Saturday, June 27, 2015

Time to Overthrow the Judicial Dictatorship

By Cliff Kincaid

Commentators have missed the real significance of Justice Antonin Scalia’s dissent in the gay marriage case. He calls the decision a judicial “Putsch,” an attempt to overthrow a form of government—ours. His dissent, joined by Justice Clarence Thomas, was written “to call attention to this Court’s threat to American democracy.”

His comment about the Court using the kind of reasoning we find in a fortune cookie is a funny line. But there is much of the Scalia dissent that is not funny and which serves as a warning to the American people about what the Court has done to us.

Scalia understands the power and meaning of words and he chose the word “putsch” for a specific purpose. One definition of the term means “a secretly plotted and suddenly executed attempt to overthrow a government…” Another definition is “a plotted revolt or attempt to overthrow a government, especially one that depends upon suddenness and speed.”

Hence, Scalia is saying this was not only a blatant power grab and the creation of a “right” that does not exist, but a decision that depends on public ignorance about what is really taking place. It is our system of checks and balances and self-rule that has been undermined, he says.

In that sense, he is warning us that we need to understand the real significance of this decision, and go beyond all the commentators talking about “marriage equality” and “equal rights” for homosexuals. In effect, he is saying that the decision is really not about gay rights, but about the future of our constitutional republic, and the ability of the people to govern themselves rather than be governed by an elite panel making up laws and rights as they go.

Larwyn's Linx: Democracy Is Dying; Persecution Is Coming

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SCOTUS

Democracy Is Dying; Persecution Is Coming: Rod Dreher
A Land Beyond Law ...in a Lawless World: Mark Steyn
SCOTUS invents new right to same-sex "marriage," outlawing Christianity: WyBlog

SCOTUS Declares Itself God, Redefines Marriage and Rights: Ben Shapiro
SCOTUS Rewrites ObamaCare to Save It: Arnold Ahlert
When Obama Says Jump, John Roberts Asks, "How High?": Aaron Goldstein

Roberts Court and Dissolution of Co-Equal Branches of Government: Politisite
SCOTUS Gay Marriage Ruling Mandates National Concealed Carry: Bob Owens
What’s Next For Gay Advocates?: William Teach

Be the Best Saboteur You Can Be: Sultan Knish
Supreme Court Ruling – Gay Marriage A Constitutional Right: LI
On Justice Thomas’s Dissent In Obergefell: Camp o' the Saints

Nation

When Erasing Symbols of Slavery, Don't Forget the Democrat Party: Anthony J. Ciani
The Monuments to the Framers of The Southern Manifesto of 1956: Lee Cary
Farrakhan: "We Will Kill You All": Right Pundit

Economy

We are Issuing a RED ALERT For The Last Six Months Of 2015: Michael Snyder
NEA union mandates new government restrictions for homeschoolers: RWN
Report: NHTSA Failed Consumers Over Automotive Safety: Cameron Aubernon

Scandal Central

Why the Supreme Court ruling on gay marriage could lead to civil war: Allen West
State: Hillary didn’t give us 15 of Blumenthal’s e-mails: Ed Morrissey
The Redflex Bribery Scandal Reaches Ohio: Jack Baruth

Climate & Energy

The White House Wants Your Doctor To Teach You About Global Warming: DC

Media

Networks Yawn at News IRS Destroyed 24,000 Lois Lerner E-Mails: Curtis Houck
Facebook Post Right After Supreme Court Ruling Knocked it out of the Park: Joshua Riddle
Conservatives Unleash Fury at One-Time Hero John Roberts: Sahil Kapur and David Weigel

Gay Marriage: Just Do It! (And Welcome to It) [First Posted:March, 2006]: American Digest
Ted Cruz's innovative ideas for fighting the gay marriage diktat: AT
Remember When Barack Obama Assured Rick Warren He did Not Support Gay Marriage? – 8/20/2008: FreeLight

Let’s Bring Back Guilt and Shame: R.S. McCain
NYTimes Headline Writer Does It Again: My Right Word
Biased Bureaucrats, Gullible Journalists, and Dylann Roof: Jared Taylor

World

Is the Obama Administration Forfeiting IAEA Inspections of Iranian Military Sites?: Yaakov Lappin
Iran Courting Native Americans in Canada: Leaked Document: Ryan Mauro
France. The shape its in. A decapitation literally and figuratively: Vlad Tepes

Obama's pivot to Asia does nothing to counter growing Chinese provocations: Christopher S. Carson
Facing a Changing World Balance, Obama Makes Odd Choices: Michael Barone
Who is Responsible for the Atrocities in the Muslim World?: Uzay Bulut

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Why China Wants Your Sensitive Data: Adam Meyers
Pluto and Charon Are Coming Into Intriguing Focus: Tom Yulsman
DJI Phantom 3 review: an aerial photography drone for the masses: James Trew

Cornucopia

Liberals are playing a racial shell game: Jonah Goldberg
Gay Pride: It’s the New Black: MOTUS
When Words No Longer Matter…: MOTUS

Image: DJI Phantom 3 review: an aerial photography drone for the masses
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QOTD: "...when [Chief Justice John Roberts] did his previous pretzel ruling [on the first Obamacare decision] ... [he] eventually decided it was perfectly lawful to force every single American to purchase a product from a nominally private company.

And we were told that he did that because the toxicity of the decision to strike that down would damage the Court's reputation. So now again, with a care for the Court's reputation, he's twisted himself into a pretzel again. Presumably the same considerations will apply when it comes to same sex marriage.

In that case, there is no point to a Supreme Court. If they can't take the heat of decisions that go against the zeitgeist or the popular mood or whatever fancies and foibles are in the air, then there is no point to a constitutional court. If he's saying we can't take the heat, fine. Then let the legislators who have to account to the citizens, let them take the heat. What polling booth do you go to to vote out John Roberts? What polling booth do you go to to vote out Anthony Kennedy? Scalia's line is not a joke. It is SCOTUSCare...

The judicial branch is in effect now actually legislating and broadening the terms of the law. And that is something that ought to be extremely disturbing to anyone, particularly a constitutional court, but to anyone who gives any thought as to whether we're a land of laws or a land of men." --Mark Steyn

Friday, June 26, 2015

The Day the Constitution Died

By Terresa Monroe-Hamilton

It’s been an historic week and although I am not surprised by the Supreme Court decisions, they saddened me beyond belief. I have sadly come to the conclusion that many of my colleagues are correct… our Constitutional form of government is now dead and Obama’s transformative ‘change’ is all but complete.

Things are now snowballing and it is more than most Americans can take or bear. From gay marriage and the ensuing infringement on free speech and our religious rights, to enforced Obamacare, to forced wealth redistibution in our neighborhoods, to the EPA run amok… our freedoms are being absolutely nullified. States are now saying they won’t comply with the EPA on coal and who can blame them? Americans will get very dangerous when they are hungry and cold. And then there is the Iran deadline, which is this weekend. Instead of holding their feet to fire, we are actually giving Iran nuclear reactors while they shout, “Death to America!” in their parliament.

Insanity is the norm now.

JUDICIAL RADICALS: Supreme Court Overrules All of Human History and 300 Million People to Redefine Marriage

Joshua Riddle spots a doozy of a rebuke to the Supreme Court on, of all places, Facebook:

This was a great response on Facebook right after the Supreme Court ruled that gay marriage is now legal in all 50 states.


Rod Dreher: "Democracy is dying, persecution is coming."
 
 

TOO LATE, RUSH LIMBAUGH: The War Over the U.S. Flag is Already Well Underway

By Daniel John Sobieski

Talk show icon Rush Limbaugh warned on Tuesday that the Confederate flag kerfuffle is bout the opening salvo in a campaign that that will eventually set its sights on that ultimate symbol of hate to the American left – the U.S. flag. Rush warned:

“If you take a look at the timeline of progressive events, their speed and rapidity with which the left is conducting this assault on all of these American traditions and institutions, if you don’t think the American flag’s in their crosshairs down the road, you had better stop and reconsider,” Limbaugh said.

The U.S. flag was already in liberal crosshairs when a group of American high school students in California made the mistake of wearing it on their t-shirts on Cinco de Mayo.  As Investor’s Business Daily editorialized:

On Sept. 17, more than four years after Live Oak High School in Morgan Hill, Calif., sent students home for wearing American flag t-shirts, an 11-judge Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals panel ruled that it was the right choice, "tailored to avert violence and focused on student safety."

The decision upheld the court's three-judge ruling in February that justified the school's actions based on tensions between Mexican and American students. Past events, Judge M. Margaret McKeown wrote, "made it reasonable for school officials to proceed as though the threat of a potentially violent disturbance was real."

Larwyn's Linx: Supreme Court Ruling – Obamacare Subsidies Stay

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Supreme Court Ruling – Obamacare Subsidies Stay: LI
Ted Cruz tells ‘rogue justices’ to resign and run for Congress: Seth McLaughlin
Roberts Makes Key Factual Mistake At The Start Of His ObamaCare Decision: IBD

Republicans Go On Obamacare Offensive: 'A Reckless Law': Daniel Halper
Scalia's Dissent: iOTWreport
John Roberts rescues Obamacare — again: Brett Logiurato

Nation

Why Are We Not Removing All Things Related To Robert “KKK” Byrd?: RWN
Hillary’s Hard Choices: TPA’s biggest loser: Ed Morrissey
Watch Ted Cruz answer questions in the Center Seat on Special Report: Scoop

ISIS in America: The Z Man
FBI Rounding Up Islamic State Suspects: Josh Rogin & Eli Lake
The New Civil War: With Malice Toward All; And Charity For None: Camp o' the Saints

Obama Dreams Of Gun Confiscation: Bob Owens
America’s center on gun control might shock New York: Seth Lipsky
GOP leaders reverse punishment for dissenter: Politiho

All-Time World Champions of Institutional Racism: Mark Steyn
The History of the Racist Democrat Party: Scoop
The book burning begins: Mike Adams

Economy

Obama Has Officially Turned America Into Food Stamp Nation: DownTrend
SSA Paid the Dead $46.8 Million: Elizabeth Harrington
Obama’s trade win brings H-1B unease: ComputerWorld

Scandal Central

In Upholding Obamacare’s Subsidies, Justice Roberts Rewrites the Law—Again: Peter Suderman
How the Feds Asked Me to Rat Out Commenters: Nick Gillespie
Hackers Stole Secrets of U.S. Government Workers’ Sex Lives: Shane Harris

LIAR: Chaffetz says Benghazi emails found Hillary DID NOT turn over to State Dept: Scoop
IRS erased Lerner emails even after subpoena: audit: Stephen Dinan
Clinton Lawyer, Soros Back Anti-Voter ID Lawsuits: Joe Schoffstall, Washington Free Beacon

Media

Mark Levin responds to shameful SCOTUS Obamacare ruling: Scoop
Refuting 'Radar Online's' Racist Attack On Nikki Haley: Lid
Video maker sues so it can promote Muslim film in NY subways: Michael Balsamo

Where Waco Is Headed: The Aging Rebel
Anyone Remember Lakim Faust?: MB
E.J. Dionne Totally Knows How To Free Law Abiding Citizens From Their Guns: Cove

World

Iran's supreme leader is laughing, for good reason: Boaz Bismuth
Is the Obama Administration Forfeiting IAEA Inspections of Iranian Military Sites?: Yaakov Lappin
150 ISIS Sex Slaves Commit Suicide, Some Fed to Dogs: Clarion

Two Men Carrying ISIS Flags Set Off Bombs - Behead Man in French Factory: GWP
Man found decapitated in France terror attack: iTV
Welcome to Animal Farm, D.C. : American Betrayers of the Cuban People: Carlos Eire

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Apple Pulls All Civil War Games Over Confederate Flag Controversy: Caleb Howe
Is the Obama Administration Forfeiting IAEA Inspections of Iranian Military Sites?: Yaakov Lappin
Uber’s Anti-Gun Policy Is Working Out Really Well For Armed Robbers: Bob Owens

Cornucopia

Five Depressing Developments on the OPM Data Compromise: WeaponsMan
Here's how much money players lose when they fall in the NBA Draft: Cork Gaines
Roberts to Teach Creative Writing Class: Keith Koffler

Image: Ted Cruz drops fundraising 'money bomb'
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QOTD: "The biggest loser [on the trade bill], though, is Hillary Clinton. Once the TPP and TPA became a toxic issue with progressives, Hillary ran for cover despite spending three years of her term as Secretary of State extolling the deal. Jake Tapper found [45] separate occasions where Hillary endorsed TPP as US policy while at State, but it didn’t end there. Her memoir Hard Choices, published in 2014 a year after she left State, has only one substantive passage on TPP, but it’s significant:

[In it], Hillary called TPP “the signature economic pillar of our strategy in Asia,” and “benefit American businesses and workers.” And she should know — Hillary was in charge of American diplomacy while this agreement was being negotiated...

...Either way, Hillary looks gutless and pandering — demonstrating the antithesis of leadership. In a crowded field, that makes her the biggest loser on TPA." --Ed Morrissey

Thursday, June 25, 2015

TED CRUZ RIPS SUPREME COURT’S OBAMACARE RULING: They are "rogue justices"

At least one American Senator is willing to speak truth to power.

Republican presidential contender Ted Cruz attacked Chief Justice John Roberts and other members of the Supreme Court in unusually harsh terms Thursday, referring to them as "rogue justices" and "robed Houdinis" after a 6-3 decision to uphold President Barack Obama's health care law.

Cruz, a Texas senator, did not mention any current high court members by name in remarks on the Senate floor. But his speech included a thinly veiled reference to Roberts, part of the court majority that upheld tax credits that defray the cost of coverage for lower-income individuals nationwide.

"These justices are not behaving as umpires calling balls and strikes. They have joined a team," the Texas lawmaker said.

IT’S OFFICIAL: "Chief Justice" John Roberts is a National Disgrace

By James Simpson

Chief Justice John Roberts today joined Anthony Kennedy and all the Supreme Court Democrats in upholding Obama’s unconstitutional, deceptive, and indescribably destructive healthcare law. Today’s decision in King v. Burwell declares that even though the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) specifically required individuals to enroll through state exchanges to obtain subsidies, enrolling directly through the federal government is essentially the same thing. This decision once again displays the Supreme Court’s willingness to ignore the clear intent of law in order to achieve a politically desired result. For Roberts it has written into stone an unmistakable pattern.

Roberts’ first betrayal was his mind-bending decision to call Obamacare a legitimate tax, whereas Obama had defended the law on the basis that it wasn’t a tax. An article in Republic magazine aptly described Roberts’ first betrayal:

‘Because the Constitution permits such a tax, it is not our role to forbid it, or to pass upon its wisdom or fairness,’ wrote Roberts, deploying the tactical disingenuousness such people always display whenever they ratify a federal power grab. This feigned humility was used to cloak an unambiguous lie: The measure Roberts describes is a direct un-apportioned tax, which, as we’ve seen, is explicitly forbidden by the Constitution.

His next was almost certainly throwing in with the Court’s leftists on gay rights – ignoring the clear state’s rights issue involved by voting not to hear five cases that defended traditional marriage as a state’s right. “Almost certainly” because a decision to hear the cases required only four in agreement and votes are taken in secret. Scalia, Thomas and Alito were likely willing to hear the cases. Where was the fourth vote?

Now Roberts has done all possible to seal this country’s fate by once again siding with Obama. In today’s decision, dissenting Justice Antonin Scalia wrote of its mind-numbing idiocy (see pp. 27 – 29):

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.


Hat tip: BadBlue News.
 

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

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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.