Wednesday, February 18, 2015

What does this weird hand sign flashed by President Obama mean?

Is this hand sign, flashed by President Obama at the recent U.S.-African Leaders Summit, just a random gesture? Or does it have a deeper meaning?


As Burleigh explains:

The Canary in the Coal Mine

By Alan Caruba

I read Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s recent call to European Jews to move to Israel in the wake of the attacks in Paris and in Copenhagen. “Israel is your home. We are preparing and calling for the absorption of mass immigration from Europe,” was Netanyahu’s message to those considering leaving their home nations.

By 2012 about 43% of the world’s Jewish community lived in Israel, making it the country with the largest Jewish population. The bulk of the rest of the world’s Jewish population lives in the United States and the remainder are scattered among other nations.  

When it declared its sovereignty in 1948 Israel quickly filled with Jewish immigrants from the surrounding Arab nations that made it clear they were not welcome even if their families had lived there for generations. Now they are extending their hatred to Arab Christians.

These days Israel’s population numbers 7,821,850. For years Israel has been welcoming Jewish immigrants from nations that include Russia, Ethiopia, Ukraine, and France; even some from the U.S. As incidences of anti-Semitism increase in Europe, Netanyahu’s invitation is being answered by more Jews seeking a respite from the hatred they are encountering.


SMART POWER: Egyptian Government Outraged That White House Hosted Muslim Brotherhood Terrorists

The peerless Middle East Media Research Institute, better known as MEMRI, serves up another major story certain to be ignored by our betters in legacy media. To wit: the government of one-time ally Egypt is outraged that the Obama administration is fomenting civil unrest -- again -- in that country by propping up the Nazi-aligned terror group known as the Muslim Brotherhood.

Please consider "Egypt: U.S. State Dept. Hosting Muslim Brotherhood a Slap In The Face Of War On Terror":

Several members of the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) recently reported on their social media accounts that a delegation of MB members had visited the U.S. State Department on January 27, 2015 and met with officials from the State Department and White House... According to the MB reports, the purpose of the meeting was to recruit support for their opposition to the 'Abd Al-Fattah Al-Sisi regime in Egypt.

On its part, the American administration was embarrassed by the publication of the visit, but openly acknowledged it a few days later. State Department Spokesperson Jen Psaki said that the MB members were part of a larger delegation that included former Egyptian MPs, among others, and that they are not currently active in the movement. She added that State Department meetings with various political elements were routine. The Egyptian regime, outraged by the visit, accused the U.S. administration of not respecting the Egyptian law that defines the MB as a terrorist organization, and of discounting the will of the Egyptian people. It also claimed that this conduct flies in the face of U.S. policy, which champions the struggle against global terrorism. Criticism of the U.S. was also voiced in the official Egyptian press and in the Saudi press.The fact that the reports on the visit coincided with the January 31 large-scale terrorist attack in Al-'Arish, in which 31 people were killed and which the Egyptian regime and media attributed to the MB, only increased the rage towards the U.S...

Larwyn's Linx: Who Ya Gonna Believe? Us or Your Own Severed Head?

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Nation

Who Ya Gonna Believe? Us or Your Own Severed Head?: Mark Steyn
State Dept. blames uptick in ritual human sacrifices on unemployment: Moe Lane
Marie Harf and Those She Represents are Damn Naive Fools: Erick Erickson

The ‘Jobs For Jihad Delinquents’ Program: Michelle Malkin
Pelosi leads House delegation to totalitarian slave state of Cuba: Cristina Marcos
Virginia Dems Run Away From Vote to Support Israel: WFB

5 Key Findings From The Injunction Blocking Obama's Amnesty: Conn Carroll
They Will Continue Lying to You, Forever: Ace
Obama family's separate weekend trips trips cost at least $2.5m: DailyMail

How Much Else Was Missed?: Erick Erickson
Shame: Walter Williams
Anti-gun kook David Malik arrested at airported with gun: Clash

Economy

End H-1B visa program's abuse: LAT
Great Moments in Lobbying: Coyote
NLRB changes accelerate the union election process: Beth Slagle

Scandal Central

Obama is the “Greatest Enemy of Press Freedom in a Generation” – NYT Reporter James Risen: Sooper
Oregon Democrats John Kitzhaber And Kate Brown Share Much in Common: 5440
HHS extends Obamacare deadline for some enrollees after computer glitch and long waits: DailyMail

Media

NYT: Iraqi WMD existed and the CIA bought them: RS
Left winger guns down Muslims, the left blames white people: RS
Comedian David Axelrod claims Obama White House hasn't had a major scandal: Breitbart

Top 10 Astroturfers: Sharyl Attkisson
Black Muslim Commits Hate Crime, WaPo Writes It Up As An Anti-Muslim Hate Crime: VDARE
Marcus Luttrell Explains How Many Marines It Would Take to Take Down All Of ISIS: IJR

World

Challenge antisemitism (Deutsche Welle): Elder of Ziyon
Iran's Views of Jews and the U.S.: Lawrence A. Franklin, Gatestone
Italy Mobilizes 5,000-Strong Military Force to Fight ISIS in Libya: Breitbart

Is Israel the Problem, or Are Jews the Problem?: Ben Shapiro
Islam As A Victim Civilization: Mona Charen
Step One: Identify the Enemy: Springer

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Cometh the Censor: Fred on Everything
Destroying your hard drive is the only way to stop this super-advanced malware: Jeremy Kirk
Neuroscientists Discover ESP — But Is That A Good Thing?: Steven Kotler

Cornucopia

“Who Dealt This Mess Anyway?”: MOTUS
Sean Connery and Burt Reynolds return to Celebrity Jeopardy: SNL40/Mediate
Fifty Shades of Government: a fact-based romantic comedy: Cube

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QOTD: "It is quite possible that, by the time Obama leaves office, no other country on Earth will have gained quite so much as Iran. . . . The United States is changing the terms of its relations with Iran and triggering a strengthening of that country economically and politically." --David Rothkopf

Tuesday, February 17, 2015

The most important article about ISIS you will read this year

Kudos to Graeme Wood of The Atlantic, whose tour de force backgrounder on the burgeoning Caliphate in the Middle East ("What ISIS Really Wants") is the kind of journalism that vintage media should engage in, but never does.

The entire article is an absolute must-read, but a digest version -- summarizing the key graphs -- is excerpted below. It's a very short-form version of Graeme's work, which you simply must read when you have the time to fully absorb it. The gravity of his findings cannot be overstated.


[ISIS] seized Mosul, Iraq, last June, and already rules an area larger than the United Kingdom. Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi has been its leader since May 2010, but until last summer, his most recent known appearance on film was a grainy mug shot from a stay in U.S. captivity at Camp Bucca during the occupation of Iraq. Then, on July 5 of last year, he stepped into the pulpit of the Great Mosque of al-Nuri in Mosul, to deliver a Ramadan sermon as the first caliph in generations—upgrading his resolution from grainy to high-definition, and his position from hunted guerrilla to commander of all Muslims. The inflow of jihadists that followed, from around the world, was unprecedented in its pace and volume, and is continuing.


Our ignorance of the Islamic State is in some ways understandable: It is a hermit kingdom; few have gone there and returned. Baghdadi has spoken on camera only once. But his address, and the Islamic State’s countless other propaganda videos and encyclicals, are online, and the caliphate’s supporters have toiled mightily to make their project knowable. We can gather that their state rejects peace as a matter of principle; that it hungers for genocide; that its religious views make it constitutionally incapable of certain types of change, even if that change might ensure its survival; and that it considers itself a harbinger of—and headline player in—the imminent end of the world...

WHAT COULD GO WRONG? U.S. Expects to Quadruple the Number of Syrian Refugees Imported into U.S.

In his bestselling book America Alone, the brilliant Mark Steyn summarized the challenges inherent in trying to integrate the West with a political ideology masked as religion.

Though there are many trouble spots around the world, as a general rule it's easy to make an educated guess at one of the participants: Muslims vs Jews in "Palestine", Muslims vs Hindus in Kashmir, Muslims vs Christians in Africa, Muslims vs Buddhists in Thailand, Muslims vs Russians in the Caucasus, Muslims vs backpacking tourists in Bali, Muslims vs Danish cartoonists in Scandinavia. The environmentalists may claim to think globally but act locally, but these guys live it.

With that as background, please consider "U.S. Expects to Quadruple the Number of Syrian Refugees Brought Here."

The United States has "a long tradition of welcoming refugees," and it expects to welcome thousands more of them from Syria in 2015 and 2016, despite concerns about foreign fighters, the State Department said.

"The United States has admitted 524 Syrians since 2011. We’re likely to admit 1,000 to 2,000 Syrian refugees for permanent resettlement in Fiscal Year 2015 and a somewhat higher number, though still in the low thousands, in Fiscal Year 2016," spokeswoman Jen Psaki told reporters on Friday.

...Psaki repeated that "one of our values is bringing in and welcoming refugees who have fled horrors around the world, and that continues to be central to what we believe in."

In response to a question, Psaki said she's aware of only "two incidents" involving "two Iraqis" who were admitted to Kentucky and were later accused of trying to send weapons and money to al Qaida in Iraq.

Far be it from me to challenge the genius of the Hillary/Kerry State Department, but one wonders whether Psaki needs a fungo-sized konk in the noggin from our legendary clue-bat.

According to State Department spokeserson Marie Harf, ISIS can be stopped in its tracks with a unique military strategy: offering the burgeoning Caliphate members entry-level jobs. Say, changing oil at JiffyLube or refilling the troughs buffets at Golden Corral.

Of course, an accurate representation of ISIS' goals would require candor and resolve, which is why you'll never hear a peep about any of that from the most transparent administration evah.


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Larwyn's Linx: Federal judge blocks Obama's Amnesty order

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Nation

Texas Federal Court Enjoins Obama Immigration Executive Action: William A. Jacobson
Judge Grants Texas Governor’s Request to Halt Obama’s Amnesty Order: Sooper
Federal judge blocks Obama immigration order: Chron

What ISIS Really Wants: Graeme Wood
Stunning: Barack Obama Refused to Share ISIS Intel With Egypt and Jordan: Sara Noble
Bob Schieffer: Jordan Responds To ISIS, Obama Fundraises: S&L

Democrats’ ‘Blue Wall’ not Impregnable to GOP—If They’re Smart: Michael Barone
$50 Million Wasted? How 17 Conservative PACs Spent Their Money: John Hawkins
Successful companies don’t kill their customers: Watchdog

State Dept: We can’t stop ISIS by killing them, we need to give them jobs: YC
The enemy within: Cold Fury
President Obama, America’s Nero: Cal Thomas

Economy

Watch Pregnant Woman Smoke And Brag About Stealing Foodstamps: BlurBrain
Union mob protests in front of Gov. Scott Walker’s parents’ home: Twitchy
IBEW Feels Wrath of Sheet Metal Workers’ Union For Crossing Picket Line: LUR

Scandal Central

REPOST: “The Benghazi Brief”: With Updates: Treehouse
72-Year-Old-Man Facing 10 Years In Prison Over Antique Pistol in Christie-Land: Surge
GOP cools on Loretta Lynch: The Hill

Climate & Energy

Fixing the EPA: Josh Gelernter
Another Of Obama’s “Green Energy” Projects Dies, Leaving Taxpayers $88 Million In The Hole: Hideout
Bill Nye Pleads With MSNBC: More Climate Hysteria, Please!: NB

Media

Bush Lied? NY Times Admits Now That Saddam Did Have WMD: BlurBrain
By 3-1 Margin, Scholars Rank Obama As One Of The Worst Presidents In History: Robert Gehl
It’s Time For The Firearms Freedom Act Of 2015: Bob Owens

Bringing Reality Back to an Ivy League-Suffocated Government: Ed Driscoll
New York Times Screws Up Hit Piece on Scott Walker, Embarrasses Itself Instead: Sooper
Krauthammer’s Take: ISIS Is ‘Genocidal Movement Akin to Nazism’: NRO

World

Analysis: Proposed Nuke Deal Dangerously Reduces Iran’s Breakout Time: The Tower
Enemies of the West Find a Friend in Obama: Quin Hillyer
"Look at that – it's the first time I've ever seen such a thing.": TR

Beyond nuclear: The increasing threat from Iran: Frederick W. Kagan
History repeating as Iran exports terrorism: Hossein Abedini
Islamic Bloc Meets to Discuss Terrorism, But First Condemns Israel: CNS

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Student develops cream that can remove your regrettable tattoo: Ryan Whitwam
The Great Bank Heist, or Death by 1,000 Cuts?: Brian Krebs
How “omnipotent” hackers tied to NSA hid for 14 years—and were found at last: Dan Goodin

Cornucopia

Obama accidentally draws a picture of Mohammed: Cube
So Much To Cave On...So Little Time: Springer
George R. R. Martin: Game Of Thrones Will Kill Characters Who Didn’t Die In the Books: The Mary Sue

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QOTD: "Rumors are [that] the [NBC] network may be looking to hire a new anchorman. Job description:

• Ability to read teleprompter;
• Can lie with air of contemplative concern;
• Harvard degree preferred.

Hey, I’ve got the perfect guy!" --Matt Barber

Monday, February 16, 2015

Democrats Freaking Out as Obamacare Tax-Penalty-Fee-Fines Loom for Millions of Americans

Well, I'll be damned.

Who could have predicted that 2,500 pages of law and 50,000 pages of regulations -- that not one person read in toto -- would turn out to be a complete cluster?

The official sign-up season for President Barack Obama's health care law may be over, but leading congressional Democrats say millions of Americans facing new tax penalties deserve a second chance.

Three senior House members strongly urged the administration Monday to grant a special sign-up opportunity for uninsured taxpayers who will be facing fines under the law for the first time this year.

The three are Michigan's Sander Levin, the ranking Democrat on the Ways and Means Committee, and Democratic Reps. Jim McDermott of Washington, and Lloyd Doggett of Texas. All worked to help steer Obama's law through rancorous congressional debates from 2009-2010.

How many people are alive because one man ignored Sonic's request to leave his handgun at home?

By AWR Hawkins

On February 8 2015, a customer who ignored Sonic’s request that “customers refrain from bringing guns to the restaurant” was able to pull his gun and shoot one of three alleged armed robbers, killing him and stopping the would-be robbery.

I previously reported that on May 30, 2014, Sonic asked law-abiding citizens to come to the restaurant unarmed. We also reported that a Sonic in Topeka, Kansas, was robbed the very day that customers were asked to come and eat while defenseless.

But on February 8 2015, the tables were turned. Atlanta’s NBC 11 reports that 23-year-old Joseph Toombs “was waiting in line at the drive-thru [in DeKalb County, Georgia,] when he saw three suspects approach him on foot.” Toombs alleges that “at least one of the suspects” had a gun.

Kamikaze Nation

By Lawrence Sellin

The United States is under direct and sustained attack by the combined forces of the tyrannical far left and radical Islam, punctuated by humiliation abroad and despair at home.

We are losing because unlike Walter Mitty, whose delusions were confined to his own head, Barack Obama has been permitted to play out his most destructive leftist and pro-Islamic fantasies in real-time from the most powerful office on the planet.

Obama behaves like a dictator not just because he is a narcissist, but because his political beliefs are, at their core, authoritarian. He represents a perfect anti-American storm, the amalgamation of twin totalitarian ideologies, Marxist-Leninism and Islamic extremism, both dedicated to the destruction of Judeo-Christian civilization.

Obama cannot counter threats from abroad because he is sympathetic to them, while simultaneously pursuing domestic policies that generate economic malaise, fiscal bankruptcy, and social chaos; conditions that undermine American democracy and are the foundation of his fundamental transformation of the country.

Obama would not be a problem, nor would he even be President, if we did not have a hopelessly corrupt political-media culture.

Larwyn's Linx: More Obamacare victims noticing that they’re gonna be on the hook to the IRS

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Nation

More Obamacare victims noticing that they’re on the hook to the IRS: Moe Lane
What Actually Causes American Fear of Islam and Muslims?: Daniel Pipes
CAIR Defends ISIS, Says Calling Them “Islamic Savages” Is “Hate Rhetoric”: WZ

The Reckoning: Victor Davis Hanson
Vox Obama: Rich Lowry
Boehner: House did its job under Constitution, any shutdown on Democrats: Scoop

The Anti-Semitism We Never Talk About: David Hazony
Regarded as Sheep to be Slaughtered: Erick Erickson
Who Are These “Violent Extremists” Obama Keeps Talking About?: CHQ

When Does a Threat to the Homeland Become "Existential"?: Dan Cadman
Bill’s libido threatens to derail Hillary — again: Maureen Callahan
Opponents of Article V Convention echo DC politicians and lobbyists: Todd Wolfrum

Economy

Sky High Debt Makes College Grads Live With Parents: David Ticzon
This African Country Was Once World’s 3rd Poorest; How It Turned Around: Ed Frank
How the Welfare State Penalizes Parents Who Marry: Robert Rector

Climate & Energy

U.N. Official Reveals Real Reason Behind Warming Scare: IBD
The Scorching of California by the Green Radical Left: Victor Davis Hanson
Is New York’s Snow Hurricane Tied to California’s Drought?: LI

Media

The War on Free Speech, Day In, Day Out: Mark Steyn
‘American Sniper’ Chris Kyle’s Widow Talks About Facing Valentine’s Day Without Him: WZ
Call Off the Dogs: Maureen Dowd

The Walker-Stupid, Obama-Genius Myth: Jack Cashill
(Lack Of) Truth And Consequences: Derek Hunter
Hijacking in progress! Check out these hilarious #ILoveObama tweets from conservatives: Twitchy

World

Why the (toothless) Iran sanctions bill matters: Daniel Pipes
ISIS Appears To Be Threatening To Burn Cage Filled With Children: WZ
Omar El-Hussein, Copenhagen Terrorist, Freed from Jail 2 Weeks Before Attack: Daniel Greenfield

The Morning After: Mark Steyn
Islam as a threat doctrine: Admiral (Ret) James Lyons
ISIS Releases Video of 21 Christians Being Beheaded in Libya: Sooper

As the war in Ukraine rages, civilians fight to survive: Valentyn Onyshchenko
Sweden: Rape Capital of the West: Ingrid Carlqvist and Lars Hedegaard
Two men arrested in connection with Copenhagen attacks: LAT

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

LG is bringing a stylish new smartwatch to MWC: AndroidAuthority
Cybercriminal gang plunders up to $1 billion from banks over two years: Jeremy Kirk, CIO
Should We Be Trying to Make Contact with Extraterrestrials?: Darren Orf

Cornucopia

Never forget; never remember: LL101
Bibi Ad Shows ISIS Asking Directions to Jerusalem: WS
America’s Greatest Fear: Keeping Up With the Jones: MOTUS

Image: Copenhagen attacks: Suspect killed by police linked to criminal gangs
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QOTD: "Don’t do this to a people that are in the crosshairs of multiple terrorist groups with the capability of attacking them. Don’t do this to a nation whose civilians are terrorized by thousands of rockets launched against them at a moment’s notice. Don’t do this to a country that’s facing down the threat of a nuclear weapon annihilating them off the face of the Earth. Don’t do this to a people that are being stigmatized all over the world, even as we speak, who are being oppressed. Don’t do this to a country that in forum after forum has become the subject of de-legitimatization as people argue that somehow Israel’s right to exist is not real." --Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL)

Sunday, February 15, 2015

Misunderstanderers of Islam may be preparing to set fire to a cage full of "infidel" children

Because crusades.

Weasel Zippers reports that this was tweeted out from an apparent ISIS-related account:


But I guess this is just another case of a bunch of folks who are random victims of zealots, right, Mr. President?

Update: The Right Planet has more information on this picture. It's unclear whether it's a simulated protest or something real, but rest assured the President is on it, just like he was on "#BringBackOurGirls."

Update II: "ISIS Releases Video of 21 Christians Being Beheaded in Libya."


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Boston Logan Shuttered Again Due to Global Warming and Six Feet of Snow, But Mostly Six Feet of Snow

Six feet of snow in about two weeks?


As the founder of the Weather Channel said not long ago, "global warming [is] the greatest scam in history."


Larwyn's Linx: Rubio to Democrats: Don’t Boycott Netanyahu Speech

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Nation

Rubio to Democrats: Don’t Boycott Netanyahu Speech: LI
Copenhagen attacks and Western mixed messages: Commentator
House conservatives push McConnell to gut filibuster: Cristina Marcos

Washington Post Offers Up Five Myths Of Islamic Radicalization: William Teach
Must-see: Gingrich exposes radical Islam and its apologists: Israpundit
Expert: FBI ‘neutered’ by Muslim Brotherhood: Creeping

The Open Jihad: John Robb
Levin: Let's Talk About Biden, Kennedy, Gore, Kerry in College: Ian Hanchett
Texas GOP Rep: Obama ‘Deserves Impeachment’: DC

We Need A Cowboy, Not A Community Organizer: Average Joe
The Fall of the Southern Poverty Law Center: Rick Jensen
BATFE To Ban Common AR-15 Ammo: NRA

Economy

Illegal Aliens Could Get $24,000 in Taxpayer-Funded 'Amnesty Bonuses': TR
Another Artifact of Obamacare: Mish
Cornell students erupt over health care fee: Fox

Scandal Central

Why Did Obama’s FBI Just Release Chicago Bomb Plotter and Narco-Terrorist Emad Karakrah?: Publius
Video Of Obama Narcissistic Selfies, Shot On Same Day Kayla Mueller’s Death Is Announced: WZ
ATF proposes expanding ammo bans: David Codrea

Climate & Energy

Dem Billionaire Tom Steyer Has Deep Ties To The Oregon Green Scandal: WZ
It’s Too Cold To Protest Global Warming At Yale: DC
Why I So Totally Love Being Called a 'Climate Denier': James Delingpole

Media

Black Grievance Month Gets Off to Delicious Start: Colin Flaherty
Death, Taxes, and Anacondas: Theodore Dalrymple
Halal and kosher food cart vendors argue over city streets: Post

World

One Dead, 3 Shot at Denmark Forum; Shooters Yelled In Arabic Before Attack: Sooper
Second Shooting Outside Synagogue Rocks Copenhagen; Police: Not Safe To Be Outside: WZ
Copenhagen Free Speech Meeting Leaves One Dead, Others Injured – Muslim Cartoonist Targeted: Treehouse

Third Shooting In Copenhagen, This Time, Police Kill Shooter: WZ
Copenhagen Victim: Jewish Community Member Guarding Synagogue During Bat-Mitzva: Algemeiner
Secret Iranian weapon supply unit revealed: JPost

ISIS Parades 17 Kurdish Fighters In Cages Through City, ‘To Be Burned Alive’: WZ
Muslims Planned to Stab Blondes in the Kidneys in Foiled Aussie Jihad Plot: WAW
Why can't Britain see the real problem with the NHS?: Commentator

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Infoporn: Proof That the FDA Isn’t Protecting Americans’ Health: Nick Stockton
Making water a renewable resource: Ars Technica
FBI really doesn’t want anyone to know about “stingray” use by local cops: Cyrus Farivar

Cornucopia

Everyone Lies About Foreign Relations: MOTUS
Onward Christian Blamers: 90 Miles
REPORT: Mayweather And Pacquiao Have Agreed To Blockbuster Fight Worth $250 Million: Uproxx

Image: Gunman maybe inspired by Paris attacks: police
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QOTD: "Note the backdrop of [Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu's] speech: ISIS burns a Jordanian pilot alive, and the president declares that American Christians have to get off their “high horse”; the president declares an attack on a kosher deli in Paris to be “random,” and ISIS executes an American hostage. Now the Democrats and the White House are declaring that this is what they really deem intolerable and unacceptable." --Jim Geraghty

Saturday, February 14, 2015

Why you haven't heard anything about the killer of Muslims in NC

By Roger Aronoff

Was the brutal murder of three Muslims in North Carolina this week a case of “random violence,” or were the three targeted because of their Muslim faith? And why, of all the murders committed across the country this week, did these three grab so much national media attention? The FBI has now joined the investigation.

Perhaps the lessons learned from Jared Lee Loughner’s shooting of former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords in Arizona in January of 2011 could inform the answers to these questions, and serve as a reminder of the dangers of biased reporting on murder cases. But, unfortunately, the mainstream media continue to perpetuate a confusing double standard when it comes to reporting on the deaths of innocents.

Why, for example, did the deaths of three Muslims in Chapel Hill, North Carolina gain traction at The Washington Post, Reuters, and many other media outlets which speculated that it was a possible hate crime, while this black teen murdering a white classmate and taking a selfie with the corpse didn’t receive anywhere near the same treatment? And what about the murders occurring in Chicago every day? Don’t those deserve headlines, and candlelight vigils too?

“However, I do think it’s fair to say that attributing political motives to individual killings is much more of a phenomenon on the left than on the right,” argues Mark Hemingway for The Weekly Standard in a column regarding the recent execution-style shootings of Deah Barakat, Yusor Mohammad Abu-Salha, and her sister Razan Mohammad Abu-Salha.

The alleged shooter, Craig Stephen Hicks, liked the “Huffington Post, Rachel Maddow, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), Freedom from Religion Foundation, Bill Nye ‘The Science Guy,’ Neil deGrasse Tyson, Gay Marriage groups and similar progressive pages” on Facebook, notes Hemingway. Maddow didn’t mention any of that on her show when talking about the incident.

Hicks displayed a habit of posting snarky pictures with slogans like, “Democrats aren’t perfect but at least they haven’t been shoving poor Jesus up my c—ch and Ronald Reagan down my throat.” Another picture he promoted reads, “So Rick Santorum thinks that when people get educated they stop believing in God? Best advertisement for Atheism I’ve ever heard.”

THIS CHART TELLS THE STORY: The Middle Class Thrived After World War II... Until Obama

By Mac Slavo

The Davos World Economic Summit has long been a parade for the insider agenda, putting the power players’ plans for the world’s economies on display as a preview to their playing out for the rest of the year.

But so far, the 2015 elite retreat in the Swiss Alps has proven to be full of apprehension, and even horror… with many of its own members expressing regret at the world they have built.

The Guardian reported:

The billionaires and corporate oligarchs meeting in Davos this week are getting worried about inequality… even the architects of the crisis-ridden international economic order are starting to see the dangers. It’s not just the maverick hedge-funder George Soros, who likes to describe himself as a class traitor. Paul Polman, Unilever chief executive, frets about the “capitalist threat to capitalism”. Christine Lagarde, the IMF managing director, fears capitalism might indeed carry Marx’s “seeds of its own destruction” and warns that something needs to be done.

The scale of the crisis has been laid out for them by the charity Oxfam. Just 80 individuals now have the same net wealth as 3.5 billion people – half the entire global population. Last year, the best-off 1% owned 48% of the world’s wealth, up from 44% five years ago. On current trends, the richest 1% will have pocketed more than the other 99% put together next year. The 0.1% have been doing even better, quadrupling their share of US income since the 1980s.

These billionaires are not concerned with a fair or truly equitable world, of course. But they may well be concerned about having pushed the system beyond the brink, and triggering global collapse or unrest as a result of things gone way too far.

On top of a bloated super-surveillance police state that is still expanding in the age of Big Data and continuing terrorism, it is a “wealth grab on a grotesque scale” that has stood out the most in 2015.

In 2015, it has become obvious that inequality has become just plain cynical, unsettling and, perhaps, downright revolutionary… and even the insulated, egocentric billionaires have taken notice.

Fun with Google Trends

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UNBELIEVABLE: Obamnesty Extended to Allow In Relatives Of Illegals

By Peter Brimelow

Senator Jeff Sessions‘ statement on new USCIS “guidelines” allowing amnestied illegal immigrants to bring in relatives:

“One of the President’s most shocking unilateral actions is his chain migration program for the relatives of illegal immigrants. Guidance issued yesterday from USCIS declares that many illegal immigrants’ foreign relatives may legally join them in the U.S. Under this decree, the Administration is allowing the Central American relatives of those covered by the President’s amnesty order to come to the U.S. as ‘refugees’ or ‘parolees.’

In effect, the President’s answer to the ongoing run on the border is to order government officials to transport many of those same individuals from Central America into the U.S. with lawful paperwork and guaranteed access to federal benefits.

This government-ordered amnesty chain migration will impose enormous costs on federal taxpayers and jobseekers, as those who arrive as refugees will be able to receive automatic federal benefits. We must be taking action to reduce the incentive to enter the country illegally. Helping illegal immigrants bring their relatives here as refugees only provides further incentive for illegal immigration. More broadly, we must be taking steps to curb the flow of unskilled labor and help families already living here—whether past immigrants or U.S.-born—find good jobs, good schools, and thriving communities.”

[NOTE: The U.S. currently admits 1 million permanent immigrants each year along with 70,000 refugees and asylees. According to Gallup, Americans want to see record immigration reduced, not increased, by a 2-1 margin.]

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Emphases added. As far as I can see, this story has been picked up nowhere in the MSM.


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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
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: BadBlue Gun News

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.