Monday, July 13, 2015

CHART: The greatest achievement in human history, brought to you by free market capitalism

By Mark J. Perry

Pope Francis has been excoriating capitalism lately, blaming it for causing global injustice and climate change, and even comparing the excesses of unfettered capitalism to the “dung of the devil.” The pontiff’s strong anti-capitalism message reminded me of the accompanying chart.

In a CD post in 2013, I suggested that a slightly different version of the chart could perhaps qualify as the “chart of the century” because it illustrates one of the most remarkable achievements in human history: the 80% reduction in world poverty in only 36 years, from 26.8% of the world’s population living on $1 or less (in 1987 dollars) in 1970 to only 5.4% in 2006 (light blue line), led by the 97% reduction in the poverty rate in East Asia (excluding Japan and Hong Kong) from 58.8% to 1.7% over that time period.

DUKE NUKEM: Obama’s Partners in Peace Release Game App Simulating Missile Attacks on Israel

By The Tower

A game app that simulates Iranian missile strikes on Israeli cities was unveiled in Iran on Friday to commemorate Al-Quds Day, the annual Iranian holiday dedicated to Israel’s destruction.

Missile Strike, which is downloadable for mobile devices, allow users to “break into the Zionist regime’s air defense and target Israel,” targeting cities such as Haifa, Jerusalem, and Tel Aviv, the game’s developer, Mehdi Atash Jaam, told the semi-official Fars news agency.

This isn’t the first time Iran has used entertainment media to threaten Israel. In February 2014, a video circulating in Iran portrayed a nuclear attack on Israel and referred to it as a “Holocaust.” The film simulated an Iranian response to a military attack on a site within its territory. In November 2013, just prior to the agreement of the Joint Plan of Action, the first interim nuclear accord between Iran and the West, Iranian state television broadcast a simulation of missile attacks on important sites in Israel.

OBAMA: Burn Down the Suburbs!

By Sara Noble

For years, the cities have been robbing the suburbs but they now have a scheme that will quickly end in a takeover of the suburbs by a leftist federal government.

HUD announced enforcement of its new 377-page rule called the Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing Rule which will allow them to move people from poor crime-ridden areas into “wealthy” suburbs. It was announced by leftist Julian Castro Monday. The rule has force behind it. Federal monies will be withheld and lawsuits accusing residents of racism will be filed. Any town that takes federal funds will be transformed.

It is not only forcing unnecessary racial integration, its forcing class integration and the destruction of the local governments who will officially become satellites of the urban areas. Neighborhoods will be diversified according to income levels. The plan is to make us into a classless society of the type Karl Marx promoted.

With this rule, HUD will have control of zoning, transportation, and education and, in the end, the politics. Just as the leftists took over the cities one-by-one, they will be able to consume the suburbs only at a far more rapid pace. This can be done on a massive, almost immediate scale.

There about 44 million Americans living in the cities and almost 122 million Americans in the suburbs. Suburbia tends to vote against the leftists and has long been a thorn in their side.

Using racism and ecology as excuses, Obama is orchestrating, through HUD and the EPA, the end of local government rule.

Every 12 Days Someone is Murdered by an Illegal Alien Criminal Obama Released From Custody

Spotted an important piece at, of all places, the Washington Post, where Marc A. Thiessen simply obliterates the President and his henchmen, who have gutted U.S. immigration law and needlessly endangered thousands of Americans.
It got little notice, but on May 28, Sarah Saldana, director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, admitted in a letter to Sens. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) and Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) that between fiscal years 2010 and 2014, the Obama administration had released “121 unique criminal aliens who had an active [deportation] case at the time of release and were subsequently charged with homicide-related offenses.”

Think about that: 121 times over the past four years, the administration has released an illegal immigrant with prior criminal convictions who went on to be charged with murder. That is one every 12 days.
It gets worse.

Larwyn's Linx: How the Obama Administration Gutted Illegal Immigration Detainers

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Nation

How the Obama Administration Gutted Illegal Immigration Detainers: John Hinderaker
Sanctuary Cities Make Nice Cartel Hubs: Sara Noble
Illegal Aliens Murder at a Much Higher Rate Than US Citizens Do: Randall Hoven

Last Stand of the Old White Males: Mark Steyn
“Pockets of Resistance” growing and spreading: Ann Corcoran
16 Facts on Illegal Immigration That Should Shut the Mouth of Any Progressive: GJWHG

On Trump, Howard Beale, The ‘Pragmatists’, And The Remnant: Camp o' the Saints
Success Beyond His Wildest Dreams: Mission Accomplished: William Pollack
Bottom Feeder Lindsey Graham Bemoans Donald Trump’s Popularity: Donn Marten

The Intriguing Bid of Scott Walker: Erick Erickson
Jim Webb: Democrats Have Moved Way Far to the Left; It's Not My Party: Jim Hoft
Bernie Sanders 'political revolution': Joelle Fishman, Communist Party USA

HILLARY: I’m Coming For Your Guns: Bob Owens
Hillary Clinton blames Bush for her rapacious speech giving: RS
NY suspends background checks on ammunition purchases: Jazz Shaw

Iran

The Deal is Done: Noah Rothman
Iran State Media: Nuclear Agreement Meets All Khamenei’s Demands: Algemeiner
The World Stayed Silent: Clarion

Economy

The GOP Has A Much Bigger Problem Than Donald Trump: Scott Greer
State Fiscal Rankings: Implications for Public Policy and 2016 Presidential Race: Daniel J. Mitchell
I walked its streets: The tragedy of Detroit: John Ruberry

Scandal Central

Republicans Have Needlessly Undermined their Ability to Resist the Iran Deal: Andrew C. McCarthy
Great Moments in Masochistic Government Incompetence: Daniel J. Mitchell
NJ Democrat Official LeRoy Jones Punches Blind 75-Year-Old Veteran in the Face: MB

OPM hack shows what happens when governments get too big: Taylor Millard
Why Republicans Lose: Derek Hunter
Watchdog Slams C-SPAN for Allowing Uncontested Antisemitic, Anti-Israel Rants by Callers: Algemeiner

Climate & Energy

Sixteen Attorneys General File Suit to Block EPA Waters Rule: LI

Media

Ted Cruz vs. The New York Times: John Hinderaker
Elitist Snob Writer Mocks Trump Supporters as Being in Need of an Intervention: DownTrend
When Dimwits Battle: ‘Media Matters’ Moron Attacks ‘Think Progress’ Pendejo: Sooper

New DOJ Statistics on Race and Violent Crime: Jared Taylor
SICK=> Woman Posts Selfie in Front of Black-on-Black Man-Rape: Kristinn Taylor
Gov. Bobby Jindal Defends His Record Against A Hostile Bret Baier: C4P

NYT's Hypocritical Egan Rants on Trump, Cruz, GOP Pursuing 'Immigrant-Hatred Vote': Clay Waters
Chaos in Chicago: Colin Flaherty
HarperCollins vs. the New York Times: Joe Cunningham

World

Niqabs and Burqas as Security Threats: Daniel Pipes
Burka-clad male suicide bomber strikes in Chad capital: Caleb Weiss
Qatar Extends $88,000 Monthly to PR Firm to Clean Up Image in US: Kevin McCauley

Europe's Great Migration Crisis: Soeren Kern
Germany doesn’t want to save Greece. It seems to want to humiliate Greece.: Matt O'Brien
Greece asks for $83B in loans to reopen banks: Michael Gray

Jewish Voice for Peace – “Jew Washing” the anti-Israel movement: Miriam Elman
Connecting the Dots Between Greek Crisis, Argentina — and the 'Shylock' Canard: J.J. Goldberg
The Truth About Srebrenica: The XX Committee

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

3D-Printed Robot Jumps To Six Times Its Height: Lulu Chang
Bugatti’s $2.5 Million Vitesse Zooms to 233 MPH: Bloomberg
Incredible photos of some of the 150 U.S. WWII aircraft lying in the Airplane Graveyard in the Pacific: Aviationist

Cornucopia

Sabo’s Been Work’in Overtime: iOTWreport
Telegram that riled Hitler in final days sells at auction: John Johnson, Newser
Right Wing News Survey: If you had to vote today — Donald Trump or Jeb Bush?: RWN

Image: Iran nuclear deal edges closer but success still not guaranteed
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QOTD: "When someone with a credible death threat against them has to wait for months before they can carry legally and defend themselves with their jacket on, that says it is not working." --Eric Brakey

Sunday, July 12, 2015

Union Fatcats Reject Rank-and-File, Embrace Granny Catlady

By Labor Union Report

Just how far Hillary Clinton has to go to ensure her top spot on the Democratic Party’s presidential ticket will largely be determined this week when she meets privately with the nation’s top union bosses at the Washington, DC home of her campaign manager John Podesta.

Despite overwhelming rank-and-file union support for self-proclaimed socialist Bernie Sanders, AFL-CIO boss Richard Trumka has tried to quell a membership uprising by sending a memo out to union leaders nationwide reminding them that the federation’s bylaws do not permit them to endorse a presidential candidate individually.

Reported by Politico last month as “an informal, intimate get-together for national and international labor leaders at campaign chairman John Podesta’s Washington, D.C. home,” under the headline Clinton to face grilling by union leaders on trade, economic issues, Reuters is reporting Clinton “seeks to prevent a revolt by union members infuriated by her cautious stance on a looming trade deal.”

COBURN SHREDS OPPONENTS OF AN ARTICLE V CONVENTION: We "have a runaway convention right now"

By Convention of States

During his time in the House and Senate, Tom Coburn developed a reputation fighting the excesses of Washington. Now retired from public office and back to living in Oklahoma, he has added his powerful voice to a growing movement urging states to force a convention to amend the Constitution in order to rein in the federal government.

"The Congress, the courts, and the president ignore the Constitution we have today and our Founders knew we would eventually get to that point, and they gave us a method… to amend it to keep the federal government limited in its scope and its jurisdiction," Coburn said in an interview with the Washington Examiner.

The method he is referring to is Article V of the U.S. Constitution. School children are taught that the Constitution can be amended by super majorities in both the House and Senate, and ratified by three-fourths of the states. Under the Article V alternative, two-thirds of the states can call a convention to propose amendments.

As conservatives have grown increasingly frustrated with the ability of judges and politicians to limit the power of Washington, the idea of convincing states to exercise this power has gained appeal. A project known as the Convention of the States has gained prominent backers, including talk show host and author Mark Levin and Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal.

NOW IS THE TIME WHEN WE JUXTAPOSE: This Seems Rather, Eh, Inconvenient Edition

Shot:

Chaser:

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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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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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