Sunday, January 18, 2015

Everything in this article is a lie – and that’s the truth

By Lawrence Sellin

It is difficult to write satire in a political-media environment that is delusional and corrupt. Satire is a comparative art, where, ultimately, truth is the basis of that comparison. When everything is a lie and reality is absurd, the similes and metaphors of satire lose their impact.

Conservative movement leaders have published a Citizen's Mandate, which outlines initiatives they want Republicans in Congress to take in order to "stop" Barack Obama's "fundamental transformation of America," something they say the American people made clear in the 2014 midterm elections with such decisive GOP victories.

According to Breitbart's Matthew Boyle, the major bullet points that the conservative leaders say the citizenry expects of Republicans include: an end to Obama's "promised ‘Fundamental Transformation' of the country," a stop to overreaches by the executive branch, a restoration of "Constitutional balance of power among the three branches of government," for Republicans to "bring an end to the perennially unpopular Affordable Care Act,"  to stop "the President's Executive Amnesty initiatives," while holding "the Executive branch accountable for its myriad abuses of power and its national security failures both foreign and domestic" and a new beginning that puts "the interests of the United States of America first among nations."

They are all sensible and laudable goals, yet they do not address the essence of the problem.

Larwyn's Linx: Islamophobia

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Nation

Islamophobia: DiploMad
Why 26 Republicans don't want DREAMers to wake up: Pedro Gonzales
Top Dem: ‘Un-American” To Question First Muslim Appointed To Intel Panel: WZ

Monsieur Obama MIA: Michael Reagan
Semi-Retired President To Propose Tax Increases On The Rich: RWN
Ever Wondered How Senators Retire Rich? Dianne Feinstein Shows Us: IJR

Diversity: Koom. Bah. Humbug: Fred
The Sidelines of Chaos: Stephen Miller
Jindal's Brilliant Take on Radical Islam: Larry Kudlow

Progressives and Islamists: rooting out blasphemy a top priority for both: PW
Hillary Clinton’s Charlie Hebdo Problem: Ed Driscoll
RNC Overhauls 2016 Debate Schedule After 2012 Debacle: Rip Curl

Economy

Obama to use State of the Union to call for huge tax increases: Exam
Boston Mayor Fires “Gender & Migration Consultant” Over Role In I-93 Protest: WZ
Richard Koo Crushes The QE Dream (In 1 Brief Paragraph): ZH

Scandal Central

State Sponsor Of Terror, U.S. Chamber Of Commerce Pulling For Same GOP Candidates In 2016: Shoebat
How Lawmakers Get Rich: Sen. Feinstein’s Husband To Make A Billion From Gov’t Deal: WZ
Conspiracy to infringe: Joe Huffman (2013)

Climate & Energy

2014 Was NOT the Warmest Year on Record: Heartland
Hitler’s Green Killing Machine: NoisyRm
Fracking Saved the Obama Economy: Ben Shapiro

Media

Remember convicted sex fiend Del. Joe Morrissey (D, VA)? Guess what they didn’t tell you!: Moe Lane
More on The New York Times and Haredi Photoshop: CAMERA
A Light Shines In The Darkness: Springer's Blog

American Sniper’ Earns Record-Breaking $30.5 Mil Friday, Shoots for $80 Mil Weekend: Variety
Maher Rips Liberals for ‘Extreme Bullying’ on Islam: You’re Part of the Problem: Mediaite
Fox News Apologizes for Steve Emerson and His No-Go Zone Error: Sara Noble

World

In Graphic Photos and On Twitter, ISIS Members Record and Tout Executions of Gay Men: Daily Beast
EU "considering a ban on Islamophobia" after Paris attacks: Commentator
It’s getting hard to keep up with all these Koran-inspired atrocities that have nothing to do with Islam: Pat Condell

Why Ukraine Is Losing: 20 Committee
Czechs March Against Islam: “Islam is Evil”: JWF
How Many People Did Communism Kill?: BattleSwarm (2010)

Europe On Edge: 80 Activated Islamic Terrorists…: Treehouse
‘Moderate’ Muslim Nation: Woman Beheaded in Broad Daylight While Police Watch: IJR
Afghan War Hero Who Lost Both Legs Begins IDF Volunteer Stint: Algemeiner

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Google invents smart contact lens with built-in camera: Superhuman Terminator-like vision?: ExtremeTech
The Digital Arms Race: NSA Preps America for Future Battle: Spiegel
Snowden Tally: Cryptome

Cornucopia

Eagle-Eyed Detective Thwarts Inmate's Theft Of Jail Spork Valued At Two Cents: TSG
132 Year-Old Rifle Found in National Park Propped Against a Tree: BuzzPo
Anonymous Man Donates $1 Million To Families Of Slain NYPD Cops: WZ

Image: Google invents smart contact lens with built-in camera: Superhuman Terminator-like vision?
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QOTD: "How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy. The effects are apparent in many countries. Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce, and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live. A degraded sensualism deprives this life of its grace and refinement; the next of its dignity and sanctity.

The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property, either as a child, a wife, or a concubine, must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men. Individual Moslems may show splendid qualities - but the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it. No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith. It has already spread throughout Central Africa, raising fearless warriors at every step; and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science, the science against which it had vainly struggled, the civilization of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilization of ancient Rome." --Sir Winston Churchill (The River War, first edition, Vol. II, pages 248-50 (London: Longmans, Green, 1899

Saturday, January 17, 2015

DELIGHTFUL: Islamist Terror Group Operating 22 Training Facilities in the United States

The Conservative Tribune reports "that the FBI is aware of 22 Islamic 'communes' inside the United States. These are allegedly run by a Pakistani group known as Jamaat al-Fuqra, through a more friendly sounding organization called 'Muslims of the Americas' (MOA)."

According to the Clinton Department of State, the group called Jamaat ul-Fuqra is a terrorist organization.


Thanks, Mr. "The future must not belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam" Obama!


Hat tip: BadBlue News.

CHRIS MATTHEWS: Smarter Than the Entire GOP Establishment

Because even the hyperactive Leftist understands Obama better than Boehner, McConnell and Rove.

What bothered me about him [today] he keeps talking about common ground. Damn it, there's very little common ground between left and right, but what there is is compromise. You do something for me on minimum wage, I'll do something for you in corporate tax reform. You give me something on corporate tax reform and I'll get rid of some of the loopholes or I'll do something on trade for you. He never talks about trading and compromising, he always talks about common ground. Well, damn it, you can not run a government on common ground.

He misses the main point of politics which is to be a politician and to trade. Okay, you want this? You want to take care of people who have been here illegally for 20, 30 years? Here's what I want. No more illegal hiring, and that's all in the Senate bill. But he won't sell the compromise. There's something in this guy that just plays to his constituency and acts like there is no other room out there. And that's going to be a collision at the end of this year like you have never seen. I do believe it will be like waving a red flag in front of the bull. I think Mitch McConnell is headed for a fight with the president.

Now I must admit this clip was picked up from RealClearPolitics because no one watches MSNBC. Seriously. Its ratings now hover between those of airport radar and the laundromat on E. 34th Street.


Here's one way the United States should emulate Saudi Arabia!

By Investor's Business Daily

Homeland Security: To keep out Islamic State terrorists, the Saudis are building a 600-mile-long barrier — complete with five layers of fencing, underground movement censors and radar cameras — on their northern border. If they can do it ...

Good fences, it is said, make for good neighbors, which on a grand scale was the intent of the Great Wall of China in antiquity and the Israeli fences of more recent vintage. Both were designed to keep out intruders and to make sure all guests were invited guests. Unlike the Berlin Wall, they were built to keep hostiles out, not citizens in.

As the threat of IS terrorism grew in Iraq and Syria, Saudi Arabia decided it might be a good idea to put such a barrier between its citizens and those who might want to kill them. Last September, King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz al-Saud initiated construction of a multilayered barrier that eventually will stretch along the entire Iraqi border from Kuwait to Jordan.

SECOND AMENDMENT NEWS: The Innovative Taurus Curve

I think the Taurus Curve represents a true breakthrough design for the handgun. And I'm in agreement with veteran gun-blogger Bob Owens of Bearing Arms (a winner of a 2014 Fabulous 50 Blog Award): the Curve is an extremely positive development for the Second Amendment because it makes concealed carry accessible to a new, large segment of the American population.

I’m going to say something that is probably going to get me laughed right out of the room.

The Taurus Curve is a brilliant pistol design.

For those of you who know me, I want to assure you that I’m not being the slightest bit glib or sarcastic.

Many of my peers in the industry—the vast majority of whom are far better shooters than I—think that the Taurus Curve may be the worst handgun ever to be brought to market. To them I say, “heck, it isn’t even the most horrible handgun brought to market by Taurus.”

These critics are making, I think, the mistake of thinking of the Curve as they would a traditional handgun, marketed to and purchased by a traditional shooter...

They are looking at the qualities that they would look for in a gun, based upon years of experience as shooters, with dozens of firearms through their hands ... They look for accuracy, reliability, durability, simplicity, quality, mantainability, and support.

...Frankly, whether the Curve is practical or it works for self-defense is utterly irrelevant. It isn’t going to be shot anyway... What matters is if the Curve will sell, and as Taurus has already proven with the stunning success of the Judge family of .45 Colt/.410 revolvers, they know how to market and sell tons of handguns that industry experts feel are absurd.

...The Taurus Curve is a gun designed to look like a fashion accessory and not a firearm, and is purposefully as chic and unoffensive as an iPhone...

But as absurd as they look, they may be the “gateway drug” to draw people into our gun culture.

I hope that Taurus is successful for that reason alone.


I disagree slightly with Owens in one respect. As CCW becomes more and more a part of American life (as it has for the last several decades), I believe this type of design -- one built around the needs of the typical American citizen, shooters and non-shooters alike -- will become widely adopted by manufacturers.

The typical firearm is difficult to carry without printing. The Curve fits a niche for that reason alone.

And at the rate CCW has been moving, I wouldn't be completely shocked if a federal Constitutional Carry law were enacted within the next couple of decades. A design like that of the Curve will, in my opinion, become standard fare for the civilian market.


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Larwyn's Linx: Immigration Advocates, Opponents—and Hypocrites

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Nation

Immigration Advocates, Opponents—and Hypocrites: Irwin M. Stelzer
Radical Islam in Europe: No One to Blame But Us: Vijeta Uniyal
The Fox News Obsession: Kevin D. Williamson

Supreme Court Will Decide, Get This, Policy on Gay Marriage for Country: Ace
Obama continues to give "racist" cops military equipment: RWN
Dems ought to be terrified about losing 3 key swing states in '16: David Mark

Jeb Bush’s Attempt to Limit Debate: CHQ
Walk Away, Mitt: Debra Saunders
Rand Paul and Ron Paul are both wrong about Paris: The Week

American Progressives Build Ties to “Palestinian” Jihadists: Trevor Loudon
‘There Are 19 Paramilitary Muslim Training Facilities In US’: Clash
‘6 murders in 13 hours': Wave of violence hits St. Louis: Twitchy

Economy

The destructive power of the Euro grows: John Redwood MP
Without QE, “Eurozone Financial Markets Would Collapse”: Wolf Richter
Nasty: McDonald's recalls 1 millions chicken nuggets: RWN

Scandal Central

Fat Leonard Sinks the Navy: 20 Committee
Investigation into DC Metro train tragedy continues: Twitchy
George Soros Funded Highly Organized Ferguson Protests to the Tune of $33 Million: Melissa Melton

Climate & Energy

Ukraine Lurches to Full Scale War as Russia Drastically Reduces Gas Supply to EU: FX Street
Price of Electricity Hit Record High in U.S. in 2014: CNS
End Oil Protectionism: Phil Kerpen

Media

Ayaan Hirsi Ali Responds to the #CharlieHebdo Attack: LI
“I have not seen ‘American Sniper’,” writes New Republic’s reviewer of ‘American Sniper’: Twitchy
Liberals Threaten To Sue Rec Center For Showing Fox News: DownTrend

Leslie Gelb: “if only Obama knew”: LI
DDoS ATTACK ALERT: @PamelaGeller Needs Our Help: Camp o' the Saints
Gun Company Calls For Industry Boycott of Neeson After Anti-Gun Comments: Bob Owens

World

New Armed Palestinian Guards in Jerusalem: This Is Low Even for Our Administration: Sara Noble
Sweden: From "Humanitarian Superpower" to Failed State: Gatestone
How Multiculturalism Caused the Paris Terror Attacks: Treehouse

Team Obama Has No Idea What to Do With ISIS Prisoners: JWF
Smart Diplomacy: John Kerry Brings James Taylor to Paris to Sing Songs or Something: JWF
Dear Christians, It’s Time to Stop Being Timid: Matt Walsh

Isolated incidents or global war?: Dore Gold
The Citizen’s Guide to Regime Change: Michael Ledeen
Schlock and Awe: Mark Steyn

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

White House Claims Power to Regulate, Tax Internet Without Congress: Breitbart
Why BMW's New Laser-Powered High Beams Won't Blind You: PopMech
Please use TWO HANDS to access AdultFriendFinder • : The Register

Cornucopia

Jewish Soldier’s WWII Letter, Written On Hitler’s Stationery, Goes To Holocaust Memorial Museum: WZ
Everything you need to know you can learn on Fox News: MOTUS
10 Old Car Features We Desperately Miss : Automoblog

Image: Le hug: How John Kerry made a Paris cheek-kiss faux pas
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QOTD: "Sex, in its proper form, is committed, loving, natural, and creative. Creative, in the sense that it can potentially give life. Sex is disordered if by its nature it can never give life. Notice the “by its nature” phrase. The nature of heterosexual sex is that it can create life. Whether a couple is infertile by physical defect or old age, that does not in principle change the nature of heterosexual sex. The other variety, in contrast, can never create. It is impotent in principle. Fruitless by design...

...These are the difficult, “controversial,” dangerous things that every Christian ought to be saying if they really care about Kelvin Cochran or anyone else who goes out on a limb to speak truth. You believe in your free speech? Great. Good for you. Now use it to say some things that might make people mad. Use it to upset the established order. Use it for something.

We as Christians may have a ways to go before we can win our culture back, but we’ll never get there if all we do is insist that we have a right to our opinions. Yes, we have a right to them. But, more importantly, we’re right about them. That’s the real message we should be sending." --Matt Walsh

Friday, January 16, 2015

The New Genocide

By Bill Whittle

I remember the first time I heard the world “Palestinian.” I was thirteen years old. The 1972 Munich Olympics were coming to an end, and I had been fascinated by American swimmer Mark Spitz and his seven gold medals, and had a big crush, for some reason, on Russia Gymnast Olga Korbut.

You’re still a boy at 13 – or I was, anyway. And when the first reports came in that Israeli athletes had been taken hostage by a Palestinian Group called Black September, I remember clearly having what seemed like a very adult idea at the time: namely, that I had thought the entire idea of the Olympics was based on the ancient idea of a truce; that enemies could take two weeks off and come together and compete at sports instead of hacking each other to death. It seemed a good an honorable thing to do. Who breaks a truce held under a burning flame? Wasn’t that the entire purpose of lighting and then extinguishing the flame – that was the duration of the cease-fire? Wasn’t the burning fire symbolic of sanctuary from violence, if only for a few days?

Apparently not. On September 5th, Palestinian terrorists broke into the Israeli compound at the Olympic Village in Munich. I didn’t know too much about Israelis either, to tell the truth, but I was learning fast. Two members of the Israeli team were killed near the dormitories, but we soon discovered that Wrestling coach Moshe Weinberg and Weightlifter Yossef Romano fought back with teeth, fists and a fruit knife, slashing, wounding and knocking unconscious several of their murders before being shot to death at point-blank range.

The Palestinians then took nine hostages, nine athletes visiting under the flames of truce land where so many of their relatives had been murdered just a generation before.

Then Jim McKay said this:

DENNINGER: How is it that no one is ever held accountable for the failures of government?

The Market Ticker points us to the catastrophic fail that is the Department of Homeland Security under the most feckless, criminally stupid, and corrupt transparent administration ever.

Homeland Security spent $50 billion over the past 11 years on counterterrorism programs, but the Department cannot demonstrate if the nation is more secure as a result.

[Sen. Tom] Coburn also found that 700 miles of the nation’s southern border remain unsecured. The DHS is not effectively administering or enforcing the nation’s immigration laws, while only 3 in 100 illegal immigrants will ever face deportation.

The report also found that the DHS spends more than $700 million annually to lead the federal government’s efforts on cybersecurity, but struggles to protect itself, federal and civilian networks from the most serious cyberattacks.

The Department has spent $170 billion for natural disasters since 2002 because of an increased federal role in which the costs of small storms are declared “major disasters.”


In short, DHS has done nothing of use in its time on the planet.

It cannot demonstrate any impact in reducing terrorism.

It cannot secure the border.

It cannot prevent or deter hacking, nor has it improved security of the nation's computer infrastructure.

It has blown ridiculous amounts of money on storm damage repairs, but only because small storms are rapidly declared "major disasters" and thus the font of federal spending opens.

In short "DHS" does nothing other than waste money and funnel it to friends and family.

Yet here's the punchline:

Even with the grim findings, Coburn expressed optimism about the Department’s future if Congress acts swiftly to address the problems in the report.

Uh huh.

If you had a department in a company that had five tasks and executed rationally on none of them you'd fire everyone involved. You certainly wouldn't allow it to go on for more than a decade before taking that action either.

But see, that's the problem with government. It never shrinks because nobody is every held accountable for failures nor do they lose their job when they either are incompetent or worse.

A corollary observation: government never shrinks, it always grows larger. Like some sort of tumor on the body politic, agencies expand in good times and bad. At best, incompetence and unaccountability are the hallmarks of most federal agencies. And, at worst, like the IRS under Steven Miller and Lois Lerner, government becomes weaponized against the very people who fund it.


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L'EMBARRAS: The Obama State Department

Our summer intern Biff Spackle (on Twitter @BiffSpackle) has a little fun with the sheer, unvarnished idiocy of President Jarrett, who was certainly behind this bizarre display.


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Larwyn's Linx: Terrorist Nation

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Nation

Terrorist Nation: Bill Whittle
Muslims Establishing No-Go Zones In America: NoisyRm
The Importance of Blasphemy: Sultan Knish

Valerie Jarrett wonders: Why not pass a bill on immigration?: Quentin Kramer
Yesterday's House Floor Vote Revealed Solid and Not-So-Solid Allies: CIS
Mark Levin: Boehner is 'play acting' because he thinks you're stupid: Scoop

Duke Cancels Muslim Call To Prayer Following Backlash: TR
A House Divided – America’s Tribal Rivalries: Sara Noble
Bush, Clinton, And The Political Class: Scott Rasmussen

Economy

California health care system enters death spiral: Stephen Frank
Obama to Add to $18 Trillion Debt with $4 TrillionBudget: Daniel Greenfield
The Six Conundrums of Socialism: FPM

Obama’s ‘free’ community college plan to make college more expensive: EAG
Obama to Further Tighten the Noose on ‘Big Awl’: RWN
Poll: Only 1 in 4 buy Team Obama's claim unemployment improving: Paul Bedard

Scandal Central

Obama sticks another thumb in Congress’s eye, releases 5 more from Gitmo: BPR
IT’S ON: NRA Sues Pennsylvania Cities For Illegal Gun Control Laws: Bob Owens
Video: Trey Gowdy Sets House on Fire: Declan Finn

New Documents: Lois Lerner Further Implicated in IRS Cover-up: JW
“Fast Track” to Delegate Enormous Power to Obama: GOA
Court Weighs Ohio's Taxation of out-of-Town Athletes: ABC

Media

A Partyist Solution to Partyism: John O. McGinnis
HEH: This Is Obama’s Last Foreign Policy Chance: Leslie H. Gelb
American Sniper: Movie Review And Self Reflection: Dana Loesch

Feminist Demands 2015: The Satire Version: Pocket
Chris Kyle’s Widow Breaks Down On Fox News, Says Upcoming Film Is ‘Authentic’: DownTrend
Protest Morons Block Traffic in Boston: JWF

World

Jihad,Islam and The French Farce In Paris: Joshua
Pure evil: ‘US Consulate in Jerusalem arming Palestinian guards’: Hooben
Valerie Jarrett on WH Response to Paris Attacks: ‘We Certainly Got the Substance Right’: WFB

Saudi Arabia Building An "Apartheid Wall": Lid
Boko Haram satellite images reveal destruction caused by militants: DailyMail
Pope Francis Defends Charlie Hebdo Killers: GWP

Mexican Consulates To Start Issuing Birth Certificates To Its Citizens In America: WZ
The latest to justify religious violence: Pope Francis: Hot Air
Islamic violence must end. The lives of billions are at stake: Michael Curtis

What is to be done: Velociworld
ISIS's Psychological War on U.S. Troops: Eli Lake and Josh Rogin
Europe’s Leading Rabbi Says Jews Should Arm Themselves: JWF

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Obama calls for government-run broadband service: Rick Moran
Great Expectations: The Rise and Fall of Google Glass Explorer Edition: DailyTech
Google search starts linking directly to event tickets: Engadget

Cornucopia

Obama Makes Some Changes: Springer
Fundamentalists and the Media: LL101
Hang it up, France: LI

Image: Kerry in Paris to Give 'Big Hug' to France
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QOTD: "I find myself increasingly repulsed by Muslim practices and beliefs. Middle Eastern, African, Asian, American, the country of origin makes no difference. Women and children treated as chattel, genital mutilation, child brides, honor killings, culturally accepted pedophilia, the black drapes and head coverings, no rights, no votes, little to non-existent educational opportunities, no voice, no choices, no recourse. Persecution of homosexuals. Imprisonment, stoning and whipping for morality crimes. Lack of free speech. The foul treatment of non-Muslims in Islamic countries. The demented hatred of Jews. Sharia Law. Wahhabism. Madrasas. Blind obedience to Mullahs... Hell, I even dislike their dislike of dogs....

My lip curls at their love of theocracies, a willingness to subjugate themselves to the whims of dissolute rulers along side an ancient text they can’t even begin to comprehend, subsuming their divine individuality to a tide of dogmatic mandates. I have no use, or respect, for the people who follow this religion. I’m past tired of their bombing, shooting, acid throwing, coup d’etat loving, rioting asses and it looks like the rest of the world could stand a break from these murdering bastards, too." --Daphne

Thursday, January 15, 2015

GENIUS: Freed Gitmo Detainee Opens ISIS Base in Afghanistan

By Judicial Watch

As President Obama frees droves of terrorists—including five Yemenis this week—from the U.S. military prison in Guantanamo news reports confirm that a Gitmo alum who once led a Taliban unit has established the first Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) base in Afghanistan.

His name is Mullah Abdul Rauf and international and domestic media reports say he’s operating in Helmand province, actively recruiting fighters for ISIS. Citing local sources, a British newspaper writes that Rauf set up a base and is offering good wages to anyone willing to fight for the Islamic State. Rauf was a corps commander during the Taliban’s 1996-2001 rule of Afghanistan, according to intelligence reports. After getting captured by U.S. forces, he was sent to Gitmo in southeast Cuba but was released in 2007.

Rauf’s Department of Defense Joint Task Force Guantanamo file describes him as being closely associated with several senior level Taliban commanders and leaders. It also says that Rauf admitted involvement in the production and sales of opium as well as associations with criminal elements within the Taliban and the Northern Alliance. From the file: “Due to recent findings that detainee may have had a more important role within the Taliban than previously thought detainee’s intelligence value has been updated from low to medium due to his possible knowledge of: (1) Taliban leadership, (2) Taliban command and control.”

Rauf is one of a number of Gitmo terrorists who have returned to the fight after getting released, yet Obama continues freeing captives to keep his campaign promise of closing the prison. Just this week he let four Yemenis go, despite the risk that they will likely join Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, the Yemen-based terror group that claimed responsibility for last week’s attack in France. In fact, dozens of freed Gitmo detainees have rejoined Al Qaeda in Yemen, the country where the 2009 Christmas Day airline bomber proudly trained. In 2010 Judicial Watch reported that a number of high-ranking Al Qaeda militants in Yemen—once held at Gitmo—may have been involved in a sophisticated scheme to send bombs on a U.S.-bound cargo plane.

STIMULUS: ICE Begins Releasing Deportable Aliens to Work in the U.S.

By Jessica Vaughan

Most of the attention directed toward the president's executive actions on immigration has been focused on the plan to issue work permits to potentially five million illegal aliens who are the parents of U.S. citizens or lawful permanent residents (LPRs). But these are not the only illegal aliens who are getting work permits as part of the executive amnesty. Starting almost immediately after the president's announcement in November, ICE offices around the country were directed to go through their caseload of illegal aliens in the process of being deported and start releasing all those who, by the stroke of the president's pen, were no longer priorities for enforcement. And, under current policy, many illegal aliens who have criminal records and/or prior deportations also are getting work permits.

According to media reports, as of the end of 2014, more than 600 detained illegal aliens were freed by the executive action, 200 of whom were in Arizona.

Who gets a "get out of jail free" card?

"This vote represents one of the most important constitutional votes that has ever come before this body"

By Sen. Jeff Sessions

Today the House of Representatives acted to defend the American people, the Constitution, and the authority of Congress. They have voted to fully fund the Department of Homeland Security while denying the use of any funds to carry out the President’s illegal amnesty.

President Obama’s executive-ordered amnesty eliminates the immigration laws that exist today in order to force onto the nation immigration measures that Congress has repeatedly refused to pass. His action is unlawful, unconstitutional, and in violation of our legal heritage. At the time of our founding, even British kings had long been bound by acts of Parliament. This idea of the legislature—the people’s representatives—as the lawmaking body represents centuries of human progress and legal history that forms the foundational base of our Republic.

President Obama himself has emphatically declared many times that he lacked authority to execute this nullification scheme, correctly asserting that only an Emperor could issue such edicts.

Larwyn's Linx: The White House unveils its violence incentive system

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Nation

The White House unveils its violence incentive system: DTG
Free Speech Can Get You Killed? Support It Anyway.: Elise Cooper
Offenders Of The Western Faith: Victor Davis Hanson

The demographic shriveling of the Democratic party continues: Moe Lane
A Divided Establishment, For a Change: Leon H. Wolf
Obama White House Explains Why It's Avoiding the Term 'Radical Islam': CNS

Josh Earnest: Obama Will Try To Stop ‘Anti-Islam’ Articles: S&L
California Dem Senate Candidate Under Fire from Pro-Israel Activists: WFB
AFDI descends on San Fran with some inconvenient Islamic truth: iOTWreport

FBI Arrests ISIS-Backer Planning Bombing, Shooting at U.S. Capitol: Sooper
Ted Cruz Was Named World’s Best Debater in ’90s: GotNews
Romney: His Defeats Are His Credentials: Dick Morris

Economy

CA Residents Angry With DMV Clogged By Illegal Aliens: Breitbart
Scott Walker on school choice: ‘I trust parents’: EAGnews
The illegitimate Dodd-Frank law has nothing to do with the financial crisis: AEI

Scandal Central

America on the Precipice of Immigration Anarchy: Michael Cutler
ICE Begins Releasing Deportable Aliens to Work in the U.S.: CIS
More Lies: White House Says Only 6.8% of Gitmo Detainees Have Returned to Terrorism: GWP

Democrats will appoint Muslim to the House Intelligence Committee : Daily Mail
Obama DOJ Caught Targeting Legal Gun Dealers: GWP
“New Information” from State Dept. on Benghazi: Sharyl Attkisson

Climate & Energy

As Steyn Goes, So Goes Mann: Mark Steyn
Climate Change Alarmists Bully Media to Call Skeptics ‘Deniers,’ WaPo Agrees: NB
Oil's Price Crash Is Going To Rip The Global Economy To Shreds: Michael Snyder

Media

A Mayor, A President And Freedom Of The Press: Patterico
Martin Wolf’s Childlike Regulatory Faith: Alex J. Pollock
Glenn Greenwald Versus Charlie Hebdo: On the Wrong Side of Freedom: Cathy Young

Colossal Collapse of Al Gore Connected TV Network Will Cause Fox Fans to Rejoice: RWN
Obama Backs Primary Muslim Terror Objective: MB
This is What Journalistic Bravery Looks Like: AmInt

Mark Levin Rips 'Self-Hating Jew' Jon Stewart Leibowitz and 'Anti-Semite' Jimmy Carter: Scoop
Krauthammer: Everyone Knows What Radical Islam Is Except Obama: RCP
Duke University becomes a Parisian suburb: RS

World

Sen. Tom Cotton: U.S. Has ‘Surrendered Repeatedly to Iran’s Demands’: Kate Scanlon
Vicious Anti-semite Jimmy Carter Wants ICC To Investigate Israel For “War Crimes”: WZ
Why as a Pole I back UKIP immigration policy: Tomasz Zajaczkowski

Iran Building Missile Sites in Syria: Adam Kredo
Polls show British Jews fear for future in rising anti-Semitic climate: Times of Israel
Open Letter to the French President: A Palestinian Journalist in Ramallah

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

The 10 Best Cars At The Detroit Auto Show: PopSci
Lawyers request to consolidate suits of former Sony employees: Danielle Walker
Report: RadioShack may file for bankruptcy next month: Mashable

Cornucopia

Day by Day: Chris Muir
Sky News Won’t Show Charlie Hebdo Cover But Showed Playboy Featuring Virgin Mary: Glob
Joining Forces: “Team-Plants” and Hollywood: MOTUS

Image: The 10 Best Cars At The Detroit Auto Show
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QOTD: "Almost half of British Jewish people fear they have no long-term future in Britain or Europe, while nearly one in two British people hold anti-Semitic views, a pair of surveys published on Wednesday showed...

...The CAA said 2014 saw the most anti-Semitic incidents recorded by police since records began 30 years ago.

Official figures from London’s metropolitan police showed anti-Semitic crimes more than doubled in the capital between November 2013 and November 2014, compared to the same period a year earlier." --AFP

Wednesday, January 14, 2015

Meet the Radical Marxist that Union Fat Cats Want to See Occupy the Oval Office in 2016

By Labor Union Report

While many on the Left (and the Right) believe that the Presidential candidacy of Hillary Clinton is a foregone conclusion, there is another woman that many on the Left—and of greater importance, within labor’s ranks—would rather see become President and they are beginning to voice their preference ever more loudly.

Enter Democrats’ more liberal senator from Massachusetts, Elizabeth Warren.

Last week, the AFL-CIO hosted a “wage summit” and Warren–not Clinton–was among the keynote speakers.

  • View Warren’s full speech here.

Though, in the past, she has claimed she is not running for President, Warren is receiving much more attention from the institutional Left—including the ever-important union bosses—than the presumed nominee.

However, what AFL-CIO boss Richard Trumka said about Warren—and, to a lesser extent, Clinton—is causing concern for Clinton supporters:

Top 10 Stories From the Future

Courtesy of The People's Cube


It has become our New Year tradition to team up with Will Beria, our Listmaster of Things that Didn't Happen, and make an official statement. See our lists for the years of 2012 and 2013.

This time, however, instead of a summary of things that didn't happen in the past year, we are offering a list of Top Ten Things To Come in the coming year.

"I putt with Charlie"

Best. One. Yet.


I can't find the original artist on the web (i.e., "A 57th State Production"), but alert me in the comments if you know who created this particular keeper. Credit where due and all that.


Hat tip: Lee.

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Nation

Men In Burqas: Camp o' the Saints
The Troubling Math of Muslim Migration : Ian Tuttle
CAIR asks Fox News to drop 'Islamophobe' commentators: Thomas Lifson

Cassandra C. versus the Little Eichmanns: RS
Hey, How’s America’s Rail Security Doing?: Michelle Malkin
The Problem With Romney Nostalgia: Jonah Goldberg

Ted Cruz Just Auditioned to Be the Right's Bold Leader in 2016: Rebecca Nelson
Cruz: Abolish The IRS: Rachel Stoltzfoos
Ted Cruz on Mitt Romney: No need for ‘mushy middle’: Ben Schreckinger

House conservatives plot to blow up Republican Study Committee: Hot Air
Conservative Revolt Splits House GOP Group: Daniel Newhauser
Soros-funded MoveOn.org behind move to draft Warren for 2016: NECN

Economy

Bipartisan support to sellout the American tech worker: Breitbart
Two Cheers for Bad Governance!: Stephen Green
Terror Attack In France Rooted In Entitlement: Rachel Marsden

Scandal Central

Hotter Than Lava: Julia Angwin and Abbie Nehring, ProPublica
Boehner's bartender planned to poison him: CNN
Photo: Clinton with disgraced pedophile Epstein's social fixer at Chelsea's wedding: DailyMail

Media

‘WTF?’ ‘Did the Jews have guns?’ WaPo says Paris hostages were murdered in ‘shoot-out’: Twitchy
Gun control advocates attack American Hero Chris Kyle: John Lott
Sheriff Arpaio Invites Sharpton to Undergo Use-of-Force Scenario: PoliceMag

NY Times Misses a Detail: “What do we Want? Dead Cops!” That detail.: WeaponsMan
New York Times Endorses Thought Crimes: Erick Erickson
John Stewart Is A Major-League Hypocrite: HayRide

World

Angela Merkel Joins Pro-Nazi Muslim Brotherhood at German Rally : GWP
Boko Haram’s Radical Islamic Jihadist Army Barbarically Murders 2,000 More: RS
If This Guy Can Get Elected...: uShanka

Obama lies when the truth will do: Charlie Hebdo edition: CSIB
Levin: Obama should have sent Al Sharpton to Paris: Breitbart
Oxford University Press bans sausages, pigs from children’s books in effort 'to avoid offence': DailyMail

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

The Convoluted Trail Linking North Korea to Sony: TNW
Study Suggests Wi-Fi Exposure More Dangerous To Kids Than Previously Thought: Forbes
NASA’s 10 rules for developing safety-critical code: SD Times

Cornucopia

C'mon people: Springer's Blog
Last night, I dreamed of a world without peas.: MOTUS
Sterling Archer Romantic Advice: Sterling Malory Archer

Image: The Islamic sermon that taught me what’s happened to Birmingham
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QOTD: "The president’s flat line response to the Charley Hebdo massacre and then the terrorist attack on the kosher market in Paris (which he failed to characterize as an act of anti-Semitism in his public statement after it happened) illustrated his lack of comfort on this terrain. This is a president that has spent his time in office trying desperately to reach out to the Arab and Muslim worlds to change their perception of the United States. That he has failed in this respect is no longer in question but his disinterest in taking part in a symbolic response to extremist Islam stands in direct contrast to his eagerness for détente with an Iran that is the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism. The cold shoulder he gave the Paris march resonates not so much because of the odd and very conspicuous absence of an American representative of any stature, but because it fits with the perception of his attitudes.

If he and his defenders think this is unfair, that is understandable. But a president who disdains acts of moral leadership cannot complain when they are judged as having failed to send the right message to the world. A president who thought of himself as the leader of the free world would not have made such a mistake. One that disdains that title couldn’t help but make it." --Jonathan S. Tobin

Tuesday, January 13, 2015

ICEBERG, DEAD AHEAD!

By Jim Quinn

Based on the average of four separate valuation models that have been accurate in assessing whether the stock market is overvalued or undervalued over the last century, the stock market is currently over valued by 89%. The stock market was overvalued by 88% before the 1929 Crash. It was “only” overvalued by 74% in 2007 before the last Crash. It has only been more overvalued once in market history – 2000. I wonder what happened after that?

If you were paying attention in Statistics class in college, you know that when something reaches 2 standard deviations from the mean, you’ve reached EXTREME levels. The market valuation is now past 2 standard deviations. Anyone staying in the market or buying today is betting on the market to reach 2000 internet bubble proportions. I’ll pass. You will be lucky to “achieve” a negative 2% nominal return over the next ten years. After taking inflation into account you will likely end up with a -5% to -10% annual return, with a crash thrown in for good measure.