Wednesday, February 25, 2015

White House: Don’t Mention Temperature When Discussing Global Warming

By Michael Bastasch

First rule about global warming: don’t talk global warming.

The White House quietly released a draft guidance telling federal agencies to consider the impact more carbon dioxide emissions will have on the environment, but only in terms of how much more carbon dioxide will be emitted.

When conducting environmental impact analyses on rules and projects, federal agencies should only talk about carbon dioxide emissions increases — not things like potential increases in temperature, precipitation, storm intensity and other environmental impacts that scientists warn about.

“In light of the difficulties in attributing specific climate impacts to individual projects, [Council on Environmental Quality] recommends agencies use the projected [greenhouse gas] emissions and also, when appropriate, potential changes in carbon sequestration and storage, as the proxy for assessing a proposed action’s potential climate change impacts,” the White House wrote in its guidance federal regulatory agencies conducting environmental reviews.

Why is that? Federal environmental assessments will likely show regulations have a negligible impact on the environment in terms of temperature rises, sea level rises and such — indeed if every industrialized country stopped emitting carbon dioxide tomorrow, temperatures would only be reduced 0.21 degrees Celsius by 2100.

Hillary Clinton paid $300,000 for a speech lecturing the middle class on how they can make ends meet

Hopefully, her instructions reveal how I can make six figures a speech, which would certainly come in handy.

Can you imagine the hubris of this woman -- who has largely disappeared from public view as her "Smart Power" diplomacy initiatives have left the Middle East a boiling cauldron of death, torture, and pain -- to dare lecture middle class Americans on making ends meet?

During a speech in Silicon Valley, Clinton, the presumed Democratic presidential nominee in 2016, highlighted the displacement many workers have suffered as new technology has made many jobs obsolete. “The old jobs and careers are either gone or unrecognizable,” Clinton said, according to the Los Angeles Times. “The old rules just don’t seem to apply, and, frankly, the new rules just aren’t that clear. “[If] we want to find our balance again, we have to figure out how to make this new economy work for everyone.”

Clinton also addressed Silicon Valley’s male-centric culture, one factor responsible for a notable gender pay gap in the tech industry and a shortage of women in the field. “We’re going backward in a field that is supposed to be all about moving forward,” the former senator and secretary of state said. Clinton herself is a counterexample: She earned a reported $300,000 for her speech, comparable to what she usually gets and more than all but a few highly prized male speakers (including her husband).

In virtually every way -- and as documented by the very agencies he controls -- the policies of the current Democrat President have laid waste to "the middle class".

And that is precisely what Obama and Hillary were taught to do by their ideological mentor, Saul Alinsky.


Hat tip: BadBlue News

UNCLENCHING THEIR FIST: Obama's Partners in Peace Destroy Mock U.S. Aircraft Carrier in Persian Gulf

Courtesy of The Tower, we get word of Iran's latest diplomatic initiatives, which are explicitly designed to assuage concerns about its nuclear ambitions.

Claiming “to ensure the stable security of the region,” Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) carried out war games in the Persian Gulf that included the sinking of a model of American aircraft carrier, Reuters reported today ... During the broadcast of the exercises over Iranian state television, a banner was flashed across the screen with the quote, “[i]f the Americans are ready to be buried at the bottom of the waters of the Persian Gulf – so be it.”


"“We will extend a hand if you [Iran] are unwilling to unclench your fist." --Barack Obama, January 2009

...The construction of the replica aircraft carrier was reported last year, only months after Iran broadcast a simulation of its forces attacking Israel and the American aircraft carrier U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln on state television.

Iran has often threatened American naval forces. Last year, IRGC Navy Forces Commander Brig. Gen. Ali Fadavi declared that his navy was preparing to sink American aircraft carriers. Fadavi has also threatened the United States to leave the Persian Gulf, saying, “Americans removal from the Gulf is one of the basic tasks of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards,” and boasting that Iran could destroy the American fleet in 50 seconds.

This latest naval threat against the United States comes as Iran and the West have stepped up diplomacy to complete a nuclear deal within the next month.

And despite repeated warnings that the Iranian regime intends to inflict harm on the West (e.g., "15 Photos From Iran's Revolution Day 2015 Demonstrations You'll Never See In Legacy Media"), it is Israel that the Obama administration chooses to demonize.

The headlines make that assessment unequivocal, from "Kerry questions Netanyahu's judgement over Iran deal" to "Susan Rice: Netanyahu's Address to Congress 'Destructive'."

The motives of Obama and his Iranian-born chief adviser Valerie Jarrett are truly unknown. But their actions make clear this much: they are intent on seeing Iran become a nuclear power.

As for their rationale, I leave that as an exercise for the reader.


Hat tip: BadBlue News.

Larwyn's Linx: Eunuch Mitch McConnell Squeals Like a Pig

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Nation

Eunuch Mitch McConnell Squeals Like a Pig: Erick Erickson
Here Are The Top 10 Questions To Ask A Liberal: Steve Straub
Islam’s Greatest Contribution To The United States Was Slavery: Shoebat

The Bidding War for Iran: Spengler
Barack Obama has identified the enemy, and it is us: Carol Brown
CNN, DHS and SPLC’s Blame-Righty Hit Job: Michelle Malkin

Plumbing the Depths of Obama’s Anti-Bibi Grudge: Politichicks
Netanyahu Refuses To Meet With Senate Democrats: WZ
Team Bibi schools Team Obama in speech boycott showdown: Times

McConnell goes into fetal position; Reid is new leader of US Senate: RS
Scott Walker: ‘I Didn’t Inherit Fame Or Fortune From My Family’: DC
A Landmark Court Victory over Terrorism in New York: Roger L. Simon

Economy

Surprise: Poorest Obamacare Enrollees Face $530 IRS Tax Bill: ATR
President Obama Formally Vetoes Keystone XL Pipeline Legislation: IJR
The joy of welfare funded holidays in the sun: Daniel J. Mitchell

Scandal Central

Rahm Emanuel’s Chicago Police Have Secret Jail, Suspects Kept From Lawyers, Family: RWN
Mark Levin skewers Lindsey Graham’s “let’s get behind the court” on Obama’s illegal amnesty: Scoop
NY Post: it’s party time for the bad guys in Obama’s final two-year “rampage”: Allen West

Climate & Energy

Fake Nobel Laureate Facing Sex Arrest for Wandering Hockey Stick: Mark Steyn
Experts Smeared for Paper Skeptical of Climate Change: Breitbart
Apparently More Climate Chakras Need Releasing: Power Line

Media

DOJ Finally Concedes George Zimmerman Had Right To Shoot Trayvon Martin: Bob Owens
Levin: US Being 'Conquered' by Mexican Government: Breitbart
Wasserman Schultz Plotted To Tar Obama As “Anti-Woman”, “Anti-Semitic” If Ousted As DNC Chair: WZ

The Left's War on White America: Lloyd Marcus
Reporters Laugh As White House Tries To Explain Why Keystone Pipeline Review Took 2,300 Days: DownTrend
Jindal: Obama Has ‘Disqualified Himself to Be Our Commander-in-Chief’: Fred Lucas

Going to CPAC this year just isn’t the Conservative thing to do: DTG
Comcast, Al Sharpton Hit With $20 Billion Racial Discrimination Lawsuit: Hollywood Reporter
Conservatives Want a Candidate for President Who Can Connect, CPAC Chief Says: Daily Signal

World

Thanks to Obama, Iran will be getting the Bomb: RS
Emerging Details of Nuke Deal Prove Netanyahu Was Right All Along: The Tower
ISIS: More Than Just A Terrorist Organization: Max Boot

Russia Pushes Reset Button: Parades Missile Targeting Obama: GWP
Report: US Military No Longer Has The Capability To Fight Two Major Wars At One Time: WZ
Saudis ‘would let Israeli jets use their air space to attack Iran’: Times of Israel

ISIS Takes Hundreds Of Christians Hostage After Overrunning Their Village In Syria: WZ
ISIS Training Camp for Children in Al-Raqqah, Syria: MEMRI
Mossad cables hardly contradict Netanyahu on Iran: Times of Israel

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

What if Apple made a lightsaber?: John Brownlee
Liberals and Conservatives Both Love & Loathe the Collaborative Economy: Web Strategist
Anthem Admits Up to 18.8 Million Non-Customers Could've Been Hacked Too: Gizmodo

Cornucopia

19 Impressive and Heroic Awards Chris Kyle Earned That Are Waaaaaaaaaaaay Better Than An Oscar: RWN
Those Cheeky Judges...Josh Takes Umbrage: Springer
#GimmeFive: MOTUS

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QOTD: "Beijing is worried about instability in the Persian Gulf, whose oil China needs more than any other major economy, and observes that Russia is in position to stir up instability in retaliation for Western intervention in Ukraine. Russia may be a second-rate power, but it still is a power in the Middle East, as well as the purveyor of game-changing military technologies...

...Now Beijing faces the prospect that Iran will become the dominant regional player with de facto help from the United States, and is trying to reposition itself as an Iranian ally — while Russia does the same thing. It’s a bidding war for the good graces of the craziest regime on earth." --David P. Goldman

Tuesday, February 24, 2015

The 72 Types Of Americans That Are Considered “Potential Terrorists” In Official Government Documents

By Michael Snyder

Are you a conservative, a libertarian, a Christian or a gun owner?  Are you opposed to abortion, globalism, Communism, illegal immigration, the United Nations or the New World Order?  Do you believe in conspiracy theories, do you believe that we are living in the “end times” or do you ever visit alternative news websites (such as this one)?

If you answered yes to any of those questions, you are a “potential terrorist” according to official U.S. government documents.

At one time, the term “terrorist” was used very narrowly.  The government applied that label to people like Osama bin Laden and other Islamic jihadists.  But now the Obama administration is removing all references to Islam from terror training materials, and instead the term “terrorist” is being applied to large groups of American citizens.

And if you are a “terrorist”, that means that you have no rights and the government can treat you just like it treats the terrorists that are being held at Guantanamo Bay.  So if you belong to a group of people that is now being referred to as “potential terrorists”, please don’t take it as a joke.  The first step to persecuting any group of people is to demonize them.  And right now large groups of peaceful, law-abiding citizens are being ruthlessly demonized.

Below is a list of 72 types of Americans that are considered to be “extremists” and “potential terrorists” in official U.S. government documents.  To see the original source document for each point, just click on the link.  As you can see, this list covers most of the country…

15 Photos From Iran's Revolution Day 2015 Demonstrations You'll Never See In Legacy Media #Obama #Nukes

Curiously, a massive wave of vicious anti-American sentiment in Iran has been utterly ignored by vintage media, even as the Obama administration does its level best to position the regime as a nuclear power.

Revolution Day 2015 In Iran: A Regime-Organized Display Of Hatred For U.S., Obama

On February 11, 2015, the Iranian regime marked the Islamic Revolution's 36th anniversary. Regime spokesmen, and first and foremost Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, emphasized in processions and speeches the anti-American character of Revolution Day, the Iranian regime's hatred for the United States and its yearning for America's downfall. Regime spokesmen motivated the public to participate in processions in which the regime's top leaders, including the heads of the pragmatic camp took part.

With nuclear negotiations between the U.S. and Iran in an attempt to reach an agreement soon in the background, the displays of hatred towards President Obama, depicted as hanging from a gallows, and towards Secretary of State Kerry, who was shown as a devious fox were prominent...

NEWLY REVEALED PENTAGON DOCUMENTS: Why, Yes, the White House Lied to Everyone About Benghazi

By Investor's Business Daily

Scandal: Heavily redacted documents show a military response had been drafted in answer to the Benghazi terrorist attack by a group supporting "an Islamic state" in Libya. It also showed the attack wasn't inflamed by a video.

It's taken Judicial Watch two years to obtain from the most transparent administration in history the 486 pages of documents pertaining to the military response to the Sept. 11, 2012, terrorist attack on our Benghazi diplomatic mission. They confirm what we have said repeatedly, that the Benghazi tale spun by President Obama and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was indeed a lie agreed upon.

Despite heavy redaction, they show that the real "JV team" — a term applied by Obama to the deadly Islamic State — resides in the White House. The papers reveal, for instance, that at one point the military relied on a photo from a Twitter post to determine the status of Ambassador Christopher Stevens, who was killed with Foreign Service Information Management Officer Sean Smith in the first of two attacks.

Several hours later — hours during which a rescue or support attempt arguably could have been made — terrorists killed CIA contractors and former Navy SEALs Ty Woods and Glen Doherty.

The documents confirm the administration lied in insisting the attacks were nothing more than a spontaneous protest over a video offensive to Muslims — protests that escalated to the point participants spontaneously pulled out their mortars and rocket-propelled grenades.

Larwyn's Linx: ISIS Threatening To Use The Immigration Weapon To Conquer Europe

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Nation

ISIS Threatening To Use The Immigration Weapon To Conquer Europe: VDARE
The President and ‘Violent Extremism’: Dennis Prager
The Ultimate failure of Barack Obama: DTG

Tyranny and America’s moral decline: Personal Liberty
Museum of Islamic Jew-Hatred to Open in Washington DC: Pamela Geller
Secrecy around police surveillance proves case’s undoing: Ellen Nakashima

McConnell Flashes His Yellow Belly: Leon Wolf
Giuliani Versus Obama: Thomas Sowell
The Media’s Slimy Assault on Gov. Walker: David Limbaugh

Hillary's 'Quack' Health Adviser Has Scientific Community Worried: TR
Stop Playing Useful Idiot for the Press-Democrat: Leon Wolf
Senate Democrats Show Limits of GOP Control: Roll Call

Economy

Hillary Clinton’s War on Women: WFB
Activist NJ judge: greedy unionistas get their pensions no matter what: WyBlog
Warren Joins Obama: They're Coming For Your Retirement Accounts: Roll Call

Scandal Central

ABCs of IRS Mess; Justice Dept. Is Tainted Too: Post
Democratic Big Data shop Catalist accused of violating election law: Moe Lane
Beheaded IS Captive Kayla Mueller's Brother: Obama's Bergdahl Swap Raised Price of Terror Ransoms : Ace

Climate & Energy

Bill Nye, the Anti-Semitism Guy: Ace
Guess Who Scored Higher On Science Quiz: ‘Warming Mongers’ Or Skeptics?: Tammy Bruce
Feeling cold? Be glad it's not 1815: MacLean's

Media

Non-Wisconsinites, I need to explain something about Scott Walker to you that you are missing: Ann Althouse
Newsmax Pledged $1 Million to Clinton Foundation: Daniel Halper
Shocking CNN headline could be a sign of the apocalypse: Twitchy

WaPo: Administration’s Past Assurances Raise Questions about Iran Deal: The Tower
Review BROWN PEOPLE: Hispanic Politics in the Disunited State of Amigos: Leslie Eastman
Freedom Center Launches ‘Jew Hatred on Campus’ Campaign: FPM

World

The Worst Possible Outcome: AmInt
An American about face, into the arms of Iran: Hayom
The Mossad's 'true assessment' of Iran's nuclear program?: Matzav

Hope Dies Last: The XX Committee
When Kremlin Trolls Attack: The XX Committee
Paralyzed By Ukraine, Dumbfounded by Russia: NatlJrnl

France deploys carrier to Persian Gulf to fight jihadists: Times of Israel
Kerry, Zarif to meet for second day of nuclear talks: Times of Israel
Top Iranian negotiator threatens to leave nuke talks: Times of Israel


Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Emotional Design Fail: I'm Divorcing My Nest Thermostat: Kara Pernice
CT scan finds mummified monk inside 1,000-year-old Buddha: Michelle Starr, CNet
Lenovo hit with lawsuit over Superfish snafu: CIO

Cornucopia

Mall Threat: MB
The Incredible Lightness of Being in Hollywood: MOTUS
We live-designed the most meme-worthy Oscar moments: USA Today

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QOTD: "Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson warned Sunday that Americans should be “particularly careful” shopping at malls this weekend following a specific terrorist threat.

Terrorist group al-Shabaab released a video calling for attacks on shopping malls in the US, Canada and the United Kingdom, which included mention and images of the Mall of America in Minnesota." --New York Post

Monday, February 23, 2015

OBAMA WAS RIGHT: Muslims woven into the fabric of our national history (he just forgot the word "fighting")

By Keith Farrell

President Obama has continually asserted that Islam was “woven into the fabric” of the United States since its founding. Obama claims that Muslims have made significant contributions to building of this nation. The claim is laughable to anyone who has studied US history. Historian David Barton spoke to Glenn Beck and tore the president’s claims apart.

Barton found the first real contribution any Muslim made was in 1856 (80 years after the founding) when then Secretary of War Jefferson Davis hired one Muslim to help train camels in Arizona. Not exactly a resounding contribution, since the plan to fight Native Americans via camelback was soon dismissed.

But Muslims did have an influence on early America, and that influence was one of a foe. After winning its independence from England, American vessels no longer enjoyed British protection. France, dismayed that the US would not aid it in its war against England, also ceased protection of American ships. The result led to American vessels being raided and plundered by Muslim pirates from the Barbary Coast.

After agreeing to pay 10% of the new nations dismal GDP in exchange for passage, attacks continued. Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, and Benjamin Franklin were sent as representatives to mediate the problem. It was there that they discovered that the Islamic law the pirates followed made it their duty to attack non-Muslims.

Obama's Mysterious Mentor "Frank" Resurfaces

By Cliff Kincaid

Yesterday’s news became big news on the Fox News Channel last week when former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani brought up the name of President Barack Obama’s childhood mentor, Frank Marshall Davis. It was almost seven years to the day when we published our seminal piece about Davis, “Obama’s Communist Mentor.”

Davis was a member of the Communist Party and a suspected Soviet espionage agent. He was included in the FBI’s security index, meaning that Davis could be arrested or detained in the event of a national emergency. The FBI file on Davis documents his anti-white and pro-Soviet views, infiltration of the Hawaii Democratic Party, and other activities.

Davis also wrote an autobiographical and pornographic sex novel, Sex Rebel, disclosing that he had sex with a young girl and engaged in shocking and bizarre sexual activities.

Giuliani’s public identification of Davis and discussion of his role in grooming a young Barack Obama marks the first time, in my memory, that a top Republican has ever mentioned the Davis-Obama relationship. It was done in the context of Fox News’ Megyn Kelly of questioning how Giuliani could dare ask whether Obama loves America.

If the Republicans had brought this up during the 2008 campaign, Obama might have been defeated and the country could have been spared the last six years of “progressive” hope and change. The Davis-Obama relationship is something so damaging and corrupt that its public airing would have raised questions about the Democratic Party’s vetting of Obama and the direction of the Democratic Party itself.

COMFORTING: Mall of America Protected from Jihadist Terror Attack by Sternly Worded Gun-Free Zone Signs

By Dean Weingarten

A Somali affiliate of al Qaeda has called for attacks against Western shopping malls, which they see as soft targets. The call for attacks was seen in a video celebrating the attack on the Westgate shopping mall in Nairobi, Kenya.

From ibtimes.com:

“If just a handful of mujahedeen [militant jihadists] fighters could bring Kenya to a complete standstill for nearly a week, just imagine what the dedicated mujahedeen could do in the West to American or Jewish shopping centers across the world,” a masked gunman says toward the end of the video. “What if such an attack were to occur in the Mall of America in Minnesota? Or the West Edmonton Mall in Canada? Or in London’s Oxford Street?”

England is notorious for the number of radicalized Muslim immigrants that are in the country, as is Minneapolis, Minnesota, where a large population of Somali Muslims has been imported and resettled by the American government. Edmonton, Canada, also has a significant population of Somali Muslim immigrants from which jihadis are being recruited.

The threats seem credible, but as people are banned from carrying firearms in all three locations, the “gun free zone” signs may provide some protection.

Virtually all of Canada and England are Gun Free Zones, as self defense is not considered a valid reason for citizens to carry guns in those countries. But a crucial difference exists in the United States. The malls in Canada and England lack the protection of gun free zone signs. In comparison, the Mall of America, in Minneapolis, has particularly large and prominent gun free zone signs, as shown above.

While gun free zone signs have failed in a number of locations, it may be that they were not large enough or prominent enough. John Lott, an academic who has studied these shootings, makes this statement.

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

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

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: