“Prophecy was not required to foresee that an Obama presidency might strain the U.S.-Israel alliance,” Oren writes in the early pages of his book... Obama stacked his administration with senior officials hostile to Israel and pursued a policy of “daylight” with Jewish state, Oren recounts... “The first thing Obama will do in office is pick a fight with Israel,” Oren recalls a confidant as telling him in the early days of the administration.
Below are a series of passages that reveal in detail how the U.S.-Israel alliance hit historic lows under the Obama administration.
1. ‘I know how to deal with people who oppose me’The tension between Obama and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel began during their first meeting at the White House, Oren recalls. While the meeting appeared to go “smoothly,” behind the scenes Obama outwardly threatened Netanyahu.
“Face-to-face, I later heard, Obama had demanded that Netanyahu cease all building not only in the territories but also in the disputed areas of Jerusalem,” Oren writes. “‘Not a single brick,’” the president purportedly said. ‘I know how to deal with people who oppose me.’”
2. Israel Defense Forces (IDF) Commanders Never Trusted Obama
Oren recounts listening to Obama’s 2009 speech in Cairo while stationed in the IDF’s headquarters. “Their reactions typified that of a great many Israelis.”
These commanders “scoffed at what they regarded as Obama’s inexperience with the Middle East, where magnanimity is often seen as weakness. They cringed at his tendency to equate America’s moral foibles with the honor killings, human trafficking, and the suppression of women, foreign workers, and indigenous minorities rampant in many Muslim countries,” Oren writes.
Their opinions only grew dimmer when Obama “linked that legitimacy [of Israel] to the Jews’ ‘tragic history’ in the Holocaust. That linkage seemed to me to be the most damaging part of his speech.”
3. The Anti-Israel State Department
Monday, June 22, 2015
21 Ways Obama Attempted to Assassinate the U.S.-Israel Relationship
Larwyn's Linx: I Am Profoundly Tired of This Crap
Nation
I Am Profoundly Tired of This Crap: Michael BaneSo What Do Liberals Actually Want To Do About Guns?: David Harsanyi
U.S. attorney chills Reason-able speech: Glenn Harlan Reynolds
Hillary Clinton’s History With The Confederate Flag: Bre Payton
Friend Says Roof Settled for Church Because it was a Gun Free Zone: GJWHG
Emails Show Gruber Conspired with White House On Obamacare: Lid
Levin: Boehner’s Retaliation Against Conservatives Means Open Warfare: Breitbart
Rep. Jason Chaffetz Turns Leadership Lapdog and Attacks Conservatives: Erick Erickson
Ted Cruz’s Father Fires Up Campaign Rhetoric: Janet Hook
Reading Tea Leaves on the 2015 Supreme Court Term: Dan McLaughlin
Court Victory Gives Puerto Rico Permitless Concealed and Open Carry: Concealed Nation
Defaulting on Personal Responsibility: Debra Saunders
Scandal Central
Hillary: 'Clinton Cash' Full of Wild Inaccurate Allegations, a Partisan Axe: BreitbartEmail Shows Sidney Blumenthal Advising Hillary on How To Spin Qaddafi’s Fall: Debra Heine
Probe of Hillary Clinton pal Huma Abedin ordered by federal judge : Jim Kouri
Climate & Energy
CA Water Board Prioritizes Fish Over People: Josephine DjuhanaOh, Noes: Global warming will shrink loaves of bread: Marathon
How climate-change doubters lost a papal fight: WaPo
Media
Obama Prefers the Lie to the Truth: Erick EricksonVox Explains: Israel Is The Worst: David Harsanyi
CNN Panel Discusses Troubling Polling Numbers for Clinton: WFB
The Confederate Battle Flag: Erick Erickson
‘Zero Respect For What You Did’ – How I Pissed Off Jake Tapper: Sooper
Hypocrisy of 'New York Times’ Over Temporary Work Visas: Newsweek
Charleston rejects racial hatemongers with #GoHomeDeray Twitter campaign: RWN
Classy: AP Runs Photo With Image of Gun Pointing Directly at Ted Cruz’s Head: JWF
Dear Everyone, Get Over Yourselves: Derek Hunter
World
House Intel Chair: We Are ‘Facing the Highest Threat Level We Have Ever Faced’: Sara NobleWhat the Obama worshippers missed: Richard Baehr
Get ready for Gaza Flotilla III: LI
Russia – The Horseman Of War: NoisyRoom
Turkey Catches Two Men Smuggling 1.2 kilos of Radioactive Material: Treehouse
Looming Grexit prompts bank run: Deutsche Welle
Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)
That Ancient Martian Ocean? It Might Have Been Frozen.: Maddie StoneIs Getting Old A Disease?: Alexandra Ossola
In Sweden, blood donors get a text whenever they save a life: Geek
Cornucopia
The Art of the Con, by Donald Trump: Kevin D. Williamson“No More Single-Stack CCW For Me”: Bearing Arms
NSA Failures Expose Yet More Secrets, Endanger Millions: Patrick Watson
Image: Hillary Clinton’s History With The Confederate Flag
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QOTD: "Former ambassador [Michael Oren] has revealed in his new book what most Israelis and many Americans now know to be true: that U.S. President Barack Obama abandoned Israel ever since the beginning of his term in 2009, and that the breach in U.S.-Israel relations is primarily his doing. In fact it was a deliberate policy to create distance between the United States and Israel, since the president was far more interested in making nice to the likes of Iran and the Muslim Brotherhood, and the Muslim world in general...
...None of this should have been a surprise to anyone who honestly explored Obama's history before he became president. That of course excludes the likes of New Yorker editor David Remnick who managed to miss all the essentials despite a multi-pound tome that later filled many remainder shelves. Why would Obama and his family have remained in the church of anti-Semitic, America-bashing Rev. Jeremiah Wright for so many years? What exactly were the connections between Obama and Ali Abunimah, the co-founder of the Electronic Intifada website, or between Obama and Professors Rashid Khalidi and Edward Said? How much of Obama's autobiography did he write himself and how much was it the work of far more than "casual acquaintance on the street" Bill Ayers, the former domestic terrorist? When Obama declared that his presidency would be transformative, he meant it." --Richard Baehr
Nullifying Tyranny
Last November voters in Washington State passed ballot initiative I-594 (Initiative Measure No. 594), which requires background checks whenever firearms change hands.
This weekend, in defiance of the new law, supporters of the Second Amendment organized an arms expo in Yakima, WA. Participants are invited to sell or barter guns without any background checks. The event opened yesterday, and is continuing today.
Below is the statement made by Mike Vanderboegh yesterday at the opening of the event:
I’d like to speak to you about the uniqueness of what we are doing here today and the efforts we are making to deal with this unprecedented event and how it effects the way we’re handling the competing interests of the participants and the press. First of all, I’d like to thank y’all for coming and taking your courage in your own two hands and braving the uncertainties to be here. In looking out at you I see the Founders’ descendants, only the Founders didn’t have to deal with the modern surveillance state. There were no cameras at the Boston Tea Party, the Green Dragon Tavern where the Sons of Liberty met was not bugged by the secret political police of Ministry of Homeland Security, the Committees of Correspondence did not have their communications photographed by the Royal Mail, General Gage did not possess surveillance drones and Captain Parker was not plagued by agents provocateurs within his own ranks working for the King and determined to discredit the Patriot cause by goading them into firing first. It is fortunate for us that King George did not possess these instruments of tyranny. But the fact of the matter is that Barack Obama and his minions do possess them. So when you come here today, you are, I believe, exhibiting every bit as much courage as the Founders, for you do face these threats and still you refuse to comply. By your very presence here today, you are sending the message: WE WILL NOT COMPLY WITH THE INSTRUMENTS OF OUR OWN SLAVERY.
Sunday, June 21, 2015
BUSHCLINTON BUSHCLINTON BUSHCLINTON: Death by Dynasty
Guess what, Jeb Bush has officially announced his candidacy for President of the United States.
Now, to me, it looked like a joyless, heavily-staged, enthusiasm suite ritual, much like the baptism of the royal heir or some other pointless ceremonial drudgery. Now this, of course, is coming on the heels of Hillary Clinton's announcement, one of the 13 or 14 times that she's announced that she, too, is running for the top job.
Hillary's campaign has been something less than a snowy white dove released into an azure blue sky. It's been the kind of scandal-plagued disaster that makes one look at people running from the collapse of the flaming wreckage of the Hindenburg and mutter to themselves, those lucky bastards, under one's breath.
Now, both the Bush camp and the Clinton camp want to sell the American people on the idea of dynasty and they're both doing it in the same way emphasizing things like experience and leadership and connections.
But if the truth be told, and one of the major perks of coming from a great house is a facility for shading the truth, the real reason both of them are running is because that's what Bushes and Clintons do. They run for president.
Now, I'm not alone in noting that neither of these mediocre people really seem to want the job. Both of them seem to labor under the burden of unmet expectations. Neither one seems genuine, neither one seems to have anything new to say, and as I said, neither one seems to be having very much fun at all.
You know, they have something else in common, these two, and that's the scathing contempt for the common person.
What the Obama worshippers missed
It is not surprising that former Israeli Ambassador to the U.S. Michael Oren is now in the sights of the Obama Defenders Corps, a collection of U.S. administration officials, sycophantic journalists and other obsessive critics of Israel.
The former ambassador has revealed in his new book what most Israelis and many Americans now know to be true: that U.S. President Barack Obama abandoned Israel ever since the beginning of his term in 2009, and that the breach in U.S.-Israel relations is primarily his doing. In fact it was a deliberate policy to create distance between the United States and Israel, since the president was far more interested in making nice to the likes of Iran and the Muslim Brotherhood, and the Muslim world in general. Close U.S. ties with Israel presented an obstacle in Obama's path toward accomplishing these other goals.
In essence, Obama had swallowed the message of Professors Steven Walt and John Mearsheimer in their book: "The Israel Lobby" in its entirety. Obama was also educated in Third World/academic perspectives on international conflicts, which always tend to favor the weaker or non-Western party. So it was predictable that he would come into office believing Israel was primarily at fault in its conflict with the Palestinians, and so pressure needed to be applied to them.
None of this should have been a surprise to anyone who honestly explored Obama's history before he became president. That of course excludes the likes of New Yorker editor David Remnick who managed to miss all the essentials despite a multi-pound tome that later filled many remainder shelves. Why would Obama and his family have remained in the church of anti-Semitic, America-bashing Rev. Jeremiah Wright for so many years? What exactly were the connections between Obama and Ali Abunimah, the co-founder of the Electronic Intifada website, or between Obama and Professors Rashid Khalidi and Edward Said? How much of Obama's autobiography did he write himself and how much was it the work of far more than "casual acquaintance on the street" Bill Ayers, the former domestic terrorist? When Obama declared that his presidency would be transformative, he meant it.
Larwyn's Linx: Colorado Springs vs. Charleston: Church Massacres That Ended Differently
Nation
Colorado Springs vs. Charleston: Church Massacres That Ended Differently: Katie PavlichWe have just a sliver of time within which to preserve our constitutional rights: Bookworm
Charleston Killer Chose Church As Target Because It Was a “Gun Free Zone”: Bob Owens
Here Is What Appears to Be Dylann Roof’s Racist Manifesto: Brendan O'Connor
2 block party shootings in different states: 10 News
Chaos in Myrtle Beach: More wilding and mob robbery: Colin Flaherty
Bill and Hillary Clinton Honored Confederacy with Special Day and State Flag: WZ
Hillary: ‘Deeper Challenge’ is Racism and Not Just ‘Kooks and Klansmen’: Bridget Johnson
Obama Grieves Deeply For Charleston While Raising Money and Golfing: Deanna Fisher
Death by Dynasty: Bill Whittle
Who Has the Worse Idea: Obama or Trump?: Rick Jensen
NOLA officer fatally shot in head transporting suspect: PoliceOne
Scandal Central
Benghazi investigators ponder: Is State Dept. lying, or is Hillary?: Byron YorkParents Arrested For Letting Son Play In Their Own Yard: BlurBrain
New Florida Carry Lawsuit to Defend Right to Bear Arms: FloridaCarry
Climate & Energy
Hillary Jumps on Pope’s Climate Bandwagon: Roger L SimonMedia
Death Penalty: Punishment, Warning, Atonement?: Avner ZarmiIn a strip mall dojo, Sonny Kim changed lives: Jeremy Fugleberg
Meet the Lady Who Ruined Dylann Roof's Chance at an Insanity Plea: Natasha Vargas-Cooper
World
Rep. Gohmert: Obama Outed Active Israeli Iranian Spy Mission: Mark LangfanUS: Iran's Support for Terror Undiminished: Clarion
Memorize The Quran, Get a Free Slave Girl in ISIS Competition: Clarion Project
Exposed: Iran's Super Strategy to Crush America in a War: Zachary Keck
4th ISIS wannabe in NY-NJ area arrested: Shoebat
Dutch MP Geert Wilders To Show Mohammed Cartoons On National TV: WZ
Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)
With a nod and a wink, Microsoft gives away Windows 10 to anyone who asks: ZDnetGet Over Lightheadedness by Tensing Up Your Leg Muscles: Thorin Klosowski
Amazon Will Soon Start Paying Authors Based on e-Book Pages Read: Maddie Stone
Cornucopia
Our True Founding Principles: Jerome HuylerWake Up America: One Man’s Ceiling Is Another Man’s Floor: MOTUS
Makes You Wonder: Gun Free Zone
Image: Obama Grieves Deeply For Charleston While Raising Money and Golfing
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QOTD: "United States Congressman Louie Gohmert revealed Thursday that the Obama administration had “outed” an active Israeli spy mission in Iran. Israel, he said, had infiltrated Israeli spies into mainland Iran via cargo boats.
He dropped the bombshell in a speech at EMET’s 9th annual “Rays of Light in the Darkness” gala dinner.
Rep. Gohmert, who is one Israel’s fiercest and truest friends on Capitol Hill, stated: “We are on the brink of disaster.”
He listed a stream of virulently anti-Israel actions taken by President Obama which included the “outing” of the Israeli spy mission, and the Obama Administration’s disclosing of possible use of Azerbaijani airspace by Israel.
Rep. Gohmert did not elaborate on whether Obama’s disclosure of Israeli covert operations had resulted in the capture or death of any of Israel’s Iranian spies." --Mark Langfan
Saturday, June 20, 2015
Huma Abedin Unveiled
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.
Larwyn's Linx: The Scandal of Murdered Black Americans
Nation
The Scandal of Murdered Black Americans: Bob OwensValerie 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 LawlerMichelle 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 BergerBenghazi 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: CubeEPA 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 SteinThe 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 SwierISIS 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 LamotheWhy 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: MOTUSThe 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
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"
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
...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
Nation
No Wonder Obama Won’t Let Us Read TPP: Phyllis SchlaflyHouse 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 DoganDylann 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 AdamsRand 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: ScoopNuclear 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 HinderakerThe 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 GoldbergU.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 WeisgerberCalifornia 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 JohnsonWhen 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
Obama-linked Extremist Group Publishes "HIT LIST" of Anti-Sharia Females in the U.S.
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
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
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
Nation
GOP Congress Conspiring With Obama To Pass ObamaTrade Today: RSJim 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: LidMajor 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: SooperGowdy: 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 WattsPay $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. IkengaCoulter: 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 KaczynskiJohn 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: TechworldAn 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: TruesburyDo 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
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: Isn't it time for a real conservative? Ted Cruz 2016: Official Site
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
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"
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.
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.


















