Monday, February 09, 2015

Gallup: Only Three States, D.C., Tilt Ideologically “Liberal”

At DownTrend, Robert Gehl relays some encouraging word from Gallup.

In only three states and the District of Columbia are there more self-professed liberals than conservatives.

Gallup’s latest “State of the States survey shows only residents of Hawaii, Massachusetts and Vermont are more liberal than conservative. The other 47 states tilt conservative to one degree or another.

Of course, the way one identifies themselves can differ markedly from reality, where many of these states are solidly Democratic.

Nationally, only 24 percent of Americans consider themselves ideologically liberal – but that number is up eight points from 20 years ago.

Still, it’s an indication that the political label “liberal” is still considered a dirty word in American politics.

And on the less encouraging theme of "the tide is shifting", earlier today President Obama alluded to the fact that illegal immigration will drown conservatism (and by extension, America).

Which is why only a Constitutional Conservative will do in 2016. Close the borders, tear down the regulatory state, and unleash the American economy.


Hat tip: BadBlue News.

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"We know Bowe Bergdahl deserted because we were there when he did it"

By Evan Buetow and Cody Full

On June 30, 2009, in Mest Malak, Afghanistan, Bowe Bergdahl left his unit and deserted the U.S. Army. We know he deserted because we were there when he did it.

We are confident that the overdue report from political and military leaders on Bergdahl’s actions, sitting on a general’s desk since October, comes to the same conclusion. It has to because the facts are clear.

Whatever the reason is for the late report and confused reporting about whether Bergdahl is set to be charged with desertion, justice is being denied to those of us who were abandoned by a fellow soldier.

The White House ceremony in May to announce the exchange of five senior Taliban detainees from the Guantanamo Bay prison for our former platoon member sparked a national debate on a variety of controversial issues: executive power, mental health care, the War on Terror, prisoners of war, due process and legal justice. It is troubling to us that President Obama and his political team are silencing this needed public debate by not making the release of this report a priority.

In light of the new information that some of the Taliban prisoners swapped for our former platoonmate made moves to re-enter the war, we believe that this debate must begin in earnest by issuing a report on the facts.

Like most people, we have opinions about how Bowe’s release affects these issues. Unlike others though, we were his team leaders, friends and brothers in arms. We have firsthand knowledge of the case and were interviewed as part of the investigation.

For five years, Bowe was held captive and likely tortured, suffering a fate that haunted us daily. We might never understand what happened inside the Taliban prisons that held him, nor will we know what was said in the political backrooms in Washington, D.C., that led to his release. Even so, the facts of his desertion need to be known in order to understand what the consequences and precedent will be if his acts go unpunished.

Here is what we know:

Obama should personally award Purple Hearts and apologize to the victims of Ft. Hood -- but he won't

By Investor's Business Daily

Political Correctness: The Army has announced that as a result of Congress' making victims of attacks by foreign terrorist acts eligible, the Fort Hood victims will get Purple Hearts, and civilians will get Defense of Freedom medals.

That language broadened the definition of an attack on eligible victims to include an assault by "a foreign terrorist organization." The definition includes attacks by a perpetrator or perpetrators in contact with a foreign terrorist organization or "inspired or motivated by a foreign terrorist organization" prior to the attack.

The Nov. 5, 2009, attack on Fort Hood by Maj. Nidal Hasan, in which he killed 13 and wounded 32 while shouting "Allahu Akbar!," fits the new eligibility requirements. Hasan was known to have been in contact before the attack with American cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, a senior leader in al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), and left a paper trail of support for and inspiration by Awlaki and AQAP.

President Obama, of course, is not going to personally present the long-delayed medals made possible by language included in the 2015 National Defense Authorization Act. That would require him to agree that Hasan was linked to, and motivated by, AQAP, a terrorist organization. That would make Fort Hood a terrorist attack and Hasan an Islamic terrorist.

Larwyn's Linx: DHS sets up Obama amnesty complaint hotlines for illegals

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Nation

DHS sets up Obama amnesty complaint hotlines for illegals: Times
Illegal Immigrants to Receive Earned Income Tax Credit: Daniel Halper
Obama Destroying Middle Class Workers with Illegal Work Permits: Sara Noble

Did the Obama Administration lie about Netanyahu?: Volokh
More Evidence: White House Trying To Manipulate Israel Elections: Treehouse
Obama’s Lies About The Crusades vs Islamic Jihad: RWN

Tax Day Shocker: Obamacare ‘Clawback’ To Hit Some With Huge Tax Bill : DC
Want to take your country back? Here’s where it starts: Bob Livingston
Fake Watchdog Group SPLC Puts Ben Carson on ‘Extremist’ Watch List: Wizbang

Sen. Ted Cruz 'seriously' considering White House run: Zack Colman
Is *Hillary* Ready?: Moe Lane
The Great 2016 Tea Party Dilemma: Lloyd Marcus

Economy

When your government lies to you: Bruce McQuain
More non-union teachers than unionized ones for first time in U.S.: EAG
For Most Of Us, There's No "Recovery": Jack Kelly

Scandal Central

Transparency: 47 Inspectors General Denied Documents in Violation of Law: MB
‘Tell Brian Williams to stop lying’: JWF
Brian Williams Bragged He Owns Part of Fuselage of Helicopter Crashed in Bin Laden Raid: Sooper

Climate & Energy

The fiddling with temperature data is the biggest science scandal ever: Telegraph
Thanks To IPCC, Public Unaware Water Vapor Is Most Important Greenhouse Gas: WUWT
Noted Hummer owner lectures us on Global Warming: AP

Media

The question about the ‘Dream Act’ from Dana Bash that Ted Cruz called “RIDICULOUS”: Scoop
Homeland Security Sec: 'We Do a Pretty Good Job of Tracking Terrorists': TR
Edison screws its employees, too: San Diego Reader

WaPo Editorial Faults President for Allowing Iran To Become “Regional Power”: TheTower
The Problem With Race Wars Among Minorities: Jim Goad
Chuck Todd Theory: Obama Doesn't Like Prayer Breakfast, Wanted to Stir Up Trouble: TR

World

Is This the End of NATO?: The XX Committee
China’s secret plan for America: MacLean's
Obama Lapdog ADL's Abe Foxman Tells Bibi To Move His Congressional Speech: Lid

Did the ISIS Video Backfire? No.: Global Guerillas
Muslims Protest Downing Street, Warning Britain Not To Insult Mohammed: Breitbart
The Middle East Has Declared War on ISIS, and Obama Won’t Help: Elephant

Blame Germany If Europe Implodes: Christopher Whalen
Putin visits Egypt in bid to expand influence, arms deals: Times of Israel
Hundreds killed as Chadian military overruns Boko Haram strongholds: LWJ

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

What is on the Other Side of a Black Hole?: Fraser Cain
SpaceX delays launch of space weather satellite: The Week
Human Traffickers Caught on Hidden Internet: SciAm

Cornucopia

Ukraine: Artillery Fire, Not ‘Tactical Nuke’ Attack, Sets Off Enormous Explosion: RWN
Conan jokingly imagines other self-aggrandizing Brian Williams fabulations: The Week
Rare Shoeless Joe Jackson Autographed Photo May Bring $100,000: ABC

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QOTD: "With no pushback from the brass at NBC, Williams has spent years fervently “courting celebrity,” as The Hollywood Reporter put it, guest starring on “30 Rock,” slow-jamming the news with Jimmy Fallon and regaling David Letterman with his faux heroics: “Two of our four helicopters were hit by ground fire, including the one I was in, RPG and AK-47.”

As his profession shrinks and softens, Williams felt compelled to try to steal the kind of glory that can only be earned the hard way." --Maureen Dowd

Sunday, February 08, 2015

In a crushing economy, Obama administration has issued 6 million new work permits to aliens since 2009

Because, why not?

Government data reveal that about 5.5 million new work permits were issued to aliens from 2009 to 2014, above and beyond the number of new green card and temporary worker admissions in those years. This is a huge parallel immigrant work authorization system outside the limits set by Congress that inevitably impacts opportunities for U.S. workers, damages the integrity of the immigration system, and encourages illegal immigration.

Approximately 1.8 million new work permits were issued to aliens with temporary visas or those who entered under the Visa Waiver Program. Of these, about 1.2 million (67 percent) had a visa status for which employment is not authorized by law. For example, more than 470,000 work permits were issued to aliens on tourist visas and 532,000 were issued to foreign students. More than 156,000 were issued to dependents of students and guestworkers, all in categories not authorized for employment by law.

...A huge number of work permits, 1.7 million, were issued to aliens whose status was unknown, not recorded by the adjudicator, or not disclosed by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), the agency that processes the applications. This should be a concern; work permits are gateway documents to driver's licenses and other benefits, and if the government agency issuing them does not know or will not disclose how the bearer arrived in the country how can others rely on the authenticity of an individual's identity? It is equally disconcerting if the government does know and chooses not to disclose it.

Yes, but Democrats are for the little people, right?


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ISIS and Saudi Arabia Have the Exact Same Goal: World Domination

By Michael Snyder

When ISIS released a video which showed Jordanian pilot Moaz al-Kasasbeh being burned alive, it shocked the entire planet. The evil that it takes to do such a thing is on a level that is almost unspeakable. In the western world, we have a very hard time understanding what would motivate anyone to take a life in such a manner. But in the Middle East, this brand of tyranny has been percolating for a very, very long time. The brand of Islam that ISIS seeks to impose on the areas of Iraq and Syria that it has conquered has been practiced in Saudi Arabia for centuries. Just like ISIS, Saudi Arabia also publicly flogs those that “insult Islam”. Just like ISIS, Saudi Arabia also beheads those that commit serious violations of sharia law. And it is no secret that the Saudis have been pouring billions upon billions of dollars into organizations that promote jihad all over the globe. But because they have a quarter of the world’s oil reserves and they pretend to be our friends, we don’t say anything. They may be more subtle than ISIS, but ultimately they have the same goal as ISIS. When it is all said and done, the Saudis and ISIS both agree that Islam will ultimately rule the world one day. The only disagreement is about how to get there.

Approximately one out of every seven people in the world is Muslim. And the heart of the Muslim world can be found in Saudi Arabia. When ISIS militants publicly flog and behead people for not submitting to sharia law, they are just copying what Saudi Arabia has been doing for centuries. For example, a Saudi blogger was just recently sentenced to 1,000 lashes for “insulting Islam“. And on average there is a beheading in Saudi Arabia every four days.

So where is the outrage?

Is it only wrong when ISIS does it?

Oregon Legislators Should Support an Article V Convention of the States

By Mark Alspaugh

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

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Nation

You guys beginning to get it yet? You’re Americans: Cold Fury
Obama’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 Knish
Obama, 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 Geller
Obama 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 Arms
EPA 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 Halper
Female 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”: WZ
Saudi 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: Treehouse
Researchers 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.: MOTUS
Why 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

But they're doing it for love, right, Jeb Bush?

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

By Caroline Glick

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

By Michael Snyder

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: LI
Obama 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: WS
Report: 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 Attkisson
PIGS 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: Ace
Don’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: LWJ
Islamic 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: AetherForce
Downtown 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: Hopenchange
Comic 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’

By Melissa Quinn

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

Via Real Clear Politics

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

By Investor's Business Daily

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

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Nation

The Glamor of Evil: Mark Steyn
Senate 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 Rasmussen
When 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: WAW
Eric 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: Fox
Capito 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: Ace
Brian 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: ComputerWorld
The Candidate as Human Capitalist: Linda Brenner
Severed-thumb USB thumbdrive is disgustingly literal: CNet

Cornucopia

Everybody Lies About War Stories: MOTUS
Tell Her How You Feel: Springer
An Examination of Obama’s Asinine Statements: iOTW Report

Image: Campaign to release Saudi blogger heats up
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: BadBlue Prep - 24/7 SHTF News

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

Fair warning: put down your beer and prepare for a belly laugh:

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

Interesting article by Marco Torres contrasting how kids today are raised with those just 40 years ago. Ahhh, the peat.

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

By Daniel Horowitz

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. 

So strong is the desire of rank-and-file Democrats to rally behind their party leader, they will even support the president’s patently unlawful acts– simply because he is their man.

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.