Friday, April 10, 2015

Ted Cruz Electrifies the NRA Leadership Forum

Even the saps at The Olde York Times were impressed:

Nearly every potential Republican presidential contender will be speaking Friday on a single issue: gun rights.

As First Draft considered how best to parse their speeches at the National Rifle Association’s Leadership Forum in Nashville, we hit on a bullet-point approach. And yes, that sent us down a gun-pun rabbit hole. (Or was it into a foxhole?) Senator Ted Cruz of Texas addressed the forum.

NRA Rating: A+

Guns Owned: Two

Bull’s-Eye: Mr. Cruz recalled sending a letter to Harry Reid following the Sandy Hook tragedy promising to “filibuster any legislation that undermines the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms.” That comment was met with an extended standing ovation.

Misfire: None. He relied heavily on the stump speech he has been polishing as the first Republican to announce his candidacy.

“Cold Dead Hands” Moment: Recalling the beginnings of the Texas Revolution, Mr. Cruz said: “If Hillary Clinton is going to join with Barack Obama and the gun grabbers and come after our guns, then what I say, is come and take it.”

Other Ammo: As part of his stump, he often talks about Iran and “repealing Obamacare,” and he touched on nearly all of those issues.

Cross Hairs: He pulled no punches with his criticism of President Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton on their foreign policy. He also repeated his favorite line about the Ready For Hillary Super Pac making its first hire: head of email security.

Pump Action: Even in front of over a crowd of more than 4,000, Mr. Cruz enjoyed the call-and-response that follows him on the campaign trail.


The best video blog on the planet -- The Right Scoop, a 2014 Fabulous 50 Blog Award Winner -- has Cruz's entire speech.


Hat tip: BadBlue Real-Time News.

THE GRANDPAPPY OF OBAMACARE CIRCLES THE DRAIN: African AIDS Tourists Overwhelming England's NHS

Writing at The Commentator, Vincent Cooper shines a spotlight on the fiscal tsunami engulfing the United Kingdom.

...the NHS is so short of resources that patients in some areas had to be treated in a hospital car park. But if that is true, was not Nigel Farage right to condemn the health service for putting the treatment of foreigners above the needs of those who have paid for that health service and now find themselves being treated in a car park?

Mr Miliband’s solution to hospital car park treatment in the NHS is to promise £2∙5 billion in extra funding. But such a promise shows the Labour Party to be in total denial about the nature of the economic problems facing the NHS.

Consider this fact. Public Health England estimates that of the almost 108,000 people who are HIV positive, almost 60,000 are from Africa. The cost to the NHS of anti-retroviral drug treatment for these African health tourists is well over £1 billion annually and rising, as more and more Africans and others hear about what’s on offer from the tax payer.

And it’s not only HIV tourists. There is the same costly problem with Hepatitis B, another big crowd-puller from all over the world to the NHS, and a disease which can be even more costly than HIV to treat.

But the costs of health tourism to the tax payer are not confined to medical treatment alone. Many of those HIV tourists would be in receipt of housing and other welfare allowances, quite possibly for the rest of their lives.

...The British Labour Party, once a genuine British workers’ party, has now morphed into a fanatically pro-immigration welfarist party that uses the NHS for its own political ends. It turns all debate on the NHS into a party political competition about who will pour the most money into a voracious NHS bottomless pit.

Unless we eradicate the scourge of Obamacare, that's the future of health care here in the U.S.

Please consider: "The Marxist-Democrat Left is using illegal immigration to destroy America".


Hat tip: BadBlue Real-Time News.

THE POWER OF TED CRUZ: Top 5 Increasingly Shrill and Hysterical Attacks on the Conservative Superstar

Check these out:

Ted Cruz super PACs: A new era of political fundraising
MJ Lee and Jeremy Diamond, CNN

Ted Cruz backers have ushered in a new era for super PACs.

Supporters of the Texas Republican presidential candidate made a bombshell announcement this week — that a network of four affiliated super PACs will have raised an eye-popping $31 million by the end of the week. The disclosure, coming within weeks of Cruz launching his campaign for president, has sent deep ripples through the political fundraising world.

The idea of not one, but multiple, affiliated super PACs ostensibly working together to haul in donations for the same presidential candidate is unprecedented, campaign finance experts say.

Super PACs? Interesting how CNN exhibited virtually no interest in Barack Obama's 2008 and 2012 money-laundering websites.

Is Ted Cruz Latino enough?
Maria Recio, McClatchy Washington Bureau

Ted Cruz has a Latino name. He has a Latino background. And he’s one of the few Latinos to have ever run for the presidential nomination of a major party.

But is he Latino enough?

Somehow I don't see anyone questioning whether a Democrat is "Latino enough".

Rand Paul Scares the Bejeezus Out of the GOP Establishment

By Nick Sorrentino

As we’ve said before the people who most fear a legitimate (semi) libertarian movement within the GOP are the old big government Republicans, it’s not liberals. (At least not yet.)

There is a cadre of Washington DC neocons who are running around with their hair on fire right now because of the warm response Rand Paul continues to get from the public. The establishment, the consultants, the big military, the “deficits don’t matter” crowd feel right now that they have been outmaneuvered by Paul. And they can’t believe it.

Of course there is a long way to go before even the primaries start. People like Ramesh Ponnuru will have plenty of time to make their case for Jeb Bush or, well, I guess Jeb Bush. Perhaps the country will turn and embrace yet another big government Republican. (Not to mention yet another Bush.) But I think that is an increasingly tall order.

Rand Paul really isn’t a libertarian. He has strong libertarian tendencies, but he has some serious conservative tendencies as well. This is actually where I think the great swathe of suburban, more or less Republican voters are. They are sick of the endless wars. They want taxes simplified and reduced. They want to be left alone in their private lives. They are not interested in regulating the private lives of others. And by and large Republicans are not terribly fond of GW Bush who is seen by many as a spendthrift and an unwise executive.

Ponnuru and his friends at AEI probably see the GW Bush years in a different light however.

Larwyn's Linx: White House admits lying to Congress and America on Iran deal

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Nation

White House admits lying to Congress and America on Iran deal: RS
It's "unconscionable for Obama to forfeit Israel its right to exist": Scoop
The Iran Deal And Its Consequences: George P. Shultz, Henry A. Kissinger

Epic Fail Safe: Camp o' the Saints
DNC Chair OK with Aborting 7-lb Babies; Nets Silent: MRC
The ‘Obama Legacy?’ WH Now Has A Gender-Neutral Bathroom: Tammy Bruce

Jeb Bush Reveals His Anti-Israel Stance With Speech at Anti-Israel Conference: RWN
Elizabeth Warren Rocks Democratic Party By Announcing She’s Now Pro-Life: JWF
Quinnipiac: ‘It’s Virtually the Entire GOP Field That Is Running Better Against Her’: NRO

Rand Paul leads Hillary in Iowa polling: RS
Hillary Slipping in the Polls: Dick Morris
Rush Warns GOP: Media Now Shifting From Race To 'War on Women': RightPundit

Economy

Is the modern American university a failed state?: Victor Davis Hanson
Still Worth Arguing About the Financial Crisis: Mona Charen
S&P Warns Chicago: Pension, Budget Fix Needed Soon: BondBuyer

Scandal Central

Federal Judge Sanctions Obama Administration for Amnesty Lies: Steven Ahle
Dems Latest Donation Scheme: Scare Lib Base By Making Up “Breaking News”: WZ
Do #BlackLivesMatter When They're Christian, Mr President?: Mark Steyn

Hillary Reversed Position on Trade Deal With Colombia After Huge Donation to Clinton Foundation: Ace
IRS Docs Reveal Lerner Knew Targeting Criteria of Nonprofits ‘Might Raise Questions’: JW
Hillary For Sale: At Least $1 Million From Morocco Flowing Into Clinton Foundation: WZ

Climate & Energy

Green Peace co-founder Patrick Moore states why he's a climate change skeptic: Larry Elder
Why Obama Pretends That Global Warming Caused His Daughter’s Asthma: MB
Ice conditions tie up shipping traffic on eastern Lake Superior: Duluth News Tribune

Media

Ted Cruz does fantastic in CNBC interview: Scoop
Hannity: There Is an “Unknown Something” with Obama, An Untold Story: GWP
After University Canceled ‘American Sniper’, Coach Harbaugh Made This Announcement: Blaze

Rand stands up to liberal media attack; left said he was picking on a girl: Tunnel Wall
Memories Pizza Reopens To Packed House, Lib Protesters Fail To Show: WZ
Why Walmart may be Forced to Stop Selling Guns and Ammunition: BuzzPo

World

Take Them At Their Word: Iran Might Destroy Us: Bill Whittle
'Not a framework deal, but rather deception': Nadav Shragai
'Iran helping Hamas, Hezbollah build fleet of suicide drones': JPost

ISIS Pushes Further into Syria: Jonathan Spyer
One Dictator Meets Another: Obama Shares A Dinner Table With Castro: Pat Dollard
Obama Tells Jamaicans The Secret To His Success: “Hard Work”: WZ

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Pentagon’s Next Bomber Will Be Built To Upgrade: DefenseOne
In The Netherlands, A Giant Wind Turbine For People To Live On: PopSci
This 2-Minute 4K Supercut of SpaceX Launches Is Some Great Space Porn: Jamie Condliffe

Cornucopia

April 9, 1865. The Surrender at Appomattox: RS
The World Made Her a Laughingstock Thanks to This Photo, But...: RWN
Weebles Wobble Butt They Don’t Fall Down: MOTUS

Image: Severe weather forecast for East after tornandoes rip across Midwest
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QOTD: "U.S. District Court Judge Andrew Hanen, who is hearing the lawsuit brought by 26 states against Obama’s illegal amnesty plan has lowered the boom on Obama and his thugs. On Tuesday, he upheld his injunction barring Obama from implementing his amnesty program and then issued a sanction against the Obama administration for lying in his court. He has ordered the DOJ to release all communications about the March 3rd advisory, including the names of those involved. This places Obama in a bad position because this judge does not bow to pressure from the administration and his tamestream press.

The order was issued because Obama’s lawyers told the judge that they would not implement Obama’s newest executive order giving work permits and temporary amnesty to up to 4 million illegal aliens. Obama’s lawyers later admitted that they had approved work permits for over 108,000 illegal aliens during the period they said they would take no action." --Steven Ahle

Thursday, April 09, 2015

PATRICK HENRY: I fear the Constitution might lead to an Obama

By Patrick Henry

Your President may easily become king. Your Senate is so imperfectly constructed that your dearest rights may be sacrificed by what may be a small minority; and a very small minority may continue forever unchangeably this government, although horridly defective. Where are your checks in this government? Your strongholds will be in the hands of your enemies. It is on a supposition that your American governors shall be honest, that all the good qualities of this government are founded; but its defective and imperfect construction puts it in their power to perpetrate the worst of mischiefs, should they be bad men; and, sir, would not all the world, from the eastern to the western hemisphere, blame our distracted folly in resting our rights upon the contingency of our rulers being good or bad?

Show me that age and country where the rights and liberties of the people were placed on the sole chance of their rulers being good men, without a consequent loss of liberty! I say that the loss of that dearest privilege has ever followed, with absolute certainty, every such mad attempt.

If your American chief be a man of ambition and abilities, how easy is it for him to render himself absolute! The army is in his hands, and if he be a man of address, it will be attached to him, and it will be the subject of long meditation with him to seize the first auspicious moment to accomplish his design; and, sir, will the American spirit solely relieve you when this happens?

WHO KNEW? Elizabeth Warren is Pro-Life!

By Warner Todd Huston

Yesterday Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was convicted on all counts for his murderous act of terrorism. He could get the death penalty… but not if Mass. Senator and left-wing hero Elizabeth Warren has her way.

She wants the terrorist’s life spared.

That’s right, folks, Warren wants the child killer spared.

Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D) said Thursday that Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the 21-year-old who was convicted Wednesday for the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing, should not face the death penalty.

“My heart goes out to the families here, but I don’t support the death penalty. I think he should spend his life in jail. No possibility of parole. He should die in prison,” Warren said on “CBS This Morning.”

Like everyone knows… Democrats want to spare the lives of convicted murderers and terrorists but they have no problem killing babies in the womb.

But, let’s face the facts here. Warren wants Tsarnaev spared because she agreed with what he did.


Read more Warner Todd Huston at PubliusForum.

Larwyn's Linx: Treason and Corruption

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Nation

Treason and Corruption: Mark Steyn
Obama’s 'Less-Than-Loving' Attack on Christians Should Concern You: Matthew Clark
Kick Open the Doorway to Liberty: What Are We Waiting For?: John W. Whitehead

The Brutality of Obama and the Left: J. Robert Smith
The DHS isn’t backing down on tracking your license plate: Nick Morpus
More on the California Water Waster Fink Squads.: Moe Lane

Obama’s Iran Deal: Someday the World Will Cry, “Why?!”: Larry Elder
‘A lot of big words and big thoughts’ – State Dept. on Kissinger Op-ed: LI
I Left the Democrat[ic] Party: Susan Brown

Rand Paul: Playing to Everyone, Lost the Ron Base?: Brian Doherty
Rand Paul is Not Stupid: R.S. McCain
Ted Cruz will have the money to compete.: Neil Stevens

Economy

Big Business’s powerful wingman: LPMN
Immigration Lawyers Admit H-1B Employers Harm U.S. Workers: John Miano
Why Does John Kasich Keep Lying About Obamacare?: Jason Hart (2014)

Scandal Central

University of New Mexico ISIS Panel Attendee Speaks Out: LL1885
Why Facts Matter: R.S. McCain
Cali: Judge Cuts 15 Years Off Mandatory Sentence of Man Convicted of Sodomizing Toddler: KTLA

Climate & Energy

Governor Moonbeam Regulates Bathroom Activities: MB
Obama Exploits His Daughter As Climate Change Political Pawn (Caused Her Asthma?): Lid
Progressives Spend $60 Million To Force Half Of U.S. Coal Plants To Close In 2 Years: ProgsToday

Media

Propaganda and Astroturf: Recognize it.: Sharyl Attkisson
Ted Cruz is Right, The New York Times is a Leftist Rag: Jen Kuznicki
Chelsea Clinton called Secret Service ‘pigs': 'that’s what my mother and father call you’: BPR

Liberal media struggles to find name for dismemberment abortions: AT
Brian Williams and his lies: Victory Girls
Some Lunatics Offended by Granny Clinton Being Referred to By Her First Name: JWF

One way to go: Left: Cold Fury
New Developments in the Walter Scott Shooting: Charleston Thug Life
How Not To Get Shot By The Police: Bob Owens

World

Ex-SecStates Bring Out the Knives: The American Interest
Typical Stompy Feet Move – White House Mocking Benjamin Netanyahu On Twitter With Iran Deal: Treehouse
Decoding the Obama Doctrine: Daniel Pipes

Boston bombing verdict: Guilty on all charges: PoliceOne
US, Saudi Slap Sanctions On ‘Terrorist’ financing fund: JPupdates
Rand Paul's Hawkish Foes Haunt Him in New Hampshire: David Weigel

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

USAF Plans for Radical F-35 Upgrade Reveal Obsolescence: Defense-Aerospace
22 Delicious High-Fiber Foods (No. 2 and 19 Are My Favorites): Kris Gunnars
The "Food Babe" Blogger Is Full of S***: Yvette d'Entremont

Cornucopia

Presidential Dynasties: Nip It In The Bud: MOTUS
My Friend Lucy : Erick Erickson
paper mache’: Sondrakistan

Image: Presidential Dynasties: Nip It In The Bud
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QOTD: "Christians around the world are suffering and dying each and every day at the hands of brutal radical Islamic jihadist genocide, and the leader of the free world finds the need to attack Christians.

But this wasn’t the first time. Just a few short months ago at the National Prayer Breakfast he used his bully pulpit to excoriate Christians for getting on “our high horse” about the persecution of Christians.

At a time when Christians are being slaughtered, raped, and decapitated simply for being a Christian, or in some regimes hung simply for expressing the love of Christ to others, President Obama repeatedly puts Christians in his rhetorical crosshairs.

He’s spent more time calling out Christians than acknowledging that radical Islamists are inflicting genocide." --Matthew Clark

Wednesday, April 08, 2015

THE DROUGHT IN CALIFORNIA IS JUST THE BEGINNING: Green Terrorists are Sabotaging the U.S. Economy

By Sara Noble

Environmentalist extremists are controlling our policies at all levels of local, state and federal government.

The environmental terrorists are consuming land in the name of frogs and assorted creatures and putting cost prohibitive regulations on farmers and ranchers, raising the price of essential services and goods such as food and transportation. They are lowering our standard of living in the name of non-essential wildflowers and prairie chickens.

They have infiltrated the government at every level so that you now see the DOD tweeting their latest green initiative as ISIS, Al-Qaida, and Iran compete for hegemony in the Middle East and do so without resistance.

Americans are afraid to resist the lies on which they build their power. The majority have been silenced into blindness though truth is hiding in plain sight.

The EPA is a group of unelected bureaucrats -tyrants – who now act as an arm of extremists, pushing regulations on individuals, on every household, and every business without our permission.

The Pentagon, which should be concentrating on our safety and protection, is launching more than 600 new environmental projects at the same time we are cutting the Army to WWI levels and slashing military retirement pay and future raises.

PAIN: How the 20-year old stock market bubble will end

Excellent article by Jesse Colombo at Forbes describing the lingering effects of zero-interest rate monetary policy (ZIRP) and other brainstorms of our benificent central planners. Some of the lowlights:

Six years after the Global Financial Crisis, the U.S. stock market continues to soar to new heights with nary a pullback or correction. In this piece, I will explain why the stock market is experiencing a new bubble that is actually another wave of the bubble that has existed since the mid-1990s.

A two-decade old bubble? Yes, you’ve read that correctly. Most people will consider this assertion preposterous, but the facts don’t lie. Though the U.S. stock market has been experiencing a bubble for two decades, it will not last forever. I believe that the ultimate popping of this bubble will have terrifying consequences for both investors and the global economy that is tied so closely to the stock market.

"UNEXPECTEDLY": Iran Repudiates Obama Deal, Will Use Military-Grade Centrifuges to Enrich Uranium

By The Tower

Iran’s foreign minister and lead nuclear negotiator, Mohammad Javad Zarif, told legislators that Iran would start feeding uranium into advanced centrifuges as soon as the nuclear deal with the P5+1 nations goes into effect, The Times of Israel reported today. Enriching uranium in advanced centrifuges would violate the parameters agreed to last week, according to American and French fact sheets showing their understandings of the deal.

Iran will begin using its latest generation IR-8 centrifuges as soon as its nuclear deal with the world powers goes into effect, Iran’s foreign minister and nuclear chief told members of parliament on Tuesday, according to Iran’s semi-official FARS news agency. …

Iran has said that its IR-8 centrifuges enrich uranium 20 times faster than the IR-1 centrifuges it currently uses.

According to the FARS report, “Iran’s foreign minister and nuclear chief both told a closed-door session of the parliament on Tuesday that the country would inject UF6 gas into the latest generation of its centrifuge machines as soon as a final nuclear deal goes into effect by Tehran and the six world powers.”

The American version of last week’s understanding states, “Iran will not use its IR-2, IR-4, IR-5, IR-6, or IR-8 models to produce enriched uranium for at least ten years.” According to The Times of Israel, the French version differs slightly in allowing “continue[d] R&D work on the advanced IR-4, IR-5, IR-6 and IR-8 centrifuges,” but not enrichment, which was the activity mentioned by Zarif.

Zarif reportedly told Iranian legislators on Tuesday that Iran would not allow cameras into any of its nuclear facilities. The Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action calls for the “continuous surveillance” of Iran’s nuclear facilities.


Read more at The Tower. Hat tip: BadBlue Real-Time News. Photo: euronews (in English) via YouTube.

DANIEL PIPES: Decoding the Obama Doctrine

Historian Daniel Pipes offers a concise and damning review of "The Obama Doctrine", such as its, beginning with a review of the administration's foreign policy track record.

Count the mistakes: Helping overthrow Muammar Qaddafi in Libya, leading to anarchy and civil war. Pressuring Husni Mubarak of Egypt to resign, then backing the Muslim Brotherhood, leading now-president Sisi to turn toward Moscow. Alienating Washington's most stalwart ally in the region, the Government of Israel. Dismissing ISIS as "junior varsity" just before it seized major cities. Hailing Yemen as a counterterrorism success just before its government was overthrown. Alarming the Saudi authorities to the point that they put together a military alliance against Iran. Coddling Recep Tayyip ErdoÄŸan of Turkey, encouraging his dictatorial tendencies. Leaving Iraq and Afghanistan prematurely, dooming the vast American investment in those two countries.

And, most of all: Making dangerously flawed deals with the nuclear-ambitious mullahs of Iran.

'Is this ineptitude?', Pipes asks rhetorically.

Larwyn's Linx: Obama Admits His Plan Will End With Iran Getting Nuclear Weapons

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Nation

Obama Admits His Plan Will End With Iran Getting The Bomb: Sara Noble
As Illegals Flow Into Country Again, Public Opposition Grows: Ace
Mark Levin explains what Congress should do with Obama’s Iran nuke deal: Scoop

Liberals Are the New McCarthyites—and They’re Proud of It: John Fund
Obama slams Christians at Easter prayer breakfast: LI
Over, Under, Sideways, Down – You Were Warned: Camp o' the Saints

Why the Left Lies: Ben Shapiro
VA Reform: Another Obama “Success Story”: Michelle Malkin
How Paul, Cruz Are Shaking Up GOP Presidential Nomination Process: Matt Kibbe

‘I Am Who I Am': 3 Questions for Rand Paul: Ken McIntyre
Attacks On Rand Paul Come Early: Brian Lilley
Rand Paul's dilemma: Matt Mackowiak

Economy

Wacko Communist Elizabeth Warren Is A Fraud Worth Millions: iOTWreport
Obamacare’s Tax Nightmare: Betsy McCaughey
Disaster Inevitable When The Two Decade-Old Stock Bubble Bursts: Jesse Colombo

Scandal Central

Why is Trey Gowdy allowing Hillary to testify behind closed doors?: Thomas Lifson
Top Spy: Hillary's Emails 'Likely' Hacked by China, Russia, Iran: Daniel Halper
How the U.S. thinks Russians hacked the White House: CNN

John Oliver Finds the Real Edward Snowden: Tom Nichols
2009 NCIS Investigation: Bergdahl Went Over to the Other Side: Jim Hoft
Hillary’s Brothers Unlike Any Others: Dick Morris

Climate & Energy

PURE EVIL: United Nations Climate Commissar: MB
Another call to arrest climate “deniers”: Eric Worrall
Laurence Tribe Fights Climate Case Against Star Pupil, President Obama: Coral Davenport

Media

Lunch With Noah Rothman: Smitty
Fighting Against ‘Rape Culture’ Means Never Having to Say You’re Sorry: Charles C.W. Cooke
The Very Deep Thoughts of Sally Kohn: GayPatriot

The Battle Of The Polls Begins: Springer's Blog
Ted Cruz the Liberator Storms San Francisco: MB
Note on Cruz and Rand: Jen Kuznicki

Rolling Stone, media bias, and how the left uses fake victims to create real ones: Poor Richard
12 Reasons I Concealed Carry A Gun: Tom McHale
Planned Parenthood goes off the rails during Rand Paul presidential announcement: LI

World

Report: Zarif Says Iran Will Allow No Cameras at Nuclear Sites: The Tower
Report: Internal French Document Shows Troubling Discrepancies With US on Iran Deal: IPT
Iran to Hold 2nd Holocaust Cartoon Contest: The Tower

Crisis management is not a strategy- neither is isolationism: Gov. Mike Huckabee
National Security Question? Ask Someone Else, Says White House: Caleb Howe
The Rattlesnake: Erick Erickson

Sharif El-Gamal: “Plan to build 39-story tower and [Ground Zero] mosque": Pamela Geller
Remember Suspicious Explosion In Minneapolis That Blew Up Apartment Building, Killing 3? : WZ
Intent of Russian military aircraft near U.S. shores remains unclear: W.J. Hennigan

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

​Your Porn Is Watching You: Brian Merchant
Surprise! The Rand Paul Online Store Blatantly Caters to the Paranoid: Leon Wolf
Startup Spotlight: How this entrepreneur built Rhino Camera Gear from a kitchen: GeekWire

Cornucopia

2015 Fresh - March: Little Worlds
Incoming: Balls, Bees and Rolling Stones Attack!: MOTUS
Ted Cruz Laughs After Blasting Away With A M249 Machine Gun: Bearing Arms

Image: Incoming: Balls, Bees and Rolling Stones Attack!
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QOTD: "President Obama’s failed leadership has put him at odds with many across the country, including members of his own party, and key allies around the world. Americans would be better served by a president who spent more time working with governors and members of Congress rather than attacking them. Whether it is cutting a bad deal with Iran, calling ISIS the JV squad, or touting Yemen as a success story, Obama’s lack of leadership has hurt America’s safety and standing in the world." --Gov. Scott Walker

Tuesday, April 07, 2015

Fun with Bitmoji

Bitmoji is a mobile app that lets you create your own cartoon-style avatar that oftentimes has an eerie resemblance to your real self. It happens to be blowing up at the moment -- a true viral success story. Rebecca Greenfield explains "Why Your Bitmoji Looks So Much Like Your Actual Face:"

The other day, I texted a friend my Bitmoji, a lookalike cartoon avatar I created using this app. "Wow," he said. "That actually looks strikingly like you." He isn't the first person to tell me the little brown-haired caricature looks eerily like my actual, human self—nor is mine the first Bitmoji to get that reaction. My friend Alex's Bitmoji looks like it ate him and stole his soul. When another friend texts me his emoji likeness, I get chills.

This phenomenon extends beyond my friend group. The app, launched in November, is "pretty amazingly popular," says Jacob "Ba" Blackstock, the CEO and creative director of Bitstrips (the maker of Bitmoji). Bitstrips would not provide specific download numbers, but said since launch people have shared tens of millions of Bitmoji...

The likeness is especially uncanny because making a personalized emoji using the app is such a subjective process. First, you pick a face shape, then skin tone, hair color, length, type, style, jaw shape, eyebrows, a mouth and so on. Before you know it, a cartoon version of you appears on your iPhone (or Android) screen...

Anyhow, here's my Bitmoji:

When Iran tests its first nuclear weapon, Obama should be forced to return his Nobel Peace Prize

By Alan Caruba

Only fools express any trust in Obama these days or the Iranians who have made him look the fool when no one in their neighborhood or the world trusts a thing they say or do.

After more than six years of listening to President Obama’s unremitting lies, when he says of the latest “accord” with Iran, “It’s a good deal” and standing in the Rose Garden declares that the U.S. and Iran have reached “an historic understanding” the only history being made his own ignominy and idiocy.

It would be historic if anyone could extend either President Obama or the Iranians any trust. Indeed, since the U.S. created its first atomic bombs to end World War II, one nation after another has secured their own nuclear weapons, starting with the then-Soviet Union who built theirs with plans stolen from us!

We have been down this road before. On April 1st Wall Street Journal columnist Daniel Henninger offered an abridged look at the quarter-century of negotiations with North Korea which agreed to all manner of terms, signed all kinds of agreements, and joined various international organizations to assure everyone of their peaceful intent. He warned that “No agreement is going to stop Iran. Agreements, and a lot of talk, did not stop North Korea.”

“Iran,” said Henninger, “knows it has nuclear negotiators’ immunity: No matter how or when Iran debauches any agreement, the West, abjectly, will request—what else?—more talks. Iran’s nuclear bomb and ballistic missile programs will go forward as North Korea’s obviously did, no matter what.”

OBAMA'S PARTNERS IN PEACE: The complete obliteration of Israel in another Holocaust is "nonnegotiable"

By The Tower

Brig. Gen. Mohammad Reza Naqdi, the commander of Iran’s Basij militia, said in an interview that “erasing Israel off the map” is “nonnegotiable,” The Times of Israel reported today.

Naqdi’s comments were made public as Iran and six world powers prepared Tuesday to issue a general statement agreeing to continue nuclear negotiations in a new phase aimed at reaching a comprehensive accord by the end of June.

Fars News, an official Iranian news outlet, quoted Naqdi threatening both Saudi Arabia and the United States.

What did Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Oman and the UAE expect from the Clintons in exchange for tens of millions?

By AgainstCronyCapitalism.org

I am sure it was because these countries simply believed in the foundation’s mission.

(From McClatchy)

“The fundamental issue here is that you’ve got foreign businesses and foreign governments giving money to the Clinton Foundation partly because of the foundation’s work, but also because of the access to the upper echelons of power in America,” said Lawrence Jacobs, a professor at the University of Minnesota’s Humphrey School of Public Affairs and a prize-winning author of numerous books on politics. “I think the people who know something about politics understand the wink and a nod that’s going on here: Give to Bill and become a friend of Hillary. . . . There’s kind of a political shakedown going on here.”

Nick Merrill, a spokesman for Hillary Clinton, said that “it’s simply wrong to assert or even suggest” that donations to the foundation have influenced her foreign policy positions.

Indeed how could one “even suggest” such a thing. Or that these countries are trying to get in good with a potential future president? Ms. Clinton has no interest in such things. It’s not like she has a history of inside dealing or anything.

As we’ve said before, Hillary Clinton is counting on willful ignorance to make it to the White House. It is a vital part of her strategy.

Click here for the article. (Hat tip: BadBlue News Service)

HILLARY CLINTON SHOT AND CHASER: White House and State Dept. Hacked by Foreign Nationals Edition

Not literally a shot and chaser by Hillary (though word has it she may have a few issues with, uhm, over-imbibing). But one of our Ed Driscoll-style virtual shot-and-chaser vignettes.

SHOT: Top Spy: Hillary's Emails 'Likely' Hacked by China, Russia, Iran
A top intelligence official under President Obama, Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, says that the chances Hillary Clinton's private emails were hacked is "very high." Flynn, who ran the Defense Intelligence Agency but is now retired, called it hackings "likely" ...

...Kelly asked, "What do you think the odds are that the Chinese, the Russians hacked into that server and her e-mail account?"

"Very high," Flynn said without hesitation. "Likely."

"Really?"

"Yep. Likely. They're very good at it. China, Russia, Iran, potentially the North Koreans. And other countries who may be 'our allies' because they can."

Flynn said we "all ought to be asked" about Hillary Clinton's emails and the security surrounding her private account.

CHASER: How the U.S. thinks Russians hacked the White House

Larwyn's Linx: Top US General: Obama Has Caused Military Readiness to Fall to Historic Levels

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Nation

Top US General: Obama Behind Fall of Military Readiness to Historic Lows: RWN
Iran: US agreed to immediate lift of sanctions: RS
Barack Obama Tells Congress Not To Overreach: Sara Noble

The Iran ‘Agreement’ Charade: Thomas Sowell
Obama: 'Misjudgment' for Israel to Demand Iran Recognize Right to Exist: Mediaite
Half Million Illegal Aliens Get California Driver's Licenses: Breitbart

Job One: Teach millennials about the real Hillary: LI
Hillary Commits A Crime & They Defend Her: Martin Armstrong
Her Royal Heinous vs. the Democrat Opposition: Doris O'Brien

Welcome to the Arena, Senator Paul: Erick Erickson
Big Business Targets Conservatives: Erick Erickson
When Wildcats Attack: Cameron Gray

Economy

The IRS delays yet another piece of Obamacare. Like they do.: Moe Lane
Suntrust Bank Cancels Account Because Company Sells Guns: Samuel M. McCall
Barry University suspends Project Veritas student journalist: Amy Miller

Scandal Central

La Raza Provides Illegal Aliens With Info on Where They Can Vote Illegally: Steven Ahle
Lying Democrats: Harry Reid, Hillary Clinton, Eric Holder have no shame: Joseph Curl
Plumber confesses: I rigged illegal gas-blast line for landlord’s son: Post

Claim: Bombshell NCIS Report Reveals Bowe Bergdahl’s ‘Deliberate’ Plan: Jason Howerton
White House: Dems Criticizing Iran Deal Are "Principled" But GOP Just Trying to Sabotage: Katie Pavlich
Attention, ALL 2016 Presidential campaigns. Please film ALL your candidate’s ‘private’ appearances.: Moe Lane

Climate & Energy

The Drought: California Apocalypto: Victor Davis Hanson
The Scorching of California: How Green extremists made a bad drought worse: Victor Davis Hanson
Poll: More Americans Trust Fox News than Obama on Climate Change: Matt Wilstein

Media

Rifles at the Door: Mark Steyn
Fact-Checking The Fact Checkers: Politico Stumbles In Its Super-Sleuthing: Exposing Obamacare
Jaw Dropper: Obama On GOP Letter To Iran – Democrats Would Never Have Tried To “Undermine” Bush: WZ

Is This Supposed To Be An Apology?: Dana Loesch
Harry Reid Beaten By His Brother Larry ?…: Treehouse
Conservatives Call on Apple to Pull Out of Nigeria, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Iran: John Hawkins

World

Benghazi, Bergdahl, and the Bomb: Matthew Continetti
Saudis: This nuke deal is going to make our war with Iran-backed proxies harder to fight: Noah Rothman
Citing Reality – Canada Will Not Lift Sanctions On Iran…: Treehouse

Iran Transfers Tens of Millions to Hamas to Rebuild Terror Tunnels: Algemeiner
Southern residents alarmed by Hamas tunnel rebuilding: Hayom
American Who Recruits Untold Numbers of Fighters for ISIS Finally Gets Confronted: IJR

Soldiers Sit Through ‘White Privilege’ Presentation — and the Backlash Isn’t Pretty: Blaze
Five Moscow Lies Suggest What Putin is Likely to Do Next in Ukraine: Paul Goble
Washington State Governor Jay Inslee Flies Communist China’s Flag At State Capitol: Deanna Fisher

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Tomahawk Cruise Missile Hits Moving Ship Target: Kris Osborn
Enjoy a terrifying 10,000 foot GoPro camera freefall: Steve Dent, Engadget
Instagram Scores Highest for March Madness Engagement: Al Urbanski, DMnews

Cornucopia

Adventures in the Skin Trade: Ed Driscoll
In Sesame Street’s “Game of Chairs,” You Win Or You Try: Dangerous Minds
10 Medieval rabbits that hate Easter and want to kill you: The Poke

Image: American Who Recruits Fighters for ISIS Finally Gets Confronted
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: Isn't it time for a conservative candidate? Ted Cruz 2016: Official Site

QOTD: "What nature’s deadly four-year drought is teaching California is that even the liberal aristocracy eventually has a rendezvous with what they created.

All the capital, income, and influence in the state cannot guarantee exemption from their own self-induced chaos. Climbing atop the smokestacks of the sinking Titanic is of little use after you have deprecated the idea of more lifeboats." --Victor Davis Hanson

Monday, April 06, 2015

Looks like everyone's trolling the Kentucky Wildcats tonight

Detroit Pistons point guard Brandon Jennings:

The University of Wisconsin (or a surrogate):