Saturday, March 14, 2015

Federal Judge Not Only Halts Obama's Lawless Amnesty Order, But Also Demands He Do This

By Warner Todd Huston

The judge who put a halt to Obama’s amnesty plans was being pressured to put aside his ruling by Obama’s administration. But instead of bowing to pressure the judge demanded that Obama send his representatives to his courtroom to explain why they think they have the powers to even issue the amnesty and why they lied about what they’ve already done.

Obama’s team already admitted that they lied to federal Judge Andrew Hanen about what actions have been taken to push Obama’s amnesty and the judge is furious about it.

“The hearing is in response to a filing last week in which the government acknowledged three-year deportation reprieves were granted before Hanen’s Feb. 16 injunction, which temporarily halted Obama’s action, sparing from deportation as many as 5 million people in the U.S. illegally.”

The coalition of 26 states which had convinced Judge Hanen to temporarily block Obama’s executive amnesty charges that the government misled the judge about not implementing part of the plan before the judge halted it, giving the states more time to argue against the president’s unilateral action on immigration.

Judge Hanen is demanding that the administration explain why they issued amnesty papers to up to 100,000 illegals despite telling the judge they hadn’t made any such moves.

This brave judge is not buckling under Obama’s pressure and is instead bringing pressure of his own to bear.


Read more Warner Todd Huston at PubliusForum.com

HEY, N00BS: Laws are for the little people, not the Clintons!

By Investor's Business Daily

Transparency: Hillary Clinton insists she did everything by the book, that she broke no laws and heeded all regulations. That book is obviously not the State Department records management handbook.

The government's book says that you don't get to keep materials, classified or unclassified, in your personal possession and then get to sift through them at your leisure to decide which ones the government that paid you gets to see.

All documents are the property of the government. The State Department determines which ones are returned to you.

As Shannen W. Coffin, a contributing editor at National Review and senior lawyer at both the White House and Justice Department under President George W. Bush, points out, a provision titled "Removal Procedures" requires departing federal employees to relinquish any classified materials at the time of departure and to clear the removal through records-management officials.

State Department employees, from the secretary on down, have to abide by this process.According to Coffin, the records management handbook says, "(The) departing official or a staff member must prepare an inventory of personal papers and non-record materials proposed for removal."

Then the departing official must "request a review of the materials proposed for removal."

On leaving, the official must sign Form OF-109, a formal separation statement, certifying under penalty of law the departing official has "surrendered to responsible officials all unclassified documents and papers relating to the official business of the government acquired by me while in the employ of the (State) Department."

The employee does not get to determine what is classified or not, personal or not, and Clinton's assertion that she never emailed classified material is, as they say in court, irrelevant and immaterial.

Larwyn's Linx: 'The problem is not Netanyahu, the problem is Obama'

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Nation

'The problem is not Netanyahu, the problem is Obama': Israel Hayom
Now House writes Iran letter to Obama on Iran: Charles Hoskinson
Tom Cotton's Truth Bomb: Rich Lowry

It's Either Hillary or Biden: Daniel Greenfield
Hillary Is Being Investigated for a Possible Felony: Sara Noble
Comedic Gold At The Bloomberg View: RS

Democrats Have a Corruption Problem: Phil Kerpen
Valerie Jarrett: My 'Job' Is to Be Obama's 'Friend': Daniel Halper
Muslim Man Threatens Jews With Beheading Outside Synagogue: Western

Boehner House Reauthorizes $7.4B Amtrak Boondoggle: Daniel Horowitz
The FAA Says You Can't Post Drone Videos on YouTube: Jason Koebler
Hillary’s War on the Women Who Boinked Bill: John Hawkins

Economy

Mark Zuckerberg’s immigration hustle: Toshio Meronek
More Seattle restaurants close doors as $15 minimum wage approaches: RWN
Why Should We Care about Greece?: Michael Booth

Scandal Central

ATF Wants To Go After All 5.56 mm Ammunition, Not Just Green Tip: Herschel Smith
Clinton Faces Broader Email Deception Issue Involving Entire State Department: Michael Astrue
Star GOP Congressman Finances Lavish Life with Taxpayer Money: JW

Climate & Energy

It *may* be the last year of California as we know it. *May*.: Moe Lane
Al Gore: Climate Deniers Need To Pay A Price: P.W. Adams
GM recalls Chevrolet Volt over carbon monoxide: USA Today

Media

The Appalachian Messenger: WRSA
Still Not Ready for Her Closeup: Ed Driscoll
Giuliani: Obama to Blame for Ferguson Police Shootings--He Sets the Tone for the Nation: GWP

Reminder from Gawker: Hillary’s corruption is Obama’s too: Ed Morrissey
Poll: Benghazi getting worse for Hillary Clinton: Paul Bedard
Terri Lovell: On Feb. 25, as I listened to the Mark Levin show on the radio in my car: SignalSCV

Jake Tapper: Hillary’s Email Defense ‘Not Quite Accurate’: Ian Hanchett
Pic Of The Day: Obama Pinocchio: WZ
Republicans (and Democrats) in Congress Plan to Use a Fake Crisis to Raise Your Taxes: Leon Wolf

World

Obama’s Iran scheme is laid bare: Jennifer Rubin
France: Muslims assault, rob Jewish teens, screaming “dirty Jews, we will exterminate you": JihadWatch
Bibi in Serious Trouble with Only Days to Go Until Election: Avner Zarmi

Breaking: 15 DACA Amnesty Recipients Arrested: Daniel Horowitz
Let Us Count the Gulags: David Solway
Is Barack Obama a Christian?: Joy Overbeck

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

FCC Cites Soros-Funded Group 46 TIMES In New Regs: DC
The Future of Autos: P&F
Comcast-TWC, AT&T-DirecTV merger reviews halted by FCC: Daniel Frankel

Cornucopia

"Adventure Is Calling II " Watch It Full Screen...: Feral Irishman
Bill Clinton Is My Daddy: Hideout
Alex Honnold's death-defying ropeless cliff climbs: Mark Frauenfelder

Image: So God Made A Clinton
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QOTD: "We have seen this again and again from this president — the complete contempt for coequal branches of government and determination to act in ways contrary to our constitutional structure and overwhelming public opinion (84 percent of Americans don’t favor a 10-year glide path to Iran getting a bomb). In the case of immigration, it took the form of an executive order overriding existing immigration laws under the theory that the president was using “discretion” to delay deportation of certain illegal immigrants. That is now in the courts. But his dual strategy of sabotaging strict U.N. resolutions and waiving U.S. sanctions is far more dangerous and nefarious. It gives primacy to an international body over Congress and the laws of the United States. It assumes sole authority in foreign affairs, something not envisioned in the Constitution, which divides powers between the two branches. Lawmakers have every right to feel as though they were misled and are being entirely marginalized once again.

A senior Republican on Capitol Hill tells me, “Everyone knows, including Democrats, that Obama and [Secretary of State John] Kerry are dangerously close to cutting a bad deal and lifting sanctions and shutting out Congress. If you don’t believe that just ask Democrats privately. They know it.”" --Jennifer Rubin

Friday, March 13, 2015

The Founders Didn't Fail. We Are Failing the Founders.

By Benjamin Weingarten

Conservatives are understandably depressed in the wake of Speaker Boehner and the Republican-controlled Congress’ predictable caving on executive amnesty.

Let me stop right there by emphasizing that I only said conservatives. Were our republic healthy, every single American would be depressed that President Obama’s amnesty—which on dozens of occasions he said he did not have the authority to enforce—will continue apace to the benefit of lawbreakers at the expense of American citizens.

Americans would be further demoralized at the notion that our president politicized the sovereignty of our nation represented by failing to protect its borders, all in a transparent attempt to win a permanent Democratic majority—which the shortsighted Republican establishment seem perfectly fine with, since they want immigration and the idea of “those racist Republicans” to become non-issues.

Some are lamenting the cowardice of our representatives, and to that I quote a former NFL Coach: “They are who we thought they were!

I have even seen one article arguing that the Constitution itself has failed. But the Constitution and our Founders did not fail. Human nature has not changed between 1787 and 2015. There were undoubtedly plenty of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century booze-swilling, cigar-smoking iterations of John Boehner lumbering around Capitol Hill.

What has changed is the size and scope of government, the number and composition of people who are voting, and the public’s general indifference to and acceptance of the greed, graft, lying, and all matter of corruption that have become commonplace in public life. There is also a heck of a lot more bread and circuses to keep us fat, happy, and distracted from what our supposed leaders are doing.

FORMER DOJ DEPUTY ATTORNEY GENERAL: Hillary Clinton Broke The Law. Period.

Transcript via Real Clear Politics

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

It would be funnier if a felony wasn't involved.



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3 Charts That Demonstrate American Exceptionalism Remains Alive Despite Barack Obama's Best Efforts

By James Pethokoukis

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

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Nation

Top 5 Times the Dems Sabotaged Republican Foreign Policy: LI
Tom 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 Erickson
NLRB 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?: RS
Talk 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: RS
Anti-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: RS
Did 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: Fox
New 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: iOTWreport
I 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

By Sara Noble

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

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Nation

Hillary’s email explanation is self-contradictory – here’s how: LI
Remember 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 Ellis
6.5 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: RWN
Separation 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 Bruce
Even 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: WFB
The ‘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, ZDNet
Virtual 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: MOTUS
Attention 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
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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!

By Yaël Ossowski

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"

By The Tower

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

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Nation

Federal Judge Orders Investigation of Illegal Acts By Obama Administration: Steve Ahle
America'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: JWF
Obama’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: LI
Hillary 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 Williams
Giant Chunks Of Global Warming Ice Wash Ashore On Cape Cod: CBS Boston
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: MOTUS
The 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 Clark
Traitor 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 Malkin
10 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!!: Sooper
People 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
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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

By Lawrence Sellin

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

Via Glenn Beck

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

Maybe her illegal email server -- which explicitly violates the Federal Records Act -- will turn up in the White House someday like those infamous Rose Law Firm files?



Larwyn's Linx: ‘It will be a crime if she knowingly withholds documents pursuant to subpoena’

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Nation

‘It will be a crime if she knowingly withholds documents pursuant to subpoena’: JWF
Clinton 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: CFIF
WI 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: MagNote
New 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: Exam
EPA 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: GWP
It'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 Schwartz
The 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 Bhatia
Google 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: MOTUS
Teen 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

By Caroline Glick

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

By Gerren McHam

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

By The Tower

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.