Thursday, April 23, 2015

Larwyn's Linx: Clinton vs. Clinton

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Nation

Clinton vs. Clinton: Victor Davis Hanson
So Much for “If Iran Cheats, We’ll Know It”: Sara Noble
Record 51 million immigrants in 8 years, 82% of all U.S. growth: Paul Bedard

Granny Clinton Ditches 'Common American' Ruse, Flies 1st-Class Back to DC: JWF
GE CEO: I Will Not Release State Department Emails From Hillary Clinton: DC
Hillary loses major supporter to… O’Malley: LI

Still no reports of "Hillary Fever" outbreaks: Ann Coulter
Elizabeth Warren lashes back at Obama over TPP: FAM
Cuomo: I Like How Cuba Handles The Press: MenRec

VA and FBI Work Together To Disarm Vets: DC
Nullification Is A Natural Right: Publius Huldah
SCOTUS Rules Motorists Can’t Be Held for K-9 Searches...: RS

Economy

Report: IRS Deliberately Cut Its Own Customer Service Budget: John McCormack
Covered California: Pay for Health Care at 7-11, Dollar stores–not a joke: CAPR
Billionaire Hillary Clinton's Hilarious Class Warfare Rhetoric: RS

Scandal Central

Cash Flowed to Clintons as Russians Pressed for Control of Uranium Company: NYT
Benghazi Committee to Push For Hillary Clinton Appearances (Plural): Sharyl Attkisson
Former Clinton Employee Tied To Muslim Brotherhood Sentenced To Life In Prison: WJ

Climate & Energy

Change: Obama Delivers Climate Change Speech To Empty Seats: GWP
Bummer: Sales Of Electric Vehicles Slump: Cove
Fables of the Reconstruction: IowaHawk (2009)

Media

Hannity: My Source Tells Me a Clinton Bombshell Is Coming As Soon As Tomorrow: RightPundit
New Media Victory: MSM Seriously Investigating 'Clinton Cash' Allegations: Breitbart
Captain Kickass: Hey, We Could Penetrate Iran's New S-300 Air Defense System, If We Felt Like It: Ace

Dear David Brooks: Before You Consider Converting to Christianity, Try Converting to Judaism: Spengler
MSNBC – the place for tax cheats now including TourĂ© Neblett and Joy-Ann Reid: FAM
Downey Jr. Walks Out of Interview After Questioned Whether Or Not He's a Liberal: Ace

World

Was sacrifice of Ramadi dead in vain?: Cal Thomas
The Terror Strategist: Secret Files Reveal the Structure of Islamic State: Christoph Reuter
Al Nusrah Front, allies launch new offensives against Syrian regime: LWJ

Hong Kong Capitulates to the Communists, No Free Elections: RS
In Epic Twitter Rant, Argentina's President Discovers the International Jewish Conspiracy: Tower
Saudi Royal Facing Rape Charges Caught Fleeing To Mexico: BlurBrain

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Google Wireless Service, Project Fi, $20 Monthly for Talk, Text, Wi-Fi: DomainMondo
Why Are Oil & Gas Workers Mysteriously Dying Across America?: ZH
This Site Shows You Every Single Probe in Space: John Wenz

Cornucopia

National Insanity: Erick Erickson
#gimmefive Lil BUB!: MOTUS
Exclusive: Teddy Atlas Says Manny Pacquiao Power Gone, 'You Figure Out Why': Breitbart

Image: Cash Flowed to Clinton Foundation as Russians Pressed for Control of Uranium Company
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: Isn't it time for a principled conservative? Ted Cruz 2016: Official Site

QOTD: "...in January 2013, ... the Russian atomic energy agency, Rosatom, [took] over a Canadian company with uranium-mining stakes stretching from Central Asia to the American West. The deal made Rosatom one of the world’s largest uranium producers and brought Mr. Putin closer to his goal of controlling much of the global uranium supply chain...

...Beyond mines in Kazakhstan that are among the most lucrative in the world, the sale gave the Russians control of one-fifth of all uranium production capacity in the United States. Since uranium is considered a strategic asset, with implications for national security, the deal had to be approved by a committee composed of representatives from a number of United States government agencies. Among the agencies that eventually signed off was the State Department, then headed by Mr. Clinton’s wife, Hillary Rodham Clinton...

...As the Russians gradually assumed control of Uranium One in three separate transactions from 2009 to 2013, Canadian records show, a flow of cash made its way to the Clinton Foundation. Uranium One’s chairman used his family foundation to make four donations totaling $2.35 million. Those contributions were not publicly disclosed by the Clintons, despite an agreement Mrs. Clinton had struck with the Obama White House to publicly identify all donors. Other people with ties to the company made donations as well.

And shortly after the Russians announced their intention to acquire a majority stake in Uranium One, Mr. Clinton received $500,000 for a Moscow speech from a Russian investment bank with links to the Kremlin that was promoting Uranium One stock." --JO BECKER and MIKE McINTIRE

Wednesday, April 22, 2015

FLASH CRASH: The 36-year old day-trader supposedly behind the 2010 market meltdown

I happened to catch the nadir of the May 6, 2010 "flash crash" (screencap below with helpful background).

The Economist has a fascinating summary of the story behind the story. In a nutshell, a 36-year-old British day-trader named Navinder Singh Sarao, a British day-trader who the U.S. government wants to extradite on a laundry list of charges, was reportedly the trigger event.

Market watchdogs would not have expected the source of the "flash crash", as it came to be known, to be a lone trader based in a nondescript semi-detached house in Hounslow, an unfashionable suburb nestled between central London and Heathrow airport. But they would be less surprised by the methods he is accused of using, most notably "spoofing", a common form of market manipulation.

According to the charge sheet, Mr Sarao would routinely place a series of orders to sell futures contracts that would only be profitable if the S&P 500 share index fell. The authorities claim that a computer programme he devised constantly tweaked the price of his orders to ensure he wasn’t taken up on them. The effect, nonetheless, was to inject pessimism in the futures market, by making it look like lots of investors were expecting prices to drop. (Part of this bearishness spilled over into the stockmarket, causing shares to fall in price.) Mr Sarao, it is claimed, used this as an opportunity to buy cheaply...

...Mr Sarao appeared in court in London on April 22nd, but only to fight extradition. The American authorities claim he made a profit of just $879,018 from the trades linked to the flash crash—a pittance compared to the upheaval caused—though perhaps $40m from subsequent manipulation. Awkwardly, he funnelled his profits from trading to a firm called "Nav Sarao Milking Markets Limited", based in Nevis, a Caribbean tax haven, although he has no obvious ties to the dairy industry.

Why Mr Sarao’s continued use of similar trading strategies did not cause markets to convulse again is not clear. Nor is it established that he was the sole cause of the S&P’s swoon, as the American complaint in effect concedes. It claims he was "at least significantly responsible for the order imbalance that in turn was one of the conditions that led to the flash crash". That leaves plenty of blame to go around.

Regulators had previously thought a mega-investor such as a mutual fund must have had a hand in the mysterious event... That Mr Sarao might be even partly to blame will only add to the alarm the flash crash engendered. Many will ask how a single day-trader could possibly have been allowed to generate $200m of selling orders, over a fifth of the daily volume in the contract he favoured, during a period of known market convulsion without having been blocked by one party or another. The financial watchdogs, who had suggested the blame lay elsewhere, will also have questions to answer. The most pressing of them will be, if a trader from Hounslow can cause the S&P 500 to crash, who or what else could do the same—or worse?

Upon reading this, I immediately thought "Tyler Durden" of Zero Hedge. The financial website, in my view, was founded in part to warn investors of the dangers related to high-frequency trading (HFT), the programmatic bait-and-switch schemes used to manipulate markets.

Sure enough, Durden had the same idea I had:

THE BETRAYAL PAPERS, PART VI: The Chicago Treason Network

Via Terresa Monroe-Hamilton

This, the sixth and final installment of The Betrayal Papers, will explore various projects, schemes, and associations that tie Obama and his associates together. A preponderance of these project are based out of Chicago, the crossroad of the global Left, Islamic “civilization jihad,” and the Communist mafia. The themes to observe in each case are deception, greed, and power.

To have any chance to retain our freedoms and personal safety, we must recognize the depth of the treason from within; we must name the perpetrators and conquer them before they end America.

But first, three profiles of key Obama operatives, and one Maurice Strong.

Rahm Emanuel

As Obama’s initial Chief-of-Staff, Emanuel wielded considerable power during Obama’s early years in office, being the de facto gatekeeper to Obama. A former Clinton man, Emanuel ultimately clashed with Valerie Jarrett, leading to his departure from Washington, D.C. and return home to Chicago. Since being elected mayor (a bid supported by Obama & Co.), Emanuel has faithfully served to keep a lid on a number of Chicago-centric scandals that would damage, perhaps fatally, the credibility of the administration.

TOPPLE YOURSELF, BI***: Billionaire Hillary Clinton's Pathetic Class Warfare Rhetoric

I call Hillary Clinton a billionaire because -- in addition to her personal net worth of about $25 million -- she helps control the Clinton Global Crime Fund Initiative. Thanks to an endless series of "pay-for-play" scandals in which foreign governments donated cash for State Department favors, the Clinton warchest is worth about $2,000,000,000. That's two -- with a "b" -- billion.

Which makes Clinton's attack today on the left flank of fellow multi-millionaire Elizabeth Warren all the more obnoxious.

So Hillary Rodham Clinton has acquired a brand new sobriquet. She’s come a long way, baby. She’s gone from the sharp knife-edge of bankruptcy, to having earned the nickname “Quid Pro Dough.” I don’t envy her wealth. I see her, but I wouldn’t want to be her. She’s made her money the old fashion way; she influence-pedaled...

Perhaps this is why she campaigns on the idea of hating success that is acquired by others. Here is her take on being an even more lame and more hypocritical version of Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA)...

Mrs. Clinton pointed at the top category and said the economy required a “toppling” of the wealthiest 1 percent, according to several people who were briefed on Mrs. Clinton’s policy discussions but could not discuss private conversations for attribution.

A “toppling of the 1%?” Does this entail a reprise of the Havana Bull Ring Trials? ... When Che Guevara lined people up against the wall it wasn’t to rank them from ugliest to dumbest*. Leftism always has purpose. As long as you have 1 dime more than the Leftist down the block, Leftism has a purpose. She’s doing her five fundraisers at the end of April for the people, you see.

With $2Bil in the bank vaults of the Clinton Foundation, she wants to get other people’s money out of politics. With $262Mil in “donations” during 2013 alone, she now wants to topple the 1%.


Topple yourself, bi***.

Like we say when the corporate jetsetters fly millions of miles in their private planes to convene meetings on "global warming", I'll believe Hillary's rhetoric when she starts living it.


Hat tip: BadBlue News.

CHART: 100 Years of the Income Tax

Courtesy of Americans for Tax Reform comes this visceral evidence of government's endless growth; in good times and bad it grows. It never shrinks. Like a bad rash. Or a tumor.


Which reminds me of the question that Democrats have refused to answer for well over 100 years: how do we know when the government has done growing?

What is their endgame? When will we know their massive government has reached its Utopian completion?

Cue the crickets.


Hat tip: BadBlue News.

Larwyn's Linx: The Schutzstaffel lives on. It’s known as the Wisconsin Democrat Party

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Nation

The Schutzstaffel lives on as the Wisconsin Democrat Party: Flopping Aces
Corker's "Deal" On Iran Oversight Is a Con Job on Conservatives: Ace
Obama Lied: He Knew For Years Iran Was 2-3 Months From Bomb: Lid

Cruz: ‘We Are Reliving Munich in 1938' Under Obama: Barbara Boland
Liberals Sputter As Scott Walker Proposes Bold New Immigration Platform: Breitbart
The Expansionist Right Also Goes After Walker: Mark Krikorian

Obama Amnesty Freed Gang-banger Who Went On To Murder 4 People: WZ
Illegal Alien Accused Of Raping 10-Year-Old Girl 3 Separate Times: WZ
Apple Vs Android Debate Ends With Stabbing By Illegal: S&L

Hillary's Vietnam: Ben Shapiro
Judge rules Gun Ban on Streets and Sidewalks is Unconstitutional: GunWatch
Democrats have no bench and no diversity in presidential candidates: Matt Mackowiak

Economy

Why does Hillary Clinton want to ‘topple’ Americans making $346,000 a year?: AEI
Steps on an Upward Ladder: Oren Cass
McDonald’s hires 7,000 touch-screen cashiers (at $0 an hour): ACC

Scandal Central

White House Won’t Deny Clinton Foundation Donors Got Special Treatment: RS
The Latest Available Clinton Foundation Filings Appear Deceptive: Charles Ortel
A foolish bet on the old Clinton magic: Marc A. Thiessen

McConnell Rushes to Nominate Loretta Lynch Who Promises to Violate the Constitution: Sara Noble
SleazeBob Menendez’s 36DD Visa Program: Michelle Malkin
ROTC Cadets Forced to Wear High Heels to Raise Feminist Awareness: Ace

Media

Study: How the Broadcast Networks Have Deleted Hillary’s E-Mail Scandal: Geoffrey Dickens
MSNBC Gave Prominent Hillary Defender David Brock a Reception He Probably Wasn’t Expecting: IJR
Cruz: Obama An “Unmitigated Socialist” With “Profoundly Dangerous” Beliefs: LibertyNews

The thing EVERY GOP candidate must demand of EVERY reporter: Moe Lane
How Innocent Scott Walker Supporters Were Persecuted in Wisconsin: EIB
‘WE WILL KILL!! Straight Up!!’ – Black Protesters Take Over CNN, Curse On-Air in Baltimore: Sooper

‘People Who Are Joined in Collective Hate’: R.S. McCain
Ted Cruz On Strategy For Grassroots Campaign and Winning: NoisyRm
Entitled Underachieving Son of Romney Clan Wants Someone to Challenge Mike Lee: RS

World

Open Letter To Obama From Nephew of Iranian Ayatollah Khamenei – Stop The Deal!: Treehouse
Huh? Bill Clinton Says ISIS Is The “Most Interesting NGO Today”: WZ
OBAMA LIED: He Has Known All Along That Iran is Only 4 Months From Making Atomic Bombs: RWN

Netanyahu denies Jimmy Carter meeting in Israel: Exam
Leader of the Islamic State 'Seriously Wounded in Air Strike': Leah Barkoukis
“Here, we only pray to Allah.”: ProWis

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Mysterious 'Cold Spot': Fingerprint of Largest Structure in the Universe?: Ian O'Neill
Automakers say you don’t really own your car: EFF
The Hubble Space Telescope: A 25th Anniversary Photo Celebration: Space

Cornucopia

The Socialist Party and the Old Right: J. Arthur Bloom
‘A Concerned 8-Year-Old Citizen’ Writes Brutal Letter to Michelle Obama: WS
All Your Children Are Belong To Us; Your Money Too: MOTUS

Image: SleazeBob Menendez’s 36DD Visa Program
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: Release the Hidden Clinton Emails

QOTD: "We hear a lot of talk today about a governor or a senator. Now, I would note, for those with some historical recall, that it’s proven a convenient argument. That is an argument that gets echoed by a lot of the Washington establishment. In prior elections; for example, in 1980, the strong conservative running in the race was Ronald Reagan. You didn’t hear ‘we need a governor’ then, because he was a governor. So none of those voices said, ‘We need a governor.’ They said, ‘You know what? We need a former congressman, named George Herbert Walker Bush. Likewise, in 2008, the moderate choice was a senator, John McCain. Go back and look at the TV discussions to find any of these voices going on television, saying ‘we need a governor’ in 2008. Then, the choice of those voices was that candidate, so that argument didn’t get used.

In this race, most of the establishment moderates are coming from the ranks of the governors. And so suddenly, every time you turn on Fox News, there’s some D.C. greybeard saying, ‘It’s got to be a governor! Got to be a governor. Those are the only choices imaginable!’ Here’s what history teaches us. About half of the presidents have been governors; half of them, senators. There have been good and bad presidents who were both. Jimmy Carter was a governor. He was a trainwreck. Obama is not a disaster because he was a senator. Obama is a disaster because he’s an unmitigated socialist, what he believes is profoundly dangerous, and he’s undermined the Constitution and the role of America in the world. I think the test we ought to apply is not what job title a person had. I think the test we ought to have is: Who has stood up and fought?" --Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX)

Tuesday, April 21, 2015

Senile Arizona Senator forgets that Ted Cruz pressed committee to consider arming soldiers on bases in... 2014

The pathetic Establishment crackpot known as John McCain -- don't call him the Godfather of ISIS, he's just the step-uncle -- is screeching about Ted Cruz again. And, as usual, he has things almost completely wrong.

McCain, the Arizona senator who once called Cruz a "whacko bird," said the Texas senator running for president never pressed him to hold hearings about whether soldiers should be allowed to carry a personal firearm on military bases -- a claim Cruz made Sunday at a campaign stop in New Hampshire.

"You know, I was fascinated to hear that because I haven't heard a thing about it from him. Nor has my staff heard from his staff. Where did that come from? I have not a clue," McCain, who chairs the Armed Services Committee, told reporters Monday, according to The Hill.

He added that he would be "glad to discuss the issue" with Cruz to see if there should be a hearing.

But Cruz's assertion Sunday that he has been "pressing" McCain for a hearing came as a "complete surprise" to the Arizona senator and one-time GOP presidential nominee.

Thanks to a stunning new innovation called Google, we discover this Military.com article from 2014:

The issue of letting more troops carry concealed weapons came up during an April 8 hearing of the Senate Armed Services Committee when Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, asked Army Chief of Staff Gen. Raymond Odierno about it.

“There’s some soldiers who feel quite strongly that concealed carry would be a sensible change in policies,” Cruz said. “There are others who may disagree. I guess my question would be, it has been a long time since this committee has held a hearing examining that question — examining the policy benefits and detriments of allowing concealed carry on military bases. In your view, would that be a productive topic for a hearing for this committee?”

In other words, Cruz lobbied the old chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, not the newly installed one, to consider revamping the rules for firearms on military bases.

Wow. Intense scoop, dude.

Now for CNN and the rest of the establishment media goons, this kerfuffle is a scandal but Hillary's felonious email deletions and her pay-for-play foreign donations aren't.

Which tells you pretty much everything about the current state of "journalism".


Hat tip: BadBlue News

REVEALED: Obama Lied About Iranian Nukes

By Sean Hannity

President Obama lied to the American people about the true nature of Iran's nuclear program, according to declassified material. Add this to a litany of lies told by our president.

Declassified material reported on by Bloomberg confirms the following:

“The Barack Obama administration has estimated for years that Iran was at most three months away from enriching enough nuclear fuel for an atomic bomb … Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz acknowledged that the U.S. has assessed for several years that Iran has been two to three months away from producing enough fissile material for a nuclear weapon. When asked how long the administration has held this assessment, Moniz said: 'Oh quite some time.'”

However, as Bloomberg also reports, and as you probably remember, Obama has consistently told the American people that Iran is at least a year away from developing a nuclear weapon. This is otherwise known as the “breakout time.”

Obama even contradicted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on the issue. Netanyahu's breakout time has always been more urgent than Obama's. Now we know that Bibi was closer to the truth and Obama knew the truth but lied about it.

TED CRUZ: The New York Times doesn't have a clue about the meaning of the Second Amendment

By Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX)

On Friday, the New York Times stated, in a blaring headline, that my support for Second Amendment rights is “strange.”

In particular, the writer took issue with my statement that “”the Second Amendment to the Constitution isn’t for just protecting hunting rights, and it’s not only to safeguard your right to target practice. It is a constitutional right to protect your children, your family, your home, our lives, and to serve as the ultimate check against governmental tyranny — for the protection of liberty.”

In addition to “strange,” the NYT described this view as “ridiculous,” “silly,” and “absurd” (methinks the Old Gray Lady doth protest too much).

The writer, the lead editor for the Times’ editorial page, continued, “I just don’t get the argument on constitutional or historical grounds.”

Perhaps this will help. Let’s survey some other “silly” people who have embraced this heretical understanding of our liberties.

Larwyn's Linx: Obama is the master of trading future calamity for temporary gratification

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Nation

Obama a master of trading future calamity for temporary gratification: Hanson
Oligarchs for Hillary!: Mark Steyn
DNC posts job announcement by mocking four dead Americans: Twitchy

Hillary Lied, Libyans Died: Daniel Greenfield
Obama Admits That Unborn Babies Have Feet That Kick: CNS
The Coercion Party: Cold Fury

Iran to get $50 billion signing bonus for bogus Obama agreement: RS
Sen. Bob Corker (R-TN) Wants to Appoint Obama as Dictator: RS
Hillary Opposed Iran Sanctions; Can She Be Trusted to Snap Them Back On?: Morris

How Lois Lerner evaded charges: Neo-Neocon
Chaos in the Primaries: Thomas Sowell
Hilarious: Clown de Blasio in Secret Bid to be Dems’ 2016 Nominee: JWF

Economy

The ObamaCare Effect: Hospital Monopolies: Marty Makary, WSJ
Muslim student group plans to disrupt NIU ‘American Sniper’ showing: Ulysses Arn
Stunned Greeks React To "Decree To Confiscate Reserves" from Banks: ZH

Scandal Central

Wisconsin’s Shame: ‘I Thought It Was a Home Invasion’: David French
Abandoned By White House, Americans Describe Tense Escapes From Yemen: Breitbart
U.S. Warship Heads to Yemeni Waters to Thwart Iran from Sending Weapons: Breitbart

Climate & Energy

Green Cronyism Hasn’t Gone Anywhere: Ben Howe
Jeb Bush Endorses UN Climate Change Treaty Process: Cove
Hotcoldwetdry Will Totally Make Spiders Super Giant: Cove

Media

Free Speech in Peril: Myron Magnet
State Dept. to Offer Course on Ethics for Journalists: 'Blurred Lines': Jeryl Bier
Roseanne Barr: Hillary Clinton is ‘the Same Old S–t’: WFB

"Contraversializing" Reporting: Ace
Salon Wants to See ‘Cop Shoot a White Unarmed Teenager in the Back’: Ed Driscoll
Tina Brown Won’t Comment on Clintons Taking Money from Nations That Oppress Women: WFB

Coburn on Social Security: Real Question Is How Do We Fix Our Country?: RCP
Uber Driver With Concealed Carry Permit Drops Chicago Gunman: Bob Owens
Onward Christian soldiers: Michigan Catholic priest urges parishioners to arm themselves: Marathon

World

Latest News About ISIS Camps Near El Paso, Secret FBI Meeting to Stop the Leaks: Sara Noble
Executions Surge in Iran after Nuclear Talks, Iran off U.S. Terror List: Shadi Paveh
Montreal Muslims had explosives, accused of trying to join jihad group: Robert Spencer

Was 2007 a Flexion Point, When Everything Started Going Downhill?: Michael Barone
Book on ‘Clinton Cash’ reportedly claims foreign donors got State Dept. favors: Fox
Iran Foreign Minister: We’re Totally Ready To Move On And Discuss The Wider “Persian Gulf Region”: Cove

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

These 3D Printed Organs Beat Just Like Your Heart: Gizmodo
Appeals court rejects man's claim he owns half of Facebook: Zach Miners
Beyonce shows off Apple Watch band you can’t have at Coachella: Alex Heath

Cornucopia

Victory Against Jihad: School Cancels Hijab Day – Won’t Force All Females To Cover Up: GWP
The MOTUS/Molsterman 2016 Primary Tracking Poll #1: MOTUS
Kim Jong-un Photo Allegedly Photoshopped, South Korean News Reports: Kotaku

Image: Former Egyptian president Mursi jailed for 20 years
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: Isn't it time for a principled conservative? Ted Cruz 2016: Official Site

QOTD: "...I'm sick of choking on [the corruption]. 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." --Mark Steyn

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 ErdoÄŸan 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.

MevlĂ¼t ÇavuÅŸoÄŸlu 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) ErdoÄŸan asked President (Barack) Obama to accompany him in opening the center together and President Obama accepted his offer'in principle,'" ÇavuÅŸoÄŸlu 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

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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 JuĂ¡rez 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).