Saturday, March 07, 2015

The Death of the American Dream in 22 Numbers

By Michael Snyder

We are the generation that gets to witness the end of the American Dream. The numbers that you are about to see tell a story. They tell a story of a once mighty economy that is dying. For decades, the rest of the planet has regarded the United States as “the land of opportunity” where almost anyone can be successful if they are willing to work hard. And when I was growing up, it seemed like almost everyone was living the American Dream. I lived on a “middle class” street and I went to a school where it seemed like almost everyone was middle class. When I was in high school, it was very rare to ever hear of a parent that was unemployed, and virtually every family that I knew had a comfortable home and more than one nice vehicle. But now that has all changed. The “American Dream” has been transformed into a very twisted game of musical chairs. With each passing year, more people are falling out of the middle class, and most of the rest of us are scrambling really hard to keep our own places. Something has gone horribly wrong, and yet Americans are very deeply divided when it comes to finding answers to our problems. We love to point fingers and argue with one another, and meanwhile things just continue to get even worse. The following are 22 numbers that are very strong evidence of the death of the American Dream…

#1 The Obama administration tells us that 8.69 million Americans are “officially unemployed” and that 92.90 million Americans are considered to be “not in the labor force”. That means that more than 101 million U.S. adults do not have a job right now.

#2 One recent survey discovered that 55 percent of Americans believe that the American Dream either never existed or that it no longer exists.

#3 Considering the fact that Obama is in the White House, it is somewhat surprising that 55 percent of all Republicans still believe in the American Dream, but only 33 percent of all Democrats do.

CARTOON: If Obama were president in 1941

Originally published in the Fremont Tribune:


The artist is Deryl Skelton, who is from Fremont.


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The curious case of Hillary Clinton, Huma Abedin, the Muslim Brotherhood and all of their missing emails

By Investor's Business Daily

Scandal: The email plot thickens with news that Hillary Clinton's deputy chief of staff also used a private email account on the Clintons' server to conduct government business.

Watchdog group Judicial Watch, which doesn't like being lied to or jerked around any more than the House Benghazi Select Committee does, has filed a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against the Department of State seeking all communications, including emails, between Secretary of State Clinton and Huma Abedin with Nagla Mahmoud, wife of ousted Egyptian president Mohammed Morsi between Jan. 21, 2009, and Jan. 21, 2013.

The lawsuit — which also seeks a thorough search of Clinton's newly discovered private email accounts connected to a home-based server to exclusively conduct government business — comes alongside the issue of subpoenas by the Benghazi Select Committee. Both have long been curious about the scarcity of produced emails with Clinton's name on them.

Abedin, perhaps best remembered as the wife of disgraced former congressman Anthony Wiener, is a longtime Hillary friend and confidante. She served as Clinton's deputy chief of staff at the same time she worked as a consultant to the Clinton Foundation and a New York advisory firm tied to the Clintons, one that did business before the government.

Foreign contributions to the Clinton Foundation — including from governments and sources which might not have our best interests at heart, during and after Clinton's tenure as secretary of state — are raising questions about conflicts of interest and possible quid pro quos.

Abedin made $135,000 a year as Clinton's deputy, a period in which she is reported to have raked in as much as $355,000 from consulting contracts. Having a pipeline into the Clinton inner circle is invaluable to some. This reminds us of Johnny Chung's famous comparison of the Clinton White House to a subway turn style — you had to put money in to gain entry.

Abedin also has some interesting family connections. Her father is said to be close with the Saudi government's Muslim World League, and her mother is said to be a member of the Muslim Sisterhood. World Trade Center bombing prosecutor Andrew McCarthy wrote in National Review: "The ties of Ms. Abedin's father, mother and brother to the Muslim Brotherhood are both specific and substantiated."

Larwyn's Linx: My absolute bewilderment at the current state of our country

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Nation

My absolute bewilderment at the current state of our country: Taxicab Depressions
Obama: Spirit of Selma Requires Replacing Black People with Illegal Aliens: FPM
Boehner, Pelosi Used Netanyahu Speech as Cover to Fund Obamnesty: Breitbart

Democrats: If GOP Tries to Demote Boehner, We'll Keep Him In as Speaker: Ace
Why woo conservative voters when you can co-opt GOP "leaders"?: DTG
Divided GOP Empowers Dems in Political Minority: ABC

A Great Week for Regulators: Phil Kerpen
We’ve Known of Hillary’s Email for Years--Why the Hoopla This Week?: Lee Smith
DOJ: After Menendez, Don’t Forget Dirty Harry Reid's Involvement: WZ

Birth Tourism Industry Accelerating: Joe Guzzardi
Sharia Tribunal in Texas an Islamic Trojan Horse?: Scoop
Can the states save the federal government?: Steve Brawner

Economy

U. of California Bans the American Flag as ‘Offensive’: Warner Todd Huston
Wisconsin Moves Forward: Right-To-Work Set To Be Signed On Monday: LUR
This is just the start of the college implosion: Mark Cuban

Scandal Central

State Department: Hillary decides what emails we can see: Exam
FOIA Request for Hillary Clinton’s Email Address Went Missing: WFB
Senate Hearing Exposes Billion-Dollar Amnesty Slush Fund and Other USCIS Improprieties: CIS

Feds Preparing Criminal Corruption Charges Against Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ): Ace
UCLA Student Council Tries To Hide Video Of Its Abuse of a Jewish Student : LI
“Freedom Of Speech Can Be Interpreted As Hate Speech” At UC Irvine: RWN

Climate & Energy

EPA Chief Gina McCarthy Can't Answer Climate Questions: IBD

Media

EXCLUSIVE: The Inside Story Of How We Brought Down Menendez: Charles C. Johnson
David Gregory Admits Liberal Media Bias In ‘Off-The-Record’ Talk: DC
The Great Leap Forward: Riot

World

Saudi Arabia: Bibi Was Right: AmInt
Crack Norwegian 'Punisher' troops sent to Iraq to help take on fanatical ISIS: DailyMail
Saudi woman to get 200 lashes after being raped: Middle East Monitor

Cojones: Egypt President el-Sisi closes 27,000 mosques to fight terrorism: Allen West
Arabs stand with Israel against Obama: James Simpson
Misunderstanderers of Islam bulldoze ancient Nimrud city: Reuters

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

What the Future of Government Surveillance Looks Like: Bruce Schneier
Top 10 Craziest Cars of the 2015 Geneva Motor Show: AutoGuide
When $278 billing dispute resurfaces years later, T-Mobile finally fixes it: Ars Technica

Cornucopia

Urine Trouble Now: iOTWreport
Black Lies Matter: MOTUS
Connected Gloves and "Bullet Time": NBC Thinks Technology Can Make Boxing Cool: FastCo

Image: FOIA Request for Hillary Clinton’s Email Address Went Missing
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QOTD: "[Mark Cuban says that the] "...way to fix this growing college bubble, Cuban has argued, is for Congress to pass a law that caps the amount students can take out in loans."

How about Congress get out of the student loan bubble creating business entirely? If the government wasn't so hell bent on creating an endless supply of money for every hairy-knuckled moron to go to community college we wouldn't be in this mess. Furthermore, cutting off the spigot now is too little too late... might as well continue business as usual as we're going to do anyway. When this bubble pops it's going to be spectacular, and there is no doubt in my mind the government and the Fed will come to the rescue!

First Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae joined in the spotlight... now enters Sallie Mae stage left to join the chorus! Second verse, same as the first, just a little bit louder and a little bit worse!

...The lives of an entire generation of young men and women are about to be destroyed. Remember to thank your congressperson!" --"spacemankermit"

Friday, March 06, 2015

Come and take them -- literally

By Springer's Blog


Take my administration. Please.

White House Takes Out Two Democrat Critics of its Insane Iran Deal in One Week: Hillary and Menendez

It would appear that the Obama back office is far more competent than its front office.

Lee Smith asks a logical question: "We’ve Known About Hillary’s Email for Years. Why the Hoopla This Week?"

...the public first became aware that Clinton was using her personal email two years ago, in March 2013, when a Romanian Internet activist using the nickname Guccifer hacked into Clinton ally Sidney Blumenthal’s AOL account and uncovered a trove of work emails between the two from and to her personal account...

So, why did it take the Obama Administration two years to admit to what was already known and to then suggest that Clinton’s behavior was reckless and may have even been criminal? And why did it take so long for a major news organization like the New York Times to come up with the big “scoop” it published earlier this week?

Or to put the question another way, why did Hillary Clinton become the Obama Administration’s bête noire this very week, the same one during which Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pulled all of the world’s focus onto the issue of the administration’s negotiations with Iran?

The answer is that the two are related: This week’s tarring of Hillary Clinton is part of the White House’s political campaign to shut off debate about its hoped-for deal. It’s not hard to see why they’re anxious. With Netanyahu’s speech forcing lawmakers and editorial writers to face up to the proposed agreement’s manifest problems, the administration fears the prospect of Democrats jumping ship and signing on to Kirk-Menendez sanctions legislation that also would give Congress oversight on the deal. So far, the White House has managed to keep Democratic lawmakers in line, no matter how much they seem to question the wisdom of the proposed deal. Hillary Clinton, gearing up for a 2016 run in which she is likely to put some distance between herself and Obama’s dubious Middle East policies, is the one major national Democratic figure who can give Democrats in Congress cover.

Did someone say "Menendez"?

The Perverse Lie That is the "Unemployment Rate" Under Obama

President Obama gleefully celebrated another government-reported drop in the unemployment rate today, this time to 5.5 percent.

The Obama economy has created a perverse distortion of the “Unemployment Rate” because that widely-reported rate represents the percentage of the total workforce actively seeking employment but not able to find employment... The more people who give up hope, and stop seeking employment, [the more it lowers] the “unemployment rate" ... And again today, with a seemingly strong jobs report, the “unemployment rate” dropped, but the number of those dropping out of the workforce also dropped.


Back in the little land we call "reality", Tyler Durden observes:

WHITTLE: The "Chickensh**" Leader of the Free World

By Bill Whittle

He’s the Leader of the Free World, elected by a civilized nation: militarily powerful because of, and not in spite of, it’s cultural commitment to science and art and medicine.

Although he spent much of his early life overseas, the Leader of the Free World grew up in the Northeast, and graduated from Harvard University. That he has a deep and abiding love for America is self-evident: he admires our energy, our inventiveness; our decency and kindness; our innate friendliness and charity. He loves our culture; he admires our private sector which generates so much innovation. And the Leader of the Free World admires and respects our vast military power, and the restraint which it is used – to him, it is indeed the Arsenal of Democracy.

And even though he has grown up the victim of bigotry and hatred, the Leader of the Free World loves America, even though slurs are applied to him still today. In spite of all that, he loves everything she stands for.

And there he stood, backed by American flags and framed in American glory – on the floor of the House of Representatives; where his predecessors made the case to fight against the great evils in the world: slavery. Nazism. Japanese Imperialism. Communism.

There he stood: The Leader of the Free World; a thoughtful, serious man making a thoughtful, serious case to the World’s Greatest deliberative body. The Leader of the Free World spoke frankly of the need to confront today, as we have confronted in the past, this latest threat to freedom, and science, and medicine, and art, and the basic human rights not only of women, and homosexuals but of everyone to live their own lives as they saw fit. He spoke against the clear and present danger posed by Islamic savages, motivated by religious hatred, implacable in their desire to see the world burn – and especially about the threat posed by the stat of Iran, which is working feverishly, night and day, so see those fires burn not at hundred but rather at thousands of degrees.

The President of the United States declined to attend this speech by the Leader of the Free World, because the President of the United States has called the Leader of the Free World “chickensh**.”

Larwyn's Linx: Hillary fired US Ambassador to Kenya for using personal email account

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Nation

Hillary fired US Ambassador to Kenya for using personal email account: Poor Richard
Server, Serve Her: Clinton Crumbling: R.S. McCain
Hillary Clinton Still Doesn't Get It: Ron Fournier

Meet the Man Advising Mitch McConnell and John Boehner: Erick Erickson
Obama’s Ongoing Assault on the Constitution: David Limbaugh
Obama's Hand Sign Reconsidered: Jeff Lipkes

State Dept. Silence on How It Handled FOIA Requests For Hillary Email: DC
Cable Sent From Clinton's Office Forbade Personal Email for Security Reasons: Ace
Politico Publishing Hillary's Opposition Research: Ace

Al Gore On Presidential Weather Watch For Another POTUS Run: WZ
Why Marco Rubio Is Strongest Possible Nominee: Mona Charen
Email scandal won’t doom Hillary, but supporters should be uneasy: Jonah Goldberg

Economy

Here’s How Much Taxpayer Money Illegals Will Receive Via Obama’s Amnesty: DC
Survey: 72% say Washington economic policies doing nothing for the 99%: Peth
Democrats Fighting for Unions and Against the Middle Class: Leon Wolf

Scandal Central

Harry Reid Secured Subsidies for Aides’ Donors: Lachlan Markay
NRA: Obama wants to ban all hunting ammo: Paul Bedard
Hillary’s Brother Gets Exclusive Mining Permit from Haiti After Taxpayers Sent Country Billions: Breitbart

Climate & Energy

Peak Oil: SDA
Legendary CBS Anchorman Ponders if New Ice Age is On the Way: Ed Driscoll
Breaking: Food, Language, Global Warming, and Your Mother Are Now All Racist: Ed Driscoll

Media

LIBRE smacks HuffPo back on Latino outreach.: Moe Lane
Mark Levin: Hillary email leaks an inside Democrat job to take Hillary out: Scoop
Elizabeth Warren Dodges Questions About Clinton Emails: Surge

World

As Kerry Pushes Nuke Deal, Another U.S. Diplomat Questions Iran's Commitment: CNS
Mapping the emergence of the Islamic State in Afghanistan: LWJ
Islam is Fear, Part I (2011): GoV

Execution Of 11 Year-Old By Muslims: iOTWreport
Anti-Semitism in Germany is forcing Jewish students to flee public schools: Victor Skinner
Russia, China 'Furiously' Buying Gold As "Global Currency Crisis – Albeit Unstated – is Underway": SHTFplan

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Missed the spacewalks? Here’s video, photos: EarthSky
Animation recreated frame-by-frame in real life with 3D printing : Casey Chan
What Does Shipwrecked 170-Year-Old Beer Taste Like?: PopSci

Cornucopia

On the Charge of Unsubstantiated Neglect, We The People Find “Guilty”: MOTUS
Weasels on the Wing: MB
5 Awesome Trey Gowdy Haircuts: Pocket

Image: Harry Reid Secured Subsidies for Aides’ Donors
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QOTD: "If [Hillary does, as she claims, want] us to see her email, why did she create a secret account stored on a dark server registered at her home?

If she wants us to see her email, why didn't she give State all of her email rather than censored fraction of the correspondence?

If she wants us to see her email, Clinton should turn over every word written on her dark account(s) for independent vetting. Let somebody the public trusts decide which emails are truly private and which ones belong to the public." --Ron Fournier

Thursday, March 05, 2015

CARUBA: Why Hillary Will Abandon Her Run for the Presidency

By Alan Caruba

The revelations, reported initially in the most left-wing newspaper in the nation, The New York Times, that Hillary Clinton used her own private emails to conduct public business, suggests that there are forces within the Democratic Party that do not want her to be its candidate for President in 2016.

It’s not like Hillary did not know she was supposed to use the State Department’s email system for reasons of national security; her private emails could have been hacked by forces unfriendly to the U.S. All government employees are routinely briefed on the laws that require this.

For the record, I am no fan of Hillary Clinton. On September 18 of last year, I wrote a commentary titled “Go Away, Hillary” in which I asked “Other than earning her law degree, name one thing that Hillary Clinton has accomplished on her own. Her accomplishments—slim as they are—have been achieved on the coattails of either Bill Clinton or Barack Obama.”

Beyond Hillary, what I object to is the necessity to raise millions with which to secure either Party’s nomination and a billion to run for the presidency. We are electing someone who has literally bought the election courtesy of donors who have made the selection for the rest of us. There is something fundamentally undemocratic about that.

That said, I don’t think Hillary Clinton will run in 2016.

That may surprise you, but it surprises me as well. And, yes, I could be wrong, but the revelations about her patently illegal email use while Secretary of State suggests that there are forces within her Party that want to end her candidacy now rather than later. They are sending her an ominous message.

CLINTON CRIME FAMILY CHRONICLES, PART 7 BAJILLION: Hillary's brother gets exclusive gold mining permit from Haiti after State Dept. gives it billions in your money

Runner-up headline: "How to go from 0 to a $100,000,000 net worth in no time flat":

Hillary Rodham Clinton’s brother, Tony Rodham, sat on the board of a self-described mining company that in 2012 received one of only two “gold exploitation permits” from the Haitian government—the first issued in over 50 years.

The tiny North Carolina company, VCS Mining, also included on its board Bill Clinton’s co-chair of the Interim Haiti Recovery Commission (IHRC), former Haitian Prime Minister Jean-Max Bellerive.

The Rodham gold mine revelation is just one of dozens featured in a forthcoming bombshell investigative book by three-time New York Times bestselling author Peter Schweizer, according to a Thursday statement from publishing giant HarperCollins. The publisher says the book, Clinton Cash: The Untold Story of How and Why Foreign Governments and Businesses Helped Make Bill and Hillary Rich, is the culmination of an exhaustive one-year deep dive investigation into the nexus between the Clintons’ $100+ million personal wealth, the Clinton Foundation, and the decisions Hillary made as Secretary of State that benefited foreign donors, governments, and companies.

VCS’s coveted gold mining exploitation permit was apparently such a sweetheart deal that it outraged the Haitian senate, since royalties to be paid to the Haitian government were only 2.5%, a sum mining experts say is at least half the standard rate. Moreover, the mining project in Morne Bossa came with a generous ability to renew the project for up to 25 years. Nevertheless, the fledgling company proudly touted its luck in landing the deal.


But I'm sure it's just a coincidence, like all of the other coincidences involving the Clinton family's amazing good fortune. Who needs cattle futures when you can buy a gold mine with the American taxpayer's money?


Hat tip: BadBlue News

Trash Day at the White House

By Springer


Read more at Springer's Blog

Larwyn's Linx: Obama to Adopt the Power for Taxation for Himself

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Nation

Obama to Adopt the Power for Taxation for Himself: Keith Koffler
Basic Cable: Mark Steyn
The Cure For The GOP Betrayal On Amnesty? It’s The Primaries, Stupid!: CHQ

The audacity of weakness: Victor Davis Hanson
Did Hillary Commit a Felony?: Shannen Coffin
Obama's War on Transparency: NB

Curiouser and curiouser….: And Still I Persist
Where Was Hillary?: FreeLight
They're Coming To Take Me Away: Bergheim Follies

Open Borders: 7 of 8 Mexican Cartels Operating in Texas: Sara Noble
Jeb Bush: The Leading Anti-Conservative Candidate: Politichicks
With Hillary Imploding, Now Traveling to Caucus State Iowa Is... Al Gore: Ace

Economy

IRS Defends Giving Refunds to Illegals Who Never Paid Taxes: Gretawire
110,000 Illegal Immigrants Get California Driver’s Licenses In 7 Weeks: LI
HHS Shifts Money From Cancer To Pay For Health Insurance Exchange: Kaiser

Scandal Central

Emailgate May Be the Final Scandal to Sink Hillary Clinton: Jim Hoft
Hacker Reveals Contents from Hillary’s Private E-Mails and Shows Who She Was Talking To: IJR
Bigger Question: Did Hillary use unsecured email for Classified Info?: LI

Federal judge blasts EPA: Stop insulting me with your lies: Jeff Dunetz
Texas Gov. Abbott: White House Misled Federal Judge - Contempt of Court : Scoop
Judicial Watch Sues for Hillary and Huma’s Egypt Emails: JW

Climate & Energy

Ethanol: The GOP-Supported Rip-Off: Larry Elder
Media Ignores UN Climate Chief Who Says Global Warming is ‘My Religion’ : RWN
Wyoming Now to Indoctrinate School Kids in Global Warming: RWN

Media

Holder Admits ‘Hands Up, Don’t Shoot’ Claim Was Bogus: Neil Munro
Hillary Clinton leaked e-mail story to New York Times before tweet: FAM
RNC: America Can't Trust Clinton: RightPundit

Going Bananas: A Case Study in Media-Manufactured Racism: Michelle Malkin
Krauthammer: Obama’s “Pettiness” Turned Netanyahu Speech into “the Speech of the Decade”: FreeLight
A flustered Marie Harf is grilled on Clinton’s private email: LI

Morning Joe: NYT Reporter Fearing 'Retribution' From Hillary Camp for Email Story?: NB
MSNBC: Hillary Personal Email Use at State ‘Staggering’, ‘Shocking’ and ‘Ridiculous’: WFB
Media Matters’ Eric Boehlert Mocks Mother of Benghazi Hero; Deletes Tweet: Sooper

World

Attacker in South Korea slashes U.S. ambassador’s face: Times
Four Rival Factions Pick Over Syria’s Bones: Jonathan Spyer
Unprecedented: Nobel Peace Prize chair who oversaw Obama award demoted: RT

Israeli Politicians Across Spectrum Express Concern About Emerging Iran Nuke Deal: The Tower
Imam Who Said Ayaana Hirsi Ali Deserved Death Penalty Was Hired By DOJ To Teach Prisoners: Yahoo!
Europe must be pushed to fight the endemic scourge of anti-Semitism: Skip Grinberg & Gregg Roman

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

The Folly of Scientism : Austin L. Hughes, The New Atlantis
Goodyear’s Concept Tires Shift Shapes and Generate Electricity: Automnews
Experts: Clinton email practices risked data disclosures: Phys.Org

Cornucopia

Crossing the Rubicon: MOTUS
My Year Ripping Off the Web with the Daily Mail Online: Gawker
Vince Vaughn uses stock photo gag to promote Unfinished Business: Cult of Mac

Image: Goodyear’s Concept Tires Shift Shapes and Generate Electricity
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QOTD: "We're now being told [by the Republican leadership]: hey, relax, this whole illegal-executive-action amnesty thing can be left to the courts - just like Obamacare.

Hmm. The impressively rubber-jointed contortions of a constitutional court are one of the differences between America and most of the rest of the west, and they are not without their entertainment value. But they seem less and less relevant as the ruling party's contempt for law grows ever more open. At the dawn of the Obama era, Americans used to be warned that, if they weren't careful, they'd wind up like Europe. But, whatever one feels about it ideologically, the Swedes come by their Big Government more or less honestly. America seems to have bypassed Continental social democracy and gone full-blown Latin-American banana republic" --Mark Steyn

Wednesday, March 04, 2015

REPORTS: Hillary's Use of Covert Email System to Skirt Subpoenas May Constitute a Felony

Geriatric oligarch hacks hardest hit.

The Federal Records Act requires the preservation of any official “record,” which is defined functionally to require preservation whenever a record relates to the performance of a federal official’s duties. There is little question that Hillary Clinton was conducting official business on her private e-mail account...

...the law as it existed before Mrs. Clinton was secretary of state, were codified by National Archives Regulations in 2009, which required that any records created on private e-mail accounts must be saved to the federal-records system. And Congress confirmed that in 2013, by adopting a prohibition on the use of private e-mail, unless the employee forwards to or copies an official e-mail account within 60 days of the record’s creation...

...Mrs. Clinton did something here that went well beyond occasional or incidental use of private e-mail accounts. She eschewed the use of an official account entirely, and deliberately established a private e-mail account, apparently maintained on a server in the Clintons’ New York home. As a result, her e-mails were at no time during her tenure in office subject to the Federal Records Act ...

[Despite scores] of Freedom of Information Act requests that would have implicated her e-mails[,] they were never searched, even though a reasonable search of all responsive federal records must be made in response to FOIA requests. And the records would have been relevant to congressional inquiries as well, including continuing investigations of the Benghazi attacks.

Why does that matter? Well, a federal criminal law makes it a felony when any custodian of official government records “willfully and unlawfully conceals, removes, mutilates, obliterates, falsifies, or destroys the same.” The crime is punishable by up to three years in prison. And interestingly, Congress felt strongly enough about the crime that it included the unusual provision that the perpetrator shall “forfeit his office and be disqualified from holding any office under the United States.”

I suspect that Lanny Davis just let loose a little dinky in his trunks.

As Flyovercountry observes, "Her crime, my fellow gentle snow flakes, had little to do with email, although that was the vehicle which she used to commit her transgression. Her crime was establishing a subpoena-proof system to hide her dealings on behalf of a public which has a legal right to know what their servant is up to, even before she held the job for which said email was to be used. She committed a covert act, three days before her confirmation hearing to cover up a crime she hadn’t even committed yet, but clearly was planning on committing in the very near future. The holder of the Guinness Wold Book of Records most sleazy crook has witnessed the exploits of Hillary Clinton and declared, “Hell’s Bells, that’s some sleazy stuff!”


Hat tip: BadBlue News

Obama EPA Chief Can’t Say Whether Climate Models Were False Or Not

Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) grilled EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy earlier today and solicited a stunning admission.

Sessions: “When we go to our states, the group we have the most complaints about from our constituents—whether it’s highway people, whether it’s farmers, whether it’s energy people—is the Environmental Protection Agency. It’s an [agency of] extraordinary overreach. And you apparently are unaware of the pushback that’s occurring in the real world… So now you say that we’ve got a crisis and there are dangers out there. Let me ask you this. There was an article from Mr. [Bjorn] Lomborg… from the Copenhagen Institute. He says, along with Dr. Pielke from Colorado, that we’ve had fewer droughts in recent years. Do you dispute that?”

McCarthy: “I don’t know in what context he’s making statements like that…”

Sessions: “What about hurricanes. Have we had more or less hurricanes in the last decade?” …

McCarthy: “In terms of landing those hurricanes on land, I cannot answer that question. It’s a very complicated issue.”

Sessions: “It’s not complicated on how many have landed. We’ve had a dramatic reduction in the number. We’ve gone a decade without a hurricane [Category] 3 or above… Would you acknowledge that over the last 18 years, that the increase in temperature has been very little, and that it is well below, matter of fact 90 percent below most of the environmental models that showed how fast temperature would increase?” …

McCarthy: “I do not know what the models actually are predicting that you are referring to…”

Sessions: “This is a stunning development, that the head of the Environmental Protection Agency—who should know more than anybody else in the world, who is imposing hundreds of billions of dollars in cost to prevent this climate temperature increase—doesn’t know whether their projections have been right or wrong.”


Hat tip: Stephen.

Chuck Jones' Rules for Writing the Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote

This is great:



Hat tip: BadBlue Tech News

Most Transparent Administration Ever Suffers Curious Epidemic of Disappearing Email Systems, Crashed Hard Drives and Lost Backup Tapes

Remember when Barack Obama promised his would be the "most open and transparent administration ever"?

Hahahahahahahahahahaha. Good times, good times.


Disappearing email systems:

A week before becoming Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton set up a private e-mail system that gave her a high level of control over communications, including the ability to erase messages completely, according to security experts who have examined Internet records.

Here's why unions despise right-to-work

By Jason Hart

Have you ever wondered why labor unions are so strongly opposed to right-to-work laws?

Watch this brief video and wonder no more.

Larwyn's Linx: Boehner’s Surrender On DHS Funding Is The Beginning Of The End Of His Speakership

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Nation

Boehner Surrender On DHS Marks Beginning Of The End Of His Speakership: HayRide
Replace John Boehner as House Speaker: RS
Republicans That are Unfit for Office in the House of Representatives: Jen Kuznicki

Bibi’s Speech—The Real Fallout: Roger L. Simon
Nancy Pelosi Throws Temper Tantrum: Joel Gehrke
White House sort of admits that this Hillary email thing has legs: Moe Lane

Cave: Hot Air
DHS funding bill passes on Democrat votes: RS
The Constitution has Failed: Leon Wolf

The Hillary Cover-Up and the End of Democracy: Ben Shapiro
Prime time for Scott Walker, whether he’s ready or not: Jonah Goldberg
Another Cuomo Fail: Murders, Shootings Up in NYC: Rusty Weiss

Economy

Stakes rise in the 25-year-old H-1B battle: Patrick Thibodeau
Illinois Pension Plans 39% Funded – Taxpayers On the Hook: UnionWatch
Right-to-Work Sweeps Midwest, Heads for Passage in Wisconsin: Mish

Scandal Central

Obama Announces His Plans to Nationalize Local and State Law Enforcement: Steven Ahle
Trey Gowdy Says He’s Going After Hillary Clinton’s Personal Emails on Benghazi : Blaze
Hillary Clinton's Private E-Mail Draws Scrutiny: TSG

IRS Defends Allowing Illegal Aliens To Get Retroactive Tax Breaks Under Obama Amnesty: WZ
"Huge" just turned into "super huge": Ace
Petraeus Gave 'Black Books' Full of Spy Secrets to Mistress: Max

Media

House Dems Declare Victory: “Boehner Backed Down! We Did It!”: WZ
Mark Levin Hammers Feinstein Over Recent Comments Lobbed Against Benjamin Netanyahu: IJR
Rush Limbaugh: Obama Treats Netanyahu Like He’s a “White Policeman from Ferguson”: GWP

GOP's Failure Theater: Ace
Gee, Lanny Davis seems a little on edge about this Hillary Clinton email thing: Doug Powers
CPAC’s Best & Worst Dressed 2015 Edition: Olastyle Hawatmeh

World

First They Came for the Jews: Ben Shapiro
Obama, the godfather of prefabricated revolutions in the Arab World, one of the worst presidents: Hooben
Iran calls Obama's 10-year nuclear demand 'unacceptable': Reuters

Obama's Failure: Stephen F. Hayes
Bibi Changes the Debate: Dick Morris
Saudi Arabia Gives Top Award to Prominent Hate Preacher: Clarion

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QOTD: "...if we’re successful negotiating, then in fact this will be the best deal possible to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon. Nothing else comes close. Sanctions won’t do it. Even military action would not be as successful as the deal that we have put forward." --Barack Obama, father of Syria's "Red Line" and the "Jay Vee Team" (ISIS)

Tuesday, March 03, 2015

Pro-Nuclear Iran Democrats Throw Temper Tantrums Over Netanyahu's Magnificent Address to Congress

Perhaps because it highlights the contrast between a leader and a community agitator with extremely questionable motives.

A senior administration official told CNN that Netanyahu’s address was “all rhetoric.”

“Literally, not one new idea,” the official told CNN. “Not one single concrete alternative. All rhetoric, no action.”

...The White House expressed its displeasure with the appearance by word and deed, dispatching Vice President Joe Biden on an overseas trip that meant he did not fill his customary seat behind the House rostrum during the speech. Nor did Netanyahu meet at the White House with Obama on his trip to the United States.

Nobel Peace Prize winner Elie Wiesel was among those in attendance for Netanyahu’s speech.

The dessicated oligarch known as Nancy Pelosi also stormed out in a huff after a perceived affront, with her face following closely behind.