Monday, February 23, 2015

GREAT JOB, GOV. KASICH: More than two-thirds of Ohio's "Obamacare enrollees" are actually on Medicaid

By Jason Hart

More than two thirds of the Ohioans insured under Obamacare are covered by the law’s optional Medicaid expansion.

A total of 234,507 Ohioans have selected a private insurance policy through the federally run Obamacare exchange at HealthCare.gov, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services reported Wednesday.

As of January, enrollment in Ohio Gov. John Kasich’s Obamacare Medicaid expansion was 492,121. For every Ohioan choosing an Obamacare exchange plan, two have enrolled in the Obamacare Medicaid expansion.

Millions of private health insurance policies nationwide were canceled as a result of Obamacare, but state and federal officials have not disclosed how many of the Ohioans covered under Obamacare were previously insured.

Because Medicaid reimbursement rates to care providers are so low, nearly 40 percent of Ohio State Medical Association doctors surveyed last year said they planned to accept fewer Medicaid patients in 2015.

Ohio Medicaid beneficiaries currently pay no premiums, and — assuming they can find a doctor — they receive the same “minimum essential benefits” Obamacare requires for policies sold at HealthCare.gov.

The exchange offers premium subsidies to Ohioans whose income is between 100 and 400 percent of the federal poverty line. Medicaid expansion coverage extends to 138 percent of the poverty line.

Actual exchange enrollment is likely lower than reported by the Obama administration. HHS figures are inflated by including individuals who choose an exchange plan but never pay a premium, Forbes editor and Manhattan Institute senior fellow Avik Roy explained in a Wednesday story.

Larwyn's Linx: Illegal Aliens Unhappy with Shortage of Bilingual Doctors

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Nation

Illegal Aliens Unhappy with Shortage of Bilingual Doctors: Pedro Gonzales
It Doesn’t Matter One Bit What Obama Thinks ‘True Islam’ Is: Andrew C. McCarthy
Barack Obama and Islam: An Ongoing Saga: Daniel Pipes

Somalis in Minnesota are a Terror Threat to Mall of America: Daniel Greenfield
Homeland Security Cautions Americans Shopping at Malls: BuzzPo
DHS Secretary Confirms Need For Regular Concealed Carry: Bob Owens

The Media: When You Attack Obama, You’re Attacking Them: Jay Caruso
Reform Muslims banned from Obama 'Conference on Violent Extremism': AT
Resistance to Islam Has Been Woven Into the Fabric of Our Country: MB

Top Amnesty Advocate Suggests Jeb Better Than Hillary On Amnesty: Breitbart
Rep. Janice Hahn (D, California-44) bails out of Congress: Moe Lane
Big Government and Fat Taxes: RWN

Economy

Bad News: 401(k)s Are Racist, Or Something: WZ
Tell Congress to stop Department of Labor bullying: RS
The gender wage gap myth: Christina Hoff Sommers (2014)

Scandal Central

Despite Court Ruling, Obama still Pushing ahead with Amnesty: RS
Habitat For Humanity Builds Luxury Beach House For NJ Politician: Chris Wysocki
Illegal Aliens Committed 500 Child Sexual Assaults in North Carolina During January: UFP

Climate & Energy

NYT Smears Scientist Willie Soon for Telling the Truth About 'Global Warming': Breitbart
Dangerous cold snap leaves at least 20 dead in U.S. — and it's not over yet: Mashable
Freighter On Lake Erie Overcome With Global Warming: iOTWreport

Media

Ranting About Rudy: Giuliani’s criticism of Obama has sparked fury—because it rings true: Fred Siegel
All the President's Bootlickers: Erick Erickson
“A Tree and Its Fruit”, Gov. Scott Walker and Barack Obama’s Faith: RS

President Franklin Delano Obama Addresses the Threat of 1930s Violent Extremism: Victor Davis Hanson
Obama 6X More Delusional Than Bush – Google Results: Sara Noble
Mail Call From a Leftwing Journalist: Erick Erickson

INSIDERS: AL Sharpton To Be Fired As MSNBC To No Longer Be Leftist Network: WAW
The Oscars are too black: Kevin Jackson
15 of the funniest memes from the Oscars, including Lady Gaga glove-mania: Mark Francescutti

World

Find the ‘Countering Violent Extremism Summit’ at the Intersection of Islamists and Leftists: Andrew C. McCarthy
The Muslim Takeover of West Bengal: Janet Levy
Libya: Islamic State Burns "Non-Islamic" Musical Instruments: Clarion

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Five Best Weather Web Sites: LifeHacker
NBCU research chief: Change in millennial viewing behavior is 'stunning': FierceCable
Lenovo hit with lawsuit over Superfish snafu: Agam Shah, CIO

Cornucopia

Palate cleanser-Feel good story of the day : Ace
What was the most amusing part of Sean Penn’s Oscars green card ‘joke’ kerfuffle?: Twitchy
TOP FIVE WORST THINGS Sean Penn Has Ever Said or Done: GotNews

Image: Urban Onions: 1942
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QOTD: "We should, [Obama] said, be listening to, instead of the terrorists, “Muslim clerics and scholars” who “push back on this twisted interpretation” and assure us “that the Koran says, ‘Whoever kills an innocent, it is as if he has killed all mankind.’”

The Koran does indeed say that, in Sura 5:32. Yet, in the very next verse, conveniently omitted by Obama (5:33), it goes on to say:

The punishment of those who wage war against Allah and His Messenger, and strive with might and main for mischief through the land, is: execution, or crucifixion, or the cutting off of hands and feet from opposite sides, or exile from the land: That is their disgrace in this world, and a heavy punishment is theirs in the hereafter.

That puts a somewhat different cast on the whole “whoever kills an innocent” theme, wouldn’t you say?" --Andrew C. McCarthy

Sunday, February 22, 2015

The 12 Top #JobsForISIS

By Rachel Stoltzfoos

#JobsForISIS was trending nationally this week, after State Department spokesman Marie Harf said the solution to stopping ISIS is not by killing them, but by giving them jobs.

The U.S.-led coalition is killing ISIS members, Harf said Monday night on MSNBC. “But we cannot win this war by killing them. We need to go after the root causes that leads people to join these groups, whether it’s lack of opportunity for jobs, whether …”

MSNBC host Chris Matthews interrupted Harf to point out “there’s always going to be poor Muslims.”

But Harf doubled down, arguing the U.S. should “help them build their economies so they can have job opportunities for these people.”

Here are twelve jobs Twitter users suggest the U.S. offer ISIS to stop them from beheading people:

1. Wal-Mart Greeter

2. Personal trainers

Frantic media try to gin up Scott Walker controversy while refusing to ask serious questions of Democrat candidates

Vintage media, with its foaming-at-the-mouth "attacks" on Scott Walker for his thoroughly uncontroversial remarks regarding Rudy Giuliani, patriotism and Barack Obama, have pointed us to the true GOP front-runner.

How do you know that Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker has taken at least temporary custody of frontrunner status in the race for the GOP presidential nomination in 2016? Beyond, of course, the polls that show him rocketing to the front of the pack in critical early primary states like Iowa? The political press is coming down hard on him and his nascent campaign.

After three unambiguous statewide victories in a Democratic state in just four years, Scott Walker is thoroughly vetted. If there were skeletons in his closet, the media and the myriad opposition researchers scrutinizing his past would have found them by now.

...So, the press has taken a keen interest in catching Walker in unflattering moments or making hash out of otherwise minor controversies... You will perhaps not be surprised to learn that Walker has disqualified himself from serving as the President of the United States twice in less than one week, at least according to the Beltway media ... When the Wisconsin governor was inexplicably asked by The Washington Post whether or not he believed that Barack Obama was a Christian, Walker stepped on a landmine when he answered, “I don’t know.”

Back in the little land I like to call "the part of America not in D.C.", Walker's comments are of no import whatsoever.

That is not the case for three questions every Democrat presidential candidate must be forced to answer, as suggested by William A. Jacobson.

1. Should Joe Biden stop touching women without consent?
2. Is Elizabeth Warren Native American?
3. Is it okay that Bill Clinton participated in [sex/orgy] vacations with a pedophile?

I'm not going to hold my breath waiting for some intrepid reporter (pah!) to broach one of these completely valid and legitimate questions. Instead, we'll have to brace ourselves for more faux controversies as Scott Walker answers "I don't know" to a series of questions about the opinions voiced by other people.


Hat tip: BadBlue News.

Giuliani hits a nerve

By Investor's Business Daily

Leadership: "We are five days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America," candidate Barack Hussein Obama said on Oct. 30, 2008, just before his election as our 44th president. Was it just rhetoric?

Many no doubt thought it was, chalking it up to boilerplate election-eve hot air. But now are we seeing — some would say tragically — what he meant.

Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani is being raked over the coals for saying he doesn't really believe the president loves America, and he probably didn't do himself or the Republican any favors by saying that. Democrats seem to be having a field day with his blunt remark.

But can the case be made? If you love something, do you seek to fundamentally transform it while endlessly summarizing its flaws?

This is the president, after all, who sat for two decades in the pews of Trinity United Church, where the Rev. Jeremiah Wright ranted that we should be saying not "God Bless America" but "God damn America" and that 9/11 was just one of America's chickens "coming home to roost."

The record does not show Obama ever walked out in protest, but it is recorded that Wright married the Obamas, baptized their daughters and is credited with the title to Obama's book, "The Audacity of Hope."

Larwyn's Linx: Why the Left loves Islam

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Nation

Why the Left loves Islam: Matt Bracken
Crying Koch vs. Hillary’s Foreign Sugar Daddies: LI
Poll Reveals The Lawlessness of Democrats : Publius

The End Run: Fred Barnes
Obama On Path To Imperial Presidency: Debra Saunders
Obama: Republicans are trying to 'bamboozle' ordinary Americans: Brian Hughes

Senate Democrats Choosing Illegal Immigrants Over Border Patrol Agents: Signal
The Washington Post played ‘gotcha’ with Scott Walker (and lost): LI
Prices, Paul Krugman, and Consistency: Coyote

Jeb Bush opts to enter the lion’s den at CPAC.: Moe Lane
Awaiting Our Next George Washington: Thomas Purcell
Minneapolis police "officer was the intended target": CNN

Economy

Loophole in immigration law is costing thousands of American jobs: Michael Hiltzik
Naton of Truck Drivers: TBP
Victory for post-Quinn Illinois: Caterpillar to remain in Peoria: Marathon

Scandal Central

Obama kept reform Muslims out of summit on extremism: Charles Hoskinson
Obama’s DHS Warns Right Wing Terror Threat Greater than ISIS, Hamas-CAIR Celebrates: Geller
Marie Harf Wrote Thesis on How Conservative Support for Israel Complicates US Foreign Policy: DC

Climate & Energy

GOP investigates NASA's climate data tampering: DC
A Test Of Nevada's Solar Tower Project Torched Over A Hundred Birds : io9
China’s Torrid Middle Eastern Affair: Rachel Marsden

Media

Henry Reminds Earnest that Obama Called Bush “Unpatriotic”: Keith Koffler
Washington Post Blogger Attempts to Vilify G.O.P. as ‘Islamophobic’: BlurBrain
One School District’s Turmoil Over Illegal Alien Students: Sara Noble

World

Navigating the Iran endgame: Rich Baehr
WaPo Wakes Up, shocked at reality: Extrano's Alley
We are one town away from a proxy war between Russia and the US: James Forsyth

O Beautiful, For Specious Guys...: Mark Steyn
Islam and Norway's Leaking Fish Tank: Bjorn Jansen
Je Suis Brigitte: Brigitte Bardot On Trial Again for Insulting Muslims: VDARE

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

New Google Now card shows gas stations on your route: AndroidAuthority
Strategic Defense: Military Uses of the Moon & Asteroids (1983): Wired
How I helped take a startup from 0 to 40M+ pageviews and got it acquired by Google: TNW

Cornucopia

Funny Or Die? Every vote matters.: MOTUS
'Mr. K,' Datsun pioneer and father of the Z car, dies at 105: Automnews
Closing arguments heard at Arab American Marine's court-martial: David Zucchino

Image: Attn. Marie Harf: Islam Yaken left his middle-class home in Egypt to join the Islamic State in Syria
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QOTD: "The administration's pique over the invitation [of Netanyahu] has carried over to Vice President Joe ‎Biden and Secretary of State John Kerry, both of whom have found some foreign country to visit ‎that day. Of course, the president and the secretary of state will not meet with ‎Netanyahu during his visit, nor will any top ranking official attend the ‎annual American Israel Public Affairs Committee policy conference where Netanyahu will also speak. In conclusion, at this point the ‎administration will meet with Iranian officials at any time, and in any ‎place the Iranians demand, but with Israeli leaders, not at all. ‎" --Rich Baehr

Saturday, February 21, 2015

STUNNING: Huffington Post Lies to Americans; Claims Uncomfortable Facts About Illegal Aliens are Now "Myths"

By CIS

Most economists see immigration policy as a matter of trade-offs. No matter which policy we choose, there will always be winners and losers, and our political values help us decide how to weigh those competing interests. For some advocates of mass immigration, however, there seems to be no recognition of trade-offs at all. They have developed talking points that falsely portray immigration as a win-win for everyone involved.

Take Roque Planas's list of supposed "myths" about immigration recently featured in the Huffington Post. Mr. Planas asserts that, contrary to "myth", immigrants do not actually drive down the wages or decrease job opportunities for native-born workers. It's a strange argument. After all, for those who tout the economic benefits of low-skill immigration, downward wage pressure is a feature, not a bug. Immigrants drive down the prevailing wage, thus decreasing the cost of production and lowering the prices of goods and services. If immigration did not drop the wages of some workers, then costs would not be lowered, natives could not benefit, and one would wonder why Mr. Planas and his allies want to expand immigration at all.

In truth, there is an economic trade-off here: Consumers and owners of capital benefit from low-skill immigration, while low-skill workers suffer. As noted above, how we weigh those competing interests depends on our political values. Pretending the trade-offs do not exist will not help us come to any reasonable conclusions.

BUT... BUT... WARMING: NASA photo captures U.S. record breaking cold and snow from space

Anthony Watts relays this stunning photograph from NASA (yes, the same group fully invested in promoting the global warming fraud) that illustrates the record freeze currently embracing most of the United States.

NASA’s Terra satellite captured an image of the snow-covered eastern U.S. that looks like the states have been sitting in a freezer. In addition to the snow cover, Arctic and Siberian air masses have settled in over the Eastern U.S. triggering many record low temperatures in many states.

On Feb. 19 at 16:40 UTC (11:40 a.m. EST), the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) instrument that flies aboard NASA’s Terra satellite captured a picture of the snowy landscape. The snow cover combined with the frosty air mass made the eastern U.S. feel like the inside of freezer. The MODIS image was created at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

On the morning of Feb. 20, NOAA’s Weather Prediction Center (WPC) noted, “There were widespread subzero overnight lows Thursday night (Feb. 19) extending from Illinois to western Virginia, and numerous record lows were set. Bitterly-cold arctic air is setting numerous temperature records across the eastern U.S. and will keep temperatures well below normal on Friday (Feb. 20).”

If anthropogenic global warming happened to be true (hint: it's not), it would be a good thing since it appears we face a new and impending Ice Age.


"The Only Way You Can Delete This NSA Malware Is to Smash Your Hard Drive to Bits"

A significant report by security vendor Kaspersky Labs reveals a range of highly sophisticated cyberwar tools likely deployed over the last decade by American intel agencies.

Most interesting of all is NLS_933W.DLL, which -- in my view -- represents the "Holy Grail" of malware.

The names called out like beacons from the screen: Samsung; Seagate; Western Digital; Hitachi; Maxtor. Hardware makers were in the crosshairs of the Equation APT group and it was perhaps the worst possible scenario imagined by researchers looking at the frightening and extensive storehouse of capabilities within the attack platform.


By extending its reach into hard drive firmware, for example, this espionage gang had perpetual persistence on compromised machines. No matter of clean-up efforts could scrub module nls_933w.dll from hardware. None.

“This is an ultimate persistence mechanism, and it has the ultimate resilience to removal. This is a next level of persistence never seen before,” said Vitaly Kamluk, principal security researcher with Kaspersky Lab’s Global Research and Analysis Team...

Matthew Braga offers some additional detail:

Larwyn's Linx: The Obama Administration Finally Finds ‘Terrorists’ It Can Hate — You

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Nation

Obama Administration Finally Finds ‘Terrorists’ It Can Hate — You: Michael Walsh
ALERT: DHS still preparing for executive amnesty: LI
Obama to seek emergency order restarting immigration programs: The Hill

Our Secret Weapon In the War with ISIS: Racism: Ace
State Dept.: ‘The Solution To Violent Extremism Begins in Your Community’: Tatler
Terrified Obama Admin Plotting Ways To Undercut Netanyahu’s Visit: WZ

Hillary Clinton Exposed, Part I: Corrupt and Clueless: TBP
The Lost Republic Diaries – Part II: Camp o' the Saints
ATF and EPA quietly working on gun control with ammunition bans: Allen West

Paranoid Much? NYC Municipal ID Law Has ‘Tea Party Destruct’ Clause: JWF
The Ferguson protest movement: Ripe For The Plucking.: RS
Race for Chicago mayor splitting Democrats apart over economic issues: WaPo

Economy

The Economy’s Worst 8-Year Run in 62 Years: Tom Blumer
The End of Public-Employee Unions?: Garrett Epps
Sorry Obama, Harvard study: poor Muslims LESS likely to be terrorists: Scoop

Scandal Central

Obama’s DHS Suddenly Warning That ‘Right-Wing Extremist Groups’ More Dangerous Than Muslims: RWN
Obama Didn’t Invite FBI Chief to ‘Extremism Summit’ But He DID Invite Russia’s Security Chief: RWN
The Bill, Hillary, Chelsea and His Royal Highness King Salman of Saudi Arabia Clinton Foundation: WFB

Climate & Energy

Global Warming Freezes More Ice On Great Lakes Than In All of Recorded History: Ace
120-year-old record low broken in D.C., one of many today and in the past week: WaPo
UN Climate Chief Accused Of Sexual Harassment: Jerome Hudson

Media

Left mad the Right’s noticed that entire ‘ambivalent about America’ thing Obama does: Moe Lane
Soros’ $10 Million Funds Group Slamming Conservative ‘Islamophobia’: MRC
Bill O'Reilly is accused of making up war stories, having his own 'Brian Williams problem': The Week

Mark Levin: Obama ‘No Defender Of Muslims,’ Reads Anne Frank’s Diary Aloud: PPD
Historian Rips Obama’s Claim: ‘Islam Has Been Woven Into the Fabric of Our Country Since Its Founding’: Blaze
Rudy is Right: Ace

World

Why the West is Losing: The XX Committee
Terror Strikes Copenhagen: "It Is the Danes' Fault": Lars Hedegaard
Obama Has Egypt in His Sights Not ISIS: Sara Noble

Iran prepares to attack Northern Israel: James Lewis
Report: Iran has direct military presence on Israel's borders: Hayom
Senators Fuming Over CENTCOM Revealing Mosul Offensive Strategy to Reporters: Tatler

ISIS is Islamic, and Obama’s Failure to See This is a Disaster: Keith Koffler
The Ideological Islamist Threat: WSJ
Islamism and Obama’s Dangerous Flight from Reality: Peter Wehner

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Spies Can Track You Just by Watching Your Phone’s Power Use: Andy Greenberg
The world’s most sophisticated hackers made a surprisingly stupid mistake: Fusion
Watch what castAR's projected augmented reality can do: Engadget

Cornucopia

From Foggy Bottom to Foggy Top: MOTUS
Done deal: Floyd Mayweather will fight Manny Pacquiao on May 2: Kevin Iole
This Is Why, In Short, I REFUSE To Innovate: Karl Denninger

Image: Dubai skyscraper catches fire; no one killed
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QOTD: "Analogies to Adolf Hitler are hazardous, but some appear obvious in the case of Vladimir Putin. In the first place, Hitler was shaped profoundly by the collapse of Imperial Germany in 1918, just as Putin was by the demise of the USSR in 1991. Both men viewed the state they served ambivalently — Hitler wasn’t much of a monarchist and Putin wasn’t a diehard Marxist either — but defeat was a life-changing ordeal that created new political and social realities which, in time, Hitler and Putin exploited masterfully.

From 1918, Hitler took the lesson that Germany needed moral rearmament more than anything else since, in Nazi telling, collapse at the end of the Great War was caused by moral shortcomings more than military defeats. Thus Hitler’s famous line that, though he was a socialist, he had no need to nationalize German factories because “I shall nationalize the people.” Similarly, Putin considers that the sudden implosion of the USSR was not due to economic or military weakness, rather to loss of faith in the Soviet system. Such a withering away of national morale, and therefore of the state itself, is something Putin will not have happen on his watch. Hence the emphasis on nationalism, unity, propaganda, and religious imagery to bind citizens to the state — which makes a better motivator of average Russians than Marxism-Leninism ever was — as in venerable Muscovite tradition.

Also like Hitler did in the mid-1930’s, Putin in a few months has managed to overturn European diplomacy, through clever and cautious use of force, remaking it in his own, tough image (though Berlin, Paris, and Washington, DC, haven’t quite realized this yet). By re-writing the rule-book of international relations, recasting it in terms of force and will, Hitler and Putin alike created a new diplomatic reality, despite their own weakness, that bears little resemblance to the happy never-never-land of conferences, summits, heated debates over beef subsidies, and cocktail parties that polite Europeans thought constituted statecraft. That naive vision has been steamrolled by the Kremlin over the past year, as surely as Ukrainian volunteers have been crushed under Russian tank treads." --The XX Committee

Friday, February 20, 2015

Virginia Dem Party Chair Arrested for Trying to Hire Hit Man to Kill Girls He Molested

By Warner Todd Huston


The former Chairman of the Falls Church, Virginia Democrat Party who has been charged with sexually molesting two young girls is now also accused of trying to hire a hit man to kill the young girls before they could tell police their story.

Loudoun County prosecutors say that Democrat Michael Gardner, who is about to stand trial for the molestation charges, tried to find a hit man while in prison.

In a letter, received by authorities last month, the inmate told Gardner that he knew someone who could “help with ._._. the ‘3 problems’ you have pre-trial,” according to a motion filed by the prosecution on Thursday, allegedly referring to the two girls and a unspecified third issue. The letter was sent from the inmate in response to “multiple and specific conversations” Gardner allegedly had with the inmate, according to court papers.

Loudoun County prosecutor Nicole Wittmann said she did not know whether Gardner contacted a hit man.

Gardner was convicted in 2012 of molesting two girls, who were 9 and 10 at the time, during a slumber party for his daughter’s 10th birthday.

He was sentenced to 22 years in prison. Then his conviction was overturned by the state Supreme Court, which said the trial judge improperly stopped Gardner’s defense attorney from asking character witnesses about Gardner. He was granted a new trial.

If Gardner happened to be a Republican, he would dominate the national news for at least a month.


Read more Warner Todd Huston at PubliusForum.com

GLOBAL WARMING EMERGENCY: Hundreds of locations reach or exceed 120-year low temperature records

I call the climate kooks "global cooling deniers", because that's what they are.


Some highlights:

Siberian Express Grips Midwest, Northeast, South; Four Cities Set All-Time Record Lows
Record cold continues; next week could be colder
Great Lakes “likely to have the most ice since records began,” says meteorologist

Hat tip: Drudge.

JUST RANDOM FOLKS: FBI documents reveal 22 Islamist enclaves are operating in the U.S.

By Investor's Business Daily

Jihad Enclaves: With names like Islamberg and Mahmoudberg, some 22 of what the FBI calls "enclaves" have been established across the U.S. by a group linked to a Pakistani militant group called Jamaat ul-Fuqra.

The specter of 21 Christians being murdered "on the shores of Tripoli" in Libya where U.S. Marines first encountered Muslim forces — the Barbary pirates — and threats by the Islamic State against Rome show how President Obama's "JV team" has metastasized as a global threat.

And, yes, it can happen here.

The Islamic State is encouraging attacks on infidels in the West like the one in Moore, Okla., where office worker Colleen Hufford was stabbed and beheaded.

Lost in the debate about the threat of Islamic terrorism is that the "home-grown" and "lone wolf" terrorists IS seeks to enlist already walk among us.

They may find aid and comfort in a network of what might be called training camps established by a group called Muslims of the Americas (MOA), a group that has been linked to the Pakistani militant group Jamaatul-Fuqra, whose members are devoted followers of Pakistani extremist cleric Mubarak Ali Gilani.

Ryan Mauro, national security analyst for the Clarion Project, a nonprofit organization that seeks to educate the public about the threat of Islamic extremism, reports, based on FBI documents the group has obtained, the existence of a 22nd MOA paramilitary training camp in Brazoria County, Texas.

The Bill, Hillary, Chelsea and His Royal Highness King Salman of Saudi Arabia Clinton Foundation

As Matthew Continetti observes, "It’s not just that Hillary’s corrupt. It’s that she’s also clueless."

The Wall Street Journal reported this past week that the Bill, Hillary, and Chelsea Clinton Foundation has quietly dropped its ban on foreign contributions and is accepting donations from the governments of “the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Oman, Australia, Germany, and a Canadian government agency promoting the Keystone XL pipeline.” The Journal’s conclusion: Since 2001 “the foundation has raised at least $48 million from overseas governments.”

Needless to say, the gargantuan troll-like conflict of interest that arises as soon as the foundation of the leading candidate for the presidency of the United States begins accepting money from overseas is apparent to every sentient being on the planet except members of the Clinton family and the growing number of advisers, consultants, strategists, pollsters, groupies, allies, and hangers-on whose livelihood depends on that family’s political success. “These contributions,” the foundation said in a statement to the Journal, “are helping improve the lives of millions of people across the world, for which we are grateful...”

...In its 14 years of existence the Clinton Foundation has raised a sum approaching $2 billion. A McClatchy analysis found that 40 percent of contributions in the last decade have come from foreign sources. “It’s a massive sum of money—though no one has done a story yet on how overseas programs they fund have worked,” Maggie Haberman of the New York Times noted on Twitter. Gee I wonder why. It’s almost as though the political press is morally and intellectually disarmed whenever it hears words like “global dialogue” and “wellness” and “economic development” and “women and girls,” as if the gritty, cynical, I’ve-seen-it-all correspondents for our major newspapers and networks turn to bubbling bittersweet goo as soon as some Clinton flack tells them, “We are working with global partners to build an evidence-based case for the full participation of women and girls in the 21st century,” and their eyes fall on a picture of a cute, vibrant, and diverse group of young women surrounding the aging potentate and her daughter and former NBC News special correspondent. What it would take the Post or the Times to dispatch a reporter to Ishmaelia or wherever to examine, in skeptical detail, just where the Clinton money is going, to report on the precise state of the President Peter Mutharika Water Reclamation Plant and Convention Center, is beyond me. Certainly the reports from Haiti are not encouraging. Even the Journal is not clear when the Clinton Foundation dropped its ban on foreign money, a mystery the Foundation itself does not seem to be in any hurry to solve.

The choice in Israel's election is Netanyahu vs. Obama

By Caroline Glick

Officially, the election on March 17 is among Israelis. Depending on how we vote, either Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu will remain in office and form the next government led by his Likud party, or Isaac Herzog and Tzipi Livni will form a government.

But unofficially, a far greater electoral drama is unfolding. The choice is not between Netanyahu and Herzog/Livni. It is between Netanyahu and US President Barack Obama.

As the White House sees it, if Herzog/Livni form the next government, then Jerusalem will dance to Obama’s tune. If Netanyahu is reelected, then the entire edifice of Obama’s Middle East policy may topple and fall.

Secretary of State John Kerry made clear the administration’s desire to topple Netanyahu last spring during his remarks before the Trilateral Commission. It was during that memorable speech that Kerry libeled Israel, claiming that we would automatically and naturally become an apartheid state if we don’t give Jerusalem and Judea and Samaria to the PLO, Jew free, as quickly as possible.

Despite Israel’s venality, Kerry held out hope. In his words, “if there is a change of government [in Israel], or a change of heart, something will happen.”

Larwyn's Linx: Is This What Obama Meant By ‘Perverted Islam’?

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Nation

Is This What Obama Meant By ‘Perverted Islam’?: CHQ
US announces future offensive in Iraq: RS
‘What In Gods Name Are The Clintons Doing?’ Taking Foreign Govt. Money: WFB

'Extremism' Summit Opens With Muslim Prayer, No Other Faiths Allowed: RWN
Obama refuses to acknowledge ‘Muslim terrorists’ at terror summit: Geoff Earle
Silly Denials Of Islamic Terrorism Bring A Silver Lining: Jonah Goldberg

Barack Obama's 'reckless disregard' of the law: Michael Barone
GOP Double-Crossing Traitors And The Hanen Decision: Ann Coulter
Joe Biden takes ‘being Biden’ to new heights (or depths): Nia-Malika Henderson

Reminder: Democrats Hate Guns and Gun Owners: Leon Wolf
Gun groups launch new push for concealed-carry legislation: Hill
Tulsa Residents Killing Bad Guys At Rate Of 1 Every 10 Days: Bob Owens

Economy

The US Stock Market is at its Most Overvalued Level in History: Pater Tenebrarum
Free Markets Work – Walmart Hikes Wages: Pocket
Worried about 'Inequality'? The US growth machine has broken down: AEI

Scandal Central

Obama Administration Forced to Release Pentagon Benghazi Attack Documents: JW
Chapel Hill Shooting Victims’ Mosque Preached Jihad, Hosted Pro-ISIS Cleric in 2013: Creeping
California Provides 59,000 Immigrants With Driver's Licenses in First Month of 2015: NBC San Diego

Media

BUSTED: We Have Axelrod’s Father’s Communist Party Membership : GotNews
WIN: Michelle Malkin Destroys Sarah Silverman On Twitter; Hilarity Ensues: DailySurge
Straight Aide To Tammy Baldwin May Sue For Sexual Discrimination: RWN

World

ISIS in Libya Threatens Rome, Hillary Clinton Hardest Hit: AmInt
Marie Harf has Turned all Democrats into Neocons: Leon Wolf
More Please: SDA

Obama Gives Islamic Salute at Muslim Terrorism Whitewashing Conference: MB
Why Would U.S. Officials Give ISIS Advanced Notice Of Mission Plans To Retake Mosul?: Treehouse
Afghan Taliban to meet US officials for talks in Qatar: sources: Noorullah Shirzada

European Colonialism is the Only Thing That Modernized Islam: Sultan Knish
ISIS Harvesting and Trafficking Body Parts: Reports: Clarion
Why the West Cannot Confront ISIS: Erick Erickson

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Revealed: The experts Apple hired to build an electric car: 9to5Mac
World’s largest SIM maker investigating claims US and British spies stole its encryption keys: TNW
Stunning Close-Up Comet Photos From Rosetta's High-Speed Flyby: Gizmodo

Cornucopia

Our Trial Balloon Crashed Because You Morons Are Too Stupid To Get It: MOTUS
Obama: “I Am Not Incompetent”: Captain's Journal
Report: MLB Will Implement Three New Rule Changes To Speed Up Games: DeadSpin

Image: Giuliani Counters Criticism of Obama Comments: ‘This Isn’t Racism’
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QOTD: "Marie Harf wants to offer comfort, jobs, and income. But a lot of comfortable Westerners are joining ISIS because they want adventure, struggle, danger, and death. A jobs program for Lackcrapistan is not nearly as appealing as bringing on the second coming of Jesus.

If Marie Harf and her masters in Washington wish to transpose their own lack of faith, or secularized liberal “Christianity” on an Apocalyptic Death Cult, not only are they idiots, but our nation is screwed. We have no means of defeating an enemy who wants to end the world when we’re trying to figure out, instead, how to empathize with them and give them a seat at the table as Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, and Marie Harf want to do.

In the spirit of the Real World, it is time to stop being polite and start getting real. Our foreign policy is being run by a bunch of naive fools who think the rest of the world, including third world apocalyptic death cults, thinks just like them." --Erick Erickson

Thursday, February 19, 2015

ATTENTION, MARIE HARF: About that Jobs for ISIS thing...

Is there anything more embarrassing than to have on your resume that you were once a paid liar spokesperson for the Obama administration? That's a rhetorical question. Just when you think they can't top their latest laughable talking point, they break out someone like State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf, who tells us that ISIS could be stopped with a full-fledged employment program.

Of course, in the real world:


And, even if this insane assertion had a grain of truth behind it, how is the worst administration for job growth in modern American history going to create jobs for ISIS?

They can't create jobs for Americans, for heaven's sake.


Smart Power Shot and Chaser

Shot: Syrian Rebels Hang Shi'ite Child After Killing Family

Brutal pictures emerged from Syria of a small Shi’ite child who was hanged by rebel forces after his entire family had been murdered.

The pictures were published by a human rights activists reporting from Iraq. Iraq’s news website, Qanon, reported that the rebels attacked the family in the Seyede Zainab neighborhood of Damascus.

The brutality of the rebel forces have largely gone unreported in the Western media (see RadicalIslam’s related video, “Media Bias Muddies Waters in Syria”). However, in recent days, online videos have surfaced showing how the rebels deal with those they perceive as loyal to the regime.

Chaser: Pentagon Identifies 1,200 Syrian Rebels to Participate in US-Led Training

The United States has so far identified around 1,200 Syrian opposition fighters for potential participation in a US military-led program to help train and equip them to battle the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) group, the Pentagon said on Wednesday.

The fighters will undergo vetting for the program, which is expected to begin in March at multiple sites outside of Syria and train more than 5,000 Syrian fighters a year. Some 3,000 could be trained by the end of 2015, a US official said... The program is expected to vet fighters using both US government databases as well as intelligence from regional partners.

The architect of this insanity -- one Hillary Rodham Clinton -- seems to believe that setting the Middle East afire is a qualification to run for President.


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Nation

Overloaded Immigration System Creating Back Door for Jihadists: Joseph John
Tsarnaev Brothers Mosque Partnered with the Obama White House: S&L
Obama: America Must Make Muslims Feel More Comfortable: TR

DHS IG: 5,000 Aliens in Release Program Committed Crimes, Fled: Breitbart
Sen. Ted Cruz: ‘Suddenly Jimmy Carter’s foreign policy seems resolute’: Twitchy
Obama’s Boycott of Netanyahu is Collapsing: Algemeiner

Walker Mocks Hillary's Ivy League Education: Daniel Halper
Rubio Abandons GOP Position, Caves To Obama Executive Amnesty: Breitbart
Congress Fiddles While The World Burns: NoisyRm

Reliving The 1930s: Victor Davis Hanson
Michigan Man Stabs Two After Confiming They Were Not Muslim: Clarion
"What's with the white hat?": Daniel Bice

Economy

How much debt does your state have?: Jason Russell
Union dues deductions on chopping block in Oklahoma: RS
Thursday: Unemployment Claims, Philly Fed Mfg Survey: Bill McBride

Scandal Central

Part I Of V – Under Obama: The U.S. Captured By The Muslim Brotherhood: NoisyRm
Obama Appoints Terrorist Supporter to Head Up New Counterterrorism Messaging Center: Pamela Geller
Herridge: Internal Gov't Emails Show 'Genuine Panic' During Yemen Evacuation: Fox

Climate & Energy

Jim Hansen’s 99% Surety on Global Warming Doesn’t Hold Up: WUWT
Niagara Falls freezes over as extreme winter weather continues: Chris Spargo

Media

Media Gets Serious Case of Butt Hurt Over Rudy Giuliani Speaking Truth: Erick Erickson
How Many Brian Williams Lies Have Been Uncovered? 32, So Far: BlurBrain
Dana Loesch Mocks State Dept’s #JobsForISIS Plan by Holding a ‘Jihadi Job Fair’: GWP

CNN chief tries to salvage network’s news cred but Nielson numbers don’t back him: BPR
Attention All Members of the Media: Erick Erickson
Obama and the Muslim Gang Sign: F. W. Burleigh

World

The Muslim Brotherhood-ISIS Connection: Arnold Ahlert
Holder: Little to Be Gained by Calling Islamic Terrorism 'Islamic Terrorism': CNS
As Obama Vacillates, ISIS Continues Its Brutal March to Europe’s Doorsteps: RS

Good News, Marie Harf: ISIS Finds Jobs--By Harvesting Organs of its Victims: JWF
State Department spokeswoman digging hole to rival the Grand Canyon: LI
Muslim Leader Who Called Israel a ‘Suspect’ After 9/11 Meets with Biden at White House: WFB

North Korea Flight Tests New Submarine-Launched Ballistic Missile: WFB
The Real Threat to Europe: Bassam Tawil
Hamas's New Army of Children: Khaled Abu Toameh

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Nobel Peace Prize Winner To Sell Armed Drones To More Countries: DefenseOne
Amazon Web Services dominates cloud survey, but Microsoft Azure gains traction: GeekWire
These Are The 12 Top #JobsForISIS: DC

Cornucopia

ISIS: They’re Just Like You and Me: MOTUS
“Ever seen a photo of a pregnant Michelle Obama?”: SHTFplan
12 Posters Depicting The Failure That Is Hillary!: Michael Haltman

Image: 12 Posters Depicting The Failure That Is Hillary!
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QOTD: "During the ratification debates advocates of the Constitution publicly listed examples of activities over which the federal government would have no authority. They did so to inform and reassure Ratifiers and members of the general public about the limited scope of federal power. Among the activities listed as within the exclusive sphere of the states were marriage, divorce, and other aspects of domestic relations; manufacturing (necessarily including labor relations); other business enterprises; agriculture and other land use; land titles and conveyancing; property outside of interstate trade; commerce wholly within state lines; state and local government; the regulation of most crimes and civil suits; social services; training the militia and appointing militia officers; religion; and education."

The U.S. Constitution would not have been ratified without these assurances by the Federalists about the actual meanings of many of the constitution's clauses...Nine of thirteen states ratified the Constitution on condition of those Federalist assurances." --Constitutional Law Professor Robert Natelson

Wednesday, February 18, 2015

IRRECONCILABLE DIFFERENCES: Barack Obama's Job Approval Ratings vs. the Economy

By James Simpson


According to a recent poll by AP-GfK [PDF], President Obama currently has a 47 percent job approval rating, up from 41 percent in December. Fifty-one percent of Americans approve of Obama’s handling of the unemployment issue, compared with 44 percent before, while 45 percent approve of his handling of the economy overall, up from 41 percent in December.

These numbers track with the declining unemployment rate and optimistic newscasts that followed the publication of the most recent unemployment statistics, but do not reflect actual economic conditions. In fact, a closer look at the poll itself reveals that people have grave reservations about the economy—reservations that are reflected in a number of economic statistics not covered in published reports.

The overall unemployment rate has been on the decline since the trough of the recession in 2010 (see Chart 1. below); however this paints a very deceiving picture. Were it indicative of a true economic recovery, other indicators would show similarly positive results. But this is not the case. For example enrollment in food stamps has grown 65 percent since President Obama took office, from 28 million in 2008, to 46 million today. Despite a small decline in 2014, food stamp use has been at its highest levels in recorded history—magnitudes higher than any previous time. Over 46 million people, equal to about 30 percent of the civilian labor force, now use food stamps.