Monday, June 15, 2015

SERIOUSLY: Hillary Clinton lists her second greatest accomplishment ever as... watching TV

Named to ask her two signature achievements in politics, the thoroughly unaccomplished Hillary Clinton stumbled for an answer. What she came up with was worthy of a scene in Being There:

Without looking it up on any liberal media news site, please list for me two Hillary Clinton accomplishments. You’re right, my bad. Please name one accomplishment.

Come on, you got this. Just one.

No? Okay, well, I’m stumped too....


Let's unpack this:

Russia: After her ill-advised efforts to appease the dictator Vladimir Putin by handing him a cheap plastic bauble (the infamous "reset" button), Russia has responded with an unprecedented wave of expansionism:

• As it became clear that Republicans would lose the White House in 2008, Russia invaded Georgia.

• It invaded Crimea in 2014.

• This month, it restarted the proxy war with Ukraine.

• It is preparing for war in the Arctic, executing plans "to put 'Bastion' anti-ship missile systems at their Arctic bases in 2015, to go along with airfield improvements, aircraft deployments, and installation of mobile anti-air missile systems and early warning radars."

• It has resumed overt aggression against U.S. warships, begun executing joint military drills with Red China in the Mediterranean, stood fast as Iran's staunchest ally in its race to acquire nuclear weapons, and -- most importantly -- it paid the Clinton Crime Family off in exchange for one-fifth of all U.S. uranium, one of America's most precious military assets.

Oh, and that's just Hillary's finest accomplishment.

Her second one's even funnier.

She watched the Bin Laden raid on TV.

That's it.

That's all she's got.

And this is the Democrat Party's de facto Presidential candidate?

This isn't a political party. It's an SNL skit.


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CLASS: CNN using emojis to represent GOP Presidential Candidates

The news-watchers at Fire Andrea Mitchell point us to the propaganda network's latest virtual defecation:

As if CNN wasn’t a joke already, check out the graphics they are using to show the 2016 GOP contenders for president...


Is this the best [the] CNN graphics department can do? Funny, I haven’t seen these stupid emoticon like graphics for Hillary or the Democrats. CNN continues to be the ultra clown car news network.

Did they hire Hillary Clinton or Jeb Bush’s logo designer or something?

More like Ren and Stimpy.


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Biographer confirms President Reagan carried a concealed handgun while serving in office

By Blake Neff

One of President Ronald Reagan’s leading biographers says that Reagan carried a concealed handgun for about 14 years following his attempted assassination at the hands of John Hinckley Jr., confirming a recent claim made by author Brad Meltzer.

Meltzer, a best-selling thriller writer, wrote in the New York Daily News over the weekend that he was told about Reagan’s heat-packing ways while researching an upcoming novel. While touring the headquarters of the Secret Service, Meltzer says one of the agents there mentioned that Reagan carried a revolver in his briefcase during his years as president.

“Whatever you think of Reagan, you have to admit, he had a black belt in badassery,” Meltzer wrote.

The Daily Caller News Foundation reached out to Craig Shirley, a notable Reagan biographer, who said that Meltzer’s claim is completely true and independently confirmed by his own research.

Shirley told TheDCNF he learned about Reagan’s gun while researching his upcoming book Last Act: The Final Years and Emerging Legacy of Ronald Reagan. He said Reagan’s secret gun was revealed to him by Stephen Colo, a retired Secret Service agent who led Reagan’s security detail after he left the White House.

Shirley offered a bounty of new information about Reagan’s gun that was absent from Meltzer’s original piece. While Meltzer didn’t say when Reagan started carrying, Shirley confirmed the practice began after Reagan was shot and nearly killed by John Hinckley Jr. on March 30, 1981.

Larwyn's Linx: Resign yourself to not having Barack Obama to kick around very much anymore

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Nation

Resign yourself to not having Barack Obama to kick around much anymore: Moe Lane
Clinton Cash: an Update: Scott Johnson
George W Bush patiently explains the facts of life and war to his successor.: Moe Lane

Former Obama Chief of Staff Had No Idea Clinton Used a Private Email Server: WFB
Hillary watch party less well-attended than her Ethics board meeting: Doug Powers
Will Michael Oren Change the Jewish Vote?: Roger L Simon

Negotiating a Disaster: William Pollack
Is It Just Me or Does Hillary Talk Like a Robot? : Fred Schwarz
Four Weeks Later: Waco Police Narrative Unravels: Breitbart

Hillary Announces Plan to Be Barack Obama's Third Term: Scott Shackford
Democratic Party Now Literally Selling Hate: Dan McLaughlin
Perfect Meme: Transracites Rachel Dolezal and Elizabeth Warren: YoungCons

Economy

California Senate Approves Free Health Care for Illegal Aliens: Debra Saunders
The Intellectual Weakness of The Fourth Estate: Ace
Greece and creditors fail in 'last attempt' to reach deal: Reuters

Scandal Central

Passing for Black: Top Tips from Transracial Icon Rachel Dolezal: Milo Yiannopoulos
This Is Why Fake Black NAACP President Rachel Dolezal Was Outed by Her Parents: Sara Noble
Spokane NAACP Members Start Petition to Topple Rachel Dolezal!! Protests to follow!!: Sooper

Media

Move Over Drudge — “BadBlue” is Successfully Reinventing the Way People Find News: LibertyNews
Dolezal in 2010: I’d Be ‘Nervous’ to Go to a Tea Party Rally Because of All-White Crowd: NRO
Larry Elder: Conservative blacks long accused of ‘trying to be white’: Twitchy

Salon: Tea Party Gets It Right–Crony Capitalism Is How You Beat Hillary: Breitbart
‘The end': Hillary account asks for ‘favorite’ part of announcement speech: Twitchy
Chris Wallace shuts down Clinton spox on Hillary’s hypocritical wage gap rhetoric!: Scoop

The Left Can’t Handle An Inconvenient Truth: Kimberly Ross
Associated Press Uses Two Very Different Headlines For Hillary Clinton and Carly Fiorina: Joshua Riddle
National Media Video Accidentally Catches Contraband Being Smuggled Into New York Prison: Treehouse

World

Insider Book to Reveal Roots of Obama's Israel Antipathy: Tova Dvorin
Britain PULLS SPIES From Hostile Countries After Russia And China CRACK SNOWDEN FILES: Sooper
Live Free or Die Beheaded: iOTWreport

Madrid’s Newest Cultural Program: Anti-Semitism?: Walter Russell Mead
'Barbie is a threat to Islam': Matzav
Muslim persecution of Christians worsens in Palestinian territories, Israel: Ralph Sidway

Second Major Hack Steals 3 Million Files of Those Seeking Security Clearances: Ace
‘No Complete Strategy’ in Iraq, But Embassies Getting Complete Movie Channel Packages: Pamela Geller
British Waterpark Bans Women From Wearing Bikinis And Other ‘Non-Sharia Compliant’ Swimwwear: Shoebat

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

"Life on Bitcoin": Pymnts
Millions Of Mayflies Create Blizzard-Like Conditions In Pennsylvania: BuzzFeed
Scientists emerge from isolated dome on Hawaii volcano slope: Cathy Bussewitz

Cornucopia

“Perception Is Reality”… Really? Or Perceptually?: MOTUS
FLAG DAY: Old Glory's 238th Birthday: Lid
Traps!: Donald Sensing

Image: How Many Attended Hillary’s Campaign Reset? Deceptive Camera Angles Help Hillary! (event)
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QOTD: "Madrid’s new lefty government is off to an interesting start. The new head of the city’s culture department recently tweeted: “How do you fit five million Jews in a SEAT 600 [the Spanish version of the Fiat 600]?” Answer: in an ashtray." --Walter Russell Mead

Sunday, June 14, 2015

Top 10 Questions Hillary Clinton Won’t Answer

Highlighting the funniest line from Hillary Clinton's campaign relaunch ("We need to stop the flow of secret, unaccountable money."), author Peter Schweizer lays down the hurt on the Clinton Crime Family.

1. Why did Hillary Clinton approve the transfer of 20% of U.S. uranium to the Russian government, even as her family foundation hauled in $145 million from investors in the deal, and Bill received $500,000 from a Kremlin-backed bank for a speech in Moscow?

2. Why did Hillary Clinton allow top investors in the Keystone XL pipeline to pay her husband $1.8 million to deliver 10 speeches, even as she quietly shepherded an environmental impact study through her State Department that (surprise!) proved largely supportive of the pipeline?

3. Why did Hillary Clinton violate the memorandum of understanding she signed with the Obama administration promising to disclose all donors, including the foreign head of the Russian government’s Uranium One, Ian Telfer, who funneled four donations totaling $2.35 million to the Clinton Foundation that were never revealed?

4. How does HIllary Clinton explain the 2 million shares of stock foreign mining magnate Stephen Dattels gave the Clinton Foundation, even as her State Department allowed “open pit coal mining” in Bangladesh, where Dattels’ Polo Resources had a stake?

5. Why has Hillary Clinton released the names of only 24 of the roughly 1,100 hidden foreign Clinton Foundation donors, leaving 1,076 still secret?

6. Why did Hillary Clinton deliver eight speeches totaling $1.6 million in speaking fees paid for by two of the largest banks tied to the Keystone XL pipeline (in addition to the $1.8 million Bill bagged for the 10 Keystone investor-funded speeches he delivered during Hillary’s tenure as Secretary of State)?

7. Why did Hillary Clinton allow 181 Clinton Foundation donors to lobby Hillary’s State Department?

8. Why did the Clintons’ family foundation receive millions from Qatar, as well as donations from FIFA, the soccer organization now enmeshed in a bribery and corruption scandal of global proportions?

9. Why did the Clintons create a secret “pass-through” company, WJC, LLC?

10. Which did Hillary’s State Department “approve $165 billion worth of commercial arms sales to 20 nations whose governments have given money to the Clinton Foundation” according to the International Business Times?

I can't wait for Hillary's campaign to implode.


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Citizen Activists Protest Dirty Clinton Deal Handing Over Critical U.S. Port to Terror-Tied Interests

By Daniel Greenfield

You may remember the Dubai Ports World controversy, but while that deal became a high profile controversy because it happened under Bush, another UAE company has moved in on an even more significant port.

Beginning next month, ocean shipping container operations at Florida’s deep-water Port Canaveral, teeming with U.S. Navy nuclear submarines, NATO-ally nuclear submarines, and record numbers of cruise ships, and situated close to Kennedy Space Center, will be controlled by Gulftainer, a foreign company from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) with close ties to former President Bill Clinton.

Port Canaveral is home to critical national security operations and infrastructure. A plethora of space and defense installations and programs, many of them highly classified, are situated either inside the port or within the immediate vicinity:

The Democrats who objected to the DPW deal have kept quiet and waved it through.

Is Ted Cruz Too Smart to Be President?

By Dan Friedman

Consider this a free seminar on the intricacies of enacting a trade deal in Congress.

Only last week the media was all atwitter about Cruz jumping the Conservative ship, and voting to support (parts of) Obama’s pacific trade pact. This is complicated stuff, and not very sexy. You simply can’t explain it with a sound bite. But listen to this twenty-minute radio interview with Cruz as he brilliantly breaks down his position and in the process teaches us a lot about foreign trade, the Congressional process, and himself.

People who question Ted Cruz’s “electability” are missing the point. The question isn’t whether or not he can win, but what happens to us if he doesn’t.


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Larwyn's Linx: Hillary Clinton Does A Big Do-Over, Gives Big Speech, Trashes the Rich

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Nation

Hillary Clinton's Big Do-Over, Gives Speech, Trashes the Rich: Deanna Fisher
Why does GOP assist an “agenda that is both diabolical and destructive”?: Sara Noble
A Few Words On The Defeat Of ObamaTrade: JoshuaPundit

Hillary Relaunches Campaign All Over Again: LI
Hillary Clinton’s Phantom Menace: Debra Saunders
Hillarious: Hillary Names Her Top Two Accomplishments: YoungCons

Republicans Forced to Turn Shirts Inside Out at Clinton Launch: Daniel Halper
LOL! CNN Anchor Calls Hillary Speech Party ‘Pretty PITIFUL!’: Sooper Mexican
Deceptive Camera Angles Make Hillary Event Look Well-Attended: Sooper Mexican

Ted Cruz Stands Alone Against Shariah In America: George Rasley
Man Who Attacked Dallas Police HQ With Pipe Bombs Shot And Killed: Bob Owens
Obama and 'the honorable' John Boehner handed stunning defeat: Obiter Dictum

Economy

Obama Admin Moves to Diversify Wealthy Suburbs: LI
“White privilege” and how to spread it around: Paul Mirengoff
Texas Pulls $1 Billion In Gold From NY Fed, Makes It "Non-Confiscatable": ZH

Scandal Central

Hillary Clinton's fifteen biggest scandals: Sarah Westwood
Declassified CIA memo shows Bill Clinton crippled anti-terrorism efforts in lead-up to 9/11: Thomas Lifson
Breaking: ISIS Tweets Pam Geller’s Home Address – Tells Supporters to “Go Forth” and Kill Her: GWP

Climate & Energy

EPA Boss Just Threatened Americans: I’m Going To Come Knocking On Your Doors: Randy DeSoto
The Pecking Disorder: Social Justice Warriors Gone Wild: Cathy Young
Senate Republicans threaten to block confirmation of EPA research chief: Puneet Kollipara

Media

Angry journalist is OUTRAGED! Outrageously so.: Thomas Wictor
The Left Can’t Handle An Inconvenient Truth: Kimberly Ross
CNN Anchor Refers to Dallas Gunman’s Actions as ‘Courageous and Brave’: Josh Feldman

The Democratic Party is Officially Leaderless: Noah Rothman
Hillary Wraps Her Arms Around Obama and Liberals in Kickoff Speech: Ross Barkan
Losing Our Individual Liberty to Obama’s Nudgers: Sara Noble

World

ISIS, Saudi Arabia, Iran and the West: Salim Mansur
“We’re Going To ‘Charlie Hebdo’ You, You Filthy French Sh*T”: Shoebat
'Mecca has been turned into Disneyland’: Michael Kerr

Libya Must not Be Left to ISIS: Sudan Vision
Mass Insanity is Creating a Snowflake Generation: AmInt
Greece: Watching the Wheels Come Off: Maria Polizoidou

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Philae Comet Probe Sends Signals to Earth After Six-Month Silence: Jason Douglas
Security News This Week: The NSA Can't Stop, Won't Stop (Neither Will Israel, China, or Britain): Wired
How to Build a Home Fusion Reactor: Tom Clynes

Cornucopia

No Problems...Only Solutions: Springer's Blog
NSA agents 'feel violated' after hackers access their emails: Cube
We Ranked The Phenomenal Jonah Insults In This Week's 'Veep': Matthew Jacobs

Image: Republicans Forced to Turn Shirts Inside Out at Clinton Launch
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QOTD: "It is worth noting that—yet again—initial mainstream media accounts of [the Dallas attack on police regarding] the number of attackers and the claims of automatic weapons use were wildly inaccurate." --Bob Owens

Saturday, June 13, 2015

Candidate for Best Political Cartoon of the Year

Spotted at The American Thinker:

If it worked for Rachel Dolezal...


Hillary Clinton is a fraud, a criminal, and a national security nightmare.

All reasons why the Democrat Party seeks to make her President.


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GREEN BERET HERO FACES COURT MARTIAL: He Reported on Illegal Ransom Paid for Bowe Bergdahl

By Sara Noble

A Green Beret and a real American war hero, Lt. Col. Jason Amerine, exposed illegal and amoral activities by the Obama administration worthy of a tinpot dictatorship that took place over the Bergdahl swap. A complaint about an illegal ransom of about $2 billion paid for Bergdahl in addition to swapping five dangerous Taliban thugs implicated the DOD and the DOJ.

Amerine told Congress, which is well within his legal rights. In fact, it was his duty.

Because this brave man told the truth, he is facing a court-martial.

INFOGRAPHIC: How to Tell Age in Prog Years

By The People's Cube

Need help figuring out an age in prog years? Use this handy-dandy reference chart as a tutorial:


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DIABOLICAL: Obama now wants to fundamentally transform your neighborhood (into a ghetto)

By Terresa Monroe-Hamilton

Obama is now making offers to debt-ridden municipalities that they dare not take. It’s like the devil offering you a way out and then collecting on that debt. Or, if you prefer, it’s like the mafia giving you money to solve your problems and then you owe them. Forever. The leaders in these areas won’t ask the residents and voters, they’ll let the silver cross their palms and will be blinded by the shininess of the coin they pocket. Corruption will finish selling free America down the proverbial river. I’ll be blunt… these municipalities should not be taking money from the feds. They should solve their problems at the local level, stand on their own and not be beholden to a governmental behemoth.

Under the guise of Obama’s Utopia, our president has been plotting for years the ultimate wealth redistribution here in America. It’s Marxist social and demographic engineering on a breathtaking scale. I believe this is the most insidious thing he has planned for us and it is a killer.

Obama believes the suburbs and wealthier neighborhoods are far too white. They are not racially diverse enough for his tastes. So, he is now going to municipalities that are sorely in need of funds and very much in debt up to their eyeballs, and offering them a way out. Say they are $5 or $10 million in the hole… well, the feds will give them $50 million. All they have to do is buy some land in an upscale area; sell it to a contractor that will build affordable housing and the government will take care of the rest. They will bring in minorities, the poor and disadvantaged… but even more importantly, liberal voters who will vote for Marxist policies. They will also resettle Islamic refugees and immigrants from across our southern border throughout these neighborhoods, leveling the demographic playing field into one huge ghetto from sea to shining sea. Just ask Sweden and the Netherlands how that has worked out for them.

Larwyn's Linx: State Dept Struggles to Explain Massive Nuke Concessions To Iran

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Nation

State Dept Struggles to Explain Massive Nuke Concessions To Iran: Andrew Kugle
Pentagon Official on Obama’s ISIS Strategy Claim: ‘What the F— Was That?’: Debra Heine
The Disgraceful Trade Vote: Dick Morris

Dubai-based Gulftainer and Its Terrorist Ties: NoisyRoom
Citizen Activists Protest Dirty Clinton Deal Handing Over Port to Terror: Daniel Greenfield
Number of Illegal Crossers Rising: KRGV

Clinton Cash Goes Missing for a Controversial 2014 NYU Speech: Pam and Russ Martens
Hillary’s Time-Tested Campaign Strategy: Smear Republicans as Haters: Mona Charen
Surprise: June In Baltimore Is Still Pretty Darned Violent: William Teach

Armored Van With Gun Ports Opens Fire On Dallas Police: Treehouse
Dallas Man in Standoff After Gun Attack on Police Department, Explosives Found: Sooper
Suddenly, Gun Control In The News: BlurBrain

Economy

Los Angeles Ranked #1 Place to Live by Homeless People: AT
Sens. Durbin and Sessions Announce Investigation into H-1B Abuse: NumbersUSA
TCS, Infosys face US probe for H-1B visa violations: Times of India

Scandal Central

Did Former Gov. of Massachusetts Deval Patrick Embezzle $27 Million?: Steven Ahle
Did Rachel Dolezal not only fake her race, but fake 'hate crimes' too?: Rick Moran
Dolezal in 2010: Going To ‘All-White’ Tea Party Rally ‘Would Make Me Nervous’: Surge

Climate & Energy

Flashback: Maggine's Farm

Media

‘Radical . . . explosive’ game-changer: Megyn Kelly warns Obama saved most destructive move for last: BPR
Diagnosed With Liberalism: Gavin McInnes
Bill on Hillary: 'I Trust Her With My Life': Right Pundit

Hillary Clinton’s Limo Incident Shames New York Time’s Coverage of Rubio’s Driving Record: Surge
Children Of Transgender Parents Deserve A Voice: Denise Shick
Jeb Bush’s Campaign Is In A Lot More Trouble Than They’re Letting On: Christopher Bedford

World

Al-Qaida’s Out, Isis Is In!: Jonah Goldberg
Mexico Is Whining About Increased Texas Border Enforcement, Claims It ‘Promotes Division’: John Binder
French Wealthy Have Had Enough: CBN

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

‘The OPM Hack Was Just the Start and It Won’t Be the Last.’: Jim Geraghty
Senators Looking for Answers on OPM Data Breach: Bridget Bowman
3D Printed & Homemade Guns Roundup: Weaponsman

Cornucopia

Jerry Seinfeld and the Progressive Comedy Pause: Jon Gabriel
A Trade You Can Believe In: MOTUS
Taxi protest of Uber rolls through Miami on Friday: Miami Herald

Image: SNAFU Time Again for the White House on TPA, Pelosi
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QOTD: "The New York Times [featured] an article [claiming to analyze] the enormous swelling population of the homeless in Los Angeles and its predictable causes.

And so what is responsible for this increase in homelessness? The Democratic City Council? The Democratic Mayor? Decades of Democratic Party rule in Los Angeles? The Democratic Governor? The Democratic President?

No, it's people who work for a living. The Times is claiming that gentrification, the reclamation of old, dirty, dangerous neighborhoods, is pushing people into homelessness...

...If Republicans were in charge, we would know that they are the cause of homelessness. But since Democrats are in charge, we know that real problem is not enough money. Never will it be said that the problem lies in the failed policies of those in charge for decades, or the very fault of many of those who choose such lifestyles." --Newsmachete

Friday, June 12, 2015

FEDERAL COURT TO IRS: Produce Lois Lerner Emails... Today!

By Judicial Watch

Calling all conservative activists, citizens and groups who were silenced and harassed by the Obama Internal Revenue Service in the run-up to the 2012 elections and beyond — you should know that we have moved a few steps closer to holding the Obama administration accountable for its criminal misuse of the federal tax-collecting agency.

We are pleased to announce that Judge Emmet Sullivan of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia granted a Judicial Watch request to issue an order requiring the IRS to provide answers by June 12, 2015, on the status of the Lois Lerner emails the IRS had previously declared lost. Judicial Watch raised questions about the IRS’ handling of the missing emails issue in a June 2 court filing, demanding answers about Lois Lerner’s emails, which had been recovered from backup tapes. Judge Sullivan issued the court order on June 4, 2015.

In its June 2 filing, Judicial Watch detailed:

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.


Hat tip: BadBlue News.
 

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: