Wednesday, May 20, 2015
An Open Letter to @LauraMeckler of the Wall Street Journal, cc: @HillaryClinton @WSJopinion @WSJ #ReadyForHillary
Ms. Meckler:
Thanks for your recent article ("Hillary Clinton’s State Department Staff Kept Tight Rein on Records", dated 19 May 2015).
As a writer for the American Thinker website (Nov. 2007 through Jan. 2015) I tried to get a clear response from the Department of State concerning roughly $6 billion of department funds that were not thoroughly accounted for during Mrs. Clinton’s tenure there. It was an exercise in futility that I documented in the article entitled "State Department won't say how missing records for $6 billion were stored", dated 25 September 2014.
Legacy media, including the Wall Street Journal, reported the story initially, but soon moved on (e.g., "State Department can't account for $6 billion in last 6 years")
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Mrs. Clinton’s tenure at State was also cited in two other "Management Alerts" issued by the Office of Inspector General (OIG). The three OIG Alerts were catalogued in my article entitled "Hillary's reputation for competence as Secretary of State erodes from within", dated 12 October 2014.
You, Ms. Meckler, are on the cusp of a significant story. Question is: Will you pursue it? I’m an old grandfather and have retired. Time for your generation and the Wall Street Journal to hold the D.C. scammers accountable. If not your generation, then who?
Dr. Lee D. Cary
TPP: I've read Obama’s Secret Trade Deal and Elizabeth Warren Has Every Right to Fear It
“You need to tell me what’s wrong with this trade agreement, not one that was passed 25 years ago,” a frustrated President Barack Obama recently complained about criticisms of the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP). He’s right. The public criticisms of the TPP have been vague. That’s by design—anyone who has read the text of the agreement could be jailed for disclosing its contents. I’ve actually read the TPP text provided to the government’s own advisors, and I’ve given the president an earful about how this trade deal will damage this nation. But I can’t share my criticisms with you.
I can tell you that Elizabeth Warren is right about her criticism of the trade deal. We should be very concerned about what’s hidden in this trade deal—and particularly how the Obama administration is keeping information secret even from those of us who are supposed to provide advice.So-called “cleared advisors” like me are prohibited from sharing publicly the criticisms we’ve lodged about specific proposals and approaches. The government has created a perfect Catch 22: The law prohibits us from talking about the specifics of what we’ve seen, allowing the president to criticize us for not being specific. Instead of simply admitting that he disagrees with me—and with many other cleared advisors—about the merits of the TPP, the president instead pretends that our specific, pointed criticisms don’t exist.
What I can tell you is that the administration is being unfair to those who are raising proper questions about the harms the TPP would do. To the administration, everyone who questions their approach is branded as a protectionist—or worse—dishonest. They broadly criticize organized labor, despite the fact that unions have been the primary force in America pushing for strong rules to promote opportunity and jobs. And they dismiss individuals like me who believe that, first and foremost, a trade agreement should promote the interests of domestic producers and their employees.
Larwyn's Linx: Media -- Use This One Weird Trick To Make Hillary Answer Questions!
Nation
Media -- Use This One Weird Trick To Make Hillary Answer Questions!: Sean DavisDid Hillary Clinton know of Benghazi attack in advance?: RS
Barack Obama's 'Lottery Winners': Ben Shapiro
Hillary, "Sid Vicious", and Libya: Paul Mirengoff
Pay-to-play at Hillary’s State Department: RS
I Don't Believe Hillary Clinton: Ron Fournier
Don't Shoot Coalition in Ferguson: a facade for progressive social activists: Lee Cary
Top Democrat sounds ‘alarm bells’ over Obama rhetoric on Islamic State: Olivier Knox
Lindsey Graham an unhinged kook who shouldn’t be taken seriously: Ben Domenech
Federal Judge Says DC Gun Carry Law is Unconstitutional: Stephen Gutowski
Anger and Fighting the Result of Lost Constitutionalism: Jen Kuznicki
Matt Bevin Wins in Kentucky: Erick Erickson
Economy
Obama's Secret Trade Deal Insider: It "Will Damage This Nation": ZHThe True Black Tragedy: Walter Williams
Maglite’s Tony Maglica: Torchbearer of the American Dream: Michelle Malkin
Scandal Central
Federal Judge Rejects State Department’s Plan To Release Hillary’s Emails In 2016: Chuck RossBill doubled speaking fees from foreign groups while Hillary was secretary of state: Exam
NYT: Gowdy to subpoena Sid Blumenthal for Benghazi committee: Hot Air
52 House Republicans to IRS: Investigate Hillary Clinton Foundation Tax Status: Breitbart
Hillary’s ‘Old Friends’: Jonah Goldberg
Hillary Continues Answering Questions, Returns to Talking Only to Her Cats: IJR
Climate & Energy
More Countries Caught Manipulating Their Climate Data: Michael BastaschCritics Hear E.P.A.’s Voice in ‘Public Comments’: Eric Lipton and Coral Davenport
Blacks, Hispanics Unethusiastic About Obama’s Climate Change Schtick: William Teach
Media
Top Staffers Quit Clinton Foundation Over Obnoxious, Hateful Chelsea Clinton: WFBSlate’s William Saletan: the dumbest man on the internet: RS
The protected, connected liberal media elite: Katie Pavlich
#CutTheCheck: Ferguson Protestors Promised Payment, Stiffed by Activist Group: Kim Quade
Here Are The Girls Who Helped #EmmaSulkowicz Torture Her Victim: GotNews
Hillary Clinton Endorsed by Noted Feminist Snoop Dogg: Glob
Buy George, He's Got It!: Mark Steyn
Spanish-Language News Net Failed to Disclose Clinton Donation, Lobbying Spends: WFB
If Disney Can Afford to Shell Out $105 Million For This...: Obiter Dictum
World
ANBAR IS LOST: Shiite Militias Move to Protect Shia Holy SItes: GWPWashington Post Editorial Board Blames Fall Of Ramadi On Obama’s Weak Policy: William Teach
Obama's (Pathetic) Black Knight Strategy: Breath of the Beast
Al Nusrah Front and allies claim victory at Al Mastoumah, Idlib: Caleb Weiss
In Iraq, ISIS Is Winning And The United States Is Losing: Michael Snyder
Two Argentine judges have lost their minds: Joe Cunningham
Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)
Two Weeks With the Apple Watch: Erick EricksonTech companies ask Senate to pass NSA reform bill: John Ribeiro
Google Tone broadcasts URLs to any device within earshot: Tim Hornyak
Cornucopia
Obama’s Betrayal of America: Stating, and now Proving, the Obvious: The American ReportFury Road: Steve Sailer
The Banning Nation: Democrats Target Online Ammunition Sales: Ace
Image: I Don't Believe Hillary Clinton
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QOTD: "...the entire Schweizer/Stephanopoulos interview was a fraud perpetrated on ABC's audience. Picture it the other way around:
Karl Rove is hired as an anchorman by ABC News. Whoa, you can stop right there. We're already in the realm of the fantastical, even though it is, objectively, exactly the same as hiring Stephanopoulos.
But Rove says not to worry, my partisan days are behind me. I'm strictly Mister Even-Handed Newsman now.
And then he spends ten years as a high-profile pitchman for the George W and Jeb Bush Foundation.
And, when he interviews some guy who's written a book on all the dodgy donations to the Jeb Bush Foundation, he doesn't mention that he's a member of it.
The only interesting question is whether ABC knew about all this, and colluded with Stephanopoulos in perpetrating a fraud on their audience." --Mark Steyn
Tuesday, May 19, 2015
GONNA PUT SOME ICE ON THAT, GEORGEY-BOY? Peter Schweizer Eviscerates Bogus "Newsman" George Stephanopoulos
Schweizer's evidence is overwhelming and, rather than acting like a real journalist, Stephanopoulos instead conducted an interrogation rather than an interview -- never disclosing that he had multiple, deep, and devastating conflicts of interest. It wasn't just that the "newsman" had donated $75,000 to the Clinton Global Grift Initiative:
For example, in his on air apology for this ethical mess, Stephanopoulos did not disclose that in 2006 he was a featured attendee and panel moderator at the annual meeting of the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI).
He did not disclose that in 2007, he was a featured attendee at the CGI annual meeting, a gathering also attended by several individuals I report on in Clinton Cash, including mega Clinton Foundation donors Lucas Lundin, Frank Giustra, Frank Holmes, and Carlos Slim — individuals whose involvement with the Clintons I assumed he had invited me on his program to discuss.
Stephanopoulos did not disclose that he was a 2008 panelist at the CGI annual meeting which, once again, featured individuals I report on in the book, such as billionaire Clinton Foundation foreign donor Denis O'Brien.
ABC's most visible news employee did not disclose that in 2009, he served as a panel moderator at CGI's annual meeting, nor did he disclose that in 2010 and 2011, he was an official CGI member.
Stephanopoulos did not disclose that in 2013 and 2014, he and Chelsea Clinton served as CGI contest judges for awards, in part, underwritten by Laureate International Universities — a for-profit education company I report on in the book. Bill Clinton was on its payroll until his recent resignation.
Disgraceful. Unethical. Disgusting.
And all in a day's work for today's crony media.
Hat tip: BadBlue News.
10 Startling Charts That Completely Debunk the Global Warming Scam
Over at the world's most popular climate site, our favorite peer Christopher Monckton of Brenchley fires a massive salvo of data, charts and explanations that crush the progressives' latest attempt to regulate capitalism. My favorite charts are as follows:
10. 2000 Years of... Consistent Climate Cycles
CRONY MEDIA: The protected, connected liberal media elite
I hate the term “elite.” This implies some sort of extraordinary skill, which in my experience in Washington, at least with the media and definitely in politics is not apt. But you get the point. Statist, entitled, usually wealthy (though typically not rich) folks who like to frequent the Georgetown cocktail circuit and get a thrill when Politico comes calling. The folks who actually care about Washingtonian Magazine.
They aren’t elite, but they are the political class. And they are protected. The Stephanopoulos kerfuffle is a great example. Why does this guy still have a job?
This problem isn’t about the donations being made in the first place, it’s the fact that he hid them from viewers while covering, and defending, the Clinton Foundation.
Last week Stephanopoulos announced as somewhat of a self-imposed punishment that he will not moderate a GOP primary debate scheduled for Feb. 6 with the Republican National Committee, but he was never confirmed to moderate the debate by the RNC in the first place.
Special treatment isn’t just reserved for Washington’s politicians, it’s for the most liberal, elite anchors as well. As for the rest of us, there are consequences for breaking the law and for conflict of interest nondisclosure.
Read Katie Pavlich's entire article on crony media here.
Hat tip: BadBlue News.
SOUNDS SUSTAINABLE TO ME: Nearly $30,000 of debt for every man, woman and child on the entire planet
Did you know that there is more than $28,000 of debt for every man, woman and child on the entire planet? And since close to 3 billion of those people survive on less than 2 dollars a day, your share of that debt is going to be much larger than that. If we took everything that the global economy produced this year and everything that the global economy produced next year and used it to pay all of this debt, it still would not be enough. According to a recent report put out by the McKinsey Global Institute entitled “Debt and (not much) deleveraging“, the total amount of debt on our planet has grown from 142 trillion dollars at the end of 2007 to 199 trillion dollars today. This is the largest mountain of debt in the history of the world, and those numbers mean that we are in substantially worse condition than we were just prior to the last financial crisis.
When it comes to debt, a lot of fingers get pointed at the United States, and rightly so. Just prior to the last recession, the U.S. national debt was sitting at about 9 trillion dollars. Today, it has crossed the 18 trillion dollar mark. But of course the U.S. is not the only one that is guilty. In fact, the McKinsey Global Institute says that debt levels have grown in all major economies since 2007. The following is an excerpt from the report…
Seven years after the bursting of a global credit bubble resulted in the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression, debt continues to grow. In fact, rather than reducing indebtedness, or deleveraging, all major economies today have higher levels of borrowing relative to GDP than they did in 2007. Global debt in these years has grown by $57 trillion, raising the ratio of debt to GDP by 17 percentage points (Exhibit 1). That poses new risks to financial stability and may undermine global economic growth.
What is surprising is that debt has actually grown the most in China. If you can believe it, total Chinese debt has grown from 7 trillion dollars in 2007 to 28 trillion dollars today. Needless to say, that is absolutely insane…
Larwyn's Linx: Obama's Middle East Policy is in a State of Collapse
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Obama's Middle East Policy is in a State of Collapse: John HinderakerHillary’s closest adviser is hiding the truth of her emails: Paul Sperry
State Dept. plans to release Hillary Clinton's emails in Jan. 2016: Josh Gerstein
The Culture War is Upon You, Whether You Want it or Not: Leon H. Wolf
Who is a Journalist?: Cal Thomas
Obama Changes Policy On Military Equipment To Police Departments: William Teach
The Republicans in 2016 Are DOOMED!!!!!!: Erick Erickson
Clinton going full progressive to re-energize the Obama coalition?: Ed Morrissey
Obamacare Updates: Tale of Fail from Coast to Coast: Guy Benson
Report: Hillary already picked her VP: Jazz Shaw
Lindsey Graham Wants To Kill Americans Without Inconvenient Trials: James Joyner
Why Pamela Geller is Hated: Dennis Prager
Economy
Obama Says This 'Rotting, Decaying Hellhole' a Symbol of 'Promise For America': ZHSupreme Court Strikes Down Maryland 'Double Tax' Law: Newsmax
Shoppers could soon have difficulty finding meat's origin: Mary Clare Jalonick
Scandal Central
The Truth About Benghazi Slowly Emerges: John HinderakerSMOKING GUN! US Was Running Weapons Thru Benghazi to Syria: GWP
Key Hillary Clinton Claim on Emails Was a Lie: Olivery Darcy
Documents Reveal Benghazi Libya Weapons (Provided by U.S. and NATO) Shipped To Syria: Treehouse
Obama Rewards Rioters With $163 Million for ‘Community Organizing Jobs’: Warner Todd Huston
Did $17 million disappear from Clinton Foundation?: Jerome R. Corsi
Climate & Energy
The New York Times Must Ignore History to Place Blame on California’s Woes: Erick EricksonWind farm 'needs 700 times more land' than fracking site to produce same energy: Telegraph
Drought cuts power production of California dams: LAT
Media
NY Times Calls For Turning Detroit Over to ISIS By Importing Syrians To Take It Over: WZDershowitz: Obama a “Foreign Policy Disaster ... I wouldn’t Let Him Negotiate a One-Month Lease”: FreeLight
Bracken From Earlier This AM: WRSA
The Budding Flower of Savagery: Camp o' the Saints
Observations on Government: Economic Noise
ABC Policy Required Stephanopolous to Disclose $75,000 Clinton Foundation Donation: Brent Scher
Liz Cheney Flips Media’s Script on Iraq War: LI
Land of 1000 Microaggressions: Jim Goad
Acceptable Ethnocentrism–Jay Z Posts Bail for Ferguson, Baltimore Protesters: James Kirkpatrick
World
The Vainglorious Mr. Kerry: AmIntIran: We Have 'Divine Permission to Destroy Israel': Clarion Project
Iran to Saudis: We’re Going to Land This Ship No Matter What: AmInt
Hamas Using Truce to Prepare for Next Clash with Israel: Yaakov Lappin
Israel Warns: Hezbollah Makes Lebanon a Human Shield: P. David Hornik
Nothing Another 42,000 Airstrikes Can't Fix: Mark Steyn
ISIS Posts Photos THANKING Obama for What They Just Got From Him: ConTrib
Russian, Chinese navies begin first joint drill in Mediterranean: World Affairs
Deathblow to the Dollar: The Trumpet
Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)
Hack of airplane systems described in FBI docs raises security questions: Teri Robinson, SCMagA Life Hack For Sleep: Breathing Exercise Can Put You To Sleep In 60 Seconds?: Lizette Borreli
Can Wikipedia forecast the flu?: Mark Rockwell, FCW
Cornucopia
Wall Street and 5th Avenue Planned for Benghazi: Denise SimonReprise: The People of OWS: Like the People of Wal-Mart, Only Not As Smart: MOTUS
Five Best Weekend Watches: Stephen Pulvirent
Image: Obama Just Called This "Rotting, Decaying Hellhole" A Symbol Of "Promise For The Nation"
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QOTD: "THEN SHE STOOD NEXT TO THE COFFINS OF THE DEAD AND LIED: Hillary Received Memo Describing Benghazi As Planned Terror Attack Within Hours. “New documents obtained by Judicial Watch and made public Monday show that then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and other senior officials under President Obama were given intelligence within hours of the Sept. 11, 2012, Benghazi attack describing how it had been planned at least 10 days in advance ‘to kill as many Americans as possible.’”
Also, they locked up a filmmaker for a year, just to support their cover story. Nice people." --Glenn Reynolds
Monday, May 18, 2015
CONGRESSMAN: Changes needed in Jade Helm military exercises
Over the past few weeks, my office has been inundated with calls referring to the Jade Helm 15 military exercise scheduled to take place between July 15 and September 15, 2015.
This military practice has some concerned that the U.S. Army is preparing for modern-day martial law.
Certainly, I can understand these concerns.
When leaders within the current administration believe that major threats to the country include those who support the Constitution, are military veterans, or even "cling to guns or religion," patriotic Americans have reason to be concerned.
We have seen people working in this administration use their government positions to persecute people with conservative beliefs in God, country, and notions such as honor and self-reliance.
Well, you don't see this every day.
Photographer Eric Paré has built much of his career around the concept of light painting, but a recent photo shoot he did involved a very different source of lighting: the bioluminescence of glowing plankton... “Basically, those little creatures can emit light when activated. So we simply ran into the ocean like crazy and it started to glow,” Paré tells PetaPixel.
Specific types of plankton have the ability to glow when startled in order to distract or confuse predators. The light helps attract bigger predators that eat the plankton’s predators.
There are a number of well-known beaches that glow at night when the algae-filled waves crash into the sands. Paré recently visited one of them, Holbox Island in Mexico, during a recent public art festival in the area.
To capture these photographs, Paré had his subjects pose motionless in the ocean during 30-second exposures at a “very high ISO.”
You can see more of Paré's unique pics here.
Hat tip: BadBlue Tech News.
SHOCKER: Hillary Claim That She Used Only One Personal Email Account While at State... Also a Lie
Emails published by the New York Times Monday indicate that Hillary Clinton used more than one private email address during her time as secretary of state, contradicting previous claims from the Democratic presidential contender’s office.
Multiple emails show Clinton used account “hrod17@clintonemail.com” while serving in the Obama administration as secretary of state.
Clinton’s attorney, David Kendall, had previously told Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.) that that particular address had not “existed during Secretary Clinton’s tenure as Secretary of State.”
Another statement from Clinton’s office said she only used one address during her time as secretary of state... Clinton served as secretary of state from Jan. 2009 to Feb. 2013. The emails she sent with the “hrod17@clintonemail.com” were sent in 2011 and 2012, according to the documents released by the Times.
A representative for Clinton’s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment from TheBlaze.
As security experts noted a few months ago when the Hillary email scandal first broke, it's virtually certain that Hillary's email server was compromised by foreign governments. Which means Hillary put her own butt-covering over national security.
If America is willing to elect a sleazy, lying, unscrupulous, unethical, lying crook like Hillary in 2016, well, we deserve everything we get. Yes, I said "lying" twice. Because she warrants it.
Hat tip: BadBlue News.
RIPPLE EFFECT: Saudis said to be purchasing nuclear weapons from Pakistan to counter Iranian threat
Saudi Arabia had made the “strategic decision” to purchase a nuclear weapon from Pakistan amid the ongoing negotiations over Iran’s nuclear program, a former American defense official said in a report published today in The Sunday Times.
“There has been a longstanding agreement in place with the Pakistanis and the House of Saud has now made the strategic decision to move forward.”
While the official did not believe “any actual weaponry has been transferred yet”, it was clear “the Saudis mean what they say and they will do what they say”, following last month’s Iranian outline nuclear deal. …
Asked whether the Saudis had decided to become a nuclear power, the official responded: “That has to be the assumption.”
The assessment is shared by an American intelligence official who spoke to the Times, saying that “hundreds” of CIA employees are trying to determine if Pakistan has already supplied any nuclear technology to Saudi Arabia.
JAW-DROPPING: Documents Reveal Obama, Hillary Knew Al Qaeda Had Planned Benghazi Attack 10 Days in Advance
"These documents are jaw-dropping. No wonder we had to file more FOIA lawsuits and wait over two years for them. If the American people had known the truth – that Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and other top administration officials knew that the Benghazi attack was an al-Qaeda terrorist attack from the get-go – and yet lied and covered this fact up – Mitt Romney might very well be president. And why would the Obama administration continue to support the Muslim Brotherhood even after it knew it was tied to the Benghazi terrorist attack and to al Qaeda? These documents also point to connection between the collapse in Libya and the ISIS war – and confirm that the U.S. knew remarkable details about the transfer of arms from Benghazi to Syrian jihadists ." --Tom Fitton
Judicial Watch announced today that it obtained more than 100 pages of previously classified “Secret” documents from the Department of Defense (DOD)and the Department of State revealing that DOD almost immediately reported that the attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi was committed by the al Qaeda and Muslim Brotherhood-linked “Brigades of the Captive Omar Abdul Rahman” (BCOAR), and had been planned at least 10 days in advance. Rahman is known as the Blind Sheikh, and is serving life in prison for his involvement in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and other terrorist acts. The new documents also provide the first official confirmation that shows the U.S. government was aware of arms shipments from Benghazi to Syria. The documents also include an August 2012 analysis warning of the rise of ISIS and the predicted failure of the Obama policy of regime change in Syria.
The documents were released in response to a court order in accordance with a May 15, 2014, Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit filed against both the DOD and State Department seeking communications between the two agencies and congressional leaders “on matters related to the activities of any agency or department of the U.S. government at the Special Mission Compound and/or classified annex in Benghazi.”
Spelling and punctuation is duplicated in this release without corrections.
A Defense Department document from the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), dated September 12, 2012, the day after the Benghazi attack, details that the attack on the compound had been carefully planned by the BOCAR terrorist group “to kill as many Americans as possible.” The document was sent to then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, then-Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the Obama White House National Security Council. The heavily redacted Defense Department “information report” says that the attack on the Benghazi facility “was planned and executed by The Brigades of the Captive Omar Abdul Rahman (BCOAR).” The group subscribes to “AQ ideologies:”
Larwyn's Linx: What Stephanopoulos still hasn’t disclosed
Nation
What Stephanopoulos still hasn’t disclosed: Paul MirengoffThe Fall of Ramadi: Moe Lane
McConnell Sings Obama’s Praises During Chat With Stephanopoulos: Donn Marten
Anti-Semitism and Jewish Dissonance on the Way to 2016: Matthew Hausman
Ted Cruz, the Only Republican Arrogant Enough to Be President: David P. Goldman
Why NSA surveillance is worse than you’ve ever imagined: James Bamford
Bored to Death: Do Jeb and Hillary Really Want to Be President?: Roger L. Simon
Cities On Fire – Seattle: NoisyRm
U.S. attorney's bizarre statement on Tsarnaev death sentence: Thomas Lifson
Convention of the States: Marty R. Brown
Immigration: 445,000 awaiting a court date, which might not come for 4 years: LAT
Crime Plummets in Chicago as Conceal Carry Permits Rise: Keith Farrell
Economy
It’s Time For An Equal Tax: Amy OttoUS Spending on Social Programs 17 times that of Socialist China: GWP
The Student-Loan Problem Is Even Worse Than Official Figures Indicate: Instapundit
Scandal Central
The Amtrak Crash: Why The FBI Lied And Why It Is No Freak Accident: ShoebatCall Hillary’s Consigliere, Cover Up Queen Cheryl Mills, To Testify: WZ
Stop me if you’ve heard this one; Hillary took money from more companies seeking influence: Jazz Shaw
Media
Editor In Chief Of World’s Best Known Medical Journal: Half Of All The Literature Is False: Arjun WaliaThe case for conservative civil disobedience: Carlos Lozada
Barack Obama Tried to Silence Political Speech in 2007: Sara Noble
Like Father, Like Daughter: Al Sharpton’s Kid Sues NYC for $5 Million For Sprained Ankle: DC
‘Clinton Cash’ author: George Stephanopoulos guilty of ‘hidden-hand journalism’: Morgan Chalfant
‘Clinton Cash’ Author Reveals Other Ties Stephanopoulos DIDN’T Admit or Apologize For: Sooper
World
Islamic State overruns Anbar Operations Command, takes full control of Ramadi: LWJ‘Strategy to defeat Islamic State is working,’ US Department of Defense claims: Bill Roggio
Breaking the Silence about EU-backed NGO War on Israel: LI
Time to Stand Up to China in the South China Sea: Michael Mazza
What The West Needs To Know About Islam: William J. Federer
Amb. Power’s Bizarre Analogy: Columbia Mattress Girl and Afghan women: LI
Obama: that chlorine gas Syria is using, well I’m fine with it: RS
The Mayaguez Incident: RS
The U.S. State Department Is Now Al-Qaeda’s Command And Control Center: Shoebat
Revisiting the Rose Garden fiasco at the Vatican: Vlad Tepes
NATO foreign ministers meet to discuss Russian aggression: RS
Paris: In Latest Violent Antisemitic Attack Two Assailants Pin Down Victim While Another Beats Him: Algemeiner
Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)
NASA sets $2.25m prize for 3D printed Mars habitats: SlashGearZappos CEO Tony Hsieh's radical experiment led 14% of employees to quit: Richard Feloni
New Jersey looks to the future, plans to deregulate Verizon landline phone service: WyBlog
Cornucopia
The Opposite of Diversity: UNIVERSITY*… So Shut Up!: MOTUSPreakness Stakes Snapchat Shows a Chivalrous Cam Newton: Black and Blue Review
Picture exclusive: James Bond crew take to the Thames to film for Spectre: Spectator
Image: Nine killed in fight between bikers in Texas
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QOTD: The left has to do some soul-searching and reflect why it describes anti-Semitism as political expression, but criticism of Muslims as hate speech. Liberal Jews have to do the same about Obama.
...The Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (“BDS”) and Israel Apartheid Week (“IAW”) movements are purely creations of the progressive left in partnership with Islamist interests. The left is obsessed with demonizing Israel and advancing anti-Jewish conspiracy theories, with progressive academics routinely defending campus anti-Semitism as political speech while simultaneously censoring any criticism of Muslims as “Islamophobic.”" --Matthew Hausman
Sunday, May 17, 2015
ISRAELI AMBASSADOR Under Obama’s proposed nuclear deal, “Iran will walk into the nuclear club"
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?
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
Nation
ABC, Stephanopoulos Clinton Foundation Hypocrisy Staggering: Victor Davis HansonRock 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: AceThe 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 AllenClintons 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. MillerMedia
MSNBC Posts Vicious Anti-Cop Video: ScoopPBS 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: WZTop 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
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Michael Jordan's Highland Park Mansion Now Half of Original Asking Price: AJ LaTraceStop What You’re Doing Right Now And Look At What Ann Romney Wore Last Night: IJR
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Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: Isn't it time for a real conservative? Ted Cruz 2016: Official Site
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
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?
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
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.

















