Sunday, July 12, 2015

Maybe Kevin D. Williamson Should be Writing for Politico

The usually brilliant and stalwart Kevin D. Williamson of National Review appears at last to have fallen victim to the virus known as Beltway Insider-itis. In doing so, he joins the likes of David Brooks and Jen Rubin, so-called "conservatives" who act as the unofficial PR wing of the Chamber of Commerce, Karl Rove, and the Republican National Committee.

We fully expect the Left to tar Constitutional Conservatives and Tea Party activists as racists (no matter their love and support of Allen West, Ben Carson, Tim Scott, Ted Cruz, Israel, et. al.); most recently the progressive sissy-boy (which is the term he prefers, I hear) Damon Linker of The Week labeled the conservative base a bunch of Birchers who hate, among others, "negroes, elites, decadent city folk, Catholics [and] Jews".

We do not expect the likes of Williamson, however, to channel Mitch McConnell, John Boehner, Karl Rove and Tom Donohue and slam the very group of Americans that handed the Republican Party massive midterm wins at every level of government in 2010 and 2014.

Thus, it was with great surprise that I read Williamson's latest ("WHINOS: On the Martyrdom of the Holy, Holy Base"), a full-throated attack on you and I, whom he terms "WHINOS".

Never mind the Democrats, economic realities, Putin, ISIS, the geographical facts of the U.S.-Mexico border — all would be well and all manner of things would be well if not for the behind-the-scenes plotting of Mitch McConnell, John Boehner, and their enablers, who apparently can be bribed with small numbers of cocktail weenies. The WHINO is a Republican conspiracy theorist, in whose fervid imaginings all the players — victims, villains — are Republicans.

Why the vitriol (and patently false vitriol at that)?

Williamson, like many Beltway insiders, has panicked at the latest polls showing Donald Trump (no, not Donald Trump!) atop the current GOP field.

Larwyn's Linx: Arrest Hillary Now

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Nation

Arrest Hillary Now: Mark Tapson
Americans want their border protected. Now: Don Surber
Amazing percentage of drug possession sentences in 2014 were illegal aliens: RWN

Africans fastest growing immigrant group in America: Ann Corcoran
Texans organize 'Operation Counter Jade Helm': Dylan Baddour
#RememberMississippi: Rick Perry and his dodgy campaign staff: Renee Nal

Hillary Clinton’s push on gun control marks a shift in presidential politics: Philip Rucker
Mark Levin to Hillary Clinton: 'You should be in an orange jumpsuit!': Scoop
Donald Trump just gave an amazingly surreal speech in Las Vegas: Maxwell Tani

Bill Clinton Tells Jeb Bush, "This Trump Thing Will Be Taken Care Of.": DC Whispers
Illegal immigrant nabbed in Calif. cold case killing in homeless camp: Fox
Demand to see Donald Trump in Phoenix off the charts: ABC-15

Economy

Obama’s Legacy of Economic Child Abuse: Sara Noble
5 shocking examples of H-1B visa program abuse: Sharon Florentine, CIO Magazine
Judge orders Illinois state employee pay to continue; Madigan to appeal: Mark Fitton

Scandal Central

Clintons hit with deposition notices in racketeering case: Sarah Westwood
Wisconsin’s Shame: ‘He Could Have Been Shot. Over Politics’: David French
How the DEA took a young man’s life savings without ever charging him with a crime: Christopher Ingraham

Climate & Energy

The 8 Stages of Scam: American Digest
Survey says: Complex hazmat transport regs would even “challenge Einstein”: Carolina Worrell, Railway Age
Dear People Who Live in Fancy Tiny Houses: Lauren Modery

Media

An “Increasingly Radicalized” Mark Levin: “We’re Not Living In A Constitutional Republic”: Sara Noble
‘World Order’ reflects badly on Henry Kissinger and on the establishment that celebrates him.: Angelo Codevilla
I have one big question for Bernie Sanders: Anthony's Weiner

NYT Thrashes Reddit For Firing Female Exec, Conveniently Forgets It Did SAME THING IN 2014: Eric Owens
Virginia bakery taking orders for Confederate flag cake: John Brodigan
Can Kate Steinle's family sue San Francisco over its sanctuary city policy?: Heather Hansen

Ann Coulter: The Left is Turning the U.S. into a Hellhole: LI
Obama FAA Caught LITERALLY Erasing Donald Trump’s Name From Government Documents: RWN
Trump slaps down hostile questioner during Vegas speech; did the Mexican government send him?: BPR

World

Is the Pope Communist?: SDA
Commie Pope Calls Capitalism “Dung of the Devil”: RWN
Pope Offers The Masses The Opium Of Marxism: Noisy Room

State Dept Defies Marine Corps General, Says Russia Not 'Existential Threat' to U.S.: Mary Chastain
A twist in the Iran nuke talks: Unyielding
'Obama's Blindness on Russian Nukes Has Become Dangerous': Ari Yashar

No apartheid in Israel, lots of it in the Arab world: Michael Curtis
Haven’t the Greeks suffered enough?: Daniel J. Mitchell
Mexico: Drug lord 'El Chapo' Guzman escapes prison through elaborate tunnel: AP

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Is Plastic Really Microwave-Safe?: Kori Perten
NASA craft discovers heart shape on Pluto as flyby nears: Kerry Sheridan
Paul Lioy, Scientist Who Analyzed 9/11 Dust and Its Health Effects, Dies at 68: NYT

Cornucopia

Stalin Congratulates His Protege: Springer
Kinky Boots – Forever!: MOTUS
Voyeurs in China Are Getting off to Girls Doing Meth on Camera: Brendon Hong

Image: NASA craft discovers heart shape on Pluto as flyby nears
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QOTD:


(Via Daniel J. Mitchell)

Saturday, July 11, 2015

OH, MAMA: Even far left Washington Post says Hillary’s email claims are naked and obvious lies

“Everything I did was permitted. There was no law. There was no regulation. There was nothing that did not give me the full authority to decide how I was going to communicate. Previous secretaries of state have said they did the same thing…. Everything I did was permitted by law and regulation. I had one device. When I mailed anybody in the government, it would go into the government system.”

      — Former secretary of state Hillary Rodham Clinton, interview with CNN, July 7, 2015

Admitting "it's been a while" since it had investigated the various claims surrounding Hillary Clinton's email server, the Washington Post's Glenn Kessler took a few moments to revisit the issue after Granny Catlady's interview with CNN.

In 2009, just eight months after Clinton became secretary of state, the U.S. Code of federal regulations on handling electronic records was updated: “Agencies that allow employees to send and receive official electronic mail messages using a system not operated by the agency must ensure that Federal records sent or received on such systems are preserved in the appropriate agency record-keeping system.” The responsibility for making and preserving the records is assigned to “the head of each federal agency.”

On top of that, when Clinton was secretary, a cable went out under her signature warning employees to “avoid conducting official Department business from your personal e-mail accounts.”

MEGYN KELLY EVISCERATES OBAMA’S SILENCE ON KATIE STEINLE: He can’t make it about himself

Courtesy of RCP Video comes Megyn Kelly rhetorically storming through the White House like Sherman through Georgia.

Breaking tonight, the young woman gunned down by an illegal immigrant in San Francisco was just laid to rest, surrounded by friends and family. It does not appear at this hour that anyone from the Obama administration was in attendance. Welcome to The Kelly File, I'm Megyn Kelly. Funeral services were held this evening for 32-year-old Kathryn "Katie" Steinle.

Her loved ones remembering her as an avid traveller who loved connecting with people until her life was cut short a week ago. That's when Kate was shot and killed while in her father's arms. Police say by this man, Francisco Sanchez, an illegal immigrant who had been deported five times from this country and had rapped up a string of felonies while in the U.S.

The San Francisco sheriff had Sanchez in custody as recently as April but released him pursuant to San Francisco's "sanctuary city" policy where they have rules against handing over anyone to the feds who might be deported. This sheriff, himself a convicted criminal, says he stands by the city's policy.

PHOTO: Is there any better present than to get one of these in the mail?

I'm truly honored to have received a review copy of Mark Levin's breathtaking new book.


I will have a full review up after the embargo is lifted; but suffice it to say that every politician in America and anyone under the age of 30 must read this book.

You can pre-order it here.

I don't believe in reincarnation, but Mark Levin's career resembles nothing less than that of a modern-day Founding Father.
 
 

Larwyn's Linx: Ex-Obama Security Adviser Tweets #AllahuAkbar to Celebrate South Carolina’s Flag Coming Down

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Nation

Ex-Obama DHS Adviser Tweets #AllahuAkbar Celebrating SC Flag Change: LibertyNews
Sanctuary City Gangbanger Gets 10 Years For Triple Murder: Brian Anderson
The Biggest Loophole in the System: Ace

The Coming Confrontation: John Velisek
Some thoughts on the coming collapse of the United States of America: RS
“RESPECT” is Dispensed at the Business End of a Sword: Deth Guild

The Meaning of Obama's Silence: Scott Johnson
FBI Chief Falsely Claims Background Check System Failed: Bob Owens
Trump Effect: Left Moves To Ban Truth About Immigration: James Kirkpatrick

A Cruz-Walker GOP Ticket?: Bob Ellis, American Clarion
Sen. Tom Coburn talks Article V and reining in D.C.: COS
Ted Cruz is “proud to stand with Donald Trump”: Alana Wise

Economy

CBO: Debt Headed to 103% of GDP; Level Seen Only in WWII: CNS
What the left does when they think they won’t like what is about to be said: VictoryGirls
Sessions: MSFT lays off Americans while demanding more immigrants: Jordan Laporta

Scandal Central

It looks like Lois Lerner may have also been behind conservative targeting in Wisconsin: Poor Richard
Gay Man Files $70M Suit Against Bible Publishers Over 'Homosexual' Verses: TPNN
It’s Not If But When the Government Seizes Private Retirement Savings: Sara Noble

Climate & Energy

Climate Scientists Are Dealing With Psychological Problems: Jack Holmes

Media

The Cross-Border Chaos of ‘Cartel Land’: Jason Dick
How Nike made US red, white & blue disappear at World Cup: Phil Mushnick
‘Stop Rush’ activist ordered to pay Limbaugh spokesman: Brian Maloney, Media Equalizer

Mark Levin: NY Times going after Ted Cruz by keeping him off the bestseller list: Scoop
Ted Cruz’s exclusion from NYT Best Sellers List raises questions: Christian Holub
In case Hillary isn’t enough, here are the top 10 reasons to vote Democrat: Allen West

Black Activists Take Obscene Pictures With American Flag to Beg for Money: Sooper
Mobs Attack Woman and Kids: “didn’t belong in their neighborhood because she was white”: Treehouse
Obama the triple-loser: David Lawrence

World

The P5+1 Talks Have Entered the Twilight Zone: Jeff Dunetz
'Kayhan': The White House Will Be Destroyed In Under 10 Minutes If The U.S. Attacks Iran: MEMRI
Iran-flagged ship targets U.S. Navy with laser: Barbara Starr, CNN

Bolivian Marxist crucifix leaves Vatican scrambling for lame excuses.: Carlos Eire
‘My Son Was Murdered By A Mexican Illegal Immigrant…..It’s Time People Listened To Trump’: Greg Campbell
An African Planet?: Dan Roodt

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

The White Slaves of Barbary: April Holloway
2,000 Bronze Age gold spirals found in Denmark: The History Blog
Mystery airships: Wikipedia (via Ace)

Cornucopia

One of these things is not like the other…: MOTUS
The Mixed-Up Brothers of Bogotá: Susan Dominus
Requiem for a Flag. And History: MOTUS

Image: An African Planet?
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QOTD: "Obama remains silent because he cannot make [Kathryn] Steinle’s murder about himself.

Obama remains silent because her murder illustrates the dilemma with one of his schemes profoundly to transform the United States.

Obama remains silent because her murder illustrates the dilemma so indelibly.

Obama remains silent because Sanchez represents the politically incorrect illegal alien crime wave.

Obama remains silent because he cannot plausibly turn Steinle’s death to his narrow political advantage.

If there has ever been a smaller man or bigger jerk than Barack Obama holding the office of president, we need to know now." --Scott Johnson

Friday, July 10, 2015

LEGAL EXPERTS: Uhm, Yeah Dude, Hillary Clinton Lied to CNN. And Everyone Else.

By Judicial Watch

During an interview this week with CNN, Hillary Clinton boldly claimed that her email scandal was no scandal at all. She flatly declared, “everything I did was permitted. There was no law. There was no regulation. There was nothing that did not give me the full authority to decide how I was going to communicate.”

Mrs. Clinton certainly operated at the State Department as if “there was no law,” but she surely knows better. In fact, there is a lot of law, including criminal provisions, which governed her conduct.

Here is a partial list:

The Federal Records Act

44 U.S.C. § 3102: Establishment of program of management

The head of each Federal agency shall establish and maintain an active, continuing program for the economical and efficient management of the records of the agency. The program, among other things, shall provide for

(2) cooperation with the Archivist in applying standards, procedures, and techniques designed to improve the management of records, promote the maintenance and security of records deemed appropriate for preservation, and facilitate the segregation and disposal of records of temporary value;

44 U.S.C. § 3105: Safeguards

The head of each Federal agency shall establish safeguards against the removal or loss of records the head of such agency determines to be necessary and required by regulations of the Archivist. Safeguards shall include making it known to officials and employees of the agency–

(1) that records in the custody of the agency are not to be alienated or destroyed except in accordance with sections 3301-3314 of this title, and

(2) the penalties provided by law for the unlawful removal or destruction of records.

44 U.S.C. § 3106: Unlawful removal, destruction of records

TRUMP IN 2008: "Bush Is Evil, We Need to Talk to Iran, Obama Cannot Do Worse Than Bush"

Jim Geraghty reminds us that Donald Trump has been a conservative for "all of about ten minutes":

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!

Scenes from the Government Debt Endgame

By Tyler Durden

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

By Daniel Greenfield

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

By The Tower

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.

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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Nation

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 Donnelly
Rick 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: Post
Turns 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?: Unyielding
Guess 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 Houck
New 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 Rubin
The 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 Ford
Army 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 Wisloski
Obama 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?

By John Velisek, USN (Ret.)

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

By James Simpson

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...

But when President Barack Hussein "57 States" Obama says it, well, it ain't news, Sparky:

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,

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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Nation

Hillary to CNN: I was never subpoenaed. Gowdy: Um, here’s the subpoena: Guy Benson
Hillary'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 Man
State-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 Clark
BOMBSHELL: 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&L

Media

The New Totalitarians Are Here: Tom Nichols
Donald 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 Committee
The 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: eWeek
Air 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: Cube
See 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

By Bryan Griffith and Marguerite Telford


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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.


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BOOM: Secret Emails Withheld by State Dept. Reveal Hillary Clinton Tied Directly To Benghazi Video Lie

By Judicial Watch

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

By Ronald W. Mortensen

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?”

By Karl Denninger

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?


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