Wednesday, June 10, 2015

Larwyn's Linx: Post-Democracy in Action

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Nation

Post-Democracy in Action: The Z Blog
So, This "Texas Pool Party" Story Seems to be Premised on, Get This, a Huge Lie: Ace
Teach for America’s Professional Agitators: Michelle Malkin

Jonathan Gruber’s Obamacare Work Of ‘Key Political Importance’: Chuck Ross
Washington Post: ObamaCare Hits Record Unpopularity In New Poll: Breitbart
Nader: Hillary ‘Overcompensated’ for Gender with ‘Shocking’ Militarism: PJM

Highlights From the New York Times’ '08 Hillary Clinton Endorsement: Andrew Stiles
Hillary Clinton's real Libya problem: Stephen Collinson, CNN
Why Hillary Clinton Is Underwater: Charlie Cook

The Education Establishment vs. Black Education: Walter Williams
Judge Denies State Attorney Marilyn Mosby Motion for Gag Order: Treehouse
Marco Rubio, Commoner: Leon H. Wolf

Economy

If Your BS Detector Isn’t Shrieking, It’s Broken: Contra Corner
Deuce Bigalow, Millennial Gigolo: The Ultimate 21st Century Job : Dark-Bid
On behalf of the GOP, I'd like to thank the AFL-CIO for NY-04 and CA-07.: Moe Lane

Scandal Central

TRANSPARENT: Obama Administration Has Claimed 550,000 FOIA Exemptions: PJM
Federal Judge Gives IRS Until Friday To Explain Itself On Lerner Emails: Ethan Barton
Obama lawyers asked secret court to ignore public court's decision on spying: Spencer Ackerman

Climate & Energy

Green Lies: John Stossel
Obama's EPA Regulations: 6,552x As Long As Constitution; 46x As Long As Bible: CNS
Federal judge refuses to stop Alaska mine developer’s lawsuit against EPA: M.D. Kittle

Media

Actual Headline from The Hill: ‘Why Reagan would approve of Obama’s foreign policy’: JWF
BEHOLD! THE MAJESTIC… AH, MAJESTY OF THE RUBIO BOAT!!!!!: Moe Lane
Is the Story of a Muslim Woman Insulted by Flight Attendant a Hoax?: Mark Hemingway

Daniel Patrick Moynihan and the triumph of deviancy: RS
The New York Times’ Rubio Derangement Syndrome: Roger L Simon
New Hillary Clinton Comic Book Features Benghazi, Email Scandal: Patrick Howley

Financial Expert Quoted in NYT Rubio Hit Job is Obama Donor: David Rutz
Second-worst President Ever Accuses America Of ‘Racist Tendencies’: Tammy Bruce
Lying Establiishment Republicans fear they will win ObamaCare court battle: Alexander Bolton

World

No Iraq policy, but he did complete his NCAA brackets on time: Don Surber
You May Not Have Noticed It, But Obama Kind of Threw Ukraine under the Bus at the G7: David Adesnik
It’s Clear Who Enjoyed the ‘Flexibility’ to ‘Reset’ the U.S.-Russian Relationship: David French

Pamela Geller, Asma bint Marwan, and America: Gates of Vienna
Vatican makes history: Pope allows Islamic prayers, Koran readings: Times
Why It's a Big Deal: Erdogan's Surprise Defeat in Turkey: Ryan Mauro

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

75-Million-Year-Old Blood Cells Discovered in Dinosaur Bones: Jon Tennant
The Angel's Glow: Battlefield Legend Meets Biology: MetaFilter
A second chance at sight: Laura Dattaro (2014)

Cornucopia

Which Law Schools Allegedly Paid Students Not To Take The Bar Exam?: Staci Zaretsky
Diversity Is Strength! It’s Also…The End Of McDonalds?: James Kirkpatrick
Don't Look At Him, Maybe He'll Go Away: Springer

Image: President pictured holding 'packet of cigarettes' during cozy balcony chat with Italian Prime Minister
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QOTD: "On June 9, at the outset of her tour for her book 'Hard Choices,' Clinton's now-famous comment about being 'dead broke' on leaving the White House aired during an ABC News interview. By that point, the two had already made over $11 million in speaking fees for the year. The day after the comment became public, the couple gave three speeches, grossing $700,000 in fees." --Phillip Bump, "The Clintons Made $700,000 From Speeches The Day After Hillary's 'Dead Broke' Comments", Washington Post

Tuesday, June 09, 2015

BALTIMORE: Liberal City of the Future

By Richard Larsen

Culpability for the events in Baltimore over the past couple of weeks has perhaps inappropriately been directed exclusively at the police department. In all likelihood, the charges against the police involved in the tragic death of Freddie Gray are only symptomatic of the greater underlying problems of the once booming city. The greater tragedy is the destructive policies of over fifty years of liberal governance, which created the environment of disparity, poverty, and victimhood.

The city has been hemorrhaging jobs at an alarming rate for decades. And the most hard-hit have been the city’s black youth. Over 37% of 20-25 year-old black males are unemployed, versus 10% for white males of the same age. Black household median income is nearly half what it is for white households, at $33,610 and $60,550, respectively.

City policies have shrunk the population of the city by heavily penalizing the productive and earning households. Steve Hanke and Stephen Walters of Johns Hopkins University wrote in the Wall Street Journal earlier this week, “Officials raised property taxes 21 times between 1950 and 1985, channeling the proceeds to favored voting blocs and causing many homeowners and entrepreneurs — disproportionately Republicans — to flee. It was brilliant politics, as Democrats now enjoy an eight-to-one voter registration advantage.”

The result is a declining population, declining business enterprise, declining jobs, and severe blighting of the infrastructure. The city now has an estimated 16,000 vacant buildings and over 14,000 vacant lots. In the area of Sandtown-Winchester and Harlem Park, where Freddie Gray lived, more than 25% of the buildings are now vacant.

REVEALED: How the IRS Rewards Illegal Aliens for Their Crimes

By Ronald W. Mortensen

Whether intentional or otherwise, the Internal Revenue Service all too often sides with illegal aliens who routinely commit multiple employment-related felonies that do terrible harm to American citizens. The favoritism that the IRS extends to illegal aliens includes the following:

  • The IRS turns a blind eye to felony Social Security fraud committed by an estimated 75 percent of all illegal aliens who use fraudulently obtained Social Security numbers (SSNs) to obtain jobs and to pay taxes. When the IRS receives taxes paid by illegal aliens using an American's Social Security number, it ignores the crimes being committed — identity theft, Social Security fraud, forgery, and perjury on I-9 forms. And, rather than turning the illegal aliens over to law enforcement authorities, the IRS protects the illegal aliens because, as a former IRS Commissioner said: "We want your money whether you are here legally or not and whether you earned it legally or not."

  • The IRS allows illegal aliens to file income tax returns that include income earned on both a fraudulently obtained Social Security number and an Individual Taxpayer Identification Number (ITIN) in spite of the fact that, according to the IRS website, "By law, an alien individual cannot have both an ITIN and a SSN."

  • The IRS refuses to notify American citizens when illegal aliens use their and their children's Social Security numbers to earn income and pay payroll and income taxes. When citizens try to get information about illegal aliens using their Social Security numbers, the government accuses them of invading the illegal aliens' privacy.

Panic Before the Herd Does

By Jim Quinn

For the lazy people who don’t like to slog through Hussman’s entire data laden weekly tome, I’ve picked out the most pertinent sections. For the really lazy, I’ve bolded the most important sentences. When everyone on Wall Street is using the same algorithms in their HFT supercomputers, and John Q. Public isn’t even in the market, who will these supercomputers sell to when they all get the sell signal at the same time? When that time comes, and it won’t be long, I’ll be munching popcorn and watching the festivities unfold. The talking heads, government apparatchiks, and Ivy League educated big swinging dicks on Wall Street will declare a national emergency and demand another bailout. Will we be stupid enough to fall for it again, or will we start hanging bankers?

The higher the price an investor pays for a given stream of expected cash flows today, the lower the return that an investor should expect over the long-term. As detailed below, investors have responded to zero interest rates by driving stock valuations up to the point where expected market returns over the coming decade are also zero. Given that outcome, one is quite free to say that stocks are reasonably valued “relative” to zero interest rates, but one should still expect zero 10-year returns on stocks.

My impression is that’s not how investors are thinking. Particularly at market peaks, investors seem to believe that regardless of the extent of the preceding advance, future returns remain entirely unaffected. The repeated eagerness of investors to extrapolate returns and ignore the Iron Law of Valuation has been the source of the deepest losses in history.

Current valuations are above the 2007 peak, and are now within about 15% of the 2000 extreme.

Larwyn's Linx: Here is How Senators Were Paid Off (Bribed) to Support Treasonous ObamaTrade

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Nation

Here is How Senators Were Paid Off to Support Treasonous Obamatrade: Eric Odom
70+ Workers Hired By TSA Were On Terrorism Watchlists: Sara Dogan
IRS Protects and Rewards Illegal Aliens: Ronald W. Mortensen

Republicanophobia: Stuart Schneiderman
Hillary's officials cut criticisms out of State Dept reports: Sarah Westwood
Hillary Clinton’s Slide in Polls Leaves Her Vulnerable: Michael Barone

They’re Off and Running in Iowa!: Roger L. Simon
Cruz roundup: Social Security, pitch-perfect speech, South Carolina: Sylvan Lane
US Jews Heckle Obama Official at NYC Talk on Iran Agreement: Greg Campbell

Baltimore’s Riot-Loving Mayor Working With Islamists Tied to Terrorism: RWN
Obama Issued 2010 Directive to Assist Islamist Takeover of Middle East: Sara Noble
House Democrats Move To Ban Imaginary Plastic Gun “Threat”: Bob Owens

McKinney

What Really Happened In McKinney, Texas?: Bob Owens
The Full Story of The McKinney Texas, Pool Mob – Inside The “Craig Ranch” Subdivision: Treehouse
Six Seconds – The Threat Matrix – McKinney Pool Mob Fiasco…: Treehouse

Economy

More school districts report chaos after ‘white privilege’ theory influences discipline rules: Steve Gunn
At Least Two More Illinois Cities Poised for Bankruptcy: Mish
White House denies Obama said strong dollar a problem: Reuters

Scandal Central

How Bill Clinton and Teneo Duped the State Department Ethics Dummies: LibertyNews
Firearms Speech Regulations: Herschel Smith
Hillary's Plans to Stuff the Ballot Box in 2016: Phyllis Schlafly

Climate & Energy

10 Reasons that Skepticism Is the Reasonable Attitude Toward Global Warming: GayPatriot
The Carbon Tax Charade: Oren Cass
What Is Senator Whitehouse Smoking?: IER

Media

Politico acts as bodyguard for New York Times against the Washington Free Beacon.: Moe Lane
Mike Rowe delivers stinging rebuke to commenter who calls strong work ethic ‘right-wing propaganda’: RedAlert
Bill Clinton Hung Out With a Former Redskins Cheerleader at the Belmont: WFB

Is Obama Trying To Intimidate The Supreme Court On Obamacare Again?: Lid
But ‘wait, there is more!’ Free Beacon calls out NYT, links Clintons with ACORN: Twitchy
Ready For Panic: Sanders Pulls Within 8 Points of Grandma in Wisconsin: JWF

Why Won’t Congress Stop the Abuse of Executive Power?: Trumpet Daily
Salon Blogger On MSNBC: It Was Silly To Kill ‘Feeble Old Osama Bin Laden’: Shifra
AP Pens The Most Dishonest Anti-Cop Conspiracy Theory You Are Likely To Ever Read: Bob Owens

World

Nice work, Obama: Islamic State used US-made anti-tank missiles near Palmyra: Caleb Weiss
Report: Egypt angered after Muslim Brotherhood members attended Washington conference: JPost
IDF, Hamas prepare for next conflict: Yaakov Lappin, IHS Jane's Defence Weekly

Into Darkness: Theodore Dalrymple
Germany’s demographic and economic collapse: Vincent Cooper
Would a Transsexual Geert Wilders Be Hailed as a Hero?: GoV

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Hacking as Offensive Counterintelligence: The XX Committee
Major Medical Journal Retracts Numerous Scientific Papers After Fake Peer-Review Scandal: ZH
Bitcoin's Long-Term Viability Threatened by Block Size Limits: Andrea Castillo

US Special Forces are testing insect-sized reconnaissance drones: Jimmy Rose
ISIS Is Using Tunnel Bombs in Iraq: Marcus Weisgerber
Why Netflix Traffic Keeps Soaring: Mari Silbey

Cornucopia

We *All* Know This Guy: GayPatriot
From Hot Rods to Blow Jobs in One Generation: MOTUS
Jerry Miculek’s Concealed Carry Flamethrower: Bearing Arms

Image: Bill Clinton Hung Out With a Former Redskins Cheerleader at the Belmont
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QOTD: "Despite the mistakes that were made in Iraq, it was still a viable country until Barack Obama made the headstrong decision to pull out all the troops, ignoring his own military advisers, just so he could claim to have restored "peace," when in fact he invited chaos and defeat.

This is only the latest of Obama's gross misjudgments about Iraq, going back to his Senate days, when he vehemently opposed the military "surge" that crushed the terrorist insurgency, as did Senator Hillary Clinton also, by the way. " --Thomas Sowell

Monday, June 08, 2015

The important message sent by the depraved crimes depicted in Game of Thrones and Outlander

The last couple of weeks on cable television's most popular shows have featured a smorgasbord of stunning violence.

Heiress to Winterfell Lady Sansa Stark is brutally raped on her wedding night by the psycopathic Ramsay Bolton.

Preteen Princess Shireen is lashed to a stake and burned alive -- by her father, Stannis Baratheon.

Highlander Jamie Fraser is viciously tortured and then raped by Captain "Black" Jack Randall.

The outcry from each fictionalized incident was as predictable as it was pathetic.

Not because the depictions weren't shocking and cruel: they were.

Because true outrage should be reserved for the very real, very depraved actions that are occurring not in some mythical setting but on our planet, now.

In today's Middle East, crimes against humanity are occurring on a daily basis with nary a murmur from Hollywood, the Democrat establishment, the feminists or the progressive movement.

In the ongoing Muslim civil war, children are crucified on a regular basis.

Girls as young as eight years old are routinely raped and sold as sex slaves in open markets.

Other children are buried alive or beheaded.

An estimated 30 million human beings around the world are currently living in slavery.


In its ongoing civil war, Syria employs chemical weapons on a routine basis. The death toll from the Syrian conflict alone is approaching a quarter of a million. Another four million Syrians have fled the warzone and are living as refugees.

The left may be capable of marshalling a Twitter campaign in a show of short-lived, faux outrage (remember last year's #BringBackOurGirls?), but when it comes to real action they are AWOL.

So the faux outrage over Hollywood's treatment of Sansa Stark and company rings hollow.

Truth is indeed stranger than fiction.

And for the left, fiction is more real than truth.


Related: Ameritopia.
 

HEARTBREAKING: Carol Bowne Needlessly Dead Thanks to New Jersey and Chris Christie’s Unconstitutional Gun Laws

By Rob Morse

Carol Bowne is dead. The petite hairdresser was murdered by her ex-boyfriend.. and by the state of New Jersey.

Bowne had received threats from her ex-boyfriend. She did everything a law-abiding citizen could do in New Jersey. She obtained a protective order. She installed security cameras inside and outside her home.

Sadly, the restraining orders and cameras are only useful for collecting evidence and bringing charges against an assailant after she was attacked. These measures didn’t matter.

Carol was stabbed to death as she drove home and stepped onto her driveway.

Ms. Bowne tried to get a firearm for self-defense. She started the long process to be allowed to buy a gun in New Jersey. The state delayed her application and Bowne ran out of time. Her ex did not honor the protective order to leave her alone, just as New Jersey bureaucrats did not honor the right of self-defense. Carol Bowne died defenseless.

It takes honorable citizens who obey the law up to nine months to buy a firearm in New Jersey. It can be done in an hour if you buy an illegal gun.

DEVIL’S PACT: Treasonous ObamaTrade Bill Sets Stage for Global Governance, Which is Why You Can’t Read It

By Labor Union Report

It is a rarity that I agree with today’s union bosses. However, in this instance, as unions are currently doing to Democrats supportive of fast-tracking ObamaTrade, Republican lawmakers who have bending over (backward) to appease transnational corporate lobbyists by backing the secret trade pact called the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) need to hear from voters—and fast.

According to the Detroit News, fast-track will be voted on in the House of Representatives this week.

In the House, nearly all Democrats oppose the measure, which may have the support of fewer than 20 Democrats. The White House will rely on Republicans to get the 218 votes needed to approve the bill.

Although unions have dubbed ObamaTrade “NAFTA on steroids,” it is more than that.

Here are some of the things that ObamaTrade does, according to one source:

Larwyn's Linx: I Agree with the Unions: Stop Secret Obamatrade TPP Deal #StopFastTrack

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Nation

I Agree with the Unions: Stop Secret Obamatrade TPP Deal #StopFastTrack: LUR
Losing the Habit of Winning Wars: Stuart Schneiderman
The Deadly Consequences of Draconian Gun Laws: Charles C.W. Cooke

NRA: Gun blogs, videos, web forums threatened by new Obama regulation: Paul Bedard
Obama on His Amnesty: ‘The Law Is on Our Side’: CNS
Left Plays Fast And Loose With Issue Of Gender Identity: Jonah Goldberg

The Cream of the Crop: Derek Hunter
The panic that dare not speak its name: Hillary looks like a loser: Thomas Lifson
As GOP gathers in Raleigh, Ted Cruz outlines primary’s bracketology: Rob Christensen

Marco Rubio gets speeding ticket for Obamatrade fast track vote: AT
Breaking: Unlike Hillary, Marco Rubio Does Not Abuse his Influence: Leon H. Wolf
Bikers show up en masse in Waco to protest continued jailing, police harassment: Scoop

Economy

Why is Harvard Subsidized by the Taxpayer?: James Joyner
Feds respond to calls to investigate Edison work outsourcing: Leslie Berestein Rojas
NLRB 'ambush' election ruling a threat to businesses: Ray McCarty

Scandal Central

WHAT CONSTITUTION? Obama Plans To Muzzle Gun-Related Speech: Bob Owens
Clinton Donated $100K to New York Times Group the Same Year Paper Endorsed Her: WFB
Smoking-gun document said to prove Obama-Muslim Brotherhood ties: Garth Kant

Climate & Energy

EPA gives farmers double whammy: Farm and Ranch Guide

Media

The New York Times Bashes SEAL Team 6: Kim Quade
Democratic Oppo Firm’s Fingerprints on NYT Rubio Hit: Brent Scher
Insanity, liberal style: Silvio Canto, Jr.

The Burden of Doing What’s Right: Erick Erickson
Journalism: Brendan Keefe of WXIA 11 Alive TV Writes Fiction to Attack Conservatives: Erick Erickson
Former presidential adviser: American Pharoah win another of Obama’s accomplishments: Twitchy

Feminist Tumblr: Human Train Wreck Offers Online ‘Support’ to ‘Survivors’: R.S. McCain
Rep. Chaffetz posts photo of Border Patrol helicopter fired on from Mexico: Twitchy
Haunting chalkboard drawings, frozen in time for 100 years, discovered in Oklahoma school: Elahe Izadi

World

'Between the hammer and the anvil' - how Isil has spelt doom for Iraq's Sunnis: Richard Spencer
“Our Nation and Country is Islam”: Gates of Vienna
Iran -- A Paper Tiger?: Shoula Romano Horing

Brazil starts counting their Jews: Pamela Geller
Goodbye Sweden: Sweden Report
Denmark Is Bowing To Sharia Blasphemy Laws With Self-Censorship: Shoebat

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Boeing patents midair rechargeable drones: Business Insider
Check Out What Mansory Did to the Mercedes G63 AMG 6×6: Giancarlo Perlas
How Pyrex Reinvented Glass For a New Age: Liz Logan

Cornucopia

Presidents Out Standing in Their Field: J.L. Bell
Proof of Intelligent Life on Planet Earth: MOTUS
Is The Price Of Gold Really Headed Above $19,000?: KWN

Image: Teen With Fake Gun Shot Trying To Mug Concealed Carrier With Real Gun
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QOTD: "A New York Times reporter called Obama out on his bull when it comes to Iran, launching an epic Twitter war between reporter David Sanger and the White House.

Sanger reported that Iran has been quietly increasing its nuclear stockpile right under Obama’s nose.

In response, Marie Harf of Team Obama tweeted back to Sanger, “You write that the ‘overall increase in Iran’s stockpile poses a major diplomatic and political challenge’- Not true.”

She also defended the stockpile increase calling it “perfectly acceptable.”

Sanger shot back saying that indeed Iran is enriching uranium even though their facility to neutralize it doesn’t work and that is a problem where Obama recognizes it or not.

Weighing in a former George W Bush speech writer noted, it must be awful for Harf to “have to spin on behalf of the government of Iran” like that." --Downtrend

Sunday, June 07, 2015

Anti-American Nutjob Father Pfleger Emerges From Under His Rock

By Springer's Blog:

AWR Hawkins, Breitbart, 6 June 2015

Rev. Michael Pfleger: NRA 'Will Pay for the Murder' of Chicago Children

On June 6, Reverend Michael Pfleger listed recent shootings in heavily gun-controlled Chicago then said the NRA “will pay pay for the murder of our children.”

He was joined by Reverend Jesse Jackson and the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence president Dan Gross... Pleger, Jackson, and Gross rallied outside of Chuck’s Gun Shop, where Jackson recently rallied for the ban of guns already banned in Chicago.

...Pleger said we need to “make gun ownership responsible,” that we need to “title guns like cars.”

He ended his speech by calling out the NRA specifically, saying:

At the end of the day you can argue with us [and] you can call us names, but you got to deal with God. And the blood of our children is on your hands. And you will pay for the murder of our children.


This is incitement, plain and simple.

Pfleger won't dare name the real culprit for the epidemic of crime in America's inner cities: big government. Big government incentivizes fatherless families, so we get fatherless families. We get educational blight and failed public schools protected by the diabolical alliance of Democrats and Teachers Unions.

We get high rates of crime and imprisonment.

We get Chicago.


Related: How we lost the war on poverty.
 

BUMMER: Islam in "Existential" War With Itself

Dan from New York:

12: And he shall be a wild ass of a man: his hand shall be against every man, and every man's hand against him; and he shall dwell in the face of all his brethren.'

                  - Genesis Chapter 16

Islam's debilitating internal contradictions, presaged in the Torah, are working against the ambitions of its radical elements in the Middle East. Far from readying a war against Israel, Islamists in the region are preoccupied with a higher priority: saving themselves from each other. Still, Israel is taking nothing for granted and is keeping its powder dry.

Distress Signals By Hizbullah Leader Nasrallah And Pro-Hizbullah Media Reflect Growing Sense Of Existential Danger, Crisis Of Confidence Between Hizbullah And Its Supporters


Recent statements by Hizbullah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah regarding the existential danger faced by his organization and the resistance axis in the war against ISIS, and regarding the possible need for a general mobilization of Hizbullah members, reflect the deep crisis currently afflicting the organization and the deep distress felt by its leadership. This distress stems from the situation in Syria, namely the heavy losses sustained by Hizbullah in the fighting there and the defeat of the resistance axis in many areas, especially in the north and south of Syria. It also results from a decline in Hizbullah's standing among the Lebanese Shi'ites, who, according to many reports, have begun expressing a lack of confidence in Hizbullah and are reluctant to join its ranks.

Larwyn's Linx: Sessions to Obama: Why Are You Keeping Obamatrade’s Global Governance Secret?

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Nation

Sessions to Obama: Why is Obamatrade’s Global Governance Secret?: Breitbart
Revealed: Convicted Felon George Soros Funding Attacks on Election Integrity: Adams
High Court Got the Hijab Case Wrong: Rick Jensen

US Customs Chopper Goes Down After Taking Fire From Mexico: RWN
MS-13 gang 'children' charged with brutal rape of 16-year-old: M. Catharine Evans
Waco Police Deny Public Access To Info On Deadly “Biker Brawl”: Rachel Blevins

Dems Looking for the Panic Button?: Steven Hayward
New documents prove Hillary Clinton censored YouTube video: Minds
GOP Presidential Hopefuls Fire Back at Hillary For Attacks on Voting Rights: Max

China Might Be Building a Huge Database of Federal Workers: Sara Noble
Protestors Plan Rally in Ferguson to Support Boston Terror Suspect: Bradford Thomas
Legal Personhood: The Chimp's Point Of View: Springer's Blog

D-Day

June 6 1944, D-Day: Ace
71 Years Ago Today: WRSA
June 6, 1944 – D-Day Invasion (Reagan vs. Obama): GWP

Economy

And Just Who are the Useless Eaters?: GoV
Post-Democracy: The Z-Man
Elsewhere (165): David Thompson

Scandal Central

Clinton's RICO trial: Attorneys fight to obtain evidence from Hillary Clinton: Jim Kouri
IRS Created “Special Project Team” of “Hundreds of Lawyers” to Hide Info from Congress: ACLJ
Vets told they can ‘buy back’ 2nd Amendment rights: Bob Unruh

How the Red Cross Raised Half a Billion Dollars for Haiti ­and Built Six Homes: NPR
U.S. LGBT Community Silent as ISIS Deals With Homosexuals in Horrifying Ways: IJR
Getting Government Out of the Marriage Business: Michael L. Grable

Climate & Energy

Feds pour another $32 million more into failed solar industry: Tori Richards
Antarctic Ice Extent Sets Another New Record High: Not a Lot of People Know That
Global Warming and the Age of the Earth: a Lesson on the Nature of Scientific Knowledge: Dr. David Deming

Media

To Quiet the Dry Bones of Liberty: Paratus Familia
Was government hack our final warning?: Douglas Rushkoff
MSNBC spokesperson returns to work at White House: Eddie Scarry

World

The Unlikeliest of Allies: Ace
If you're part of ISIS, it might be a bad idea to include geolocation information in Tweets. #OPSEC: Mike Hoffman
Remember The ‘Discriminated’ Muslim Woman? Here’s What REALLY Happened: Sean Brown

What is Halal?: I4I
Spain in the Eye of the Storm of Jihad: Soeren Kern
Houthi Rebels in Yemen Fire Scud Missile into Saudi Arabia: GWP

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

The Fat Lady Hums A Few Notes: NoisyRm
How an undergraduate discovered tubes of plasma in the sky: The Conversation
Missing link found between brain, immune system; major disease implications: ScienceDaily

Cornucopia

“American Pharoah” Wins “Triple Crown” with a Wire-to-Wire Victory at Belmont: FreeLight
I now pronounce you, a hot mess: Deadspin
Hollywood elite to erect memorial to all dead home invaders: Cube

Image: Here’s How Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower Readied Allied Troops About to Embark on D-Day Invasion
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QOTD: "A manhunt was underway for two convicted murderers who pulled off an elaborate overnight escape from adjoining cells in a New York state maximum security prison near the border with Canada, police said on Saturday.

Prison guards discovered that the men were missing during an early morning bed check in the Clinton Correctional Facility, in Dannemora, about 40 miles (65 km) south of the Canadian province of Quebec. Both inmates are considered a danger to the public, state police said.

...The two men were in adjoining cells and cut a hole through the back wall, crawling through the opening overnight, a prison official said.

They scaled a catwalk, then used power tools to drill through metal walls and a steam pipe, finally weaving through interior tunnels and coming out through a manhole cover on the street... The men had left items in their beds, like clothing, to make it appear they were asleep, he said.

It was not yet known how they obtained power tools or figured out how to make their way through the tunnels to the street." --Victoria Cavaliere

Saturday, June 06, 2015

TRAVESTY: DOJ Brings Charges Against Soccer Federation FIFA But Not the Clintons

By Richard Larsen

It was not much of a surprise to some to see the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) bring corruption charges against the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) this week. After all, the granting of World Cup hosting rights to Russia (2018) and Qatar (2022), appeared highly suspect, along with several other apparent “pay to play” coincidences. Considering the nature of the charges against FIFA, it seems only logical to wonder if, or when, such charges will be levied against Bill and Hillary Clinton, and the Clinton Foundation.

The DOJ indictment alleges that FIFA officials “abused their positions of trust to acquire millions of dollars in bribes and kickbacks,” according to Attorney General Loretta Lynch. The graft is alleged to have influenced World Cup host nation selection, marketing rights for sports marketing companies, and broadcast rights for television coverage of FIFA events.

Prima facie, it doesn’t appear that FIFA did anything more legally dubious than did the Clinton Foundation. According to Hillary Clinton last year, the First Family of the 1990’s left the White House “dead broke,” in 2001. They made up for their White House poverty years from 2001-2006, when, according to Mrs. Clinton’s Senate disclosures, the couple made $87.3 million, from book deals to speaking fees. As long as none of those paydays bought influence, that’s just fine, unless of course one’s ideology requires disdain and class-envy of those who are financially successful, for the Clintons are clearly “one per centers.”

The Clinton’s financial waters become much more murky when their Foundation is brought into the picture. The Clinton Foundation is classified under IRS Code 501(c)(3) as a “non-profit” foundation, comprising several separate “initiatives,” or areas of focus, including health, economic opportunity, and climate issues. In just over 13 years, the Foundation has raised nearly $2 billion from U.S. corporations, especially Wall Street firms, political donors, and foreign governments.

SEN. TED CRUZ TO UNITED NATIONS: Don’t Even Think About Adding Israel to the List of Terrorist Nations

Among the current crop of Republican presidential candidates, there is no more staunch defender of Israel than Sen. Ted Cruz. And, of course, with the possible exception of Rand Paul, all of the GOP candidates reject Barack Obama and the Democrat Party's deep, open hatred of Israel. This week Cruz directed a formal letter to U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, slamming the corrupt organization for its threat to add the State of Israel to the the U.N.’s list of “parties to conflict who commit grave violations against children”.

June 3, 2015

His Excellency Ban Ki-moon
Secretary-General of the United Nations
United Nations

First Avenue at 46th Street
New York, NY 10017

Dear Mr. Secretary-General:

I write to you to convey my outrage that the State of Israel may be added to your list of “parties to conflict who commit grave violations against children.”[1] This designation would falsely and shamefully equate Israel with some of the most barbaric terrorist organizations around the world. The decision to add Israel is solely your decision to make and, therefore, is entirely in your power to prevent from taking place.

As you are well aware, this list is part of your annual report on Children and Armed Conflict.  It is my understanding that the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) may be added for the alleged violations described below.  The 2014 report on Children and Armed Conflict listed more than 59 parties including terrorist organizations such as Boko Haram, Taliban, Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), and Al Qaeda who “recruit or use children, kill or maim children, commit rape and other forms of sexual violence against children, or engage in attacks on schools and/or hospitals in situations of armed conflict.”[2]

HILLARY’S AWFUL WEEK: By the Numbers

Related by James:

20,000:

Minutes Since Clinton Has Taken A Question From The Press. (Philip Bump, "Here's A Clock That Counts The Minutes Since Hillary Clinton Answered A Press Question," The Washington Post , 5/12/15)

$10,000:

The Monthly Amount The Clinton Foundation Paid Blumenthal While He Was Providing Intel To Clinton At The State Department. (Ben Kamisar, "Clinton Foundation Paid Blumenthal $10,000 Monthly Salary," The Hill , 5/28/15)

At Least 100:

More Questions Sanders Has Answered Than Clinton.

58:

Percent Of Americans Are Dissatisfied With The Way Clinton Handled Benghazi. (CNN/ORC Poll, 1,025 A, MoE 3%, 5/29-31/15)

57:

Percent Of Americans That Do Not Believe Clinton Is Honest And Trustworthy. (CNN/ORC Poll, 1,025 A, MoE 3%, 5/29-31/15)

54:

Percent Of Independents That Have An Unfavorable View Of Clinton. (CNN/ORC Poll, 1,025 A, MoE 3%, 5/29-31/15)

52:

Percent Of Americans That Do Not Believe Clinton Cares About People Like Them. (CNN/ORC Poll, 1,025 A, MoE 3%, 5/29-31/15)

50:

Percent Of Americans That Have An Unfavorable Opinion Of Clinton. (CNN/ORC Poll, 1,025 A, MoE 3%, 5/29-31/15)

36:

Clinton Attends Nearly One Fundraiser Every 36 Hours. (Palmer Gibbs, "PT Round-Up: Hillary Clinton Headlines 8 Fundraisers, Sen. Marco Rubio Keynotes A Party In Connecticut, Democrats Throw Their Support Behind Ted Strickland And Sen. Joni Ernst Makes 'Em Squeal At A Pig Roast," Sunlight Foundation , 6/1/15)

At Least 24:

More Questions O'Malley Answered This Week Than Clinton.

14:

Years Since Clinton's Favorability Was This Low. (Nick Gass, "Hillary Clinton unfavorable numbers highest in 14 years,"Politico, 6/2/15)

8:

Fundraisers This Week. (Palmer Gibbs, "PT Round-Up: Hillary Clinton Headlines 8 Fundraisers, Sen. Marco Rubio Keynotes A Party In Connecticut, Democrats Throw Their Support Behind Ted Strickland And Sen. Joni Ernst Makes 'Em Squeal At A Pig Roast," Sunlight Foundation , 6/1/15)

1:

Voter That Was Told By Clinton To "Go To The End Of The Line." (David Weigel, "Whoa, If True: Hillary Clinton Blows Off Autograph-Seeking Voter," Bloomberg , 6/3/15)

0:

Meetings This Week With Average Americans.

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Larwyn's Linx: 40 Years of Democrats Saying How Much They Want to Get Money Out of Politics

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Nation

40 Years of Democrats Saying How Much They Want to Get Money Out of Politics: Jon Schwarz
Another Controversy Over Hillary Clinton’s Time at the State Department: Fred Lucas
Clinton rivals pounce as her ratings tank: WaPo

Giuliani: I Would Have Already Brought Hillary Before A Grand Jury: RWN
Only Democrats Are to Blame for Obamacare Chaos: RWN
New York Times Implicated in Bogus Rubio Story: Ace

Yet another life ruined by Chris Christie's draconian gun laws: Synnove Bakke
New Jersey Woman Stabbed to Death by Ex While Waiting for Gun Permit: WFB
Unexpectedly: Murder Rate Skyrockets in Baltimore: Jack Dunphy

Mark Levin Describes the Chinese Government Hacking as an ‘Act of War’: Sara Noble
In Chicago, a Public University Tries to Seize Private Property: Bryant Jackson-Green
Meet The NSAC - The US Government's Shadow Spy Agency: ZH

Economy

6,652,000: More Americans Working Part-Time, But Not by Choice: Ali Meyer
Disney uses H-1B visa program to hire tech experts, fire Americans: Tod Robberson
BofA's Harris: Great Recession Has Left Lasting Scars on Consumers: Max

Scandal Central

Classic Trey Gowdy cross-examination: Does President Obama have a private email server?: BPR
IRS sends Congress unsigned form letter to brush off demands for Clinton Foundation investigation: Exam
Systemic Corruption Has Destroyed America: George Washington

House Benghazi panel to interview Sid Blumenthal on June 16: Susan Ferrechio
SSA Issued $16.8 Billion Disability Overpayments: WFB
Emma Sulkowicz Creates Faked Rape Porn, Claims If You Watch It, You're a Rapist: Ace

Climate & Energy

Scientists May Have Lied To Promote EPA’s Global Warming Agenda: Michael Bastasch
EPA: Remember all that horrible stuff we said about fracking? Yeah… never mind: Jazz Shaw
Big Oil Calls For Carbon Pricing: Paul Homewood

Media

'She Lied" says eyewitness to United Airlines Muslim Diet Coke incident: FlyerTalk
Political Correctness Is Ruining Fashion: Maria Santos
Scumbag Keith Olbermann Names Ted Cruz 'Worst Person in the Sports World'... for a Joke: NB

The Complex Power Coupledom of Chris Hughes and Sean Eldridge: Sarah Ellison
What’s Benghazi Clinton Emails & Money vs Rubio’s Traffic Tickets?: DTG
Press Told There Will Be ‘NO Opportunities to Interview Hillary Clinton’: Alicia Powe

World

Sen. Cruz to U.N.: Israel is Not a Terrorist Organization: Human Rights Voices
Israel, Saudi Arabia admit secret diplomacy for first time: Daniel J. Roth
Egypt: Wife of Ousted President Sitting on Death Row Drops Bombshell About Hillary: ConTrib

What I would have asked Obama: Ruthie Blum
Report: Obama Plans to Free Up to 10 Detainees from Guantanamo Bay Soon: Breitbart
ISIS show off their US-made spoils of war: Daily Mail

Smash Isis now – or we’ll all pay later: Douglas Murray
Report: China Dispatching Surveillance Vessels Off Hawaii: Wyatt Olson, Military
Lawmaker: Moscow can answer possible deployment of US nuclear missiles in Europe: Tass

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Feds want new cars to come standard equipped with alcohol sensors: MassPrivateI
Hospital’s Tiniest Premature Baby Heads Home, Weighed Less Than One Pound at Birth: LifeNews
NSA Debate Weighs Privacy vs. Security: RWN

Cornucopia

I'm the Man that Built the Bridges: KSU OLLI
Viral Video Of New Bigfoot Sighting In Russia: Richard Anthony
This Week’s Prize for Life Imitating Art: MOTUS

Image: Hillary’s high risk faux primary race
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QOTD: "“Nobody worries about upsetting a droid.” This conclusion inspires the altogether more sinister variant of disapproval for drawing pictures of Muhammad, the Argument from Provocation, which should be familiar to anyone who closely attended news coverage of the PEN/Charlie Hebdo controversy and the Garland shootings.

It goes something like this: 1) Some Muslims will react violently to images of Muhammad, which they consider blasphemous. 2) Knowledge of the prohibition and its violent enforcement being widespread among non-Muslims, any activity in which such images are created invites violence. 3) Having possessed this knowledge yet persisted anyway, both Charlie Hebdo’s writers and the organizers of the Texas event were culpable, to whatever degree one cares to assign, for the violence directed against them. All of which is a more polite, circumspect way of saying something nasty: they had it coming." --Varad Mehta

Friday, June 05, 2015

There Goes the Fake "Housing Recovery"

By Jim Quinn

It seems the mainstream media is giddy with excitement over the 280,000 jobs supposedly created in May. The markets aren’t so happy, as good news is actually bad news. What excuse will Yellen and her fellow Wall Street puppets at the Federal Reserve use to not increase interest rates from emergency levels of 0.25%? The ten year Treasury rate immediately skyrocketed to 2.43% in seconds. It was at 1.64% in February. That’s a 46% decline in price in four months. Do you still think bonds are a safe investment? Guess what is tied to the 10 Year Treasury rate? Mortgage rates. There goes the fake housing recovery. Artificially high prices, higher mortgage rates, and young people unable to buy sounds like a perfect recipe for collapse.

The MSM is cackling about the 280,000 new jobs, but you won’t hear them mentioning that the number of unemployed people went up by 125,000 as 208,000 people the BLS classified as not in the labor force last month decided they were in the labor force this month. What a crock. At least 20 million of the 93 million classified as not in the labor force can or will work, therefore they are unemployed.

One month does not make a recovery. Let’s see what the YTD numbers show:

  • Since January, 594,000 more Americans are employed, an average of 149k per month. Considering the working age population has gone up by 732,000 since January, why is anyone crowing?
  • The BLS drones actually expect you to believe the unemployment rate has fallen from 5.7% in January to 5.5% today, because 442,000 Americans decided to voluntarily exit the labor force. That’s a hoot.

The really good stuff is buried in Table A-9 of the BLS data dump. See for yourself:

Elderly female mob boss tries race- and gender-baiting while studiously avoiding questions from press

Hypothetically speaking, if I'd amassed $150 million through a massive racketeering and money-laundering operation, I'd be avoiding the press as well. But I wouldn't be running for president.

Hillary Clinton closed a three-day campaign fundraising swing through Texas and New Mexico on Thursday with a rare public appearance at Texas Southern University in Houston and a stemwinder on voting rights.

She took no questions and spoke with no reporters, but angrily complained that Texas voters can present their concealed-carry gun permits as a voter ID, but not their college student identification cards.

Clinton was received with wild applause at the historically black college, but organizers arranged the 8,100-seat basketball arena so that three-quarters of the seats were roped off and empty.

They added rows of chairs on the floor, but 15-foot-tall blue curtains draped all around blocked the view of entire sections of empty seats, leaving the impression that Clinton couldn't fill the room.

The university didn't provide a crowd count, but an arena security official estimated that there were 2,200 in attendance.

Granny Clinton looks very tired and quite depressed.

If she can only avoid indictments, debates and questions from the press until Election Day 2016, she could have a chance.


Hat tip: BadBlue News.
 

OLBERMANN VIOLATES HIS CONTRACT WITH ESPN: Rips Ted Cruz For... Telling a Tom Brady Joke

Back in 2013, failed progressive talking head Keith Olbermann was hired back by ESPN. Given his litany of controversial, bogus, and idiotic commentaries, ESPN had one main condition for his return: he was "barred from talking politics."

After a 16-year absence, Keith Olbermann is returning to ESPN, the New York Times reported Tuesday night.

Rumors had been swirling for weeks that the former Current TV anchor was "in serious discussions" with ESPN, but apparently the deal will officially be announced on Wednesday.

According the Times, Olbermann, 54, will host a late night talk show from New York that will air on ESPN 2. Although Olbermann may discuss other topics besides sports, his new contract reportedly forbids him from talking about politics on the program.

This morning Melissa Mullins called our attention to a clear violation by Olbermann of his contract terms:

Media Dimwits Celebrate "Courage" of Caitlyn Jenner While Ignoring True Hero Chris Kyle

By Daniel John Sobieski


One gets the impression that if Amir Hekmati, the former United States Marine still imprisoned in Iran were gay, transgendered or a deserter, President Obama, who tweeted to the former Olympic champion and now Vanity Fair cover girl Bruce/Caitlyn Jenner: “It takes courage to tell your story.”

BizPac Review noted how quickly and for what reason President Obama sprung into action after Caitlin’s cover:

“It takes courage to share your story,” the president tweeted in response to Jenner, who broke the president’s record for fastest new Twitter account to reach 1 million followers.

Never on to miss an opportunity to push the progressive agenda, Obama tweeted three minutes later, asking other lesbians, gays, bisexuals and transgenders people to tell their tale (because they’re not in the news enough these days).

“Your story matters in the fight for LGBT rights—share it here:” Obama tweeted with a link to a page on barackobama.com.

As Investor’s Business Daily noted, courage is defined by people like Sgt. Andrew Tahmooressi, who languished in a Mexican jail after serving his country for taking a wrong turn after being confused by traffic signs in a construction zone, ignored by his Commander-in-Chief who takes time out to congratulate gay basketball players for their “courage”:

Jill Tahmooressi, Andrew's mother, has never been invited to stand by the president on the White House lawn. Nor has she ever received a phone call from President Obama, as she testified Wednesday before a House Foreign Affairs subcommittee. Presidential calls of support are reserved for basketball players like Jason Collins, whom Obama called to say "he was impressed by his courage," according to a White House spokesperson, for announcing that he was gay.