Friday, June 12, 2015

Baby Jihad

By Raymond Ibrahim

In 1900, the Muslim population of the world was less than 200 million. Conversely, the Christian population of the world was almost 560 million—almost three times the number of Muslims.

Times have changed. According to the findings of a Pew Research Center in America:

The number of Muslims will increase at more than double the rate of the world’s population, which is expected to rise by 35 per cent in the next four decades.

There will be more Muslims than Christians in the world in less than sixty years, new research revealed.

The [Islamic] religion’s share of the world’s population will equal the Christian share – at roughly 32 per cent each – in 2070, analysis by the Pew Research Center showed.

[…]

By 2050 Muslims will make up around ten per cent of Europe’s population.

For a better idea of what is in store for Europe, simply look to the UK’s “Londonistan”—the apt name for London and other regions with a notable Muslim presence: Already with a 10 percent Muslim population, Londonistan is a reflection of Europe 35 years from now when it too is projected to be ten percent Muslim (and by which time the UK will likely have an even much larger Muslim population).

The same sorts of anti-infidel violence and sexual abuse that is a daily fixture in Muslim majority nations is already a normal feature of Londonistan with its mere 10 percent Muslim minority.

Put differently, if “ISIS” and other Islamic groups regularly behead “infidel” men and sexually enslave “infidel” women in the Middle East—so are “average” Muslims doing so in the UK:

Larwyn's Linx: Jeff Sessions Issues Final 'Critical Alert’: Obamatrade Just Like Amnesty, Obamacare

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Nation

Sessions' 'Critical Alert': Obamatrade Just Like Amnesty, Obamacare: Matthew Boyle
ObamaTrade Relaxes Visa Process for... Pakistan: Daniel Horowitz
GOP Leadership Staff Melt Down over TPA: CR

Obama's trade package barely advances in razor-thin House vote: Susan Ferrechio
34 Courageous Conservatives Wound Obamatrade in Runup to House Vote: Breitbart
If you don’t like GOP opposition to TPA and TPP, thank Leadership: Neil Stevens

The OPM Hack Isn't Bad. It's Catastrophic.: Ace
The No Scandal Administration: Joe Cunningham
King v. Burwell Pits Rule Of Law Against Rule By Decree: John Daniel Davidson

Into The Soft Abyss: The Camp of the Saints
Hillary Clinton Needs A Do-Over: Jonah Goldberg
Freddie Gray Case: Did Prosecutor’s Request Lead to Confrontation?: Andrew Branca

Why America Hates The GOP-Obamatrade Deal: Michelle Malkin
Clinton Deploys ‘They Hate You’ Strategy: Mona Charen
Lindsey Graham: Socialist Ratcheteer: Jeffrey Lord

Economy

'You're Fired - Now Train Your Much Cheaper Foreign Replacement': Michael Snyder
Obamacare Rates Jump an Average 12 Percent for 2016: Thomas Novelly
‘This means war!’ Chicago teachers prepare for battle with Rahm Emanuel: Victor Skinner

Scandal Central

Paul Ryan mimics Pelosi on Obamatrade: ‘It’s Declassified And Made Public Once It’s Agreed To’: Breitbart
America’s strategic infrastructure compromised by Clinton pay-to-play?: 1776 Channel
Paul Ryan Pulls a Pelosi: iOTWreport

It Begins… Obama Moves to Forcibly Diversify Wealthy Suburbs: GWP
Report: Hack of government employee records discovered by product demo: Sean Gallagher
OPM Hackers Stole Data on Every Federal Employee: Dustin Volz

Climate & Energy

UPDATE! BOLO Alert!: Mark Steyn

Media

An Open Letter to President Obama: Charlie Daniels
The New York Times’ Rubio Derangement Syndrome: Roger L Simon
Finally: GOP Looks to Squeeze the IRS: Daniel Davis

Bill Clinton contradicts Hillary on email claims: Fox
Russ Feingold, campaign finance ‘reform’ hypocrite.: Moe Lane
Super-competent Janet Napolitano protecting UC students from talk of American exceptionalism: Michelle Malkin

World

Existential Threats To America: David Limbaugh
Death by Lashing: Saudi Arabia: Raif Badawi and the Travesty of Justice in Saudi Arabia: Salim Mansur
U.S., Russian aircraft came within 10 feet over Black Sea: CNN

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Obama’s Gun Speech Gag Order: Retaliation Against Group Suing Government: Sean Davis
US Army set to give soldiers a robot arm for shooting: DailyMail
The Death of the 20th Century Business: Matthew Griffin

The Universe: Big Bang to Now in 10 Easy Steps: Denise Chow
Meet the Egyptian Repairman Who Outranked Google: Search Engine Watch
Report: Apple Includes Palestinian Flag Among New iOS 9 Emojis: David Daoud

Cornucopia

Hard Choices, Hard Blows: MOTUS
Parents Come Forward To Out Local NAACP President As White: iOTWreport
The 11 most traumatizing TV episodes of all time: K. Thor Jensen

Image: Paul Ryan Pulls a Pelosi
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QOTD: "It’s [Obamatrade] declassified and made public once it’s agreed to." --Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI), on the secret Obamatrade bill

Thursday, June 11, 2015

SURE, WHY NOT? Clinton Crime Fund Taps "Mistress of Disaster" Jamie Gorelick as Defense Counsel

No, it's not a headline from The Onion. It's real. And it's spectacular:

Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton and the Clinton Foundation are asking a federal judge in Florida to toss out a conservative legal activist's lawsuit claiming the former secretary of state used her private email account and the promise of changes in U.S. foreign policy to shake people down for speaking fees and donations to the foundation.

The Clinton Foundation has also pulled in a legal big-gun, former Deputy Attorney General Jamie Gorelick [Ed: "The Mistress of Disaster"], to lead its defense against the racketeering suit filed in March by Larry Klayman of Freedom Watch.

In her first filing in the case last week, Gorelick — a partner at D.C. law firm Wilmer Hale — called the claims in the lawsuit "fatuous." She argued that Klayman's grievance is derived from what he contends were incomplete responses to Freedom of Information Act requests his organization filed with the State Department. Klayman contends those responses could not have been complete because Hillary Clinton used a private email account and server for all her email and only returned some of her messages to the department at its request last year.

Gorelick and longtime Clinton personal lawyer David Kendall argued in separate motions filed last week with U.S. District Judge Donald Middlebrooks that any of Klayman's issues with the FOIA responses should be resolved through litigation pending in Washington against the State Department, not through a racketeering lawsuit against the Clintons personally and the foundation... "Plaintiff has no constitutional right to Secretary Clinton’s e-mail," Kendall wrote in a parallel motion filed by the Clintons.

Gorelick is known worldwide as "The Mistress of Disaster" for her involvement in not one, but two, trillion-dollar disasters.

Oh, and Politiho's Josh Gerstein notes that Gorelick's last federal litigation experience was also a catastrophe: she represented Duke University in its infamous persecution of the school's lacrosse team for rapes that never occurred.

Duke was forced to settle with members of the team after Gorelick's stellar work.

Come to think of it, the Clinton Crime Fund's employment of Gorelick may be the best thing that could have happened. For us.


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At what point does a President’s actions become treason?

Writing at the Wall Street Journal, Jay Solomon proffers "U.S. Strategy in Lebanon Stirs Fears":
Critics say Washington’s funding cut for a program in Lebanon to develop alternative Shiite political voices to Hezbollah is an effort to appease Iran...Coming on the heels of an expected deal with Iran, it is bound to generate much speculation about possible ulterior motives.

AMMAN, Jordan—The U.S. cut funding for a civil society program in Lebanon that seeks to develop alternative Shiite political voices to Hezbollah, the powerful Iranian-backed militia and political party.

The group that received the U.S. support and critics said that the Obama administration was curtailing its efforts to counter Hezbollah to avoid confronting Shiite Iran, with which it is negotiating to conclude a historic nuclear accord this month.

These people say the funding cut imperils a program that underpinned criticism in Lebanon of Hezbollah’s growing role in supporting President Bashar al-Assad in Syria’s civil war... "We are more immediately worried about the message this sends to Shia communities, in Lebanon and the region, about their options for the future," said Lokman Slim, director of Hayya Bina, the organization that lost the funding.

...the U.S. move feeds into an increasingly alarmed narrative held by many Arab leaders who say that U.S. and Iranian interests appear increasingly aligned—at their expense. Both Washington and Tehran are fighting Islamic State forces in Iraq and Syria, with U.S. conducting airstrikes against the militants, but notably not against Mr. Assad’s Iran-backed regime.

Hezbollah, which the U.S. classifies as a terror organization, receives extensive funding and arms from Iran. It has deployed 10,000 soldiers in Syria to back Mr. Assad’s forces and counter Islamic State, U.S. officials estimate.

Saudi Arabia’s leadership, which supports the exiled leader of Yemen, was concerned when the U.S. last month met secretly with the Iran-backed Houthi rebels there that caused him to flee.

Most significantly, the Obama administration is seeking to conclude a deal with Iran by June 30 to curb its nuclear program in exchange for a lifting of international sanctions.

I don't know how else to say it. Barack Obama seeks a nuclear Iran that has hegemony over the Middle East.

I leave his rationale as an exercise for the reader.
 
 

"Let me be perfectly clear: I have no frickin’ clue what I’m doing."

By Alan Caruba

The headline topping the Wednesday, June 10 Wall Street Journal read “Obama Set to Expand Troops in Iraq.” We are six years, 143 days into the two terms Barack Hussein Obama has served in the office of President of the United States and he is as clueless now as he was when he arrived on January 20, 2009.

“President Barack Obama is poised to send hundreds more American advisers to a new base in a strategic Iraqi region to help devise a counterattack against marauding Islamic State militants, U.S. officials said Tuesday, a shift that underscores American concern over recent battlefield losses.” It’s 450 “trainers.”

We have had losses because: (1) Obama was elected on a promise to end the conflict in Iraq and (2) reelected by pulling out troops to the point that the remaining Iraqi troops -- Shiites in the south --decided it wasn’t worth dying for their leaders. Can’t say I blame them, but dying at the hands of ninth century Islamic fanatics is the fate that threatens the entire Middle East, not just Iraq or what’s left of it.

This is how we lost the war in Vietnam. There was a time when Americans utterly destroyed their enemies on the battlefield. In the latter half of the last century, starting with the Korean War, we lost the will to completely engage with the enemy.

Huge AP Scoop Catches Obama With His Pants Around His Ankles (Not Reggie Love-related)

By Dan Friedman

Barack Obama was just caught red-handed lying through his teeth about the Iran deal and attempting to fool Congress and the American people about “sanctions.” I contend this takes us well beyond the point of questioning Obama’s judgment and brings us to the point of questioning his motives.

I fear if enough Americans continue to ignore what Obama is doing in broad daylight, we will become victims of the greatest scam since the Trojan Horse rolled into Troy – with similarly disastrous results only on a worldwide scale.

Read this explanation of the AP story first, and then go on to read the actual story below that.

There's a lot going on in this piece, it's 1,100 words, and it gets highly technical very early. But it's also functionally an expose of how the Obama administration is going to shred the entire sanctions regime despite having promised lawmakers the exact opposite, and so the story will rightly be driving the discussion for the next couple of days at least.

In short, the AP has must revealed two major scoops:

Larwyn's Linx: Revealed: The Secret Immigration Chapter in Obama's Trade Agreement

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Revealed: The Secret Immigration Chapter in Obama's Trade Agreement: Alex Swoyer
The House May Vote on Super-Secret Trade Deal Friday : Jim Geraghty
Bracken Comments On NYANG “Detainee Operations Skills” Training: WRSA

Building the New Dark-Age Mind: Victor Davis Hanson
Judge orders State to release more Clinton emails in June: The Bell Jar
Obama: 'You Interpret a Statute Based On...Intent': Susan Jones

Hillary Broke Libya: ISIS has a seaport, and al Qaeda’s gone wild: LI
Hillary’s Wall Street Donor Threw a Tantrum at Israeli Ambassador: Daniel Greenfield
Obama Hearts Private School — For Himself and Family: Larry Elder

Ranking The 2016 GOP Presidential Race (So Far): Lid
Ted Cruz Going After the Libertarian-Hawk Vote: Matt Welch
The Bush Conundrum: Erick Erickson

McKinney Pool Party Organizer, Tatyana Rhodes, Lawyers Up: Treehouse
John Kasich Is Not Running to be President: Erick Erickson
Ben Carson: Unfit to be President: Neil Stevens

Scandal Central

New Report Heralds Existential Threat to America: GoV
Obama DREAMER Killed Air Force Colonel in North Carolina: Dave Gibson
ATF to reclassify AR/AK pistols as NFA items!: Lock and Load Radio

DOJ Uses Grand Jury Subpoena To Identify Anonymous Commenters on a Silk Road Post at Reason.com: Popehat
WikiLeaks Reveals Immigration Provisions Of TPP That Paul Ryan Called An “Urban Legend” : VDARE
Clinton State Dept. Covered Up Sex Crimes and Pedophilia?: Jerome Hudson

Climate & Energy

Oh, Mann, that’s gotta hurt!: Anthony Watts

Media

The Mind of Camille Paglia: Stuart Schneiderman
Bum Fight!! New York Times and POLITICO duke it out over a bottle of Night Train: RS
The Grey Lady’s Onion Breath: The Rzaor

'Primates of Park Avenue,' Stranger Than Nonfiction: Megan McArdle
New Black Panthers, Nation of Islam Arrive in McKinney to Keep the Peace: Mark Tapson
Photo of the Day: Sara Noble

World

American advisers to Viet… Iraq… expanded to 3,550.: Moe Lane
Did Gulftainer and Iran attempt to smuggle rockets to Gaza? UN tied to Gulftainer: Alan Jones
Darwin Award: Brandished Knife, told cop, “You drop yours.”: WeaponsMan

FBI Alert Reveals ‘Groups’ Behind OPM Hack: Bill Gertz
China Conducts Fourth Test of Wu-14 Strike Vehicle: Bill Gertz
Russia defines Arctic intentions with supersonic anti-ship cruise missiles: J.E. Dyer

BDS: Turning America against Israel: Rich Baehr
Israel to sue firms calling for boycott: MEM
Iraq's Christians Left High and Dry by US: Ryan Mauro

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Your Brain on Screens: Richard E. Cytowic
False Doors: The Gateways to the Egyptian Underworld: Bryan Hilliard
'Your PC may be infected!' Inside the shady world of antivirus telemarketing: Jeremy Kirk

Cornucopia

Pictorial Essay: MEDIEVAL CHURCHES: The Burning Platform
Why WWII Didn’t End Sooner: Victor Davis Hanson
Looks Like A Blast: The Vulgar Curmudgeon

Image: Tips Pull Cops In All Directions In Search For Escaped New York Murderers
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QOTD: "Hillary is a mess. And we're going to award the presidency to a woman who's enabled the depredations and exploitation of women by that cornpone husband of hers? The way feminists have spoken makes us blind to Hillary's record of trashing [women]. They were going to try to destroy Monica Lewinsky. It's a scandal! Anyone who believes in sexual harassment guidelines should have seen that the disparity of power between [Bill] Clinton and Monica Lewinsky was one of the most grotesque ever in the history of sex crime. He's a sex criminal! We're going to put that guy back in the White House? Hillary's ridden on his coattails. This is not a woman who has made her own career. The woman failed the bar exam in Washington! The only reason she went to Arkansas and got a job in the Rose Law Firm was because her husband was a politician." --Camille Paglia

Wednesday, June 10, 2015

INFOGRAPHIC: Which Dictator Killed the Most People?

Each and every one a radical socialist committed to centralized, totalitarian government. Every single one.


Yes, Hitler was a self-proclaimed socialist, not a right-winger.

Don't bother alerting the media. They don't care.


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FBI: Uhm, remember Obama’s pre-election claim that 'mass shootings are up'? Yeah, that was a lie.

By Warner Todd Huston

Just before last year’s midterm elections, the Obama administration widely distributed an FBI “report” that claimed that mass shootings had increased. Obama used this “report” to flog his gun control ideas and to “prove” that Republicans were wrong on gun control in the wind up to the midterms. Now the FBI has been forced to admit that the report was “imperfect.”

The report was all over the news in September and October last year, only a month or so before the Nov. 4 election. At the time the authors claimed, “The findings establish an increasing frequency of incidents. During the first 7 years included in the study, an average of 6.4 incidents occurred annually. In the last 7 years of the study, that average increased to 16.4 incidents annually.”

But now that the elections are over, now the FBI can admit that the whole thing was a pile of lies.

But late last week, J. Pete Blair and M. Hunter Martaindale, two academics at Texas State University who co-authored the FBI report, acknowledged that “our data is imperfect.” They said that the news media “got it wrong” last year when they “mistakenly reported mass shootings were on the rise.”

Mind you, the authors did not issue this mea culpa in the major news outlets that supposedly misreported the original findings. Instead, the authors published it in ACJS Today, an academic journal published by the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences. “Because official data did not contain the information we needed, we had to develop our own,” wrote Messrs. Blair and Martaindale. “This required choices between various options with various strengths and weaknesses.” You don’t say.

Another of Obama’s "Dreamers" caps off a life of crime with mass murder

By Mark Krikorian

The Washington Times reports that Immigration and Customs Enforcement has flagged Darron Wint for deportation, should he ever be released from prison. That’s unlikely, since he murdered four people, including a 10-year-old boy who was tortured first, in the Washington, D.C., “Mansion Murders.”

Though ICE’s action is a necessary formality, to call it a day late and a dollar short is a ghoulish understatement. Little has been reported about how Wint got here, other than he came, legally, from Guyana in 2000 at age 20, probably under one of the family categories.

But the relevant question here is why this depraved monster was allowed to remain in the United States?

It’s been obvious for a decade that Wint was an undesirable alien who should have been sent back. “Wint has had more than 30 brushes with the law, including serious charges starting in 2005 as well as minor charges,” according to a news report. He had two restraining orders filed against him, in 2005 and 2006, for threats of violence against others, including his father, stepmother, and younger sister. Since then he’s had several assault convictions, plus multiple arrests for beating his girlfriend, stabbing a man, assaulting a woman at a nightclub, burglary, theft, vandalism, and showing up at his workplace with a machete and a BB gun. He should have been escorted back to Guyana years ago, long before he capped off his life of crime with mass murder.

PIC O’ THE DAY: Clinton vs. Rubio Edition

Looks like Hillary's swimming pool is bigger than Marco's entire house.


Oh, but Democrats are for the little people, right.


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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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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

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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

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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