Monday, May 11, 2015

"UNEXPECTEDLY": Massachusetts ObamaCare exchange joins Oregon under investigation by FBI

By Uncover Obamacare

It’s no secret that ObamaCare’s father is RomneyCare in Massachusetts, and as we look to the problems that plague a government run health care system, The Bay State is a good place to start. Case in point: corruption in the system.

Josh Archambault, senior fellow at the Foundation for Government Accountability has dug into the state’s $1 billion ObamaCare exchange and found many discrepancies and issues that should concern everyone.

Culled from “publicly available third-party audits and hours of interviews with multiple whistleblowers with first-hand knowledge,” Josh found that Massachusetts officials:

  • Failed to execute a contract with CGI, the vendor hired to build the site, that would track the progress of the project and ensure on-time delivery of a product that included all required features;
  • Failed to commit sufficient resources to the project, resulting in workers sending documents to their home computers to open them, and to demand that CGI commit the additional resources necessary to complete the job on time, at an acceptable level of quality;
  • Repeatedly failed to hold CGI accountable for shoddy work, and for missing required deadlines, often pushing technical staff to approve faulty results, and firing at least one for refusing;

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It Takes a Good Guy with a Gun to Defend Freedom of Speech: Daniel Greenfield
White Democratic party declares war on Black Democratic party.: Moe Lane
President from Hell: Obama Golfs V-E Day Memorials and Funerals Away: Sara Noble

Election Coming: Nobody Knows Anything: Richard Dreyfuss
Who’da Thunk It? ‘Diverse’ Cities Are Most Segregated: Michael Walsh
Sharpton's Progressivism is authoritarian nationalism: David S. D'Amato

The Last Temptation Of The New York Times: Derek Hunter
My moment of candor this Friday: Erick Erickson
Detroit Reporter Tells Truth About Mich. Muslims: Forced to Apologize: Rick Moran

Know Your Enemy: The Shape of Antigun Astroturf, May 2015: WeaponsMan
Armed Citizen Saves Officer Under Attack In Oklahoma City: Bob Owens
Conspiracy Theory as a Personality Disorder?: Kerry R. Bolton

Economy

UAW fails (for now) to strip VW employees of secret-ballot election: LUR
Cities On Fire: NoisyRm
Athens desperate for positive news from Europe: Insider

Scandal Central

Garland ISIS Terrorists Worshiped At Radical Islamic Mosque: IBD
Cartoon Terrorist’s Mosque also had Jihadist Who Plotted to Bomb Illinois Mall: Daniel Greenfield
Report: Obama lied about bin Laden raid: Mark Hensch

Climate & Energy

Hollywood elite not terribly interested in conserving water during drought: Jazz Shaw
States pre-emptively block EPA power plant regulation: Geof Koss
Did You Buy Flowers For Mother Day? Well, That’s Bad For “Climate Change”: Cove

Media

Mark Halperin’s ‘Nauseating’ Interview of Ted Cruz: Rick Moran
‘Say something in Spanish’: Mark Halperin interviews Ted Cruz, expects Ricky Ricardo: Babalu
Conservatives Trend #HalperinQuestions on Twitter to Shame Mark Halperin’s Cuban Inquisition: Sooper

Salon Shocker: 'The Left Has Islam All Wrong': Mark Tapson
Worth Reading Carefully: R.S. McCain
Draw Mohammed: Erick Erickson

World

IDF Commander: Hamas Transformed the Gazan Civilian Sector Into War Zone: Algemeiner
Germany: Jihad bomb plot thwarted; plotter had urged mosque attendance: Robert Spencer
In blow to Obama, Saudi king and other leaders to skip Gulf summit: Times of Israel

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

3 Things Your About Page Must Do: Bernadette Jiwa
Large sunspot group AR 2339: EarthSky
What is a Pyramid doing in the Heart of Rome?: Ancient Origins

Cornucopia

Romance Novel Covers Recreated by Real People: Geek X Girls
Because Some Black Lives Matter More Than Others: MOTUS
Obama Honors Gray and Brown, Ignores Slain White Officer: Breitbart

Image: Tony Rodham’s Ties Invite Scrutiny for Hillary and Bill Clinton
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QOTD: "I said at the outset that I think a bad deal almost guarantees war and here’s why. Because the state of Israel, such an important allay to the United States, they are not thousands of miles away from Iran ... Put yourself in their position for a moment. The small country with a small population, nine miles wide at its narrowest point, with a neighbor to the north that openly and repeatedly says it wants to destroy you and on the verge of acquiring a nuclear capability. And Israel feels like their very existence is being threatened, and faced with that, Israel may very well take military action on their own to protect themselves.

I think a bad deal exponentially increases the likelihood of that happening. I also think you look at the other nations of the region, because Iran is a Shia country, a Shia-Persian country, but its Sunni-Arab neighbors aren’t big fans of the Shia branch of Islam.

… So for example, Saudi Arabia, an incredibly wealthy country, they have already said, ‘Whatever Iran gets, we’re going to get. If Iran gets the right to enrich and reprocess, we will enrich and reprocess. If Iran builds a weapon, we will build a weapon.’ And so it creates the very real specter that we’re going to have an arms race, a nuclear arms race, in the Middle East. You’re talking about a region of the world that has been unstable for 3,800 years.

You talk about a region of the world that could have a nuclear arms race, one of the most unstable regions on the planet. And so I hope we’re going to get a good deal. I’m not hopeful that we will, but I think we’re better off if we have this process in place. And so I hope this bill passes here today so at least we’ll have a chance to weigh in on an issue of critical importance." --Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL)

Sunday, May 10, 2015

REPORT: Obama "TPP" Trade Agreement Hides Unlimited Migration From Mexico as well as Gun and Ammo Bans

By Mac Slavo

The Obama administration is feverishly working with foreign lawmakers and officials on a new Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade agreement. Yet what may seem like business as usual is anything but.

The President has made it a point to keep any details of the agreement completely secret, so much so that what amounts to a gag order has been placed on anyone who has anything to do with the bill. Even members of Congress are unable to discuss the contents of the bill with each other or in public, and anyone who is invited to discussions over the bill must leave cell phones and staff members behind. Since not even Republicans have yet to spill the beans about the details of the agreement, one can only assume that those attending the meetings are doing so under threat of criminal prosecution or worse if they talk.

This, of course, begs the question: What is so important to the Obama administration that it has to be kept secret from the American public until after the agreement has been passed?

What could possibly be so critical to national security that the purportedly “most transparent” Presidential administration in history says no one can talk about it?

Could it be that whatever is being negotiated is so significant that if the American people got wind of what was taking place there would be a collective outcry or widespread protests in the streets?

According to Gun Owners of America, this is exactly what’s happening, and it is nothing short of shocking:

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"Stay Quiet and You'll Be Okay": Mark Steyn
Why Won’t Pamela Geller Shut Up?: Rich Lowry
The growing collection of things that we know, but can't discuss: The Z Man

Missing The Salafi Forest: Wolf Howling
Don’t Know Much About History: Debra Saunders
A Week of ISIS Terror and Christian/Israel Solidarity: Erick Stakelbeck

Schumer should personally house aliens he wants to import: Marion DS Dreyfus
Levin: Rand Paul covering up Obamacare fraud: AT
Carly Fiorina’s Game-Changing Presidential Run: Rick Jensen

Freddie Gray Case: Detailed Analysis of Motion to Recuse Prosecutor: LI
Slain Hattiesburg officers named: Benjamin Deen and Liquori Tate: Twitchy
San Jose: Muslim Man Arrested In Series Of Sexual Attacks: GWP

Economy

New Jersey Interrogates Homeschoolers, Lawsuit Follows: BlurBrain
Congressman: Fight Poverty With ‘A Salad Bar in Every Single School’: CNS
Social Security's in worse shape than you thought: Study: Tom Anderson, CNBC

Scandal Central

Stunned Reporter Grills State Dept.: Why Won't Hillary's Breaches Be Investigated?: Tyler Durden
Gowdy’s Benghazi Panel Wants Clinton’s Top Aides: David Eldridge
Cities and Local Governments Paving the Way for Federal Totalitarian Dictatorship: Jeremiah Johnson

Media

Halperin interview of Ted Cruz was painful: Ruben Navarrette
Michelle Malkin endorses Article V convention: Kyle Maichle
Prepare for a time when voices like mine are no longer heard: Glenn Beck

'The Wire' Creator Demolishes Baltimore Crime Myths Pushed by Martin O'Malley: Breitbart
Virginia School Board Member: Transgender Rights Like Desegregation: DC
Attack of the Killer Lesbians!: Breitbart

World

We Should Be Worried: Why the Pentagon Is Upping Security On All Military Bases: IJR
U.S. State Dept. Invites Muslim Leaders, Denies Christians: Raymond Ibrahim
More geopolitical effects of high percentage of muslims: Vlad Tepes

ISIS Massacred 2,154 People By Burning, Beheading And Shooting: Shoebat
Failed Narco-State News: RPGs downed Military Helicopter: Borderland
Jalisco: When attacked Helicopter was in low altitude, to allow paratroopers to rappel: Borderland

Europe’s Island of Stability: Hannah Thoburn, AmInt
#Occupy Sore Losers: SDA
Putin Makes This Statement: ‘America Is Trying To Dominate The World’: Shoebat

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

“Government Wants to Control Your Car” and Prevent You From ‘Tinkering’ Under DMCA: Mac Slavo
How Self-Driving Cars Could Radically Transform Cities: Gregory Ferenstein, ReadWrite
Here’s how Yieldmo’s Ad Format Lab is trying to reinvent the mobile ad: Barry Levine, VB

Cornucopia

Again I Ask, Apologize For What?: MOTUS
Where's Dad?: Thomas Purcell
Open Blog Challenge: Can You Beat BuzzFeed's Clickbait Headline Writers?: Ace

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QOTD: "Thankfully one police officer helped them meet their virgins." --Senator Ted Cruz, speaking about last week’s attacks in Garland, Tex., during a speech Saturday at the South Carolina Freedom Summit in Greenville.

Saturday, May 09, 2015

The Real Jade Helm Conspiracy Nuts

By Karl Denninger

From the NY Times:

DALLAS — The questions being raised by right-wing bloggers and conservative commentators about a Pentagon training exercise called Jade Helm 15 traverse the outer edges of political paranoia.

It does?

The eight-week exercise starting in July and planned for locations in Texas, New Mexico, California and other Southwestern states, they say, is part of a secret plan to impose martial law, take away people’s guns, arrest political undesirables, launch an Obama-led hostile takeover of red-state Texas, or do some combination thereof.

Is it?  Or is it training for that highly unlikely but possible scenario?

Nobody doubts that the military needs to train in the sort of environment they may need to operate and for any reasonably-foreseeable eventuality.  That's expected and the usual practice, and there is a growing use of our military in urban, suburban and rural areas of the world (not in the United States) that would benefit from such an exercise.

So it seems that this is a rather ordinary thing, and thus the Texas (and some other people's) reaction is one of conspiracy nuts.

Right?

Let's say I take that at purely face value, which I am inclined to, particularly reading the NY Times article given the slant they put on it and the accusations made about Texans.

Now please explain, if this is a training exercise for overseas readiness, as the NY Times has claimed, why is it that the DEA and FBI are involved in any way with this exercise, including in providing interrogation services -- because they allegedly are.

A prediction I pray is wrong

By Dan Friedman

In the coming years, it will be harder and harder for Americans to remain indifferent to Islamic terrorism, because so much of it will be close to home disrupting our daily lives and dividing the nation along a deep ideological fault line.

We’ve already seen the split that followed in the aftermath of the Texas cartoon contest - as many condemned Pamela Geller as praised her.

That’s only a small taste of things to come.

As terrorist attacks in our nation become more frequent and more deadly, American thinking will become more sharply divided, pitting one side blaming the victims for being “provocative” against the other side blaming the Islamists for being terrorists.

Depending on which worldview prevails, an oppressive atmosphere could settle over the USA – and for all and intents and purposes that would mean the terrorists have won a decisive battle in their Jihad to destroy our society and way of life.

The wild card in all this is the outcome of the 2016 election. It is probably our best (and last) hope.

Americans are not quick studies and are easily distracted. 9/11 was a warning most of us have already forgotten. If we don’t elect a president who loves our Constitution, shares our values, and is willing to do the hard work to reverse Obama’s damage, we will suffer a slow death like the frog in the kettle.

What happens after that is anyone’s guess.
 
 
Related: Democrats Now Cast Terrorists as Victims.
 

Black Families Matter

By Daniel John Sobieski

Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings Blake made all the right noises Monday night as she discussed her city’s response to the unrest enveloping it after the unexplained death while in police custody of Freddie Gray, but she lost more than a few critics willing to give her the benefit of the doubt when she said that “anyone who wants to add to the calls for peace in our city is welcome” – including Al Sharpton.

Rawlings Blake said “anyone who wants to add to the calls for peace in our city is welcome. I would – if Reverend Sharpton wants to come, parents want to encourage their children to, you know, act within the law, I met with young people this afternoon, young people who want peace, young people who want justice, they were giving their own suggestions on how young people themselves can add a voice , and try to add a sane message, a message that says ‘we don’t – not in our name that you are doing – that you are destroying our city.’ Anybody that wants to be a part of that message, I welcome it.”

If one wants to send a sane message about justice and peace, Al Sharpton is probably among the worst to call. He is an instigator, not a peacemaker, someone who rose out of obscurity by propagating the false Tawana Brawley rape case in which New York city cops were accused of raping a black teenager. Tawana Brawley paid for her part in that big lie. Al Sharpton never has.

Sharpton embraced the “hands up, don’t shoot” mantra meant to indict racist cops and police departments after the shooting death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri after he committed a strong-armed robbery on his way to assaulting Officer Darren Wilson. Blessed are the peacemakers, but Al Sharpton is not one of them.

The Sharptons of the world don’t want to solve the real problems of the black community, preferring to exploit back unrest with clueless race-baiting such as when Sharpton and his National Action Network organized the “Justice for All” March in Washington, D.C. last December:

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Obama Administration Admits Breaking Judge's Amnesty Injunction: Caroline May
There's a war on free speech --- and radical Islam is winning: Philip Klein
Democratic Party Support Of Israel Died Twenty Years Ago: Lid

What If Islamic Terrorists Attacked A Gay Wedding In The Name Of Allah?: DC
Secret TPP Trade Deal May Contain Gun Restrictions, Ammo Bans: Katie McGuire
‘Whooping on Me’: Obama Goes After Dems Who Oppose Him on Trade: Fred Lucas

Huckabee Is the Wrong Candidate for the Wrong Time: David Harsanyi
Ben Carson Defends Calling Obama A ‘Psychopath': DC
Ten Baltimore shootings reported Thursday: Baltimore Sun

They Never Stop: Anti-Gun NY Democrats Push for More Gun Control: Bob Owens
Instead of Mercedes, Carjacker gets bullet to the chest from armed citizen: Tony Oliva
Knife Rights a New Front in the Second Amendment: Pagun

Economy

Another Obamacare unintended consequence: ER visits skyrocket: John R. Lott
New Jersey Interrogates Homeschoolers, Lawsuit Follows: BlurBrain
Wall Street Is One Sick Puppy: David Stockman

Scandal Central

Lawless: Obama gave out 2,000 Amnesty Permits AFTER Court Ordered Halt: Scoop
Gowdy’s Benghazi Panel Wants Clinton’s Top Aides: David Eldridge
Learning from Obamacare’s Spectacular Failures: Phil Kerpen

Climate & Energy

UN: We should switch to eating insects: Eric Worrall

Media

Mark Levin Shreds Baltimore Prosecutor’s Indictment of Policemen: ‘Travesty of Justice’: IJR
Jade Helm and Texas: Conspiracy Nuts?: Market Ticker
Why don't the voters know this stuff? They have a NEED TO KNOW!: Norman Hooben

Media Coverage of Pam Geller Proves Many Journalists Don’t Believe in Free Speech: Glob
Journalists Hold Tom Brady to Higher Standard Than Hillary Clinton: Breitbart
Thousands in US Under ISIS Influence But Let’s Discuss Deflated Footballs: Sara Noble

World

UK Election Should Make the Democrats Nervous: Roger L. Simon
Pamela Geller’s Critics Are Proving Her Point: David French
Five Coptic Christian Children Imprisoned In Egypt For Blasphemy: Victory Girls

French Mayor Counts Noses, Finds 65 Percent of Town’s Pupils Are Muslim: Michael Walsh
Gosh, I hope this doesn't offend Islam: UN Reveals Disgusting Islamic Sex Markets: Clash
The Middle East Runs out of Water: Daniel Pipes

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Why The Most Popular Gun For Law Enforcement Is A Mistake: Bob Owens
The Mysterious Stone Kingdom of the Great Zimbabwe: Ancient Origins
Ask Ethan #87: The Shape Of The Universe: Medium

Cornucopia

Deflation at Home and Abroad: MOTUS
'Waiting for the other shoe to drop...': AmPower
Hidden cactus cameras are freaking out the residents of a small Arizona town : Daily Mail

Image: North Korea boasts of firing ballistic missile from submarine
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QOTD: "Let's be clear: the only reason the Texas event was associated with violence is that there are radical Muslims who are willing to shoot people over cartoons. To shift any blame for violence to the conference organizers is to reward this violent action. If Christians responded to an art show that they found offensive with violence, the media would call for a national conversation on Christian fundamentalism. But when radical Muslims do it, the national conversation is on hate speech." --Philip Klein

Friday, May 08, 2015

BUMMER: The Arab World is Running Out of Water

Daniel Pipes casts a fascinating spotlight on an ongoing -- and little heralded -- water crisis in the Middle East.

A ranking Iranian political figure, Issa Kalantari, recently warned that past mistakes leave Iran with water supplies so insufficient that up to 70 percent, or 55 million out of 78 million Iranians, would be forced to abandon their native country for parts unknown.

Many facts buttress Kalantari's apocalyptic prediction: Once lauded in poetry, Lake Urmia, the Middle East's largest lake, has lost 95 percent of its water since 1996, going from 31 billion cubic meters to 1.5 billion. What the Seine is to Paris, the Zayanderud was to Isfahan – except the latter went bone-dry in 2010. Over two-thirds of Iran's cities and towns are "on the verge of a water crisis" that could result in drinking water shortages; already, thousands of villages depend on water tankers. Unprecedented dust storms disrupt economic activity and damage health.

Nor are Iranians alone in peril; many others in the arid Middle East may also be forced into unwanted, penurious, desperate exile. With a unique, magnificent exception, much of the Middle East is running out of water due to such maladies as population growth, short-sighted dictators, distorted economic incentives, and infrastructure-destroying warfare...

Pipes goes on to describe the challenges of supplying clean water to many Arab countries including Egypt, Yemen, Syria, Iraq, Pakistan, etc.

Oh. And what of Israel?

Israel provides the sole exception to this regional tale of woe. It too, as recently as the 1990s, suffered water shortages; but now, thanks to a combination of conservation, recycling, innovative agricultural techniques, and high-tech desalination, the country is awash in H2O (Israel's Water Authority: "We have all the water we need"). I find particularly striking that Israel can desalinate about 17 liters of water for one U.S. penny; and that it recycles about five times more water than does second-ranked Spain.

Talk amongst yourselves. Topic: barbarism versus civilization.


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REPULSIVE: Democrats Now Cast Terrorists as Victims

By Caroline Glick

The notion that a rape victim deserved to be raped because she was wearing a tight outfit lights up all our red lights.

This is the case first and foremost because it absolves the rapist of responsibility for his crime.

We are also disgusted by attempts to blame the victim for her victimization because they are substantively false. If men are more likely to rape women in tight clothing then rape should be all but non-existent in traditional Islamic societies. Yet the opposite is the case. Rape and sexual abuse are endemic to such societies. According to the UN, a whopping 99.3 percent of Egyptian women report having suffered sexual abuse.

There is a third, more general reason that we recoil from the thought of blaming rape victims for their suffering. One of the foundations of liberal societies has always been that victims of aggression are not to blame for their attackers’ behavior.

Over the past few days, we have witnessed a dangerous erosion of this principle among American elites.

Last Sunday two Islamic terrorists armed with assault rifles tried to massacre participants at a Muhammed cartoon drawing contest in Garland, Texas.

The goal of the contest was self-evident. The organizers wished to defend the freedom of speech – and the right to life – of critics of Islamic totalitarianism.

Rather than standing with the contest’s organizers and participants, the US media from MSNBC to Fox News attacked Pamela Geller, the event’s main organizer and accused her of responsibility for the attack.

For its part, the White House has refused to condemn the attack.

Radical, Gun-Grabbing Extremists Seek Shut Down Of Local Illinois Gun Shops

By ISRA

A coalition of gun grabbers including Sarah Brady’s Handgun Control Inc., the Bloomberg Moms, and militant priest Michael Pfleger are intensifying their efforts to shut down lawful firearm retailers and abolish civilian firearm ownership across the United States.

The gun-grabbers plan to launch this latest campaign against your rights on Saturday, May 9, 2015 at Chuck’s Gun Shop, 14310 S Indiana Ave, Riverdale, IL.

It is very important that we get a maximum turn out of gun owners to be on hand to support Chuck’s and the right to keep and bear arms.

So, please try to be at Chuck’s to show you care about your rights. Saturday would also be a good time to help the shop out by making some sort of purchase.

If you’ve never been to one of these events, you are in for a treat. You’ll get to see firsthand the tactics of the antigunners. You’ll witness just how low they are willing to stoop to undermine your constitutional rights. You’ll hear the lies, the fabricated statistics, and the hysterical claims about how private firearm ownership is dooming mankind.

If Pfleger takes the stage you’ll certainly be entertained by his special brand of frothy-lipped lunacy. Few will forget Pfleger’s rant in front of Chucks several years ago when he called for the ISIS-style murders of gun shop owners and elected officials who support gun rights. Attendance at this event is a must for anyone who loves freedom. You cannot appreciate liberty until you look those who would deny you liberty right in the eye.

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Why Did a Nigerian Company Pay Bill Clinton $1.4MM for 2 Speeches?: Jim Geraghty
DHS Working Hard to Add ‘New Americans’ in Time for 2016: J. Christian Adams
Obama Gave 195,900 Criminally Convicted Illegals a Free Pass: Trumpet

Obama and the Death Of Our Republic: Wolf Howling
Cartoonists are Controversial and Murderers are Moderate: Daniel Greenfield
Federal Appeals Court Rules NSA Spying Illegal: Dustin Volz

Clinton Crime Fund Reportedly Took Funds From Human Rights Violators: JWF
Four Clinton Foundation Trustees Charged Or Convicted Of Financial Crimes: WZ
Is Baltimore’s Mosby Seeking Justice or Something Else?: David Limbaugh

Baltimore: Intersection of the Grievance Culture and the Welfare State: Larry Elder
Progressives Losing Interest in Democracy: Instapundit
Did Scott Walker ‘Evolve’ on Immigration?: Ken McIntyre

Scott Walker upsets liberals: Don Surber
One Small Victory for Mankind: MOTUS
Douchebag de Blasio Whines About New Yorkers Not Appreciating Him: JWF

Scandal Central

Is my personal IRS case Obama’s Watergate?: Personal Liberty
IRS And DOJ Get Schooled By Judges Over Pro-Israel Group: Tammy Bruce
IRS Employees Who Dodged Taxes Rewarded With Bonuses: Elizabeth Harrington

Climate & Energy

March Sees CO2 At Over 400ppm For Month, World Doesn’t End: Cove
Anti-Keystone, Idiot Dem Now Wants to Ban Rail Shipments of Crude Oil: JWF
The Winners Of Today’s “Climate Change And Tornadoes” Nuttbaggery Are…: Cove

Media

Black ‘The Atlantic’ Writer Now Openly Advocating Violence and Killing Whites and Cops: RWN
The MSM’s Baltimore Agitprop Offensive: Nicholas Stix
NYT: “Open Up, Europe! Let Migrants In”: Steve Sailer

The Most Profitable Name in News . . .: Jim Geraghty
Al Jazeera America Demotes CEO Amid Ongoing Disarray: The Tower
Radical Imam Anjem Choudary Tells Pamela Geller She Should Be Slaughtered: Treehouse

World

SFC Christopher Speer Is Dead; Omar Khadr Is Free: Michelle Malkin
The Cartoon Wars: Douglas Murray
Al Qaeda’s deputy general manager killed in US drone strike: Thomas Joscelyn

Obama seeks to deter nuclear Iran with missile defense: RS
The Failures of Putin’s Ukraine Strategy: Kirk Bennett
H&K Germany Illegally Exported Weapons to Mexico: Borderland

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

“Your” Car? Not So Much…: Eric Peters Autos
Designer of 3-D-printed gun challenges feds to Constitutional duel: Fox
50kg Silver Bar Found in Madagascar may be Treasure of Notorious Pirate Captain Kidd: April Holloway

Cornucopia

Baby bear has a ball playing on a golf course; Internet gold created: LAT
Patriots Probably Deflated Footballs on Purpose, Report Says: Ken Belson
Tiled Floor, Two Baths: C&S

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QOTD: "Elton Simpson, the first gunman, attended the Islamic Community Center of Phoenix. The mosque was listed as being controlled by the Muslim Brotherhood’s North American Islamic Trust front group.

The Muslim Brotherhood holds such controversial and provocative views as “waging Jihad” against American infidels, “raising a Jihadi generation that pursues death” and “destroying the Western civilization from within”. Despite these extremely provocative and intolerant views, the Muslim Brotherhood is usually described by the media as a “moderate” group.

The Brotherhood’s American arm believes in launching a “Grand Jihad” to Islamize America. Its final phase calls for “Seizing power to establish their Islamic Nation” in the United State.

Some might say this is a slightly more controversial activity than drawing cartoons of a dead warlord." --Daniel Greenfield

Thursday, May 07, 2015

Your Department of Homeland Security at Work

Shot:

DHS records describe Mexican government helicopters entering US, firing on Border Patrol

After having to fight for almost a year for the Obama administration to “come clean,” the top public-interest group in the United States that routinely investigates and exposes government corruption and cover-ups on Tuesday reported that it finally obtained documents from the Department of Homeland Security’s Customs and Border Protection (CBP) directorate.

The files describe a shocking Southwest Border incident in which helicopters allegedly belonging to the government of Mexico flew across the border into the United States — Arizona — and opened fire on Border Patrol agents on American soil.


Chaser:

DHS Working Overtime to Add Illegal Aliens to Voting Rolls in Time For 2016 Election

Sources at the Department of Homeland Security report ... that the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services is reallocating significant resources to sending letters to all 9,000,000 green card holders urging them to naturalize prior to the 2016 election...

...Other DHS sources report that racial interest groups such as La Raza (translated to “The Race”) and the American Immigration Lawyers Association have been playing a central and influential role in rewriting the administration’s immigration policies — both the public policies as well as internal and largely unseen guidelines.


One DHS official who disagrees with the administration’s policies told me DHS “intends to ‘recapture’ ‘unused’ visas from years past to grant more visas and LPR [green card] status. In addition to this ‘visa blizzard,’ the agency will allow folks to jam in applications during the blizzard, knowing that the visa applicant/beneficiary is not eligible for the visa.”

This means that DHS is not only rushing green card holders toward citizenship before the next election, but also jamming previous visa holders toward green card status. These policies and priorities add to the brazen public positions of the president toward enforcing immigration laws.

If these lawless actions go unpunished, the diabolical evil that is the modern Democrat Party will have won.

And that must not stand.


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GREAT WORK, OBAMA: Saudi Arabia Looking to Add Nuclear Weapons to Counter Iran

By Dan from New York

Well-informed sources who are close to this story tell me “the Saudis just straight up don't trust the Obama administration any more.” Oh, almost forgot. Did you hear the one about the Saudi airliner that landed in Israel (“for maintenance”)? See for yourself, it’s hilarious!

WSJ, May 7, 2015

Saudi Arabia Considers Nuclear Weapons to Offset Iran

As a deal to curb Tehran’s nuclear program nears, Iran’s regional rivals feel vulnerable

By YAROSLAV TROFIMOV

RIYADH—The nuclear deal that the U.S. and other world powers hope to reach with Iran would put a 10-year curb on the Islamic republic’s nuclear program. For some of Iran’s regional rivals, that is also becoming a deadline for developing nuclear arms of their own.

In Saudi Arabia, there are widespread public calls to match Iran’s nuclear quest. The two other Middle East heavyweights, Turkey and Egypt, could also feel compelled to follow suit, senior Western and Arab officials warn.

Such an arms race would further destabilize what is already the world’s most volatile region, where the risks of a nuclear war would be compounded by the threat of radioactive material falling into the hands of terrorist groups.

Obama's policies would be worthy of a Monty Python skit were they not vectoring all of us toward an apocalyptic endgame.

A nuclear arms race in the Middle East?

How's that Mitt Romney vote looking now, dimwits?


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News of the Future, Part Deux

Via Springer's Blog:


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Larwyn's Linx: ISIS: We will attack Texas again and it will be far worse for Christian infidels

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ISIS: We will attack Texas again and it will be far worse for Christian infidels: Shoebat
Authorities Missed Shooter’s Violent Tweets: Too Many Like Him: Keith Farrell
Now We Pay for Our Refusal: Karl Denninger

The Democrat Party's Growing Embrace of Anti-Semitism: Power Line
The Democrats In Maryland Are a Pitcher Short Of A Beer Hall Putsch: RS
Under Obama, Race Relations Worst in Decades: MB

No law, no civilization: Victor Davis Hanson
Hillary In 2003: 'I Am, You Know, Adamantly Against Illegal Immigrants': Lid
Hillary Clinton goes all in on immigration; pledges to outdo Obama: Byron York

Obama: Say, maybe we need a missile shield, in case Iran gets nukes: Noah Rothman
Mitch McConnell Giddy Like a Schoolgirl at Submitting to Obama’s Rule: RS
McConnell moves to cut off Iran debate, snubbing Cotton and Rubio: Mike DeBonis

Economy

Grifter Granny Clinton Favorite in Poll of Millionaires: JWF
History, Public Education, Gender, and The Left: Wolf Howling
Shutdown to be revisited in fall of 2015?: Moe Lane

Scandal Central

Watchdog blows ethics whistle on Clinton, Reid, Senate Democrat meetings: Paul Bedard
Hillary’s Next Scandal: Passenger Lists of Her Flights Ordered Released by Judge: Steven Ahle
The Hill-Billy Cash Pump: Janet Tassel

Kamala Harris aide arrested for allegedly running rogue police force: Adam B. Lerner
State official, 2 others charged in case of fake police force: Evan Sernoffsky
Bill Clinton Puts Blame for Family’s Scandals on Accountant: WFB

Climate & Energy

Y2Kyoto: Goodbye, Cool World: SDA
25 Years Of Predicting The Global Warming ‘Tipping Point’: Michael Bastasch
UK Guardian Explodes Hotcoldwetdry Myths: Cove

Media

Screw Cinco De Mayo, You Whiny Liberal Idiots: Christopher Bedford
What We're Up Against: Instapundit
Shocking Photos: PETA's Secret Slaughter of Kittens, Puppies: Nathan J. Winograd

Levin Destroys Obama's Insipid Letterman Comments: Scoop
Ex-Muslim Who Won Draw Muhammad Contest Has A Message For The Critics: MadWorld
‘You Want Her to Die!’ Hannity, Pam Geller Come to Blows with Anjem Choudary: Mediate

Here Are 19 Times People Called Putin a ‘Thug’ Because He’s Black: Sooper
Chris Cuomo Is Not That Bright. Good Thing He Can Hide Behind His Last Name.: Erick Erickson
Media Continues Attacks on Pamela Geller as ISIS Calls for Her Slaughter: JWF

World

Report: Iranian Navy Chases After U.S. Warships: WFB
Iran Arrests Leading Female Dissident: Clarion
Canada poised to pass anti-terror legislation despite widespread "outrage": Guardian

Texas Attack: It's Not (Just) About the Cartoons: Ryan Mauro
Business will not bring democracy to Cuba: Babalu
France Considers Wider Snooper State Powers to Watch Hostile Muslims: Brenda Walker

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

DEF CON's "Spot the Fed" contest a sore spot for Feds: MuckRock
Ptolemaic coins recorded from Britain by the Portable Antiquities Scheme: Dr. Caitlin R. Green
The Underwriting: A VC-Backed Novel Shows an Alternative Way to Launch a Product: David Meerman Scott

Cornucopia

The 100 Most Popular Conservative Websites Of 2015: RWN
Who Pooped in America’s Kitchen: Snitch: MOTUS
Mayweather/Pacquiao fight: Over 600 Cook County Jail guards called in sick: Marathon

Image: The Democrats In Maryland Are a Pitchers Short Of A Beer Hall Putsch
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: Isn't it time for a principled conservative? Ted Cruz 2016: Official Site

QOTD: "Who circulated the [virulently antisemitc] flyer [attack Democrat Senator Chris Van Hollen]? Surely, it was supporters of Donna Edwards, the African-American congresswoman who is running against Van Hollen for the Senate. It would be interesting to hear what Edwards has to say about this attack on her rival and a sitting Democratic (Jewish) Senator.

Anti-Israel rants by Black radicals are nothing new; nor is Black anti-Semitism. But injecting them into a Democratic primary campaign via a publicly circulated flyer suggests that the anti-Israel, anti-Semitic Black left has become emboldened." --Paul Mirengoff

Wednesday, May 06, 2015

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Good stuff.



Hat tip: BadBlue News.

Why Does the Left Get to Decide What’s Offensive?

By Rush Limbaugh

The militant Islamists command us not to draw cartoons or any other kind of picture of the prophet Mohammed, and our Drive-By Media and Democrat Party readily agree, "Ain't no way that should happen! It offends them, and we shouldn't do it. And when anybody does, and they get shot at, it's their fault." To which I ask, "Well, now, wait a minute. The same militant Islamists who do not permit the drawing of pictures of the prophet Mohammed also do not permit homosexuality and do not permit gay marriage."

And we know what their attitudes toward women are.


Why don't we respect those? Can you imagine? If you turn on MSNBC, all you're gonna see, given the day -- maybe not every day, but the odds are, at least a portion of the day -- you're gonna see a total devotion to the concept of gay marriage. Isn't that insulting to the Muslims who would be watching? Would it not then be understandable if the Muslims watching take some kind of action against MSNBC for offending them?

They're not tolerant of gay marriage.

They're not tolerant of homosexuality, and you turn on MSNBC or CNN or any other Drive-By Media outlet and all you get is total support for it. Is that not offending our Muslim friends in the viewing audience? Why is there no concern for that? When people draw cartoons of "the prophet," it's, "Oh, Rush that's intolerable! You can't accept it. You gotta stop! Oh, my God, that's horrible!" But we can taunt them with gay marriage, and we can taunt them with women's rights and feminazism, and we can taunt them with homosexuality, and we are somehow not concerned about how that offends them?

My question is: Where do we draw the line on this?

TED CRUZ: The Blood of Millions Will Be on Obama’s head if this Insane Iran Deal Goes Forward

Sen. Ted Cruz is an outspoken critic of the Obama administration's bizarre deal to loosen sanctions on Iran and allow it to continue to develop nuclear weapons.

A complicit GOP establishment -- including "craven moron" Bob Corker and the mendacious malignancy known as Mitch McConnell are Obama's co-conspirators -- and have essentially ceded the Senate's Constitutionally authorized power to ratify any treaty signed by the Executive.

Ted Cruz -- reviled by the hacks in both parties -- is one of the few statesmen left in Congress willing to fight this insane abdication of sanity on the part of Obama and the GOP fogies. Tonight Cruz took to the Senate floor to rip Obama's deal and the GOP Establishment's support for it.

[Cruz told] his colleagues that the nuclear deal with Iran will lead to the deaths of "millions of Americans."

If President Barack Obama moves forward to provide sanctions relief to Iran as part of the deal, "the blood of the men and women and children who will be murdered by those terrorists will be directly on the hands of this administration," Cruz warned.

After being blocked from calling a vote on an amendment to the Iran bill to raise the threshold for congressional approval of the nuclear deal, Cruz accused senators of "abrogating our authority and responsibility."

..."This deal makes war a certainty," promised Cruz, a Republican contender for president in the 2016 election.

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.