Friday, March 13, 2015
FORMER DOJ DEPUTY ATTORNEY GENERAL: Hillary Clinton Broke The Law. Period.
MEGYN KELLY: Shannen, good to see you tonight. So, let's start with the broad brush, which is she followed all the rules, all the rules and she didn't commit any crimes whatsoever. You've been maintaining all along that's not necessary -- it's not true on the rules and it may not be true on the law if she concealed or destroyed federal records.
SHANNEN COFFIN, FORMER COUNSEL TO VICE PRESIDENT CHENEY: It's demonstrably not true on the rules. She didn't comply with the Federal Records Act. And she clearly did not comply with her own records management handbook for the Department of State which sets out a very specific process about how you remove records from the department control.
PIC: One of her neighbors trolls Hillary
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— The People's Cube (@ThePeoplesCube) March 13, 2015Hat tip: BadBlue News
3 Charts That Demonstrate American Exceptionalism Remains Alive Despite Barack Obama's Best Efforts
Pew Research Center surveyed people in 44 countries last spring and discovered that America was exceptional in ways beyond economic wealth and military power. Americans really do think differently when it comes to individualism, God, and whether they are having a good day. Draw your own conclusions about correlation and causality:
Larwyn's Linx: Top 5 Times the Dems Sabotaged Republican Foreign Policy
Nation
Top 5 Times the Dems Sabotaged Republican Foreign Policy: LITom Cotton: The Most Powerful Man in Washington: Erick Erickson
It’s Not Just Iran You Can’t Trust: Mona Charen
Michelle Obama Celebrates Iran’s Festival of Spring at the White House: Glob
Milwaukee Sheriff Practically Blames Obama for Shootings: Keith Koffler
Sheriff David Clarke Slams Holder’s ‘Empty Rhetoric’ And ‘Junk Report’: Brian Carey
Hillary Nukes Herself From Orbit: Ace
Jeb Bush isn’t the GOP’s ideal ‘change’ candidate: Jonah Goldberg
WaPo fact checker: This true claim from Ted Cruz is “a nonsense fact”: Hot Air
Hillary's email deletions after subpoena incandescently illegal: Ace
Supreme Court Will Never Decide Obamacare’s Fate: Scott Rasmussen
Coburn: Nation needs Article V convention to restrain federal encroachment: CJ
Economy
Ten Dollars in Cuts for One Dollar in Tax Increases: Erick EricksonNLRB Offers Training On ‘Ambush Election Rules’ At Union Office: LUR
California Professors Sign Letter in Support of UC Irvine American Flag Ban: CI
Scandal Central
Did Hillary let friends use State Department gigs as a piggy bank?: RSTalk about bad luck… two fires destroyed Al Sharpton’s tax records: Jazz Shaw
Hillary's Rose Law Firm Career a Sign of What Was to Come?: Jennifer Kerns
Media
The Great Press Conference of 2015: RSAnti-Gun Action Star Liam Neeson Mocked By Fake Poster As New Movie Premiers: Bob Owens
Oklahoma U. Expels Racist Students, But Not Violent Football Players: Reason
On Conservatives and Losing: RS
‘Smell the fear': Is Hillary the Democrats’ ‘whole plan’ for 2016?: Twitchy
Jon Stewart Tears into Hillary’s Email ‘Convenience’ Excuse: Mediaite
World
Obama’s Iran scheme makes nuclear war likely: RSDid Obama Go for a Non-Binding Deal With Iran to Dodge Senate? State Dep’t Won’t Say: CNS
California is Home to America’s First Accredited Islamic College: CI
Why China Will Lose the War It is Planning: David Archibald
Exclusive: the NHS report that Labour tried to block: Isabel Hardman
Arab Woman Columnist Marks International Women's Day With Sarcastic Article: MEMRI
Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)
NASA launches billion-dollar mission to solve mystery of magnetic fields: FoxNew smoking gun further ties NSA to omnipotent “Equation Group” hackers: Dan Goodin
2,500-Year-Old Bison-Kill Site Offers New Clues Into Ancient Culture of Northern Plains: WesternDigs
Cornucopia
Hillary Milhous Clinton: iOTWreportI Stole Hillary’s Emails: Roger L. Simon
Can you beat the caption?: C&S
Image: Drunk Hillary?
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QOTD: "State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki declined to answer directly Thursday when asked whether the administration was pursuing a “non-binding” nuclear agreement with Iran in order to sidestep the U.S. Senate advise and consent requirement that would apply in the case of a treaty.
She tussled briefly with a reporter over the matter, as he pressed her for an answer and she insisted she had already given one" --David Goodenough
Thursday, March 12, 2015
Why Obama freaked out when 47 GOP Senators sent a letter to Iran
The Hill reported today that the Republican letter to Iran has backfired. They said it jeopardizes the alliance Democrats and Republicans have formed to pass the Iran sanctions bill, a bill that might prove worthless in the end. Once this deal is through, Barack Obama will impede and delay any efforts by Congress regardless of the bill. What the hill failed to consider is the letter successfully sent the message to the Mullahs.
It is what is being lost in all this.
The letter infuriated Barack Obama because it told the Mullahs that any deal must include Congress and the president is not the sole decision maker. It infuriates Obama personally and ideologically to have his power limited.
Forty-seven members of the Republican senate united to make a point and the other seven are uniting to throw them under the bus along with the media.
The seven Republicans who did not sign the letter to Iran are out ripping it along with the Wall Street Journal. It plays into the president’s power over Democrats. The Corker-Menendez bill might now be in danger of not getting the 60 votes needed to pass but the message in the letter is arguably as important.
The Republicans should consider doing what the Democrats and a Hillary Clinton might do – dismiss the attacks and diminish the opposition. Instead of defending themselves, they need to use the opportunity to talk about the seriousness of this lousy deal. They need to make that case and not be distracted.
It’s understandable that some would not want to sign the letter but it is not understandable that they would then attack 47 of their colleagues and give support to the president’s case. If they think siding with the Democrats will get votes, they’re mistaken. They just gave them a platform.
Democrats are now insisting the Republicans denounce the letter on the Senate floor but the letter was 100% accurate.
Larwyn's Linx: Hillary’s email explanation is self-contradictory – here’s how
Nation
Hillary’s email explanation is self-contradictory – here’s how: LIRemember when John Kerry violated the Logan Act in 1985?: FAM
Pelosi: My trip to Syria was nothing like the GOP's Iran letter: Hill
Does Anyone Believe Hillary Clinton?: Debra Saunders
Mitch McConnell says he will fight really, really hard this time: RS
Republican Opposition to Lynch Might Make History: David Hawkings
‘We the People’ Logan Act online petition is unintentionally hysterical: Moe Lane
What Really Upsets Obama About the Letter to Iran from 47 Senators: Sara Noble
Tom Cotton To Joe Biden: You’ve Been Wrong For 40 Years: Jerome Hudson
A Chance at Redemption: Erick Erickson
A 2016 Advantage?: Joe Cunningham
Two Officers Shot Outside of Ferguson Police Department: Blaze
Economy
101 Years of the Federal Income Tax: Ryan Ellis6.5 Million People With Active Social Security Numbers Are 112 or Older: CNS
US Declined To Prosecute Illegals Using Dead People SSNs: S&L
Scandal Central
Surprise: Eric Holder Also Used Secret Email Aliases to Violate Federal Records Act: RWNSeparation Statement: Instapundit
Gowdy: Benghazi Panel Will Ask Clinton to Appear — Twice: David Eldridge
Media
Friends of Hillary: It’s Just Right-Wing Talking Points, Cockamamie Goofy Stuff: Tammy BruceEven MSNBC Admits Clinton Emails ‘Vindicate’ Benghazi Committee: Surge
AP sues State Department, seeking access to Clinton records: MyWay
The Eight Biggest Lies Hillary Told At Her Email Press Conference: Jeff Dunetz
NY Post Cover: Hillary Clinton “Deleter Of The Free World”: WZ
Class Act: Axelrod Goes On Fox News To Sell His Book, Then Goes On ABC To Bash Fox: Hideout
World
Iran Declares Pre-emptive Victory in Nuke Talks: WFBThe ‘Logan Act’ is the Talking Point of Hacks and Morons: Erick Erickson
John Bolton Is Right! Obama's Iran Deal Is an Act of Surrender: EIB
SecDef: ISIS ‘metastasizing,’ U.S. intervention desperately needed: Tammy Bruce
Is Putin Well? Nixed Trip Stokes Rumors of Stroke: Tatler
Laura Ingraham Brings Up Impeachment… Over Iran: James Kirkpatrick
Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)
Apple Watch starts at $349; battery lasts (almost) a day: Zack Whittaker, ZDNetVirtual Reality Is Coming: But What Will Make It Worth Visiting?: SingularityHub
Retail Health Care Spurs Innovation In South Florida: KHN
Cornucopia
How the Smart Phone Outsmarted the Smartest Woman: MOTUSAttention Men: It is now official. No matter what you say or how you behave...: Darleen Click
Take Down: C&S
Image: Friends of Hillary: It’s Just Right-Wing Talking Points, Cockamamie Goofy Stuff
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: BadBlue Gun News (site is back up and working again)
QOTD: "The text of the Logan Act makes it a crime for citizens to engage in “any correspondence or intercourse with any foreign government . . . with intent to influence the measures or conduct of any foreign government . . . in relation to any disputes or controversies with the United States.” As Peter explained yesterday, the Senators’ letter certainly seems to fall within this language. But, critically, the citizen must act “without authority of the United States.” Although most assume that means without authority of the Executive Branch, the Logan Act itself does not specify what this term means, and the State Department told Congress in 1975 that “Nothing in section 953 . . . would appear to restrict members of the Congress from engaging in discussions with foreign officials in pursuance of their legislative duties under the Constitution." --Steve Vladeck (via RedState's "The ‘Logan Act’ is the Talking Point of Hacks and Morons")
Wednesday, March 11, 2015
No one in the federal government has the slightest idea how to use computers except for Hillary Clinton!
Yet again, Americans can rest reassured their government officials don’t really know how to use email. Or technology for that matter. Save for Hillary Clinton, of course.
This has been made more clear after revelations that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton used her private email address, hdr22@clintonemail.com, during her tenure to conduct State Department business, bringing the topic of email and Internet security back into the national limelight.
It’s claimed Clinton hosted her own email server at home, a practice endorsed by privacy enthusiasts as one of the best ways to avoid the government snooping on your private emails. The irony being, of course, Clinton was one of the country’s most powerful government officials and using this practice.
This set-up allowed Clinton to keep her emails far away from the prying eyes of the Federal Records Act, which requires government officials to keep digital records of their email correspondence. Her staffers only recently disclosed her emails to the State Department for review, according to the Associated Press, and only upon request.
A public probing of Clinton’s email set-up has revealed a staggering ignorance on the part of government officials when it comes to email specifically, and technology more generally.
U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-South Carolina, declared on national television on Sunday he’s never sent a single email.
BECAUSE, CRUSADES: Kerry, State Department Agree That any Iran Deal Would Be "Non-Binding"
Over the past two days, both U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and State Department Spokesperson Jen Psaki have admitted that the current nuclear deal being negotiated with Iran is “non-binding.”
Speaking at a hearing of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee today, Kerry said that the deal is not “legally binding.”“We’ve been clear from the beginning we’re not negotiating a legally binding plan. We’re negotiating a plan that will have a capacity for enforcement,” he told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
“We don’t even have diplomatic relations with Iran right now.”
Kerry made his remarks in the context of addressing what he called the “misconceptions” contained in the open letter released earlier this week that was signed by 47 Senators.
In an exchange with reporters at yesterday’s daily State Department press conference, Psaki was asked how the deal could be non-binding if the United States does not trust Iran. The video is embedded below the transcript.
Larwyn's Linx: Federal Judge Orders Investigation into Illegal Acts By the Obama Administration
Nation
Federal Judge Orders Investigation of Illegal Acts By Obama Administration: Steve AhleAmerica's Ex-Wife: Erick Erickson
The Hillary Email Scandal: Who Profits?: Roger L. Simon
The Mendacious, Charmless, Painfully Mediocre And Unelectable Hillary Clinton: HayRide
Hillary's Train Wreck Press Conference: Spin, Lies and Unanswered Questions: Howling
Carefully scripted Hillary knocked out of comfort zone: Jonah Goldberg
ATF Pulls the Plug on Obama’s Insane Ammo Ban: JWF
Judge Denies Stay in Handgun Transfer Ban Case: LI
The Fourth Branch: Is the US being run by a Shadow Government?: Scoop
Senate Was Warned About Obama’s End Run on Iran: Betsy McCaughey
Boehner-McConnell’s Playbook Incentivized Barack Obama’s Liberal Push: RS
Senator Tom Cotton (R, AR) speaks truth to Biden on foreign policy: Moe Lane
Economy
Unpopular President Rips Popular Governor For Allowing People to Work: JWFObama’s Not-so-Secret Immigration Operational Center: Leon Wolf
Obama Family '14 Xmas Vacation in Hawaii: $3.7MM for Transport Alone: JW
Scandal Central
Internet Catches Hillary in Three Provable Email Falsehoods: LIHillary emerges from behind stonewall for tightly controlled press conference: LI
Mystery location of Clinton email server seen as 'matter of national security': James Rosen
Hillary Tries To Quell Email Controversy, But Only Creates More Questions: OTB
Trey Gowdy: Hillary’s Server Or Hillary’s Testimony: Hideout
Hillary's brother got the gold mine, Haiti got the shaft: Don Surber
Climate & Energy
Global Warming: Walter WilliamsGiant Chunks Of
Bill Nye's unscientific approach to climate change in Jackson, WY: Sierra Rayne
Media
“Truth Is What You Can Make the Voter Think It Is.”–James Carville: MOTUSThe Audacity of Hill: Mark Steyn
Here Are the Most Hilarious Reactions to Hillary’s Email Scandal Press Conference: IJR
Here are Hillary's Lies: Ace
Politico Sums Up Hillary’s Message at Press Conference: ‘Go to Hell’: Stephen Kruiser
AP "Fact Check" Brutalizes Hillary's Specious Fabrications: Breitbart
FLASHBACK: The Obama 2008 Campaign Mocked McCain’s Inability to Use Email: Glob
Liberals’ Favorite ‘Income Inequality’ Economist Backtracks On His Ideas: Tammy Bruce
Why Fox News Is Winning: Tom Bevan
World
Two Genocidal Jihadist Armies Merge in the Cowardice of Silence: Matthew ClarkTraitor Ted Kennedy Secretly Asked The Soviets To Intervene In 1984 Elections: Federalist
House Democrats Send Letter to U.S. Adversary Pledging Opposition to the President: Erick Erickson
China Shows Off Its Deadly New Cruise Missiles: PopSci
Osama bin Laden’s Files: The Pakistani government wanted to negotiate: Thomas Joscelyn
Iraq: Photos claim to show IS beheading homosexuals: Times of Israel
Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)
Obamacare’s 1095-A Nightmare: Michelle Malkin10 best uses for open source software in the business world: Jack Wallen
HBO Now stand-alone service shakes up TV industry: Meg James
Cornucopia
ALL of Hillary Clinton’s State Department Accomplishments in ONE Graphic!!: SooperPeople Are Terrible, An Ongoing Series: Ace
If Obama Had To Wear a Sponsor’s Jacket: iOTWreport
Image: Giant Chunks Of Ice Wash Ashore On Cape Cod
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: BadBlue Gun News
QOTD: "Hillary has only two comfort zones: deep in a bunker or high on a pedestal. Drag her out of the former or knock her off the latter and she’s at sea.
In her very brief press conference Tuesday, she essentially admitted to the transgression she’s been accused of for the past week. She admitted to deleting thousands of emails. She turned over the public emails she deemed safe to give to the public and kept the rest, saying they were private, anointing herself to be the sole arbiter.
....This hints at the attitude that binds her and her husband: the belief that they are governed solely by what they choose to be governed by and what they do is right because they have done it." --Jonah Goldberg
Tuesday, March 10, 2015
The Parties of Crony Capitalism and Corruption
Prior to the 2014 mid-term elections, Reince Priebus, the chairman of the Republican National Committee claimed it's "un-American" for Barack Obama to consider implementing an executive amnesty for millions of illegal aliens across the country.

Priebus said: "We will do everything we can to make sure it doesn't happen: Defunding, going to court, injunction. You name it. It's wrong. It's illegal. And for so many reasons, and just the basic fabric of this country, we can't allow it to happen and we won't let it happen. I don't know how to be any stronger than that. I'm telling you, everything we can do to stop it we will."
Given what has transpired since the election, how eagerly the Republican leadership capitulated, if not enthusiastically facilitated the funding and implementation of Obama's "illegal" executive amnesty; one can easily conclude that Priebus must have known what he was saying was not true or he was completely out of touch with the plans of the Republican Congressional leadership.
I think he was lying to get votes.
According an article in the left-wing outlet Politico and reported by Breitbart, Republican House Speaker John Boehner held secret negotiations with Democrat Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, leading up to his decision to flip-flop and fund Obama's executive amnesty; including a pre-hashed out deal to use the hoopla around Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's March 3, 2015 address to Congress over Iran's nuclear ambitions as political cover to sneak in the extraordinarily controversial vote.
Here's How Ted Cruz Could Win the GOP Nomination for President
Last night, author Trevor Loudon joined Glenn for an in-depth discussion on the growth of the progressive movement. In the interview, Loudon said that he believed Ted Cruz could be the leader America needs to lead it away from progressivism and back towards freedom. To secure his nomination, and eventually the presidency, Loudon suggested an unusual strategy: Cruz should name his cabinet and run as a team.
Glenn: So Trevor, you say that it is not the battle between Republicans and Democrats that is coming. You say it is the battle between…?Trevor: It’s basically between the constitutionalists and the Communists. Those are the forces operating in the country today. The Communists are basically taking over the Democratic Party to a large degree, and on the other side of the fence, you’ve got the Republicans who are about a third progressives, a third go-alongs-to-get-alongs, and a third constitutionalists, and they have their Tea Party allies, the 9/12 allies, etc. So, to save America, that third of the GOP with the Tea Party, with the 9/12s, they have to be the people that do this. They are the only force that can turn this country around.
From a distance, you watch what’s happening here in America. Do you see anybody on the horizon that you think really gets it?
Yeah, look, I’m a big Ted Cruz fan, to be honest. I think he’s the one with the inspiration factor. He’s got the leadership qualities. He’s the most Reaganesque out there. I’m advocating that he runs early and names his entire cabinet, runs as a team, and barnstorms this country, you know, he puts Rand Paul as Secretary of the Treasury, do what he damn well wants to the Federal Reserve and the IRS, you know?
Nobody’s ever done that.
20 Funniest Reactions to Hillary's Catastrophic Email Press Conference
It appears Hillary is being escorted to the press conference by Mr Bean pic.twitter.com/c9ptw62vzF
— Matthew (@Matthops82) March 10, 2015So, that Hillary presser went well. pic.twitter.com/nOLhL2XCfC
— jon gabriel (@exjon) March 10, 2015hillary clinton is richard nixon without the charm
— andy levy (@andylevy) March 10, 2015Larwyn's Linx: ‘It will be a crime if she knowingly withholds documents pursuant to subpoena’
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‘It will be a crime if she knowingly withholds documents pursuant to subpoena’: JWFClinton e-mail scandal disqualifies her for president: Brian Darling
Hillary Clinton's Possibly Fatal Email Mistake: Rob Enderle
Laughing at the Death of our Republic: Collin Garbarino
Obama: I'll Make Case to American People After Iran Deal Is Made: Daniel Halper
Amnestied Illegals May Receive Social Security As Early As 2017: Ryan Lovelace
Mitch McConnell Pre-Surrendering on Debt Ceiling Just in Case: Emily Zanotti
Obama Wins Again: Republicans Done With Amnesty Challenges: Donn Marten
The ‘Disparate Impact’ Racket: Thomas Sowell
Jeb’s War on Conservatives: Jen Kuznicki
New Iowa poll testing negative messages about Hillary Clinton : Bleeding Heartland
The Article Five Solution – Demystifying a Dusty Tool: Rita Dunaway
Economy
CBO: ObamaCare Increases Deficit by $1.35 Trillion: CFIFWI Gov. Scott Walker signs Right to Work law: LI
Far Left Senator: “Real Unemployment Is Over 11%”: P.W. Adams
Scandal Central
Cheryl Mills, Hillary Clinton: What We Musn’t Forget About Benghazi: MagNoteNew FOIAs Probe Clinton Secret Email System, Lawsuits May Follow In 20 Days: JW
Conflict of Interest... Elijah Cummings is Knee Deep in IRS Scandal: RedStatements
White House: Hillary And Obama Did Email Each Other: Breitbart
Why Would Foreign Governments' Donations to the Clinton Foundation Not Count as Bribes?: Ace
Wealthy at Scandal-Plagued HSBC Have Donated/Bribed $81 Million to Hillary's Bribery Storefront: Ace
Climate & Energy
EPA's toxic mess on transparency: ExamEPA Imposes Its Ban on 80% of Wood Stoves, Fireplaces Are Not Far Behind: Sara Noble
Global warming strands thousands on Kentucky interstates: ABC
Media
NBC News Reporter Maria Shriver Lies about Lack of GOP Leadership at Selma: GWPIt's a bad idea to mix paranoia and fascist tendencies with incompetency.: Ace
Stop questioning Hillary Clinton’s use of private email, or Lanny Davis will shoot this puppy!: Doug Powers
Barron's: Clarence Thomas Is KKK Fascist: DC
The Last Temptation of Russ Feingold.: Moe Lane
Why Do American Networks Interview Tyrants?: Dennis Prager
World
Shortly after John Kerry wraps up nuke talks, Iran unveils new ICBM: Sharona SchwartzThe Danger of Negotiating with Iran: Michael Rubin
New Iranian Missiles Can Hit Europe, Raising Questions About Their Defensive Nature: Tower
RESET: Russian Jets Run ‘Attack Scenarios’ on NATO Ships: Adam Kredo
Russia’s Anti-American Fervor at Fever Pitch: AmInt
EMP: The Darkest Terrorist Threat: Jared Ogden
Over 100 freed Gitmo detainees have returned to jihad: WAW
Walking While Jewish in Britain: LI
Obama Throws Hillary Under the Bus: Dick Morris
Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)
What Your Bones Have In Common With The Eiffel Tower: Aatish BhatiaGoogle Ventures and the Search for Immortality: Bloomberg
The Best Free Tools for Making Your Own Video Games: Thorin Klosowski
Cornucopia
The Lint is Piling Up: MOTUSTeen Burglars Mistook Dead Man's Ashes For Cocaine: TSG
‘American Sniper’ Now Highest Grossing Film of 2014: Bradford Thomas
Image: Wassily Kandinsky, "Houses in Murnau on Obermarkt" (1908)
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: My Top 10 Mark Levin Transcripts
QOTD: "The Nightly News crisis exposed deep-rooted anger among many NBC journalists, who felt frustrated that Williams had been allowed to gain so much power. In recent years, the anchor had churned through executive producers who challenged him.
Others complained about Williams’s unwillingness to go after hard-hitting stories. Multiple sources told me that former NBC investigative reporters Michael Isikoff and Lisa Myers battled with Williams over stories. In February 2013, Isikoff failed to interest Williams in a piece about a confidential Justice Department memo that justified killing American citizens with drones. He instead broke the story on Rachel Maddow. That October, Myers couldn’t get Williams to air a segment about how the White House knew as far back as 2010 that some people would lose their insurance policies under Obamacare. Frustrated, Myers posted the article on NBC’s website, where it immediately went viral. Williams relented and ran it the next night. “He didn’t want to put stories on the air that would be divisive,” a senior NBC journalist told me. According to a source, Myers wrote a series of scathing memos to then–NBC senior vice-president Antoine Sanfuentes documenting how Williams suppressed her stories. Myers and Isikoff eventually left the network (and both declined to comment)." --Gabriel Sherman
Monday, March 09, 2015
Life Under the American Umbrella
South Korea lives under a US security umbrella. Both on a conventional and nuclear level, South Koreans are dependent on the US to deter North Korea from attacking them and overrunning their country.
Last Friday, US Under Secretary of State Wendy Sherman scolded South Koreans for being too nationalist. In her words, “Nationalist feelings can still be exploited, and it’s not hard for a political leader anywhere to earn cheap applause by vilifying a former enemy.”The South Koreans interpreted her remarks as criticism of their President Park Geun-hye for her refusal to reinstate reunification talks with North Korea due to Pyongyang’s refusal to discuss the dismantlement of its nuclear program.
Sherman negotiated the US’s nuclear pact with North Korea in the 1990s. The North Koreans used the deal as a smokescreen behind which they developed nuclear weapons while receiving financial assistance from the US which paid off the regime for signing the deal.
Once Pyongyang was ready to come out as a nuclear power, it threw out the nuclear inspectors, opened the sealed nuclear sites, vacated its signature on the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and began testing nuclear bombs.
Sherman is now the US’s chief negotiator in the P5+1 nuclear talks with Iran.
Even in the minority, Democrats seize control of Congress from feckless, cowardly boobs McConnell and Boehner
Are the Democrats in charge of Congress?
On its face, this question certainly seems ridiculous since Republicans regained control of the Senate and increased their majority in the House of Representatives last November.
But as we have witnessed over the last several weeks, just because Republicans have the most seats in the Senate and the House doesn’t mean they are actually in control. Just consider the Department of Homeland Security funding debate.
Last December, both chambers of Congress agreed to a $1.1 trillion dollar spending measure that funded the federal government through the next fiscal year with one caveat: the Department of Homeland Security only received a short-term extension through February 2015. Why? Popularly characterized as the “CRomnibus” deal, this action was promoted as an approach that afforded Congress the ability to address President Obama’s unilateral actions on immigration under the new Republican majorities by how they funded the Department of Homeland Security. Feeding off the momentum from the November elections, Republicans appeared motivated and equipped to tackle the president’s actions during 114th Congress.
“Come January, we’ll have a Republican House and Republican Senate, and we’ll be in a stronger position to take actions. [It is], “the most practical way to fight the president’s action.” –Speaker of the House John Boehner in December.
“If President Obama acts in defiance of the people and imposes his will on the country, Congress will act. We’re considering a variety of options. But make no mistake — make no mistake — when the newly elected representatives of the people take their seats, they will act.” –Majority Leader Mitch McConnell in November.
Or so they thought.
12 Questions Iran Refuses to Answer About its Nuclear Weapons Program
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has questions about twelve aspects of Iran’s past nuclear weapons research that the Islamic Republic has failed to satisfactorily answer, according to an analysis that appeared in The New York Times on Sunday.
These twelve areas of past Iranian research include computer simulations, detonation experiments, and delivery systems for nuclear warheads. While the analysis lists one of the areas of questions as having been discussed and two as “being on the table,” the other nine have not been discussed at all.
The one listed as having been discussed was research into electrically-fired detonators, which Iran explained as having applications for peaceful mining purposes. But experiments involving such detonators are believed to have taken place in the military base at Parchin, and Iran has not allowed a thorough investigation of the site. It has also paved over areas where the experiments are believed to have taken place.
According to the analysis, there is an ongoing debate among Western negotiators over how much weight to give to Iran’s failure to abide by past agreements (including the November 2013 Joint Plan of Action) and come clean about its illicit military nuclear program.
That inner debate, as one European official in the midst of the negotiations put it, turns on “whether to force Iran to explain its past” — especially before 2003, when American intelligence officials believe Iran operated a full-scale equivalent of the Manhattan Project — “or whether to focus on the future.”
American officials are vague when pressed on how fully Iran will have to answer questions it has avoided for years from United Nations inspectors with the International Atomic Energy Agency, based in Vienna. To date, Iran has dodged all but one of the agency’s dozen sharp questions on bomb design.
Larwyn's Linx: Next! Can we finally—finally!—be done with the Clintons?
Nation
Next! Can we finally—finally!—be done with the Clintons?: Kevin D. WilliamsonHillary Milhous Clinton: Erick Erickson
8 Times Obama Says He Was Way Out of the Loop: Sharyl Attkisson
Israel, Jews, and the Obama Administration: Victor Davis Hanson
A Strong Warning From Trevor Loudon On Illegal Amnesty: NoisyRm
Mexican Federales Running Kidnapping Crew Near Texas Border: Breitbart
It’s Time to Vacate the Speaker’s Chair: Erick Erickson
The GOP and Failure Theater: RS
Law Enforcement Officers: Obama’s Illicit Ammunition Ban is Built on a Lie: RWN
Missing Emails and 'Pay-to-Play' Whispers at Clinton Foundation: Ron Fournier
When Hillary made the case for disclosing her emails… in 2011: LI
It’s Not ‘Either…Or’ with Menendez: Andrew C. McCarthy
Economy
Vacationer in chief: Tens of millions spent on 38 Obama holidays: ExamGimp McConnell promises NO shutdown in upcoming debt limit fight: Scoop
GOP bill would kill net neutrality, strip FCC of power over Internet: Personal Liberty
Scandal Central
Gowdy: Huge Gaps Of “Months And Months” In Emails Hillary Turned Over: WZDem. Leader Harry Reid Caught Red Handed in Massive New Corruption Scandal: RWN
Did Attorney General Eric Holder Use Personal Email Address?: Sharyl Attkisson
Media
NY Times Crops George And Laura Bush Out Of Selma Pic: WZFLASHBACK: Obama Credits 1965 Selma March for Inspiring His Birth… In 1961 : GWP
The Cult of Clinton: Leon Wolf
Alleged Suppression of Investigative Reporting? Sounds Familiar…: Sharyl Attkisson
Not Anti-War, Just on the Other Side: Ed Driscoll
Donna Shalala, Former HHS Secretary, To Head Clinton Foundation: Tammy Bruce
The Unbearable Lightness Of Being…A Clinton Supporter: Derek Hunter
Boston Anti-Gun Activist Arrested For Drug-Dealing, Shooting Student Dealer In Head “Execution Style”: Treehouse
Glaciers at the NYT: The Democrats’ War on Women and Blacks: Roger L. Simon
World
DNI: 116 Terrorists Released From Gitmo Returned to Terror: TRHow Ukraine Can Win: The XX Committee
ISIS hang bodies of 'soldiers' from entrance to the city of Hawija: Daily Mail
Republicans Warn Iran -- and Obama -- That Deal Won't Last: Josh Rogin
UN Climate Official: “Global Society is Going To Need More and More Global Governance Muscle”: P.W. Adams
‘In The Land Of Faust, They Eagerly Followed A Faustian Script’: Ed Driscoll
U.S. Should Be Appalled by Japan's Historical Revisionism: Dennis P. Halpin
NYPD investigating possible threat to synagogues: Times of Israel
‘Britain’s white jihadi’ a teen from Australia: report: Times of Israel
Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)
Why the Clinton email server story matters — and why it may be worse than you think: GeekWireWhat to expect from Apple’s ‘Spring Forward’ Watch event: Cult of Mac
The Non-Existent Software Crisis: Debunking the Chaos Report: Scott W. Ambler
Cornucopia
Bracken Sends: WRSASunday Smile: Grandmother In Hospital Gets Big Surprise: WZ
Toddler survives car crash, 14 hours in frigid Utah river: The Week
Image: ‘Britain’s white jihadi’ a teen from Australia: report
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QOTD: "If you treat IRS rules the way the IRS treats IRS rules, you go to prison; if you treat federal law the way the secretary of state does, you go to prison. If you treat immigration controls the way our immigration authorities do, you go to prison. If you’re as careless in your handling of firearms as the ATF is, you go to prison. You cook your business’s books the way the federal government cooks its books, you go to prison.
Hillary Clinton is not going to prison. She’s going to release whatever emails she feels like releasing and dare any of you peons or your elected representatives to try to make her do otherwise. You’ll take what she offers, and you’ll like it." --Kevin D. Williamson
Sunday, March 08, 2015
IGNORANT: EPA Chief Gina McCarthy Can't Answer Basic Questions About the Climate
Climate Change: Gina McCarthy, head of the EPA, can't answer basic questions about global temperatures, climate models or numbers of hurricanes. She didn't know being a global warming zealot requires knowledge of math.
If the science of climate change was "settled," you'd think one of the generals in the war on global warming would have memorized the numbers that point to our planetary doom from a menace the administration says is a greater threat than terrorism.
But McCarthy was asked some pretty simple questions Wednesday at a Senate hearing Wednesday on her request for $8.6 billion to help fight the claimed imminent doom of climate change, and her performance didn't help her case.
One of the questions involved droughts and the claim that their frequency has increased due to warming that is said to be caused by mankind's increased production of greenhouse gas, such as carbon dioxide, the basis for all life on Earth but judged by the EPA to be a pollutant.
"Let me ask you this," said Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., inquired of McCarthy. "There was an article from Mr. (Bjorn) Lomborg ... from the Copenhagen Institute. He says, along with Dr. (Roger) Pielke from Colorado, that we've had fewer droughts in recent years. Do you dispute that?"
The seemingly clueless McCarthy pathetically responded that she didn't "know in what context he's making statements like that." Context? Truth has its own context, and the inconvenient truth that McCarthy wasn't aware of, or didn't want to face, is that Pielke and Lomborg are right.
OBAMA'S FORMER DEFENSE INTEL CHIEF: Uhm, Of Course Obama Lied About Al Qaeda Being on the Run to Get Reelected
People shouldn’t be surprised that Barack Obama continually lies to us. He lied to get elected and the lies were obvious, such as his lie that al Qaeda was on the run.
He’s been selling us snake oil.
To most of us, this is not big news.
Gen. Michael Flynn, who served under Barack Obama as his defense intel chief, was interviewed by Bret Baier of Special Report this past week and it was clear to him that what Barack Obama was saying was diametrically opposed to all we knew was taking place on the ground.
Bin Laden, at the time of his death, was actively running al Qaeda. Al Qaeda was not on the run. “The lines were thicker and the organizations were more robust”. Gen. Flynn said.
Larwyn's Linx: The National Security Catastrophe That Is The Obama Administration
Nation
The National Security Disaster That Is The Obama Administration: Wolf HowlingThe Evil Party: Still Smarter than the Stupid Party: Leon Wolf
Obama to Ferguson: Accept the DOJ Findings – or Else: Keith Koffler
Guess who else was on Clinton’s private at-home server: Pamela Geller
Obama learned about Clinton emails by 'reading the newspaper': Exam
Obama: ‘We’re the Slaves Who Built the White House’: Daniel Halper
Hillary Exposed Her Emails To Spies... To Hide Them From You: TechDirt
Holder: I'm Prepared to Dismantle Ferguson Police Department: Nicole Sanders
GOP lawmaker reissues legislation to dissolve the ATF: Sam Rolley
Ted Cruz stands alone after the King Corn summit: Jazz Shaw
Maryland: Where the Democratic civil war may well begin: Noah Rothman
Cruz: Menendez probe politically motivated: Jonathan Easley
Economy
Free health care is killing the states: Don SurberJuggling Economic Eggs: David Hunt
With skilled Americans out of work, why hire abroad?: Joe Guzzardi
Scandal Central
While Clinton Hid Emails, $6 Billion Went Missing in Her State Dept.: ActivistPostSenator Menendez Should Face Justice Regardless of Motive: RS
Republicans Finally Caught Up With Red Statements on Gov’t Funding of La Raza and ACORN: Red Statements
Climate & Energy
Green Alarmism: American DigestMedia
‘There Is No Spoon’: Radical Feminism and the Paranoid Matrix of Patriarchy: R.S. McCainWhy Clintons Beat the Press: James Joyner
Rick Wilson has some advice for the GOP on Hillary: This isn’t about you, so shut up: Noah Rothman
Sharia USA: Delaware Radio Host Fired for Islamist Comments : Pamela Geller
Farrakhan Tells Black Soldiers To Desert For The ‘Day Of Judgment’ For Whites: DC
Democrats Should Know Jim Crow, They Created Him: Jerome Hudson (2011)
A Question of Personality: Richard Fernandez
Overreaching in Plain English: Thomas Purcell
More Left-fascism: Undercover journalist who brought down ACORN accosted: ACC
World
Echoes of Churchill Pervade Netanyahu Speech: Belladonna RogersWhich Leaker Is Worse, Petraeus or Snowden?: Debra Saunders
Boko Haram leader pledges allegiance to the Islamic State: Thomas Joscelyn
Two Brothers Charged In Murder Of Philly Cop…Do You See What I See?: WZ
Misunderstanderers of Islam kill five in Mali restaurant terror attack: Caleb Weiss
Dutch Muslim Students: ‘The Holocaust is All Bullcrap!’: Tatler
Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)
Army Plans The War Helicopters Of Tomorrow: PopSciComcast Blocks HBO Go From Working On Playstation 4, Won't Coherently Explain Why: TechDirt
ROFL! Apple Pay Nailed: Market Ticker
Cornucopia
Multiculturalism: We Wave the White (can I say that?) Flag: MOTUSCapturing the Bridge at Remagen: American Digest
Atlanta-area garbage collector jailed for going to work too early: 7 Online
Image: Echoes of Churchill Pervade Netanyahu Speech
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QOTD: "Abu Bakr Shekau, the leader of Boko Haram, has pledged allegiance to Abu Bakr al Baghdadi, the emir of the Islamic State. Baghdadi’s organizations claims to rule large portions of Iraq and Syria as a “caliphate.” Shekau’s allegiance was made public in an eight and a half minute audio message released on Twitter. Shekau’s announcement, in Arabic, is accompanied by a simple screen shot showing a microphone and is subtitled in both English and French. An image from the message can be seen above.
Shekau addresses Baghdadi as Caliph Ibrahim, the name Baghdadi assumed after declaring last year that his organization was now a caliphate. “[W]e announce our allegiance to the Caliph of the Muslims…and will hear and obey in times of difficulty and prosperity, in hardship and ease, and to endure being discriminated against, and not to dispute about rule with those in power, except in case of evident infidelity regarding that which there is a proof from Allah,” Shekau says.
“We call on Muslims everywhere to pledge allegiance to the Caliph and support him, as obedience to Allah and as their application of the absent duty of the era,” Shekau adds. The emir of Boko Haram goes on to explain that he has pledged allegiance to Baghdadi “because there is no cure [for] the dissimilarity” in the Ummah [community of worldwide Muslims] “except the Caliphate.” He adds that should other Muslims pledge allegiance to Baghdadi it will only “enrage the enemy of Allah.”" --Thomas Joscelyn

















