Wednesday, May 27, 2015

Hillary Clinton, Lord of War

By Matthew Vadum

While presidential candidate Hillary Clinton was America’s top diplomat the Department of State that she oversaw approved $165 billion worth of commercial arms sales to 20 nations whose governments forked over millions of dollars to the now-embattled Clinton Foundation.

According to an International Business Times report by David Sirota and Andrew Perez, “at least seven foreign governments that received State Department clearance for American arms did donate to the Clinton Foundation while Hillary Clinton was serving as secretary.” The article identified the seven nations as Algeria, Australia, Kuwait, Norway, Oman, Qatar, and Thailand.

Mainstream media’s surprisingly probing coverage of the unfolding Clinton Foundation donations-for-favors scandal suggests that reporters have turned on the Clintons in the age of Obama.

And the fact that the IBT piece was co-authored by Marxist author and radio talk show host David Sirota adds to the growing pile of evidence that some of the more ideologically pure progressives in the Democratic Party are ganging up on Mrs. Clinton in order to help as yet undeclared presidential candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.).

Sirota, a former press aide to various left-wing lawmakers such as then-Rep. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), a self-described socialist who just launched his own quixotic presidential campaign, isn’t exactly an objective observer. A longtime left-wing activist who hurls invective at conservatives and Republicans, Sirota has slobbered over Warren, calling the anti-capitalism crusader “one of the most promising political leaders in a generation.”

Meanwhile, the $165 billion figure, “derived from the three full fiscal years of Clinton’s term as Secretary of State (from October 2010 to September 2012) — represented nearly double the value of American arms sales made to the those countries and approved by the State Department during the same period of President George W. Bush’s second term.”

While Hillary Clinton headed the State Department the agency also gave its blessing to “$151 billion of separate Pentagon-brokered deals for 16 of the countries that donated to the Clinton Foundation, resulting in a 143 percent increase in completed sales to those nations over the same time frame during the Bush administration.”

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Nation

Hillary Clinton, Lord of War: Moe Lane
An Obama Crime Wave Spreads Across America: IBD
Terror-Tied CAIR Wants Us to Stop Honoring Soldiers on Memorial Day: Sara Noble

Obama, the Jews, the Muslims, and Us: Michael Ledeen
Mark Levin explains federal court smackdown of Obama’s illegal amnesty: Scoop
Osama and Obama: Dueling Perpetual Grad Students: Ed Driscoll

The Beginning of a New Trail for Reporters: Erick Erickson
Bernie Sanders’ Foul Socialist Odor: Michelle Malkin
Hillary Clinton, The Candidate Who Will Sell You Cheap Crap: Ace

Scott Walker suggests he might skip the Florida primary: The Week
In Baltimore, Social Justice = War: Steve Sailer
Mark Levin Responds to Bircher Nonsense around Article V Convention: Jen Kuznicki

Economy

Sunset the Tax Code: Colin Hanna
Is The 505 Trillion Dollar Interest Rate Derivatives Bubble About to Burst?: Michael Snyder
How study contradicts benefits of H-1B visas: Ishani Duttagupta

Scandal Central

Sure, why not: Hillary never disclosed secret shell company that funnels income to Bill Clinton: Hot Air
Clinton Foundation Donors Got Weapons Deals From Hillary Clinton's State Department: IBTimes
GOP Zeroes In On Clinton Aide Huma Abedin Over Email Controversy: Ela Dutt

Climate & Energy

The Green Behind California’s Greens: Steve Malanga
Former Senator Mary Landrieu is Washington’s newest oil lobbyist: ACC
Updated NASA Data: Global Warming Not Causing Any Polar Ice Retreat: Forbes

Media

Al Jazeera Audience Supports ISIS 'Victories': Brian Lilley
Liberals Respect Me: Walter Williams
Rep. Alan Grayson "Accidentally" Tweeted "F*ck The Police": Miami New Times

Ann Coulter’s War: Ben Shapiro
University Administration Bloat: The Tail the Size of the Dog: AmInt
Hollywood Liberal Posts Damning Quote Attributed to Ted Cruz — Except It’s Fake: Dave Urbanski

World

Obama, Anti-Semitism and Iran: Walter Russell Mead
Obama is Putting Our Nuclear Navy at Risk: RS
Seeking to Spark Sectarian War, ISIS Bombs Saudi Arabia: Ryan Mauro

A Genocide of Christians is Underway - and the West Sleeps: Giulio Meotti
'World encourages violence by condemning Israel constantly': Hayom
E-Bracelets for Pilgrims: Kingdom of Saudi Arabia: Cambiar

Eurozone debt crisis: A Spanish wake-up call for Europe: Desmond Lachman
Now convoy of Russian tanks arrive by rail at border with Ukraine: Daily Mail
U.S. pushback against Muslim refugees ‘growing’: Leo Hohmann

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

This Stealth Missile Will Use EMPs To Cripple Enemy Electronics: Tyler Rogoway
Self-parking Volvo ploughs into journalists: Independent
World’s first robo chef unveiled at the CES in Shanghai: Raif Karerat

Cornucopia

Michelle’s Advice To Graduates: Fraternize With the Enemy i.e. that’s us: MOTUS
Do You Realize Mad Max: Fury Road Is A Miracle?: Rob Bricken
Easy Math: iOTWreport

Image: Hillary Clinton, The Candidate Who Will Sell You Cheap Crap
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QOTD: "OK, it’s not just me, right? This looks bad on a basic level, yes? It is not ridiculous to be upset that the Secretary of State was taking millions of dollars from the countries that she was funneling billions of dollars’ worth of business – weapons business – to, correct? Because as the Hill did not particularly note – but the International Business Times (H/T: Hot Air) did – these weapons sales represent a significant increase (read: ‘doubling’) over arms sales as those made during a similar chronological point in the Bush administration. Simply put: the State Department turned on the arms spigot, and various foreign governments and companies started filling up the Clinton Foundation trough.

So what’s the point? The point, my friends, is that you may now tell your liberal friends and colleagues that Hillary Clinton, by the Left’s own rules, can be fairly called a bloody-handed Merchant of Death* who profited off of the American government’s lucrative arms business. Watching them process that should give you some amusement. Especially when you remind them that they’re voluntarily going to vote for a woman who made money from arming regimes that oppress and execute their own subjects.

*”Lady of War” is far too nice-sounding. I frankly wouldn’t trust her to run a paintball tournament, at this point." --Moe Lane

Tuesday, May 26, 2015

NOT THE ONION: "Marie Harf promoted to senior advisor, will focus on negotiations with Iran"

Just when you think Democrats have hit rock bottom:


The last time we checked in with Marie Harf, she was explaining to CNN’s Wolf Blitzer that Iraqi security forces “have held their lines on the outside of the city” — that city being Ramadi, which had just fallen to ISIS. We won’t be seeing as much of Harf on CNN or behind the podium beginning next week, and not for the reasons you’d suspect.

Instead, Harf is being promoted to senior advisor for strategic communications to Secretary of State John Kerry, where she will “continue her work leading on the Iran negotiations communications strategy.”

...
Yes, exactly like that, except dealing with nuclear weapons negotiations with a hostile nation.
Gird your loins, my friends.

Valerie Jarrett and Marie Harf have our backs.


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Iranian Terror Newspaper Confirms Hezbollah’s Massive Military Buildup on Border with Israel

By The Tower

A Hezbollah-allied newspaper, As-Safir, recently published a series reports on the massive infrastructure, including a network of tunnels, that the Iranian-backed terrorist organization has been building on Lebanon’s border with Israel, The Times of Israel reported Saturday. According to the Times, Hezbollah is “painting a picture of a military force highly prepared for conflict, both in terms of equipment and of infrastructure.”

According to the reports, based on a tour of Hezbollah facilities given to the newspaper, the group has built a sprawling underground array of tunnels, bunkers and surveillance outposts along the border with Israel, which it is manning at peak readiness for battle.

The tunnels are said to be highly-advanced, with durable concrete, a 24-hour power supply via underground generators, a ventilation system to prevent damp from damaging military equipment and a web of secondary escape shafts in case of attack. The tunnels are said to be housing tens of thousands of rockets ready for launch, themselves wrapped in protective materials in order to preserve them. …

Tunnel construction was said to be continuing around the clock, using primitive means rather than advanced machinery in order to avoid detection by Israeli surveillance.

While the Times cautioned that as-Safir is “a mouthpiece” for Hezbollah, the reports of the tunnels and infrastructure match warnings that the Israeli military has been giving. Earlier this month, The New York Times quoted an Israeli military official who characterized residents of southern Lebanon, where Hezbollah’s infrastructure is strongest, as “civilians are living in a military compound.”

CRIME RATES AND GUN BANS: The Professor is Lying Through His Teeth

By Karl Denninger

The wrong question is being asked here.

In the past few years, Americans have witnessed shootings at a movie in Colorado, a 3-year-old shooting and killing his father in Indiana and, most recently, nine people killed in a fight among biker gangs in Waco.

Amazingly, Americans seem to see these regular incidents as normal. It’s a powerful and sad testament to how anesthetized we have become to this ongoing violence. And despite all of this violence and loss of life, many in Texas and elsewhere want to increase gun ownership and allow people to openly carry firearms.

Since 9/11, Americans have been deeply concerned about threats to national security. Our tendency has been to define national security only in terms of external threats. A much better way is to see national security is in terms of the well-being of our population. If we think of it this way, the evidence is clear — a heavily armed population in the U.S. is not secure because our culture does not seem to lend itself well to allowing the proliferation of guns.

The premise is that there is some magic that will attach if we "strictly regulate" (or even prohibit) private ownership of firearms.

The facts say otherwise, in fact, they say the exact opposite.

The violent crime rate has fallen nearly in half from 1992 to 2011 according to the FBI and it has continued to fall; 2013, the last year for which full data is available, saw further declines.

The rate of murder and non-negligent manslaughter (that is, intentional killing of another human) dropped by a full half from 1994 to 2013.  The rate of******dropped from 39.3 to 25.2, or 36%.

Further, property crime also dropped dramatically; motor vehicle theft, as an example, is down by nearly two thirds and burglary rates are down some 40%.

This dramatic decrease in crime rates come during what has been a reversal of gun bans and restrictions that arguably reached its zenith with the Gun Control Act of 1968.

In other words, the professor is lying through his teeth and, I suspect, he knows it.

14 Democrats Form the Congressional ISIS Caucus

By James Simpson

The United States allows 70,000 people from all over the world to obtain legal permanent residence through our Refugee Program--one of the most generous in the world. We also bring in another 40,000 or so through the Asylum program. Then there is the Special Immigrant Visa for people from Iraq and Afghanistan--about 10,000 in FY 2014--and a Cuban/Haitian Entrant program bringing in another 20,000 annually. That adds up to about 140,000.

Many of these "refugees" come from Islamic countries like Somalia, Iraq and Iran, bringing with them at least the potential for terrorism, in many cases a contempt for our country and the almost universal edict among Muslims to dominate. Islamic supremacist Mega Mosques are being erected all over the country, vigorously supported by the Obama Justice Department, which runs interference for them over the objections of local citizenry.

It's about to get worse. The Syrian civil war--enabled at least partially by Obama's insane foreign policy--has created a refugee crisis, with approximately 2.9 million Syrians now living in refugee camps in surrounding countries. The U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees wants the U.S. to accept 130,000 Syrians by the end of 2016. We have only taken 700 so far, but given the FBI's warning that it cannot guarantee ISIS or other terrorists are not among the refugees, even that is too many.

Not to be dissuaded from such silly national security concerns, a group of 14 U.S. senators, led by the indefatigable Illinois Senator Dick Durbin, have written a letter to Obama urging him to allow 65,000 Syrians in as refugees. This would require a dramatic expansion of the refugee program, and virtually guarantee that a sizable number of ISIS fighters would slip in among them. Frank Gaffney's Center for Security Policy has given them the moniker "Jihad Caucus" because practically speaking, Jihad is what this request will bring.

The 14 senators demanding this massive influx of Syrians are:

Larwyn's Linx: Planes, Trains, and Automobiles: None Are Safe from the State's Parasites

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Nation

Planes, Trains, and Automobiles: None Are Safe from the State: Pro Libertate
Are We Running Out of Time?: Eileen F. Toplansky
The Civil Disobedience Charles Murray Wants Has Already Arrived: Joy Pullman

Bipartisan crony capitalism and America’s Constitutional crisis: Stephen Z. Nemo
How the left proves Christians and conservatives are not terrorists: RS
The Democrats’ Demographic Mistake.: Moe Lane

Surprise, surprise, there are more Hillary lies: Chip Wood
Chris Wossname: Mark Steyn
Differences Between Left and Right: Part I: Dennis Prager

Memorial Day Thoughts: Ace
“Six Seconds”: Never Yet Melted
A Nation Greater than We Deserve: David French

Economy

Obamacare advocates seek to fix problem they made worse: Byron York
Sticker Shock for Some Obamacare Customers: Megan McArdle
End Fannie and Freddie’s free ride on government credit: Alex J. Pollock

Scandal Central

How EPA flooded the zone on their water power grab: Exam
How The “#Black Lives Matter Crowd” Celebrates Memorial Day 2015: Refuge
Did Clinton pay-to-play arrangement hand over port container operations to UAE?: 1776

Climate & Energy

YNoKyoto: SDA
The sad tales of the Wikipedia gang war regarding WUWT – ‘creepy and a little scary’: WUWT
Obama’s Hot-Air Commencement Address: Cal Thomas

Media

Foundations plan to pay news media to cover radical UN agenda: George Russell
CNN At Peak Level Stupid: Interviews Paid Protester About Twitter Troll: Jay Caruso
The Fall of Mozilla, continued.: Moe Lane

Salon: 'The U.S. military is a national security threat': Mark Tapson
More Accurate New Yorker Locker Room Cover: iOTWreport
Why that Gay Marriage Study Was Faked — and Why We Should Expect More Like It: Ian Tuttle

World

Nobody Wants Syrian Refugees Except Democrats: Brenda Walker
Congress is Investigating Asylum Seekers with Terror Ties: RS
MUSLIMS disrupt air travel on Memorial Day: iOTWreport

81% of respondents to Al Jazeera poll support the Islamic State: Robert Spencer
Kindergarten graduation, 'Palestinian Authority' style: Matzav
Saudi Arabia In Turmoil As Shiites Are Escalating Tensions: Shoebat

Putin Signs Law to Shut Down “Undesirable” Organizations: RS
Report: Moscow Can’t Maintain Current Levels of Military Spending for Much Longer: Paul Goble
John Bolton underestimates Obama: Carol Brown

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Moore's Law Keeps Going, Defying Expectations: Annie Sneed
Milky Way Galaxy Shimmers Over New Zealand Pool in Stunning Amateur Photo: Nina Sen
Giant Black Holes May Be on a Collision Course: Clara Moskowitz

Cornucopia

The Betrayal Papers — Chris Muir Edition (NSFW): Right Planet
Graduation Gifts: Thomas Sowell
Memorial Day in New Hampshire: Mark Steyn

Image: How The “#Black Lives Matter Crowd” Celebrates Memorial Day 2015
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QOTD: "Aside from anything else, [the lies about Benghazi are] a wonderful example of how shriveling and corrupting politics is... I don't care what party this is.

It doesn't matter if they're Republicans, if they're Democrats or the Socialist Workers' Party or the Raving Green Looney Party, if you support that party, you should be ashamed of a shriveled definition of politics, that it consumes even those who you claim are your friends, like Chris Stevens. He's a real person. Sean Smith is a real person. Tyrone Woods is a real person. Glen Doherty — these are real people, not just props in Obama's attempt to swing 1,200 soccer moms in southern Ohio." --Mark Steyn

Monday, May 25, 2015

Mass Slaughter of Women, Children in Palmyra While Obama Golfs, Eats Ice Cream for Reporters

By Sara Noble

Libya Also in Danger as ISIS Runs Wild After Hillary and Obama Eviscerated Its Government

Yesterday, Barack Obama played golf, on the same day that 400 women and children and hundreds of troops were slaughtered in Palmyra. Today he’s yucking it up with reporters and eating ice cream while a British Lord is calling out for action, saying “we can no longer rule out boots on the ground.”

He has not a care in the world.

Obama is a completely delusional, unserious man.

According to Reuters, opposition activists on social media claimed that hundreds of bodies were in the streets of the city.

“The terrorists have killed more than 400 people.. and mutilated their bodies, under the pretext that they cooperated with the government and did not follow orders,” a Palmyra resident told Syria’s state news agency.

State employees were among hundreds killed in the massacre. Among them was the head of of nursing department at the hospital and all her family.

More than 300 troops have been killed and a much larger number have disappeared.

People are being set afire in the streets.

Palmyra is the home of an ancient Roman city 2200 years old and can be dated back to 4000 BC. ISIS will destroy and sell all of Palmyra before they are done.

ISIS is becoming a very serious threat in Libya, the country Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton helped destroy and for which he receives no blame whatsoever.

CRONY CLIMATE CAPITALISTS: 6,000 First-Generation Chevrolet Volts Still Sitting On Dealer Lots

"Once a loser, always a loser" may be the new motto of Government Motors:

...before Chevrolet can concentrate on selling the all-new version of the plug-in hybrid EV, it needs to find a way to move the overstock of first-gen models currently sitting on dealer lots."

According to The Detroit Free Press, Chevy dealers had about 6,000 2015 Volts on their lots at the end of April, more than twice the amount of Volts the automaker sold in the first four months of 2015. An enticing 39-month lease at $299 per month and $1,649 due at signing is currently being offered on 2015 Volts, but the majority of owners would still rather wait for the new model to arrive.

The 2016 Volt will travel 50 miles under electric power alone before its 1.5-liter four-cylinder EcoTec engine kicks in to help charge the car’s lithium ion batteries. By comparison, the outgoing model will travel just 37 miles on electric power and uses a less efficient 1.4-liter engine. Chevy has also confirmed the 2016 model will start at $33,995 before a $7,500 tax credit, which is more than the first Volt’s current average transaction price of $30,607, but probably not enough to turn customers away and buy the cheaper first-gen car.

Cheaper gasoline prices have curbed interest in all electric and hybrid cars, with sales of plug-in hybrids like the Volt falling 33% year-over-year.

In 2012, Reuters reported that GM was losing about $50,000 on each Volt it produced. Experts estimated then the Volt cost about $90,000 each to produce.

What a freaking debacle.

And all in a day's work for Obama and his merry band of green energy crony climate fraudsters.


Hat tip: BadBlue News.
 

Top 5 Cover-ups Orchestrated by Clinton Consigliere Cheryl Mills

Writing at The New York Post, Paul Sperry offers an excellent suggestion to the House Select Committee on Benghazi: "call... Cheryl D. Mills to testify — under oath, and under the klieg lights."

Hillary Clinton had named Mills responsible for "identifying and preserving all emails that could potentially be federal records."

The job of damage control has fallen to Mills through a parade of scandals. Her lack of cooperation is legendary. In fact, she’s been officially accused of both perjury and obstruction of justice.

Sworn affidavits, depositions and court rulings, as well as congressional reports and testimony, paint a picture of, to put it charitably, a brazenly dishonest cover-up specialist...

• As White House deputy counsel, Mills ordered Commerce Department officials to “withhold” from investigators emails and other documents detailing then-President Bill Clinton’s and first lady Hillary Clinton’s allegedly illegal selling of seats on foreign trade junkets for campaign cash, according to sworn statements by Commerce’s former FOIA chief. “Ms. Mills, in her position as deputy counsel to the president, advised Commerce officials to withhold certain documents,” testified Sonya Stewart Gilliam in a July 2000 sworn affidavit taken by Judicial Watch, a government watchdog group in Washington. “The Commerce Department’s collaboration with White House Deputy Counsel Mills on these matters was, in my experience, highly irregular and at variance with normal procedures.

AN AMTRAK EXPERIENCE: May 22-23, 2015

Relayed by Lee Cary from a friend

The date should tell you something! I rode Amtrak from Dallas to Hope yesterday. Got here this morning.

The posted departure time was 3:40 p.m. I got to Union Station early, so as not to miss my train. Isn’t that the way it works at the airport? I should have known better. About 3:15, I got a text saying that the train was delayed. The revised departure time was now 7:51 p.m. If you’re good at math, that’s four hours and eleven minutes late.

It could have been worse. The westbound train, #21, headed to Fort Worth and on to Los Angeles, was scheduled to go out at 11:50 a.m. It left Union Station at 7:00 p.m.

Once we got on board, I was pleased to see the nice wide spacing and the comfortable reclining seats. For coach class, I couldn’t complain.

The ride was pleasant, but slow. I had ridden the DART light rail earlier from Plano into Big D. By comparison, the DART is a bullet train. We crept along for what seemed to be forever at 30 mph, tops. Once we got into the countryside, things picked up only slightly.

Larwyn's Linx: Democrats Want Obama To Relocate 60,000 Muslims From ISIS Central Into US

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Nation

Democrats Want Obama To Import 60,000 Muslims From ISIS Central: Sooper
7 Stages of the Progressive Agenda: Cube
The 15 Benghazi emails you need to read: Lauren French, Politico

Illegals Angry at Hillary’s Secret Service For Asking Their Legal Status: Sooper
Beware of the candidate without accomplishments: John Ruberry
Hillary Prepares Second Big Campaign Event Since First Flopped: Sara Noble

Obama has a strategy for fighting ISIS -- one that isn't working: Doyle McManus, LAT
President Hillary Kardashian: Derek Hunter
What Hillary hasn't been able to cover-up on Benghazi: Thomas Lifson

Leftists Work For the Total State: Henry Dampier
The Libertarian Moment is Everywhere Around Us: Nick Gillespie
14 members of Waco PD involved in bloodbath?: Conservative Headlines

Economy

Bank Of England Accidentally E-mails Top-Secret Brexit Plan To Newspaper: ZH
Behind Science Fraud: Steven Hayward
Congress' familiar path: short-term solutions: Alan Fram

Scandal Central

Emails reveal Hillary cared so much about Benghazi she slept through intel briefing 4 days later: Scoop
Stephanopoulos joined Bill Clinton on Pedo Island: iOTWreport
Gun-Toting Valdosta Flag Defiler Wants to Kill All White Crackkkas – Still on the Loose: Sara Noble

Climate & Energy

The Sound Of Settled Science: SDA
EPA poised to issue landmark water regulations: Timothy Cama, The Hill
Lake Mead Water Level Mysteriously Plunges After Nevada Quake: ZH

Media

100 Million Dead Under Communism – Next to Zero Hollywood Films: Betty Butter
Liberals Disgrace Memorial Day: Kurt Schlichter
The heart-wrenching pictures and stories of veterans from one cemetery on Memorial Weekend: John Brodigan

CNN's King: Within 24 Hours After Saying She Was Dead Broke, Hillary Made $700K: Breitbart
WSJ reporter to Hillary Clinton: 'Can I ride in your lap to the White House?': Examiner
PRESCIENT: Camille Paglia on feminism from 1995: Instapundit

World

Mass Slaughter of Women, Children in Palmyra; Obama Golfs, Eats Ice Cream for Reporters: Sara Noble
Iranian-backed militias lead Iraqi counteroffensive to retake Ramadi: Bill Roggio
Emigration kills Africa, immigration is killing Europe!: Vlad Tepes

Iraqi Refugees Fleeing ISIS Stranded in 'Horrific' Conditions: Right Pundit
Remembering Haifa Bus 37 Suicide Bombing: William A. Jacobson
Americans gave their lives to defeat the Nazis. The Dutch have never forgotten: WaPo

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Military suit with suspended armor, computer makes debut: USA Today
Marchionne approached GM about a merger, but was rebuffed, NYT reports: Automnews
50 years later, a look at what really sank the Thresher: NavyTimes (2013)

Cornucopia

Memorial Day, 2015: Springer's Blog
One is Smarter Than the Other Won: MOTUS
The McLaren 540C Coupe Is an Awesome $165,000 Entry-Level Sports Car: Robb Report

Image: Military suit with suspended armor, computer makes debut
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QOTD: "Clinton has insisted she didn’t share classified information through her email account, but the State Department concluded that one email exchange on potential arrests after the attacks was indeed classified. The document appears to have been formally classified Friday by the State Department." --Lauren French, Politico

Sunday, May 24, 2015

"Why I Love Being a Conservative"

Relayed by the invaluable Adam Baldwin:

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"Emails offer glimpse into Clinton’s personal life", but not much concern for anyone else in the wake of the Benghazi attacks

A fascinating article was published yesterday by Agency France Presse (AFP) that legacy media outlets studiously avoided relaying. And I had to go to PM News Nigeria to find it.

Only hours before Hillary Clinton was to face her biggest challenge and tragedy as US secretary of state, she asked an aide to get her a French documentary about Libya.

"Can you get us a copy of Bernard Henri-Levi's (sic) film about Libya. I think Harvey made it and it showed at Cannes last spring," the then secretary of state wrote to her trusted friend and confidant Huma Abedin at 5:50 am on September 11, 2012 [hours before the attack on Benghazi]...

...The request to Abedin was among 296 emails released by the State Department on Friday out of 30,000 that Clinton has turned over after revealing that during her 2009-2013 tenure she had used a private server and email address... they offer a small, but unprecedented insight into Clinton's personal life, her daily work at the Department and how she handled the tragedy which caused a convulsion of grief in the close-knit diplomatic community.

A "convulsion of grief in the close-knit diplomatic community"? Yes, in fact Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was so grief-stricken that she slept through the presidential intel briefing convened just four days after the attack.

THANKS, OBAMA: Epidemic of MS-13 Gang Busts Reveal Disastrous Results of Executive Amnesty

By Investor's Business Daily
 

Border: Recent busts of murderous MS-13 gangsters put the lie to President Obama's sympathetic amnesty narrative of illegal immigrants as "workers who mow our lawns, make our beds (and) clean out bedpans."

Authorities Wednesday rounded up 37 MS-13 gang members in Charlotte, N.C., on racketeering conspiracy charges, along with charges of murder, attempted murder and firearms violations. All of them are illegal aliens from El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala. Several are round-trippers — illegals who broke in once, committed crimes, got deported and broke back into the U.S. — proving that our border is porous and unsecured.

Charlotte police discovered the rat's nest of foreign gangsters after some of them started shooting up local nightclubs and bars.

Reading the indictment, much of the money these immigrant hoods raise from illegal gang activity is wired back to El Salvador to arrange for even more gangsters to come across the border.

The funds are wired back to Central America through remittances that Obama has made cheaper and easier for illegals to send through new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau rules on banks.

YES, REALLY: Obama Says Iran Won’t Be More Dangerous with an Extra $150 Billion Dollars

By Daniel Greenfield

The Goldberg interview with Obama reads like a conversation with an idiot. Actually make that two idiots, both of whom are also compulsive liars.

One of the highlights of their insane exchange is when Obama tries to insist that Iran won’t be more dangerous if it gets another $150 billion.

Obama: The question is, if Iran has $150 billion parked outside the country, does the IRGC automatically get $150 billion? Does that $150 billion then translate by orders of magnitude into their capacity to project power throughout the region?

So Obama brings out the math, and by math, I mean specious arguments and assorted distractions.

“And that is what we contest, because when you look at the math, first of all they’re going to have to deliver on their obligations under any agreement, which would take a certain period of time. Then there are the mechanics of unwinding the existing restraints they have on getting that money, which takes a certain amount of time.”

Which matters to Obama because he wants it to happen when he isn’t on the hook for it, but doesn’t help anything. Well it helps him avoid responsibility.

Larwyn's Linx: Hillary's Real Benghazi Problem

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Nation

Hillary's Real Benghazi Problem: John Hinderaker
Hillary claim she used only one email address while at State? Another lie: GWP
The Democrats heat up some leftovers for the 2016 Senate races: Moe Lane

Senate Decepticons Advance Trade Deal Giving Obama New Powers: Treehouse
Night of the Republican Suicide: BPR
Democrats Sent Out This Tweet for Memorial Day Weekend: Michael Hausam

Cheryl Mills Had a "Come to" Jesus Meeting on Benghazi: Ace
Christie Dead Wrong About Spying: Rick Jensen
Minnesota Somali Muslim Joined ISIS, Vowed to 'Spit on America' at Border: Geller

IS claims it is ‘infinitely’ closer to nuking US: Times of Israel
Goldberg Absolutely Nails it on Hillary: DTG
Can Hillary Reverse the Six-Year Decline in Democrat Turnout?: Michael Barone

Economy

No biggie: Your Obamacare premiums are going up. Way up in some cases.: Jazz Shaw
Immigration: Is This The Breaking Point?: Peter Brimelow
ACLU Wages Total Lawfare on Poor PA Town Trying to Stem Illegal Wave: Margaret H. Roberts

Scandal Central

Hillary Deliberately Caused Delay Of Email Release By Submitting Only Paper Copies: Eileen McGann
NYC Demands Sharpton’s Daughter Preserve Incriminating Hiking Pictures: WZ
Senate blocks USA PATRIOT Act reauthorization: Teri Robinson

Climate & Energy

EPA Plan to Ban Coal Hits Major Roadblock: Phil Kerpen
It’s The Summer Of Cli-Fi: Cove
Why It’s So Hard to Convince Warmists: WUWT

Media

Credit Where Credit Is Due: R.S. McCain
We Need to Become America Again: John Velisek
New SooperVideo! Why All Latinos Should Be Conservatives Explained in Just 2 Minutes: Sooper

Hey media: A very bad week for black lives in Baltimore (and gay rights in the Middle East): Silvio Canto, Jr.
‘Pathetic’: AP runs cover for Dems scrambling to repair ‘deceptive’ Obamacare: Twitchy
Actor Chris Pratt’s Take on Any Grievances he may cause Liberals in the Future: John S. Roberts

Hollywood's Hillaryphobia: Mark Steyn
PBS Buries Stephanopoulos Scandal; Anchor Woodruff Exposed as Clinton Donor: Breitbart
Reporter to Harf: Do You All Feel Like Clinton Campaign Surrogates When Defending Her Private Emails?: WFB

World

Attention Feminists, Leftists, and anti-Zionists – You’re On the Wrong Side: iOTWreport
ISIS Prices Michelle Obama’s Worth In “Slave Market” They Promise To Bring To West: $40: WZ
Three ways China and the U.S. could go to war: Michael Auslin

Poll: 80% of Muslims Support ISIS Conquests in Syria & Iraq: GWP
Leaked Jihadist Text Book Teaches ISIS Terrorists How To Infiltrate America: Shoebat
Obama: No, Iran Won’t Be More Dangerous with $150 Billion Dollars: Daniel Greenfield

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

The Inside Story of How the iPhone Crippled BlackBerry: WSJ
New Evidence May Solve Mystery of America's Huge Ancient City: Kristin Romey, National Geographic
The Establishment Has Already Acknowledged A Lost Race of Giants - Part 1: Ancient Origins

Cornucopia

20 First Photos from the History of Photography: Michael Archambault
Hold the Popcorn: Hillary’s Best Emails Are Still In The Can: MOTUS
Elderly Politician Forgets Where She Is: Glob

Image: ISIS Prices Michelle Obama’s Worth In “Slave Market” They Promise To Bring To West: $40
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: Isn't it time for a real conservative? Ted Cruz 2016: Official Site

QOTD: "Senators are forced to go into a classified viewing room in order to read the full text of the [TPP Trade Agreement] document, but are not allowed to bring in key staff or take notes on what is included in the bill text. Not only this, but as you would assume for classified documents, elected officials are unable to speak to anyone without proper security clearance about the specific details of the trade negotiations without suffering potential criminal legal ramifications.

This becomes a serious issue when dealing with complicated and technical negotiations regarding the largest trade deal in American history. It also raises serious questions about the legislative process and democracy generally when the public is unable to view the content of a bill introduced in Congress, but foreign government officials and private corporations are." --Stephen Benavides

Saturday, May 23, 2015

I Hear a Strange Echo: Iran Tells Israel to Give Up The Nukes, Then Obama Tells Israel Give up Nukes

By Sara Noble

The Obama administration likes to help Iran out on the nuclear issue. In the end, we will have Obama’s legacy.

On Monday, Iran demanded Israel give up their nuclear weapons, saying that failure to do so could kill the Mideast nuclear ban initiative. Coincidentally, on Thursday, the U.S. pressed Israel to get rid of their nukes because it would bring other nations into discussions on the matter.

Israel National News: US Pressing Israel to Lose Its Nukes

Assistant US Secretary of State for International Security and Nonproliferation, Thomas Countryman, held talks in Israel with senior Foreign Ministry officials, about the possibility of making the Middle East nuclear-free on Thursday.

The State Department confirmed Countryman’s visit and sources in the US Administration said that Israeli agreement to the idea would be a catalyst for bringing additional countries into discussions on the matter.

This is while our allies and other terrorist nations including ISIS are seeking nuclear weapons.

Fars News Agency: Iran leads calls by non-aligned nations for Israel to give up its nuclear weapons

Iran on Monday led calls by non-aligned nations for Israel to give up its nuclear weapons as a major conference got underway on advancing prospects for a nuclear-free world.

The Disarmament Conference in New York has come and gone (ended May 22), while Western diplomats claim proposals could torpedo the process and push Israel to walk away!

Failure to reach an agreement on the issue could kill the Mideast nuclear ban initiative. The developing nations say the UN should convene another conference on a regional ban of nuclear weapons. They also demand Israel immediately join the NPT (Non-Proliferation Treaty).

It is clear that Obama and Iran seek the same goal: not a nuclear-free Middle East, but an Israel-free Middle East.

 
Hat tip: BadBlue News.
 

BOLTON: Released Emails Prove Hillary Culpable in Terror Killings of Americans in Benghazi

It's still startling when a few courageous individuals dare to speak truth to power. Ambassador John Bolton is one such :

I think the most telling information that we have seen in this limited number of emails is that there are repeated examples of Secretary of State Clinton being told in 2011 and 2012 that the security situation of our personnel in Tripoli and Benghazi was very precarious. The country’s government had fallen apart—that the threat from terrorist attacks was high and that our people were very concerned about it.

Now you’ll recall in her limited public appearances to date that she has said, you know, I don’t get involved in that security stuff, you know, I have people that do that. Well I have to say when I heard that I was stunned. I’ve worked for six different secretaries of state, everyone of them coming from very different backgrounds, every one of them cared about the safety of the Americans who worked for them in the State Department. And not one of them would have missed the danger that our diplomats in Libya faced. And this was called to her attention repeatedly and she didn’t do anything about it. So When we ask the question, who is responsible for the tragedy of the murder of U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans in Benghazi, there is a very clear answer. It was Hillary Clinton.

She said she didn’t know the security situation in Libya , these documents alone, these are the first documents, it’s only going to get worse after this, after the other documents come out, but these documents alone, we know she was advised repeatedly about how dangerous it was.

Of course, anyone could have arrived at the same conclusion years ago if he or she had read "DAMNING: The Complete Benghazi Timeline Spreadsheet", which was first published in 2013.
 
 

CONTROLLING THE LANGUAGE: How Progressives Stifle Dissent

By Richard Larsen

Ever since the junior senator from Illinois announced his candidacy for the presidency eight years ago, those who have criticized his politics and his ideology have been pummeled with a charge of “racism.” It’s been the perfunctory, knee-jerk response – devoid of intellectual integrity or factual relevance – to avoid the substantive issues, while attempting to simultaneously stifle dissent and silence critics. And it’s clear from early indications with regard to the 2016 presidential race, that the same modus operandi will be employed against those critical of Hillary Clinton. Only this time it will be gender based – the charge of sexism.

During the Obama tenure, the charge of “racist” has been unavoidable to any who were critical of the president. Whether it was criticism of Obamacare, lack of transparency, fiscal profligacy, inscrutable foreign policy, class-envy fomentation, and anti-capitalist policies, it didn’t matter. Regardless of the logic, data, facts, or strength of argument, if you opposed the administration policies and initiatives, you were a racist. At least according to the sycophants, who were either oblivious to logic, data, or facts, and had an empty logical quiver from which to fire back with anything except blanks.

And what’s pathetic, from a free speech, open discourse, and cogent political discourse perspective, is that it worked. The millions of Americans who flocked to Tea Party rallies, Glenn Beck confabs, and other conservative functions, were successfully labeled “racists” because of their opposition to the liberal, destructive policies of the administration. It didn’t matter what color, race, creed, or socio-economic status they hailed from, they were all racists.

For some reason, the fact that the policies propounded and foisted on the nation the past six years are not race-based seems lost on the vapid purveyors of the “racist” tactic. Big government, massive debt, onerous regulations, expansive government control, and the concomitant loss of personal liberty are naturally opposed not because they might be advanced by someone of a certain color, ethnic background, or native language. They’re opposed because they’re antithetical to the founding principles of our republic! It matters not who is foisting the destructive policies and ideology on the nation; it matters that they’re distinctly anti-American. Conservative Ben Carson’s current lead in the crowded GOP primary race underscores that fact.