Sunday, February 08, 2015
Oregon Legislators Should Support an Article V Convention of the States
If your world view favors an all-powerful federal government that is master of virtually every social, economic and moral aspect of our lives, then you probably like the government we have in Washington today. But beware of where it leads. As Thomas Jefferson wrote: "When all government, domestic and foreign, in little as in great things, shall be drawn to Washington as the center of all power, it will render powerless the checks provided of one government on another, and will become as venal and oppressive as the government from which we separated."
Many believe we have arrived. The federal debt and deficit are out of control. Entitlement programs are unsustainable. National security is center stage while our national defense capability is being hollowed out. De facto lawmaking by executive fiat and regulation is epidemic. The federal bureaucracy has become overly powerful, oppressive and politicized.
It is little wonder that by a margin of two to one, the American people believe our country is headed in the wrong direction. Yet history suggests that trying to change Washington is an exercise in futility. Electing different people may make for interesting sound bites but little more. Washington will never voluntarily give up significant power and return it to the states.
A solution is in plain sight. It is the state-led way of reining in Washington and restoring the sovereignty of the states found in Article V of the Constitution. Article V provides that whenever two-thirds of the states make application for it, Congress must convene a convention of the states for the purpose of proposing amendments to the Constitution. Congress has no discretionary alternative. Once there are sufficient applications for a common purpose, it must call the convention.
If ever there was a time for the states to intervene to right the ship of state, it is now. Time is growing short. But be not dismayed. As in other times of distress, people are standing up, stepping out and speaking up. A national, highly coordinated, nonpartisan, grass-roots movement is well under way to bring about an Article V amending convention of states. Currently enabling legislation has been introduced in a total of 38 states, including Oregon, and of these, three have already passed such bills during legislative sessions of 2014.
Larwyn's Linx: You guys beginning to get it yet? You’re Americans
Nation
You guys beginning to get it yet? You’re Americans: Cold FuryObama’s Political Prayer: David Gelernter
Muslim Group’s Enthusiastic Invitation to Obama After Christian Comments: Blaze
Obama's Faith: The XX Committee
On Perpetual Peril As A Necessary Attribute Of Republics: Camp o' the Saints
Obama’s Drones Have Killed More Than the Spanish Inquisition: Patrick Poole
Border Patrol Agents Speak Out Against New Orders: Breitbart
Army finally rules Ft. Hood act of terror: ‘Greatest day for these victims’: BPR
Scandal-Ridden Brian Williams Leaves NBC News... For a Few Days: Sooper
Economy
Obama’s Big Fat Greek Budget: Sultan KnishObama, Unemployment and The Big Lie: RS
Simple Formula for Unleashing Economic Prosperity: Stephen Moore
Why Unemployed Men Don’t Do Housework: Thomas Purcell
Obama Student Loan Forgiveness Program: $22 Billion Shortfall: Kate Scanlon
Obama’s 529 Tax Break Debacle: Michael Reagan
Scandal Central
Obama met with Islamists including head of Hamas-tied ISNA: Pamela GellerObama to subsidize Iranian nuke program, sacrifice Israel, in exchange for less Jihad: GWP
Taqiyya? State Dept. admits lying about meeting with Muslim Brotherhood: Allen West
Climate & Energy
EPA overreach endangers energy prices, reliability and jobs: Mike ArmsEPA keeping WOTUS messy: Farm Futures
Attention hacks: Apply for a job at the EPA, they may not check your resume: Blaze
Media
Obamas Dine at CNN Exec's House: Daniel HalperFemale 60 Minutes Staffers ‘Creeped Out’, ‘Cringing’ Over Steve Kroft’s Lurid Sexting Scandal: JWF
The BBC and Islam: Let the children be raped: Commentator
Shattered Glass: Mark Steyn
Obama Struggles to Name the Nazis: James Lewis
Schmuck David Brooks on Prayer Breakfast: What Obama Said Was "Admirable": RCP
World
“We Are Leaving Britain – Jews Aren’t Safe Here Anymore”: WZSaudi Arabia And ISIS Both Want The Same Thing: World Domination: Michael Synder
The BBC and Islam: Let the children be raped: Commentator
ISIS Selling, Crucifying Children: WorldPost
Obama rejected Jordanian King Abdullah’s pleas for Predator drones: Times
Crusades Were All About Fighting The Islamic State: Ben Barrack
Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)
Exposed – President Obama’s 322 Page Secret Plan To Regulate The Internet: TreehouseResearchers say treadmill desks make you smarter: Daniel Cooper
Six Things Technology Has Made Insanely Cheap: Bloomberg
Cornucopia
Relax America, we now have an official national security strategy.: MOTUSWhy There Are More Women Than Men: Woodsterman
The Girl Code: C&S
Image: NBC Nightly News with Brian von Münchhausen
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QOTD: "It was nice of the President to give us a history lesson at the Prayer breakfast. Today, however, the issue right in front of his nose, in the here and now, is the terrorism of Radical Islam, the assassination of journalists, the beheading and burning alive of captives. We will be happy to keep an eye out for runaway Christians, but it would be nice if he would face the reality of the situation today. The Medieval Christian threat is under control, Mr. President. Please deal with the Radical Islamic threat today.” --Gov. Bobby Jindal
Saturday, February 07, 2015
SOUTHERN CAL EDISON UNDER FIRE: House Oversight Chair Says Company May Be Abusing H-1B Visa Program
The layoffs of IT workers at Southern California Edison (SCE) has drawn the attention of U.S. Rep. Darrell Issa, (R-Calif.), who called reports that the H-1B visa program is being used to replace part of SCE's workforce "deeply disturbing."
"Based on the information currently available, this appears to be an example of precisely what the H-1B visa is not intended to be: a program to simply replace American workers en masse with cheap labor from overseas," Issa said in a statement released late Friday.
The utility, southern California's largest, is cutting about 500 IT workers, 100 of them through voluntary departures and others through layoffs. IT employees say H-1B visa holders, working for the two outsourcers on the project, Infosys and Tata Consultancy Services -- both based in India -- are replacing them.
...Issa said that current law "requires that an employer certify that the hiring of an H-1B applicant 'will not adversely affect the working conditions of workers similarly employed,' in keeping with the program's intent of injecting new talent into the economy, rather than merely replacing current workers with lower paid counterparts."
Issa also wrote, "I urge Southern California Edison to be forthcoming in releasing information about the process behind this decision, and I look forward to a thorough and transparent account of what attempts were made to ensure this major hiring decision adheres to the very clear statutes outlining the intended structure of the H-1B visa program."
Which reminds me: The Incoherent Idiocy of Jeb Bush.
Hat tip: BadBlue Tech News.
Iran Rising
Israel’s reported strike January 18 on a joint Iranian-Hezbollah convoy driving on the Syrian Golan Heights was one of the most strategically significant events to have occurred in Israel’s neighborhood in recent months. Its significance lies both in what it accomplished operationally and what it exposed.
From what been published to date about the identities of those killed in the strike, it is clear that in one fell swoop the air force decapitated the Iranian and Hezbollah operational command in Syria.
The head of Hezbollah’s operations in Syria, the head of its liaison with Iran, and Jihad Mughniyeh, the son of Hezbollah’s longtime operational commander Imad Mughniyeh who was killed by Israel in Damascus in 2008, were killed. The younger Mughniyeh reportedly served as commander of Hezbollah forces along the Syrian-Israeli border.According to a report by Brig.-Gen. (res.) Shimon Shapira, a Hezbollah expert from the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, the Iranian losses included three generals. Brig.- Gen. Mohammed Alladadi was the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps liaison officer to Hezbollah and to Syrian intelligence. He was also in charge of weapons shipments from Iran to Hezbollah. Gen. Ali Tabatabai was the IRGC commander in the Golan Heights and, according to Shapira, an additional general, known only as Assadi, “was, in all likelihood, the commander of Iranian expeditionary forces in Lebanon.”
The fact that the men were willing to risk exposure by traveling together along the border with Israel indicates how critical the front is for the regime in Tehran. It also indicates that in all likelihood, they were planning an imminent attack against Israel.
THE REALITY BENEATH "LOW UNEMPLOYMENT" PROPAGANDA: Less than half of adult Americans are employed full-time
Jim Clifton, the Chairman and CEO of Gallup, says that the percentage of Americans that are employed full-time has been hovering near record lows since the end of the last recession. But most Americans don’t realize this because the official unemployment numbers are extremely misleading. In fact, Clifton says that the official 5.6 percent unemployment rate is a “big lie”. Gallup regularly tracks the percentage of U.S. adults that are employed for 30 or more hours per week, and it is currently at 44.2 percent. It has been hovering between 42 percent and 45 percent since the end of 2009. This is extremely low. As I discussed the other day, there are 8.69 million Americans that are considered to be “officially unemployed” at this point. But there are another 92.90 million Americans that are considered to be “not in the labor force”. Millions upon millions of those Americans would work if they could. Overall, there are 101 million U.S. adults that do not have a job right now. But you won’t hear that number being discussed by the mainstream media, because it would make Barack Obama look really bad.
Most Americans just assume that the economic numbers that we are being given accurately reflect reality. That is why it is so refreshing to have men like Jim Clifton step forward and tell the truth. His recent article entitled “The Big Lie: 5.6% Unemployment” is making headlines all over America. The following is an extended excerpt from that article…
There’s another reason why the official rate is misleading. Say you’re an out-of-work engineer or healthcare worker or construction worker or retail manager: If you perform a minimum of one hour of work in a week and are paid at least $20 — maybe someone pays you to mow their lawn — you’re not officially counted as unemployed in the much-reported 5.6%. Few Americans know this.
Yet another figure of importance that doesn’t get much press: those working part time but wanting full-time work. If you have a degree in chemistry or math and are working 10 hours part time because it is all you can find — in other words, you are severely underemployed — the government doesn’t count you in the 5.6%. Few Americans know this.
There’s no other way to say this. The official unemployment rate, which cruelly overlooks the suffering of the long-term and often permanently unemployed as well as the depressingly underemployed, amounts to a Big Lie.
Larwyn's Linx: Democrats have a choice, but it’s not Netanyahu versus Obama
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Democrats have a choice, but it’s not Netanyahu versus Obama: LIObama Spat with Israel’s Netanyahu was White House Creation: Brent Scher
Obama: I’ll meet your ISIS, and raise you The Crusades: LI
Obama Held Secret Meeting With Islamic Leaders Before Ripping Christians: MB
The Depravity of Obama’s Prayer Breakfast Remarks: CHQ
The Correction: Liel Leibovitz
A Candidate for Both Suburban and Countryside Republicans?: Michael Barone
Article V Splits Conservative Grassroots: VARight
Jindal Provides Perfect Response To Obama’s Silly Christian Bashing: RWN
Five Ideas To Prevent America’s Coming Demographic Suicide: Joy Pullmann
NYPD Has a Plan to Magically Turn Anyone It Wants Into a Felon: Andy Cush
Democrats Have No Facts to Support “High Capacity Magazine” Bill: Bob Owens
Economy
Illegal Immigrants to Receive Earned Income Tax Credit: WSReport: 400 Lose Jobs Due to Obama's Lower Paid H-1B Visa Immigrants: Breitbart
Standard & A Lot Poorer's: Six Meat Buffet
Scandal Central
Benghazi Committee’s Democrats and Republicans Want to Question Hillary Clinton: Sharyl AttkissonPIGS FLY! WAPO Editorial Rips Obama's Iran Negotiations: Lid
Good News: IRS Rehires Former Staffers Who Cheated on Their Taxes: JWF
Media
Williams: I Looked Down the Very Tube of the RPG That Shot Down Copter in '07: AceDon’t blame Tea Partiers for liberal #Antivaxxers: LI
‘Can NBC News Now Have Any Credibility With Brian Williams As Its Face?’: Ed Driscoll
Please Stay On, Brian Williams: Tom Blumer
Brian Williams Broke Veterans’ First Rule—and Now He’s Paying for It: Jacob Siegel
Did Brian Williams lie in Hurricane Katrina reports?: DailyMail
Bishop to Obama: "Instead of Closing Gitmo... You Ought to Close Your Mouth!": RightPundit
Report: NBC Will Not Suspend, Fire or Even Punish Brian Williams: Tina Nguyen
An Open Letter to Jeb Bush: Alex David
World
Jihadists continue to advertise training camps in Iraq and Syria: LWJIslamic Leader: Seeking Death of Gays Isn't "Extremist," It's What Every Good Muslim Seeks: Ace
It’s true! there IS a shadowy transnational Jewish group plotting to influence elections!: Moe Lane
What you bring when you run for your life: The Week
More On "No-Go Zones": Displacing What Is Disagreeable: Douglas Murray
In the Socialist Petri Dish of Venezuela a Condom Package Now Costs $755: BlurBrain
Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)
Electric Car Powered by Salt Water: AetherForceDowntown Manhattan's Weirdest Building Sold for $55 Million: Gawker
300-Year-old Scientific Riddle Solved! Earth's Center Spins In An Eastward Direction: SWR
Cornucopia
Flying Blind: HopenchangeComic Book Warriors: Springer's Blog
Rapper Flavor Flav Wants U.S. ‘Boots on the Ground’ to Kill ISIS: Asawin Suebsaeng
Image: Brian Williams Broke Veterans’ First Rule—and Now He’s Paying for It
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QOTD: "How do we, as people of faith, reconcile these realities --the profound good, the strength, the tenacity, the compassion and love that can flow from all of our faiths, operating alongside those who seek to hijack religious for their own murderous ends?
Humanity has been grappling with these questions throughout human history. And lest we get on our high horse and think this is unique to some other place, remember that during the Crusades and the Inquisition, people committed terrible deeds in the name of Christ. In our home country, slavery and Jim Crow all too often was justified in the name of Christ." --Barack Obama (via AOSHQ)
Friday, February 06, 2015
Sheriffs Push Back Against Homeland Security’s ‘Not-So Veiled Threat’
Hundreds of miles from the nation’s capital, local sheriffs are feeling reverberations from Congress’ fight over Department of Homeland Security funding.
This week, Secretary Jeh Johnson delivered what one sheriff views as a “not-so veiled threat” on what could happen if an agreement isn’t reached. Johnson’s statement, released Tuesday, explains why Congress needs to pass a bill funding the federal agency before Feb. 27.But a sheriff in Colorado is pushing back against Johnson’s message.
In the statement, Johnson called for a Homeland Security funding bill “unburdened by politically charged amendments that attempt to defund our executive actions on immigration reform.” He reiterates President Obama’s threat to veto any legislation the attempts to block his immigration policies.
“It’s a not-so-veiled threat that if [lawmakers] don’t do what the president wants, law enforcement agencies are going to get the short end of the stick,” said Sheriff Justin Smith of Larimer County, Colo.
MARK LEVIN ON BARACK OBAMA: This man is a nihilist and a narcissist and an extremist
SEAN HANNITY: You talk about moral relativism. The terrible deeds in the name of Christ, he can't even say the Islamic State is ISIS. Would he ever say the terrible deeds committed in the name of Muhammad? Did you ever hear those words coming out of his mouth?
MARK LEVIN: No, we won't. This man is a nihilist and a narcissist and an extremist. And I would like to suggest that -- Mr. Obama, here's a suggestion for you as the leader of the United States. This weekend rather than going off and campaigning or going on vacation, why don't you go across the Potomac River into Arlington National Cemetery?
Why don't you walk the rows and rows and rows of the dead heroes who liberated peoples who were facing genocide and tyranny of all kinds, World War I, World War ii, the Korean War, the Vietnam War and all kinds of wars. Those young men, if you look at those headstones, the overwhelming majority, all religions, but the overwhelming majority, Mr. Obama, are Christians. Why didn't you speak to them today, Mr. Obama?
THEFT OF VALOR: Just Like Brian Williams, Hillary Clinton Lied About Taking Enemy Fire
Lies: Investigative reporter Sharyl Attkisson reminds us the secretary of state who blamed Benghazi on a video once made up a story about courage under fire in Bosnia. Maybe Brian Williams can be her 2016 running mate.
'Nothing in life," Winston Churchill once famously said, "is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result," except perhaps in the minds of network anchors like NBC's Brian Williams and political candidates such as Hillary Clinton, who also claimed a brush with death in a war zone on her resume. Perhaps they can swap war stories.
Former CBS reporter Sharyl Attkisson reminded the world of Hillary's tale of heroism in an interview with CBS Philadelphia affiliate WPHT morning host Chris Stigall last November, a tale told by the former first lady in her 2008 run against one Barack Obama."I had come home from an overseas trip vacation, and my husband says, 'When you went to Bosnia 12 years ago with the first lady, were you shot at?,' and I'm like, 'No, I think I would know if I were shot at,'" Attkisson told Stigall of the 1996 trip to Bosnia with Hillary, first daughter Chelsea and celebrities Sinbad and Sheryl Crow.
Candidate Clinton claimed in a 2008 speech in Washington and several subsequent interviews that she and Chelsea were forced to run for cover under hostile fire shortly after landing in Tuzla, Bosnia.
"I remember landing under sniper fire," Clinton said. "There was supposed to be some kind of greeting ceremony at the airport, but instead we just ran with our heads down to get into the vehicles to get to our base."
Her harrowing tale never happened, and Mrs. Clinton's faulty memory also forgot that there was a reporter on the trip who was taking notes and had a video of the event.
Larwyn's Linx: The Glamor of Evil
Nation
The Glamor of Evil: Mark SteynSenate Dems: #DontShutDownOurSecurity: Daniel Horowitz
Iran: The ‘Americans Are Begging Us for a Deal’: Adam Kredo
White House Concealing Names of Muslims Who Met with Obama: Keith Koffler
Top Congressional Black Caucus Members Will Skip Netanyahu Speech: WZ
Pelosi: Members Won't 'Boycott' Netanyahu, But Might Be too Busy to Go: NatlJrnl
Obama’s comparison of Christianity, radical Islam defies logic: Jonah Goldberg
Hillary Clinton’s “Dodging Sniper Fire in Bosnia” Tale: Sharyl Attkisson
Is Jeb Bush a Republican Obama?: David Frum
A Non-Warm and Fuzzy Guide to Understanding Terrorism: Marcia Drezon-Tepler
Stolen Valor Senator Introduces Law Restricting Magazine Capacity: Dana Loesch
Constitutional Carry Introduced in WV Senate: AmmoLand
Economy
A Federal Budget on Auto-Pilot: Scott RasmussenWhen Leftwing Economists Gruber and Krugman Practiced Economics: Larry Elder
Sowing Inflation, Reaping Deflation: Mish
Scandal Central
AZ Sheriff: ICE is releasing 30 to 50 convicted criminals into my county per day: WAWEric Holder’s Justice Department rocked by nepotism charges: Times
Most investigative journalists say the U.S. government has spied on them: Sharyl Attkisson
Climate & Energy
EPA plan would give feds ‘free reign’ to regulate almost all waterways: FoxCapito quizzes EPA chief about stream rule: MetroNews
Quote of the week – shooting blanks in The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars: WUWT
Media
Midnight Brian Williams Update: AceBrian Williams Thought He Was Going To Die During Helicopter Attack That Never Happened: DC
Fire Doesn’t Melt Steel, But Rosie O’Donnell DESTROYS Brian Williams: Ed Driscoll
Brian Williams’ Tall Tales Extend To Katrina, Too: HayRide
Let’s Pretend Brian Williams Worked for FOX News: Glob
Campaign to release Saudi blogger heats up: Montreal Gazette
World
How Islam--and the ever-present threat it poses to humanity--could be brought to an end: VFTR (2012)At Prayer Breakfast, Obama Acts Like Muslim Brotherhood Spokesman: Breitbart
Obama: “We are summoned to push back against those who would distort our religion”: Jihadwatch
Barack H. Chamberlain and Iran: Israpundit
Iran's Militias Are Taking Over Iraq's Army: Eli Lake
After anti-Islamization protest, Dallas County commissioners open meeting with Muslim prayer: Creeping
Chinese swarm for new 10-year US visas: China Daily
Norway Islamic Leader: ‘Every Muslim’ Wants ‘Death Penalty for Homosexuals': CNS
Jordan releases their OWN VIDEO showing ISIS what’s comin’ for them!: Scoop
Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)
Southern California Edison IT workers 'beyond furious' over H-1B replacements: ComputerWorldThe Candidate as Human Capitalist: Linda Brenner
Severed-thumb USB thumbdrive is disgustingly literal: CNet
Cornucopia
Everybody Lies About War Stories: MOTUSTell Her How You Feel: Springer
An Examination of Obama’s Asinine Statements: iOTW Report
Image: Campaign to release Saudi blogger heats up
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QOTD: "Thank you, Mr. Chairman. The danger is quite severe. The problem with what the president is doing is that he's not simply posing a danger to the constitutional system. He's becoming the very danger the Constitution was designed to avoid. That is the concentration of power in every single branch.
This Newtonian orbit that the three branches exist in is a delicate one but it is designed to prevent this type of concentration. There is two trends going on which should be of equal concern to all members of Congress. One is that we have had the radical expansion of presidential powers under both President Bush and President Obama. We have what many once called an imperial presidency model of largely unchecked authority. And with that trend we also have the continued rise of this fourth branch. We have agencies that are quite large that issue regulations. The Supreme Court said recently that agencies could actually define their own or interpret their own jurisdiction" --Jonathan Turley
Thursday, February 05, 2015
NBC "NEWS" ANCHOR BRIAN WILLIAMS: Shot and Chaser
Shot: Brian Williams Told Alec Baldwin He Thought He Was Going To Die During Helicopter Attack That Never Happened
NBC News anchor Brian Williams told actor Alec Baldwin in March 2013 that he was afraid he was going to die when a Chinook helicopter he was riding in during the Iraq War was hit by a rocket-propelled grenade.
But as Williams admitted on Wednesday, he was never in a Chinook that came under fire on March, 23, 2003. Instead, he was in a helicopter miles behind the one that was hit... In his retraction and apology, Williams claimed that he inadvertently made up the story because he became confused after viewing so many different pictures from that day, causing him to suffer from a “fog of memory.”
Chaser: FLASHBACK: Brian Williams Mocks Bloggers for Lack of Credibility
In a 2007 lecture at New York University’s journalism school, NBC News host Brian Williams touted his “BS meter” when it came to credible news and mocked the credibility of bloggers, pitting himself—a man “developing credentials to cover my field of work”—against lowly bloggers who can’t always be trusted... ...Saying he had developed a "strong BS meter" himself, Williams went on to complain about the problem of unqualified bloggers, who, unlike himself, have not spent their lives "developing credentials" [sic]...
“You’re going to be up against people who have an opinion, a modem, and a bathrobe,” Williams told the audience. “All of my life, developing credentials to cover my field of work, and now I’m up against a guy named Vinny in an efficiency apartment in the Bronx who hasn’t left the efficiency apartment in two years… On the Internet, no one knows if you’ve been to Ramadi or you’ve just been to Brooklyn and have an opinion about Ramadi.”
What a putz.
Hat tip: BadBlue News.
10 Differences Between Kids Who Grew Up In The 70s Versus Now
1. Our Entertainment Was Each Other
We had no internet, cell phones, computers or video games. Not only were our lives free of close proximity electronic devices and their constant electromagnetic radiation, but this allowed us to entertain ourselves through peer interaction and physical activity. You're talking about a dramatic decrease in the level of physical activity from just 40-50 years ago and it's manifesting itself in obesity, insulin resistance, and precursors to diabetes in children as young as ten years old...
2. Playing Outside Was Normal, Not Prohibited
Most people who pass by a park today and see 10-year old children playing alone, think "why" as fear strikes a chord. Why are they without their parents? Why are they playing alone without supervision? This was normal and just a way of life in the 70s. We stayed outside until the lights turned off in the summer or heard our parents screaming to come inside...
3. Children Were Not Labeled As ADHD, ADD, or Hyperactive. They Were Just Kids Being Kids
Children today are being medicated at alarming rates for what appears to be normal childhood behavior. Yes, there are some children with legitimate behavioral issues but they are an extreme minority and none of these issues are solved by medication. The big problem is that we're diagnosing and labeling common temper outbursts and other disruptive behavior in millions of children as attention deficit disorder (ADD) or attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). If you took a subset of 3-year old children from 1970 and transported them to our current timeline, you would see that not much has changed, however the way we deal with them has. We are putting kids on long-term stimulants as if it was candy. A nationwide CDC survey found that 11 percent of children ages 4 to 17 have received a diagnosis of ADHD, and about one in five boys...
Senate Democrats: Amnesty for Illegal Aliens is more Important than Homeland Security. #DontShutDownOurSecurity
In his farewell address, President George Washington warned about the danger of political parties. Today we are witnessing Washington’s premonition play out in spectacular fashion.
Just how unconstitutional is Obama’s unilateral action to create an entire immigration program for 5 million illegal aliens?
Even Obama himself, a president who has a zealous penchant for ruling by administrative fiat, said explicitly on 22 occasions that it is unlawful. He even compared his unilateral action to the acts of a king or emperor. Yet, he insidiously waited until after the last election of his presidency to issue an executive amnesty.
Obama’s amnesty action is nothing short of nullification of our most bedrock laws – those governing our borders and sovereignty. Article I Section 8 of the Constitution grants Congress the plenary power over immigration. Even the Supreme Court has held that the formation of any immigration policy “is entrusted exclusive to Congress,”[1] and “[t]he plenary authority of Congress over aliens . . . is not open to question.”[2]
No president has the authority to blackmail Congress into passing his immigration priorities.
This president is engaging in a one-man nullification process of foundational laws passed by multiple Congresses – all out in the open.
Rev. Jeremiah Obama Compares Christians of 1291 to Today's ISIS
Barack Obama, speaking at a prayer breakfast Thursday morning, equated ISIS with Christians of 1000 years ago.
Sounding like an impassioned Black Liberationist preacher, Barack Obama made it clear today that he feels the same way about Christians as he does about Jews and America itself.No one needs to be told normal Muslims cannot be blamed for the maniacs destroying the Middle East, Far East, Asia and Africa. What he doesn’t understand is these maniacs are not radical Christians or radical Jews or radical Hindus. They are radical Islamists and it’s the year 2015 not 1291.
There is no use delving into the obvious. Listen to his obnoxious rant for yourself. It’s very revealing of who he is and what he believes:
Larwyn's Linx: Obama Government Threatens “Consequences” If WTP Don’t Fund Amnesty
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Obama Government Threatens “Consequences” If WTP Don’t Fund Amnesty: CHQObama Does Have a Strategy: Victor Davis Hanson
Appeasement as narcissism: Victor Davis Hanson
Gallup calls official US unemployment number “Big Lie”: Sharyl Attkisson
Government Statistics Paint a False Picture of Recovery: FW
Comedian Eric Holder: Justice Dept Not Politicized: LI
The vanilla power of Republican Scott Walker: Jonah Goldberg
House finally adopts rule to count Article V Convention applications: Bryon DeLear
Not Your Father’s (or Grandfather’s) GOP Field: Stuart Rothenberg
Yet Another Feature of Obama’s Open Border Policy: Heroin: MB
Three Generations of Imbeciles are Enough: Ann Coulter
Naturalization Hall of Shame Keeps Growing: CIS
Economy
Billions in IRS Welfare Dollars to Be Paid Out to Illegal Immigrants: Sara NobleCrony, Obama era, Fed driven economy a boon to billionaires: ACC
Aetna CEO sees piles of taxpayer financed profits thanks to Obamacare: ACC
Scandal Central
Horrendous Truths Unfold: NoisyRmVitter Requests Obamacare Documents From D.C., House and Senate: Roll Call
Goldman Sachs CEO Key Investor in Hillary's Son-In-Law's Hedge Fund: Daniel Halper
Media
Roger Ailes Confronts the Evil While the Also Rans Cower in Fear: Erick EricksonObama To Host American Muslims At The White House - Closed To The Press: Breitbart
Mark Levin: It’s time for us to slaughter the Islamo-Nazi cockroaches »: Scoop
Brian Williams Admits: I Lied About Being Aboard Helicopter Shot Down By RPG in Iraq: WS
‘War Stories, with Brian Williams’: Doug Powers
‘Insufferable': Watch Lyin’ Brian pontificate on credibility: Twitchy
World
Report: U.S. Prepared To Rely Upon Iran For Regional Stability In Afghanistan, Iraq & Syria: BreitbartBiden, other Democrats may skip Netanyahu’s speech: Times of Israel
Thousands of Gaza Youth Train at Hamas Military Wing Camp: MEMRI
A battle won by handshakes: Blue Force Tracker
The World Needs to See the Depravity of the Islamic State : Glenn Beck
Obama Nearing Deal To Allow Iran To Remain On Precipice Of Nuclear Weapons: Lid
Concerns Deepen that U.S. Allowing Iranian Takeover of Iraq: The Tower
U.S. Seen in Middle East as Ally of Terrorists: Gatestone
Mayor Sparks Abortion Debate in Norway by Posting Picture of Unborn Baby in His Hand: LifeNews
Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)
US health insurer Anthem hacked, 80 million records stolen: TNWGoogle’s Mortgage Calculator Quick Answer Now Live: Search Engine Land
Facebook will soon be able to ID you in any photo: Science Mag
Cornucopia
I Am Proud To Announce a New Section of iOTWreport: iOTWreport‘What a hero…': The storied career of Brian Williams [Photoshops]: Twitchy
ISIS Issues Religious Edict Justifying Burning Of Jordanian Pilot, Ben Affleck (cc: Bill Maher): MEMRI
Image: After Metro-North Train Crash, Investigators Piece Through ‘Utter Chaos’
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QOTD: "The legacy of Barack Obama will be found mostly in foreign policy and especially in his forging of new ties with formerly ostracized regimes. Obamacare, the doubling of U.S. debt, the anemic recovery over the last six years, the near destruction of the Democratic Party at the state level and in Congress, the alphabet soup of scandals — GSA, IRS, NSA, VA — are not the stuff of a successful presidency, whatever the efforts of the solicitous media. Accordingly, Nobel Laureate Obama logically sees that history’s positive verdict on his tenure must come from abroad. He will normalize relations with Castro’s Cuba and let others worry whether there is any reciprocity on issues of longstanding disagreement. History will record the fact of normalization, not transient details concerning human rights. Obama will bring Iran into the fold of nations — its nuclear-weapons program soon accorded the status of Pakistan’s. He will work with Islamic radical groups such as the Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas, acknowledging their legitimate grievances...
...The details of his grand vision will be left to younger, fresher functionaries who can sort out the confusions of implementation — why terrorism and Islamism are taboo words, or why trading terrorists for the deserter Bowe Bergdahl was a wise idea, or why nothing really happened at Benghazi, or why pulling all our troops out of Iraq had no effect on the creation of ISIS, or why setting timetables for withdrawal from Afghanistan does not encourage the Taliban, which is not a terrorist organization, and so on. Sometimes these inexperienced idealists will fumble and will be embarrassed publicly, but Obama himself will not intervene to correct the minutiae of inconsistencies in the implementation of his vision. Once-in-a-lifetime emissaries of change do not stoop to that. Who would have asked Mandela what was his position on NATO? Who wonders about Gandhi’s attitude toward Israel?" --Victor Davis Hanson
Wednesday, February 04, 2015
CONGRATULATIONS, TEXAS: Valerie Jarrett Working Behind the Scenes to Cede Your State to Mexico
According to Capitol Hill sources, de facto president Valerie Jarrett wants Texas and its 38 electoral votes... badly. More troubling is she has apparently been working very hard to make the state turn blue in the very near future, a result that would finalize far left control of the United States in every national election to follow. Jarrett is doing so with a combination of hundreds of thousands of recent immigrants flooding the state, combined with billions of dollars in federal giveaways like Obamacare that will unofficially pledge those new votes to the increasingly far left/progressive/globalist Democratic Party...
Share the news: President Obama's executive actions on immigration will add billions to the #Texas GDP pic.twitter.com/ipU009d8OK
— La Casa Blanca (@lacasablanca) February 3, 2015
... “She is invading Texas with the clear intent to take it over. Look at the public campaign w/La Casa Blanca. That’s her campaign. That is the more immediate primary purpose of his executive amnesty. They’ll have Texas and that means they’ll never lose another national election. Ever.”
...The above tweet originated from the La Casa Blanca office, and was then re-tweeted from Jarrett’s own account as well. Within hours of the La Casa Blanca tweet, Jarrett was sharing her views on how wonderful Obamacare is for all Americans – including immigrants.
Jarrett is hinting at 743,000 “more people” immediately coming into Texas via the president’s executive amnesty. Logic dictates that within just a few more years this number would easily surpass the one million mark (and likely already has) – a coordinated invasion via the federal government into the only state that gives voters a choice between Republican and Democrat in national elections. The only state that makes such a choice have any semblance of being competitive.
One million votes represents the difference between Texas giving a Republican its 38 electoral votes in a national election or those votes going Democrat. It is the difference between Texas being a blue state, or remaining a red state. Valerie Jarrett has been working very hard to permanently alter the Texas electoral landscape to ensure it forever after favors far left Democrats in future elections.
Barack Obama will fade into political obscurity after 2016, but Valerie Jarrett’s manipulations will continue to impact the country for many more years to follow, and taking Texas is a top priority in that long range plan...
You've been warned, Texas. Are you going to sit there and take this from the radical left? Or are you going to do something about it?
Hat tip: BadBlue News.
PREDICTABLE INANITY: Obama threatens veto of Keystone pipeline, forcing oil shipments over "antiquated infrastructure"
Stimulus: Obama says jobs from the Keystone project aren't permanent and it's just one pipeline that will move foreign oil to foreign markets. But fixing the bridge he once used as a prop didn't create permanent jobs either.
'Let's set our sights above a single pipeline," the leader of the party of infrastructure told Congress in the State of the Union. But this Congress has 80 more Republicans than when he took office, and on Thursday the Senate rejected his admonition by a 62-36 vote.
Eight Democrats crossed the aisle after a series of amendment votes, a process that had vanished under former Majority Leader Harry Reid. While not approved with a veto-proof majority, the Keystone bill, after House approval, will head to Obama's desk, where stopping the pipeline will finally put the onus on him and him alone.
The president wants a bill that fixes the nation's bridges and roads — legislation he touted when he spoke last July with the Interstate 495 bridge over the Christina River near Wilmington, Del., as a backdrop. The bridge had been closed for emergency repairs after the discovery of four tilting support columns. Yet Obama didn't make the argument it was just one bridge or that the jobs fixing it wouldn't be permanent.
Yes, Keystone is just one pipeline. But its 1,700 miles would join the more than 50,000 miles of existing pipelines crisscrossing the U.S., including one already carrying crude from Canada. When those building the pipeline finish it, they'll just move on to other pipelines and projects, like people who finish a bridge or road move on to other bridges and roads.
Keystone XL would bring up to 830,000 barrels of oil per day and directly create 20,000 truly shovel-ready jobs. And it would carry not only Canadian oil, but also oil from the Bakken shale formation of North Dakota.
Even if it carried only Canadian oil to foreign markets, it and the Gulf Coast refineries that would process the oil would be operated not by robots but by American workers. Would President Obama rather live in a world dependent on oil from North America or on oil from the Middle East and OPEC?
Most of the Bakken crude is now carried to market via far more dangerous shipments by BNSF Railway Co., which has more than 1,000 miles of tracks in the region. BNSF was bought by Obama's favorite one-percenter, Warren Buffett, in 2010.
The Keystone XL bill should arrive on the president's desk just as the State Department receives final comments on the proposed Canada-to-Texas project. Agencies are required to send their recommendations to the State Department by Feb. 2, another step in the seemingly endless six-year review of the project. We have fought and won wars in less time.
Will Democrats Formally Announce an Alliance With Hamas and Boycott the Israeli Prime Minister's Speech to Congress?
Are they poised to join arms with President Obama and announce formal alliances with Hamas, Hezbollah, the Muslim Brotherhood and Iran? We will soon see, America:
Democrats might skip Benjamin Netanyahu speech
Joe Biden is among those not committed to attending the Israeli prime minister’s address to Congress.
Vice President Joe Biden won’t commit to attending Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech to a joint meeting of Congress next month.
He’s not the only one.
Dozens of House Democrats are privately threatening to skip the March 3 address, according to lawmakers and aides, in what’s become the lowest point of a relationship between the Israeli prime minister and President Barack Obama that’s never been good.
Democrats have had to balance publicly supporting Israel with backing Obama, who’s trying to close a deal with Iran to curb its nuclear programs over vehement opposition from Netanyahu, who has expressed concerns that the U.S. president is being naive. Negotiations are facing a deadline at the end of March for a political framework...
...Netanyahu’s already been denied an Oval Office meeting with Obama. Secretary of State John Kerry has no plans to meet with him while he’s in town, a State Department official told POLITICO on Tuesday.
This sort of thing must pose quite the head-scratching conundrum for many in the American Jewish community. If they support their far left ideology, they also must support the Nazi-backed, Islamofascist movement and all it entails.
1. Obama is entertaining Muslim Brotherhood leaders in the White House and at the State Department
2. Obama is doing his level best to ensure Iran continues its work on nuclear weapons
3. Obama is doing his level best to ostracize Israel and ridicule its self-preservation instinct
4. Obama continues to legitimize the tactics of Hamas
5. Obama refuses to call the Islamic state "Islamic"
And Democrats, instead of speaking out, are in lockstep with him.
The chasm between civilization and barbarism is widening and many are now caught straddling the fissure.
Meanwhile, President Obama has time to meet with a woman who eats cereal out of a bathtub, but not the leader of one of America's closest allies, which faces an ever-increasing existential threat in a nuclear Iran.
Hat tip: Dan from New York.
Larwyn's Linx: AZ Sheriff: 30% of Illegals Caught at Border Have Criminal History in U.S.
Nation
AZ Sheriff: 30% of Illegals Caught at Border Have Criminal History in U.S.: CNSSenate Dems Block DHS Bill That Defunds Obama’s Immigration Plan: Blaze
Ted Cruz, Susan Collins Outline Counter to Dem Filibuster of DHS Bill: NRO
White House Unaware of Obamacare: RS
Obama rewrites Obamacare law again: WyBlog
Obama Sure Takes a Lot of Selfies, Don’t He?: Sooper
Professor Jonathan Turley: Obama Guilty of ‘Violations of His Oath of Office’: CI
Tweet of the Week Comes From Nigeria: Instapundit
Intelligence agencies must be able to fight terrorism in secret: Rachel Marsden
In 2008 Hillary Linked Autism To Vaccines #Grandmother'sGoingSenile?: Lid
The Witch-hunt Against Bob McDonnell: Rachel Alexander
NH Seeks To Empower Citizens By Equal Firepower Measures: Tony Oliva
Economy
Minimum Wage Hike Hits Home in SF: RedAlertThe Big Lie: 5.6% Unemployment: Gallup
The Bravado of Borrowers: Peter Schiff
Scandal Central
These Are The Ex-Lawmakers Who Could Barely Wait To Sell Out: VocativObama's Budget-Busting Spending Bill to Balloon Federal Debt to More Than $25 Trillion by 2025: AmPower
In Christie’s Career, a Fondness for Luxe Benefits When Others Pay the Bills: NYT
Media
Washington Monthly pretends Scott Walker may not have gotten death threats: Moe LaneGeneration W: Raising a Nation of Wusses: Aaron C. Smith
Mark Levin Responds to Bircher Nonsense in Virginia Effort for Convention of States: Jen Kuznicki
NBC Skips Obama’s Beer Gaffe on Washington; Contrast With Palin's Revere Tale: Curtis Houck
John Judis: About That Inevitable, Permanent Majority for the Democrats: RS
Teacher Beaten Bloody By Black Student; Media, Parents Say Teacher Deserved It: Treehouse
World
Obama DEFENDS Islam in statement about ISIS video burning Jordan pilot to death: ScoopFrance: Muslim slashes soldiers on anti-terror patrol in front of Jewish community center: JihadWatch
Islamic State shows burning of hostage, Jordan vows 'earth-shaking' response: Reuters
Jordan: Hey, You Know How ISIS Demanded We Release a Female Terrorist Prisoner?: Ace
"Whatever Ideology They're Operating off of is Bankrupt": DiploMad
In Palestinian Authority, Outrage Follows PA Daily's Publication Of Muhammad Cartoon: MEMRI
Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)
Mysterious Apple Car Spotted Roaming Bay Area Streets: MacRumorsSatya Nadella's One-Year Report Card as Redmond's CEO: Redmond
Incredible 50-foot 'dragon' dinosaur unearthed by Chinese farmers: Naomi Ng
Cornucopia
Obama's New Ride: Springer's BlogA Message To The Left ~ (I know, you just don't give a damn...go ahead and admit it!): Norman Hooben
Settlement Map: iOTWreport
Image: ISIS releases images of Jordanian pilot burned alive in a cage [GRAPHIC]
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QOTD: "While Washington’s contentious revolving door spins in perpetuum—allowing a stream of money, influence and access to flow seamlessly between the private and public sectors—the speed with which these public servants have offered themselves up to big business may raise a few eyebrows.
“It’s not like they were calling up their new employers on the morning of Jan. 5 and asking for a job,” says Russ Choma, a CRP spokesman. “It would seem very likely that as these lawmakers were still voting on bills and debating policies, they were simultaneously negotiating with lobbying firms whose clients may have a direct interest in these issues.”" --Shane Dixon Kavanaugh
Tuesday, February 03, 2015
The Other Source of Terrorism
I never fail to be astonished by the amount of corruption there is in the world. It is a very human trait whether it was royalty asserting that they ruled by God’s choice until their subjects rose up against them or modern day despots encountering the same fate.
Sarah Chayes has authored “Thieves of State: Why Corruption Threatens Global Security” ($26.95, W.W. Norton) and it is quite timely when you consider that corruption ignited the “Arab Spring”, first in Tunisia when a peddler grew so tired of the police asking for bribes that he set himself afire in protest. Its dictator’s wife openly displayed the nation’s stolen wealth for which they were driven from power. In Egypt there was a similar response when the public tired of the looting of the state treasury by Mubarak’s son. Revolts from Libya to Syria have been generated by the same cause.
Corruption in the Middle East has a long history, but it is worldwide and, depending on the nation, is either tolerated as part of the way the culture does business or resisted by governments who understand that it undermines their legitimacy. Throw a dart at the map of the world and you are likely to hit a nation where corruption is influencing current events. As Chayes notes, “Time and again U.S. officials are blindsided by major developments in countries where they work. Too often they are insensible to the perspectives and aspirations of population.”
A classic example is Afghanistan where both the Soviet Union and the U.S. ran into such ingrained corruption that it undermined their objectives, the former to turn it into a satellite and the latter to turn it into a modern, democratic government. Chayes cites Afghanistan as a classic example of why the Taliban emerged as a jihadist movement. Corruption in the form of bribes, kick-backs, cronyism, is so deeply engrained in Afghanistan that it generated a movement to replace it with sharia law by Islamists.
“If the very Afghan officials by whose sides they planned to combat extremists were generating those extremists themselves—by having men shake down travelers and taking a cut, or leaving bills unpaid, or by providing judiciously selected ‘intelligence’ to engineer a night-raid against a rival trafficking network—it was too big a paradox to take in. NATO officers,” said Chayes, “did not want to know.”
“The corruption networks” in Afghanistan, writes Chayes, “were just too vertically integrated: any move against any official, no matter how lowly, would reverberate all the way up the chain to Karzai.”




















