Saturday, June 20, 2015

Cowboys and Idiots

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Huma Abedin Unveiled

By John C. Velisek, USN (Ret.)

The Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs is more than a journal. It is a book commissioned by the house of Saud and published by the Institute for Muslim Minority Affairs (IMMA). The book contains plans for Muslim conquest and includes a blueprint for the infiltration of non-Muslim lands.

It all starts with the father of Huma Abedin, Sayed Zaynul Abedin, and this Journal paid for by the Al Saud dynasty in Saudi Arabia.

Huma Abedin served on the board of the Institute for Muslim Minority Affairs for many years at the same time she worked for Hillary Clinton.

The agenda of the IMMA? In their own words, it is “to grow an unassimilated, aggressive population of Islamic supremacists who will gradually but dramatically alter the character of the West”.

Huma’s mother, Saleha Abedin, has proven ties to the Muslim Brotherhood and is a member of their ”Women’s Division”, whose goal is to “acquire a unified global perception in every nation in the world regarding the position of women”. I would like to know how that appeals to the feminists, but all we hear is silence from them.

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Nation

The Scandal of Murdered Black Americans: Bob Owens
Valerie Jarrett profited from tax loophole She and Obama rail against: Thomas Lifson
Liberals Mocking Obamacare Case Have a Big Problem: Phil Kerpen

Pity Hillary Clinton's Admirers: Andrew Ferguson
Hillary now advocating gun bans and no assimilation policy for immigrants: DownTrend
Sanders surge is becoming a bigger problem for Clinton: Jonathan Easley

Rubio to Critics Who Say It's Not His Time: ‘I've Heard That Before’: Nicholas Ballasy
Faith And Freedom Coalition, Senator Ted Cruz: NoisyRm
Foreign Policy Downplayed in Jeb and Hillary Speeches: Michael Barone

Cop-hating Rapper Posts Good-Bye on Facebook Then Shoots Cincy Cop Dead: GWP
Obama’s Hypocrisy on Gun Control: Jean Kaufman
Supremes whack 9th Circus, says free spech applies to church signs, too: Moe Lane

Economy

CBO: Repealing Obamacare would boost economic growth: Joseph Lawler
Michelle Obama Arrives in London Wearing a $1,795 Designer Dress: Right Pundit
NLRB Dings Union for Photo ID Requirements: Bill McMorris

Scandal Central

Clinton crony behind Libya memos paid $200K by Brock network: Judson Berger
Benghazi investigators ponder: Is State Dept. lying, or is Hillary?: Byron York
Obama's shameful gun control rhetoric: Daniel John Sobieski

Climate & Energy

Pope improves Armageddon with Climate Change prophecy: Cube
EPA to Monitor Family’s Water Use in Colorado: Elizabeth Harrington
Obama’s EPA Proposes New Rules For Truckers ‘Cause Climate Change: Cove

Media

No Jokes for You: Jerry Seinfeld targets politically correct campus culture: Harry Stein
The Flight From White: Steve Sailer
South Carolina Democrat Blames Charleston Shooting on FOX News: Downtrend

Twitter Reveals Identity of Charleston Shooting Suspect Three Hours Before FBI: Mary Ellen Egan
The idiocy and hypocrisy of the left in two separate tweets: iOTWreport
White Professor Says All White People are Evil, Some Only ‘Less Bad’ Than Others: RWN

World

Kerry’s Double-talk on Iran: Dr. Rich Swier
ISIS helps fuel record spike in terrorist deaths worldwide: Charles Hoskinson
Colombia: Pope Francis wants to meddle with the “peace process”: Fausta

Israel: ‘We’re On Our Own’: Matthew Continetti
Greek Banks Won’t Let Savers Have Their Money: RS
Little girl who died after being diagnosed with bone cancer inspires kind acts all over the world: John Brodigan

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Special Forces soldier, paralyzed in combat, opening rehab center: Dan Lamothe
Why 3D Printing a Jet Engine or Car Is Just the Beginning: Peter Diamandis
This Is What Happens When Machines Dream: Jason Dorrier

Cornucopia

WTF! - The Perfect Ticket: MOTUS
The Trans Fat Ban Is Worse Than You Think: David Harsanyi
Man linked to Miami drugs so obsessed with Breaking Bad he 'made LSD tabs inked with characters': Daily Mail

Image: Man allegedly linked to Miami drugs so obsessed with Breaking Bad he 'made LSD tabs inked with characters'
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QOTD: "By the summer of 2013, President Obama had convinced several key Israelis that he wasn’t bluffing about using force against the Iranian nuclear program. Then he failed to enforce his red line against Syrian dictator Bashar Assad—and the Israelis realized they’d been snookered. Michael Oren, the former Israeli ambassador to the United States, recalls the shock inside his government. “Everyone went quiet,” he said in a recent interview. “An eerie quiet. Everyone understood that that was not an option, that we’re on our own.”...

Reading Oren’s new memoir Ally, it’s clear that Israel has been on her own since the day Obama took office... [and as] if to make Oren’s case for him, the Obama administration responded to the publication of Ally with neither silence nor a reiteration of American policy toward Israel but with vituperation, demanding that both Kulanu Party chairman Moshe Kahlon and Prime Minister Netanyahu apologize for criticisms Oren had made. Kahlon sheepishly distanced himself from Oren, and Netanyahu won’t comment publicly, but the episode illustrates precisely the model of U.S.-Israeli relations outlined in this book: A “family” argument where the criticism runs in only one direction. On the one hand, when the supreme leader of Iran calls John Kerry a liar and details plans to destroy Israel, the Obama administration brushes it off. On the other, when a former ambassador writes a memoir based on a diary he kept while in office, the administration loses its mind.

The alliance has faltered to such a degree that Oren is morose. He wonders whether Israel is in the same precarious position it was in 1967, before the Six Day War, or in 1948, when it came close to never being born. Neither option is comforting. David Horovitz asked him, “Are people going to look back in a few years’ time and say, ‘This is what they were talking about in Israel as Iran closed in on the bomb and they were wiped out?’” Oren’s response: “It’s happened before in history, hasn’t it?”" --Matthew Continetti

Friday, June 19, 2015

SHOCKER: George Soros Front Group "Media Matters" Implicated in Hillary Clinton’s Burgeoning Scandal

Writing at Fox News, Judson Berger offers us a fascinating revelation tied directly to Hillary Clinton's missing emails:

The Clinton confidant under scrutiny on Capitol Hill over detailed Libya memos he sent to then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told lawmakers earlier this week he has been pulling in $200,000 a year from Clinton ally David Brock's media operation...

...Politico.com first reported that Republicans grilled Blumenthal on his work for Brock's groups. But while the report said Blumenthal was making more than $10,000 a month, congressional sources say he acknowledged during the deposition he actually had a $200,000-a-year contract... The money was in addition to the $10,000 a month he was getting for work with the Clinton Foundation. 

"He was getting, from Clinton, Inc., $320,000 a year," one source told FoxNews.com. 

The Brock-founded groups are not actually part of the Clinton empire, though Brock is a Clinton ally. The source said Blumenthal has been working with Media Matters, American Bridge and Correct the Record. Another congressional source, though, told FoxNews.com the contract was specifically with Media Matters.

...[Emails] to Clinton linked several Media Matters posts on Benghazi, essentially defending the State Department. ... FoxNews.com is told one of them read: "Got all this done, complete refutation on Libya smear." The email said, "Philippe can circulate these links." Philippe Reines was a senior adviser to Clinton. 

Asked for comment on the deposition, and on Blumenthal's payments, Brock blasted the committee's latest inquiry. 


As I discovered in 2014, the White House and Media Matters conspired to target conservative media personalities (even thirdrate bloggers like me).

George Soros, Media Matters, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama are all members of the same team.

The totalitarian left.

And America's demise is their only goal.


Hat tip: BadBlue News.
 

UNEXPECTEDLY: Obama Pressures Colleges to Adopt Unconstitutional "Speech Codes"

By Hans Bader

Under the Obama administration, the Education Department has pressured schools and colleges to restrict speech, including off campus speech, even when it is protected by the First Amendment, and is not severe and pervasive. It claims this is required by federal anti-discrimination laws such as Title IX and Title VI. It also expects colleges to investigate off-campus sexual misconduct by students, even though most federal appellate court rulings say schools have no such duty under Title IX.

As I recently noted in The Wall Street Journal, “the Education Department, where I used to work,” is

...pressuring colleges to adopt unconstitutional speech codes in the name of fighting sexual harassment. It has disregarded many court rulings in doing so.

For example, the Education Department has wrongly ordered schools to regulate off-campus speech and conduct. That contributed to the harassment charges against Prof. Laura Kipnis, who was accused over a politically incorrect essay she wrote in the Chronicle of Higher Education and statements she made on Twitter. Court rulings like Roe v. Saint Louis University (2014) reject Title IX claims over off-campus conduct, but the Education Department ignores them. It also ignores court rulings like Klein v. Smith (1986) emphasizing that the First Amendment usually bars public schools from restricting off-campus speech. For example, the Education Department told schools to regulate comments “on the Internet” in an October 2010 letter. In 2014, it demanded that Harvard regulate off-campus conduct more.

At Northwestern University, Professor Laura Kipnis was subjected to a bizarre Title IX investigation over an essay in the Chronicle titled “Sexual Paranoia Strikes Academe” (which hypersensitive students claimed offended them and constituted sexual harassment) and her subsequent statements defending herself on Twitter (which the students claimed constituted “retaliation” in violation of Title IX, even though she did not identify them by name). Kipnis was ultimately found not guilty.

"TOUGH", " A HERO", "A TEACHER": Remembering Officer Sonny Kim

For more than a decade, one of my relatives has trained at Sonny Kim's dojo, eventually earning a Black Belt. Later he became a part-time instructor and grew close to Kim. He's heartbroken over reports that Kim was shot and killed early this morning in the line of duty.

...Cincinnati police Officer Sonny Kim, 48, a husband and father of three boys, died after being shot while responding to a call of a gunman acting erratically Friday morning...

Kim, a 27-year veteran of the Cincinnati Police Department also worked as the owner and main karate instructor at the Japanese Karate-Do dojo in Symmes Township.

“CPD lost one of our best today," Police Chief Jeffrey Blackwell said. "We lost a brother, but right now my heart is broken more for his three boys who lost a father and his wife who lost a husband.”

City Manager Harry Black called Kim a hero.

“Our thoughts our prayers go to Police Officer Kim’s family and fellow police officers. … Police Officer Kim dedicated himself to serving and protecting the city for 27 years. … He has had a decorated career. … Officer Kim is a hero.”

Councilman Yvette Simpson said Kim exemplified what it means to be a community officer.

Kim’s record with the force paints a picture of an officer who had great initiative and resolve and also care for the public... Some of the comments in his file of particular note include instances where Kim apprehended a man armed with a knife, peacefully resolved a standoff situation and rescuing a man who jumped from an I-275 bridge.

City officials sent out a list of his commendations including the following:

Larwyn's Linx: No Wonder Obama Won’t Let Us Read TPP

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Nation

No Wonder Obama Won’t Let Us Read TPP: Phyllis Schlafly
House GOP Plan To Save ObamaCare: Ace
Obama Trade Bill Passes House as Senate Now Controls Fate: Bloomberg

California versus Saudi Arabia: Stephen Green
The Creepy Consequences of Oppression Chic: Michelle Malkin
Coming Attractions at the Supreme Court Theater of the Absurd: Lester Jackson

Rice: Hillary 'Integrally Involved' in Everything We Did in Obama's First Term: Pam Key
How The GOP Could Win Pennsylvania: Brandon Finnigan
Ted Cruz: Obama “A Radical Ideologue” And “Unmitigated Socialist”: Ilan Ben-Meir

We Need 65,000 Syrian Refugees Here, Really?: Suzanne Shattuck
Federal court says police can stop open carriers: Jennifer Cruz
The Supreme Court’s Alarming Decision Curbing Free Speech: Andrew McCarthy

Charleston

Dylann Roof Could Not Legally Carry a Firearm: Sara Dogan
Dylann Roof, Race-Murderer and Terrorist, Captured: Ace
Chart of Top 10 Nations in the World for Mass Shootings: IJR

The Conversation We Won’t Have: Erick Erickson
Dylann Roof, Southern Democrat Throwback, a Drug-Addled 'Wannabe Emo Anarchist': AmPower
Every Recent Mass Shooting Shares One Stunning Characteristic: Dan Roberts

Economy

Does Harvard Teach Law Anymore?: J. Christian Adams
Rand Paul Announces Plan for $2 TRILLION Tax Cut and Full Repeal of Tax Code: Eric Odom
Michelle, Sasha, Malia summer vacay likely to top $600,000: Exam

Scandal Central

Mass murderer’s friend knew FOR SIX MONTHS he was planning attack: Scoop
Nuclear Agreement Misleads About Iranian Breakout Time: Meira Svirsky
Exposing The Real Purpose Of The H-1B Visa Scam: BlurBrain

Blumenthal Email Confirms: Libya Was To Be Hillary's Crowning Accomplishment: John Hinderaker
Latest Blumenthal emails raise new questions about Hillary's email purge: Paul Mirengoff
If He Only Had a Heart: John Podhoretz

Climate & Energy

Someone Tell the Pope: Environmentalism Crushes the Poor: John Hinderaker
The Environmental Encyclical and the assault on Faith and Reason: RS
Pope 'Saul' attempts to paint a religious clown face on a 'dead horse.': Obiter Dictum

Media

The Fall of Al Jazeera America: Sultan Knish
‘Seductions of Appeasement’: Why the World Has Gone to Hell: Rick Moran
Learning to Like America Even If You Can’t Love It: Jazz Shaw

Hewitt: Ted Cruz Is the GOP Frontrunner and Would 'Kill' Hillary In Debates: Breitbart
In censored Saudi Arabia, Raif Badawi filled a journalistic void: Jason Stern, CPJ
NY Times: ‘Right-wing, anti-government extremism is leading source of ideological violence’: JWF

Racist Terrorist Makes Us Focus on Really Important Things, Like False Memes on Twitter: Ace
Barack Obama Disgraces Himself Again: John Hinderaker
Nietzsche’s ‘Ressentiment’ Alive And Well Today: Jonah Goldberg

World

Al-Qaida’s Out, Isis Is In!: Jonah Goldberg
U.S. Government Caught Supplying Highly Sophisticated Heavy Artillery and Weaponry to ISIS?: Unveiled
Why Putin’s New Military Theme Park ‘Does Pose a Danger to Us’: Bridget Johnson

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Reset: Pentagon Building Cruise Missile Shield To Defend US Cities From Russia: Marcus Weisgerber
California Finally Reveals Details of Self-Driving Car Crashes: Jamie Condliffe
Can You Help This Wonderfully Insane Ferrari Find A New Home?: Jay Traugott

Cornucopia

The Only Comment on Dylann Roof’s Facebook Photo Will Bring You To Tears: Benny Johnson
When Harry Met His Sally: MOTUS
25 Things: American Digest

Image: Dylann Roof, Southern Democrat Throwback, is Drug-Addled 'Wannabe Emo Anarchist'
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QOTD: "Dylann Roof, the alleged gunman authorities say is responsible for killing nine people in a predominantly black Charleston, South Carolina, church Wednesday night, had been “planning something like that for six months,” according to his roommate.

Dalton Tyler, who said he has known Roof for seven months to one year, said he saw the white, 21-year-old suspect just last week.

“He was big into segregation and other stuff,” Tyler said. “He said he wanted to start a civil war. He said he was going to do something like that and then kill himself.”

Tyler said he met Roof, a Lexington, South Carolina native, through a good friend. He also said Roof’s parents, with whom he said the suspect was “on and off,” had previously bought him a gun but never allowed him to take it with him until this past week." --The Right Scoop

Thursday, June 18, 2015

Coming Attractions at the Supreme Court Theater of the Absurd

By Lester Jackson

Why do we let five U.S. Supreme Court justices impose their personal values on over 300 million Americans — in cases these justices have no legitimate authority to decide?

As usual in mid-June, the hearts of Supreme Court junkies beat ever more rapidly as they eagerly await “blockbuster” ex cathedra diktats from on high. Of great interest is whether Justice Anthony Kennedy meant what he said just two years ago, when five justices overpowered and insulted (Scalia, pp. 21, 25) four justices to declare unconstitutional an overwhelmingly enacted federal law restricting marriage to opposite sex couples. Writing for the five justices, Kennedy promised (pp. 25-26) that they had “confined” their ruling to requiring federal recognition of same-sex marriages in states choosing to make them lawful. However, what is now awaited is whether five justices will further abuse their power by barring any State from making same-sex marriage unlawful.

Justice Scalia added yet another warning (24) regarding a Kennedy promise. “As far as this Court is concerned, no one should be fooled; it is just a matter of listening and waiting for the other shoe.”

The five-justice fiat two years ago was itself predicted (5-6) by Scalia a decade earlier: “… Every single one of these State laws … against bigamy, same-sex marriage, adult incest, prostitution … bestiality, and obscenity … is called into question by today’s decision….” His then scoffed-at prediction was vindicated in 2013.

If five justices, including Kennedy, again prove Scalia prescient, this “raw judicial power” spectacle will not be over.

Obama-linked Extremist Group Publishes "HIT LIST" of Anti-Sharia Females in the U.S.

By Judicial Watch

The Obama-tied leftist group that helped a gunman commit an act of terrorism against a conservative organization has assembled a starter kit for Islamists to attack American women who refuse to comply with Sharia law, the authoritarian doctrine that inspires Islamists and their jihadism.

It’s the summer special from the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), an extremist nonprofit that lists conservative organizations that disagree with it on social issues on a catalogue of “hate groups.” A few years ago a gunman received a 25-year prison sentence for carrying out the politically-motivated shooting of the Family Research Council (FRC) headquarters after admitting that he learned about the FRC from the SPLC “hate map.” Prosecutors called it an act of terrorism and recommended a 45-year sentence.

Now the SPLC, which has conducted diversity training for the Obama Department of Justice (DOJ), is targeting female bloggers, activists and television personalities who refuse to comply with Sharia law which is rooted in the Quran. The European Court on Human rights has repeatedly ruled that Sharia is “incompatible with the fundamental principles of democracy” yet politically-connected radical Muslim groups—such as the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR)—keep pushing to implement it in the United States and the movement has gained steam.

Among those resisting this effort publicly are the high-profile women being targeted by the SPLC. Some of them are colleagues or friends of Judicial Watch and now they must fear for their safety simply for practicing their rights under the U.S. Constitution. The new hate list is titled Women Against Islam/The Dirty Dozen and includes illustrations and detailed information on all the women, who are branded “the core of the anti-Muslim radical right.” The new SPLC hate brochure further targets them by claiming that they’re “a dozen of the most hardline anti-Muslim women activists in America.”

TRY AND CONTAIN YOUR SURPRISE: Obama Lies, Says Mass Shootings Don’t Happen in Other Countries

By Warner Todd Huston

Already rushing to the microphones to try and use the murders in a South Carolina church to undermine the U.S. Constitution and push his loser gun control ideas, Barack Obama lied today saying that the US is the only country with mass murders.

During his press conference today Obama said, “This kind of mass violence does not happen in other advanced countries.”

But this simply isn’t true. We have but to look to France only a few months ago when Islamists murdered 12 members of the staff of Charlie Hebdo magazine.

But there have been many, many other examples of mass killings abroad.

Here is just a partial list of other mass murders in foreign countries…

UNEXPECTEDLY: Obama Excitedly Leaps to Politicize the Tragic Charleston Church Shooting

By Sara Noble

Barack Obama turned a beautiful speech into another politicized attack on gun owners and white people.

He blamed the Second Amendment in part.

“I’ve had to make statements like this too many times. Communities like this have had to endure tragedies like this too many times…Once again, innocent people were killed in part because someone wanted to inflict harm had no trouble getting their hands on a gun.”

“Let’s be clear, at some point we will have to reconcile with the fact this type of mass violence does not happen in other advanced countries.” [That’s blatantly untrue. Where’s the coverage of people with guns who stop mass slayings? Check this out on The Gateway Pundit.]

He got in his dig at Republicans and other Second Amendment supporters, insinuating we are responsible for this horrible slaughter.

Larwyn's Linx: GOP Congress Conspiring With Obama To Pass #ObamaTrade Today #StopFastTrack

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Nation

GOP Congress Conspiring With Obama To Pass ObamaTrade Today: RS
Jim Jordan Puts GOP Leadership on Notice: Joel Gehrke
The New World Map: Victor Davis Hanson

Oh, gee: the Democrats are ‘rebranding.’ AGAIN.: Moe Lane
The IRS, Obamacare, and the English Language: Sam Kazman
Hillary Charged $200K For Kids Charity Speech, Snubbed Kids: Emily Zanotti

Rambling About the Passive-Authoritarian State: The Z Blog
The OPM Hack is Just Awful: Joe Cunningham
Meet Donald G. Kosin, Jr.: Erick Erickson

Donald Trump Is Not Just A Clown, He’s A Liberal Anti-Gun Clown: Brian Anderson
Jeb! Spurns Conservatives on Education and Immigration: William Sullivan
Ted Cruz’s Lifeline: Madison Project

Economy

CBO: Unless We Act Soon The US Economy Is Screwed: Lid
Major teachers union ready to work with charter schools: Jason Russell
End Civil Service 'Merit' Protection: Bruce Walker

Scandal Central

Unbelievable: Gov’t Outsourced Database Management to IT Workers in... China: Sooper
Gowdy: Confidant who sent Libya memos to Clinton didn't write them: Fox
Illegal Alien Rapists, Child Molesters Freed in U.S. Instead of Deported: Boston Globe

Climate & Energy

Another global cooling denier claims to have won the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize: Anthony Watts
Pay $1.22 million to save $500,000: Don Surber
There Are Big Divisions In Catholicism Over “Climate Change”: William Teach

Media

Obama and the Black Intellectualoids: L.E. Ikenga
Coulter: If Drudge Ever Goes On Vacation, Amnesty Will Pass: Vince Coglianese
Investigation of Lunatic Dolezal’s Roots Reveal Zero Black Relatives Dating Back to... 1671: JWF

Hillary and Obama’s Foreign Policy Record is Nothing to Brag About Says… MSNBC: Glob
Why Does Peter Beinart Despise Pro-Israel Jews?: Shmuley Boteach
Israeli Video Mocks Foreign Journalists’ Coverage of Gaza: Tammy Bruce

John Kerry gaslights the media on Iranian compliance: RS
Obama to White House mentorship grads: You didn't succeed on your own: Joe Newby
Why are we ignoring a cyber Pearl Harbor?: Jonah Goldberg

World

GOP Congressman: Iran Is “Hitler With Nuclear Weapons”: Andrew Kaczynski
John Kerry ‘not fixated’ on Iran’s past research into atomic weapons, but on moving forward: Twitchy
America’s Top Five Mistakes in Iraq: The XX Committee

The Most Inexcusable Crime in the Muslim World: Uzay Bulut
North Korea’s Propagandists Bemoan “Bad Luck”: AmInt
The Louvre responds to my post, denies discriminating: Matzav

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Uber drivers in California deemed to be employees, not contractors: Techworld
An Early Net-Neutrality Win: Rules Prompt Sprint to Stop Throttling: Thomas Gryta
Sony's Robotic Dogs Are Dying A Slow And Heartbreaking Death: Chris Mills

Cornucopia

Nobody likes reruns: Truesbury
Do You Remember When Lois Lane Tried To Be Black?: Ira Madison III
The Donald: How Can He Lose?: MOTUS

Image: Donald Trump Is Not Just A Clown, He’s A Liberal Anti-Gun Clown
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QOTD: "When a group of House conservatives voted last week to kill a trade bill favored by President Obama, House Speaker John Boehner and other GOP leaders who support the measure steamed. Representative Mick Mulvaney (R., S.C.) celebrated the revolt as a coming-of-age moment for rebel backbenchers.

“Yesterday will be the day that we look back at as the day that conservatives finally started getting organized in the House,” he wrote in a note to the Spartanburg Tea Party.

Led by Representative Jim Jordan (R., Ohio), a platoon of conservatives demanded that Boehner agree to a series of concessions in exchange for their support for so-called Trade Promotion Authority (TPA), legislation that would give President Obama wider latitude to negotiate free-trade agreements. When GOP leadership ignored them, Jordan and his allies tried to kill the bill on a procedural vote — a rare step made more surprising by the lawmakers’ general support for free trade. It was the boldest attempt yet from the recently formed House Freedom Caucus, which Jordan chairs, to counteract Boehner’s perceived tendency to wilt in the face of Democratic pressure." --Joel Gehrke

Wednesday, June 17, 2015

5 QUESTIONS EVERY PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE SHOULD ANSWER: Islamonazi Edition

By Katherine Zimmerman

The recent news that US airstrikes may have killed two senior al Qaeda leaders – including al Qaeda’s general manager – once again raises the question of the overall effectiveness of a strategy of attrition against the group. Certainly there have been some significant blows to al Qaeda, and most recently to al Qaeda’s affiliate in Yemen. The US has taken four senior leaders off the battlefield in Yemen in the past six months, but there has been no obvious slowdown in al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula’s activities there. Even as the US sees success in degrading al Qaeda’s leadership, al Qaeda has been able to grow and expand its insurgency across the Muslim-majority world.

Al Qaeda’s expansion is occurring even as the Islamic State in Iraq and al Sham (ISIS) strengthens at an alarming rate. Both groups are exploiting conditions within the Muslim-majority world advanced in part by America’s current foreign policy positions. A muddled approach to the region has left the US with few strong allies there and even fewer good options for partners against the escalating extremist threat.

Newly-announced presidential candidate Jeb Bush aptly described the state affairs abroad: “crises uncontained, violence unopposed, enemies unnamed, friends undefended, and alliances unraveling.” The picture is bleak. Al Qaeda and ISIS have seized the momentum and are pushing forward. Any prospective 2016 presidential candidate should seek to answer these questions when considering how to reverse the tide.

THE OPM HACK: Intel Community Warned White House of Impending "Digital Pearl Harbor"

By Mackenzie Eaglen

Don’t say we get it wrong 100% of the time. This year’s US government threat assessment by the entire intelligence community again placed the cyber and counterintelligence threat above that of terrorism.


U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Director Katherine Archuleta rubs her eyes, as she testifies before a House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform hearing on the data breach of OPM computers, on Capitol Hill in Washington June 16, 2015. Reuters.
The report, published in February, highlights the obvious, stating that “cyber threats to US national and economic security are increasing in frequency, scale, sophistication, and severity of impact.” The massive recent breach of the government’s personnel office (OPM) is just the latest and worst example, affecting well over 10 million federal workers.

More worrisome than the acts themselves is the increasingly political calculus and rationale behind these cyber penetrations—and the failure of deterrence by the US.

The OPM breach is the perfect example. In a warning act of déjà vu, the 2015 intelligence report also noted the vulnerability of OPM’s systems specifically based on a similar attack last year. In explaining the costs of data theft, the threat assessment referenced earlier unauthorized computer intrusions on the networks of the Office of Personnel Management as well as its contractors, both of whom are “involved in processing sensitive [personally identifiable information] related to national security clearances for Federal Government employees.” Unfortunately for those current and former federal workers and military servicemembers whose information was hacked and stolen, the government cannot say it didn’t warn us.

DOING THE RAPING AND MOLESTING AMERICANS WON’T DO: Obama DHS freed thousands of violent illegal aliens

By Judicial Watch

Thousands of illegal immigrants convicted of serious crimes—including rape, child molestation and kidnapping—have been released in the United States by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the agency doesn’t bother keeping track of the alien convicts.

The DHS agency responsible for removing dangerous illegal aliens, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), simply releases sex offenders when they complete their criminal sentence and fails to monitor or force them to register with local authorities in the communities where they resettle. The incredulous story of this outrageous system comes via an investigative series published this week in a Boston newspaper that sued the government for the records. It includes a database of criminals that one former federal prosecutor calls “chilling.” The offenders are “dangerous and predatory individuals who should not be prowling the streets,” the prosecutor says in the article. “In fact, they should not be in the United States at all.”

But our famously inept Homeland Security officials simply let these monsters loose in unsuspecting communities, even though one law enforcement agency cited in the series calls the illegal immigrant cons “the worst of the worst.” At the very least, ICE is supposed to assure that the thugs register with local authorities as sex offenders, but the agency doesn’t even bother to do that. Instead, once ICE frees the offenders, agency officials often lose track of them despite outstanding deportation orders. It’s like negligence on steroids.

One disturbing case mentioned in the article focuses on a Cuban national named Santos Hernandez Carrera, who raped a woman at knifepoint and spent roughly half his life in jail. He was supposed to stay in custody until he could be deported, but instead the feds released him and lied about it.

OBAMA THE LAME DUCK: Constitution Rising

Liz Peek, writing at The Fiscal Times, offers an incisive description of a president at war with the Constitution. His serial affronts to our precious system of checks and balances are made all the more egregious thanks to an opposition party leadership that is either afraid of conflict or simply crypto-conspirators.

...It turns out that you actually can’t run the country all by yourself, even if you’re the smartest fellow in the room. That’s proving quite a shock to our legacy-hungry commander in chief, who is responding to various setbacks with increasing indignation and hauteur. But, never, ever, moderation.

Mr. Obama has pursued an ambitious agenda since he entered the White House, increasingly acting alone. Ever since he won passage of Obamacare in 2010 through an odious series of back-room favors, and then got burned looking for a “Grand Bargain” on the budget with House Speaker John Boehner, he has eschewed the normal horse-trading with Congress and chosen to govern instead through executive actions and regulations.

...On the griddle currently is the president’s Trans Pacific Trade pact, which Democrats in Congress oppose. Members of his own party snubbed President Obama’s humiliating last-ditch overtures [in which] he promised goodies galore – rides on Air force One, Oval Office visits and campaign help for those willing to vote for his bill. He hoped to counter AFL-CIO head Richard Trumka’s reported threats that Big Labor will mount primary challenges against those who back the trade measure.

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Nation

Will anyone at OPM be fired for this catastrophic mega-hack by China?: Hot Air
Shock: Hillary Clinton Did Not Turn Over Subpoenaed Benghazi Emails: Ace
Hillary Scrubbed Benghazi Emails: Daniel John Sobieski

Bob Corker gets a standing ‘o’ at Failure Theater: RS
Goodnight, California: Victor Davis Hanson
L.A.’s Long Hot Summer of Racial Violence Is Brewing: Jack Dunphy

Peruta v. San Diego argument today: Of Arms & the Law
9th Circuit: Does Second Amendment Apply Outside the Home?: AWR Hawkins
When Guns Are Outlawed, Only Outlaws Will Have Safety Equipment: WeaponsMan

Why Donald Trump Matters: Erick Erickson
Was Jeb!'s Florida Economy! Really as Good as He Says?: Ace
TiSA Means Open Borders: Dick Morris

Economy

HUD War Against the Suburbs: Betsy McCaughey
Texas Signals New Gold Rush: “Governments Have Lost Trust in New York Depositories”: Mac Slavo
General Electric certainly ACTING like it’s considering bailing on Connecticut.: Moe Lane

Scandal Central

After Hacking U.S. Personnel Files: Chinese Will Dine With Kerry at Mt. Vernon: CNS
Surprise! Hillary Goon Blumenthal Provides More Benghazi Emails Prior to Testimony: JWF
How Obama Abandoned Israel: Michael B. Oren

Media

Notice From BigFurHat at IOTWReport.com: Springer's Blog
Today’s INSANE ROUNDUP of Rachel Dolezal Revelations!!: Sooper
Local Media Stunned That Good Guy Could Legally Shoot Bad Guy: Bob Owens

Studies Show: Conservatives are More Tolerant Than Liberals: Amelia Hamilton
Victor Davis Hanson’s ‘Seductions of Appeasement’: Roger L. Simon
Photo of the Decade: ProWis

Scientist Tim Hunt subjected to Room 101: ProWis
Rachel Dolezal, Bruce Jenner, and how we’ve solved all the really hard problems: RS
The Anti-Science Left: John Stossel

World

Indictment Alleges Garland Cartoon Contest Shooters Had Help: Lee Stranahan
“The Beginning of Our Liberation, Our D-Day”: Gates of Vienna
Pubs Transformed to Mosques: Daily Mail

John Kerry Announces Another Nuclear Concession To Iran: Lid
How to Get a Nuclear Bomb: Clarion Project
Moderate Islam is Islam in Denial?: Vlad Tepes

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

1,500 year-old graffiti reveals gladiator battles: Ancient Origins
Google on Apple: The end is near: Mike Elgan
How a scientist lost $3 million on TV’s Shark Tank—and still came out ahead: John Travis

Cornucopia

Every breath she takes: Michelle Malkin
Magna Carta copied by church, not royal, scribes: The History Blog
Rachel Dolezal: If I had a Dad, He’d Look Like Gene Wilder: Papa Todd

Image: Every breath she takes
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QOTD: "The story of the Obama era is the story of one colossal federal government train-wreck after another. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms shipped guns to Mexican drug cartels in Fast & Furious. Recovery.gov, allegedly designed to promote openness and accountability, ended up filled with bad data…

The president stood in front of the White House, urging the American public to use Healthcare.gov when it wasn’t working…

The Obama administration toppled the government of Libya – without any supporting act of Congress — then sent Americans there and ignored the security requests from our ambassador…

Veterans died, waiting for care, while the branch offices of the VA assure Washington everything is fine." --Jim Geraghty

Tuesday, June 16, 2015

WEIMAR II? The Next Great European Financial Crisis Has Begun

By Michael Snyder

The Greek financial system is in the process of totally imploding, and the rest of Europe will soon follow.

Neither the Greeks nor the Germans are willing to give in, and that means that there is very little chance that a debt deal is going to happen by the end of June. So that means that we will likely see a major Greek debt default and potentially even a Greek exit from the eurozone. At this point, credit default swaps on Greek debt have risen 456 percent in price since the beginning of this year, and the market has priced in a 75 percent chance that a Greek debt default will happen.

Over the past month, the yield on two year Greek bonds has skyrocketed from 20 percent to more than 30 percent, and the Greek stock market has fallen by a total of 13 percent during the last three trading days alone. This is what a financial collapse looks like, and if Greece does leave the euro, we are going to see this kind of carnage happen all over Europe.

Officials over in Europe are now openly speaking of the need to prepare for a “state of emergency” now that negotiations have totally collapsed. At one time, it would have been unthinkable for Greece to leave the euro, but now it appears that this is precisely what will happen unless a miracle happens…

"Islamophobia" or... common sense?

By Raheel Raza

Massive confusion is created around the issues of Islamophobia where young vulnerable Muslim youth are made to believe that they are targets of an institutionalized hate-mongering campaign against Islam and Muslims.

Let’s be clear that Islamophobia is a growing, well-funded, well-“oiled” industry which is being used as a lethal weapon against the West.

As usual, massive confusion is created around the issues of Islamophobia where young vulnerable Muslim youth are made to believe that they are targets of an institutionalized hate-mongering campaign against Islam and Muslims.

These naïve Muslims are not informed that Islamophobia was created in the 1990s, when U.S. Muslim Brotherhood groups decided to “play victim” for the purpose of “beating down critics.”  

They seem to have succeeded in “beating down critics” because there is an intentional muzzling of debate and discussion about Islam and Muslims. Any criticism against acts by Muslims is immediately dubbed “Islamophobia,” which petrifies the non-Muslim community into silence.

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Nation

What Made Hillary Strong?: Paul Mirengoff
Bernie Sanders to Hillary: Hey, you want to help kill this trade deal or not?: Jazz Shaw
Bad Signs at the Hillary Announcement: Keith Koffler

Ted Cruz: No, TPP is NOT a ‘living agreement’: Scoop
20 Hillary Clinton Quotes You Should Read Before Voting For Her: John Hawkins
Christie parrots leftwing talking points to attack Ted Cruz: RS

Kelo v. New London: Central Planning Does Not Work, Ruins Lives: Michael Greibrok
Prenup for welfare recipient's wedding?: Cube
Obama Admin Said to Illegally Use Tax Refunds to Fund ObamaCare Program: LI

The Most Dangerous Candidate: Jeb Bush: Jen Kuznicki
Senator Bob Corker Pens a Terrific Act II of Failure Theater: Ace
Too Bad Jeb Was Good: Roger L. Simon

Economy

Outsourcing Clinton Allies Accused of Abusing Visa System: Bill McMorris
The NLRB Sides with Despicably Racist Union Workers over Their Employer: Jillian Kay Melchior
H-1B visas: US law's loopholes being ruthlessly exploited by companies: NYT

Scandal Central

IRS Finds 6,400 New Lois Lerner Emails, Gives Lamest Excuse Yet For Not Releasing Them: Patrick Howley
Fake Black Woman Rachel Dolezal Apparently Copied Famous Painting and Passed It Off as Her Own: JWF
Michelle Obama in Another Lavish Vacation, This Time Spending Millions to Visit London, Italy: RWN

Climate & Energy

Vatican Climate Speaker: There Are 6 Billion Too Many of Us: MB
Canada: Never mind. We’ll just ship our energy to China: Jazz Shaw
EPA Shifts Its Legally Suspect 'Environmental Justice' Agenda Into Higher Gear: Glenn G. Lammi

Media

Feminist Tumblr: Still Crazy: R.S. McCain
Bloomberg Debuts New Gun Control Propaganda Site, The Trace: Bob Owens
Krugman and Other Stuff: Russ Roberts

Michelle Malkin Blasts Old-School Media: Steven Crowder
Polls show narrow Republican field: Chad Groening
Hillary Clinton’s Small, All White Crowd Difficult For MSNBC Anchors To Deal With: Rick Wells

Colt’s Bankruptcy Isn’t Because Civilian Gun Sales Are Down: WeaponsMan
Today’s INSANE ROUNDUP of Rachel Dolezal Revelations!!: Sooper
Micro-totalitarianism: Thomas Sowell

World

The Snowden Story Slowly Unravels: The XX Committee
Snowden is a Fraud: John R. Schindler
A Bad Week for Western Intel: AmInt

Sunday Times Snowden Story is Journalism at its Worst: Glenn Greenwald
Magna Carta: It’s Not Just about Rights: Ted R. Bromund
Is Jihadism Chiefly Fueled By Sexual Dysfunction?: Ace

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Hidden secrets revealed in 1491 world map that may have guided Columbus: Robin Whitlock
Robots Can Now 3D-Print Steel Bridges: Mary Beth Griggs
Skunk, a high-tech Israeli weapon against stone-throwers: Economist

Cornucopia

4 Mouthwatering Instagram Accounts All Foodies Must Follow: Unwritten
Black and White Like You and Me: MOTUS
Serving Parker’s Revenge Warm: Boston 1775

Image: Al-Qaeda says U.S. strike killed second in command
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QOTD: "What Clinton strategists are doing is trying to replicate the Obama strategy, which eschewed the usual move to the middle and drilled down into the electorate to find every liberal vote out there and get that vote to the polls.

You can do that when you are a transformational candidate. I realize Obama didn’t turn out to be a transformational anything – unless you find weakening America abroad and bankrupting it at home transformational – but at least he was perceived that way.

Nobody perceives Hillary as anything more than a political animal who devotes her spare time to earning vast sums of money." --Keith Koffler