Friday, April 24, 2015

CASH FOR NUKES: The Clinton Crime Family Timeline

Colin Campbell and Pamela Engel offer an insightful summary of the Clinton Crime Family's latest scandal. Yeah, I know, it's hard to keep 'em all straight. I mean the latest one, where Hillary's State Department approved the sale of nuclear weapons material to Russia (and therefore likely Iran) after the Clintons received millions from Russian government entities.

• Canadian company Uranium One owned uranium mines in the US and Kazakhstan.

Uranium One's mines account for 20% of the uranium mined in the US. Uranium is used for nuclear weapons, and it's considered a strategic asset to the US.

• Russia’s state-owned atomic agency, Rosatom, bought a 17% stake in Uranium One in June 2009.

The Russian atomic agency decided it wanted to own 51% of Uranium One in June 2010. To take a majority stake in Uranium One, it needed approval from a special committee that included the State Department, which Hillary Clinton led at the time.

Investors in Uranium One gave money to the Clinton Foundation starting in 2005 and through 2011. On June 29, 2010, Bill Clinton was paid $500,000 to speak in Russia by an investment bank with ties to Russia's government that had a buy rating on Uranium One’s stock.

CRUZ LAYS DOWN THE LAW: Congress Must Approve Any Iran Deal

U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, and Sen. Pat Toomey, R-Pennsylvania, have filed an amendment (#1152) to the Iran Nuclear Agreement Review Act of 2015, which would require affirmative Congressional approval of any Iranian nuclear deal before sanctions relief can occur.


"The Constitution makes clear that Congress must approve international agreements like the one President Obama is negotiating with Iran," said Sen. Cruz. "A nuclear Iran is the single greatest threat to our national security and also poses an unacceptably high risk to Israel. Reviewing this deal and deciding whether or not to consent to it may well be the most important function of this Congress. It is not something that should be rushed, and it is imperative that, at the very least, the President obtain majority support for his deal from both Houses of Congress before moving forward."

As currently written, the Iran Nuclear Agreement Review Act of 2015 would first require Congress to pass a resolution of disapproval and then require Congress to muster votes from two-thirds of each chamber to override a Presidential veto. What's more, if Congress failed to act within a set timeframe, the deal would go into effect by default. This process gets the Constitution's allocation of authority precisely backwards.

The Cruz-Toomey amendment would remove these options and restore a more proper process for Congress to exercise its Constitutional power. It would require President Obama to persuade a majority of Senators and Representatives to approve his deal before it goes into effect.


Hat tip: BadBlue News.

BIDEN: "If you're a front-line worker, here's how you move up"

Just received from Slow Joe:


Here's the correct photo they forgot to include:


You're welcome.

I love the fact that Biden and Obama offer advice about "moving up" in the world. These permanent wards of the state never worked an honest day in their lives.


Hat tip: BadBlue News.

Larwyn's Linx: How long can this train wreck continue?

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Nation

How long can this train wreck continue?: Maggie's Farm
Hillary's Everyday Americans: Ace
George Soros Funds Plan to Naturalize Millions of Illegals for 2016: Steven Ahle

Bill Clinton sold us to the ChiComs; Hillary sold us to the Russians: RS
Clinton Restoration could be in jeopardy: Jonah Goldberg
White House Refuses to Comment on Shady Deal Hillary Made With Russia: Glob

The Obama Takeback: Jonah Goldberg
Many Clinton charity donors got State Dept. awards under Hillary: Sarah Westwood
Here’s why Ted Cruz missed the final vote on Obama’s next attorney general: Blaze

Lynch confirmed 56-43 after five-month stalemate: Susan Ferrechio
Gentry GOP Pushes the Tools of State Tyranny: Bill Quick
Recalls in Oregon Started Over Gun Law: Katie McGuire

Economy

$1 trillion a year on “anti-poverty” programs but poverty never goes down: Francis Menton
CBP Wants $134.5M for 'Future Influx' of Illegal Alien Children: CNS
11 Acts Toward a Greek Tragedy: Mohamed A. El-Erian

Scandal Central

Clintons Lied on Tax Forms, Claiming No Foreign Money to Foundation: MB
Oops: Clinton Foundation Re-Filing Five Years of Tax Returns Over ‘Errors’: RWN
State Dept. Documents Reveal Concern about Bill Clinton’s Activities with ‘Saudi Entities’: JW

House Benghazi committee calls on Hillary Clinton to testify week of May 18: FAM
Hillary Camp Says The GOP Is Politicizing Benghazi: S&L
Amazing Coincidence: Multiple Clinton Charity Donors Got State Dept. Awards under Hillary: JWF

Climate & Energy

Earth Day: Kwanzaa for liberals: RS
2 Degrees C Is Like The Most Important Number No One Has Ever Heard Of!: Cove
Follow the Money: Earth Day 2015: Chris Walker

Media

Clinton Foundation Bombshells: Sean Hannity
‘Voters for Hillary’ Calling—A True Story: Roger L. Simon
Hillary Clinton Exposed, The Movie She Banned From Theaters Full Movie: Johannes Low

Fiorina: Hiding Donations, Taking Foreign Cash 'The Clinton Way': Ben Shapiro
Archive Evidence Contradict NY Times Anti-Ted Cruz Hit Piece: GotNews
Depressed Journalists Are Depressing Nation: Scott Rasmussen

World

The Islamic Genocide of Christians: Past and Present: Raymond Ibrahim
Tension in court as 4 Minnesota men held on terror charges: CNS
‘Killing Jews is Worship’ Sign Now Legal in New York: CDN

Gaddafi’s Revenge: Europe Can Save Africans From Drowning—Or Itself From Being Swamped: Alexander Hart
Wife of Killed Jewish-American Hostage, Warren Weinstein, Slams White House: Sol Rieger
Dutch Anti-Islam Lawmaker Tells Migrants Not to Come to Netherlands: Mike Corder

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Comcast said to abandon Time Warner merger plan: Martyn Williams
Missing Magma Found: Huge Reservoir Beneath Yellowstone Park: Kiona Smith-Strickland
Office 365 is a Disaster Waiting to Happen: Joe Shepley

Cornucopia

How the Constitution was Defeated in 1788: Russell E. Saltzman
Stay Tuned, This Could Still Get Interesting: MOTUS
Former CIA Officer Explains how to Apply Interrogation Techniques to Everyday Life: Mike Doherty

Image: A US Marshal Smashed a Woman's Phone Because She Was Filming Him in Public
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: Isn't it time for a principled conservative? Ted Cruz 2016: Official Site

QOTD: "Gennifer Flowers. Cattle futures. The White House travel office. Rose Law Firm files. The Lincoln Bedroom. Monica Lewinsky. And now, the Clinton Foundation. What ties these stories together is the predictable, paint-by-numbers response from the Bill and Hillary Clinton political operation.

1. Deny: Salient questions are dodged, and evidence goes missing. The stone wall is built.

2. Deflect: Blame is shifted, usually to Republicans and the media.

3. Demean: People who question or criticize the Clintons get tarred as right-wing extremists, hacks, nuts, or sluts." --Ron Fournier

Thursday, April 23, 2015

NITWIT SAYS WHAT? Critics whine Ted Cruz missed completely meaningless final Loretta Lynch confirmation vote

Radical leftist Loretta Lynch (who actually said she would not enforce the law as written) was confirmed as Attorney General today in the Senate. Ted Cruz, a vociferous critic of Lynch, was absent for the final vote. And that brought out the Cruz-haters of both parties:

The goofy and predictably dense Doug Mataconis
The utterly clueless Sarah Mimms
• And numbskull Maria Recio

Each of whom claimed that the final vote total was relevant. Hint: it wasn't.

The only vote that mattered was to end debate. Any subsequent vote was Kabuki Theater (also known as "GOP Failure Theater"). Pete Kasperowicz explains:

...the key vote on whether to end debate on Lynch’s nomination. The so-called “cloture vote” in the Senate is in fact the critical vote, since an agreement to end debate needs 60 votes, and once that happens, it’s usually a cinch to find the 51 votes needed to confirm a nominee or pass a bill.

Cruz and most other Republicans voted against ending debate, but 20 Republicans voted with Democrats and allowed Lynch to get to a final vote.

Cruz spokeswoman Amanda Carpenter said the cloture vote was the “vote that mattered,” and laid out her argument in a series of tweets soon after the vote:

As usual, the Democrat and Republican establishment dimwits and their sycophants like Mataconis are covering up the real scandal. Which is that these schmucks represent one party, the party of big government, and only Constitutional conservatives like Cruz represent a way out.


Hat tip: BadBlue news.

THANKS, CLINTON CRIME FAMILY: China warns U.S. that North Korea has more nuke capability than anyone imagined

Remember the last time a Democrat President negotiated 'limits' on nuclear weapons with genocidal dictators? Yeah, that was funny.

China’s top nuclear experts believe North Korea may be a much larger and immediate nuclear threat than previously believed.

According to the Wall Street Journal (paywall), Chinese uranium enrichment experts estimate Pyongyang has 20 nuclear warheads and enough weapons-grade uranium to double that arsenal within a year. The comments, made in a briefing with nuclear experts from the United States, are well above current US estimates of between 10 and 16 nuclear bombs.

Sanctions, international condemnation, and negotiations haven’t done much to dent the country’s nuclear ambitions. Pyongyang routinely threatens to nuke New York and turn Seoul into a lake of fire. Relations between North Korea and its longtime patrons in Beijing are also deteriorating.

North Korea watchers have increasingly argued that it may be too late to stop North Korea’s nuclear weapons program, which has also become a cautionary tale for critics of a proposed deal with Iran...

Gee, ya think?


Hat tip: BadBlue News.

OBAMA EDUCATION SECRETARY: Parents Who Opt Out of Common Core are Racists

By Rusty Weiss

Secretary of Education Arne Duncan issued a veiled threat to the parents and students who choose to opt out of Common Core testing – The Feds “have an obligation to step in.”

Federal law, under No Child Left Behind, requires 95 percent of students in a state to take the annual standardized tests in reading and math from grades 3-8. It is a requirement which until now has never needed enforcement or consideration.

With as many as 184,000 students in New York choosing to opt out, the 95 percent threshold will not only be in jeopardy, it will be an easily missed mark.

When asked what would happen in states with such a high opt out rate, whether they would have to force consequences upon schools, parents, and students, Duncan responded “We think most states will do that.”

He added, “If states don’t do that, then we have an obligation to step in.”

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 Touré 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.

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.