Tuesday, April 14, 2015

iOTWreport Finally Decodes the Democrats' Secret Message

Thomas Lifson, the founder and editor of the peerless American Thinker relays a stunning discovery: the Rosetta Stone of the hard Left Democrat Party.

I am slapping my forehead and shouting, “Doh!” How could I be so obtuse and fail to grasp the deep meaning of the symbols on offer from Democrats over the past several years. Some might call it esoteric, but others would call it hiding in plain sight. All I can say is that I feel really stupid for not having seen it until now. Over at iOTWReport, someone named dapenguin figured it out.


Come to think about it, Homer Simpson is the perfect embodiment of the Demcorats. Easily distracted, shallow, and he'll believe anything.

True dat.


Hat tip: BadBlue News.

Remember when the Supreme Court actually put a judicial chokehold on fascism in America?

By Richard Ebeling

There was a time when the Supreme Court of the United States defended and upheld the Constitutional protections for economic liberty in America. This year marks the 80th anniversary of one of the Supreme Court’s finest hours, when it overturned Franklin Roosevelt’s agenda for economic fascism in the U.S.

The trend toward bigger and ever-more-intrusive government, unfortunately, was not stopped, but the case nonetheless was a significant event that at that time prevented the institutionalizing of a Mussolini-type fascist economic system in America.

On May 27, 1935, in a unanimous decision the nine members of the Supreme Court said there were constitutional limits beyond which the federal government could not go in claiming the right to regulate the economic affairs of the citizenry. It was a glorious day in American judicial history, and is worth remembering.

FDR’s Broken Promises for Smaller Government

When Franklin Roosevelt ran for president in the autumn of 1932 he did so on a Democratic Party platform that many a classical liberal, free market advocate might have happily supported and even voted for.

Was History Made Today?

By Dan from New York

In case you haven’t heard, the Senate today finally threw up a roadblock in front of Obama and his mad dash to give Iran the H-Bomb. Please consider: "Obama drops objection to letting Congress vote on Iran deal."

Oh, but that’s not the real headline, which is, "Facing Certain Override, Obama Caves in to Congress and Reality".

Reuters, 14 April 2015

U.S. President Barack Obama dropped his opposition on Tuesday to a bill giving Congress a voice on a nuclear deal with Iran after members of his Democratic Party negotiated changes to the bill that had won strong support from both parties.

White House spokesman Josh Earnest said Obama, who had said he would veto the proposed bill because it could scuttle the emerging Iran deal, could accept compromises that drew bipartisan Senate support ... The compromise bill passed the Senate Foreign Relations Committee unanimously and is expected to pass the full Senate...

It requires the Obama administration to send the text of a final agreement to Congress as soon as it is completed, and blocks Obama's ability to waive many U.S. sanctions on Iran while Congress reviews the deal.

It allows a final vote on whether to lift sanctions imposed by Congress in exchange for Iran dismantling its nuclear capabilities
.

As far as I can recall this is the first time since his inauguration that one of Obama’s pet policy objectives has been turned back at the door. May this set a precedent for the final years of this disastrous presidency.

And may Congress go from strength to strength and help the American people take our country back!


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Larwyn's Linx: Immigration Influx To Exceed Population the Seven Largest Cities in the U.S.

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Nation

Immigration Influx To Exceed Population Of Seven Top US Cities: DC
The New Inquisition: Thomas Sowell
Mike Lee: Key Constitutional Provisions Have Been Ignored for Too Long: Breitbart

I'm Jimmying Cartier's and I'm Running for President: Mark Steyn
Hillary to connect with the middle class in Iowa with two closed events: WZ
Hillary Takes Pit Stop To Eat At Chipotle... and Nobody Recognizes Her: WZ

John F. Rubio: Roger L. Simon
Winner at the NRA Convention? Ted Cruz in a Walk: Steven Ahle
A Very Fluid Race for the Republican Nomination: Michael Barone

Marco Rubio gives amazing speech as he announces run for president: Scoop
Madam Yesterday: Erick Erickson
Smart guys: Congress should go back to sleep, let Obama complete Iran deal: RS

Economy

Federal Taxes, Spending, Deficit all Soar Under Obama, Even Worse Than 2014: RWN
Sen. Jeff Sessions, bipartisan group call for investigation into H-1B program: AL
It's Time to Investigate the H-1B Mess: Charles Murray

Scandal Central

IRS: Mistakes Were Made: Breitbart
Hillary Advisors Dined With Dozen Reporters – Again: S&L
Black Judges Gives Armed Robbers Light Sentence Saying 3-Year-Old White Victim is ‘Racist’: RWN

Concerned about refugees coming to your state? Get your state plan!: Ann Corcoran
Illegal Alien Gets Only 29 Months Despite Stealing US Identities for 30 Years: RWN
Stanford Student Candidate Says Questioned About Being Jewish: LI

Climate & Energy

Global Warming Protestors in the Snow: Eric Worrall
EPA Takes Aim at Refrigeration: MB
Finally, the true story of California’s water woes: James Pethokoukis

Media

Steve Kornacki: Hillary Clinton Hasn’t Had to Answer Questions for Six Years: WFB
A Woman Who Was Sexually Assaulted by Bill Clinton Drops a BOMB on Hillary: TPI
Anti-Hillary Posters Seen Across NYC And Las Vegas: WZ

Sad Story: State Dept. Spokeshole Marie Harf Gets Feelings Hurt On Facebook: Tammy Bruce
Ted Cruz Destroys Hillary in Speech and on a Video: Steven Ahle
New York Post’s Awesome Hillary Cover Is Making Media Matters’ Boehlert Cry: Sooper

The press is beginning to notice the economic recovery is stalling: Noah Rothman
April's Dismal Job Numbers Force Media to Finally Admit The Economy is Awful: Ace
Do You Want to be a National Convention Delegate?: Morton C. Blackwell

World

Congressional Candidates Receive Money from Islamists: Ryan Mauro
Oh my... Israeli opposition demands US commit in advance to support Israeli strike on Iran: Matzav
Iran Presents Its Suicide Drones: MEMRI

Russia Selling Missile Defense To Iran: Peter Malcolm
Courtesy of Iran, Hamas Prepares For Next Military Confrontation With Israel: MEMRI
Arab Media: Iranian Troops Redeploy to Yemen from Syria, Continue Destabilizing Mideast: The Tower

Iran: ‘The Enemy’ Has Conceded to Our Nuclear Redlines: Adam Kredo
Pakistan: After identifying him as Christian, Muslims set young boy on fire: JihadWatch
Castro absolves Obama of fault for U.S.' 'imperialist aggression': Fox News Latino

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

The Secret Republicans of Silicon Valley: Rebecca Nelson
Hop Theory: It is Like Tea Bags, But for Making Beer Tastes Less Boring: Mike Chua
This Mountain on Mars Is Leaking: Jason Major

Cornucopia

Enter the Dragon Lady: MOTUS
Hillary’s New Campaign Manager Steps Forward. Explains ‘Strategy’…: Steven Crowder
The Essence Remains...: Springer

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QOTD: "In an appearance on CNBC on Monday, President Obama’s former White House Chief of Staff Bill Daley confessed that most Americans have not enjoyed the benefits of the recovery [sic]...

“Hillary Clinton’s challenge is going to be to come up with different plans,” Daley said after being prodded to respond to the economic failures of the Obama era. “She can’t run for the third term of Barack Obama economically.”" --Noah Rothman

Monday, April 13, 2015

Top 20 Twitter Reactions to Hillary's Logo, Which was Apparently Designed by a 3rd Grader

I didn't know Hillary's campaign staff had access to Corel Paint '94!



Top 20 Rejected Hillary Campaign Slogans

The great thing about Hillary Clinton running for president is I can recycle all of my best material from 2008!

20. "Read My Lips - No New Interns"
19. "Your long national nightmare is not over"
18. "President Clinton... this time with Pants"
17. "Bill betrayed her -- we shouldn't"
16. "What difference does an indictment make?"

15. "Accomplishments, shmaccomplishments! I deserve this!"
14. "If you ever cheated on your wife, make up for it by voting for Hillary"
13. "I'm in it to Spin it!"
12. "Ask Not What Your Country Can Do For You, Ask How You Can Illegally Contribute To My Campaign"
11. "America, Let's Just Pull Over And Ask For Directions"

10. "Still Not Indicted As Of 2015!"
 9. "Vote for Hillary: Satan compels you"
 8. "It's Mourning Again in America"
 7. "Help eradicate Capitalism in our time"
 6. "No penis, no problems"

 5. "Building a bridge to September 10th"
 4. "Got perv?"
 3. "Isn't It Time You Were Disappointed By A Different Clinton?"
 2. "Why Work? Vote Hillary"
 1. "Kneel before me, foolish humans!"

Bonus slogans for Democrats: "Obama's third term will be awesome, we promise!", "Vote Hillary. It’s Easier Than Thinking"


Image: Bookworm Room: "Hillary and Bill release their campaign logos".

Newly Discovered Tape from 1995: Obama admits he was mentored by vicious Communist Frank Marshall Davis

Interesting how this just turns up now, ain't it? Cliff Kincaid reports:

In an extraordinary development, film of Obama explicitly and openly identifying “Frank” as Frank Marshall Davis has suddenly surfaced on the Internet.

It is described as having been recorded on September 20, 1995, with the program originally airing on Channel 37 Cambridge Municipal Television as an episode of the show “The Author Series.”

Obama admits the mysterious “Frank” from his book Dreams from my Father is indeed the communist Frank Marshall Davis. But Obama does not reveal that Davis was a communist.

America’s Survival, Inc. President Cliff Kincaid discusses the significance of this discovery.

Click here to watch the video.

And click here if you don't know who the virulent Communist Frank Marshall Davis was.

And speaking of vintage media censorship of Obama's real background: I wonder what will happen when The Los Angeles Times decides to finally release the videotape of Barack Obama toasting Islamic terrorist Rashid Khalidi?


Hat tip: BadBlue News.

WHAT A RELIEF: Castro absolves Obama of fault for American "imperialist aggression"

I guess the entirety of the American population remains on the hook, but at least the genocidal dictator Raul Castro has abolved El Presidente from blame for our "meddling" (Obama's words, not mine).



Obama meets with genocidal dictator Raul Castro, the first U.S. President to meet with Cuba's leader since the Communist Revolution.
Cuban President Raul Castro recounted the history of U.S. "imperialist aggression" in Latin America in an address here Saturday at the 7th Summit of the Americas, although he absolved U.S. head of state Barack Obama of responsibility for those past actions...

"All (of the previous U.S. presidents) are indebted to us, but not President Obama," who is an "honest man ... with a manner about him that speaks to his humble origins," the Cuban leader said.

Castro also described as a "positive step" Obama's recent statement indicating he will soon make a decision on Cuba's presence on a U.S. list of state sponsors of terrorism.

"They say we're terrorists. And we indeed have acted in solidarity with many peoples that may be considered terrorists" under the viewpoint of "imperialism," Castro said, noting that he was referring to Cuba's humanitarian missions in various developing countries.

I suppose this is the least Castro could do after Obama formally apologized for "meddling" in Latin and South America as well as renouncing the circa-1823 Monroe Doctrine.


Hat tip: BadBlue News.

Larwyn's Linx: 8 Reasons Hillary Clinton’s Campaign Will Be A Trainwreck

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Nation

8 Reasons Hillary Clinton’s Campaign Will Be A Trainwreck: Mollie Hemingway
No Questions, Please: Hillary Announces on Twitter: Roger L. Simon
Road Tripping Across America: Hilarity With Hillary: Erick Erickson

The Closing of the Sunday Show Mind: Erick Erickson
New Host of Face the Nation Advised Obama in 2013: ‘Destroy the GOP’: Ed Driscoll
The @NYTimes Thinks Recorded History Began in 2008: Joe Cunningham

Mediasplaining: Derek Hunter
Flashback: Hillary's Greatest Hits: GWP
#NoRePete: Sessions censors First Amendment: Cahnman

Time To Go On The Offense Against Liberalism: Kurt Schlichter
This billionaire hedge funder quietly bankrolling Ted Cruz's campaign: Colin Campbell
Republican money — big and small — went to Emanuel: Newsalert

Economy

Just a reminder: ‘Bush-era policies’ were as follows:: Moe Lane
Why Is Hillary Clinton Even Running?: Victor Davis Hanson
Staffer Tweets Pic Of Hillary With Random Family To Prove She’s Just Like Us: WZ

Scandal Central

Here’s a breakdown of every scandal swirling around Hillary: Maureen Callahan
Fail: New York Times Tries to Play Race Card, Rewrite History: Joel B. Pollak, Breitbart
Hillary's 'Spontaneous' Campaign Closed to Public This Week: AmPower

Climate & Energy

EPA Tells Kids to Avoid Baths and Asks them to Check Toilets for Leaks: Breitbart
California nervously clears (dry) throat, contemplates desalinization plants: Moe Lane
EPA's impossible ozone standard needs touch of reality: Mike McKell

Media

Hillary’s New Logo Incites Hilarity From Both Left And Right.. And Claims Of Theft: WZ
Rand Paul Selling Hillary Clinton Hard Drives: RightPundit
Steve Kroft Upset Over Getting 60 Minutes Treatment: P.J. Gladnick

Anti-Hillary Street Art Hits LA Ghetto: GotNews
SNL Brings Back Darrell Hammond to Play Hillary’s ‘First Dude’ for Today’s Announcement: Mediaite
Ted Cruz Releases 'We're Ready for Hillary' Video: Yahoo UK

World

Obama Strangles Monroe Doctrine, Embraces Latin Dictatorships, Communists And Fascists: NoisyRm
Ted Cruz: Obama Is ‘Leaving Cuban People Imprisoned In The Past’: IJR
Belarus Must Vote This Year To Join Russia Or Face ‘Liquidation’: Paul Goble

Trouble for J Street? Liberal Jews Turn on Obama Over Iran Deal: Algemeiner
Turkish Religious Authority Allows Toilet Paper, Wife-Eating: MB
Blogger case shows Saudi hypocrisy: Trudy Rubin

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Behind Time Warner Chief’s ‘Cord-Cutter’ Pitch: Keach Hagey
Despite Measuring Just 1.5 Inches, Pinch Titanium Multi-tool Still Packs 11 Functions: Mike Chua
Has Cloud ERP Reached a Tipping Point?: Alex Woodie

Cornucopia

Too Soon to Go Full Totalitarian: Erick Erickson
Another Rendezvous With Destiny?: MOTUS
Open Thread: Skinny Dimwitted Actress Nags: Ace

Image: Anti-Hillary Street Art Hits LA Ghetto
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QOTD: "If Cuba will not show it can operate in good faith by making such changes before sanctions are lifted, we have no assurance that the Castros will take real action to improve the lives of their impoverished and oppressed citizens. Meanwhile, American dollars will flow exclusively into the Castros’ pockets while the Cuban people continue to suffer." --Sen. Ted Cruz

Sunday, April 12, 2015

Ready to Defeat Hillary

By Matt Schlapp

After nearly four decades of single-mindedly chasing the Presidency, Hillary Clinton announced this weekend that she will again run for the White House in 2016. Never before has a Presidential candidate played so fast and loose with the truth as has Mrs. Clinton. From her refusal to shoot straight with the American people on the deaths of four Americans, including an ambassador, in Benghazi, to her unwillingness to play by the rules in the handling of her official emails during her time at the State Department, we have seen time and time again that Hillary Clinton thinks she does not have to follow the laws the rest of us have to follow.

Outside of pursing a radical agenda, it’s hard to see what, if anything, Hillary Clinton has done. Mrs. Clinton proved to be an ineffective Senator, introducing only two bills that became law during her eight years in the Senate, and she was equally ineffective as Secretary of State. Although she will brag about the tens of thousands of miles she has traveled around the globe, Mrs. Clinton’s global glad-handing resulted in no major breakthroughs. Furthermore, the world is more unsafe now than ever before. Whatever she actually did do during those thousands of miles has been conveniently lost to history when she scrubbed her computer clean in a brazen act of lawlessness.

Since 1992, Hillary Clinton and her husband have been at the center of an endless parade of scandals. After eight years of Barack Obama, the last thing we need is to extend his radical policies another four years with a President Hillary Clinton. Ready? We’ve had enough.

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Obama Deal With Iran Leaves a U.S. Marine Behind

By Investor's Business Daily

Justice: A Marine veteran has been held captive in Iran since August 2011, when he was taken prisoner while visiting family and charged with spying. Does President Obama hear his plea for unconditional freedom?

With the exception of deserters like Bowe Bergdahl, those who put on a uniform and serve their country seem like afterthoughts to this administration, if they're thought of at all.

Just ask Andrew Tahmooressi, the Marine sergeant allowed to languish 214 days in a Mexican jail for the crime of missing a highway exit. Or now, Amir Hekmati of Flagstaff, Ariz., a Marine vet who sits in an Iranian jail, having made the mistake of trying to visit his Iranian family.

Hekmati has been locked up in Iran's Evin Prison since he returned to his ancestral home 3-1/2 years ago to visit family. His parents left Iran when the mullahs took power in 1979. He did not think he would later be a victim of Iranian belligerence and American indifference, accused of being a CIA spy. He was first sentenced to death, but that sentence was overturned, and in a retrial he got 10 years in prison.

Unlike Bergdahl in Afghanistan, Amir served with genuine honor and distinction in Iraq, where Shiite militia groups were supplied with weapons and trained in their use by Iran's Revolutionary Guard. These weapons included sophisticated improvised explosive devices, or IEDs, designed to exploit vulnerabilities in U.S. military vehicles and increase American casualties.

TRUTH: The Cure for Cognitive Dissonance

By Jim Quinn

“In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.” George Orwell

Every time the BLS puts out their monthly propaganda report on the wonderful state of the U.S. jobs market and states with a straight face the unemployment rate is a measly 5.5%, their corporate mouthpieces in the mainstream cheerleader media regurgitate the fake numbers and urge you to buy stocks. The millionaire talking heads on CNBC and the corrupt bought off politicians in D.C. make broad sweeping declarations about economic recovery, strong job growth, GDP advancement, record highs in the stock market, and soaring consumer confidence.

The people living in the real world know otherwise, but they want to believe the “experts” and “leaders”. This dichotomy between reality and what they are being told is causing a tremendous amount of mental stress. This cognitive dissonance of attempting to reconcile what they are experiencing in their every day existence and the propaganda being peddled at them on a daily basis from big media, big bankers, corporate titans, and captured politicians pulling the strings and running the show, is causing psychological discomfort. Most people want their lives to get better, so to reduce their cognitive dissonance they choose to believe the government and media reports about economic improvement.

It is only a small minority who want to know the unvarnished truth. They are drawn to alternative media websites, which the the captured corporate media refers to as doom sites. These critical thinking individuals understand the facts. The Deep State propaganda has no impact on these people because they have no cognitive dissonance. They know things are far worse than what is reported by the government and their media whores. Knowing the truth and seeing how the majority remain willfully ignorant results in rising anger among truth seekers. Huxley was right.

Larwyn's Linx: How you know there’s a huge problem with the Iran nuclear agreement

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Nation

How you know there’s a huge problem with the Iran nuclear agreement: Rick Jensen
Obama Puts an End to the Monroe Doctrine: Keith Koffler
The Tough Questions Hillary Faces As Candidate: Jerome R. Corsi

Two Years Later Bill Kristol’s Hillary Question & Mine Remain Unanswered: DTG
Hillary's biggest problem: she's a phony: Silvio Canto, Jr.
Is Hillary Clinton a Husband Beater?: Kristinn Taylor

Ted Cruz Is Serious…And So Is His Fundraising Machine: Hideout
Clinton’s stale presidential plan wrong for nation: JWF
White House Tweets a Rainbow Picture of Obama That Will Make You Choke: Sooper

Speaker at NRA Convention Actually Gives Speech about Firearms Law: NRO
Where Are The Shootings? (pt II) NRAAM vs Chicago: Days of our Trailers
Capitol briefly locked down after suicide at West Front: WaPo

Economy

The road to ELLE: ClintonWorld's plutographic presidential rollout: Byron York
Blacks Lose Ground under Obama: Deroy Murdock
Thousands Of Americans Fired, Forced To Train Foreigners As Replacements: WZ

Climate & Energy

Why California's salad days have wilted: Joel Kotkin
Should California Spend 4 Billion Gallons to Save a Few Fish?: Wired
Scottish Warmist: Nationalize All Energy: Cove

Media

Media Fabricated Evidence to Smear GOP Three Times In One Day: John Nolte
Media Tries Getting 'Pedantic' On Ted Cruz: John Hayward
David Corn's a F***ing Idiot, But You Knew This: Ace

Paging Hillary Clinton And The Media Covering Her: Could You Please Climb Out Of Plato's Cave?: Jason Linkins
Unflattering photos of Hillary reveal Liberal media plans: AT
Oh Hill No!: WZ

Sharpton Vows To Go To Charleston, SC Anyway: BlurBrain
Thugs Gang Rape Woman On Beach While Crowd Watches And Cheers: DownTrend
More Than 10 Things You Can Start Doing Now to Prepare to ‘Survive': Blaze

World

Why Don’t Americans Trust Republicans on Foreign Policy?: David P. Goldman
Leftism and Islam tag teaming against freedom and Western civilization: Vlad Tepes
President Stompy Feet Obama Slams Congress’ Involvement in Foreign Affairs: “It Needs to Stop!”: GWP

ISIS Appears Ready to Launch Strike Against Israel, Moving Fast on the Border: Russ Hepler
ISIS Destroys Ruins of Ancient Assyrian City of Nimrud, Iraq: MEMRI
HILLARY'S RESET: Russia is conducting another big military drill: Insider

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Boeing's latest idea to help you sleep better on planes: David Nield
First Episodes of Game of Thrones Season 5 Leak Online: TorrrentFreak
Google Battles For Better Batteries: Slashdot

Cornucopia

A Long, Slow Dance: MOTUS
Obama's True Legacy: Springer
Man arrested for possession of drugs that look exactly like Walter White's Breaking Bad meth: Call Saul Now!

Image: Barack Obama and Cuban President Raúl Castro Hold Historic Meeting
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QOTD: "To become more “authentic,” Hillary must become even more fake, set us at ease by playing to all the dumb tropes of the popular portrait of the everywoman -- one who is devoted to slopwave food (premium juice, premium oatmeal, kale slurry) but is a little embarrassed about it. A wacky career gal who is unlucky in ... something. Clinton should consider tripping publicly, perhaps while eating yogurt. Then laugh really loud, but not inauthentically loud. The only thing worse than being fake in politics is being real." --Elspeth Reeve

Saturday, April 11, 2015

THE MONROE DOCTRINE IS DEAD: Obama apologizes for all U.S. "meddling" in Latin America since... 1823

The Monroe Doctrine is dead. This key U.S. foreign policy, in place since 1823, made clear that foreign efforts to assert control over Latin or South America would be viewed as acts of aggression.


Obama meets with genocidal dictator Raul Castro, the first U.S. President to meet with Cuba's leader since the Communist Revolution.
No more stark example exists of the Monroe Doctrine than the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962, possibly the closest the world has come to global nuclear war.

It was then that the iconic Democrat President John F. Kennedy "cited the Monroe Doctrine as a basis for America's 'eyeball-to-eyeball' confrontation with the Soviet Union that had embarked on a campaign to install ballistic missiles on Cuban soil."

Now this key, 192-year old American defensive strategem is no more.

Keith Koffler, writing at White House Dossier, relays the jaw-dropping news.

President Obama officially closed a chapter in U.S. history that has guided presidents since nearly beginning, indicating the United States will no longer act to resist overseas influence in the Hemisphere.

Obama, who spoke Friday during a “civil society” forum in Panama City, Panama, disparaged past efforts by the United States to forestall the spread of Communism in Latin America and suggested similar missions would no longer be undertaken.

The days in which our agenda in this hemisphere so often presumed that the United States could meddle with impunity, those days are past,” Obama said.

You read that right: Obama just apologized for nearly two centuries of U.S. "meddling".

The U.S. being, of course, the country that he "leads".

Also noteworthy: Mr. Obama announced that he is giving Cuba a free pass on its support for terrorism and Communist insurgencies around the world.

Oh, how I yearn for an American president.


Hat tip: BadBlue News.

PEW: Obama is the most divisively partisan president since we began surveying Americans

That's not how Pew phrased it. But that's what the accompanying graph, as relayed by Barry Ritholtz, depicts. It illustrates historical job approval ratings segmented by political affiliation of Americans surveyed.


Note the 67 point difference (we'll call it the delta) between Obama's popularity among Democrats and Republicans. That's the highest ever.

Bush 43 had a delta of 58. Clinton rang up a 53. Bush 41 was a 38.

And Reagan's delta was a 52.

Carter was an aberration with a delta of only 27, but that's mitigated by the fact that Carter's popularity among Democrats was incredibly low, which compresses the margin.

Put simply, Obama is the most nakedly divisive president ever. The science, as they say, is settled.


Hat tip: BadBlue News.

CRIMINAL: Feds order parched California farm district to use 9 billion gallons of water to save... 29 fish

No, this isn't an article from The Onion: "Should California Spend 4 Billion Gallons to Save a Few Fish?"

In the the heart of California’s drought-parched Central Valley, fruit and vegetable supplier to the nation, a water district is defying a federal order to give some endangered trout a 3.9 billion gallon water ride out to sea. And it could be the first skirmish in a much wider conflict.

The Endangered Species Act protects steelhead trout, a small population of which are attempting a recovery in the Stanislaus River, which flows out of the Sierra Nevada Mountains into Modesto, in the San Joaquin Valley. So earlier this week a federal fisheries agency—it’s unclear which one, and there are several— told the California branch of the Bureau of Reclamation (another water agency) that the fish needed more water to get out to the Pacific. The bureau in turn passed the order to the South San Joaquin Irrigation District, telling them to let a pulse of water through the dam on the Stanislaus.


It's unclear which federal fishery agency sent the letter? What the...? How many "federal fisheries agencies" do we need? Oh, but that's right, Democrats: there's nothing to cut in the vast federal bureaucracy. My bad.

But upon receipt, Jeff Shields, the manager of SSJID went rogue: “Whose water will be released down the Stanislaus River to satisfy the second pulse flow?” Not his, in other words.

It was the second such order in the past three weeks. The SSJID complied with the first. According to the Manteca Bulletin, a local paper that has been covering the standoff, this flushed out 15,000 acre feet of water and 23 steelhead trout. But this latest order, which would reportedly use another 12,000 acre feet to save only six fish, was too much for Shields. (Fisheries agencies haven’t yet confirmed that count.)


The two water "pulses" represent nearly 10 billion gallons of water that the feds want to use to save a grand total of less than 30 fish, when instead it could be used to irrigate farmland, feed and water animals, as well as meet residential water needs.

So Lewis said no to the Bureau, and then secured legal counsel. “We tried to work with the Bureau for the last several years. We’ve sent dozens of letters and ideas about how to manage the river more prudently and other issues that we felt needed to be addressed because they were affecting our water,” Shields told the Manteca Bulletin. “I understand that they’re busy and they have a river that they have to manage and water that they have to take care of, but we’re busy as well—we have water that we have to manage and people that we have to look out for as well.” According to Shields, this water is better used on human interests, like agriculture and homes.


These eco-Marxists are completely insane. Off their rockers.

The entire federal bureaucracy (I'm not including our defense and intel budgets) needs to be slashed by 75 percent. For starters.


Hat tip: JTT.

Larwyn's Linx: Why the Left Wants Iran to Get the Bomb

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Nation

Why the Left Wants Iran to Get the Bomb: Daniel Greenfield
The Fable of the Bees: Matthew Continetti
Iran, the Nuclear Deal and ‘The Gathering Storm’: Francis P. Sempa

Marxists Use Illegal Immigration to Destroy the Identity of America: Sara Noble
Obama Deal With Iran in Trouble: Michael Barone
Would-Be Suicide Bomber Targeted Kansas Army Base: Abha Shankar

The Arabian Candidate: William Kilpatrick
Smart Diplomacy For Dummies: Andrew Klavan
Ted Cruz Electrifies Crowd at NRA Conference: Scoop

Chicago's Mayoral Election a Wakeup Call For The DNC: Michael Bargo, Jr.
Sheriff Clarke Responds to Sharpton’s Call for Nationalized Police Force: Sara Noble
Minneapolis police records shed light on 2014 military training: Matt Ehling

Economy

End the Taxpayer-Funded Lobbying Scam: Phil Kerpen
Unions Eyeing 2016 California Ballot for Tax Hike Measures: Steven Greenhut
The Middle Class Is Worse Off Than You Think: Mark Whitehouse

Scandal Central

Fort Hood shooting victim denied benefits, despite Purple Heart decision: Catherine Herridge
DHS Ordered to Explain Secret Plan to Shut Down Phone Service: Raven Clabough
A nuclear weapons courier threatens his colleagues: R. Jeffrey Smith

Media

Rand Paul offended the liberal media? Oh, please...: Russ Vaughn
Obama's (So-Called) 'Deal': HySci
Walter Scott Family Bans Sharpton From Funeral to Avoid ‘Ferguson Circus’: WAW

Tsarnaev conviction puts death penalty opponents in an awkward spot: Jonah Goldberg
Fox News host: Will Obama end up with Tsarnaev as trade bait for ISIS if he’s spared death penalty?: BPR
Ouch: AP reporter asks Harf if she wants Americans trapped in Yemen to ‘swim’ home: BPR

RNC Video Shows the GOP Learned Lessons from Democrats: Dossier
Bachmann: Obama's foreign policy 'virtually guarantees' World War III: Mark Hensch
AP Report Shows Backlog at VA Hasn’t Improved; Networks Fail to Cover: Curtis Houck

World

Islamic State launches assault on Ramadi: LWJ
Is this the real reason Obama returned that Churchill bust?: Michele Hickford
Muslims Only Religious Group Increasing Faster Than World’s Population: Daniel Greenfield

Another daytime execution in Tijuana: Borderland
Who-d a-thunk it? The only way to survive in socialist Venezuela are tools of capitalism?: AEI
With violence against albinos rising, Malawi orders police to shoot ‘ruthless’ attackers: Elahe Izadi

Sentimentalizing Serial Murder: City Journal (2012)
Nigel Farage speaks inconvenient truths about the NHS: Vincent Cooper
Mobility scooter plague: do some people in Britain still remember how to walk?: Mark Mason

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Insidious Orwellian Machines: Gavin McInnes
Google is Renting Server Racks in Russia To Store User Data There - Sources: InterpreterMag
8-foot-long carnivorous cat-eating lizards are invading Florida: Kevin Loria

Cornucopia

The Bookworm Beat 4-10-15 — the illustrated edition and open thread: Bookworm
A Non-State, Non-Uniformed Enemy Belligerent: Ann Barnhardt
This is not at all on the list of ways you think you might die: iOTWreport

Image: Islamic State launches assault on Ramadi
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: Isn't it time for a principled conservative? Ted Cruz 2016: Official Site

QOTD: "I think this is a very ominous message. The president has been all over the place trying to explain the deal with Iran, trying to sell the deal with Iran. I think he’s being a terrible salesman. I think by the White House doing this they are deteriorating the relationship between the United States and its only ally in the region to a very, very low point… This is not about your watch this is about the life of our children and grandchildren as well as your grandchildren. So if you don’t care what happens in 20 months after you leave the White House, we do.

And those words, “This will never happen under my watch,” echo very ominously the words of Neville Chamberlain the Prime Minister of England who came back from Munich and said there would be peace in our time and ended up bringing this world its worst war, World War II. And I think the way that the president is trying to appease Iran is very similar to the appeasement of Hitler." --Former Israeli Ambassador to the UN Dan Gillerman

Friday, April 10, 2015

SJP ("Hamas on Campus") Claims Another Head

Rich Baehr writes:

A distinguished Professor of Philosophy at Connecticut College for Women, Andrew Pessin, who once taught at Kenyon, has been hounded from his job after becoming a target by the campus SJP [Students for Justice in Palestine, a group dubbed "Hamas on Campus"], their faculty friends, and their fellow haters around the world, who bombarded the Professor with vicious email and threats. The "crime" Professor Pessin committed was using some colorful language in a post last August during the war in Gaza to describe [the vicious, terrorists known as] Hamas. Pessin’s real crime is that he is Jewish and pro-Israel, a combination which appears to make him unique among the faculty at this liberal arts college. The real assault on Pessin began six months after his original post during the war, and though he apologized to the student who claimed to have been offended, the campaign against him was in full attack mode by then.

I have attached below some articles that have been written on this issue to give you some background on Pessin’s case. He is currently on medical leave, living off campus for his own safety and sanity. Several months back, his wife had surgery for a brain tumor, and she has not fully recovered. Professor Pessin has his hands full, and he should not fight the evil coming at him alone.

I have provided below the email address of the President of Connecticut College. Feel free to let her know that the issue here is not a Facebook post, but a drive to make Connecticut College “free" of pro-Israel people. So far, the President has acted badly, creating a kind of moral equivalence between someone typing a Facebook post about Hamas, and the campus responding en masse, as if it had been mortally wounded by the post six or seven months after the fact, and turning with real ugliness on a once popular and respected Professor. In the last few weeks, the college has added three new Deans of Equity and Inclusion.

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.