Wednesday, May 06, 2015

Anti-Free Speech Extremists at Southern Poverty Law Center Will Add an Artist to its "Hate Group" List

By Weasel Zippers

Gotta love Bosch Fawstin’s reaction to the SPLC: “Go for it.”

(Reuters) – For the cartoonist whose portrait of Mohammad won a Texas contest, the police killing of two gunmen outside the meeting place was justice.

“They came to kill us and died for it. Justice,” artist Bosch Fawstin tweeted on Monday.

Fawstin’s winning entry depicts a sword-wielding Prophet in a turban shouting, “You can’t draw me.” In reply, a cartoon bubble portrays the artist, his hand grasping a pencil, as saying, “That’s why I draw you.”

The Southern Poverty Law Center, which includes AFDI on its annual list of U.S. hate groups, plans to add Fawstin to its 2016 report, Heidi Beirich, director of the tracking effort, told Reuters on Monday.

She said he would have been listed previously, but the center did not know Fawstin’s location. The organization has since learned that his website is registered in New York City.

“He’s like the artist of the movement,” Beirich said. “His views, they are hate views.” She said his website is “virulently ugly” in its anti-Muslim views.

LIBERAL MEDIA: The Fifth Column of Jihad

By Cliff Kincaid

It’s strange that the liberals in the media who always complain about Joe McCarthy once having a list of communists in government are so quick to cite the Southern Poverty Law Center’s list of so-called right-wing extremists or “haters.”

With the help of the media, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) is setting people up for terrorist attacks inside the United States. Pamela Geller is the latest on the list of the SPLC that has now been targeted for death by the jihadists. ISIS says “…we will send all our Lions to achieve her slaughter.”

ISIS is angry that Geller, an opponent of jihad, has defended the First Amendment right of free speech against Islamic Sharia law.

In response, ISIS tried to massacre people at Geller’s Muhammad cartoon contest in Texas on Sunday. Two terrorists were killed and an unarmed security guard protecting the event was shot in the leg.

It’s an open secret that ISIS can get locations for its targets from the SPLC website. That’s how homosexual militant Floyd Corkins discovered the location of the Family Research Council in Washington, D.C. and showed up at its headquarters, opening fire on a security guard. He had hoped to conduct a massacre of FRC staff.

Larwyn's Linx: USA Today editorial board: Man, this Clinton Foundation seems shady

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Nation

USA Today editorial board: Man, this Clinton Foundation seems shady: Ed Morrissey
The Clinton Foundation isn’t a “charity” in any normal sense of the word: Jazz Shaw
Hillary’s Armor: John Stossel

Obama DHS Assessed Terror Threat to TX Cartoon Contest as ‘UNLIKELY’: Tatler
Brave Garland Officer Advanced While Capping Garland Jihadists: Bob Owens
Pam Geller And Those Before Her: Denise Simon

Father and Son Shot Dead ‘Execution-Style’ by Black Teens in New Orleans: GWP
Canadian tourist murdered while on bucket list trip to Kentucky Derby: Daily Mail
Stand Your Ground laws under attack: RS

Mike Huckabee Enters The Contest: Erick Erickson
Ohio Gov. John Kasich helps Montana expand Obamacare: Jason Hart
Leading With the Budget: Newt Gingrich

Economy

To break the cycle of poverty in Baltimore, fix the culture of poverty: Jonah Goldberg
Feds use subprime mortgages again... and taxpayers will pay, again: Jim Quinn
Economists: H-1B visas suppress wages: Beryl Lieff Benderly, Science Careers

Scandal Central

Steyer Group Hit With FEC Complaint: Lachlan Markay
IRS Doled Out $5.6 Billion In Erroneous Stimulus Education Credits: Breitbart
I Have the Proof That Ties Obama and the Democratic Party to the IRS Scandal: Blaze

What Assata Taught Me: Michelle Malkin
Wrong people charged in Freddie Gray death: RS
The New Lynch Mob: Ben Shapiro

Media

The Clinton Cash List of Bill Clinton’s Shady, Foreign-Financed Speeches: Joel Gehrke
‘I Can’t Understand The Things He Said': Halperin Rips Bill Clinton’s ‘Pay The Bills’ Remark: DC
Good News: Granny Clinton Launching Website to Counter Devastating ‘Clinton Cash’ Book: JWF

Washington Post "Reporter" On Garland Terror: "If the event was intended as bait, it worked.": Ace
Social Justice Warriors Chased the Social Justice Warrior Joss Whedon Off Twitter: Ace
Media Crickets: Father and Son are murdered by teens.: Scott Hounsell

Can Muslims Be American? 58% of US Muslims Say Free Speech Should Be Illegal: RWN
The GOP's Issue Advantage: Noah Rothman
Has Glenn Beck Really Soured on Ted Cruz? Uhm, No.: Erica Ritz

World

Islamic State details rout of Brigade 26 headquarters in Anbar: LWJ
Next round of violence will be harder on Gaza, ex-IDF chief says: Hayom
Hamas Accused of Bulldozing Salafist Mosque Amid Rising Tensions: IPT News

Remember How Before The Muhammed Cartoons Jihadists Didn’t Want Us Dead?: Dana Loesch
A Lesson For Democrats, Socialists, Liberals, Communists...: Hooben
Fascists in Kilts: Theodore Dalrymple

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

How the NSA Converts Spoken Words Into Searchable Text: The Intercept
Introducing the World’s Most Extravagant Submarine Superyachts: Robb Report
Hitler and generals inspecting the largest caliber rifled weapon ever used in combat, 1941: RHP

Cornucopia

"Space To Destroy"...For Now: Springer
Armenia: MagFarm
Triumph Reveals Brian Williams Jokes the Today Show Wouldn’t Let Him Tell: Mediaite

Image: Islamic State details rout of Brigade 26 headquarters in Anbar
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QOTD: "Both in Gaza and in Lebanon, the enemy operates from within civilian populations. They turn entire villages into rocket launching sites. Their guest rooms are made into explosives warehouses. Don't tell me it's a kindergarten when I know it's a rocket warehouse. Don't tell me it's a mosque when I know it's a rocket warehouse.

I don't know of one synagogue in Israel where terrorists meet, or rockets, missiles, and munitions are stored. They don't have swimming pools -- they have missile pools." --Former IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Benny Gantz

Tuesday, May 05, 2015

No, Glenn Beck is not down on Ted Cruz

Erica Ritz at The Blaze corrects the reports that claimed Glenn Beck was down on Ted Cruz's presidential ambitions:

Glenn Beck on Tuesday said he is still a “full-fledged” supporter of Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz, despite recent reports to the contrary. The confusion stems from a comment Beck made on his radio program Monday, where he said he wasn’t sure Cruz could govern if elected in 2016...

...“I would expect Cruz to lead in a different way if he were elected,” Beck explained. “He’d go to the people with a healthy dose of common sense and try to change things from the bottom up, rather than trading favors for the compromising of his values..."

...with the right leader, Beck said, the country could actually unite in the time of [another economic] crisis.

“I don’t know which way it’s going to go,” Beck admitted. “But it’s important that you have a constitutionalist at that moment to govern, because they’re going to have to reset this system. And are they going to reset it to the Constitution? Or are they going to look to a new system to reset it?”

Beck said it is Cruz’s steadfast refusal to cut deals that makes him the ideal president for the tumultuous times ahead.

Like Reagan, I believe Cruz has the rare ability to speak in simple, compelling terms directly to the American people. Not lobbyists, the people.

Cruz represents one of a rare breed: a Constitutional Conservative who has never backflipped on his principles and is a masterful communicator. He is despised by the old guard in both parties, because he represents the people, not the Beltway.


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SMOKING GUN: New Documents Tie Obama and Senate Democrats Directly to the IRS Scandal

Thanks once again to Judicial Watch (and no thanks once again to the feckless boobs in the Republican leadership), conservative pundit Wayne Root just connected the dots that link Senate Democrats and the White House directly to the IRS scandal.

The entire article is worth reading, but the short version is as follows: Root was targeted for audit in 2011, disputed the findings in Tax Court, and won in 2012. Only five days later, Root was again targeted for a separate audit, an unprecedented step.

Judicial Watch took Root's case and after the traditional, illegal withholding of evidence for over a year, finally secured documentation of the audit. Stunningly, a "random audit of small businessman" was marked "SENSITIVE CASE" with no other explanation.

Written in the margin of Root's case files were IRS documentation of the taxpayer's political views; the agent "wrote on my file that he spent many hours on the Internet researching the political views of Wayne Root."

The Courts Must Finally Stop the EPA's Reckless and Wanton Destruction of the Coal Industry

By Mike Duncan

It’s been said that ‘timing is everything’ and time is just one of the issues at stake in the legal proceedings surrounding the Environmental Protection Agency’s proposed Clean Power Plan, which would regulate carbon emissions from existing power plants. Specifically, the Court must decide if a proposed federal regulation, like the CPP, can be struck down before it is finalized.

In this case, that would be the right decision.  

Last month, attorneys on behalf of Murray Energy Corporation and a bipartisan coalition of 15 states argued before the U.S. Court of Appeals District of Columbia Circuit seeking to have the Court dismiss EPA’s plan. One of the arguments made by EPA is that the Court must not dismiss the rule because it is still tentative, could change, and the EPA could still “even withdraw the proposed rule”.

When it comes to the Clean Power Plan, however, the EPA is clearly talking out of both sides of its mouth. As EPA attorneys seek to convince the courts the proposed rule could be influenced or even withdrawn based on the feedback received in the public comment period, EPA officials are blatantly singing another tune.

Just one week prior to the oral arguments before the Court of Appeals, EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy told an energy symposium, “[The Clean Power Plan] is going to happen. We have the legal – not just right and authority but responsibility – to do it.”

In March, McCarthy said, “EPA is going to regulate… If folks are thinking any of these pieces aren’t going to happen – and (the Clean Power Plan) isn’t going to be implemented, I think they need to look at the history of the Clean Air Act more carefully.”

These are hardly the words of an agency that is still making up its mind.

Fortunately, Judge Thomas Griffith seemed to pick up on this during oral arguments, asking the EPA if McCarthy’s remarks suggest that the agency’s comment period is a “sham.” While the EPA argued it wasn’t, the evidence certainly suggests otherwise.

Larwyn's Linx: Free Speech Belongs To Everybody And Doesn’t Come With Qualifiers

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Free Speech Belongs To Everybody And Doesn’t Come With Qualifiers: Jay Caruso
The Other Muslim Shooter Is An Immigrant From Pakistan: James Fulford
Garland Gunman Elton Simpson Was Muslim Convert: R.S. McCain

Clinton appointee freed cartoon gunman; didn't know what 'Jihad' meant: FPM
Sometimes Violence is Apparently the Answer: Leon Wolf
Cartoon Shooter’s Muslim Brotherhood Mosque Featured Terror Supporter: FPM

Race, Politics and Lies: Thomas Sowell
Bill Clinton Has Now Done More Interviews Than Hillary Since her Run Began: DC
Shocking news: Obamacare still degrading Emergency Room Care: Moe Lane

Here they Come: Erick Erickson
Socially liberal Jews go Republican over Israel: David M. Drucker
Want a lawless police force? Federalize it.: Glenn Harlan Reynolds

Economy

De Blasio’s Welfare-Reform Reversal: City Journal
Visa Abuse at Disney: Power Line
Ohio Budget Defunds Common Core Testing: Logan Albright

Scandal Central

Bill Clinton: Foundation didn’t do anything ‘knowingly inappropriate’: Noah Rothman
Hillary Clinton Refuses Two Benghazi Committee Appearances: Treehouse
Bill Clinton on Huge Speaking Fees: 'I Gotta Pay Our Bills,' You Know: Guy Benson

Climate & Energy

The Black Heart Of The Green Movement: Cove
We’re Saved: Logan Airport To Enact Major Protections From CO2: Cove
Myth of Arctic meltdown: Stunning satellite images show massive growth in icecap: Daily Mail

Media

What's Actually Going On: Erick Erickson
The kind of mockery only a failed MSNBC host deserves: Ace
New America-Hating Show Praised by USA Network President: Alatheia Larsen

Taking the Bait and Blaming the Victim: Joe Cunningham
Why the Left Won’t Call Rioters ‘Thugs’: Dennis Prager
Leftist Media See Conservative Goblins Everywhere: David Limbaugh

One Man's Message To Americans - "Start Giving A Damn!": ZH
‘Headlines Politico never writes about Dems’: Does only the GOP have ‘fringe’ candidates?: Twitchy
A Fox News Contributor On Being Gay, The GOP, And Religious Liberty: Chris Geidner

World

Obama’s Iran strategy continues to succeed: RS
CAIR: We condemn the Garland terror attack, but they had it coming: Katie Pavlich
Read the Pro-Bin Laden Terror Tweets of #GarlandShooting Wife: GotNews

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Then and Now: 8 Fun Examples of Exponential Change From the Last Decade: Peter Diamandis
Pay-TV operators get TKO'd with service interruptions during Mayweather-Pacquiao match: Daniel Frankel
The Sun Just Spat Out a Massive Solar Filament: Jamie Condliffe

Cornucopia

Free Speech Monday: That’s Going to Cost You: MOTUS
Bit of a kerfluddle in Garland TX: Sondrakistan
Why We Must Unite Behind Ted Cruz: Trevor Loudon

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QOTD: "Mayor Bill de Blasio has tried to be cautious when it comes to policing. He worries that a crime spike will produce an angry citywide reaction that would threaten his political career. But when it comes to welfare reform, the other great advance of the Giuliani/Bloomberg years, de Blasio shows no such caution. He has turned the city’s massive Human Resources Administration over to former Legal Aid Society attorney Steven Banks, a leading “welfare rights” advocate, whose principal contribution over the years has been to tie up the city in litigation."

...De Blasio can be more aggressively liberal on welfare because most New Yorkers are barely aware of the policies that reduced the welfare rolls from 1.1 million, when Giuliani took over from de Blasio mentor David Dinkins, to the current 350,000. Giuliani’s reforms, devoted to getting people back to work, were so successful that 75 percent of those placed into jobs remained off welfare a year later...

...Now de Blasio proposes to replace these proven successes with policies that have already failed in the past. Reviving the hoary notion that entry-level work represents “dead-end jobs,” de Blasio suggests that people on welfare are owed more than an opportunity to work. Job training and “seat time” in a classroom will displace the current system of “rapid placement” into a job. The newly created Mayor’s Office of Workforce Development proposes a vast new program of job training and enhanced “education,” on the theory that a new version of the old failure will reduce inequality in New York. --City Journal

Monday, May 04, 2015

Obama’s negotiating partners in Iran helping train children as young as eight to be terrorists

By The Tower

The Iranian-funded terror organization Hezbollah has begun recruiting children as young as eight to join the Mahdi Scouts, which prepares boys to become armed jihadists when they grow up. The scouts number some 50,000 members ranging in age from 8 to 18 and has branches in areas such as Beirut and south Lebanon, according to the Lebanese newspaper Al-Janubiya (Arabic link).

According to the Lebanese newspaper,

The Mahdi Scouts constitute a main element to the military body of Hezbollah, as the majority of the scouts’ members engage in jihadi work after the age of 16. At this age, the members get into their first military course called ‘combat literacy,’ in which teens recognize the principles knowledge of the weapon, and how to shoot at fixed targets.

They then get intensive summer courses, and after two years, these youngsters graduate as experienced fighters in various types of weapons and are ready to get engaged in the bloodiest battles at the orders of the Secretary General of Hezbollah. All this is in preparation for the real battles when they reach adulthood.

Quoting “well-informed sources,” Shiite journalist Wissam Al Amin wrote last week:

NEARLY $2 BILLION IN STIMULUS CASH "DISAPPEARED" INTO BALTIMORE: But They Need MOAR!

By Warner Todd Huston

As Baltimore burns to the ground by the thugs and rioters infesting the city, we now learn that far from being deprived of opportunity, Baltimore got $1.8 billion in Obama’s stimulus money to “help” the city.

Since the death of Freddie Gray the media and liberals have been making excuses for the riots in Baltimore and have been whining that the city has a lack of funds and jobs. But Obama sent the city nearly two billion dollars. So, what happened to that money?

The city of Baltimore received over $1.8 billion from President Barack Obama’s stimulus law, including $467.1 million to invest in education and $26.5 million for crime prevention.

President Obama claimed last Tuesday that if the Republican-controlled Congress would implement his policies to make “massive investments in urban communities,” they could “make a difference right now” in the city, currently in upheaval following the death of Freddie Gray.

GARLAND TERROR: The Drawing That Should Have Tied for the Win

I love the so-called liberals who, on the one hand, decry attacks like Garland and Charlie Hebdo, but on the other blame those who practice free speech. They don't complain about a statue of Jesus dipped in urine, mind you. That they applaud because they know that Christians will turn the other cheek.

No, "liberals" only support free speech when their pathetic little cocoons at Starbucks and Bed, Bath & Beyond aren't threatened.

Thank heavens for people like Pamela Geller, Robert Spencer and Geert Wilders, who still believe in legimate political discourse. Political, because the Religion o' Peace is a political system first and a religion second.

That's why there are so many misunderstanders of Islam like these two schmucks:


Here's the real contest winner, brought to us by the eminently talented Bosch Fawstin.

RED ALERT FROM SEN. JEFF SESSIONS: Proposed Obama Trade Deal Opens Immigration Floodgates

By Sen. Jeff Sessions

Congress has the responsibility to ensure that any international trade agreement entered into by the United States must serve the national interest, not merely the interests of those crafting the proposal in secret. It must improve the quality of life, the earnings, and the per-capita wealth of everyday working Americans.

The sustained long-term loss of middle class jobs and incomes should compel all lawmakers to apply added scrutiny to a “fast-track” procedure wherein Congress would yield its legislative powers and allow the White House to implement one of largest global financial agreements in our history—comprising at least 12 nations and nearly 40 percent of the world’s GDP.

The request for fast-track also comes at a time when the Administration has established a recurring pattern of sidestepping the law, the Congress, and the Constitution in order to repeal sovereign protections for U.S. workers in deference to favored financial and political allies.

With that in mind, here are the top five concerns about the Trade Promotion Authority (TPA) that must be fully understood and addressed before passage:

Larwyn's Linx: Islamists shot dead, officer wounded at Pamela Geller free speech event

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Islamists shot dead, officer wounded at Pamela Geller free speech event: GWP
Islamic State Partisans Post About Texas Attack Before it Occurred: GWP
In all the excitement we forgot to acknowledge the winning art piece: iOTWreport

Conservatives Must Oppose Bob Corker’s Capitulation: Erick Erickson
Baltimore’s Self-Immolation: Democrats, You Built That: RS
11 Examples of America's Social Decay: Michael Snyder

Decoding the Rules of Baltimore: Victor Davis Hanson
The Great American Traveling Riot Circus: Clarice Feldman
Anarchy Rules in Democrat Enclave of Baltimore, And So Goes the U.S.: Sara Noble

Martin O’Malley embraces his Baltimore albatross.: Moe Lane
Ted Cruz: Like Father, Like Son: Bob Ellis
Ben Carson, famed neurosurgeon, running for president: WaPo

Economy

Red Alert: Jeff Sessions Warns Against Potentially Disastrous Obama Trade Deal: Breitbart
Rep. Donna Edwards (D-Delusional): Wealth Needs To Be Spread More: WZ
Fast-Tracking America's Economic Destruction: AT

Scandal Central

United States v. $107,702.66: North Carolina Civil Forfeiture: Institute for Justice
Anger as Hurricane Sandy victims have to pay back emergency aid with interest: Telegraph
The Clintons, a luxury jet and their $100 million donor from Canada: WaPo

Climate & Energy

GOP rep introduces bill to gut EPA: The Hill

Media

Death By Magic Beans: Bob Garfield
It Doesn’t Have To Be This Way: Andrew Klavan
Wallace to Maryland Dem Rep: ‘Have Liberal Policies Failed Baltimore?’: Mediaite

Dear Baltimore Family and Friends: Y'all Bein' Played!: Lloyd Marcus
It Doesn’t Have To Be This Way: Andrew Klavan
Hollywood: "there is such a lack of enthusiasm for Hillary it’s really kind of stunning": Politico

World

God Bless Texas: Erick Erickson
State: Iranian agreement violations are a feature not a bug: RS
Website with Ties to Iran’s Leadership Publishes Anti-Semitic Blood Libel: The Tower

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Ancient Persian Inscriptions Link a Babylonian King to the Man Who Became Buddha: Ancient Origins
US reviews use of cellphone spying technology: CIO
Jeff Bezos Co. Launches Surprise Test of Private Spaceship: SciAm

Cornucopia

Not My Horse, But This Is My Rodeo: MOTUS
Jamie Foxx Gets Clobbered For Anthem At Floyd Mayweather-Manny Pacquiao Fight : GossipCop
Cable, Pay-Per-View Problems Leave Viewers Fighting Mad: Scott Mayerowitz, AP

Image: ISIS 'claims responsibility' after attack on anti-Islam art contest near Dallas
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QOTD: "Isis has claimed responsibility for an attack on an anti-Islam art contest in Texas in which an unarmed security guard was blasted in the ankle by fire from automatic rifles and the suspects shot dead by police.

Two heavily-armed men suspected to have been carrying explosives were killed by police after opening fire outside the Curtis Culwell Center in Garland, Dallas, at around 7pm during an controversial event where caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad were being displayed.

The SITE Intelligence Group reported that an Islamic State (IS) fighter claimed on Twitter that the shooting was carried out by two pro-Isis individuals.

In a series of tweets and links, a jihadist named as Abu Hussain AlBritani, which SITE said was British IS fighter Junaid Hussain, claimed that '2 of our brothers just opened fire' at the Prophet Muhammad exhibition in Texas.

'They Thought They Was Safe In Texas From The Soldiers of The Islamic State,' added the tweet." --Wills Robinson and Ted Thornhill

Sunday, May 03, 2015

CONTINUITY OF GOVERNMENT: The Mystery of Peters Mountain

By Terresa Monroe-Hamilton

A friend sent me an article from Zero Hedge that I find intriguing and it raises far more questions than answers.

I did not know that there was something called a PreparAthon held by FEMA on April 30th. Did you? Supposedly the nationwide drills are for – get this – the catastrophic consequences of global warming. Right. Sure it is. I suspect that propagandic line is for the rubes, when in fact what the feds fear the most is an EMP attack or a massive cyber attack. DHS was just all abuzz over this drill evidently.

But what caught my attention, was the movement and inclusion of activities around a real underground bunker north of Charlottesville, Virginia on Peters Mountain. This not-so-secret bunker may just be the hidey-hole for feds and our nation’s intelligence operations when the Schumer hits the fan. It is the perfect bunker to protect those elitists and power mongers that matter, while everyday America devolves into barbarity and the die-off begins.

OBAMA HAS SOWN THE SEEDS OF WAR: The Middle East Arms Race Explodes                  

By Dan Friedman

We’ve heard that many Arab leaders are peeing in their caftans in response to Obama’s nuclear rapprochement with Iran. Now we’re beginning to see the results. As Obama’s deal with Iran gets closer, the panicky Gulf States are asking for assurances, weapons and security pacts from Obama before they take matters in their own hands. Can you spot the problems with anything Obama might promise them?

• It’s hard to take anything the man says seriously.

• Would you stake the life of your country on his word?

• Then there’s that pesky Congress. Even if they cave, it will take some time, and a nuclear deal will be signed by then.

• The whole unstable region will become, well, more unstable. Boys can’t wait to play with their new toys.

• Nothing beats having nuclear weapons in your back pocket, just for use during emergencies.

• Obama will (hopefully) be gone in a short time and no one knows who will follow his act.

• Only madmen would use nuclear weapons. Remind you of anyone?

• Obama has shown his weak hand and his strong intentions to appease Iran.

• Only last week he looked away while Iran commandeered a ship that he was duty-bound to protect.

• Everything in Obama’s mind is subordinate to making “the deal.” Ergo, anything he says is disingenuous and born of expediency.

PRO-TERROR LEFTISTS ASSERT THERE ARE NO POOLS IN GAZA: Five minutes on Google Maps proves them liars

Media Watchdog CAMERA reports that the pro-terror, lying leftists are at it again:

Nearly seven years to the day after Haaretz's Gideon Levy falsely reported that West Bank Palestinians have just one single place where they can learn to swim..., this weekend he extends the fallacy to the Gaza Strip. "There are no swimming pools in the Gaza Strip," wrote the veteran journalist Friday... There are dozens of swimming pools in the West Bank and numerous pools in the Gaza Strip.

...As reported by Maan News Agency, the Olympic-sized al-Sadaka pool, the Gaza Strip's first Olympic-sized pool, opened in 2010... In addition, the al-Nour Resort, a Hamas-affiliated facility located near the former site of the Netzarim settlement, has two swimming pools, according to Al-Monitor...

...In a phone call with CAMERA's Israel office, Gideon Levy acknowledged the existence of pools in Gaza and insisted that in his piece he was referring to private pools.

In any event, Levy is a very poor propagandist. I spent all of seven minutes on Google Maps, in satellite view over the Gaza strip, and I identified what appear to be plenty of pools, including those that seem to be attached to private residences. To wit (you can click on each picture to see the actual satellite view):

Larwyn's Linx: Here is How We Can All Help Stop Iran From Acquiring Nuclear Weapons

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How You Can Help Stop Iran From Acquiring Nuclear Weapons: CHQ
Marilyn Mosby just bought herself some trouble over Freddie Gray: Jazz Shaw
Suspect in custody for shooting of NYPD cop: Scoop

The most Dangerous 18 Months for America in My Lifetime: DTG
The Jew-Haters at Bowdoin College want a total Israel boycott: LI
Alabama House Votes for an Article V Convention: WWNT Radio

Jeb Bush is Dead Wrong on Common Core: Rick Jensen
The Chart that Could Undo the Healthcare System: Dr. Rich Swier
NC Senators: Don’t let gangbangers get immigration benefits: Franco Ordoñez

It’s Time to Put an End to the NSA’s Bulk Collection of Americans’ Metadata: Sen. Mike Lee
Ted Cruz Claims to Have the Key to Hispanic Vote, And It’s Shockingly Simple: Frank Camp
Government worker unions shrivel under Scott Walker’s reforms: EAG

Economy

Progressives don’t do the math. If they did, they wouldn’t be progressives.: Instapundit
Major U.S. Retailers Are Closing More Than 6,000 Stores: ZH
H4 Work Permits Halted as 'Save Jobs USA' Files Lawsuit: Indian Panorama

Scandal Central

REPORT: John Roberts was targeted by U.S. spies: WND
Obama's 'national civilian security force' endorsed: Bob Unruh
Ted Cruz Says He Has Asked the Pentagon for Answers on Jade Helm 15: David Weigel

Obama Admin. Won’t Let States Ask for Proof of Citizenship … On Voter Registration Form!: Joseph Vanderhulst
Idaho: Twin Falls to get influx of Syrian Muslim “refugees”: Creeping
Texas Muslim honor murderer had hit list of Christian victims: Robert Spencer

Climate & Energy

Three Simple Facts that Scuttle the Global Warming Paradigm: David Solway
Meteorologist: 2010s officially the snowiest decade in the east coast in the NOAA record: Depot
Flashback 2000: Snowfalls are now just a thing of the past: Independent

Media

Matt Wuerker – Moron Extraordinaire – Strikes Again: iOTWreport
Haddock and Polsby On How Riots Occur: Cato
ToDaZeD Civilized Behavior 101: Sondrakistan

#AskHillary hashtag provides plenty of material for stumped, starstruck reporters: Twitchy
Sheriff Clarke: Baltimore cops ‘offered up as human sacrifices’ to ‘an angry mob’: Times
Floyd Mayweather camp banning reporters who covered domestic abuse charges?: Twitchy

Floyd Mayweather Jr. defeats Manny Pacquiao by unanimous decision, remains unbeaten: Fox
Blue Moon Lawsuit Slams MillerCoors For Deceiving Customers, But Is It The Only Offender?: Inquisitrfs
Blues legend B.B. King tells fans he's in hospice care: Trib

World

The Maersk Tigris game change: Iran’s big little maneuver in the Strait of Hormuz: J.E. Dyer
Another Cover-Up for the Religion of Peace: Michael Reagan
Mob of BDS Thugs Attack Jews in Paris: Daniel Greenfield

7,000 Soldiers to Be Permanently Deployed on Streets of France: Clarion
Socialist Wonderland Venezuela Sells Off Part of Gold Reserves for Dollars: AmInt
Pensioners start run on banks as Greece struggles to pay recipients: The Australian

Islamic State fighters spotted near Golan Heights: Robert Spencer
Islamic State throws another gay man off building, stone him when he survives: Robert Spencer
ISIS killed 25 captive Yazidis, lawmaker says: Fox

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Why did our brains stop expanding?: Trevor Smith
Whey Protein 101: Surprising Benefits of Powders and Shakes: Kris Gunnars
Escape to Spy Mountain: ZH

Cornucopia

Baltimore Prosecutor: “No Peace No Fleece”: MOTUS
Mothership: Terminal Cruise
Another attempt to understand girly stuff: Sondrakistan

Image: Floyd Mayweather Jr. defeats Manny Pacquiao by unanimous decision, remains unbeaten
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QOTD: "Those who label products today are liable to label people tomorrow." --Israel Prize for Literature laureate Erez Biton, on BDS bigots

Saturday, May 02, 2015

Urge Your State Representatives to Support an Article V Convention

By Mike Westrich

Do you believe Washington, D.C., is broken? Do you believe those in D.C. are willing or capable of curbing their own power? Are you looking for a solution to reduce the size, scope and jurisdiction of the federal government, impose fiscal restraints and place term limits on federal officials?

A package of constitutional amendments — proposed by an Article V convention of the states and designed to curb the abuses of the federal government — would go a long way toward restoring the rightful power of state and local governments.

According to a recent Pew survey, only 23 percent of Americans trust the federal government to do the right thing “at least most of the time.” A higher percentage of Americans trust their state and local governments — 33 percent trust their state government and 41.5 percent trust their local government to do the right thing all or most of the time.

State and local governments are closer to the people they serve and, thus, more accountable. The individuals in a state or city can more easily contact or visit their representatives and officials to voice their concerns or grievances. Unfortunately, D.C. has gradually stripped these governments of their rightful power, turning them into nothing more than regional agencies.

Clinton Foundation Tried to Pass Off Islamic Payments to Bill as “Donations”

By Daniel Greenfield

Corporations and non-profits have been torn apart for a lot less than this. If we’re to believe the Clintons and their defenders, they were completely incapable of doing basic accounting for a major foundation.

Let’s say that’s true. Then just maybe they’re unqualified to run a country. It’s either that or they’re liars and thieves.

It acknowledged in response to POLITICO’s questions that it mischaracterized as foundation donations money from the China Overseas Real Estate Development and the U.S.-Islamic World Conference. That money was actually honoraria paid for Bill Clinton speeches by those entities, said foundation officials, who added this week those were the only mistakes “we are aware of.”

A small mistake. Confusing a sizable payment from enemies of the United States with a donation.

A POLITICO review discovered that at least two entities listed as large foundation donors in past years disappeared from the foundation’s donor website sometime prior to last week. China Overseas Real Estate Development and the U.S.-Islamic World Conference were both on the donor list posted at the library in 2004 and were recorded as having given between $250,000 and $500,000 by 2008.

Very small mistake. I would ask why the Clintons are taking money from enemies of this country, but if Hitler rose from the dead, he would be hit up for a Clinton fundraiser before you can say Achtung.

So which is it… are the Clintons corrupt or incompetent? They need to pick one and stick with it.


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Obama cowers as Iran hijacks a U.S.-flagged ship

By Sara Noble

The U.S. should not allow Iran to seize any ships but President Obama’s Pentagon has found some lawyers who advised them they don't have to defend a seized ship sailing under the Marshall Islands flag, despite the fact that the Marshall Islands is a U.S. protectorate

What a message. If an ally’s ship is seized, the U.S. will look for a lawyer to say they don’t have to defend them.

President Obama has allowed Iran to hijack a ship presumed to be sailing under our protection. In fact, Iran lied at first, saying it was a U.S. ship.

Instead of surrounding them and firing a shot off their bow, we have cowered.

We are now escorting our own ships out of fear. We are on the defensive and have shown ourselves to be incapable of standing up to Iran.

CNN reported that U.S. Navy warships will “accompany” every U.S.-flagged commercial vessel that passes through the Strait of Hormuz between Iran and Oman because of concerns that ships from Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps navy could try to seize a U.S. cargo ship.

IRGC ships harassed a U.S.-flagged vessel, the Maersk Kensington, and then also seized another cargo ship, the Maersk Tigris, flagged in the Marshall Islands.

GREAT NEWS: Obama State Dept. Shipping Thousands of Potential ISIS Members to Idaho and South Carolina

By Warner Todd Huston

Obama is sending hundreds of Muslims into the USA under the claim that they are refugees, a report finds.

Apparently Idaho and South Carolina are the areas the State Department has targeted for up to 2,000 Syrian refugees.

Idaho is set to become one of multiple receiving states for the relocation of Islamic and other refugees as part of the State Department’s U.S. Refugee Admissions Program (USRAP).

Southern Idaho’s TImes-News reports that the College of Southern Idaho’s Refugee Center will be taking in up to 300 refugees from around the world starting in October. They anticipate most will be from Syria and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

The Syrian Civil War has resulted in the deaths of 220,000 people and driven some 9 million of the prewar population of 23 million from their homes. Of those, more than 3.8 million have fled to neighboring countries like Lebanon, Jordan, and Turkey.

“U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Anne Richard said during a recent visit to Lebanon that between 1,000 and 2,000 Syrian refugees will be brought to the U.S. by the end of September and several thousand more in 2016,” according to the Times-News.

How many members of ISIS that will slip through with this group remains to be seen.


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