Thursday, May 21, 2015

Uhm, no, Sidney Blumenthal was not the source of the Hillary-Obama Benghazi video lie

There are reports circulating today, courtesy of The New York Times, that Hillary consigliere Sidney Blumenthal was the author of the Benghazi video lie. To wit, "intel" provided by the Sidster claimed that Al Qaeda affiliates attacked the American consulate in Benghazi due to... a video no one had ever seen.

The State Department released 850 pages of Hillary Clinton Benghazi-related email documents and the NY Times reviewed the ones having to do with Clinton Family buddy Sidney Blumenthal. (all the Blumenthal emails are embedded below) Amongst the treasure trove of emails is this paragraph on a correspondence sent by Blumenthal to Clinton on 9/12/12 the day after the attack:


Earlier this week The Times established that the Blumenthal emails were sent out to staff at state without telling them who it was from (he was described as HRC friend) and that much of the Libya intelligence that Mr. Blumenthal passed on to Mrs. Clinton appears to have come from a group of business associates he was advising as they sought to win contracts from the Libyan transitional government. And Most most of what Blumenthal sent was garbage.

Of course, back in the little land we like to call reality, the facts on the ground were ignored by the Times. As The Complete Benghazi Timeline reminds us, Clinton publicly linked the Benghazi attack to the video even before American heroes Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty had been killed.

On the night of Sept. 11, 2012 — before former Navy SEALs Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty were killed by a terrorist mortar strike — Secretary of State Hillary Clinton released a public statement linking the attack against the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, with an anti-Muslim video, which she referred to as "inflammatory material posted on the Internet."


...the Associated Press first published a story quoting Clinton's statement at 10:58 p.m. Eastern time on Sept. 11 ... The AP released a story that night datelined Cairo, written by Maggie Michael and Sarah El Deeb, and carrying the headline, "American killed in Libya protest over film."

My belief is that Hillary and Obama hatched the video story in the wee hours of the night to cover their copious failures. And Sidney Blumenthal was "commissioned" to back up their fable.

No one should be fooled. Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton are responsible for everything related to Benghazi, including the cover-up.


Hat tip: BadBlue News.

Barack Obama: Comic Genius!

By Rush Limbaugh

Speaking of comedy -- no, no, not the Letterman show. Obama. Commencement speech, the Coast Guard. It's flat-out embarrassing. It's uproariously funny. By the way, have you heard that ISIS now controls more than half of Syria? More than half of Syria... ISIS. We can add Libya to it pretty soon. And we've got ISIS on their way to Baghdad. And there's Obama.

Obama, in the midst of this tear through the Middle East on the part of ISIS, Obama told the Coast Guard Academy graduates that not fighting against climate change is dereliction of duty. Did you catch any of this address? I don't need the audio sound bites. I really don't need the audio sound bites. In fact, that would just slow the program down. Obama claimed climate change is part of the cause of the rise of Boko Haram and ISIS.

Who needed Letterman to wrap it up last night when you've got Obama out there providing comedy for the whole world? ISIS is now due to global warming. Boko Haram kidnapping girls all over Nigeria is because of climate change, global warming. I kid you not. The commander-in-chief said so. And he further said to the Coast Guard graduates, not fighting against climate change is dereliction of duty. This from the man who ignored ISIS for years so he could campaign on his claim that terrorism was on the run.

This is a man who ignored ISIS, ignored everything going on in the Middle East, much of it that he caused, because as far as his election campaigns were concerned, there was no more terrorism. In fact, the State Department and the Defense Department issued orders that the word was not even to be used. There was no "terrorism", and there were no "terrorists," because Obama had beat it back. Obama had claimed victory for whatever happened in Iraq, was winding things down in Afghanistan, had Al-Qaeda on the run, if you recall.

Global warming tricked him, the deniers tricked him, because while we didn't do anything about global warming, somehow climate change spawned ISIS. And climate change spawned Boko Haram. This is a man who cut our military forces to the bone and then cut the bone, and he's telling the Coast Guard they will be guilty of dereliction of duty if they don't fight climate change? Oh, man, I'll tell you, some days I'm just surrounded by idiocy, surrounded by stupidity, feel like I'm being smothered by it, looking for a way out.

How can I get past this? How can I have a day where I don't have to put up with this kind of inanity? How could I possibly find a day where I do not have to be exposed to this kind of insulting stupidity.

Read more at RushLimbaugh.com
 

Larwyn's Linx: The Obama-Boehner-McConnell 'Fast Track' to a Poorer America

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Nation

The Obama-Boehner-McConnell 'Fast Track' to a Poorer America: Terry Jeffrey
Liz Warren Hid $1.3 Million Credit Line From Bank Of America: Alex Pappas
Democrat Bill Registers Gun Owners Via "Background Checks": Bob Owens

Think like a liberal — or else: Victor Davis Hanson
McConnell: The House NSA Bill Could Make Us Go Dark: Ace
De Blasio’s “Contract For Communism”: Terresa Monroe-Hamilton

Christie Wants to Keep Expense Details Secret: Nick Rummell, Courthouse News
Jeb Has Bigger Problems than His Iraq War Stumble: Jonah Goldberg
Knowing That Kennedy’s '65 Immigration Act Elected Obama...: Ann Coulter

Hilarious: Iowa Democrats Can’t Name a Single Granny Clinton Accomplishment: JWF
The Jacksonville Panic: Erick Erickson
The Battle of Indiana and the Promise of Battles to Come: David French

Economy

'Just Asking': Thomas Sowell
The Tip of the Regulatory Iceberg: Veronique De Rugy
Hawaii’s ObamaCare Website Enrolls Zero People: BlurBrain

Scandal Central

The State Department’s In-Kind Contribution to the Clinton Campaign: Matthew Clark
Looks like MORE -- an ACORN Successor -- Paid "Protesters" to "Protest" in Ferguson: Ace
State Dept Won’t Comment on Report Cheryl Mills Interfered with Hillary Clinton FOIA Requests: WFB

Climate & Energy

The Crisis of the Administrative State, Part 5: Government as Faction: Power Line
The EPA Myth of “Clean Power”: Alan Caruba
Chevrolet Throwing Money at the Volt to Clear Out Huge Backlog: Automnews

Media

Cruz to Sex-'Obsessed' Media: Let's Talk About Islamic State's War on Gays: TR
Liberals: We Just Can't Tell If David Letterman is Liberal Or Not: Ace
The “Gun Safety Group” Lie: Bob Owens

George Clintonopoulos!: Larry Elder
Washington Post's Lead Photo on Waco Story: Sarah Palin in a Biker Helmet: Trey Sanchez
Chelsea Clinton Will "Publish" Her First Book: Ace

Michelle Malkin: Most Intriguing Candidate is Ted Cruz: Fox Radio
How Accurately Does David Simon’s The Wire Reflect Baltimore’s Reality?: Jack Dunphy
The Perfect Quant Degree: John Derbyshire

World

ISIS gains big in Iraq; Obama remains functionally indifferent: Paul Mirengoff
Great news: White House says Iraq strategy has been a success: RS
Were We Right to Take Out Saddam?: Victor Davis Hanson

‘Why Does the Left Kowtow to Islam?’: Ed Driscoll
Vladimir Putin Appears to have Assassinated Another Critic: RS
Gloria Steinem Descends on the Korean DMZ: Claudia Rosett

Admiral: Russia Blackmailed Bill Clinton Over Lewinsky: Sierra Rayne
Islamic State, Shiite militias square off east of Ramadi: Bill Roggio
Illinois Passes Bill That Bans BDS Participants From State Pension Funds: JNS

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

1.1 Million Hit In Another BlueCross BlueShield Breach: Dark Reading
Indy 500: Source of Hinchcliffe’s crash confirmed: Marshall Pruett, Racer.com
Octopus Skin Senses Light, No Eyes or Brain Needed: Dina Fine Maron

Cornucopia

The day classical liberalism died: Not PC
Hypothetically, Would You Still Have Voted For the Duck?: MOTUS
Climate Change...a full explanation!: Norman Hooben

Image: Activists: Islamic State seizes more than half of Syria
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QOTD: "As I've said before, the overriding issue for me this electoral season is the corruption. Hillary has a contempt for the rules, a contempt for the law, a contempt for public accountability, transparency and open government, a contempt for the basic seemliness of official conduct in civilized societies - and a boundless appetite for cronyism, special favors, backroom deals, and protection of her associates when it comes to money, sex and everything else. The government she runs will be a sewer." --Mark Steyn

Wednesday, May 20, 2015

Quotes o' the Day: Ted Cruz, Ace, Jonah Goldberg, Thomas Sowell, and Victor Davis Hanson Edition

First up, relayed by Bradford Thomas, this scimitar from Ted Cruz:

Is there something about the left—and I am going to put the media in this category—that is obsessed with sex? ISIS is executing homosexuals—you want to talk about gay rights? This week was a very bad week for gay rights because the expansion of ISIS, the expansion of radical, theocratic, Islamic zealots that crucify Christians, that behead children and that murder homosexuals—that ought to be concerning you far more than asking six questions all on the same topic.

Next, Ace tells us that "Chelsea Clinton Will 'Publish' Her First Book":

ISIS Seizes Ancient Antiquities Site and City of Palmyra as Obama Warns World of... Global Warming

By Sara Noble

ISIS has seized the ancient city of Palmyra, a UNESCO World Heritage site. It will soon be destroyed. It is considered one of the most enchanting sites in the Middle East. The U.N. called out for reinforcements but none came. I hope we have a lot of good photos and video.

But it’s climate change that’s the problem. Just ask Barack. How many people are still in this beautiful city to be tortured and killed?

President Obama spoke to the Coast Guard graduates today to tell them of the horror of global warming.

“This is not just a problem for countries on the coast or for certain regions of the world. Climate change will impact every country on the planet. No nation is immune,” the president said. “So I am here today to say that climate change constitutes a serious threat to global security, an immediate risk to our national security, and, make no mistake, it will impact how our military defends our country. And so we need to act — and we need to act now.”

ISIS is on the road to Damascus but it’s doubtful Barack has noticed.

The Perfectibility of Mankind and the Left

This is a post by Geoff B., once thought lost in the great pub crash of 2009 and recovered via the Wayback Archive. Its original publication date was December 24, 2008. Kindly restored by Camp o' the Saints and slightly edited by mois.

The Perfectibility of Mankind and the Left

 
One of the basic differences between the Progressive Left and Conservatives/Classical Liberals is on whether or not humans can be, or be made, perfect in this world. The perfectibility of mankind.

To Conservatives humans can never be perfect in this world. For religious conservatives man achieves perfection only when joined with God. In this world perfection is to strive for, but will never be achieved. Failure happens to all and is forgivable. One should acknowledge one's failures and vow to avoid repeating the mistake. Apologize to those injured. Seek forgiveness. Show remorse. Make amends. Be punished if society deems it necessary. In politicians, as in others, perfection is not sought. The perfect not being possible, Conservatives then seek the best available in an imperfect world of choices.

For the progressive Left and the socialist Left, humans are perfectible. The imperfections seen are explained as due to the circumstances that people are in, how they were brought up, how they were educated, or how they were treated and seen by society. To the left people would be perfect if the world around them could be transformed to retain their innate perfection. This is the Utopia sought. The world must be perfected so all humans will be perfect.

Politics is the means used to structure this perfect world for all humans. Force, of course, is required to change the world into the perfect state so that all will live in perfection. This brings up an interesting dichotomy.

An Open Letter to @LauraMeckler of the Wall Street Journal, cc: @HillaryClinton @WSJopinion @WSJ #ReadyForHillary

By Lee Cary

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

By Michael Wessel, Pro Publica

“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!

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Nation

Media -- Use This One Weird Trick To Make Hillary Answer Questions!: Sean Davis
Did 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": ZH
The 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 Ross
Bill 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 Bastasch
Critics 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: WFB
Slate’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: GWP
Washington 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 Erickson
Tech 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 Report
Fury 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

Via Mark Steyn, we arrive at a new set of revelations by Peter Schweizer regarding phony journalist George Stephanopoulos. You may recall that former Clinton operative and current Clinton operative-cum-ABC News employee recently interviewed Schweizer regarding his recent bestseller. Or, rather, he grilled Schweizer over the author's brutal evidence that the Clinton Global Graft Foundation appeared explicitly designed to extract government favors in exchange for massive payoffs.

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

It's amazing to me that, post-Climategate, anyone with more than three working neurons could believe in the legitimacy of the United Nations' global warming bunko 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

By Against Crony Capitalism

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.


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SOUNDS SUSTAINABLE TO ME: Nearly $30,000 of debt for every man, woman and child on the entire planet

By Michael Snyder

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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Nation

Obama's Middle East Policy is in a State of Collapse: John Hinderaker
Hillary’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': ZH
Supreme 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 Hinderaker
SMOKING 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 Erickson
Wind 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: WZ
Dershowitz: 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: AmInt
Iran: 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, SCMag
A 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 Simon
Reprise: 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

By Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX)


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.

At least, I don't: "Long-Exposure Portraits Lit by Glowing Plankton."

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

I hope you're sitting down:

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

By The Tower

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

By Judicial Watch

"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

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Nation

What Stephanopoulos still hasn’t disclosed: Paul Mirengoff
The 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 Otto
US 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: Shoebat
Call 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 Walia
The 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: SlashGear
Zappos 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!: MOTUS
Preakness 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

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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