Saturday, February 14, 2015

Larwyn's Linx: Don’t Authorize Obama’s War

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Nation

Don’t Authorize Obama’s War: Matthew Continetti
Hey, Mitch McConnell: Why Not Use Reconciliation To Pass DHS Funding?: Lid
Conservatives 'Aren’t Scared' to Hold Fast on DHS Funding Bill: Kelsey Harkness

State Department decision puts Marine lives in jeopardy: James LaPorta
The Consequences of Not Calling Islamic Terrorism What It is: Ericka Anderson
President Selfie: Jon Gabriel

Court Can Save Millions from Illegal Obamacare Taxes: Phil Kerpen
Obama Illegal Aliens Program Pretty Much Includes Pathway To Citizenship: RWN
Justice Ginsburg explains nap: ‘I wasn’t 100% sober’ at State of the Union: BPR

Walker Leads the Field, Survey Finds: Ace
Scott Walker Didn't Finish College. And?: Mark Hemingway
Let’s eliminate federal budget deficits… forever: Sal Russo

Economy

For Every New Job, Two New Immigrants: CIS
Yep, Obamacare Costs a Fortune: Christopher Flavelle
Southern California Edison Workers Just More H-1B Roadkill: CIS

Scandal Central

Obama Amnesty Creates Another Loophole For Illegal Immigrants To Vote In Elections: WZ
IRS Admits They Will Pay Refunds To Illegal Aliens Who Never Paid Taxes: Treehouse
State Dept. On Weapons, Equipment Stolen in Yemen: “We Are Requesting They Be Returned”: RWN

Climate & Energy

Oregon Democrat Governor Kitzhaber Facing Green Energy Scandal: BlurBrain
Amid Influence-Peddling Scandal, Oregon Governor Resigns: NPR
The climate Comintern speaks: Benjamin Zycher

Media

Old Media’s Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Week: Ed Driscoll
Brian Williams: “I was at the Brandenburg Gate the night the wall came down”: JWF
Eugene Robinson Praises Hillary for Hiding from Questions and Not Taking Positions: WFB

Mark Levin: 'Our Rights Do Come From God': Michael Morris
The Credentialization of the Republic: Mark Steyn
Emily Miller under attack: This Ain't Hell

World

Islamic State takes over large portions of town near key airbase in Anbar: LWJ
While Obama Plays with Selfie Stick, ISIS Closes In on U.S. Marines in Iraq: Stephen Kruiser
Nobel Laureate Elie Wiesel to Attend Netanyahu Speech to Congress: “How Can I Remain Silent?”: GWP

ISIS isn't the long term problem, Saudi Arabia is: John Robb
ISIS Inside the United States?: Joe Guzzardi
Iran, Syria and Hezbollah Continue Offensive Towards Israel’s Golan Heights Border: Algemeiner

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

HILARIOUS: Ted Cruz SPOOFS Obama on Net Neutrality: Scoop
Go to Prison for File Sharing? That's What Hollywood Wants: Gizmodo
Woman's stool transplant leads to 'tremendous weight gain': BBC

Cornucopia

An Era of Bad Faith Ends: Daniel Greenfield
Truthiness and Job Rotation in the Political-Media Complex: MOTUS
The Husband Store: Diogenes

Image: While Obama Plays with Selfie Stick, ISIS Closes In on U.S. Marines in Iraq
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QOTD: "If you remember the timing, Barack Obama was on vacation in Martha's Vinyard at this time. He was on vacation forever. They beheaded the American James Foley, and he took five minutes off from golfing to halfheartedly pretend to be upset by that. Then he went back golfing.

Ferguson was burning during this time. And still he golfed...

...Days after an American was beheaded by a terrorist, Obama partied with his old terrorist pals, who were involved in a plan to plant bombs at an American Army dance in Fort Dix, NJ." --Ace

Friday, February 13, 2015

READING IS FUNDAMENTAL TRANSFORMATION: Obamnesty flooding school systems with illegal aliens

By Kenric Ward

Costs for schooling a surging number of limited English proficiency students are soaring — $2.5 billion in the Washington, D.C., region alone. But the federal government, responsible for the influx of immigrants, is ducking the bill.

A new study by the Federation for American Immigration Reform found that taxpayers in the District of Columbia, Maryland and Virginia are incurring budget-busting costs to accommodate a rising tide of English-deficient pupils, most of them first-generation immigrants.

Alexandria, Va., for example, is spending $25,538 per LEP student. With 4,183 such students enrolled this year, the city’s school district is paying out $107,719,214 for those LEP pupils — a whopping 45.8 percent of the district’s annual instructional budget.

The ranks of LEP students, many of whom come from households where no English is spoken, have jumped 125 percent in the Northern Virginia city since the 2005-2006 school year.

Similar increases are found in neighboring Fairfax and Arlington counties, as well as in D.C. and its Maryland suburbs.

Because LEP students require more intensive and specialized services, district outlays for them run 40 to 50 percent higher than for non-LEP students. And because the federal government is not reimbursing for the rising costs, local school districts and their counties are diverting funds from other programs, says Eric Ruark, director of research for FAIR.

Barack Obama is mainstreaming anti-Semitism in America

By Caroline Glick

President Barack Obama is mainstreaming anti-Semitism in America.

This week, apropos of seemingly nothing, in an interview with Mathew Yglesias from the Vox.com website, Obama was asked about terrorism. In his answer the president said the terrorism threat is overrated. And that was far from the most disturbing statement he made.

Moving from the general to the specific, Obama referred to the jihadists who committed last month’s massacres in Paris as “a bunch of violent vicious zealots,” who “randomly shot a bunch of folks in a deli in Paris.”

In other words, Ahmedy Coulibaly, the terrorist at Hyper Cacher, the kosher supermarket he targeted, was just some zealot. The Jews he murdered while they were shopping for Shabbat were just “a bunch of folks in a deli,” presumably shot down while ordering their turkey and cheese sandwiches.

No matter that Coulibaly called a French TV station from the kosher supermarket and said he was an al-Qaida terrorist and that he chose the kosher supermarket because he wanted to kill Jews.

As far as the leader of the free world is concerned, his massacre of four Jews at the market can teach us nothing about anything other than that some random people are mean and some random people are unlucky.

Pssst, @MADDOnline: White House Ordering Border Patrol to Release Drunk Drivers, “Allow Them to Go On Their Way”

By Judicial Watch

The Obama administration has ordered federal agents responsible for protecting one of the nation’s busiest and most crime-infested regions near Mexico to stop apprehending drunk drivers, according to an internal government memo that also concedes an officer that elects to detain them is “acting within the course and scope of his employment.”

Obtained by Judicial Watch this week, the notice is titled “Enforcement Options With Alcohol-Impaired Drivers” and directs the 4,000-plus U.S. Border Patrol agents in the Tucson, Arizona sector to “release” individuals under the influence and “allow them to go on their way.” The document acknowledges that this feels counter-intuitive for Border Patrol agents, but eases concerns by answering a hypothetical question for the officers who have sworn to uphold the law: “If you allow this driver to continue down the road and they kill someone, aren’t you liable?” The answer is no, according to the new Department of Homeland Security (DHS) memo. “There is no legal requirement for a Border Patrol agent to intervene in a state crime, including DUI,” the order says, adding that “therefore there is generally no liability that will attach to the agent or agency for failing to act in this situation.”

The directive offers another scenario—detaining the impaired individual at the request of state or local law enforcement officers (LEO). “There is no duty to detain the alcohol-impaired individual,” the memo says, “but if you do this option can raise potential liability for the agent and the agency.” The document goes on to say that Border Patrol policy is to cooperate with local and state law enforcement officers who alert of suspected violations under state law. That means the agent would be considered to have been acting within the course and scope of his employment while detaining a drunk driver at the request of local law enforcement officers under Arizona law, the document confirms.

Larwyn's Linx: Obama to Give Illegal Aliens Tax ‘Refunds’ Even if They Never Paid Taxes

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Nation

Obama to Give Illegals Tax ‘Refunds’ Even if They Never Paid Taxes: RWN
Senator: Obamnesty Extended To Allow In Relatives Of Illegals: VDARE
A Red Line for Obama: Boaz Bismuth

The Ted Cruz Speech On Radical Islam The MSM Will Never Show You: CHQ
Jay Cost: The Republican Party Is Not Your Friend: Ace
House Conservatives Urge Change Filibuster Rules for DHS: Matt Fuller

How Scared is the Mainstream Media of Scott Walker?: LI
Battle With ISIS ‘Roils 2016 Field’ as Granny Clinton Remains in Hiding: JWF
Biden Gives Shout Out to 'Old Butt Buddy' in Iowa: WS

Debts That No Honest Man Can Pay: Stephen Eide
Bills nullifying federal gun bans get approval in Montana, Arizona: Guns
More Democrats Will Boycott Israeli PM Address to Congress: Jim Geraghty

Economy

Alien Kids Robbing American Students Of Educational Resources: VDARE
Panel Warns Military’s Tricare Health Insurance In ‘Death Spiral’: WZ
The Truth About Obama's Horrific Job Record : Andy Puzder

Scandal Central

Senator to Loretta Lynch: Why Did No One Go to Jail for Laundering Money to Terrorists?: Kelsey Harkness
Holder Defeated As Judge Rules Federal Interstate Handgun Transfer Ban Unconstitutional: Bob Owens
America’s Debt Prison Scandal: AmInt

Climate & Energy

Green scientists caught tampering with the historical record. Again: Breitbart

Media

O Partied It Up Last Summer in Secret with Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn: Ace
Obama Embarrasses Himself in Buzzfeed Video: Ace
This is Why I Love John Bolton: Scoop

Despite 'Long Period' of Concerns at NBC, Williams Given $50 Million Contract in Dec.: WS
NYT Defends Iranian-Backed Rebels: “Death To America” Slogan Isn’t Meant Literally: WZ
Colorado Dem To Rape Survivor At Gun Hearing: “Statistics Aren’t On Your Side”: Dana Loesch

World

Obama Says Nuclear Deal Imminent If Nuclear Fatwa is True: Elliot Freidland
Report: Construction at Iranian Nuclear Site May Be Concealing Banned Activities: The Tower
Random Terrorism: Eratosthenes

Obama State Department ordered Marines to surrender weapons after evacuating Yemen embassy: BPR
Marine Corps: ‘No Marine Handed a Weapon to a Houthi, or Had One Taken From Him’: CNS
The Last of England: Mark Steyn

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

So Cal Edison's path to the center of the H-1B debate: ComputerWorld
How to Set Up a Facebook "Legacy Contact" for When You Die: LifeHacker
Is Pinterest Considering a ‘Buy’ Button?: Justin Lafferty, AdWeek

Cornucopia

$10,000 Muhammad Art Contest to be Held Near ‘Stand With the Prophet’ Conference: Breitbart
You say ISIS, I say ISIL: MOTUS
Check out these wonderfully detailed 'Game of Thrones' props (pictures) : CNet

Image/Sponsored by: $10,000 Muhammad Art Contest

QOTD: "In January of 2009, the labor participation rate was 65.7% (at least one metric that isn’t better now than when he took office) and the unemployment rate was 7.8%. Were the labor participation rate 65.7% today, the unemployment rate would be 9.7%. In other words, the entire improvement in the unemployment rate since President Obama took office (from 7.8% to 5.7%) is due to a decline in labor participation. Had labor participation held steady, unemployment would be 9.7%.

In human terms, because they are either unemployed or out of the labor force, this means an historic number of Americas are waking up each day without a job." --Andy Puzder

Thursday, February 12, 2015

Kayla Mueller dies of climate change and Islamonazi fanatics, but mostly Islamonazi fanatics

By Investor's Business Daily

Leadership: An administration that views climate change as a greater threat than terrorism blames its most recent foolish comments on cable news and poor word choice. Will Brian Williams be the next press secretary?

According to President Obama, Secretary of State John Kerry and White House press secretary Josh Earnest, 26-year-old humanitarian worker Kayla Mueller was killed by global warming, not by an Islamic State that beheads and incinerates those who resist its barbarism.

In trying to explain Obama's remarks on climate change and terrorism, Earnest told the Vox website, "The point that the president is making is that there are many more people on an annual basis who have to confront the direct impact on their lives of climate change, or of the spread of a disease, than of terrorism."

Sorry, but we're all feeling the direct impact of terrorism on the life of Mueller, her friends and her family. We're also feeling it on the lives of the four Jews killed in a kosher market in Paris, lives dismissed by President Obama as "a bunch of folks in a deli" who were shot at "random" and just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Earnest blamed the controversy on Obama's choice of an adverb. But we're not as insensitive or callous as a president who thinks his job is like running a big city. Perhaps he had Detroit in mind.

$10,000 Muhammad Art and Cartoon Contest to be Held at Site of ‘Stand With the Prophet’ Conference

Author Pamela Geller, a relentless warrior for the First Amendment, makes the rather compelling argument that "if the Western media [had run] the Danish cartoons back when this Islamic supremacist movement first started gaining steam, the editorial staff of Charlie Hebdo would be alive today."

She has a point.

Pamela Geller is planning a “Draw the Prophet” event in Garland, Texas in the same location as a Muslim group held a “Stand with the Prophet” conference in January. The First Annual Muhammad Art Exhibit and Contest will be hosted by the Curtis Caldwell Center, which is owned and operated by the Garland Independent School District.

Geller’s event comes on the wake of the Islamic terrorist attack on the French magazine Charlie Hebdo in January. Following the attack, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) scheduled the “Stand with the Prophet” conference at the public school district’s conference center. Geller, the President of the American Freedom Defense Initiative (AFDI), scheduled a protest outside the event that was attended by approximately 2,000 people.

During the Free Speech Rally in Garland, Geller spoke with Breitbart Texas about her reaction to the large and loud crowd of protesters. She said that Muslims are trying to impose restrictions on free speech like they are doing in Paris. “Thousands of Americans said ‘no way!’”

“The media can smear us and the President can stand with them,” Geller said. “We the people are not having it. If there is any proof of that, it’s today. We dwarfed them.”

...“Enough is enough,” she explained. “They’re just cartoons. We’re holding this exhibit and cartoon contest to show how insane the world has become — with people in the free world tiptoeing in terror around supremacist thugs who actually commit murder over cartoons. If we can’t stand up for the freedom of speech, we will lose it — and with it, free society.”

The art exhibit and contest will be held at the Curtis Culwell Center in Garland on May 3rd... The contest will take submissions online and the winner will be announced at the event in Garland. The winning cartoonist will receive a $10,000 prize...

...An author and activist with passionate fans and detractors, Geller has been sounding the alarm about Muslim encroachment into Europe and America and the possible impact on American culture in the future. The Free Speech Rally Geller organized is one of many activities she has created to shine the light on radical Islam and the teachings of Imam’s in mosques in the United States... Geller is also listed as an “Extremist” on the left-wing Southern Poverty Law Center’s (SPLC) website. The SPLC says she is the “anti-Muslim movement’s most visible and flamboyant figurehead. She’s relentlessly shrill and coarse in her broad-based denunciations of Islam.” The organization also lists AFDI as an anti-Muslim hate group.


Ironically, the SPLC may have been an inspiration for the killer of three Muslim students, who was reported to have been a radical left atheist, in North Carolina.


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It's Another Historic First!

By Dan from New York

The rate of Obama's decline is quickening. The downward spiral is accelerating. Perhaps the only positive development this late in his tenure is the fact that we don’t have to wait long before more of Obama’s terminal lies fall flat -- and kick our country in the teeth. The one thing that comes as a surprise these days is that there are still so many Americans who are in denial, willfully ignoring the true nature of the man. Really, do people actually think Obama has a shred of credibility left? One is both too many and more than enough.

Flashback: Obama Touts Yemen As Success Story (Sept, 2014)

UN Chief Warns Yemen ‘Collapsing’ as Al Qaeda Group Makes Gains (Today)


Thanks, Obama!

"Americans will have the last word, Mr. Obama"

By Springer's Blog


Springer was a first-time Fabulous 50 Blog Award Winner in 2014. So he has that going for him, which is nice.


Larwyn's Linx: The Skull Beneath the Skin of the ‘Affordable Care Act’

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Nation

The Skull Beneath the Skin of the ‘Affordable Care Act’: Michael Walsh
GOP Signals No Willingness to Stop Obama’s Illegal Amnesty Plan: Daily Signal
Obama Spokesholes Try To Walk Back ‘Random Shooting’ Remark: Tammy Bruce

Obama’s AUMF should be DOA: RS
The Muslims Who Met With Obama Before His Crusades Speech: Sara Noble
Muslim Brotherhood says White House official present at meeting: Treehouse

Scott Walker Not Done Collecting Skulls for his Throne: Leon Wolf
HSBC Leak Exposes Shady Clinton Associates: Andrew Stiles
Speaker Boehner: Invite Hillary to Bibi's Speech: TR

True Lies: Victor Davis Hanson
Federal Ban on Interstate sale of Handguns Ruled Unconstitutional: GunWatch
More Insights into the Islamist-Leftist Alliance: Daniel Pipes

Economy

The Fourth Turning: The Shadow of Crisis Has Not Passed, Part III: TBP
Gov. Bruce Rauner (R-IL) actually goes to war with the unions: Moe Lane
Stanford Review Exposes Falsehoods Promoted by Campus BDS Activists: CI

Scandal Central

Sickening: Illegal Alien Used His Wife’s Daycare to Molest Toddlers: Cassy Fiano
Are They Really Journalists? No, They are Progressives and Must Lie: DiploMad
White House Holding Back Tea Party Targeting Docs: LI

Climate & Energy

Reporters told to stop interviewing 'irrelevant' climate change critics: Exam

Media

So, What About Rev. Al Sharpton's Suspension?: TSG
Federal Election Commission to Consider Regulating Online Political Speech: CNS
Ben Shapiro: Why Jews Vote Leftist?: Treehouse

Atheism and support for homosexual marriage: proven indicators of a violent nature: RS
February: Annual White America Sucks Month: Lloyd Marcus
The Tweetable Guide To Media Myths And Left-wing Violence: Ace

World

On ISIS, Obama Wants Congress To Tie His, And the Next President’s, Hands: Tammy Bruce
U.S. Flees Yemen, Another Obama Success Story: Sara Noble
South African University Rejects Student Council’s Call for Expulsion of Jews: Algemeiner

Obama Delayed Making a Decision For So Long He Missed Kayla Mueller Rescue: Ace
The Only Strategy to Defeat Jihad: Jonathan David Carson
Jews in Turkey: Unending Discrimination: Gatestone

Why Netanyahu must go to Washington: Matzav
Anti-Semitic horrors don‘t exist in Obama’s world: JWF
DOD: U.S. Kills Another Former Gitmo Inmate, Recent ISIS Convert, in Afghanistan: CNS

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Electronic Weapons: Serenity To Silence Snipers: StrategyPage
Facebook launches ThreatExchange, a platform that lets companies share security threat info: VB
Find your pals in a crowd with this flashing phone app: Engadget

Cornucopia

Kayla Mueller: Israel-Hater: Peter Malcolm
The 2nd Amendment : For Muskets Only?!: RWN
Domino's Gun Ban: At Least 8 Drivers Shot, 3 Killed: Breitbart

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QOTD: "And if in fact what they claim is true, which is they have no aspiration to get a nuclear weapon, that in fact, according to their Supreme Leader, it would be contrary to their faith to obtain a nuclear weapon, if that is true, there should be the possibility of getting a deal. They should be able to get to yes. But we don’t know if that’s going to happen." --"President" Barack Obama

Wednesday, February 11, 2015

MARK LEVIN: I'm convinced that Obama is seeking to destroy Israel

By The Right Scoop

Mark Levin said on his radio show tonight that he’s convinced that Obama is seeking to destroy Israel.

He said if Christianity were on the march, slaughtering Muslims and Jews and anyone else that disagreed with them, Obama would point that out. But the Obama administration censors themselves, Levin notes, because Obama wants to protect Islam.

That’s also why he trashed Christianity, Levin said.

Listen to the full clip here or read the bulk of the transcript:

Genocide is going on on his watch and he triggered it. He triggered it by the way he cut loose from Iraq. He triggered it!

As I said a couple of weeks ago, he has blood on his hands and that big mashed-potato face, John Kerry, has blood on his hands and Biden has blood on his hands and Hillary has blood on her hands. They all do! They all do.

[Obama speaking]: My first job is to protect the American people. It is entirely legitimate for the American people to be deeply concerned when you've got a bunch of violent, vicious zealots who behead people or randomly shoot a bunch of folks in a deli in Paris.

There you go. Randomly shoot a bunch of folks in a deli in Paris.

Do you know why he says that? He’s trying to protect the Muslim faith.

FINALLY: Illinois Governor Declares War on Public Sector Unions

By Investor's Business Daily

States: Illinois entrepreneur turned governor Bruce Rauner ends the practice of forced union dues for government workers who don't want to join a union as he pursues right-to-work zones to promote growth.

In Illinois, they're called "fair share" dues collected from workers said to benefit from the collective bargaining of the unions they're in thrall to, whether they want to join or not, moneys collected by force to pay for that representation.

"Fair share" is a favorite mantra to liberals, but not to newly elected Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner. He believes that there's nothing fair about extorting money from people for having a job — in this case, a public-sector job with the money used to lobby the same government that pays their salaries.

Rauner, a Republican, took on the public-sector unions early on in his campaign to make a dark-blue state turn red.

"The government-union bosses are at the core of our spending problem in Illinois," he said in a primary debate, arguing that public unions create a "conflict of interest for the taxpayers" and have made a mess of the state's finances.

Public union pensions, a payback for union support in elections, were bankrupting the state.

To break this incestuous relationship between government unions and the government, Rauner issued an executive order on Monday saying that workers in government unions didn't have to pay their "fair share" anymore.

As an added precaution, he filed a pre-emptive lawsuit in Chicago to have his action certified as legal. The Democrat-controlled state legislature could vote to override the order, of course, but the gauntlet has been thrown down.

Obama Desperately Tries to Get Toothpaste Back in the Tube

By New English Review, courtesy of Dan Friedman

The dilemma the Obama Administration created when it chose not to identify Jihad of Islamic terrorists was graphically on display yesterday in daily press briefings at both the White House and State Department. This was in response to remarks by President Obama in a Vox.com interview when he spoke of “violent extremists” who “randomly shoot a bunch of folks in a deli in Paris." Josh Earnest, White House Press Spokesperson and Jen Psaki at the State Department Daily Press Briefing were questioned about who were the victims at the Hyper Cacher Kosher Supermarket when attacked by Jihadist, the late Amedy Coulibaly, meaning his four Jewish victims. The jihadist martyr has been the inspiration to thousands of foreign fighters like his common-law widow Hayat Boumeddiene to join up with the Islamic State in Syria. In the same Vox.com interview, the President also suggested that climate change was a worse threat than terrorism. We gather he may have been referring to victims like my relatives in snowbound Boston with over five feet of snow on the ground in the metro area. Why Earnest and Psaki were avoiding identifying the Paris Jewish victims of Jihad is a mystery especially since both French and US governments in press reports identified the Paris kosher supermarket attack as Antisemitic.

Watch Ms. Psaki’s painful response to the question posed by AP White House correspondent Matt Lee reflected in this excerpted C-Span video exchange:

Anonymous hitting ISIS harder than any government has

By Yaël Ossowski

The hacking collective Anonymous is on the offensive yet again, striking the Islamic State’s many proactive social media users who use sites such as Twitter and Facebook to recruit for jihad terrorism.

In a series of posts on the website Pastebin over the weekend, purported members of Anonymous vow to continue “Operation Ice ISIS,” taking down websites and social media accounts of groups who assist in terrorist activities.

This new round of online attacks is meant to target individuals who are directly involved with planning and recruiting for attacks against civilians in Iraq and Syria.

“We will hunt you, take down your sites, accounts, emails, and expose you,” said the group in a YouTube video released over the weekend. “From now on, no safe place for you online…you will be treated like a virus, and we are the cure.” The post goes on to list hundreds of links to social media accounts in Arabic, classifying them by their “priority” status.

By standard analysis, these may be thought of as idle threats, but a cursory glance at the list reveals that most, if not all, the Twitter and Facebook accounts mentioned by Anonymous have indeed been suspended.

Added to the fact, Anonymous hackivists have claimed responsibility for similar attacks against the governments of Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Turkey, who they claim have been funneling millions of dollars into ISIS extremists in the last year. That has been alleged by many British and American military sources, but still outright denied by the countries in question.

In targeting the social media outreach of ISIS, Anonymous has effectively hampered its number one recruiting tool, according to the Middle East Media Research Institute, which studies jihadists’ web postings. This will limit the group’s abilities to reach out to followers and continue amassing support from sympathizers across the world, including those who commit lone wolf acts of terror in the west.

Nuclear Shot and Chaser

SHOT: Barack Obama echoed Iranian propaganda at a White House presser:

And if in fact what they [Iran's mullahs] claim is true, which is they have no aspiration to get a nuclear weapon, that in fact, according to their Supreme Leader, it would be contrary to their faith to obtain a nuclear weapon, if that is true, there should be the possibility of getting a deal. They should be able to get to yes. But we don’t know if that’s going to happen.

CHASER: Iranians Celebrate Revolution With Chants Of “Death To America” As Nuke Deadline Nears:

Iran is marking the 36th anniversary of its 1979 Islamic Revolution with massive state-sponsored rallies. State television aired scenes from the rallies in Tehran and around the country on February 11, showing participants chanting (Persian link) “down with the U.S.”, “death to America” and “death to Israel.”

I pray that it doesn't happen, but I fear a lot of people are going to die because this feckless, narcissistic failure is more concerned with his "legacy" (such as it is) than a nuclear device detonating in an American, European or Israeli city.


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Larwyn's Linx: Feds build another massive bureaucracy to deal with Obama amnesty invasion

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Nation

Feds build bureaucracy to deal with Obama amnesty onslaught: Times
The President’s Exploitation: RebelPundit
Obamacare Replacement: More Covered, Fewer Pained: Betsy McCaughey

Mark Levin Shreds Obama's Vox Interview: Scoop
Democrats Risk a Jewish Backlash with Netanyahu Boycott: Keith Koffler
Mystery Shrouds J Street Claim '84%' of US Jews Back Obama Over : Algemeiner

First They Shut You Up, Then You Will Be Made to Care: Erick Erickson
Supreme Court set to condone homosexual marriage: RS
VOX Accidentally Breaks News, Instantly Regrets It: Sonny Bunch

The Rubio Factor: RS
Volatility in GOP Race: Dick Morris
Former Sen. Tom Coburn Joins Convention of States Project: Breitbart

Economy

The Fourth Turning: The Shadow of Crisis Has Not Passed, Part I: TBP
The Fourth Turning: The Shadow of Crisis Has Not Passed, Part II: TBP
U.S. Brags to U.N.: We Have 46.5 Million on Food Stamps: CNS

Scandal Central

White House Says They Will Not Release IRS Documents On Tea Party Targeting: WZ
May '14: Obama Knew Location of U.S. Hostages; Waited 7 Weeks to Order Rescue that Failed: FreeLight
‘Truly insane': Josh Earnest’s appalling defense of Obama’s ‘random’ shooting remarks: Twitchy

Climate & Energy

Failed climate predictions gets a website: WUWT
It's Final -- Corn Ethanol Is Of No Use: James Conca
The Climate Change “Consensus” Isn’t What the Washington Post Thinks: CFP

Media

WH Spends 7 Minutes Defending Obama Downplaying Terrorism, Calling Kosher Deli Attack ‘Random’: WFB
‘Random’ Comment From Vox Interview Is Now a PR Nightmare For President Buzzfeed: Sooper
#JewishLivesMatter: Roger L. Simon

Brian Williams Debacle Yet Another Reminder: Elite Media Despises Its Customers: Ed Driscoll
Tragic irony: Coexist artist beaten by Muslim gang in Paris: Allen West
At Grammys, Obama Promotes ‘Partnership’ With Soros-Funded Group: MRC

World

Caliphatalism? : Rasha Al Aqeedi
Obama: Iran nuke is against their religion: MediaEqualizer
In Speech, Iran’s Supreme Leader Rejects Idea of Framework Agreement: TheTower

Egyptian TV: Nobody dares admit Islamic State’s crimes are based on Islamic sources: JihadWatch
Sweden Doubles Down on Diversity: Brenda Walker, VDARE
Europe’s Jewish Population Continues to Plummet: Ethan Epstein

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

FCC and Net neutrality: What you really need to know : Marguerite Reardon
Net Neutrality: The FCC Has Picked Our Poison: NoJitter
US states demand Anthem should provide hack information quickly to customers: CIO

Cornucopia

Hitler Finds Out About Brian Williams: Orwell's Spectre
The People’s War on Mac and Cheese: The Dust Up: MOTUS
Obama burns down another US alliance: RS

Image: Jeb Bush's tech officer resigns after controversial tweets
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QOTD: "...after the fall of [Mosul], Manar, like every other female, has been forced to wear a full burqa. This outfit really does cramp one’s style. “Were we nude before? What was wrong with our clothes?” exclaims Manar, as her voice register shoots upward. “Nothing of our skin was exposed. Must we look like portable garbage bags for Allah to be content with us? How will I practice medicine? So that’s it? Everything I worked hard for and planned is gone?” She absolutely breaks my heart. This young, brilliant, and dedicated woman once so passionate about life is asking questions no one appears able to answer.

With Al-Husba (religious police) stationed at local markets to monitor women’s attire, the majority have submitted to the burqa, but some women have resisted and challenged ISIS militants with reason based on Islamic texts that the burqa is not mandatory. Dumbfounded and shocked, because they are to a man uneducated in genuine Islam, knowing only what their leaders have told them, several militants gave up the debate and left. The more hardcore ones refused any discussion. Whether they reject questioning the legitimacy of their religious laws or simply the idea of a woman standing up to them is hard to tell.
A new discourse has surfaced during the past six months in the conservative city of Mosul, one that should lead Islamists everywhere to some recalculation. In brief, it is this: Allah is not doing anything. A phrase considered to be the ultimate heresy in Islam is spreading widely in private discussions. ISIS religious fanatics are creating agnostics and atheists at an alarming rate." --Rasha Al Aqeedi

Tuesday, February 10, 2015

Brian Williams is just the latest symptom of a diseased legacy media

By Alan Caruba

“When reporters forfeit their credibility by making up stories, sources, or quotes, we are right to mock them. When their violations are significant or repeated, they should be fired,” says Charles Lipson, a professor of political science at the University of Chicago. “Demanding honest reporting has nothing to do with the reporter’s politics, personality, or personal life. It is about professional standards and our reasonable expectations.”

Writing at RealClearPolitics.com, Prof. Lipson concluded by saying, “It’s essential for our news organizations, and it matters for our democracy.”

Are we seeing a trend here? Dan Rather at CBS and now Brian Williams at NBC? Well, two news anchors are not a trend, but biased and bad reporting is. It’s not new, but it does seem to be gathering momentum and nowhere has it been more apparent than the millions of words written and spoken about “global warming” and now “climate change.”

It would be easy and convenient to lay the blame on America’s Liar-in-Chief, President Barack Obama, but the “global warming” hoax began well before he came on the scene. It was the invention of the United Nation’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) dating back to its creation in 1988 when it was established by the UN Environment Program and the World Meteorological Organization.

The IPCC came to world attention with the creation of the Kyoto Protocol, an international treaty that committed the nations that signed it to reduce “greenhouse gas emissions” based on the premise that global warming—a dramatic increase—was real and that it was man-made. The Protocol was adopted in Kyoto, Japan, on December 11, 1997. The United States Senate rejected it and our neighbor, Canada, later withdrew from it. Both China and India were exempted, free to continue building numerous coal-fired plants to generate the energy they need for development.

Today, though, the President is an unrelenting voice about the dangers of “climate change” which he and John Kerry, our Secretary of State, have rated the “greatest threat” to the world. Obama’s national security strategy document was released just a day before he equated the history of Christianity with the barbarism of today’s Islamic State.

BRAVE, BRAVE SIR CUOMO: Refuses to Condemn Assembly Speaker Charged With Sexual Harassment and Corruption

By Rusty Weiss

Despite persistent calls for former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver’s resignation, both from this site and from many prominent politicians, Governor Cuomo has stood steadfastly beside his friend and colleague. Through sexual harassment cover up after cover up, Cuomo refused to condemn Silver for his actions, his inactions, or otherwise.

Years went on as the Democrat piled up corruption allegations, and Cuomo stood idly by.

Recently, Silver was arrested on federal corruption charges for accepting over $4 million in kickbacks and bribes.

Now Cuomo insists he can’t be blamed for Silver being allowed to run a corrupt Assembly under his nose, throwing his hands up at the suggestion. In fact, he claims he’s no more responsible for Silver’s actions than President Obama was for Anthony Weiner’s discretions.

“If Anthony Weiner shows his private parts, do you blame Obama?” Cuomo told the New Yorker. “These are criminal acts of individual legislators. What would you have me do?”

Ah, but there’s one significant difference in that analogy, Mr. Cuomo.

25 Funniest Obama Quotes on Iran's Nuclear Weapons Program

Through a blatant cut-and-paste collaborative partnership with The Conservative Treehouse, the following are President Obama's stern warnings for Iran.

And please scroll down for the punchline.

Here is a timeline of the Obama administration’s Iran policy, as the world’s most dangerous nation and leading state sponsor of terrorism moves inexorably towards acquiring the world’s most dangerous weapon.

  1. “My expectation would be that if we can begin discussions soon, shortly after the Iranian elections, we should have a fairly good sense by the end of the year as to whether they are moving in the right direction.” President Obama, May 18, 2009, Washington, D.C.
  2. “The opportunity will not remain open indefinitely.” Secretary Clinton, July 15, 2009, Washington, D.C.
  3. “We are not going to keep the window open forever.” Secretary Clinton, July 22, 2009, Bangkok, Thailand.#more#
  4. “The Iranians may simply try to run out the clock.” Defense Secretary Robert Gates, July 27, 2009.
  5. “Our patience is not infinite. We’re not willing to let this go on forever.” State Department spokesman Ian Kelly, September 14, 2009, Washington, D.C.
  6. “If Iran does not take steps in the near future to live up to its obligations, then the United States will not continue to negotiate indefinitely. . . . Our patience is not unlimited.” President Obama, October 1, 2009, Washington, D.C.
  7. “We are in what we hope is an intensive diplomatic phase now. It will not be open-ended.” Senior U.S. official, October 1, 2009, Geneva, Switzerland.

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The Disgraceful Exit of Eric Holder: Bob Owens
The Brute-Force Left: Kevin D. Williamson
Something Wicked This Way Comes: Erick Erickson

Obama Hints Illegal Immigration Will Drown Conservatism: DC
Vaccination Rates Among Immigrants Are a Legitimate Concern: CIS
The Democratic Majority That Emerged — And Disappeared: Michael Barone

Obama calls murdered Jews just ‘a bunch of folks’ shot ‘in a deli’: Twitchy
Lying Obama "Smacks" Netanyahu During Presser With Merkel: Lid
Why Did Biden and Kerry Meet With Netanyahu’s Political Rival?: Tammy Bruce

David Brock resigns from a pro-Hillary PAC as only David Brock can: Moe Lane
Bobby Jindal Versus the Lily-Livered: Leon H. Wolf
Jeb Bush: If you like your borders you can keep your borders: RS

Economy

Illinois’ GOP governor goes about dismantling state union’s power: Hot Air
GOP FCC Member Warns Net Neutrality is Not Neutral: Breitbart
Southern California Edison Workers Just More H-1B Roadkill: CIS

Scandal Central

9/11 Link To Saudi Arabia Is Topic Of 28 Redacted Pages In Government Report: Jamie Reno
Why are a bunch of “3 letter agencies” gathering intel on gun owners?: Dave Dolbee
Bergdahl report held hostage: Evan Buetow and Cody Full

Climate & Energy

'Breathtaking' adjustments to Arctic temperature record: Breitbart
Phony CIA Agent Pulled Off a ‘Scam’ to Impose Environmental Regulations: Kevin Mooney
Arrogant statism of global warming fanatics: Daniel J. Mitchell

Media

New York Times ruthlessly attacks someone named "Mr. Scott", who they say is Governor of Wisconsin: Don Surber
Brian Williams and the God Complex: Ken Auletta
JW Exposes Another NBC Scandal Days Before Brian Williams Debacle: JW

Brand New Information on Grover Norquist’s Palestinian Connection: Lee Stranahan
Mark Levin: ‘The Supreme Court is out of freaking control!’: Scoop
How to Make Sense of an Incoherent America: Victor Davis Hanson

Black Panther leader trains with police, has a change of heart: LI
Democrat Imbeciles Who Babble About Income Inequality Spotted at Grammys Red Carpet: JWF
OF COURSE: Obama blames media for ‘misleading’ polarization: Scoop

World

It’s happening again: Blue Force Tracker
President Compares Islam to Christianity: Dennis Prager
Bibi to Dems: Boycott all you want. I’m still giving the speech on Iran: Scoop

How To Commit Random Acts Of Obama: W. James Antle III
U Cal Student Gov’t votes to divest from most of world, including U.S.: LI
Greek FinMin Warns "Euro Will Collapse If Greece Exits", Italy Is Next: ZH

US kills Islamic State's deputy emir for 'Khorasan province' in airstrike: report: Bill Roggio
Hacker Group Anonymous Strikes First Blow Against ISIS: Yehuda Remer
Bob Woodward: There Is "No Strategy" To Defeat ISIS, WH "Micromanaging" War: RCP

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Measles, Vaccines and Autism: Thomas Sowell
Congress Looking Into White House’s Role in FCC’s Net Neutrality Regulations: WFB
Apple Watch isn’t out yet, and already it’s being banned from exam halls: Luke Dormehl

Cornucopia

Vote For Your Favorite Next NBC Nightly News Reader: MOTUS
Leaked Data From 30,000 Swiss Bank Accounts Reveals Mass Tax Avoidance: Gizmodo
“Ville Gagnée!”–The Crusaders Were Our Kin: John Derbyshire

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QOTD: "When future generations look back on the global-warming scare of the past 30 years, nothing will shock them more than the extent to which the official temperature records – on which the entire panic ultimately rested – were systematically “adjusted” to show the Earth as having warmed much more than the actual data justified.

Two weeks ago, under the headline “How we are being tricked by flawed data on global warming”, I wrote about Paul Homewood, who, on his Notalotofpeopleknowthat blog, had checked the published temperature graphs for three weather stations in Paraguay against the temperatures that had originally been recorded. In each instance, the actual trend of 60 years of data had been dramatically reversed, so that a cooling trend was changed to one that showed a marked warming.

This was only the latest of many examples of a practice long recognised by expert observers around the world – one that raises an ever larger question mark over the entire official surface-temperature record." --Christopher Booker