Thursday, June 25, 2015

SO, JASON CHAFFETZ: Exactly Who is Going to Prison?

FNC's Chad Pergram reports, via Gretawire, that multiple crimes were committed by the IRS in its systemic efforts to cover up targeting of political opponents.

Oversight Cmte hearing on Lois Lerner email inquiry expected to reveal there was destruction evidence 10 months after a preservation order for the emails was in place... On today’s House Oversight Committee hearing on the IRS and the state of the Lois Lerner email investigation from a source knowledgeable with the matter.

Fox is told the hearing will definitively state there was a destruction of evidence 10 months after a preservation order for the emails was in place, 7 months after a subpoena was in place and 30 days AFTER the IRS realized there were potential problems locating the emails. This destruction of evidence happened 22 days BEFORE the IRS Commissioner testified to Congress, in response to my questioning on March 26, 2015, that they had the documents and they would provide all of them to Congress.

In June they informed the Senate they were missing.

Further, the IG is expected to conclusively testify 5 of the 6 potential places where the emails might have been stored were never looked at by the IRS, despite the preservation order, congressional testimony, subpoena, etc.

Joel Gehrke makes Republicans sound really -- no, reallyyy -- angry.

KING V. BURWELL: James Madison and Antonin Scalia blister a lawless Supreme Court

In a letter to Henry Lee dated 25 June 1824, James Madison wrote:

I entirely concur in the propriety of resorting to the sense in which the Constitution was accepted and ratified by the nation. In that sense alone it is the legitimate Constitution. And if that be not the guide in expounding it, there can be no security for a consistent and stable, more than for a faithful exercise of its powers.

If the meaning of the text be sought in the changeable meaning of the words composing it, it is evident that the shape and attributes of the Government must partake of the changes to which the words and phrases of all living languages are constantly subject. What a metamorphosis would be produced in the code of law if all its ancient phraseology were to be taken in its modern sense!

Echoing Madison's sentiments, in his dissent to the ludicrous majority decision of King v. Burwell, Justice Antonin Scalia wrote:

Words no longer have meaning if an Exchange that is not established by a State is ‘established by the State' ...

... Under all the usual rules of interpretation, in short, the Government should lose this case. But normal rules of interpretation seem always to yield to the overriding principle of the present Court: The Affordable Care Act must be saved ...

... We should start calling this law SCOTUScare.

Perhaps the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act will attain the enduring status of the Social Security Act or the Taft-Hartley Act; perhaps not. But this Court’s two decisions on the Act will surely be remembered through the years….And the cases will publish forever the discouraging truth that the Supreme Court of the United States favors some laws over others, and is prepared to do whatever it takes to uphold and assist its favorites.

And the Constitution, already in tatters, has been torn yet again.


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Larwyn's Linx: War: Boehner Attacks Conservatives Opposing His Chummy Relationship With Obama

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War: Boehner Attacks Conservatives Opposing His Chummy Deals With Obama: Ace
Establishment GOP Betrays Country Class Again; Primaries Are The Cure: CHQ
Cruz Switches Vote on TPA, but Bill Passes as Obama Twists Democrat Arms: Ace

Why Are We Not Removing All Things Related To Robert “KKK” Byrd?: Cove
This Symbol Should Never Fly Anywhere In America: iOTWreport
Oklahoma Sports Broadcaster Killed By Illegal Deported To Mexico... 3 Times!: News9

Animated Characters: Camp o' the Saints
Judge sentences Tzarnaev to death; terrorists praises Allah and admits guilt: Scoop
Why Do Progressives Resent Reality So Much?: George Fields

Bernie Sanders Is A Thing That Is Happening: Ben Domenech
The Case for Mike Flynn, Republican Candidate for the Illinois' 18th District: Ace
Christie Approval Rating at New Low in N.J.: Courtney Such

Economy

Crappy Days Are Here Again: Myron Magnet
Who killed CPS? Report lays out the fiscal felons: Greg Hinz
Obama’s Earth Day Trip To Florida Cost Taxpayers $866K in Flight Expenses Alone: WZ

Scandal Central

Clinton Cash Comix: Thomas Lifson
Who is lying about Benghazi? Hillary Clinton or State Department?: Byron York
Non-Profit Media Matters Accidentally Admits It Works For Hillary – That’s Illegal.: DownTrend

Climate & Energy

EPA Head Gina McCarthy is Simply NOT NORMAL!: Lid
UK MET Office: Fastest decline in solar activity since the last ice age: Eric Worrall
Study: "Missing Heat" is Not Hiding in the Oceans: RWN

Media

Spike It! When the Media Kill a Story for Political Reasons: Charles Lipson
You're Not Going to Believe This, But Easy-Bake Media Is Again Focusing on a Trivial Issue : Ace
Ann Coulter: Nikki Haley Is an Immigrant Who Doesn't Understand American History: Ace

The 20 Hottest Conservative Women In The New Media For 2015 is Live!: RWN
Hey Rolling Stone, How Come You Didn’t Put Racist Dylann Roof On Your Cover Like You Did Tzarnaev?: Sooper
Sorry, Josh Earnest, But The Second Amendment Isn’t About Hunting: Sean Davis

Audio: Mark Levin Torches the Left's 'End of Discussion' Silencing Culture: Guy Benson
It's Not About The Confederate Flag – It’s About The Pure Unrestrained Hatred Hidden By MSM: Treehouse
Soft Tyranny in Albuquerque: The Politics of Better Call Saul!: Paul A. Cantor

World

We should not avert our eyes from the Islamic State’s latest horrors: Marc A. Thiessen
What a Yemeni Missile Teaches Us About the Iran Deal: Thomas Karako
Turkey Chooses ISIS Over the Kurds: Michael J. Totten

Muhammad Cartoons shown on Dutch TV: Geert Wilders
Yes, Conservatives, Islam Is a Religion: Craig Biddle
Greek deal unravels as both sides reject proposals, Tsipras summoned to late night talks: Telegraph

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Tech company finds stolen government logins all over web: Ken Dilanian
Face-Scanning Robots Could Replace Airport Ticket Agents: Kelsey D. Atherton
Dollar Shave Club Raises $75 Million: Jason Del Rey

Cornucopia

Officer Sonny Kim represented as hero in illustration by Marvel Comics artist: Fernanda Crescente
Another Skinny, Big-eared Man of Color Wants To Be President: MOTUS
Diddy Tried To Murder UCLA Football Coach: Brian Anderson

Image: Officer Sonny Kim represented as hero in illustration by Marvel Comics artist
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QOTD: "[The still secret Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), Trade in Services Agreement (TISA), and Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP)] will be a "living agreement," and that means that the entity itself, the commission, will then be entitled to make it say different things.

Eliminate provisions it doesn't like, add provisions it does like...

It is a breathtaking event. It says it is "to promote the international movement of people, services and products," basically the same language used to start the European Union.

In fact I have referred to it as a nascent European Union. I don't think that is far off base...

What about this "union," what kind of powers are we talking about? I am of the belief that since the president hasn't been a strong advocate of trade, and his supporters, many of them oppose this kind of a trade agreement, I'm beginning to believe that the primary part of his understanding of the importance of this legislation -- why he is breaking arms and heads over it -- is this union. This international commission that has powers that he believes will allow him to advance agendas." --Sen. Jeff Sessions

Wednesday, June 24, 2015

INTERESTING: Conservatives and Progressives Alike Despise Obamatrade; Only Beltway Insiders Love It

By Tyler Durden

Senator Jeff Sessions will release this statement in response to Senate's vote to advance the fast-track trade bill:

Americans increasingly believe that their country isn’t serving its own citizens. They need look no further than a bipartisan vote of Congress that will transfer congressional power to the Executive Branch and, in turn, to a transnational Pacific Union and the global interests who will help write its rules.

The same routine plays out over and again. We are told a massive bill must be passed, all the business lobbyists and leaders tell how grand it will be, but that it must be rushed through before the voters spoil the plan. As with Obamacare and the Gang of Eight, the politicians meet with the consultants to craft the talking points—not based on what the bill actually does, but what they hope people will believe it does. And when ordinary Americans who never asked for the plan, who don’t want the plan, who want no part of the plan, resist, they are scorned, mocked, and heaped with condescension.

Washington broke arms and heads to get that 60th vote—not one to spare—to impose on the American people a plan which imperils their jobs, wages, and control over their own affairs. It is remarkable that so much energy has been expended on advancing the things Americans oppose, and preventing the things Americans want.

For instance: thousands of loyal Americans have been laid off and forced to train the foreign workers brought in to fill their jobs—at Disney, at Southern California Edison, across the country. Does Washington rush to their defense? No, the politicians and the lobbyists rush to move legislation that would double or triple the very program responsible for replacing them.

This ‘econometarian’ ideology holds that if a company can increase its bottom line - whether by insourcing foreign workers or outsourcing production - then it’s always a win, never a downside.

By way of example, here is Keith Tucker's explanation of just one aspect of the idiocy.

NEW YORKERS SEND MESSAGE TO WOULD-BE TYRANT CUOMO: Take Your Illegal Gun Law and Shove It

By Rusty Weiss

After a much-publicized court battle between State Police and gun groups, numbers for the registration of so-called “assault-style” weapons under Governor Cuomo’s unconstitutional SAFE Act have been released.

The numbers indicate that a vast majority of gun owners have not complied with the law which was hastily enacted in 2013 after the Newtown massacre.

Second Amendment advocates had contended that state police were not releasing registration numbers to avoid embarrassment for the administration by hiding the low rate of compliance from angry gun owners.

While the motivation behind keeping the numbers from public view are up for debate, the results are not – hundreds of thousands of gun owners have collectively told Governor Cuomo to take his gun-grabbing law and shove it.

WALL OF SHAME: Who voted for TPP fast track in the Senate?

Courtesy of Against Crony Capitalism:


It's time to get serious about busting these Republican sellouts, once and for all.

Mike Flynn needs your help today in Illinois.

And in the near future, JD Winteregg will need your help against John Boehner (for an unknown, underfunded contender in 2014, he came amazingly close to unseating the Orange Crust).

As for the presidential race, it's time to start separating the wheat from the chaff. We conservatives need to align on a couple of serious candidates -- I'm thinking Ted Cruz and Scott Walker -- who have the chops to defeat both the Left and the Right. The time. Is. Now.
 
 

Larwyn's Linx: Hillary Tries to Rebut Clinton Cash, Fails Miserably

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Hillary Tries to Rebut Clinton Cash, Fails Miserably: John Hinderaker
Hillary’s Amazingly Abysmal Record as Secretary of State : Thomas Sowell
More Hillary Clinton Benghazi Emails Revealed: Sharyl Attkisson

Ted Cruz: Obamatrade Enmeshed in Corrupt, Backroom Dealing: Breitbart
Obamatrade: Rubio Casts Deciding Vote Without Even Reading It: Breitbart
Senate advances fast-track trade bill for Obama: Alexander Bolton

The Iran Deal’s Fatal Flaw: Alan J. Kuperman
FBI Files Document Communism in Valerie Jarrett’s Family: JW
Don’t Blame the Second Amendment: Charles C. W. Cooke

New Yorkers Refused To Register 95% Of 'Assault Weapons': Bob Owens
Blacks in Chicago: ZH
Bobby Jindal and Going Home Again: Erick Erickson

Economy

Hillary, pay your interns!: Carolyn Osorio, USA Today
Government Celebrates Ten Years of Stealing Private Land: Sara Noble
Mankiller Money: John Stossel

Scandal Central

From the Mixed Up Files of Jonathan Gruber: Scott Johnson
Obama extending amnesty to illegals in prisons, jails: Stephen Dinan
Lawsuit Seeks Secret Service Records of Costs for Bill Clinton’s Trips to Pedo Island: JW

Climate & Energy

Holy Hypocrisy and Hot Air: Michelle Malkin
Soviet Union 2.0 – The Environmental Protection Agency: Seton Motley
EPA Analyst Exposes Climate Science Takeover: Larry Bell

Media

Paul Begala: Granny Clinton ‘Absolutely’ Has to Answer for the Democrat Confederate Flag in Arkansas: JWF
CNN Morons: We’re gonna need to talk about taking down Jefferson Monument: Scoop
Dear Karl Rove: Mitch Berg

PBS host unsuccessfully tries to corner Ted Cruz on gun control: Kemberlee Kaye
Ted Cruz Interview on the Mark Levin Show – 6/23/15: Unedited
The war is over. These men won it for Liberty.: Neil Stevens

World

When the Truth is “Hate Speech”: Baron Bodissey
Canada To Deport Ex-Muslim Facing Death for Apostasy: Clarion
ISIS prisoners drowned, shot with an RPG and blown up with explosive-filled 'necklaces': DailyMail

With the Deal Deadline Looming, Iran Bans Nuclear Inspections: RS
See No Iran Evil at State: WSJ
UN report denies Israel's right of self-defense, advocates arrest of Israelis instead: Anne Bayefsky

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Are Smart Street Lights the Future of Security Tech?: Tod Newcombe (2014)
Taylor Swift explains her bad blood with Apple Music: Luke Dormehl
Ocumetics Bionic Lens could give you vision 3x better than 20/20: CBC

Cornucopia

“All This For A Damned Flag?”: MOTUS
#NorthernLights: Twitter
You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet: Spillers of Soup

Image: FIGURES. Barack Obama Had His Own 2012 Confederate Flag Pin
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QOTD: "While the pontiff sanctimoniously attacks [air-conditioning and] “those who are obsessed with maximizing profits,” Carrier Corporation — a $13 billion for-profit company with 43,000 employees worldwide (now a unit of U.S.-based United Technologies Corp.) — ensures that the air in the Vatican’s Sistine Chapel stays clean and cool.

Last fall, Carrier unveiled a groundbreaking HVAC system for the Vatican to help preserve Michelangelo’s masterpieces against pollution caused by the estimated six million visitors who descend on the Sistine Chapel every year to see its famous frescoes." --Michelle Malkin

Tuesday, June 23, 2015

FEEDING HER LIES INTO THE WOODCHIPPER: Author Eviscerates Hillary Clinton’s Sgt. Schultz Defense

Writing at The New York Post, Peter Schweizer -- author of the bestselling expose of the Clinton pay-for-play money-laundering machine -- responded to Ms. Clinton's Sgt. Schultz defense ("I know nussssssing! I see nussssssing!").

For example, Manchester, NH television host Josh McElveen asked Hillary to explain the reasons for her State Department's approval of the sale of 20 percent of all U.S. uranium to Vladimir Putin's Russian government. Hillary's response: she claimed she had no involvement.

“I was not personally involved because that wasn’t something the secretary of state did,” said Clinton...

The transfer of 20 percent of US uranium — the stuff used to build nuclear weapons — to Vladimir Putin did not rise to the level of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s time and attention?

Beyond being an admission of extreme executive negligence on an issue of utmost national security, Hillary’s statement strains credulity to the breaking point for at least three other reasons.

Schweizer explains that, number one, nine investors who raked in profits from the uranium deal donated a total of $145 million to Hillary's family foundation.

Number two, when Hillary was asked about the $500,000 paid to her husband for a single speech by a Kremlin-backed bank, she evaded and misdirected, stating that "The timing doesn’t work... it happened in terms of the support for the foundation before I was secretary of state."

Larwyn's Linx: Dems, Republicans & Experts Question Terms of Iran Deal

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Nation

Dems, Republicans & Experts Question Terms of Iran Deal: Clarion
Another Blow To IRS: Judge Demands Info on Lerner Emails, With 7/1 Hearings: Lid
Hillary Lauded Chris Stevens Dad's Request Not To Politicize Benghazi: Micheal Warren

‘Clinton Cash’ author demolishes Hillary’s self-defense: Peter Schweizer
Hillary and History: Thomas Sowell
Clinton’s Weakness in Important States: Michael Barone

Grinchy Deray Mckesson Goes To Charleston…: Treehouse
Look who supported the Confederate cause!: Brian Maloney
How Did Valerie Jarrett Pass A Background Check?: NoisyRoom

Manly Man Obama: “I know what I’m doing and I’m fearless”: JWF
Obama uses the N-word in podcast interview: Nick Gass
Why does President Obama criticize the Supreme Court so much?: Greg Jaffe

Feds Attempt to Intimidate Reason.com Over Internet Comments: Leon H. Wolf
A Racial Fort Sumter?: Jim Goad
Restaurant Cook Shoots Armed Robber, Protecting 20+ Lives In Detroit: Bob Owens

Scandal Central

Busted: Hillary Caught Not Turning Over All Work Emails: Daniel Halper
New emails show possible Benghazi deception by Hillary Clinton, Obama admin: Times
New Emails Confirm White House Lied About Jonathan Gruber's Links to Obamacare: Katie Pavlich

Climate & Energy

California: Running On Empty: Victor Davis Hanson
The Hubbard Glacier defies ‘climate change’ – continues to grow: Anthony Watts

Media

Press Parties at Clinton Aide Weekend Wedding: Michael Warren
Hatefacts On Black Killings Of Whites: John Derbyshire
Well…Why The Heck Not?: Camp o' the Saints

Morning Joe crew mocks Obama White House for lying about Gruber’s role in Obamacare: Scoop
MSNBC Panel Reacts to Proof that WH Lied about Gruber: Bradford Thomas
AP refuses to apologize for image of gun pointed at Cruz: Brian Maloney

PolitiFact Roasts Obama Over Gun Claim About Mass Killings In Other Countries: Breitbart
Karl Rove: Only Way To Stop The Violence Is To Repeal Second Amendment: Christian Datoc
My Twitter Account Was Suspended Over The Stupidest ‘Violation’: Sooper

World

An Insider Account: Obama’s Jihad Against the Jews: Pamela Geller
Iran bans inspector access to military sites: iOTWreport
Iranian Academic Challenges 'Death to Israel' Mantra: Clarion

Marines May Deploy on Foreign Ships, Because U.S. Navy Doesn’t Have Enough: Aaron MacLean
US troops sharing bases with Iranian led militias in Iraq: RS
The Right Takes Denmark: RS

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Fentanyl: The king of all opiates, and a killer drug crisis: Jonathon Gatehouse and Nancy Macdonald
Sweden’s Seventeenth-Century Mummy Examined: Archaeology
Report: US Needs New Small Nuclear Bombs: Marcus Weisgerber

Cornucopia

CAUTION: Objects in the NYT may appear different than in reality: MOTUS
New Jersey Family Reportedly Claims 'The Watcher' Is Targeting Them: ABC News
Yeah, You’re Getting Old If You Can Remember 80’s Spring Break (27 Pics): BlurBrain

Image: Proud to Support Governor Nikki Haley
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: Isn't it time for a real conservative? Ted Cruz 2016: Official Site

QOTD: "Let us face elemental reality. A 40-million person California is an iffy place. It is entirely dependent on a sophisticated, man-created infrastructure of dams, reservoirs, canals, pumps, freeways, rail lines, airports, and schools and universities. Given that the population continues to rise, and given that one in four Californians was not born in the United States and is often poor (California has the largest population in real and relative numbers below the poverty line; one sixth of the nation on welfare payments of some sort lives in California), there is no margin of safety. A drought is but a metaphor about the collapse of an entire way of living...

If our biologists and environmentalist were honest folk, they would have said to the public, “Please do not come into California; we instead prefer to restore salmon in our rivers than to provide jobs and drinking water for you. We like looking at open spaces from our backyard decks, not at new housing tracts. And we like a state of the well-heeled in clean-fueled, gas-less Priuses, not the poor puttering around in smoggy used Crown Victorias. The more costly we make gasoline and electrical power, the less we will use of it — even if that hurts you far more than it hurts us.”

But they were not especially veracious sorts, and so they went ahead to turn California into a state fit for 20 million, even as it grew to 40 million — while doing their best to be shielded from the ramifications of their own ideologies. The logical result of the Bay Area grandee’s world view is East Porterville, not the Berkeley foothills. If those who run the state would just live where the poor do, we would have reservoirs galore, futuristic freeways, and affordable housing. If the children of the elite fought for a slot at Cal State Stanislaus rather than Stanford, California would be quite a different place.

If it does not rain or snow soon, we are going to see things unimaginable." --Victor Davis Hanson

Monday, June 22, 2015

21 Ways Obama Attempted to Assassinate the U.S.-Israel Relationship

America's heroine Pamela Geller points us to an exceptional summary of diplomat Michael Oren's new book. The former Israeli Ambassador to the United States -- no right-winger to be sure -- has outlined a stunning insider's look at Obama's assassination of the relationship between the two longtime allies. Adam Kredo, writing at Washington Free Beacon, outlines some of the most outrageous revelations.

“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

Larwyn's Linx: I Am Profoundly Tired of This Crap

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Nation

I Am Profoundly Tired of This Crap: Michael Bane
So 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: Breitbart
Email 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 Djuhana
Oh, 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 Erickson
Vox 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 Noble
What 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 Stone
Is 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

By Baron Bodissey

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

By Bill Whittle

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

By Richard Baehr

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

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Nation

Colorado Springs vs. Charleston: Church Massacres That Ended Differently: Katie Pavlich
We 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 York
Parents 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 Simon

Media

Death Penalty: Punishment, Warning, Atonement?: Avner Zarmi
In 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 Langfan
US: 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: ZDnet
Get 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 Huyler
Wake Up America: One Man’s Ceiling Is Another Man’s Floor: MOTUS
Makes You Wonder: Gun Free Zone

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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

Cowboys and Idiots

By Springer's Blog


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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.

Larwyn's Linx: The Scandal of Murdered Black Americans

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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

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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.