Sunday, March 29, 2015
10 Best and Worst Looking Automotive Grilles
BAD: THE AUDI A8
Audi deserves special ridicule not only for this example of IGS (Immense Grille Syndrome), but also for actually starting the ginormous grille trend in 2005. Why not just use a mini-fridge as your grille, Audi?
ISIS IN ILLINOIS: "JV" terrorists plotted to kill up to 150 intentionally disarmed soldiers in Ft. Hood copycat attack
Terrorism: An Illinois National Guardsman sought to fight with Islamic State as his cousin plotted to kill scores at an Illinois National Guard facility. If they had succeeded, would President Obama call it workplace violence?
President Obama's "JV" terrorist team has metastasized to the point where its franchisees have spread across continents and oceans, with the FBI investigating ISIS-related activities and plots in all 50 states, including a very dangerous one in the commander in chief's home state of Illinois.One of those FBI investigations involved the arrest Wednesday of Hasan Edmonds — a supply specialist with the Illinois National Guard, who had trained at the Joliet Armory since 2011 — at Chicago's Midway International Airport as he prepared to board a plane to Detroit and then to Cairo via Amsterdam, with the goal of joining the Islamic State.
Two hours later, authorities picked up his cousin, Jonas Edmonds, who had planned to wear Hasan's uniform and attack the facility in the same manner that Maj. Nidal Hasan did at Fort Hood, Texas.
The cousins had scouted out the armory on Tuesday, with Hasan Edmonds picking up a copy of the facility training schedule. The plan was for Jonas Edmonds to carry out the assault using AK-47s and grenades.
IRANIAN DEFECTOR: Barack Obama wants Iran to get nukes
Iranian Defector: US arguing on Iran's behalf with P5+1 countries
Times of Israel, 29 March 2015
An Iranian journalist who was sent to cover the nuclear talks in Lausanne, Switzerland, defected over the weekend... Amir Hossein Motaghi, who was instrumental in the election of President Hassan Rouhani when he served as his personal aide during the Iranian election, asked authorities in Switzerland to grant him political asylum...
...According to the British Telegraph newspaper, Motaghi ... harshly criticized the American role in the talks, saying the White House was attempting to persuade the other members of the P5+1 group of nations (US, England, France, Russia, China and Germany) to accept Iran’s point of view.
“The US negotiating team is mainly there to speak on Iran’s behalf with other members of the 5+1 countries and convince them of a deal,” Montaghi said.
Expected Iranian nuclear deal worse than Israel feared
Reuters, 29 March 2015
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu condemned on Sunday the framework Iranian nuclear agreement being sought by international negotiators, saying it was even worse than his country had feared...
"This deal, as it appears to be emerging, bears out all of our fears, and even more than that," Netanyahu told his cabinet in Jerusalem as the United States, five other world powers and Iran worked toward a March 31 deadline in Lausanne, Switzerland.
Noting advances made by Iranian-allied forces in Yemen and other Arab countries, Netanyahu accused the Islamic republic of trying to "conquer the entire Middle East" while moving toward nuclearization.
And where will Obama be when nuclear weapons detonate in the Middle East or cities in the West?
Obama May Have Bought Sprawling, $9 Million Hawaiian Beachfront Home
Daily Caller, 22 March 2015
News reports indicate that President Barack Obama may have just purchased a beachfront home in Hawaii. But isn’t he worried about sea level rise from global warming?
Hawaii’s KTV4 News reports that a man connected to Obama purchased the multi-million dollar beachfront home featured in the show “Magnum P.I.” — the property was then sold to a limited liability corporation in Colorado. But if the House was bought on the president’s behalf, isn’t he worried that rising sea levels will harm his new real estate?
Obama has long warned that sea level rises caused by man-made global warming will make storm surges and flooding worse for coastal communities. In his 2015 State of the Union speech, Obama said “we’ll continue to see rising oceans, longer, hotter heat waves, dangerous droughts and floods.”
So why would Obama give a crap whether Iran gets nukes? He will be long gone when the piper will be paid.
Hat tip: BadBlue Real-Time News
Larwyn's Linx: Obama is charging toward an Iran deal, no matter what
Nation
Obama is charging toward an Iran deal, no matter what: Boaz BismuthPresident to Play Golf While Fate of World Decided: Keith Koffler
Negotiators closing in on Iran deal: Ethan Barton
Obamacare flying machine begins a death spiral: Times
Did Mobsters Beat Harry Reid?: John Hinderaker
34,000 Black Churches Break Ties With Presbyterian Church USA: Anthony Evans
Ted Cruz Lays Out 'Grassroots' Strategy for College Audience: Breitbart
Republicans Versus Republicans: Michael Reagan
A closer look at US Presidential hopeful Ted Cruz: JPost
Tyranny: An Essential Feature of Socialism: Doug Reich
House Democrat Develops ‘Toolkit’ for Illegal Immigrants: Katie Lapotin
N. Dakota Vote Puts U.S. a Step Closer to Convention of States: Pete Kasperowicz
Economy
The federal government’s H-1B racket: Debra SaundersAnatomy of a Budget: The Plans that Drew GOP Defections and No Dem Crossovers: Bill Straub
Santelli Stunned As Janet Yellen Admits "Cash Is Not A Store Of Value": ZH
Google controls what we buy, the news we read — and Obama’s policies: Kyle Smith
Meet Dartmouth’s new radical professors: Power Line
Cornell Denounces Video that Claims University Supports ISIS: CI
Scandal Central
Get Hillary's server, it’s now evidence of a potential crime: William A. JacobsonGOP: 'Even Nixon Didn't Destroy the Tapes': Daniel Halper
New WH Strategy on Bergdahl: Claim He's a Hero Who Left Post To Report Unit Misconduct: Treehouse
Media
Vengeance is mine, sayeth the Lord: Cold FuryKrauthammer’s Take: Harry Reid Is a ‘Disgrace’ Who ‘Emasculated’ the Senate: NRO
Video Illustrates How We Ended Up With Obama As President: BlurBrain
Nuance For Christopher Scalia: It’s The Commie Takeover Of Liberal Arts We Hammer: R.S. McCain
If Women Ran the World: Elizabeth Scalia (2013)
Exec who mocked Chick-Fil-A now on food stamps: Ethel C. Fenig
Facebook Doesn’t Want You To Read This Article: Chris Hernandez
White House drops news lid on president’s golf game; press holes up in caddy shack: Twitchy
Pop Diva Hits Fox Host with Trashy Insult After Being Called Out for Vile Anti-American Comments: IJR
World
Pro-Rouhani Defector Blasts US Negotiators as Iran Apologists: AmIntReport: President Obama Threatens France For Not Supporting Iranian Nuclear Deal: Treehouse
Iranian Journalist Defector: Obama Arguing on The SIDE of IRAN in Nuke Negotiations: Sooper
US continues airstrikes in Tikrit despite involvement of Iranian-backed Shiite militias: Bill Roggio
Responding to Kremlin Propaganda in the Baltics: Elisabeth Braw
Pro-Hassan Rouhani Iranian editor defects while covering nuclear talks in Lausanne: Telegraph
Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)
4 ways Blockchain technology will change the world: Josh Blatchford, BTC.sxGoogle and Johnson and Johnson’s newest venture: Robotic surgery: Sara Rose, NextDigit
Youngsters love Snapchat, older people prefer Facebook: Digital Trends
Cornucopia
How we turned Mount Everest into a dump: The WeekSalmon wait for a truck to pass before crossing a flooded road: Alltop
HBO's Going Clear should be the final nail in Scientology's coffin: Scott Meslow
Image: Cuomo is quacking up
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: Isn't it time for a conservative candidate? Ted Cruz 2016: Official Site
QOTD: "Obama has become the incarnation of a troubling trend in our country that has accelerated over the past 40 or so years. He has become the head of what passes for modern progressivism: the alliance between tax-supported university faculties, lawyers, government bureaucrats, journalists, NGO "activists," and Hollywood. This alliance has promoted the politics of envy and resentment, and launched a sustained attack on traditional American values. Our country is now filled with the half-educated idiots who emerge from our universities with no real knowledge but with feelings of entitlement and resentment. We should stand in awe of people with PhDs regardless of whether what they say corresponds to the reality we see, because they know what's good for us. They are the "experts."
...Obama has captured this movement and its view, and represents and promotes it better than anybody else in living memory. Unlike Carter, Obama is not incompetent in promoting his hatred for America's traditional values and in embedding it into our institutions, e.g., the ruinous Obamacare, the rapid expansion of the federal dole, the insistence on apologizing for our successes, the disastrous "stimulus" spending, the glorification of the "victim" culture, promotion of envy and cynicism, and denigration of individual effort and success ("You didn't build that!"). That is the real threat posed by what Obama represents." --W. Lewis Amselem
Saturday, March 28, 2015
IT'S ON: I proudly unveil the new denizens of my blog roll!
After much careful consideration, a meeting with Reince Priebus, and a videoconference with President Obama, I'm pleased to announce the following new members of the DR@J blogroll.
Hawt List

Economy & Business
Club Elite
- Allen B. West
- Chicks on the Right
- Poor Richard's News
- The Last Refuge
- The XX Committee
- Worldnet Daily
- Young Conservatives
Heh
Military, Intel & Foreign Affairs

The Faves
They'll be featured at right for posterity. Or at least until October.
And someday, I hope to earn a slot on Ace's blogroll. Although, to be fair, I don't think the Acester has updated it since '03.
HILLARY'S DAMAGED CANDIDACY: The Stench of Corruption Follows Her Wherever She Goes
Scandal: Hillary's emails may be only the tip of an iceberg that could include Clinton Foundation donations to shield Boko Haram from being designated a terrorist group and her brother's involvement in a Haitian gold mine.
We doubt Team Hillary was thrilled or her critics surprised Tuesday when the Inspector General for the Department of Homeland Security named Mrs. Clinton's brother, Tony Rodham, in a report about a firm that allegedly received preferential treatment from the Obama administration.
The firm, Gulf Coast Funds Management, with Tony Rodham listed as its chief executive, allegedly benefited from what the report says was "politically motivated" intervention of then-United States Citizenship and Immigration Services Director Alejandro Majorkas, whom president Obama promoted to be the No. 2 official at DHS even as he was under investigation.
A MUSLIM WORLD WAR: No One to Root for in the Yemen Conflict
Saudi Arabia and Egypt stand poised to conduct a massive ground invasion of Yemen, and the western media will be full of tales about how “Operation Decisive Storm” is liberating that country from the evil Iranian-backed Houthi rebels. And without a doubt, the Houthis are bad guys and so are their Iranian benefactors. But don’t be fooled into thinking that the war in Yemen is a battle of good vs. evil. The truth is that the conflict in Yemen is actually a proxy war between two sets of bad guys that both ultimately plan for Islam to take over the entire planet. On one side, the Iranians are very honest about the fact that they view us as an enemy, and they plan to impose their version of radical Shia Islam worldwide as soon as they can.
On the other side, the Saudis pretend to be our friends, but they don’t hide the fact that they believe that their version of Sunni Islam will eventually rule the world. And their version of Sunni Islam includes constant beheadings, the destruction of all churches and the death penalty for anyone caught smuggling a Bible into Saudi territory. At the end of the day, there is very little difference between the Saudis and ISIS. In fact, ISIS gets a lot of funding from Saudi sources, and there is more support for ISIS on Twitter from Saudi Arabia than from anywhere else. Saudi Arabia is a horribly repressive regime where women are treated like dirt, where the secret police conduct a never ending reign of terror and where even a minor deviation from sharia law can mean the loss of a limb. But because our politicians and the mainstream media constantly tell us that they are “our friends”, we cheer them on.
It is being reported that the Saudis have mobilized 150,000 troops for a ground invasion of Yemen, and Egypt says that it is ready to contribute a very large force as well. The Saudis simply were not going to just sit back and watch as pro-Iranian forces took total control of their neighbor. The following is how the Telegraph recently described what the Iranians have been up to in Yemen for the past several years…
Larwyn's Linx: NBC’s Engel: US allies fear the Obama administration is leaking information to Iran
Nation
NBC’s Engel: US allies fear Obama admin leaking information to Iran: Hot AirObama Admin Threatens U.S. Allies for Disagreeing with Iran Nuke Deal: WFB
Hillary Clinton Defies Subpoena, ‘Wiped Her Server Clean’: Joel Gehrke
Kerry on Chances of Iran Deal: 'Inshallah!': Brian Lilley
The Dangerous Assumption Guiding Obama’s Mideast Policy: Keith Koffler
Hillary in Quicksand: Dick Morris
Military Drill Identifying “Hostile” U.S. States Sparks Alarm: Alex Newman
Honoring Heroes, Something Rahm Emanuel Does Not Understand: BlackFive
Concealed Carrier Shoots Two Armed Robbers in Philiadelphia: Bob Owens
NYC Democrat ‘Admires’ Ted Cruz, Says It’s ‘Time For New Blood’: Surge
Schumer’s road to the top greased by donations to colleagues: PublicIntegriy
The Speaker Strikes Back: Boehner Cancels Gohmert’s Travel: Matt Fuller
Economy
Can Family Breakdown in Low-Education America Be Reversed? Maybe: Michael BaroneAnti-Common Core amendment passes Senate vote: Jason Russell
Welcome to the ‘Golden Age of American Craft Beer’: Mark J. Perry
Scandal Central
Obama Has Allowed 600,000 ‘Unscreened’ Immigrants from Dangerous Muslim Nations to Enter USA: RWNHarry Reid's Long, Steady Accretion of Power & Wealth: Adam O'Neal
Everything The White House Told You About Bowe Bergdahl Was Wrong: Nancy A. Youssef
Hacked Hillary Emails: Getting Fed Intelligence By Her Own Private Spy Service: Ace
Wife of Vt. Sen. Bernie Sanders may have defrauded state agency, bank: Unyielding
FBI Admits All Registered Motorcycle Owners Are On Classified Gang List: WaPo (Link Removed, Bogus)
Media
Hillary Gets Special Protection On Wikipedia: Bradford ThomasThe media’s lies about “HandsUpDonShoot” are the gift that keeps on giving: VDARE
Bowe Bergdahl's Platoon Mates React To Desertion Charges • Kelly File • 3/26/15: Common Cents
What the Ellen Pao Verdict Means About the ‘Rights’ You Don’t Have: R.S. McCain
CBS News: ‘Email Scandal Taking A Toll On Hillary Clinton’s Image’: Jerome Hudson
Ted Cruz disputes MSNBC claim he supports legalization of illegal immigrants: LI
World
Richard Engel: Military officials say allies ‘simply don’t trust’ U.S. under Obama: TimesLausanne Dispatch: Iranian Intransigence in Nuke Talks Draws French Rebuke: The Tower
How Yemen could become another Syria: AEI
Is Obama just incompetent or is he deliberately aiding and betting jihadists?: TAB
Now Saudi Arabia wants Nukes: RS
German media: Germanwings co-pilot did it for Allah: Matzav
What France Really Thinks of U.S. Iran Policy: Anne-Elisabeth Moutet
US Declassifies Document Revealing Israel's Nuclear Program: Arutz Sheva
Israeli official brands emerging Iran deal as ‘incomprehensibly’ bad: Times of Israel
Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)
Man Forced to Sell His New House Because Comcast Lied to Him: Jay Hathaway, GawkerDOD Keeps Losing 'Sensitive' Explosives Gear, Then Finding It For Sale On Ebay: TechDirt
Those amazing 'Furious 7' cars? This man built them: Tim Stevens
Cornucopia
First, Historic “Last Friday of the Month Great Escape”- Let’s Roll!: MOTUSCruzing Toward the Resurrection of Mainstream Conservatism: David Limbaugh
I wonder what nationality "Sami Sherif" holds?: NECN
Image: Italian Supreme Court Reverses Conviction of Amanda Knox, Dismisses All Charges, Forever
Sponsored by: Isn't it time for a conservative candidate? Ted Cruz 2016: Official Site
QOTD: "[House Foreign Affairs Committee Chair Rep. Ed] Royce said that even before the negotiations began, when the U.S. unfroze some Iranian assets at the end of 2013, ambassadors for Gulf countries predicted the cash would be used to destabilize the region: “We’re seeing today what every Gulf ambassador predicted Iran would do, we’re seeing Iran destabilize the region.”" --Eli Lake
Friday, March 27, 2015
OBLIGATORY KATE UPTON MENTION: How much is "Game of War" making, anyhow?
Aaaaaaaaand obligatory Kate Upton photo:
Because, research.
Hat tip: BadBlue Tech News.
DUDE: Private Emails Reveal Ex-Clinton Aide's Secret Spy Network
by Jeff Gerth, ProPublica, and Sam Biddle, Gawker
This story was co-published with Gawker.
Update, March 27, 6:48 p.m.: This story has been updated to include responses from the FBI and the State Department.
Starting weeks before Islamic militants attacked the U.S. diplomatic outpost in Benghazi, Libya, longtime Clinton family confidante Sidney Blumenthal supplied intelligence to then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton gathered by a secret network that included a former CIA clandestine service officer, according to hacked emails from Blumenthal's account.The emails, which were posted on the internet in 2013, also show that Blumenthal and another close Clinton associate discussed contracting with a retired Army special operations commander to put operatives on the ground near the Libya-Tunisia border while Libya's civil war raged in 2011.
Blumenthal's emails to Clinton, which were directed to her private email account, include at least a dozen detailed reports on events on the deteriorating political and security climate in Libya as well as events in other nations. They came to light after a hacker broke into Blumenthal's account and have taken on new significance in light of the disclosure that she conducted State Department and personal business exclusively over an email server that she controlled and kept secret from State Department officials and which only recently was discovered by congressional investigators.
The contents of that account are now being sought by a congressional inquiry into the Benghazi attacks. Clinton has handed over more than 30,000 pages of her emails to the State Department, after unilaterally deciding which ones involved government business; the State Department has so far handed almost 900 pages of those over to the committee. A Clinton spokesman told Gawker and ProPublica (which are collaborating on this story) that she has turned over all the emails Blumenthal sent to Clinton.
Those Who Rule Their Own Lives vs. Those Who Require Rulers
The truth is some (many) people just want someone to make decisions for them. I am unsure if it is a genetic disposition or whether it is socialization or whether it is both. All I know is some people do not want to control their own lives. They are more comfortable with someone at the helm. They are comforted by a horizon which is limited and defined by others.
Strangely these same people also want to limit the lives of those who prefer to be free.Who are you to pursue happiness? Who are you to be left alone to live, love, and create? Why don’t you respect authority? Why can’t you fall in line? You’re not better than us. Stand down Mr. or Ms. Individual. There are more of us than there are of you.
And to a large degree this is true. There are more of them. It is why we have the system of government we have now which seeks to restrict liberty, innovation, creativity, even joy in the name of order. There are more who wish to be controlled (whether they will admit it or not) and provided for than there are people who want to rule themselves. But in America, home of the rogue, the gambler, the pioneer, the dreamer, the number of freedom lovers is still relatively high. It’s literally in our DNA. And this is a source of hope.
Even in the face of decades and decades of statist propaganda in our primary schools and universities, on TV, and directly from the government, the thing which defines what an American is is liberty. An idea. We are not Huns, or Saxons, or Han, or whatever. We are a people – or at least we are supposed to be – which is defined by belief in human potential. By the pursuit of happiness and self ownership.
AS RUSSIAN WAR DRUMS SOUND: Obama disses NATO chief on his visit to the U.S.

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg came calling, but the president couldn't find the time to meet with him
Following a pattern of talking only to our enemies and not to Congress or allies such as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Obama apparently has decided to ignore Stoltenberg during a three-day visit to the U.S. According to Bloomberg, Stoltenberg's office requested a meeting in advance of the visit, but heard nothing back from the White House.
The president presumably is too busy explaining to the Iranian people why we must sign a nuclear Munich deal with an enemy whose leaders shout, "Death to America!"
Stoltenberg, twice the prime minister of Norway, met with Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper on Monday, to discuss the upcoming NATO summit, the rising threat of the Islamic State worldwide and Russia's aggression toward and annexation of Ukraine.
The new NATO chief is well aware of increasing Russian bomber patrols that include mock attack runs on NATO members Britain and Sweden along with threats to aim nuclear missiles at Danish warships. The patrols have also buzzed U.S. warships, overflown Guam and approached within cruise missile range of Los Angeles.
"It is hard for me to believe that the president of the United States has not found time to meet with the new secretary general of NATO given the magnitude of what this implies, and the responsibilities of his office," says Kurt Volker, who served as U.S. permanent representative to NATO under both Obama and President George W. Bush.
Russian strategic bombers entered some 16 U.S. northwestern air defense zones in one 10-day period last August and have practiced attack drills off Alaska. These practice runs come as Russia develops new cruise missiles to arm these bombers and warships.
GOWDY: Hillary Clinton Wiped Her Email Server Clean
Hillary Rodham Clinton wiped her email server “clean,” permanently deleting all emails from it, the Republican chairman of a House committee investigating the 2012 Benghazi attacks said Friday...
...Clinton, a likely Democratic presidential candidate, faced a Friday deadline to respond to a subpoena for emails and documents related to Libya, including the 2012 attacks in a U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi that killed four Americans, including the U.S. ambassador to Libya.
The Benghazi committee demanded further documents and access to the server after it was revealed that Clinton used a private email account and server during her tenure at State.
Gowdy said he will work with House leaders to consider options. Speaker John Boehner has not ruled out a vote in the full House to force Clinton to turn over the server if she declines to make it available...
...Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., said the former secretary of state has failed to produce a single new document in recent weeks and has refused to relinquish her server to a third party for an independent review, as Gowdy has requested... “Not only was the secretary the sole arbiter of what was a public record, she also summarily decided to delete all emails from her server, ensuring no one could check behind her analysis in the public interest,” he said.
It is likely, according to former federal attorney Shannen W. Coffin, it is likely that Hillary's activities constitute a series of felonies.
Obama-Iran Nuke Deal Keeps Getting Better
- Obama Admin Threatens U.S. Allies for Disagreeing with Iran Nuke Deal: Adam Kredo
- Pentagon Exposes 20 Years of Data on Israel's Nuclear Program: TruthRevolt
- Obama downplays Iran ‘death to America’ remarks, toes hard line on Benjamin Netanyahu: Times
- U.S. Caves to Key Iranian Demands as Nuke Deal Comes Together: Adam Kredo
- Iran allowed to run nuke centrifuges at impregnable underground bunker: AP
- Senate Votes 100-0 on Obama's Iran Deal if it Fails: Niels Lesniewski
Now scan them again and really allow them to sink in. I'll wait here.
My short take: virtually the entire Western world (and rational human beings around the globe) opposes Obama's horrific Iran deal that will allow the terror state to continue to enrich uranium and eventually deliver nuclear warheads through ICBMs or via its terror proxy, Hezbollah.
As a result of their opposition to the deal, Obama has targeted Israel (by repeatedly revealing Top Secret information that harms the security posture of the Jewish state) and any allies that dare speak up against the deal (e.g., France).
Meanwhile, Saudi Arabia and Iran are now engaging in a proxy war in Yemen (which Obama claimed was a success story just six months ago) as ISIS continues its expansionary efforts.
Hundreds of thousands of people have already died thanks to Obama's destabilized Middle East (e.g., the Syrian "red line", the Libya "NATO"-led coup, etc.) and many millions more will die in the future as a result of allowing a fanatical Iranian regime to acquire nuclear weapons.
But not to worry: President Obama says Iranian leadership calls for "Death to America" are just a reason to do the deal.
I'd be interested in your take on President Obama's motivations for his certifiably bizarre actions.
Larwyn's Linx: Obama, Kerry Cave to Key Iranian Demands as Nuke Deal Comes Together
Nation
U.S. Caves to Key Iranian Demands as Nuke Deal Comes Together: Adam KredoIran allowed to run nuke centrifuges at impregnable underground bunker: AP
Senate Votes 100-0 on Obama's Iran Deal if it Fails: Niels Lesniewski
Can Jewish Americans support both Democrats and Israel?: Jonah Goldberg
“We’re in a g****mn free fall here”: former Obama ambassador to Iraq : Sooper
Mark Levin: Obama the greatest threat to the Jews since 1930: Scoop
Lawsuit: Clintons are guilty of racketeering, influence peddling: Sam Rolley
Did Hillary Run Her Own Intelligence Operation?: Steven Ahle
Clintons Received Money from 'Front for the Government of Iran': Daniel Halper
Ted Cruz, Previous Experience, and Predictors of Success: RS
Scott Walker Flip Flops on Immigration Stance?: Aaron Gardner
Kansas: Constitutional Carry Bill Heads to Governor’s Desk: Bob Owens
Economy
Feds Gone Wild! …Yes, I mean sex parties and whatnot: Moe LaneSenate Puts Obamacare Subsidies on Chopping Block During Vote-a-Rama: Hannah Hess
Debbie Wasserman Schultz’s Twitter Faceflop: MB
Scandal Central
Pentagon Exposes 20 Years of Data on Israel's Nuclear Program: TRBusiness dealings of Hillary Clinton's brother raise new questions: Fox
BOMBSHELL: Security Expert Claims Obama KNEW Of Bergdahl Desertion: WJ
Climate & Energy
Love It: Ted Cruz Calls Climate Change Fanatics The “Flat-Earthers”: WZClimate FAIL: Gallup poll shows global warming concerns dead last: WUWT
FEMA to Deny States Disaster Funding If They Don’t Embrace Global Warming: Cassy Fiano
Media
Feds have paid Politico nearly $1 Million for subscriptions: LIABC, NBC Skip Report Detailing DEA Sex Parties Paid for by Drug Cartels: Curtis Houck
The Insane Defense of the Bergdahl Swap: Leon Wolf
Just Murder, Not a ‘Hate Crime’: R.S. McCain
Ted Cruz On CBS Handles Gotcha “Obamacare” Question Smoothly: Treehouse
Gun Lovers: Please Shop at Kroger: Clash
Political Correctness Is Devouring Itself: Nick Cohen
Latest Obama Interviewer Had Sex with a Japanese Doll for a News Story: Barbara Boland
He asked for it: Josh Earnest solicits #AskPressSec questions; Citizens deliver: Twitchy`
World
‘That’s fantastic': As Middle East Implodes, Obama Heads to Florida for Golf Vacation: JWFYemen: Another Obama Middle East failure: Hayom
Egypt cuts electric power to Gaza for non-payment of bills: Hayom
Gee, do you think this is relevant? Germanwings co-pilot a 'recent convert to Islam'?: Matzav
Co-Pilot of Germanwings Airbus Was Muslim Convert: Hero of Islamic State’?: GWP
New Eyewitness Details Appear in Nemtsov Investigation; Bloggers Skeptical: Interpreter
Yemen Falls Apart: Michael J. Totten
A Tale of Two Yemens: VodkaPundit
Iran Stalls U.N. Probe Into Its Atomic Past: WSJ`
Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)
Dashcams reveal horrors of teens texting and driving: Alex Heath, Cult of MacPeriscope, Twitter's answer to Meerkat-style live-streaming, is now available: Verge
Neuroscientists Discover ESP — But Is That A Good Thing?: SingularityHub
Cornucopia
He Saved a Billion Lives: Don SurberBREAKING: Hillary Email Scandal, Key Document Surfaces in New York: Pundit Pete
“Butt How Can It Be Like That?”: MOTUS``
Image: Senate Democrat Leader Reid announces retirement
Sponsored by: Isn't it time for a conservative candidate? Ted Cruz 2016: Official Site
QOTD: "What I would say going forward to Hillary is tell your brother to bug out and to find other ways to make a living other than appearing to trade off your name." --Doug Schoen, Democratic political strategist
Thursday, March 26, 2015
LOVELY: The Clinton Global Influence-Peddling Racket Initiative Received Cash from... Iranian Front Group
Daniel Halper reports that Hill and Bill have received significant "contributions" from a front group for Iran's Mullahs and their terror proxies:
As President Barack Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry close in on a nuclear deal with Iran, it's worth remembering that the Bill, Hillary, and Chelsea Clinton Foundation received money from "a front for the government of Iran" called the Alavi Foundation.
The front gave the Clintons $30,000 between April 2005 and March 2006, according to tax forms. This occurred years after law enforcement officials tied the group to Iranian radicals. “The center is funded by the New York-based Alavi Foundation, which law enforcement officials say is closely tied to the mullahs who dominate Iran,” the Washington Post reported in 2003.
In a court document, the head of the NYPD intelligence division stated that the Alavi Foundation is ‘totally controlled by the government of Iran’ and ‘funds a variety of anti-American causes’ with ties to Hezbollah and Hamas.
In 2009, U.S. attorney Preet Bharara stated that the Alavi Foundation is a "front for the government of Iran... [its] affairs have been directed by various Iranian officials, including Iranian ambassadors at the United Nations, in violation of a series of U.S. laws."
But, remember, it's the Clintons. Laws don't apply to them. They only apply to us.
Hat tip: BadBlue News.
SMART POWER: Saudis Launch Military Campaign in Yemen as Proxy War Against Iran Unfolds
A coalition of Gulf states, led by Saudi Arabia, launched airstrikes against the Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen early today, The Washington Post reports:
The strikes were a startling turn of events that came as the Houthis, in control of Yemen’s capital for months, barreled south toward the coastal city of Aden, seizing an air base along the way that was evacuated by U.S. Special Operations forces last week.President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi, who had taken refuge in Aden after fleeing Sanaa, the capital, was said to have escaped. His whereabouts were unknown.
The military operation was announced Wednesday evening in Washington by Saudi Ambassador Adel al-Jubeir, who said it would last until Yemen’s “legitimate government” was restored.
So far, no military actions beyond airstrikes have been reported. While the Saudis have an estimated 100,000 ground forces deployed at the border, the Post points out “any ground intervention would require a long and difficult trip through the heart of Houthi-held territory to reach Aden.”
According to the Saudi-owned Al-Arabiya network, all members of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) except for Oman have deployed jets in support of the Saudi operation, called Decisive Storm. Egypt, Jordan, Sudan and Pakistan have also have sent ships and planes to assist in the attacks on the Iranian-backed rebels.
Al-Arabiya also reports:
Larwyn's Linx: Obama's temper tantrum continues - exposes Israel's nuke program
Nation
Obama's temper tantrum continues - exposes Israel's nuke program: MatzavWhy Trading Five Terrorists for Deserter Bergdahl Matters: Erick Erickson
Shrieking Marie Harf: Soldiers are lying about Bowe Bergdahl: iOTWreport
Did you know Obama just took new executive action on immigration?: Byron York
Iran Threatens Missile Attacks While Obama Administration Negotiates: Sara Noble
The House of Democrats: Stephen Green
The Secret Life of Barack Obama: Ben Shapiro
Pro-Amnesty Democrat Shouted Off Stage by American Patriots at USC: GWP
Drunk John Boehner Jokes About “NAACP” March Madness: GotNews
Jeb Bush adviser vows ‘death to the Zionist Entity’: RS
Scott Walker: If Elected I Would Toss Out Obama's Iran Deal On Day One: Lid
Cruz, Paul, and Rubio — Time to Lead: Erick Erickson
The Surrender Caucus Set to Kill the Sequester: Leon Wolf
I guess that experiment was a failure: DTG
Sen. Tom Cotton, tragic hero: Victor Davis Hanson
Scandal Central
Michelle Obama Has Cost Taxpayers Over $44.4 Million in ‘Vacation’ Travel: RWN8 Public Figures Who Are Probably Regretting Cheering Bergdahl’s Release: IJR
Deserter Bergdahl Describes Brutal Conditions of His 5-Year Captivity: Luis Martinez, ABC
Climate & Energy
When It Comes To “Climate Change”, We Must Follow The Road Called Hope Or Something: CoveInstitute of Physics Accused of Corruption as Climate Change '97 Percent Consensus' Claim Debunked: Breitbart
Latest Warmist Freakout: Hotcoldwetdry Slowing Gulf Stream: Cove
Media
Democrat Democrat Says Many Women Are "Totally and Completely Thrilled" to Have an Abortion: MenRecLara Logan: An Icon Of Heroism Fighting The Left: HayRide
MSNBC Apologizes For Comment That Country Music Promotes The Killing Of Muslims: DownTrend
Hey, Pretty Boy: Do You Actually Know What's In The News?: Ann Coulter
New York Times worried about Bergdahl getting a job: FAM
Associated Press: It’s “Not So Clear” That Israel Is A Democratic State: WZ
World
The Muslim World War Has Begun: SooperIranian-Backed Rebels Seize Secret Files About U.S. Counter-Terrorism Operations In Yemen: WZ
Iranian Ship Unloads 185 Tons of Weapons, Military Equipment for Houthis in Yemen: WFB
Radical Islam’s War against the Past: David Solway
Look the Other Way, You Racist!: GoV
Obama’s Evil Revenge On Netanyahu Continues: Shoebat
Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)
Using 19th Century Technology to Time Travel to the Stars: Nancy Atkinson, Universe TodayThe dawn of DUNE: Symmetry Magazine
Electric Car Powered by Salt Water: 920 hp, 373 Miles/Tank: AetherForce
Cornucopia
As Always, Life Imitates Arthur C. Clarke: Ed DriscollDid The Wig Hats Do Her In, Or Did the Florist Run Off With Them?: MOTUS
A better 2016 agenda: Cal Thomas
Image: Did The Wig Hats Do Her In, Or Did the Florist Run Off With Them?
Sponsored by: Isn't it time for a conservative candidate? Ted Cruz 2016: Official Site
QOTD: "According to Brown, several Somali men were recently apprehended crossing the border into Arizona. When ICE officials came to pick up the illegals they told the rancher that the aliens were Mexican. The rancher argued that of course the men were obviously from Somalia. That’s when ICE told the rancher that they were ordered to report all illegals as either from Central America or Mexico – including these men from Somalia. It’s the latest trick by the Obama administration to deceive the American public on the calamity at the border." --Jim Hoft
Wednesday, March 25, 2015
GREAT NEWS: New Ford car automatically obeys speed limits
Ford says it has the answer for speed demons who can't keep their gas pedals off the metal: A car that reads speed limit signs and automatically slows down.
Ford says that the newest edition of its S-Max car has "a new technology that scans traffic signs and adjusts the throttle to help drivers stay within legal speed limits and avoid fines."
...The technology seems to be a step in the direction of the driverless car, also known as an autonomous car. While these cars have yet to hit the market, Audi unveiled one last year that reached 140 miles per hour with no driver at the wheel.
Google and Nokia have also been experimenting with driverless cars. Google's electric-powered LUTZ Pathfinder started rolling through London last month at a not-so-brisk 12 miles per hour, and the company plans to expand tests later this week.
All the way back in 2012, I wrote that Americans should be very leery of self-driving cars. My rationale was simple and completely relevant today.
• How long until these cars (and therefore all of us) are tracked in real-time by the government?
• How long until government mandates the use of self-driving cars, under the aegis of safety, fuel efficiency, traffic control or heaven knows what?
• And how long until the government determines where you are permitted to go and when you will go there, like an ant-colony form of mass transit?
Knowing the power-hungry band of thieves and worse we currently employ in Washington, the answer to each of these questions is most assuredly: not long.
Self-driving cars are not bad ideas per se. But when government gets involved, you can be sure they will be used as tools to control citizens. For that is precisely what this enormous, bankrupt, doddering leviathan of a federal government always does.
It never scales back. It never "right-sizes". It never strips away laws or sheds outdated regulations.
Write it down. Put it in the time capsule.
Self-driving cars ride on the road to tyranny.
Hat tip: BadBlue Tech News.
WHITE HOUSE: Yemen a success story for Obama foreign policy even as country falls to rebels
A White House spokesman said American efforts in Yemen are a "template that has succeeded," even as President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi was forced to flee the country by boat.
White House press secretary Josh Earnest on Wednesday said that the U.S. still had Yemeni extremists in its crosshairs.
...Earnest told reporters that U.S. officials were not aware of Hadi's destination but insisted that American officials still had a level of control over the chaotic situation.
"We have the ability to continue to apply pressure on the extremists," Earnest told reporters. "They are still in the crosshairs of U.S. security forces."
Yes, the "extremists" (misunderstanderers of Islam, no doubt) are "in the crosshairs" even though U.S. Special Forces evacuated the country just a few days ago.
You simply must listen to Earnest explain that Yemen is a success story.
Or perhaps this is just another psychological ploy by the smartest President ever, whose stated strategy is "leading
Update: Can you say "World War III"? "Saudis Prepare to Deploy in Yemen for Iran Showdown".
Hat tip: BadBlue News.


















