Permit me to remind you about Donald Trump’s assessment of President Bush back in 2008:
Bush has been so bad, maybe the worst president in the history of this country. He has been so incompetent, so bad, so evil, that I don’t think any Republican could have won.
Evil? Evil? Of course, in the same interview, Trump endorsed… diplomatic outreach with Iran.
You know, you can be enemies with people, whether it’s Iran, Iraq, anyplace else and you can still have dialogue. These people won’t even talk to him. It’s terrible.
Wait, there’s more! Check out his assessment of Obama!
Friday, July 10, 2015
TRUMP IN 2008: "Bush Is Evil, We Need to Talk to Iran, Obama Cannot Do Worse Than Bush"
Scenes from the Government Debt Endgame
We have been warning about the 'global war on pensioners' for a while (most recently here, here, and here) but the soul-destroying images of Greek pensioners' hopes being crushed bring that central-bank-driven repression front-and-center...
As The Wall Street Journal reports, fear is growing in Greece as the decisive hour nears for the nation...
Greek banks will likely run out of cash by the end of the week, two senior Greek bankers said.“Not all banks will run out of cash at once,” one of the bankers said, “but they’ll all be out within hours of each other.”...
Shortages of medications are beginning to bite, compounding distress especially among older Greeks.
Parents of babies and young children are stocking up on formula and other basic medications, pharmacists say.
“In some cases, we have shortages because people are freaking out panic-buying. We’re trying to advise them against that,” said Mando Nikolopoulou, a pharmacist.
“We’re seeing significant shortages in heart and blood-pressure medications, but I’m less worried about that because there are Greek-made generics that people can turn to when the branded ones run out for good,” she said. “But insulin, that’s critical—diabetics need it to survive, and we’re really low on stocks.” ...
Yiannis Konstantinidis, a 74-year-old grandfather to two little girls, refused to join the queue, even though he could have done with an extra €60 ($66)—the maximum daily withdrawal amount under capital-control rules.
“I brought the kids to have a bit of fun, to buy them ice cream,” he said as 6-year-old Chryssa pulled on his hand. “They may be young but they know something’s wrong. The television is playing at home all day, there are people lining up at the banks, they’re asking me ‘what’s happening, Grandpa?’”
“I just want Tsipras to get a deal, any deal, but it looks like the Europeans are fed up with us now,” Mr. Konstantinidis said, adding he had voted with the minority of Greeks who backed the creditors’ proposals, which he believed would secure the country’s euro membership despite hitting pensioners like himself hard.
Scenes from a dying nation...
The Myth of Muslim Radicalization
Radicalization begins at home. In the mosque. It just ends with ISIS.
After some of its quarter of a million Muslims headed to join ISIS, Quebec decided the answer was a $2 million anti-radicalization center headed by a specialist in cultural sensitivity. But if you’re about to be beheaded by a masked ISIS Jihadist, a specialist in cultural sensitivity isn’t going to help you much.
Western governments nevertheless keep rolling out their culturally sensitive approaches to fighting ISIS.The key element in Obama’s strategy for fighting ISIS isn’t the F-15E Strike Eagle, it’s a Twitter account run by a Muslim Brotherhood sympathizer which claims to “Counter Violent Extremism” by presenting moderate Islamists like Al Qaeda as positive role models for the Islamic State’s social media supporters.
So far 75% of planes flown on combat missions against ISIS return without engaging the enemy, but the culturally sensitive State Department Twitter account has racked up over 5,000 tweets and zero kills.
Cultural sensitivity hasn’t exactly set Iraq on fire in fighting ISIS and deradicalization programs here start from the false premise that there is a wide gap between a moderate and extremist Islam. Smiling news anchors daily recite new stories about a teenager from Kentucky, Boston or Manchester getting “radicalized” and joining ISIS to the bafflement of his parents, mosque and community.
And who is to blame for all this mysterious radicalization? It’s not the parents. It certainly can’t be the moderate local mosque with its stock of Jihadist CDs and DVDs being dispensed from under the table.
The attorney for the family of Usaama Rahim, the Muslim terrorist who plotted to behead Pamela Geller, claims that his radicalization came as a “complete shock” to them.
It must have come as a truly great shock to his brother Imam Ibrahim Rahim who claimed that his brother was shot in the back and that the Garland cartoon attack had been staged by the government.
It must have come as an even bigger shock to Imam Abdullah Faaruuq, the Imam linked to Usaama Rahim and his fellow terrorist conspirators, as well as the Tsarnaev brothers, who had urged Muslims to “grab onto the gun and the sword.”
The culturally insensitive truth about Islamic ‘radicalization’ is that it is incremental.
There is no peaceful Islam. Instead of two sharply divided groups, peaceful Islam and extremist Islam, there is a spectrum of acceptable terrorism.
MILLIONS OF IRANIANS TAKE TO STREETS CHANTING DEATH TO AMERICA: So of course let’s give them nukes
Millions of Iranians took to the streets today in celebration of al-Quds Day, an annual Iranian festival commemorated on the final Friday of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan that features massive anti-American and anti-Israel protests. This year, the protests took place against the backdrop of the ongoing nuclear diplomacy between the P5+1 powers and Tehran.
For 36 years on Quds day #iran regime has brought 100,000s to the streets on to call 4 the death & destruction of my country. #repulsive
— Meir Javedanfar (@MeirJa) July 10, 2015
The Times of Israel reported:
Some protesters in Tehran burned Israeli and American flags. Posters showed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Saudi King Salman and US President Barack Obama in flames. …
Larwyn's Linx: Federal Judge threatens to hold DHS Secretary in contempt
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Federal Judge threatens to hold DHS Secretary in contempt: Kemberlee Kaye“Payback’s a Bitch”: Rural Wisdom and the Gathering Storm: Fred Reed
ISIS: 0, Ted Kennedy: Too Many to Count: Ann Coulter
The Art of the Non-Answer: Springer
Hillary Suddenly Changes Tunes on Sanctuary Cities: Frank Camp
Unhinged Pelosi: "We Will Hang Them By That (Confederate) Flag!": DC Whispers
Donald Trump and the Class War Within the GOP: Ace
Another Reason for the Rise of Trump: Erick Erickson
‘The Christie Type of Judges’ Are Liberal: Carrie Severino
Estrangement from the truth a problem for Hillary: Jonah Goldberg
Maine Becomes Sixth Constitutional Carry State: Stephen Gutowski
“A Republic, If You Can Keep It.” Can We? Will We?: David Limbaugh
Economy
For the Want of a Budget Gimmick, the Kingdom Was Lost: Thomas DonnellyRick Perry: stop paying sanctuary cities to defy federal law.: Moe Lane
Obama just voided all zoning laws, put HUD in charge of your town: WyBlog
Scandal Central
The IRS scandal just got even worse: PostTurns out Mitt Romney was right, and OPM Director Katherine Archuleta was wrong.: Moe Lane
Arpaio: 112 Illegals Committed Murder in US After They Were Supposed to be Deported: GWP
Climate & Energy
Five governors to defy Obama’s executive order?: UnyieldingGuess Who Writes the Oppressive EPA Rules in the War on Coal: Sara Noble
You Will Never Guess What The EPA Might Regulate Next: Tom Borelli
Media
Megyn Kelly Eviscerates Obama Administration’s Refusal to Crack Down on Sanctuary Cities: Curtis HouckNew York Times Snubs Ted Cruz's New Book from Bestsellers List: Breitbart
Jonah Goldberg Points And Splutters At Trump; Trump Responds: A.W. Morgan
The New York Times’ War on Ted Cruz: Brian Sikma
Now Democrats Want to Ban Words ‘Husband’ and ‘Wife’–No, We Are Serious: RWN
Nobel Prize winning NYT economist warns US to avoid what ruined Greece: Doug Powers
"Hello, Suckers!" The Left vs The Nice: American Digest
Of Donuts, Divas and Celebrity Tantrum-itis: Michelle Malkin
Host of America’s Most Wanted has a Great Solution to Prevent Crimes Committed by Illegals: YC
World
Another way Iran is running circles around Obama: Michael RubinThe Democrats’ Trump Card: Mona Charen
Anti-Semitism On The Rise In France Is It Time For French Jews To Leave The Country?: WZ
Daniel Pipes: “The Left is the biggest threat to the United States.”: Ann-Marie Murrell
Jihadists see divine approval in suicide bombing: Thomas Joscelyn
One Day’s Headlines: Anti-Semitism in Korea, Argentina, Croatia, Palestinian: LI
Information Warfare: Why America Remains Vulnerable To China: StrategyPage
Hope and Change in Obama’s Cuba: 563 violent political arrests in June: Alberto de la Cruz
Spain Government Goes Full Police State: Tim Cushing
Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)
What is Code?: Paul FordArmy Developing a Star Wars-like Hoverbike to Transport Soldiers: Mike Hoffman
New York Stock Exchange was knocked offline by hackers linked to Anonymous: John McAfee
Cornucopia
Bernie Sanders' early days in Vermont: His life, loves and circuitous route to politics: Jess WisloskiObama Screws Up History, White House Transcript Hides Gaffe: Tammy Bruce
Obama: “We’re speeding up training of ISIL forces”: Robert Spencer
Image: Jihadists see divine approval in suicide bombing
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QOTD: "A felony registry for illegal aliens wouldn’t really be all that difficult to implement, and it would keep officials from playing the blame game between ICE and city officials like San Francisco did in the recent illegal alien murder. Those of use who want absolute border control face intense headwinds from our spineless leaders, but this is something I think most Americans would agree on." --John Walsh
Thursday, July 09, 2015
I’VE HAD ENOUGH: How About You?
I think back on the days of my childhood, days when all the kids in the neighborhood I lived in would get together for a game of stickball. All colors, all nationalities, everyone would play. Some better than others, but everyone would play until our mothers called us home at dark for dinner. The only break would come when the ice cream truck came by, and if someone didn’t have the dime for ice cream, someone else would buy it for them.
Times have changed, but the basic principles of how I was brought up have stuck with me. It doesn’t make for a tranquil way of life these days. There is a choice which must be made by every one of our citizens. Do we keep those old values, or do we toss them to the side for a more modern way of living our lives?For me, I’ve had enough. There are certain things I am tired of:
I’m tired of partisan politics, of politicians working only to line their pockets and those of family and friends.
I’m tired of election promises never kept and the lying that has somehow become an accepted part of their everyday lives.
THE DEMOCRAT OPEN BORDERS CROWD: Accessories to Rape, Mayhem and Murder
And should be charged as criminal accomplices and dealt with accordingly. Does that sound outrageous? Sure it does, but withhold judgment until you read this post.
It is absolutely indisputable that San Francisco's sanctuary policies contributed to the horrific, senseless, shooting death of 32-year-old Kate Steinle on July 2. Francisco Sanchez, the illegal alien who admitted killing her, has said that it was the city's sanctuary policies that attracted him to it. City leaders have Kate's blood on their hands. But that blood is a drop in the bucket compared to the outrages regularly being committed by the illegals among us, while politicians of both parties sing their praises.
Donald trump has been roundly criticized by both Democrats and Republicans for saying that 80 percent of women crossing the border are being raped. NBC decided to drop his popular show, The Apprentice, and the Miss Universe pageant he produces. Mexico says it will withdraw its entrant to the pageant based on Trump's offensive statements. ESPN, NASCAR and others have piled on. But Trump was just quoting an article from Fusion magazine. The piece, "Is rape the price to pay for migrant women chasing the American Dream?" leads off by saying:
Before they can reach the American Dream, many migrant women have to survive a Mexican nightmare. A staggering 80 percent of Central American girls and women crossing Mexico en route to the United States are raped along the way, according to directors of migrant shelters interviewed by Fusion.
Could it be any clearer than that? Democrats have long since abandoned even a shred of honesty, but are Republicans again rebranding themselves as "The Party of Stupid?" How about "The Party of Insufferably Mindless Idiots?" Is that what they should be called, or maybe just the cowards, frauds and hypocrites they are?
In fact, the problem is infinitely worse than the article reveals.
Try to imagine what would've happened if Bush had made THIS mistake...
Obama: “We’re speeding up training of ISIL forces”
The thing is, we are training ISIL forces. We have given weapons to groups that the Pentagon has designated as “moderate” — groups such as the Free Syrian Army, which has collaborated with the Islamic State. The Obama Administration’s avid and fruitless search for “moderates” to fight the Islamic State has put the U.S. in the position of training and arming a great many jihadis for the Islamic State. Obama’s statement was not a mere slip of the tongue. It was the most Freudian of all Freudian slips.“President Obama says ‘We’re Training ISIL': White House Website ‘Corrects’ His Remarks, by Paul Joseph Watson, D.C. Clothesline, July 8, 2015:
The White House.gov website has corrected an embarrassing mistake made by Barack Obama during his press briefing Monday about the Islamic State when the President said that U.S. forces were “training ISIL.”
During his speech, Obama uttered the line, “with the additional steps I ordered last month, we’re speeding up training of ISIL forces.”
No double standard here, folks. Just move along.
Hat tip: BadBlue News.
Larwyn's Linx: Hillary to CNN: I was never subpoenaed. Gowdy: Um, here’s the subpoena
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Hillary to CNN: I was never subpoenaed. Gowdy: Um, here’s the subpoena: Guy BensonHillary's Ties to the Violent Extremist Saul Alinsky: Stanley Kurtz
Senators to DHS Chief: Why Are You Helping Sanctuary Cities?: Katie Pavlich
The Stupidity of Sophisticates: Mark Steyn
A plea to resist the Court on same-sex marriage: Lyle Denniston
Chicago Has Had More Than 12,000 Shootings Since 2010 (MAP): Tanveer Ali
Democrats Scurry from Sanctuary Ship: Debra Saunders
Donald Trump Was Right: John Hinderaker
Stop Complaining About Donald Trump: Erick Erickson
Bernie Sanders Is The Future Of The Democratic Party: David Harsanyi
In Portland, the Mania of Bernie: Scott Johnson
Fiddling Away the Future: Walter Williams
Economy
The Credit Warp: The Z ManState-Based Accounting 101: Ranking Fiscal Condition: Veronique De Rugy
Chicago, state lawmakers consider tax hikes of 30%: ABC-7
Scandal Central
Federal Judge Drops the Hammer on Obama Administration Immigration Defiance: Matthew ClarkBOMBSHELL: FBI, DOJ Colluded with IRS, Lerner to “Bring Criminal Charges” Against Conservatives: Matthew Clark
Massive Government Overreach: Obama’s AFFH Rule Is Out: Stanley Kurtz
Hillary: My Secret Emails are a Phony Scandal and I Won't Discuss the Clinton Foundation: Guy Benson
Rand Paul Highlights Hillary Clinton’s False Testimony To Congress: Treehouse
Gowdy wants to grill Huma Abedin about Benghazi: Elise Viebeck
Climate & Energy
Money No Object: Obama Orders Solar Panels Put On Subsidized Housing: S&LMedia
The New Totalitarians Are Here: Tom NicholsDonald Trump's Blinding Achievement: EIB
Progressives Are Now Openly Rewriting the Racist History of the Democratic Party: Glob
CNN: Hillary Clinton Lied About Never Receiving a Subpoena: WFB
Hillary: Faxing Was Difficult Because It Was A Secure Fax: S&L
ESPN fires Keith Olbermann (again): FAM
World
Is Putin Playing Puppetmaster in Greece?: The XX CommitteeThe Market Crash and the End of Chinese Passivity: Noah Rothman
Cubans pay the price for Obama’s ‘engagement’ with the Castros: Jeff Jacoby
The Next Big Battlefield is Europe: Baron Bodissey
'Hamas Aiding ISIS in Egypt to Prepare for Next War with Israel': Ari Soffer
How my family recovered a painting stolen by the Nazis and sold it for $2.9 million: Peter J. Toren
Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)
Technology the Focus of NYSE, United Airlines Problems: eWeekAir force drops dummy nuclear bomb in Nevada in controversial test to update cold war arsenal: Daily Mail
The Look Of Funny: How The Onion's Art Department Works: Fastcodesign
Cornucopia
Museum of Communism in Prague imitates the People's Cube: CubeSee If You Can Find the Victim Here.: MOTUS
Political insider Tony Rezko released to halfway house: Carlos Sadovi
Image: Bernie Sanders Is The Future Of The Democratic Party
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: Time to Drop the Hammer: TED CRUZ FOR PRESIDENT
QOTD: "The Greek problem would not be a big problem if people would keep buying Greek bonds at 2% rather than demanding 10% or more. Across the West, budgets are based on paying debt service at near zero rates. If borrowing costs reverted back to historic norms, every nation in the West defaults within five years.
That means all efforts, like we’re seeing with the Euro, are aimed at keeping those borrowing rates low. They have no choice. Even small hikes could make some American states insolvent. Given the way government debt works, a small default can unleash hell on the biggest states, which is why Puerto Rico is a big deal.
The West is trapped in a box of its own making. There are two ways out of it. One is everyone commits suicide and the other is to begin restructuring so that over debts levels begin to decline as borrowing rates slowly return to normal. The latter is politically impossible so that leaves the former." --The Z Man
Wednesday, July 08, 2015
U.S. MAP OF "SANCTUARY CITIES": Where Local Governments Violate Federal Laws, Endanger Citizens
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More than 200 cities, counties and states across the United States are considered sanctuary cities. These state and local jurisdictions have policies, laws, executive orders, or regulations allowing them to avoid cooperating with federal immigration law enforcement authorities. These “cities” ignore federal law authorizing U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to administratively deport illegal aliens without seeking criminal warrants or convictions from federal, state, or local courts. Although federal law requires the cooperation, the Department of Justice has never sued or taken any measure, including denying federal funds, against a jurisdiction. On the contrary, the present administration has made it difficult for the states and localities which choose to aid in enforcing immigration laws. Federal law was labelled voluntary by the administration in a November 2014 policy memorandum signed by the Homeland Security Secretary.
Read more at CIS.org
BOOM: Secret Emails Withheld by State Dept. Reveal Hillary Clinton Tied Directly To Benghazi Video Lie
Judicial Watch announced today that newly revealed testimony from the Obama State Department under court order directly ties Hillary Clinton, for the first time, to the now-debunked Benghazi talking points used by United Nations Ambassador Susan Rice to claim that the attack was the result of a “spontaneous protest” gone awry. The Obama administration also sent false talking points about the attack to Congress. The State Department is refusing to divulge the contents of the email, citing a discretionary “deliberative process” privilege.
Judicial Watch filed a Freedom of Information (FOIA) lawsuit in July 2014 seeking records related to the drafting and use of the talking points (Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of State (No. 1:14-cv-01242)). The lawsuit sought records specifically from Hillary Clinton and her top State Department staff about the Benghazi talking points scandal:
Copies of any updates and/or talking points given to Ambassador Rice by the White House or any federal agency concerning, regarding, or related to the September 11, 2012 attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya.
Any and all records or communications concerning, regarding, or relating to talking points or updates on the Benghazi attack given to Ambassador Rice by the White House or any federal agency
The litigation forced the State Department to request government-related emails from former Clinton Chief of Staff Cheryl Mills, Deputy Chief of Staff Huma Abedin, and senior aide Jake Sullivan. Sullivan and Mills provided documents to the State Department responsive to Judicial Watch’s request on June 26. Abedin has yet to comply with the request from State in Judicial Watch’s case.
One of the documents identified by the State Department from Sullivan includes an email chain from September 29, 2012, which discussed the talking points, and was originally included in the 55,000 pages of documents Clinton provided to the State Department. The initial email was sent to Clinton’s secret email account and to Mills, while the follow-up was sent by Mills to Sullivan and Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Strategic Communications Philippe Reines.
However, an unnamed agency staffer initially determined at an unknown time that a “talking points” email was not relevant to Judicial Watch’s request for emails about the Benghazi “talking points.”
According to the ACLU, La Raza, the New York Times, and the SSA, 75% of illegal aliens commit felonies
Did Donald Trump overstate the level of crime committed by illegal immigrants? Not according to the ACLU, the National Council of La Raza, the New York Times, and the Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to these organizations, as many as 75 percent of illegal immigrants use unlawfully obtained Social Security numbers to pay payroll (Social Security) taxes. That, in turn, means that the vast majority of illegal immigrants are committing multiple federal and state felonies including forgery, Social Security fraud, perjury on I-9 forms, and identity theft.
It also means that potentially millions of Americans, including an untold number of innocent children, are victims of identity theft when their Social Security numbers are used by illegal immigrants. Of course, the ACLU, La Raza, the New York Times, and the SSA conveniently overlook that connection and they are never challenged by the media or politicians.
TRUMP CARD: What ever happened to the Democrat warcry of “If we can only save one child?”
So Donald Trump was wrong?Sure he is....
Between November 1, 2013 and October 31, 2014, there have been 4,317 charges of child sexual assault filed against illegal aliens in North Carolina, according to the citizens advocacy group known as NCFIRE.
12 months, 4,300 charges of sexual assault on kids by illegal invaders.
In one state.
So you're "offended" that Donald Trump made a point of this eh?
How about the kids who were assaulted? How do they feel about our black-hearted President and the entire US Congress that refuses to stop the invasion of people who sexually abused them?
Read more at Market Ticker
Larwyn's Linx: The human cost of Obama’s immigration policy
Nation
The human cost of Obama’s immigration policy: RSSmug SF Sheriff Blames Everyone Except Himself For Kate Steinle Murder: Treehouse
Illegal alien with 3 DUIs drives drunk again and kills American teen: John Brodigan
12 Times The Obama Administration Caved to Iran on Nuclear Deal: David Rutz
Hillary Clinton Promises Citizenship For 20 Million Illegal Aliens: Brian Anderson
Official: ‘All Nuclear Activities of Iran Will Continue’ Under Obama Deal: Sara Noble
Conservative Revolt Brewing Against Scott Walker Over Dayspring Hire: John Hawkins
A Legacy of Cliches: Thomas Sowell
Is Your Church Abetting Sanctuary Nation?: Michelle Malkin
Socialist Bernie Sanders Rising in Iowa Polls; Hillary Camp Concerned: Victory Girls
Trump: 'Infectious disease is pouring across the border': Jesse Byrnes
Why Obama and Hillary Must Stop Donald Trump at All Costs: Wayne Root
Economy
Government Crushes People – Then Writes Them Checks: Seton MotleyHow stupidly obvious WAS this end result of the SF minimum wage hike?: Moe Lane
MAP: Greece isn’t the first nation to default on a sovereign debt: Rick Noack
Scandal Central
Grassley Probing Clinton Aide’s Dual Role at State, Clinton Foundation: Alan GoodmanNew Documents Reveal DOJ, IRS, and FBI Plan to Seek Criminal Charges of Obama Opponents: JW
We ‘refuse to comply’: Christian bakers won’t be bullied by gag order: Michael Schaus
Gun used in pier killing had been stolen from federal agent: Jaxon Van Derbeken
250 Murders by Criminal Illegals Intentionally Released in 2014: Kurt Revere (4/15)
Obama warns ICE officials will pay price for disobeying amnesty order: BPR (2/15)
Climate & Energy
Your Stupid Electric Car is Killing Gaia: JWFAussie climate scientists: Please don’t examine our work too closely: Eric Worrall
“Deniers” in their midst – All is not well in Nobel Prize Land: WUWT
Media
Obama’s Daughter Scores Internship With Notorious Sex Offender: JWFFeds Raid Home of Subway Spokesman Jared Fogle: Madeleine Morgenstern
Billionaire Malibu Environmentalists And “Every BAYWATCH Fan In Kazakhstan”: VDARE
Hillary Plays the Victim in CNN Interview: Lloyd Grove
Another Day, Another Leftist Fraud: Steven Hayward
Charges pressed against top Dem activist who threatened 12-year-old Obama critic: Lauren Cooley
World
Is Iran promoting ISIS as the new Palestinian leadership?: David SpenglerIran Now Demands Weapons Embargo Be Lifted in Any Deal: Clarion
Syria: Obama-backed rebels persecute Christians, force them from their homes: Robert Spencer
Happy Tuesday: 45 ISIS Fighters Eat Poisoned Meal And Die: Tammy Bruce
Misunderstanderers of Islam Burn Alive Mothers and Sons Who Refuse to Join Terror Group: Clarion
Rapid Reaction?: In From the Cold
Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)
Amazon Is Data Mining Reviewers’ Personal Relationships: Chris MorranInstagram Blocks Users From Displaying Israeli Flag: WZ
The Apple Watch Is a Certified Brick: Frida Garza
Cornucopia
Ideologies v. Guns, and Hope as a Strategy: Charlie Foxtrot#BetterIdeas-R-Us: MOTUS
Is The .22LR Ammo Drought About To End?: Bob Owens
Image: Hillary Plays the Victim in CNN Interview
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QOTD: "We have to ask the question: who does it benefit for the talks to drag on, while Iran continues making more bomb-grade nuclear material? Who does it benefit when Iran suddenly decides to back away from any inspections, never mind the unannounced “snap” inspections we’ve been calling for? ...
...After all the questioning “why not walk away?” there’s just one question remaining: why would Obama want Iran to have a nuclear bomb? Because that’s exactly what he’s doing." --Steve Berman
Tuesday, July 07, 2015
RUH ROH: Bernie Sanders Rips Obama’s Fictional Labor Reports; "Real Unemployment is 10.5%!"
Earlier today, Sanders ripped a key White House economic fable stating that the real U.S. unemployment rate is double what the Obama administration claims.
“When you talk about the economy we also have to have an honest assessment of unemployment in America,” Sanders told a crowd of 7,500 gathered at a presidential campaign rally in Portland, Maine.Aside from being a radical Marxist kook, Sanders has plenty of other skeletons in his closet.
“Once a month the government publishes a set of figures, and the last figures they published said that official unemployment was 5.4 percent,” the Democratic nominee continued, slightly misstating the Labor Department’s most recent report which put June’s unemployment rate at 5.3 percent.
“But there is another set of government statistics,” Sanders continued, “and that that real unemployment if you include those people who have given up looking for work and the millions of others who are working part-time 20, 25 hours a week when they want to work full-time, when you all of that together, real unemployment is 10.5 percent.”
Pass the popcorn, Nahanni.
Hat tip: BadBlue News.
REALLY COOL GRAPHIC: 15 Years of Asset-Class Returns
Hat tip: BadBlue Money News.
WHAT COULD GO WRONG? Iran Revolutionary Guards to Get Huge Cash Infusion From Obama’s Nuke Deal
The sanctions relief that is slated to accompany the emerging nuclear deal with Iran will likely enrich and further entrench Iran’s powerful Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Reuters reported on Monday.
The Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), created by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini during Iran’s 1979 Islamic Revolution, is more than just a military force. It is also an industrial empire with political clout that has grown exponentially in the last decade, benefiting from the favor of former president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, himself a former guardsman and, most recently, from the opportunities created by Western sanctions.A Western diplomat who follows Iran closely told Reuters that the IRGC’s recent annual turnover from all of its business activities was estimated to be around $10-12 billion. …
It was the IRGC, unquestioningly loyal to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, that suppressed student protests in 1999 and also silenced the pro-reform protests that followed Ahmadinejad’s disputed re-election in 2009.
According to Reuters, $12 billion would equal about one sixth of Iran’s economy.
As Nuke Talks Grind On, Iran’s "Moderates" Call for Israel’s Destruction
Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, a former president of Iran and an ally of current President Hassan Rouhani, called for the destruction of Israel and described the country as “alien” and “temporary,” according to a report Monday in Iran’s official IRNA news agency. Rafsanjani, who heads the powerful Expediency Council, which advises Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, made the comments in an interview with a Hezbollah-affiliated news outlet.
In response to a question why the Zionist regime has done its best to prevent the path for reaching a nuclear agreement between Iran and the West, Ayatollah Rafsanjani said that even Tel Aviv knows well that Iran is not after acquiring nuclear weapons.‘By doing so the Zionist wish to keep Iran engaged in problems permanently, knowing that the Islamic Republic’s political, economic, cultural and propagation status will all improve after such an agreement,’ he said.
Asked about the future of the Palestinian nation, Rafsanjani said that he still believes that eventually one day the forged and temporary Israeli entity, which is an alien existence forged into the body of a nation and a region be wiped off the map.
Rafsanjani, who along with Rouhani is often characterized as a moderate, appears to associate Israel’s destruction with the completion of the nuclear deal.
Iran’s top leaders have a long record of threatening Israel’s existence. Khamenei last year tweeted out “9 key questions about the elimination of Israel.”
The Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs published a study (.pdf) in 2012 cataloging the various calls Iran’s leaders have issued for Israel’s destruction.
Read more at The Tower
TED CRUZ LEVELS POLITIFACT: ‘Noxious Yellow Journalism’
In his new book, Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, calls out “a new, particularly noxious species of yellow journalism that is beginning to infect what passes for modern political discourse. It’s called ‘PolitiFact.’”
Cruz gives three reasons PolitiFact sucks: selection bias, liberal bias and inability to differentiate fact from opinion.
We’ve been pointing out those exact problems, and many others, for years now. In fact, among the dozens of articles we’ve done on PolitiFact’s shortcomings, there’s a 14-part series on this exact fight: PolitiFact vs. Cruz.
Now, W. Gardner Selby of PolitiFact Texas has already responded with a glib little column pointing out a slight error in Cruz’s book. Congratulations to Selby. That’s already more substantive than just about any of the attacks on Cruz he’s written.
The final score for our 14-part review was Cruz, 12, PolitiFact, 1; and one disqualification when both sides were wrong.
Larwyn's Linx: Obama Recalls That Time Roosevelt Out Debated Hitler
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Obama Recalls That Time Roosevelt Out Debated Hitler: Erick EricksonObama blames GOP for illegal alien murder of woman in SF: RWN
Chicago’s Strict Gun Laws Show Promise, Only 64 People Shot Over Weekend: IHTM
Is the World Becoming Fed Up?: Victor Davis Hanson
Deleted Hillary Emails Probably Relate to 'Clinton Cash' Deals>: Breitbart
Classified Clinton emails require seizure of server, Judicial Watch says: Times
Death by Peonage: The Z Man
Greece and Puerto Rico: Previews of Coming Attractions: Michael Pento
Obama Ties Budget Veto Threat to National Security: Steven Dennis
Paging Ted Cruz and All the Candidates. Take on the Vichy GOP.: Erick Erickson
Trump Doesn’t Exist in a Vacuum: Joe Cunningham
Democrat Senator: 1st Amendment Doesn’t Apply To Individuals: BlurBrain
Economy
China Attempts to Prop Up Stock Market After Steep Declines; 1929 Flashback: GEAIt Is NOT Priced-In, Stupid!: David Stockman
AP: Mass Unemployment, Lower Wages Is ‘New Normal’: S&L
Social Security expansion: Better than Greece!: Andrew G. Biggs
Health Insurers Ask for 54% Premium Increase to Pay for Obamacare Mess: GWP
Non-working America soars by 640,000 in one month to new record of 93.6 million: MyBudget360
Scandal Central
Former Scott Walker Aide Sues prosecutors for WI John Doe “Home Invasion”: LIMurderer: I Chose SF Because It Is A 'Sanctuary City': Breitbart
Another Woman Shot Dead in “Random Act of Violence” While Walking In Hollywood: Treehouse
Climate & Energy
Marxist Center for American Progress helped craft EPA talking points, emails show: Lachlan MarkayAfter ruling, Morrisey pivots to EPA’s “navigable waters” battle: MetroNews WV
Media
Cincinnati Mob Beats White Male Victim, “simply for being white”, While Rioting In Fountain Square: TreehouseLeftists Want Minnesota Flag Taken Down Because It Shows White Man Working: RWN
Krugman Essentially Correct on Greece; Chance of Escape: Mike Shedlock
Insufficiently Independent to Hold an Independence Day Parade: Mark Steyn
Declaration should still wake the powerful up at night: Glenn Harlan Reynolds
Progressive Responses To Spree Killings OF Non-Muslim Nonblacks BY Muslims And Blacks: VDARE
Legendary CNN Anchor To Concealed Carry Opponents: “Shut The F–k Up About It.”: Bob Owens
Geraghty: On Gay Marriage, ‘Press has Decided One Side is Evil’: Matt Philbin
A Visual Guide to Puerto Rico’s Debt Crisis: Michael Johnston
World
The Price of Flesh: Selling Women in the Islamic State Caliphate: Clarion ProjectWhy Benghazi Continues to Make a Difference.: Nicola Vandiver, Politichicks
Iran’s Dubious Track Record: Behnam Ben Taleblu
Obama Lies Again: “Deports” 900,000 Illegal Aliens—They NEVER Leave the U.S: Stephen Frank
US jets scrambled to intercept Russian bombers off California, Alaska on July 4: Lucas Tomlinson
‘Rape Trees:’ Proof of Massive Number of Sexual Assaults Occurring on Border: UFP (2014)
Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)
Oregon Is First State to Charge Drivers for Each Mile They Drive: Susan Jones, CNSHackers Installed Sophisticated Malware on U.S. Computers. Why Doesn’t Anyone Care?: Andrea Castillo
Infographic: Charting the world’s sixth mass extinction: Amanda Shendruk
Cornucopia
5 Political Characters of Americans: Journal of the American RevolutionSigners of the Declaration Coloring Books & Sticker Packs: MP
Time To Greece That Squeaky Wheel?: MOTUS
Image: South Carolina Senate expected to vote to remove Confederate flag
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: IT'S TIME: TED CRUZ FOR PRESIDENT
QOTD: "Amid all this leftish high-fiving about court decisions and executive orders, we forget political and electoral reality. Barack Obama has done more to destroy liberal political power in the Congress and in the statehouses than any Democratic politician since the 1920s. His executive orders and neglect of enforcing existing law have green-lighted the executive power of the next Republican president in a way that Richard Nixon could hardly imagine. He has discredited the idea of a disinterested media to such a degree that its biased audits of the next future Republican administration will be seen as laughable.
Europe and the United States are seeing glimpses of the ultimate leftist trajectory — a mixture of Greece and Detroit, de facto non-enforcement of the law, the Iranian nuke deal, a new McCarthyism, and race, class, and gender hatred — and are becoming afraid and perhaps appalled. A growing number of people sense that 21st century leftist elites are not pragmatic working people, but a privileged sect that callously experiments with other people’s lives on the understanding that they are insulated and immune from the inevitable disasters that follow from their own ideas.
A great pushback is awakening here and abroad, but its timing, nature, and future remain mysterious." --Victor Davis Hanson


















