C. law limits participation in the exchange to small businesses having fewer than 50 full-time employees. The applications also falsely state that the House and Senate are “local/state governments.” The “electronic signature” section of the application includes the following language:

I, FOR ONE, WELCOME OUR NEW OVERLORDS: Say Hello to the New One-Party State

By Lawrence Sellin

Oligarchy is defined as a form of government in which all power is vested in a few persons or in a dominant class or clique; government by the few.

The oligarchy is composed of the Democrat and Republican establishments, the media and the financiers, who every four years hire a President.

The political system they operate is known as "totalitarian democracy", one in which lawfully elected representatives rule a nation state whose citizens, although granted the right to vote, have little or no participation in the decision-making process of government.

The main policy of the American oligarchy is malfeasance, the performance by a public official of an act that is legally unjustified, harmful, or contrary to law.

Or as Ambrose Bierce, a 19th century political satirist, described Washington D.C. as a strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles and the conduct of public affairs for private advantage.

How did, for example, Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV) manage to grow his net worth to $10 million while raising a large family, on a public official's salary, and incurring the expenses associated with maintaining two residences on opposite sides of the country?

According to Peter Schweizer ("Throw them all out: how politicians and their friends get rich off insider stock tips, land deals, and cronyism that would send the rest of us to prison"):

"It's not racial profiling. It's logical deduction"

By Investor's Business Daily

Security: In the wake of the Islamist terrorist attack in Paris, former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani argues to reinstate a policy cancelled by Mayor Bill de Blasio, who has arguably left the city as exposed as it was on Sept. 10, 2001.

Although the Paris terrorist attack by Islamists has not been linked to any mosque, the historical record is dotted with similar attacks that have such links, including the Nov. 5, 2009, rampage at the Army base in Killeen, Texas, by Maj. Nidal Hasan that killed 13 and wounded 31 as the self-proclaimed "Soldier of Allah" shouted "Allahu Akhbar" (God is great) in a manner similar to the Paris attackers.

Hasan's nearly two dozen messages to al-Qaida terrorist leader Anwar al-Awlaki, once a spiritual leader at a mosque in suburban Virginia where Hasan worshipped, put Hasan on the radar of authorities who, tragically, did not heed the warning signs.

Thinking of mosques as potential hotbeds of the Islamist fanaticism that can fuel terrorist attacks isn't politically correct, yet it's happened.

As we have noted, the Saudi Embassy-funded and Muslim Brotherhood-owned Dar al-Hijrah Islamic Center in Northern Virginia, where Hasan worshipped and al-Awlaki preached, was also where the 9/11 hijackers who led the Pentagon attack got help with housing and IDs.

It was in part that link between the 9/11 terrorists and a mosque that prompted the creation of the NYPD anti-terrorism unit known as the Demographics Unit or Zone Assessment Unit.

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."