Monday, April 20, 2015

THIS IS A PICTURE OF JUDGE BARBARA KLUKA: Make Her Name a Household Word

Those who have high blood pressure should not read this piece by David French, in which he describes the criminal abuse of the Wisconsin legal system by partisan Democrats aided and abetted by a scumbag in judge's robes.

If the first series of John Doe investigations was “everything Walker,” the second series was “everything conservative,” as Chisholm had launched an investigation of not only Walker (again) but the Wisconsin Club for Growth and dozens of other conservative organizations, this time fishing for evidence of allegedly illegal “coordination” between conservative groups and the Walker campaign.

In the second John Doe, Chisholm had no real evidence of wrongdoing. Yes, conservative groups were active in issue advocacy, but issue advocacy was protected by the First Amendment and did not violate relevant campaign laws. Nonetheless, Chisholm persuaded prosecutors in four other counties to launch their own John Does, with Judge Kluka overseeing all of them.

Empowered by a rubber-stamp judge, partisan investigators ran amok. They subpoenaed and obtained (without the conservative targets’ knowledge) massive amounts of electronic data, including virtually all the targets’ personal e-mails and other electronic messages from outside e-mail vendors and communications companies.

The investigations exploded into the open with a coordinated series of raids on October 3, 2013. These were home invasions, including those described above. Chisholm’s office refused to comment on the raid tactics (or any other aspect of the John Doe investigations), but witness accounts regarding the two John Doe investigations are remarkably similar: early-morning intrusions, police rushing through the house, and stern commands to remain silent and tell no one about what had occurred.

At the same time, the Wisconsin Club for Growth and other conservative organizations received broad subpoenas requiring them to turn over virtually all business records, including “donor information, correspondence with their associates, and all financial information.” The subpoenas also contained dire warnings about disclosure of their existence, threatening contempt of court if the targets spoke publicly.

For select conservative families across five counties, this was the terrifying moment — the moment they felt at the mercy of a truly malevolent state.

Godwin's Law be damned: Barbara Kluka would have thrived as a judge in Nazi Germany. She should be sanctioned and subjected to every criminal charge imaginable. Judges are supposed to uphold the law, not rubberstamp the criminal suppression of political opponents.

If you haven't bothered to read the article yet, please do so. You need to know how low the modern Democrat Party will stoop and right now it's pretty damn low indeed.


Hat tip: Mark Steyn.

Hillary Clinton Must Answer for the Genocidal Caliphate She and Barack Obama Created in Libya

By Investor's Business Daily

Politics: As refugees flood the Mediterranean, Europe is in a crisis. But the issue is not about how many lifeboats to send; it's the failed state of Libya. Why isn't Hillary Clinton, the architect of U.S. Libya policy, answering questions?


The Islamic State beheaded more Christians in Libya, where the failed state enables terrorists to flourish and thousands are dying attempting to flee.
The European Union is being hit with a refugee crisis of unprecedented proportions as another boat loaded with emigres capsized near the Italian island of Lampedusa on Saturday. Nearly all of its 900 passengers drowned in what's billed as the worst maritime disaster in the history of the Mediterranean.

The Mediterranean, now known as "a cemetery without graves," will be crossed by some 500,000 refugees this year, up from about 220,000 last year.

At the same time, a second round of beheadings of Christians by Islamic State terrorists on Libya's beaches over the weekend drives the point home: Terrorists are on the rise, and a strong base of their operations is in Libya, a failed state that was taken over by a vile menagerie of pirates, slavers and smugglers in the rubble of the toppled Gadhafi regime.

Who's responsible here? None other than Hillary Clinton, who served as President Obama's secretary of state during the overthrow of the longtime dictatorship of Moammar Gadhafi in 2011.

BECAUSE, CRUSADES: Turkish Dictator Erdoğan and Obama to jointly open new mosque in Maryland

At this point, why not?

[The] presidents of Turkey and the U.S. will open the Turkish-American Culture and Civilization Center in Maryland, Turkey's foreign minister said Sunday.

Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu visited the center that also has a middle-sized mosque on a three-day visit to Washington, and lunched with representatives from the American Muslim community.

"During a phone call, President (Recep Tayyip) Erdoğan asked President (Barack) Obama to accompany him in opening the center together and President Obama accepted his offer'in principle,'" Çavuşoğlu told the representatives.

Simultaneously, our beloved president is silent on the scourge of anti-Christian violence being meted out by Islamists around the world.

Not to mention doing his level best to see Iran's Islamonazi regime secure the trifecta of the apocalypse: nuclear weapons, intercontinental ballistic missiles, and sophisticated anti-missile systems.

And of course he has no time to visit the southern border, the scandal-ridden Veteran's Administration, or Israel's prime minister.

This is a man on a mission and it's truly unfortunate that no one in the media has ever appeared willing to ask precisely what that mission is.


Hat tip: BadBlue News.

Mark Steyn arrives at the ultimate campaign slogan for 2016

The peerless Mark Steyn has tomorrow's QOTD, which is a must-read at least twice, and a slogan for the Republicans in 2016.

For me, the issue this US election season is the corruption. Sure, I'd like a balanced budget and less debt and repeal of Obamacare, but I'm getting used to being sold out on those issues. So I'm down to the bare minimum requirement for a politician: The corruption nauseates me, and, if it doesn't nauseate the candidates, then that explains a lot about why nothing happens on any of those other matters.

It's in the air, it's in my nostrils, and I'm sick of choking on it. We have a "justice" department that prosecutes a senator who made the mistake of crossing the President (Menendez) but declines to do anything about a tax collector who treats American taxpayers differently on the basis of how they vote (Lerner). We have a revenue agency that regards itself as the paramilitary wing of the ruling party. We have replaced equality before the law with a hierarchy of privilege, so that no-name ambassadors can be fired for breaking federal record-keeping requirements by a department whose boss outsources her federal records to her own server and then mass-deletes them with no more thought than when she's parking her van in the handicapped space. We have a federal police agency in which 26 out of its 28 hair analysts gave false testimony favorable to the prosecution. We have a cabinet officer who managed to get more firepower deployed to toss her designated scapegoat videomaker into the county jail than she assigned to the US diplomatic compound in Benghazi. We have a president who rules by decree on everything from immigration to health care - and a legislature of castrati too craven to object.

I would like a candidate who promises to hose out the sewer. Yes, yes, I know it's not as jolly and upbeat a slogan as "Morning in America" or "Hope and Change" or "A Thousand Points of Light", but hosing out the sewer happens to be what's necessary.


As of this writing, there is only one candidate in the field who:

(a) is routinely attacked by the establishment fogies of both parties;
(b) has never been forced to change his position on critical policy issues;
(c) and has proven to be a formidable debater in every venue imaginable.

That man is Ted Cruz. I urge you to consider supporting his campaign.

The time is now.


Larwyn's Linx: ‘Clinton Cash’ Reveals Foreign Pay-to-Play Deals with Clinton State Dept.

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Nation

‘Clinton Cash’ Reveals Foreign Pay-to-Play Deals with Clinton State Dept.: Treehouse
Why Hillary Can't Be in the Moment: Deborah C. Tyler
John Kerry, v2.0. …Not that they really wanted v1.0, either.: RS

Ted Cruz’s Three-Step Solution to ‘Reignite the Promise of America’: Kate Scanlon
Jeb Bush is Not Ready for Prime Time: Leon H. Wolf
Bad translation misrepresents Rubio’s immigration comments: Kemberlee Kaye

An education on the Illinois corruption tax: John Ruberry
240 Years Ago Today, Paul Revere’s Midnight Ride: Jen Kuznicki
Never Again: We Need a Million People to March on Washington: GretaWire

Playing the Field: Derek Hunter
O'Malley strongly hints he will run in 2016: Sean Higgins
Rand's Brother: 'No Difference' Between Rand And My Dad On Ideology: BuzzFeed

Economy

Maine Reforms Welfare, Drops 80% of Able-Bodied Childless Adults: Sooper
With Ambush Elections In Effect, Obama NLRB Now Targets Right-To-Work: LUR
Charting Greece's Frightening Future: Mark Whitehouse

Scandal Central

The Runaway Prosecutor Who Almost Lost Iraq: Arthur L. Herman
Veteran Tries to Save US Flag Being Stomped on the Left’s Useful Idiots: Sara Noble
Family wins battle over $80m in gold coins their father was accused of stealing from US Mint: Daily Mail

Climate & Energy

The Big Idea: California Is So Over: Joel Kotkin
ISIS kills more Christians, threatens another 9/11, and Obama focuses on...: Doug Powers
Filthy Liberals Celebrate Earth Day By Trashing the National Mall: Sooper

Media

New Opposition Research Resource: Hillary’s Gaffes and Goofs: MOTUS
NYT's Frank Bruni: Huma “Clings” To Hillary “So Tightly, Their Relationship Could Be Called Marsupial”: WZ
North Carolina Mob Attack – PC Media Intentionally Avoid Racial Element: Treehouse

Duke Basketball Coach Mike Krzyzewski Blasts Obama For Inept Foreign Policy: WJ
Female Group Ejected From Comic Expo For Criticizing Feminism: Patrick Bissett
Leftist Writers: We're Here to Abolish White People: Ace

World

Netanyahu: 'Death to Israel' inscriptions on Iran's missiles never change: Hayom
Egyptian Government Arrests Muslim Who Worked For The Obama Administration: Shoebat
Muslims continue to erase any indicators of non-muslim existence where they have control: Vlad Tepes

Muslim American Terrorists Overwhelmingly Come From Muslim American Congressman’s District: GotNews
Obama to Americans in Yemen: You’re on Your Own: RS
WH Statement On ISIS Murder Of 30 Ethiopian Christians Leaves Out Islam: WZ

Israel analysts shocked by Obama’s comments on sanctions, S-300 supply: Times of Israel
‘Putin isn’t an Imperialist; He’s a Nazi,’ Portnikov Says: Paul Goble
Man Creates “Shoes that grow” for Children in Impoverished Nations: Michael Schaus

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

FBI can’t cut Internet and pose as cable guy to search property, judge says: David Kravets
Man Fixing Toilet Uncovers Centuries-Old Subterranean World Beneath Basement: Ancient Origins
The end of the license plate: Jim Harper

Cornucopia

Artists' perspective: Bringing military photos to life with a touch of color: Oriana Pawlyk
Hillary Wore A Shirt That Looked Just Like A Green Screen, And The Internet Proved The Theory of Inertia: IJR
Dakota State Defensive Coordinator, Head Coach Botch “Dizzy Punt”: Lost Lettermen

Image: ‘Clinton Cash’ Reveals Foreign Pay-for-Play Deals to Clinton State Dept.
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QOTD: "Enemies of Hillary Clinton waiting to discredit her bid for the White House are likely to seize on news that one of the biggest benefactors to the Clinton Foundation has been trading with Iran and may be in breach of US sanctions imposed on the country.

Ukrainian oligarch Victor Pinchuk, 54, has courted the Clintons for at least nine years... [e]arlier this year, he was confirmed as the largest individual contributor to the Clinton Foundation... The fourth richest man in Ukraine, Pinchuk owns Interpipe Group, a Cyprus-incorporated manufacturer of seamless pipes used in oil and gas sectors.

Newsweek has seen declarations and documents from Ukraine that show a series of shipments from Interpipe to Iran in 2011 and 2012, including railway parts and products commonly used in the oil and gas sectors." --Rory Ross

Sunday, April 19, 2015

People are Fleeing States Where Elizabeth Warren's Economic Policies Have Already Been Tried

By Stephen Moore

Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren recently appeared on one of the late night talk shows, beating the class warfare drum and arguing for billions of dollars in new social programs paid for with higher taxes on millionaires and billionaires. In recent years, though, blue states such as California, Illinois, Delaware, Connecticut, Hawaii, Maryland and Minnesota adopted this very strategy, and they raised taxes on their wealthy residents. How did it work out? Almost all of these states lag behind the national average in growth of jobs and incomes.

So, if income redistribution policies are the solution to shrinking the gap between rich and poor, why do they fail so miserably in the states?

Day after day, the middle class keeps leaving California. The wealthy areas such as San Francisco and the Silicon Valley boom. Yet the state has nearly the highest poverty rate in the nation.

The blue states that try to lift up the poor with high taxes, high welfare benefits, high minimum wages and other Robin Hood policies tend to be the places where the rich end up the richest and the poor the poorest.

California is the prototypical example. It has the highest tax rates of any state. It has very generous welfare benefits. Many of its cities have a high minimum wage. But day after day, the middle class keeps leaving. The wealthy areas such as San Francisco and the Silicon Valley boom. Yet the state has nearly the highest poverty rate in the nation. The Golden State, alas, has become the inequality state.

James Baker Becomes Third Former Secretary of State to Slam Obama's Absurd Scheme for Iranian Nukes

By The Tower

Former Secretary of State James A. Baker III expressed concerns about the understanding reached between the P5+1 and Iran in Lausanne, Switzerland in a Wall Street Journal op-ed on Thursday. Baker wrote that there appeared to be “serious misunderstandings” between the negotiating parties on what a final agreement would look like, most notably regarding the phasing of sanctions relief, the verification mechanism, the “snapback” re-imposition of sanctions, and Iran’s refusal to disclose information about its past work on its nuclear program, which is necessary for a robust verification regime. Baker urged Secretary of State John Kerry to convince the other P5+1 nations to support a non-negotiable stance on these outstanding questions.

The Iranian leadership’s position that all sanctions must be removed upon signing any final agreement “is a far cry from the U.S. understanding that sanctions will only be removed over time, as Iran meets its obligations…[I]f Iran holds to it, there should be no final agreement,” Baker wrote.

THANKS, OBAMA AND HILLARY: 'Genocide' charged as up to 700 drown while trying to flee Libya

And 'Genocide' is the word CNN uses:

It was the latest in a series of dangerous voyages as hundreds of men, women and children boarded a boat in Libya, hoping to make it safely to Europe.

But after a couple of days at sea, in the dark of night Saturday, the ship was in distress in the Mediterranean and sent out an SOS.

As rescuers approached, the migrants -- perhaps 700 people on board -- moved to one side of their boat, hoping to be saved. Their movement caused the large, multilevel boat to capsize, sending the desperate crowd plunging into the frigid water, their chance of survival slim.

According to Maltese authorities, who are working with Italian rescuers, only around 50 of the 700 have been saved.

Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton were directly behind the destabilization of Libya. Hillary Clinton "falsely claimed Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi was planning genocidal attacks against his domestic enemies" in order to justify attacks by a US-led NATO coalition.

Obama went so far as to proclaim the death of the dictator a 'foreign policy success'.

The far left website Global Research well summarizes the results of the Obama-Hillary foreign policy disaster.

[Libya] is now in complete political anarchy, with a destroyed economy and a war torn society.

Presently, we cannot call Libya a State for after US/NATO armed intervention and regime change, practically all Libyan villages, from North to South, are now run by the various tribes that was once united under Gaddafi. Libya is in the state of civil war showing the inevitability of what Hobbes called “the ugly, brutish, nasty and chaotic state of nature” characterizing political anarchy. In this post-Gaddafi Libya, the anarchic and lawless militias are wrecking havoc in different parts of the country—each fighting each other for supremacy. The so-called “Islamist” Jemaa-Islamiyya and ISIS forces are busy carving out their own respective territories in the once secular and progressive socialist Libya.

Libya is now a stateless anarchy since various tribes and militias are declaring their own sort-of states in various parts of the country...

This was yet another instance of Obama bypassing Congress, claiming military action against Libya did not require Congressional approval. The New York Times went so far as to call Obama's actions "an illegal war" as the president violated the War Powers Act.

It has now been over three months since the first NATO bombs fell on Libya, yet President Obama has failed to request Congressional approval for military action, as required by the War Powers Act of 1973. The legal machinations Mr. Obama has used to justify war without Congressional consent set a troubling precedent that could allow future administrations to wage war at their convenience — free of legislative checks and balances.

To paraphrase Matthew Vadum, Obama put out the contract and Hillary carried out the hit, with the result being a burgeoning western arm of the ISIS caliphate and an ongoing humanitarian catastrophe.

Obama and Hillary own this disaster.


Hat tip: BadBlue News.

Larwyn's Linx: Largest donor to Clinton Foundation has trade ties to Iran

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Nation

Newsweek: Largest donor to Clinton Foundation has trade ties to Iran: Hot Air
Hillary Clinton: Book banner.: Roger Kimball
Hillary for America? Why?: Michael Reagan

Obama Set To Push For ‘Slavery Reparations’ In 2016: Mr. Conservative
Obama’s Executive Amnesty May Be In Trouble In Fifth Circuit Court: Brian Carey
When did America forget that it’s America?: Natan Sharansky

Assistant Democrat Jeb Bush Calls for Loretta Lynch’s Confirmation: MB
Rubio vs. Cruz is the most important foreign policy battle of 2016: Exam
Ted Cruz Celebrates Historic Victory Finally Honoring Ft. Hood Victims: IJR

Ted Cruz Rocks the New Hampshire Republican Leadership Summit!: Scoop
Rand Paul: Secret Scandal Will Wreck Hillary Clinton “Soon”: Bloomberg
Shocking images from cameras on Texas-Mexico border: Daily Mail

Economy

The 41st Vet Killed by the VA and the Obama Administration: AmJrnl
Hillary Already Stimulating the Economy: Rick Jensen
Aging America Staying Put: Thomas Purcell

Scandal Central

Why Didn't Jamie Gorelick Face Charges For Trading With Iran?: Rick Manning
Cisco Used Clinton Foundation To Cover-up Human Rights Abuse In China: Mike Krieger
Bill Shuster admits ‘private and personal relationship’ with airline lobbyist: Politico

Climate & Energy

'Because I Said So': Jeremiah Jacques
What It Would Take to Prove Global Warming: Robert Tracinski
New York Times Op-Ed: It Was a Mistake to Believe the Hockey Stick: Rich Lowry

Media

Return to Towel Mountain: Mark Steyn
Why I stopped reading Gary Hart’s piece on oligarchy: Moe Lane
First in the Nation Forum: Ted Cruz: NYT

Valerie Jarrett kisses reporters … : ProWis
Leftwing Website Commits Crimethink, Begs Leftwing Mob for Mercy: Ed Driscoll
When Simple Lies Just Won't Do: Springer's Blog

Some of Hillary Clinton's comments that could come back to haunt her: John Lott
Ohio: Muslims cry “racism and bigotry” over cancellation of public school hijab promotion: JihadWatch
Why comedian Adam Carolla says ‘I want to support Ted . . . .I love me some Ted Cruz’: BPR

World

Little Man, Big Job: The Obama Doctrine of Withdrawal: MOTUS
Iranian ship convoy moves toward Yemen, alarming US officials: Kristina Wong, The Hill
Obama advisor, nuke deal ‘architect’ straight out of Shiraz, Iran: Michael F. Haverluck

The Death of the Left: Daniel Greenfield
Iranian S-300 sale to go ahead: Jeremy Binnie, Jane's Defence Weekly
Putin warns Israel not to sell arms to Ukraine: Judah Ari Gross

FBI Holds “Special” Meeting in Juárez to Address ISIS, DHS Not Invited: JW
Obamacaust: Up to 700 feared dead after migrant boat sinks off Libya: Antonio Denti, Reuters
VIDEO: Jewish reporter harassed in Paris street: LI

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Verizon Fios' shift to 'skinny bundles' runs afoul of ESPN: Nate Ralph
The Rise of the Hackbots: Motherboard
Climate change agenda leaves poor out in the cold: Stephen Moore

Cornucopia

Hillary's Strategy: Maggie's Farm
Even The Dead Don’t Want To Vote For Hillary Clinton: WZ
Ted Cruz joke hits Obama where it hurts — and the GOP base eats it up!: BPR

Image: Shocking images from cameras on Texas-Mexico border
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QOTD: "...consider this week's Washington Post column by Jonathan H Adler: What Does It Take To Convince Libertarians And Conservatives That Climate Change Is A Problem?

Mr Adler is a conservative and a lawyer and a former colleague of mine who has written about Big Climate enforcer Michael E Mann's ongoing defamation suit against me - sometimes helpfully, sometimes in that faintly irritating way that American legal types have of explaining how your case raises many fascinating and arcane jurisprudential issues that make consuming a decade of your life over it a small price to pay.

But never mind all that, he says bitterly. Look at it this way. How often do you see mainstream newspaper headlines like that the other way round? "What does it take to convince liberals and socialists that Islamic terrorism is a problem? ...that a $20 trillion national debt is a problem? ...that partial-birth abortion is a problem?" The left has the program, and the right is constantly enjoined to get with it" --Mark Steyn

Saturday, April 18, 2015

DUDE: Iranian Opposition Leader Calls Obama "the son of a Shiite father [... he is] the Iranian lobby in America"

The indispensable Robert Spencer calls our attention to this report from MEMRI (the Middle East Media Research Institute):

On March 25, during an interview on Hiwar TV, broadcasting from London, Syrian writer Muhydin Lazikani said that “all the childhood memories of the man who rules the White House are Shiite memories” and that “that is why he is so anxious for Iran to emerge victorious.”

...On April 10, London-based Iranian opposition activist Abu Muntasir Al-Baloushi said: “Barack Hussein Obama is the son of a Shiite father… Some people call him the Iranian lobby in America.”

Which reminded me of a fascinating comment from October 9, 2008 on Daniel Pipes' site that had popped back around due to coincidence or sheer happenstance (courtesy of BadBlue News).

BOOM: Rating the GOP field on Amnesty

Over at American Thinker, Pedro Gonzales offers an excellent overview of the GOP field's positions on Amnesty. Here's the executive summary: only one candidate has never changed his position on the topic.

Jeb Bush

"...Jeb, as we all know, supports amnesty for illegal aliens, and he's proud of it. If he were running in Honduras, I would vote for him in a minute..."

Marco Rubio

"...Rubio co-authored a bill that would have given amnesty to illegal aliens. He has since tried to walk back from that..."

Chris Christie

"...Chris has been cagey on the subject, but one thing is clear: he ordered his appointee to Frank Lautenberg's Senate seat to vote for Marco Rubio's amnesty bill..."

Rick Perry

"...Perry is tough on illegal immigrants! He sent a handful of national guard troops to the border! (With orders not to arrest any illegals.) But as for those illegals who manage to slip through this imposing gauntlet, Perry rewards them with taxpayer-subsidized college educations. If he's paying for illegals to go to college, I think it's safe to say he supports amnesty..."

Mike Huckabee

"...in February 2007, Huckabee ... stated, 'We shouldn't have amnesty where we just say, "Fine, everybody's good, we're going to let it go.' We should have a process where people can pay the penalties, step up and accept responsibility for not being here legally..."

Scott Walker

"...Walker backed the McCain-Kennedy amnesty bill in 2006... [and] went as far as to tell POLITICO in 2013 that he supported a pathway to citizenship for undocumented immigrants..."

Rand Paul

"...Paul claims he's against amnesty, but he voted for an amendment to give 2 million 'temporary' visas to illegal aliens annually...who could then apply for citizenship. It looks like amnesty to me..."

Ted Cruz

"Cruz is the only major candidate who has never supported or endorsed amnesty."

As they say on the real blogs, read the whole thing.

Larwyn's Linx: The Hill to Lie On

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Nation

The Hill to Lie On: Mark Steyn
Top Hillary donor hints that she opposes Obama’s deal with Iran: Hot Air
O'Malley Knocks Hillary for Following 'Polls' Instead of 'Principles': Daniel Halper

Obama’s Communist Mentor Boasts About Lying To The FBI: GWP
Hillary Clinton: Parking In Handicap Spaces And Laughing: Steven Crowder
There are intense procedures for having coffee with Hillary Clinton: Hunter Walker

Meet the Real Abortion Extremists in Colorado: Ace
An Open Letter To Conservative Activists: John Hawkins
Hillary Clinton: Out of Sync With the Times: Michael Barone

Marco Rubio Is A Big Supporter Of Obama’s DACA Amnesty: William Teach
Ted Cruz to address Latino issues in Hispanic Chamber Q&A: Fox Latino
Carly Fiorina Set To Run,Will Take Away Hillary’s ‘I’m A Woman’ Argument: WZ

Economy

Deficit Growing Again, Despite Record Income Tax Haul: Timothy H. Lee
Republicans and Democrats Plan National Gas Tax Hike: Betty Butter
Critics: NLRB May Gut ‘Right to Work’ Laws: Bill McMorris

Scandal Central

AG Nominee Lynch Refuses to Answer Whether She’d Investigate Hillary’s Emails: GWP
U.N. Sends Potential Terrorists, Future Democrats Into Trey Gowdy’s District: Sara Noble
Wyden says Obama's 'excessive secrecy' feeds cynicism: Sean Higgins

Climate & Energy

A Dry Earth Day for California: Joe Guzzardi
DiCaprio: 6 Private Jet Flights In 6 Weeks--Despite Climate Change Advocacy Work: Radar
Surprised solar customers find themselves with liens: Tori Richards

Media

Muslim Students Rush Stage, Force Cancellation of University’s ‘American Sniper’ Showing: RWN
Ted Cruz does great interview on Adam Carolla Show: Scoop
Mark Levin has found a way to support…AMNESTY: Scoop

Rand: Where are Media Questions on Clinton’s Hypocritical Donations from Anti-Women Countries?: MRC
Ted Cruz And Rick Santorum Answer The Same Sex Wedding Question: Hot Air
Urdu Daily Publishes 43-Part Series On Islam's Blasphemy Laws: MEMRI

Let the Trolling Commence: Liberals Take Shots at Hillary Clinton: Andrew Stiles
Ben Affleck wanted his slave owner ancestor 'censored' from PBS documentary: Daily Mail
Dr. Oz responds after prominent physicians call for his firing from Columbia: Elahe Izadi, WaPo

World

The Other Face of Terrorism: Raheel Raza
Islamic State publicizes use of child soldiers in Baiji fight: Caleb Weiss
Al-Qaeda Seizes Seaport & Airport: AmInt

Hezbollah Brigades deploys fighters to Ramadi: LWJ
Bully in the Baltics: The Kremlin’s Provocations: Elisabeth Braw
Adrift at Sea in a Lifeboat, Muslims Throw Christians Overboard to Drown: Ace

Libyans are dying as they flee the mess Obama and Hillary helped create: Spectator
Why ISIS Advises Western Jihadists to Carry Nerf Guns and Condoms: Bridget Johnson
‘Foreign Policy’ Editor: Nuke Deal that Doesn’t Halt Iran’s Regional Threat is “Serious Error”: The Tower

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

New Laser May Blast Space Junk Out of Orbit from the ISS: Catherine Griffin
Microsoft shows impressively accurate hand-tracking system for VR: Agam Shah
Member of group that hacked Farmers Insurance, DirecTV, sentenced to 3 years: Danielle Walker

Cornucopia

Photo Scanning Businessman Being Sued for $90M After Making $120K Per Week: Michael Zhang
Jacksonville debuts high-tech streetlights — and they're watching you: BizJournals
Gas-line blast at California shooting range injures 11: AP

Image: Obama is going Alinsky Rule 12 on Republicans
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QOTD: "On Monday, 144 people were rescued by the Italian coastguard when the boat on which they were fleeing Libya capsized in the Mediterranean. Arriving homeless and without prospects in a strange land, these were — relatively speaking — the lucky ones. As many as 400 are thought to have drowned. Add them to the tally. Last year more than 3,000 died in the Mediterranean trying to get to the West. It has become a phenomenon of our times.

We do not hear much about life in the supposedly liberated Libya, but the fact that entire families were willing to risk the treacherous crossing gives a fair idea...

...As Libya collapses into violence, its great friends in London and Washington have effectively turned a blind eye." --The Spectator

Friday, April 17, 2015

Obama toadie Jeb Bush backs confirmation of radical leftist Loretta Lynch as Attorney General

By Warner Todd Huston

Obama has been trying to get Loretta Lynch confirmed as the new head of the Department of Justice but the Senate has been dragging its feet.

This is a woman who has refused to say if she would investigate Hillary’s email violations and said that illegals have every right to work here in the USA like legal citizens do.But Jeb says she deserves to be confirmed.

Answering questions at a town hall with New Hampshire primary voters at the Snowshoe Club, Bush, an all-but-announced Republican presidential candidate, stopped short of explicitly calling for Lynch’s confirmation. Her nomination to replace Attorney General Eric Holder has been stalled for an unusually long 160 days over a Senate showdown on an unrelated sex-trafficking bill that includes a controversial abortion provision.

“I think that Presidents have the right to pick their team,” Bush told a crowd of about 95 voters and a horde of media.

Once again we see Jeb leaning left. He is a big government guy on education with his support of the failed Common Core policy and he is an open borders type who openly supports Obama’s un-Constitutional amnesty.


Read more Warner Todd Huston at Publius Forum.

ISIS ON THE SOUTHERN BORDER: Judicial Watch blows the lid off another Obama scandal

By Tom Fitton

Judicial Watch is proving itself the most resourceful and impactful educational organizations in the nation. No other media outlet, no congressional committee, and no other non-governmental organization can match JW’s successes in ferreting out what the government doesn’t want you know. On the issue of terrorism and the border, JW’s journalism this week had an international impact. On April 14, our Corruption Chronicles published the following extraordinary report on ISIS operations in Mexico and in the United States:

ISIS is operating a camp just a few miles from El Paso, Texas, according to Judicial Watch sources that include a Mexican Army field grade officer and a Mexican Federal Police Inspector.

The exact location where the terrorist group has established its base is around eight miles from the U.S. border in an area known as “Anapra” situated just west of Ciudad Juárez in the Mexican state of Chihuahua. Another ISIS cell to the west of Ciudad Juárez, in Puerto Palomas, targets the New Mexico towns of Columbus and Deming for easy access to the United States, the same knowledgeable sources confirm.

During the course of a joint operation last week, Mexican Army and federal law enforcement officials discovered documents in Arabic and Urdu, as well as “plans” of Fort Bliss – the sprawling military installation that houses the US Army’s 1st Armored Division. Muslim prayer rugs were recovered with the documents during the operation.

Larwyn's Linx: Her Fakeness, Hillary Clinton

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Nation

Her Fakeness, Hillary Clinton: R.S. McCain
Iranian nukes, Corker-Menendez and more Failure Theater by the GOP: RS
ISIS In Mexico Means ISIS Is Here In The United States: NoisyRm

Dear Madam Yesterday: Erick Erickson
Vote for Iraq War underscores Hillary’s greatest weakness: Jonah Goldberg
Elizabeth Warren’s Education Power Grab Fails: Ben Howe

The Republican Obama?: Stephen Green
Ted Cruz: Rock Star: RS
Cruz campaign already raised FOUR MILLION from a lot of very small donors: Scoop

Obama’s Wanton Lawlessness Should Disturb All Americans: David Limbaugh
Hillary Clinton’s astroturfed grandparents: RS
Election 2016 Is Not About the Candidates: Scott Rasmussen

Economy

The Funny Things We Learned From The 2016 Presidential Budget: RS
Undeniable PROOF that government doesn’t create jobs: Allen West
Bernanke to advise hedge fund Citadel: NYT: Reuters

Scandal Central

Democrat Strategy: Ignore And Obfuscate: Market Ticker
Homeland Security Morale Woes Blamed on Immigration Policies (Video): David Eldridge
Sen. Bob Menendez legal defense fund has raised nearly $1.3M, records show: Fox

Climate & Energy

Obama Expected to Bind US to CO2 Reduction at Paris Climate Meeting This Year: S. Fred Singer
'Man-made disaster': California drought caused by misguided environment policies: Fox
Bummer: Colorado Climate Change Protest Hit With Cold, Snow: Cove

Media

QOTD, ‘Monolith’ Actually Is The Best Word For Black Voting Patterns, Alas edition.: Moe Lane
The Deconstruction of Marriage: Daniel Greenfield
Slate: Obama’s pristine and scandal free reign is his gift to Hillary: RS

Anti-Clinton Book #1 on NYT Best Seller List: Sarah FIsher
Difference Between How Marco Rubio and Hillary Clinton Treat a TMZ Reporter: IJR
Three "tough" questions reveal what kind of Democrat Hillary Clinton really is: WaPo

World

Putin Selling Air Defense to Iran to Destabilize Middle East, Drive Up Oil Prices: Paul Golble
Iranian Leader Khamenei: America Is A 'Cheater And A Liar'; Lausanne Declaration Is Nothing: MEMRI
'West has not learned the lesson of the Holocaust': Hayom

Don't let Hillary Clinton escape the blame for Libya's anarchy: Michael Brendan Dougherty
Ted Cruz Courts Orthodox Jews as Voters, Donors: NewsMax
Presidential candidate Ted Cruz winning American Orthodox hearts: Haaretz

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

How It Works: The Large Hadron Collider: PopSci
Microsoft Patents Eye Tracking System: Creates User Profile From What Users Look At: MN
Mini PC invasion: 10 radically tiny computers that fit in the palm of your hand: Brad Chaco

Cornucopia

Butt Hilz Was Yesterday and Yesterday’s Gone.: MOTUS
Doddering grandma forgets traffic laws and parks in handicap space: RS
MSNBC's Harris-Perry Facing $70K IRS Tax Lien (Too Much On Tampon Earrings): Lid

Image: I Want To Put This Sign Up In Grass Valley, California
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: Isn't it time for a principled conservative? Ted Cruz 2016: Official Site

QOTD: "Tax day is upon us again. But this year it’s different. This year, on top of the frustrating reminder that Americans are giving too much of their income to fund too many wasteful government programs, families are now being forced to pay the Obamacare tax for the first time.

Instead of government-run healthcare that increases taxes, limits options, and puts the government between patients and their doctors, imagine a free-market system that enables healthcare to be personal, portable and affordable. Instead of a tax code that crushes innovation and inflicts burdens on families struggling to make ends met, imagine a simple, flat tax that lets Americans fill out their taxes on a postcard. Imagine a tax code that is simple enough to abolish the IRS.

More of Americans’ hard-earned wages should be able to stay in their wallets so they can be free to invest more in their families and businesses, not in growing big government.

Tax reform is crucial to reversing our current economic stagnation, sparking economic growth, and expanding opportunity. I’m running for President because I believe that together, we can make D.C. listen, we can repeal Obamacare, we can implement fundamental tax reform, and we can restore our nation as a place that champions prosperity and opportunity for all." --Sen. Ted Cruz

Thursday, April 16, 2015

OH, NOES: Grandpappy of Obamacare circles the drain

The American Interest relays relays the unsurprising news of central planning gone awry:

The former head of Britain’s National Health Service ... warned Thursday that “emergency action” may be needed to shore up NHS finances. Though the service’s troubles haven’t taken center stage in Britain’s national election, a crisis could be quietly brewing. Here’s the BBC:

In an interview for BBC Radio 4’s Today programme, Sir David – who ran the NHS in England for eight years – said that because there was an election period, the NHS was unable to publish the latest report on its financial position.

But he said it was “pretty clear in the NHS that there is a substantial financial problem, particularly in the hospital sector” which would become “crystal clear” in the autumn […]

He said the NHS would have to take “emergency action” such as vacancy freezes.

To date, the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats have both pledged to increase funding by £8 billon by 2020, but Labour hasn’t. And Nicholson says that even the £8 billon depends on NHS’s earning £22 billion through “efficiency savings,” which he skeptically called a “big ask.” Nicholson predicts that, if those savings aren’t earned, Britons could see a “managed decline” of longer wait times, more restrictions on drug availability, and other barriers to access to care. Not a pretty picture.


It's important to remember that the meltdown of the UK's National Healthcare Service is -- quite literally -- a preview of Obamacare's future, almost as if we had a time machine.


Hat tip: BadBlue News.

SECOND AMENDMENT: Ted Cruz Throws Down

By Mike Miller

At a recent event, GOP presidential candidate Ted Cruz was asked the following question:

“In the wake of the Sandy Hook shooting, a statistic surfaced putting support for background checks at 90%. Did you go against the want of the nation with your vote against Manchin-Toomey (a bill that would have required background checks on all commercial sales of guns)?”

After patiently listening to the questioner read the prepared question, Cruz responded:

“You know there’s an old line: there are lies, damn lies and statistics. You’re right, that was a poll that was bandied around a lot, but you can find a lot of results in a poll depending on how you frame the question. As you and I both know, we have a system of background checks in place right now.

What Manchin-Toomey was trying to do was extend that to every private sale between two individuals … two guys in a duck blind selling their shotgun, one to the other. The federal government doesn’t have any business there.

When you asked about the role of public opinion polls, when it comes to Constitutional rights, what matters is what the Bill of Rights says. It doesn’t matter what happens to be popular at the moment.

The entire reason for the Second Amendment is not for hunting, it’s not for target shooting … it’s there so that you and I can protect our homes and our families and our lives. And it’s also there as fundamental check on government tyranny.”

Classic Cruz.


Hat tip: BadBlue News.

Larwyn's Linx: Republican Senator Bob Corker Is A Traitor

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Nation

Republican Senator Bob Corker Is A Traitor: CHQ
Tom Cotton: Rock Star: RS
New GOP Congress Pretty Much Like The Old Democrat One on Spending: Ace

The Chickification of the Presidency: Maureen Mullins
The Dead Constitution: Myron Magnet
Neo-Marxist Rhetoric From Zillionaire Shrillary: Dave Blount

Rewriting the History of Whitewater: Rand Simberg
Hillary's Antiseptic Campaign: No Contact With the Riff Raff: Steven Ahle
Team Pantsuit Unloads on ‘Traitor’ de Blasio: JWF

Chicago: Economic Death Spiral After 84 Years of Democratic Control: Larry Elder
It’s Only Money. Your Money: Susan Brown
How the IRS repeatedly rewrites Obamacare tax credit provisions: Jonathan H. Adler

Economy

Union ambush elections are now the law of the land: Jazz Shaw
Why the Washington Post’s commenters should not be allowed to vote: RS
On Tax Day, let’s thank the top 20%: Mark J. Perry

Scandal Central

The Betrayal Papers Part V: Who Is Barack Hussein Obama?: Brent Parrish
AZ Sheriff: I Can't Get the Names of Criminal Illegals Released In My County: Breitbart
Obama’s ‘Jade Helm’ Program Comes to Texas: J. Christian Adams

Climate & Energy

Green Car Co. Tied to Visas Obtained Under False Pretenses…and Democrat Operatives: Dana Loesch
Warmist: What Will It Take To Convince Righties That Hotcoldwetdry Is Serious?: Cove
What’s the True Cost of Wind Power?: Randy Simmons, Newsweek

Media

The Contemptible Garry Trudeau Punches Down: Mark Steyn
Tea Party movement is alive and well, and growing: Ted Hughes
NYT Spurns Hillary, Ruins 2016 Announcement With New Criminal Bombshell: ConTrib

Valerie Jarrett Kisses MSNBC "Reporters" Before Interview: Daniel Halper
Idiots at New Republic Think Obama Should Be Hillary Clinton’s Running Mate: DownTrend
Tim McGraw Poised To “Dixie Chick” Himself With Gun Control Benefit Concert: Bob Owens

World

RESET: Could it have been otherwise?: Stephen Sestanovich
Russia-Iran Missile Deal Major Threat to Middle East: Yaakov Lappin
Russian System Should Be Treated As Part of Iran's Nuke Program: Ryan Mauro

Obama Hid North Korea Rocket Component Transfer to Iran: WFB
White House Has Been Holding Meetings w/Radical Israeli Leftists: Daniel Greenfield
BOMBSHELL: Afghan Colonel Paid $250,000 to Kill USAF Personnel, Pentagon Cover-Up Ensued: Patrick Poole

Hamas Prepares For Next Military Confrontation With Israel: MEMRI
Hamas Rebuilding War Machine as Gaza Deteriorates: IPT
Hamas Rebuilding Terror Tunnels, Not Housing, as Feud with Fatah Continues: The Tower

‘Darkness Shall Cover the Earth’: Netanyahu Quotes Isaiah: Sharona Schwartz
Ramadi could fall as ISIS militants lay siege, Iraqi official warns: CNN
UKIP's brilliant manifesto launch should worry the Tories: Commentator

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

EU raises stakes in Google battle with antitrust charges: Raf Casert
In Scientific Breakthrough, Israeli Researchers Identify Protein that Suppresses Cancer: The Tower
Scientists in Poland working on liquid body armor, report says: FreeNC

Cornucopia

Tax Day: A Good Day For a Class War: MOTUS
In Honor Of The Hillary Announcement "Whoo effing Rah": Woodsterman
Man Says Mysterious Civil War Photo Was Really Teenage Hoax: AP

Image: Tom Cotton: Rock Star
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: Isn't it time for a principled conservative? Ted Cruz 2016: Official Site

QOTD: "Remember when Republicans were running in November and they said, "Vote for us and we'll extend liberal spending programs like CHIP and add hundreds of billion in debt!"?

Neither do I but that's what happened last night....

...Congress got away with adding to the debt by exempting the bill from the "pay-go" law which requires offsetting cuts when new spending is added. Some Republicans tried to add that provision back in, which would have basically killed the deal but enough Republicans do what they do best, vote with Democrats to spend more, and the amendment failed...

...Oh, in case you're wondering Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio and Rand Paul voted for the amendment that would have forced the bill to be fully paid for. Paul for some reason broke with the others and voted with the majority to pass the bill even though it adds to the deficit and debt." --DrewM at AOSHQ

Wednesday, April 15, 2015

Obama's partners in peace rebuilding Hamas war machine in Gaza: tunnels, missiles and more

No wonder Israeli liberals and conservatives alike have aligned to oppose Barack Obama's diabolical plan to give Iran the bomb.

They see what's going on in Gaza -- where the Palestinian people are segregated from their fellow Arabs in Egypt by an apartheid wall that no one ever seems to mention -- as Iran rebuilds its terror proxy Hamas in order to wage another war with Israel.

Hamas has been diverting cement and construction material intended for civilian rebuilding efforts.

Israeli security officials confirmed that the terrorist group was digging tunnels at a rapid pace and trying to produce many short-range rockets in an effort to minimize interception by the Iron Dome defense system and cause maximum destruction against Israeli communities.

Iran sent Hamas tens of millions of dollars to help reconstitute the group's terrorist infrastructure, the Telegraph reported earlier this month. As news of a framework deal concerning Iran's nuclear program emerged, the Islamic Republic reportedly increased arms shipments to its terrorist proxies Hamas and Hizballah.

The Tower reports that Hamas has accelerated tunnel-building into Israel:

CHART: Tax Day is Almost Done, Here's How the Federal Government is Committing Fiscal Suicide

Courtesy of the Tax Foundation comes this ominous chart:


Here's what this chart tells us:

• The federal government has become a massive machine for wealth redistribution: it launders ever-increasing amounts of money through an expensive, outdated, wasteful, fraud-ridden bureaucracy and then tries to centrally manage the retirement system, the health care system, and the welfare system. It will, at the end of the day, have all of the success that the Soviet Union had.

• The core task of the federal government, which is protecting the American people, has become an afterthought. National security, in the form of defense or border enforcement, is a tiny fraction of the federal money-laundering, wealth redistribution machine.

Interest rates, which are at all-time lows -- suppressed by a Federal Reserve that has printed digital currency by the trillions -- will eventually go up. And, when rates go up, the results will be catastrophic across the board. Interest payments will squeeze out all other forms of spending, risking a complete collapse of the currency.

The idiots in Washington, both Democrats and establishment Republicans, have set the system up to implode.

We need a man outside the system -- a man like Ted Cruz, principled and steel-willed -- to start reforming this Rube Goldberg fiscal suicide machine.


Hat tip: BadBlue News