Sunday, May 17, 2015

ISRAELI AMBASSADOR Under Obama’s proposed nuclear deal, “Iran will walk into the nuclear club"

By Josh Siegel

Ron Dermer, the Israeli ambassador to the United States, snapped his fingers to signify how quickly the Jewish state could go from being strong to vulnerable in the face of a nuclear Iran.

The same fragility can describe the current U.S.-Israel alliance at a time when the countries’ governments disagree over the best way to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear bomb.

In a speech meant to both reassure—and pressure—his country’s best ally, Dermer today tried to make the case that though his country disagrees with the Obama administration on the merits of an emerging nuclear deal with Iran, Israel and America share an unbreakable bond.

On the 67th anniversary of Israel’s independence, Dermer, speaking at The Heritage Foundation, said that the U.S.-Israeli relationship would live on eternally.

But at the same time, Dermer argued that the impending nuclear deal would threaten Israel’s survival and pit the U.S. not only against the wishes of the Jewish state, but also, of the broader Arab world.

Remember When Barack Obama Tried to Silence Political Speech in 2007?

By Sara Noble

Barack Obama said during a speech at Georgetown last week that we’re going to have to change how our body politic thinks, indicating that Republican leaders Boehner and McConnell were the ones needing changing. He also said, we’re going to have to change how the media reports on these issues, specifically referring to Fox News at the time.

Signs of how Obama thinks about dissent and free speech were evident in a bill he tried to pass in 2007. The bill would make lying a federal crime if it concerned politics around election time.

By rights, that should put Obama in prison but it’s geared to set up Republicans.

Barack Obama’s answer is always to add big government control and he wants to do it if a politician or someone loosely tied to a politician lies or appears to have lied. It would have a chilling effect on political speech.

In 2007, then-Senator Barack Obama and Senator Chuck Schumer introduced S. 453, the Deceptive Practices and Voter Intimidation Prevention Act of 2007, a bill which was reintroduced in 2009 by Sen. Conyers and then again in 2011 by Senators Schumer and Cardin.

It was unnecessary since voter intimidation is already illegal but it had a clause that distinguished it.

Larwyn's Linx: ABC and George Stephanopoulos Clinton Foundation Hypocrisy Is Staggering

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Nation

ABC, Stephanopoulos Clinton Foundation Hypocrisy Staggering: Victor Davis Hanson
Rock City, The Casbah: Mark Steyn
When Times Get Hard: Christian Mercenary

Democrats Have a Socialist Problem in 2016: Glob
Waterboarding Worked: Debra Saunders
Smartest Guy Ever to Become President Blows It Again: Michael Walsh

Obama Should Release Trade Agreement Details: Rick Jensen
Ted Cruz Was Fearless Yesterday: Erick Erickson
Texas House Calls for Article 5 Convention to Restrain Federal Government: Breitbart

Obama Failed to Appoint Railroad Chief: Dossier
In Chicago, As Concealed Carry Goes Up, Crime Is Plummeting: DownTrend
Report finds majority of cop killers had guns illegally: Jennifer Cruz

Economy

How to Get Rich: Ace
The new curriculum…: The Real Revo
H-1B visa employees are crowding out other workers says new study: WorkPermit

Scandal Central

Hillary Clinton personally took money from companies that sought to influence her: Jonathan Allen
Clintons Earned $30 Million in 16 Months, Report Shows: Times
Ferguson Protest Leaders Paid $5,000 a Month to Disrupt & Instigate Violence: GWP

You Should Be Angry About Jade Helm Even If You're Not Crazy: William M. Arkin, Gawker
DHS IG Report Undercuts Obama's Dishonest Argument for Executive Amnesty: Paul Mirengoff
State Dept. must produce emails between Clintons and agency officials by... September: Sarah Westwood

Climate & Energy

The New Bee Crisis Is Just Like The Old One: Phony: Henry I. Miller

Media

MSNBC Posts Vicious Anti-Cop Video: Scoop
PBS Anchor Judy Woodruff Also Admits Donating to Clinton Foundation: Tim Graham
Obama's People: GayPatriot

SHOCK CLAIM: Hillary Clinton Forces Campaign Parody Taken Down: GWP
Barack Obama Marks Death Of B.B. King With Picture Of . . . Barack Obama: WZ
‘The Little Slush Fund That Could’: #HillaryChildrensBooks is the order of the day: Twitchy

Why I Choose to Purse Carry: Kippi Leatham
Every Now And Then A Blind Squirrel Finds A Nut: Ace
Hello Young People, I'm Hillary Clinton!: AmDigest

World

Islamic State Raises Their Black Flag Over Ramadi: WZ
Top Iranian General: "We Welcome War with the Americans": Clarion
ISIS Supporters Shaken By U.S. Killing Of Abu Sayyaf, Vow Revenge: Vocativ

An open letter to the Pope: Dror Eydar
Obama’s Muslim Brotherhood Puppet Sentenced to Death: NCRenegade
Erdogan Of Turkey: Elect Me Because I Promise to "Invade Jerusalem”: Shoebat

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

The Navy’s New Binoculars Can Identify You From 700 Feet Away: Patrick Tucker, DefenseOne
Ciudad Perdida: Lost City in Colombian Highlands holds Mysteries of Ancient Civilization: Ancient Origins
Terrorists could bring down U.S. grid with radio waves: F. Michael Maloof

Cornucopia

Michael Jordan's Highland Park Mansion Now Half of Original Asking Price: AJ LaTrace
Stop What You’re Doing Right Now And Look At What Ann Romney Wore Last Night: IJR
Inconvenient Facts: Chlorine, It’s not just for toilets anymore.: MOTUS

Image: Islamic State Raises Their Black Flag Over Ramadi
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QOTD: "Jeb Bush is running as this season's calm, reassuring, won't frighten-the-horses candidate who'll suck up all the money that might otherwise go to wild'n'crazy frothing loons like Ted Cruz, Rand Paul, Rick Perry, Ben Carson, or whoever. Why, he's such a normal, reasonable chap he's even hot for action on "climate change". Can't get more normal than that, can you?

And yet he has some of the weirdest ideas of any candidate. It was often said of his brother that, to compensate for his preppy Waspy Connecticut Kennebunk blueblood background, he became exaggeratedly Texan, to the derangement of the left. Jeb seems to have taken it to a whole other level, and become exaggeratedly multicultural and, indeed, on his wilder shores, post-American. Aside from that business of self-identifying as "Hispanic" on his government paperwork, there seems to be a broader psychological impulse at play [wherein he believes that] immigrants are to be preferred over those of the native-born...

...the Democrat/union/welfare/race-huckster axis ... has totaled Detroit. But, if you regard remorseless mass immigration as an existential threat to advanced societies, this doesn't seem to be one of those issues on which Jeb seems likely to triangulate. A man who wants to Islamize Detroit because it's worked out so well in Dearborn would seem an odd choice even for the Stupid Party." --Mark Steyn

Saturday, May 16, 2015

GREAT NEWS: Russian, Spanish-language ads fueling rampant driver’s license fraud in Vermont

By Bruce Parker

MONTPELIER, Vt. — Foreign-language ads are helping out-of-state illegal immigrants fraudulently obtain Vermont driver privilege cards, the chief inspector of the Vermont DMV has revealed.

“We found two ads out of state … saying you can come here and get a driver’s license,” Capt. Drew Bloom, chief inspector of the DMV, told Vermont Watchdog.

“One of them was in Spanish and the other was in Russian,” he said.

The revelation comes days after DMV Commissioner Robert Ide said his department’s investigation into driver’s license fraud extended to foreign countries and even other continents.

In the first of two print ads obtained by Watchdog.org (above), a message in Russian translates as follows:

Under What Authority Can Obama keep his TPP Trade Deal Secret?

By Jon Rappaport

To the US Congress: reveal the contents of the TPP now

It seems like a case of mass hypnosis. People claiming they can’t say what’s in the TPP trade agreement. And mainstream media accept this premise.

“That’s right. Congress must stay silent.”

Pop quiz: who says the text of the TPP must remain secret?

Under what authority?

Members of Congress are scuttling around like weasels, claiming they can’t disclose what’s in this far-reaching, 12-nation trade treaty.

They can go into a sealed room and read a draft, but they can’t copy pages, and they can’t tell the public what they just read.

Why not?

If there is a US law forbidding disclosure, name the law.

WORTH REMINDING THEM: In 2013, the RNC Said Mark Levin Should Moderate a GOP Debate

Given the recent debacle involving ABC News, George Stephanopoulos, and Politico -- which highlights the incestuous and corrupt goverment-media axis -- I thought it was worth revisiting the topic of GOP debate moderators.

Recall that Snufflapoulos moderated several GOP debates in 2012 with sickening results. In one instance, ABC's "paid Democrat hitman" suddenly shifted the topic from job creation to "banning contraceptives", which was the Ass Party's bogus meme of the month.

In August of 2013, after significant criticism of its choice of moderators, the Republican leadership suddenly announced a willingness to embrace the conservative wing of the party.

Sean Spicer, the Communications Director of the Republican National Committee, made a surprising statement: he said that Mark Levin should moderate the GOP debates. Levin formally accepted the offer.

I was able to interview Spicer at the time and it's worth revisiting his remarks.

Ross: Sean, a recent statement you made really caught conservatives by surprise -- and in a positive way. You said you thought Mark Levin and perhaps other conservative thought leaders should moderate GOP debates. How serious was that statement and did the reaction catch you by surprise?

Spicer: That was a very serious statement. Obviously, we're not at a point yet of picking debate forums or moderators, but we are definitely committed to energizing the conservative base. It's common sense: anyone's who listening to Rush, Levin, Hannity... they are addressing the issues that the grassroots are concerned with.

What I also find absolutely unbelievable is that in 2008 Chris Matthews, of all people, moderated two GOP debates. Yet why wouldn't we insist on the converse situation?

Now is the time to remind the RNC that we will hold them accountable for their statements.

Mark Levin and Sean Hannity should each moderate a GOP debate.

And I guarantee the ratings would break records. I guarantee it.


Hat tip: BadBlue News.
 

Are We a Nation of Laws... or a Nation of Thugs?

By Karl Denninger

I've laid this out many times over the years but perhaps it deserves a more-concentrated version.

The United States is relatively unique in terms of structure in our governmental system, and has a well-defined hierarchy of laws that the founders put forward a means to respect.  Let's start with that hierarchy, which is indisputable:

  • Natural law; that is, law that is simply due to nature.  The essence of being human defines these foundational boundaries; no government can or ever does, as you cannot lay claim to what which you never possessed.
  • Constitutional law; that is, law that is supreme in the nation and is intended to respect natural law (which sits above it) and divide responsibility for the remaining areas of governmental debate into appropriate sections.
  • Federal law, that is, laws bearing on and governing those areas of responsibility The Constitution granted to the Federal Government.
  • State law, that is, laws bearing on and governing those areas of responsibility The Constitution granted to the States, beginning with each State's Constitution and continuing through its statute system.
  • County and incorporated entity law, which bears on those areas of responsibility State Constitutions granted to the counties and incorporated political subdivisions (e.g. cities and townships.)

An alleged law further down the hierarchy that proclaims something to be illegal (or legal) that is contrary to the provisions above it is void as if it was never passed; it creates no office, it provides no power or shield.  If this general principle is disregarded then there is no law at all since any inferior political subdivision instantly loses its inferior status when it passes such an act.  

You cannot believe in a representative republican form of government, nor take an oath to same in any respect and at the same time permit or recognize any such act of usurpation as doing so is a declaration that the political subdivision in question has become superior to those above it.

Further, note that an act contrary to the law does not change the law; it merely ignores or contravenes it.

Larwyn's Linx: Granny Hillary Wants the Power to Ban Books and Movies that Criticize Her

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Nation

Hillary Wants the Power to Ban Books and Movies that Criticize Her: Power Line
Former Obama CIA Chief: Hillary’s Emails Compromised By Our Enemies: Steven Ahle
US Conduct Special Operations Raid In Syria, Kill Top ISIS Official: Ace

Washington Post's Eric Wemple Blasts ABC For Stephanopolous Deception: Ace
Stephanopoulos Enters into Modified Limited Hangout Phase of Scandal: Ed Driscoll
Whom would you pick to moderate the Republican debates?: AT

Bummer: Boston Marathon Misunderstanderer of Islam Gets DEATH: Casey Harper
Let Syrian 'refugees' revitalize Detroit? What could go wrong?: AT
What The Hell Did Dzhokhar Do As He Was Led Away?: Sooper

How’s That Coexistence Working Out for You?: Susan Brown
Mark Levin – Obama Has the Mindset of a Despot: Sara Noble
Shorter Obama: You're Stupid and Incompetent, But Of Course I am Not: PW

Economy

Democrat Hank Johnson threatens violence over any move to limit government: PW
Charter Schools—–Education Reform That Works: Mahattan Instittute
The Hierarchy We Have Lost, And Must Reclaim: Market Ticker

Scandal Central

Was The Derailed Amtrak Train Hit By An Object?: William Teach
Amtrak is a Government Failure: Every Joe
University of Colorado’s Soviet NKVD policy of turning student against student: PW

Climate & Energy

New Claims ‘Murky’ Global Warming Statistics Are ‘Guessed At’: GWPF
Are The Seas Really Rising Faster Than Ever?: William Teach
Things in General: Willis Eschenbach

Media

Guess Who Delayed Response to Stephanopoulos Scoop So Politico Could Publish First?: Ace
Stephanopoulos Another Example Of Revolving Door Journalism: IBD
Clinton Foundation donors include dozens of media organizations, individuals: Dylan Byers

Under Armour Flooded with Public Outrage After Disgusting Shirt Design: BuzzPo
Feminists’ Brains Are IMPLODING All Over Twitter At This EPIC Gavin McInnes Performance: Sooper
Headline: Obama Has Less Than $1,001 In Bank: BlurBrain

World

Islamic State seizes government center in Ramadi: LWJ
Confused at Camp David: Alan W. Dowd
Child bride faces $25,000 fine for rejecting marriage: Family Ostracised: Emirates 24|7

Radical Islamists: Equal Opportunity Murders: DTG
The King Of Bahrain Makes An Easy Call: Springer's Blog
Mossad and Ayatollah Khomeini: a thriller that wasn't: Simply

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Court keeps cellphone network ‘kill switch’ a secret: Evan Killham
Reddit Flaps Gums at Harassers: Richard Adhikari
The Characteristics Of Great Brand Stories: Bernadette Jiwa

Cornucopia

A Dishonest Man You Can Always Trust To Be Dishonest: MOTUS
The Bill Ayers - Jade Helm Connection: Radical Conservative
7 Anti-Gun Myths That Need To Be Debunked ASAP: Right Planet (2013)

Image: A Dishonest Man You Can Always Trust To Be Dishonest
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QOTD: "If Hillary gets her way and Citizens United is overturned, the path will be cleared for Congress to enact legislation that makes it a crime to criticize President Clinton in a book or movie. So far, the political class has only tried to ban books and movies that endorse or criticize candidates 60 days out from an election, but there is nothing magic about that number. Next time, they could punish anyone who publishes a book or produces a movie critical of Hillary 180 days, or 360 days before the next election. Is there any reason why Hillary’s Supreme Court justices, committed to reversing Citizens United, would balk at such legislation? None that I can see. We are living, after all, in the era of the permanent campaign.

Has there ever been a time when free speech is popular? Perhaps not; certainly not today. Not on the left. But those who might consider supporting Hillary Clinton for president should think carefully about the powers she wants the federal government to wield." --John Hinderaker

Friday, May 15, 2015

Why the Clinton Foundation Scandal Should Terrify Every American

By Peter Schweizer

One of the last vestiges of broad-based bipartisan agreement in American politics is the belief that foreign money should not influence U.S. political leaders and their decisions. The Supreme Court has unanimously upheld the ban on foreign political money, and President Barack Obama and Republicans have echoed similar themes.

We now know that the Clinton Foundation served as a conduit for the flow of hundreds of millions of dollars from foreign individuals, entities, and governments. Moreover, during Hillary Clinton’s tenure as Sec. of State, former President Bill Clinton received numerous lucrative speaking fees funded by foreign entities, including a $500,000 Moscow speech paid for by a Kremlin-linked bank with interests pending before Mrs. Clinton’s State Dept. 

But does any of this matter? Moreover, is it, as some have intimated, akin to “bribery”?

As Secretary of State, Mrs. Clinton made combatting corruption by foreign actors “a major focus of U.S foreign policy,” as her spokesperson at the time put it. More specifically, she pledged her support for the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development’s (OECD) “anti-corruption agenda.” So, how does the OECD define bribery?  

BOOM: Federal Court Issues Historic Ruling in Hillary Email Scandal

By Judicial Watch

Last Friday, a federal court judge did something we had never seen before – U.S. District Court Judge Reggie B. Walton reopened a Judicial Watch Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit. The lawsuit had sought documents about an advertisement intended to air in Pakistan entitled “A Message from the President of the United States Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.”

Judge Walton issued the ruling on Friday, May 8, in response to a joint motion by Judicial Watch and the State Department. This is historic. My attorney colleagues at Judicial Watch tell me they are aware of no precedent of another FOIA lawsuit being reopened by a federal court.

Judicial Watch filed suit in December 2012, after the State Department failed to respond to a September 24, 2012, FOIA request for all records concerning the advertisement produced by the U.S. Embassy in Islamabad intended to air in Pakistan. The advertisement was an absurd and dishonest “apology” for the Internet video that President Obama, then-Secretary of State Clinton, and other administration officials falsely blamed for inspiring “spontaneous demonstrations” resulting in the attack on the U.S. Special Mission Compound in Benghazi, Libya. The disgusting ad was a misuse of tax dollars and part of the cover-up of the truth about the Benghazi terrorist attack.

How Illinois Public Sector Unions Destroyed Chicago

By ProPublica

What happens when you’ve been kicking the fiscal can down the road for years, but the road suddenly hits a dead end? That’s what Chicago – and the state of Illinois – are about to find out.

Chicago’s immediate problem is yesterday’s credit downgrade by Moody’s Investors Services, which turned its debt to junk and could force the city to immediately come up with $2.2 billion to satisfy debts and other obligations.

When big cities have had debt crises – such as Detroit’s recent problems or New York City’s epic problems in the 1970s – states typically rode to the rescue in one way or another. But Illinois, which has the lowest credit rating of any state in the nation, says it can’t help the stricken city.

The downgrade follows a Friday decision by the Illinois Supreme Court, which invalidated state limits on cost-of-living adjustments to state pensioners. The limits were part of a slate of reforms signed into law in 2013 by then-Gov. Pat Quinn, a Democrat, to deal with underfunded pensions.

Moody’s said the court decision was key to its downgrade because the city has been hoping to dig out of its own financial hole by reducing cost-of-living adjustments, which typically raise the cost of pensions by close to 50 percent.

Chicago’s predicament actually has its roots in a 2003 decision by Illinois to kick the pension can down the road – by borrowing money to fund pensions rather than trying to get the benefits reduced or to stepping up payments to make them financially sound.

Larwyn's Linx: Obama's Iran Deal Lie Collapses

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Nation

Obama's Iran Deal Lie Collapses: Joel Pollak
Democrats get a taste of Obama’s arrogance: Jonah Goldberg
Obama's Third Class Temperament: Instapundit

Levin Rips ABC News and Stephanopoulos: Major Media Scandal: Scoop
Hillary continues to do and say nothing as unfavorables tick up: Hot Air
When Will Hillary Answer for Her Iraq Vote?: David Harsanyi

The Power Elite: Patrick J. Deneen
One Of Obama's Favorite Messages: Springer's Blog
Krauthammer Explains Why Obama Really Hates Fox News: Glob

Gay Marriage Activist was engineer in AMTRAK wreck: RS
Amtrak engineer had ranted online for more safeguards: Post
Why is Jade Helm 15 play spreading way out into West Texas?: J.E. Dyer

Economy

Obamacare Exchanges on Life Support: Michelle Malkin
Failure Theater: Elizabeth Warren edition: RS
DHS Asks Court to Dismiss H-4 Visa Lawsuit: Maria del Carmen Ramos

Scandal Central

Clinton Connections Paid Off for Indonesian Tobacco Tycoon: Lachlan Markay
Former CIA Official: WH's Story on Benghazi Talking Points Isn't Credible: Guy Benson
Five men charged with stealing millions in fraudulent tax returns: Ashley Carman

Climate & Energy

Follow the Money: Ceres Conference 2015: Chris Walker
In the climate debate, hear both sides: WUWT
Sen. Capito introduces legislation to halt EPA regulations on coal: Samuel Speciale

Media

The Hired Liars of Liberal Media: R.S. McCain
I never want to see George #Stephanopoulos moderate another debate: Moe Lane
Bill O’Reilly refuses to reveal results AFDI cartoon poll: FAM

‘Michelle Obama’s Lifetime of Microaggressions’: Rich Lowry
Mark Levin Lashes Out at Libs Politicizing Amtrak Disaster While Bodies Aren’t Even Cold Yet: Tatler
University Launches Insult-Reporting System That Records Offenders’ Social Security Numbers: NRO

Surging: Mark Levin Adds a Dozen New Affiliates--To His 300-Plus Roster: CNS
Going shirtless apparently is Democrat strategy for getting its candidates elected President: Obiter Dictum
Ted Cruz: Halperin Would Be Fired For Asking Obama Similar Racially Charged Questions: Inquisitr

World

Russians: If Iran cheats there will be no sanctions: RS
ISIS Leader Al-Baghdadi: “Islam Is The Religion Of War”: WZ
Wanted: Western Professionals To Join The Islamic State (ISIS): MEMRI

Tijuana: 4 executed overnight: Borderland
Texas rest stop vandalized with Islamonazi graffiti: GWP
Gaza: Blast in Hamas training camp wounds 50, including children: JPost

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

The accelerator in the Louvre: Glenn Roberts Jr. and Kelen Tuttle, Symmetry Magazine
Hackers use Starbucks app to skim bank accounts, credit cards: Michael Shulman
Latest self-driving Google car heading to public streets: Dee-Ann Durbin, Phys.Org

Cornucopia

How One Woman Earned Her Way Onto the Special Ops Battlefield: DefenseOne
“You Didn’t Earn That on Your Own; Somebody Else Did That For You” (take 5): MOTUS
Citizenfour HD high speed download.: Pilgrimbreak

Image: Latest self-driving Google car heading to public streets
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QOTD: "North Korean boss Kim Jong Un had his defense minister executed by anti-aircraft gun for, among other crimes, falling asleep at a Kim-led meeting, according to South Korean intelligence. Yet another senseless victim of PowerPoint presentations." --Phil Rosenthal

Thursday, May 14, 2015

THE OBAMA DOCTRINE: Humiliation and Defeat

By Daniel Greenfield

John Kerry returns from his latest Russian visit bearing two baskets of potatoes and a t-shirt.

The t-shirt, given to him by Foreign Minister Lavrov, might as well say, “I wasted my time in Russia and all I got was this lousy shirt.”

It’s a diplomatic success only in relation to Kerry’s previous humiliations such as the time that Russia’s adeptly slimy foreign minister kept him waiting for a week before returning his call while the State Department spokeswoman announced to the world that Kerry was “ready to talk whenever Foreign Minister Lavrov can find the time.”

The Putin regime enjoys humiliating the United States, but even it seems to have tired of degrading Kerry who ruins their fun by failing to realize what is going on. Instead Kerry has become a nonentity; a forgotten messenger boy. It’s a fitting purgatory for the formerly tireless leftist activist in the Senate.

It wasn’t all that long ago that John Kerry was being touted as the last best hope for diplomacy. No one could quite admit that Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama had made a complete mess, but the sighs of relief when John Kerry got the job instead of Obama’s dishonest crony Susan Rice spoke volumes.

American diplomacy had never before hit the low point that it had under Obama and Clinton. Liberals with an interest in foreign policy had expected professionalism; instead the two politicians used it as their private piggy bank. Obama handed off ambassadorships to key countries to big donors while Hillary spent more time seeing to the interests of Clinton Foundation donors than to our national interests.

Obama had campaigned as an internationalist who would put aside the provincialism of the Bush years to build meaningful multilateral relationships based on his experience with other countries and cultures. But once in office, he treated visits to other countries like domestic campaign trips to obscure states.

Foreign leaders soon found out that an Obama visit was usually a cross between a photo op using their historical landmarks as background and a vacation. While his gaffes and embarrassing behaviors got the most attention, the underlying problem was that he didn’t understand what his job was. His routine of self-important speeches and announcements of billion dollar programs that would never materialize was built for his endless domestic campaign and its lapdog media. And it didn’t play well internationally.

ABC’S STEPHANOPOULOS GRILLED "CLINTON CASH" AUTHOR: Forgot to Note His Own Donations to Bogus Foundation

While Politico got credit for the story, it turns out it was Andrew Stiles at Washington Free Beacon who broke the original scoop.

ABC News chief anchor George Stephanopoulos donated $50,000 to the Clinton Foundation in recent years, records show. The contribution is publicly available information, but the host had not previously disclosed it to ABC viewers, despite taking part in on-air discussions about the Clinton Foundation and its controversial relationship with foreign donors.

...Stephanopoulos’s recent coverage of the topic has been challenged by critics who question his objectivity as a longtime Clinton aide. The host’s April 26 interview with Clinton Cash author Peter Schweizer, for example, elicited partisan reactions after Stephanopoulos repeatedly pressed the Schweizer to acknowledge the lack of a “smoking gun” among the allegations in his book...

Conservative commentators, meanwhile, complained about Stephanopoulos’s “aggressively” dismissive questioning, and took issue with a former Clinton operative asking Schweizer, a former speechwriter for George W. Bush, about his “partisan interest” in writing Clinton Cash ... ABC News viewers should have also been reminded of the host’s connection to the Clintons, the politicians at the center of the discussion.


ISIS KINGPIG AL-BAGHDADI: "Islam is the religion of war"

My bad. Looks like I had a typo in the headline.

ISIS media released a video by its top general, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, that explains the "religious" duty of every Muslim is to wage war on the un-believers:

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Do not think the war that we are waging is the Islamic State’s war alone. Rather, it is the Muslims’ war altogether. It is the war of every Muslim in every place, and the Islamic State is merely the spearhead in this war.

It is but the war of the people of faith against the people of disbelief, so march forth to your war O Muslims... March forth everywhere, for it is an obligation upon every Muslim who is accountable before Allah. And whoever stays behind or flees, Allah (the Mighty and Majestic) will be angry with him and will punish him with a painful torment.

...whoever thinks that it is within his capacity to conciliate with the Jews, Christians, and other disbelievers, and for them to conciliate with him, such that he coexists with them and they coexist with him while he is upon his religion and upon tawhīd (monotheism), then he has belied the explicit statement of his Lord.

Islam is the religion of war.

...This war is only against you and against your religion. Has the time not come for you to return to your religion and your jihād and thereby bring back your glory, honor, rights, and leadership?

...Your [Sunni and Kurd] repentance is more beloved to us than killing you or expelling you. Repent for we do not call you out of weakness. Rather, we call you while our swords are at a distance of two bow lengths or nearer from your necks. If you repent, you will not find from us anything except good and kindness.

[You ISIS fighters must] be patient, because the Crusaders are bleeding to death, the Rāfidah [Shiites] are faltering, and the Jews are horrified and in dread.

Shhhh. No one tell Ben Affleck.


Hat tip: BadBlue News.
 

IN AN AGE OF TERRORISM: Defense Bill Should Not Allow Illegal Aliens to Enlist in the Military

By Rep. Dave Brat (R-VA)

Despite the fact that the U.S. House of Representatives has voted down repeated attempts to encourage the recruitment of illegal immigrants into the military, we are seeing yet another attempt to encourage such recruitment recently inserted into a must-pass defense funding bill.

Even worse, the push to recruit illegal immigrants is happening at a time when U.S. citizens are being downsized from the military or turned away by recruiters.

The House Armed Services Committee recently approved an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) that encourages the secretary of defense to declare that illegal immigrants categorized under President Barack Obama’s first executive amnesty—Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA)—are “vital” to America’s national interest and thus eligible to enlist in the U.S. Armed Forces. Congressman Ruben Gallego’s, D-Ariz., amendment passed the committee with six Republicans joining all 27 Democrats.

The recruitment is being encouraged at the very same time the Pentagon is laying off tens of thousands of American troops. According to Army Chief of Staff Gen. Ray Odierno, the active Army will be cut by more than 80,000 uniformed personnel by the end of fiscal year 2017.

Moreover, competition for enlistment is already so challenging that American high school graduates now face “more difficulty qualifying for the armed services than ever in the 40-year history of the all-volunteer force,” according to media reports.

Larwyn's Linx: Barack Obama, Media Critic

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Nation

Barack Obama, Media Critic: John Hinderaker
Lying, Inc.: Victor Davis Hanson
Fun Contest: What Will the GOP Establishment Sell Out on Next?: Ann Coulter

Post For Albert: Butthurt Cream On Aisle Nine: Taxicab Depressions
Ted Cruz reels in big New Hampshire endorsements: Henry J. Gomez
Illinois State Senator Barack Obama’s ‘Urban Agenda’: Larry Elder

On Iraq, Hillary Has Some Explaining to Do: Michael Warren
Jeb Bush’s Polish Problem: Leon H. Wolf
Patriot Games: Jeb Bush Offers Another Answer To Iraq Question: Ace

Democrats do the right thing on TPP: RS
Special Forces, Deputies Plan Week Long Exercises: WLTX
Why Is That Cop's Finger in Your Butt?: Jacob Sullum

Economy

Moody's downgrades Chicago schools, park district: ChiBiz
5 reasons Chicago is in worse shape than Detroit: MSN Money
Chicago's first junk-rating blow: $2.2 billion bank payout: ChiBiz

Scandal Central

Vermont driver’s privilege card fraud spreads to foreign countries: Bruce Parker
Two Indian-Americans arrested for H-1B visa fraud in US: DNAindia
New study says H-1B program undercuts U.S. tech jobs: David Weldon, FierceCIO

Media

Clinton Foundation donor can't explain role in Russian uranium deal: Sarah Westwood
Alan Colmes: FBI Should Investigate Clinton Foundation: Daniel Halper
Mika Brzezinski Calls Clinton’s “Moat” Barrier “Frustrating”: MSNBC

Popcorn: Left Slams 'Sexist' Obama Over Spat with Elizabeth Warren: Guy Benson
White Privilege: Another Liberal Distraction: Claire Hawks
University Report States That A Room Full of White People Is a Microaggression: RWN

Islamophobia: Thought Crime of the Totalitarian Future: AmPower
Smart Policing: Lock Up Liberals: Ann Coulter
Daily Show’s Jon Stewart roasts Mark Halperin’s interview of Ted Cruz: Erik Wemple

World

Qatar to Free Taliban Commanders Exchanged for Bergdahl: Breitbart
Obama Admin Is Training “About 90″ Syrians to Defeat ISIS …(That Ought to Do It): GWP
Leftism is Just Religion for the Godless, Continued: Ace

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

SEPTA Says Commuter Train Hit By Projectile Just Before Amtrak Train Derailed: CBS Philly
New blood tests, liquid biopsies, may transform cancer care: WRAL
The Ultimate Interface: Your Brain: Ramez Naam, SingularityHUB

Cornucopia

Document: Jade Helm Commander Plans to “Operationalize The CONUS Base": Old-Thinker News
“Why Is That Girl In the Senate Opposing My Plans?”: MOTUS
Government Censorship on the Rise: Betsy McCaughey

Image: Jeb Bush’s Polish Problem
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: Isn't it time for a real conservative? Ted Cruz 2016: Official Site

QOTD: "Hillary Clinton, to be candid, is a habitual fabulist. She entered public life lying about everything from her 1-1000 cattle futures con to the location of her law firm’s subpoenaed legal documents. Recently she has been unable to tell the truth in any context whatsoever. She will lie about big and small, trivial and fundamental, from the immigrant myths about her grandparents to the origins of her own name Hillary to her combat exposure in the Balkans. The subtext of “what difference does it make” was something like: “Even if you find out that I lied about the run-up to and follow up on the Benghazi killings, it won’t matter in the least to my career.” She was right, of course, in her assumption that lying had career utility and brought more pluses than negatives, as her current presidential campaign attests.

Her press conference on the disappearing emails was unique in American political history in that everything Ms. Clinton said was, without exception, a demonstrable untruth. It is not that no one believes her, but rather than no one can possibly believe her when she insisted that she would have needed multiple devices for multiple email accounts, or that public officials routinely alone adjudicate what is and is not public and private communications, or that other cabinet officers apparently created, as she did, exclusively private email accounts — and servers — for public business or that security personnel on the premises protect the airwaves from hackers. Even her own supporters know that she lied, and trust that it likely will not hamper her presidential run. Her life has become about as real as that of Annie Oakley’s.

Both Hillary and Bill Clinton lied about almost every aspect of the Clinton Foundation. She knew that the foundation was created to spend 90% on travel and insider salaries and benefits, and 10% on direct grants to charities, that it offered thin moral cover to skullduggery, and that it drew donations from zillionaires, who in turn offered Bill Clinton lopsided lecture fees that he otherwise would not have commanded, and expected favorable U.S. government treatment for their cash. Hillary assumed that beneath the skin of a “charitable organization” the three Clintons ran a veritable shake down operation that resulted in mother, father, and daughter becoming multimillionaires. The Clintons will expect the issue to dissolve, either on the premise that the notoriety cannot do much more damage to the already sullied Clinton name, or that the Democratic Party feels that it can nominate no other candidate who raises as much money and is so recognizable as the proverbial prevaricator Hillary Clinton." --Victor Davis Hanson

Wednesday, May 13, 2015

BEST RESPONSE TO LIBERAL MEDIA’S LATEST LIE: Lack of Infrastructure Spending Caused Amtrak Crash

In 2009, didn't Barack Obama market his unprecedented $787 billion "Stimulus" program under the banner of repairing America's failing infrastructure? Why, yes, yes he did.

President Obama on Tuesday signed into law the largest spending bill in U.S. history, a package he pledges will save millions of jobs and bring the country back from the brink of economic catastrophe...

He said the federal government will send unprecedented levels of support into infrastructure, education, research, energy, health care and state government. He pledged to enact the bill with an "unprecedented level of transparency and accountability."

Fast forward to this week's tragic Amtrak accident. Cue legacy media jumping to the "You low-life taxpayers aren't spending enough money on infrastructure!" argument.

At least six people died and many more were injured in a terrible Amtrak accident on the night of May 12, and before the cause had been discovered, multiple cable news networks used the tragedy to make a political point.

Programming on CNN, CNBC and MSNBC all used the accident to claim the government needed to spend more on infrastructure all before National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) investigators made an assessment to determine the cause of the crash.

Say, Dems: what the hell happened to that $787 billion anyhow?

Oh, and cue the real cause of the accident (hint: what happens when you crank a passenger train up to 106 MPH and hit a curve?):

The engineer of the Amtrak train that derailed near Philadelphia -- killing at least seven and sending more than 200 to area hospitals -- applied the emergency brakes just seconds before the train jumped the tracks while hurtling along at almost twice the speed limit, a National Transportation Safety Board spokesman said Wednesday.

NTSB board member Robert Sumwalt, stressing he was working with preliminary information, said the train was traveling at 106 mph as it entered a sharp curve where the speed limit was 50 mph. The engineer he said, launched a "full emergency brake application" a few seconds before the train derailed 11 minutes after leaving the Philadelphia station, crumpling cars and throwing around many of the 243 aboard.

Which leads me to the most astute response to liberal media's insane conclusion-jumping:



Hat tip: BadBlue News.
 

AS IF IRAN WASN’T ENOUGH: WaPo Worries Obama is Helping China Proliferate Nuclear Weapons

Writing at the Washington Post, Steven Mufson observes that "Obama’s quiet nuclear deal with China raises proliferation concerns."

It seemed like a typical day for President Obama. He taped a TV interview on trade, hosted the champion NASCAR team on the South Lawn and met with the defense secretary in the Oval Office.

Not so typical was something that didn’t appear that day on the president’s public schedule: notification to Congress that he intends to renew a nuclear cooperation agreement with China. The deal would allow Beijing to buy more U.S.-designed reactors and pursue a facility or the technology to reprocess plutonium from spent fuel. China would also be able to buy reactor coolant technology that experts say could be adapted to make its submarines quieter and harder to detect.

The formal notice initially didn’t draw any headlines. Its unheralded release on April 21 reflected the administration’s anxiety that it might alarm members of Congress and nonproliferation experts who fear China’s growing naval power — and the possibility of nuclear technology falling into the hands of third parties with nefarious intentions.

Mufson goes on to relay the ominous concerns of the Nonproliferation Policy Education Center. It worries not only about the proliferation of spent nuclear fuel from U.S.-designed reactors, which is bad enough, but the fact that Obama has also unleashed restrictions on key nuclear energy technologies like coolant pumps.

These pumps could be repurposed or reengineered for use in submarines.

Combined with then-President Bill Clinton's utterly criminal behavior, reportedly accepting donations in exchange for releasing key missile guidance technologies to the Red Chinese, it would seem that the leaders of the Democrat Party are determined to trigger a nuclear holocaust.

The only question is why?


Hat tip: BadBlue News.
 

D.C. PROF TELLS CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY: There are Way Too Many Crosses on Campus for Muslims to Pray

Eh, because... Crusades:

It just got surreal. George Washington University Law School Professor John Banzhaf filed a human rights complaint to the D.C. Office of Human Rights against Catholic University for hindering Muslim students’ free exercise of their faith due to the “excessive” amount of “Catholic imagery” on the campus. It seems that this man – who teaches at a different school across town – thinks that Catholic University’s adherence to the cultural aspects of Catholicism (we have a lot of artwork, Crucifixes, and statues in every nook and crany) keeps muslim students from praying the required five times a day.

...Just as an aside from a graduate of Catholic high school, at least, did Prof. Banzhaf not see the title of the university? Did he not see the GIGANTIC church on the university property we know as the National Basilica of the Shrine of the Immaculate Conception? ... What part of “Catholic” isn’t sinking in? We’re into high art, Jesus hanging on the Cross, defending the separation of the sexes in dorms, etc. It’s part and parcel of the deal when you attend Catholic school.

Across the board, the 60-page complaint filed by Banzhaf has officials at Catholic University and just about every other corner scratching heads. [It seems that] no muslim students have voiced concern for the issues of which Banzhaf writes.

Dan from New York: "Still confused about what Pamela Geller is fighting against? Give the Muslims an inch and they'll take a mile. And of course, this is only their first step of what the Muslim cadres have already accomplished in Britain and Europe, where they’ve moved on to bigger and better things.
 
 
Hat tip: BadBlue News.