Thursday, July 16, 2015

Larwyn's Linx: Manufacturing Consent: Democrats Pretend to be "Skeptical" of the Iran Deal

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Hitler with Nukes

Manufacturing Consent: Democrats Pretend to be "Skeptical" of the Iran Deal: Ace
Obama's Deal: Iran to Destroy Israel with Conventional Arms: Rabbi Aryeh Spero
The Iran Deal, Explained: Noah Pollak

Israeli Ambassador to U.S.: 'Those ICBMs Are for You': Susan Jones
Obama Not Waiting for Congress to Review Iran Deal Before Going to UN: CNS
Obama rewards a killer of American soldiers: RS

Obama's Iran Nuke Deal Lies: Joseph Klein
Willful Patsy: Erick Erickson
John Kerry: dimwit and stooge: RS

Nation

Clinton praises Iran nuclear deal: James Oliphant and Amanda Becker
Growth and Fairness in a Clinton-Style Economy: Veronique De Rugy
Hillary Clinton, the last truth bender: John Kass

Donald Trump Files FEC Financial Discloure: Doug Mataconis
Trump and Hitler's Bodyguard: The XX Committee
Defining Hillary Clinton: Cal Thomas

How Long Will You Stand Idle?: Christian Mercenary
So Why Should ANYONE Continue?: Karl Denninger
Courage: The Mother of the Virtues: Robert Tracinski

Economy

Foodstamps for able-bodied adults down 80% in Maine following minimal work requirement: AT
Union boss making $505,000 attacks ‘income inequality' and ‘white privilege’: Larry Sand
Census Bureau Predicts 1.24 Million More Immigrants To Enter USA in 2015: Breitbart

Scandal Central

Obama Wants To Free More Felons, Give Them The Vote: S&L
Clinton, Dem Hopefuls Silent on Planned Parenthood Organ Sales Video: Bill McMorris
Deborah Nucatola: who is she besides a baby part merchant?: FAM

Obama Wrote Personal Letters to 46 Felons, STILL Ignoring Kathryn Steinle’s Family: Jerome Hudson
State Dept. stonewalls emails tying Clinton to Benghazi talking points: Sarah Westwood
Hillary Clinton campaign posts 3,600-word explainer of private email scandal: Adi Robertson

Media

The Democrats Are Gollum: Andrew Klavan
Liberals’ Heads Exploding Over Major Garrett Ruining Obama’s Iranian Nuke Party: Sooper
Major Garrett Responds To 'Controversy' Over His Question For The President: Caleb Howe

Andrea Mitchell Literally Rolls Her Eyes With Contempt For Netanyahu While Interviewing Iran's Zarif: Caleb Howe
No reporter asked Obama about Kate Steinle at today’s presser: LI
Stupid -- or Evil?: RWN

World

Netanyahu: “Iran now has two paths to the bomb”: Pamela Geller
No Country For Greek Men: The Z Man
Rouhani – “Iran Always Observes Its Promises… Death To Israel and America.”: iOTWreport

Saudi Media Blast Iran Nuke Deal As Damaging to Arab Interests: The Tower
New Wave Of Displaced From Iraq’s Anbar Faced Extrajudicial Killings In Baghdad: Joel Wing
Jewish Man Who Fled Nazis Funds Rescue of 2,000 Christians From ISIS to Repay ‘Debt’: Algemeiner

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Uber threatened by California ban and $7.3 million fine for not supplying data: Dieter Holger
A man created a font that tells you if the NSA might think you're a terrorist: Cale Guthrie Weissman
James Randi: the man exposing supernaturalist frauds: Holy Kaw!

Cornucopia

The West's Position On Iran: Bosch Fawstin
Hillary on the rocks? Ship going down?: Unyielding
The Human Filibuster: Obama press conference Iran deal last one hour, 6 reporters called: FAM

Image: John Kerry: dimwit and stooge
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: REAGAN WOULD BE PROUD: TED CRUZ FOR PRESIDENT

QOTD: "The historic nuclear accord between a US-led group of countries and Iran was good news for a man who some consider to be the Middle East's most effective covert operative.

As a result of the deal, Qasem Suleimani, the commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Qods Force and the general responsible for overseeing Iran's network of proxy organizations, will be removed from European Union sanctions lists once the agreement is implemented, and taken off a UN sanctions list after eight or fewer years.

Iran obtained some key concessions as a result of the nuclear agreement, including access to an estimated $150 billion in frozen assets; the lifting of a UN arms embargo, the eventual end to sanctions related to the country's ballistic missile program; the ability to operate over 5,000 uranium enrichment centrifuges and to run stable elements through centrifuges at the once-clandestine and heavily guarded Fordow facility; nuclear assistance from the US and its partners; and the ability to stall inspections of sensitive sites for as long as 24 days. In light of these accomplishments, the de-listing of a general responsible for coordinating anti-US militia groups in Iraq — someone who may be responsible for the deaths of US soldiers — almost seems gratuitous." --Armin Rosen

Wednesday, July 15, 2015

#IranDeal: David French has one simple, brutal question for Congress

Writing at National Review, David French has a gutwrenching assessment of the Obama-Iran Suicide Pact:

Yesterday, in the immediate aftermath of the Iran deal announcement, I posted a short comment noting that Iran is responsible for more than 1,000 American military deaths since 9/11. That’s just a number, but for many of us those numbers have names — the names of men we knew. I will never forget the horrible days in March and April 2008, when Iranian-made IEDs periodically closed even the main supply route into our small forward operating base. I’ll never forget the hero flights, standing at attention as brothers carried the still bodies of their fallen comrades to waiting Blackhawk helicopters. And I won’t forget about the people who are even now learning to walk, and eat, and live again — recovering from horrific wounds. Yesterday, I got an angry message from a friend from my Iraq deployment, a man whose vehicle was destroyed by an Iranian-made IED. Some of the blood on Iran’s hands is his own.

The American people need to clearly understand what their president has done. He’s granting billions of dollars in sanctions relief to a nation that put bounties on the heads of American soldiers. Iran isn’t ending its war against America. It’s still working — every day — to kill Americans, including the Americans Barack Obama leads as commander-in-chief of our armed forces. There is no honor in this agreement. Moreover, there is no honor in leaving innocent Americans behind — to rot in Iranian prisons — so that President Obama can declare peace in his time. Compared to rewarding killers and turning its back on innocent American prisoners, the Obama administration’s lies about the negotiations are a small thing indeed. After all, dishonorable people do dishonorable things.

Every member of Congress should be made to answer this question: Do you believe in rewarding regimes that place bounties on the heads of American soldiers? If so, then tell the American people. But don’t tell them that this agreement brings peace, because no reasonable definition of the term includes Iran’s deadly, 36-year-long terror campaign against America and its allies.


Oh, and remember to thank Bob Corker, Mitch McConnell and John Boehner for their complicity in this prelude to genocide.

Kevin D. Williamson could not be reached for comment.


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INFOGRAPHIC: What the Iran Deal Buys

By AEI

Sanctions relief will inject at least a $100 billion cash windfall into Iran’s ailing economy. Here is how it could be spent, according to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s own five-year plan.


Read more at AEI.org
 

HEY, IT’S A TERRORISM FUNDRAISER! Iran Gets $100 Billion When the Obama-Kerry Nuke Deal is Signed

By Sara Noble

Fars News Agency released what they say are the full contents of the Iran-powers 159-page deal with annexes. The deal lifts more than $100 billion in sanctions almost immediately in exchange for promises and efforts on the part of Iran. The U.N. can ask to inspect new sites and military sites but in reality there are no inspections. None of Iran’s infrastructure will be dismantled.

Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif said, “now we are starting a new chapter of hope.” It is a deal resting more on hope and promises than requirements.

One thing people must realize is that the P5+1 consists of China and Russia, Iran sympathizers, and the remainder are European countries – England, France and Germany – dependent on Russia for their oil.This agreement is, in other words, between the U.S. and Iran with the U.S. lawyers acting as Iran’s agents throughout the negotiations.

Based on the agreement, the world powers recognize Iran’s civilian nuclear program, including the country’s right to the complete nuclear cycle. In other words, they can continue to enrich uranium in limited amounts, insufficient for a nuclear weapon for 10 years, and nuclear development is now their human right. There will be almost no oversight.

EX-PENTAGON OFFICIAL: Nuclear Deal Marked by Retreats on All of Administration’s “Red Lines”

By The Tower

Over the course of the nuclear negotiations, the administration abandoned all of the “red lines” it set out early during its engagement with Iran, Michael Rubin, a former Pentagon official, wrote today in an op-ed published in The New York Post.

In 2013, Kerry declared of the Iranians, “There is no right to enrich.” Two years later? The final agreement allows Iran to keep 5,000 centrifuges, 2,000 more than Pakistan had when it secretly built a nuclear arsenal.

Nor will Iran be limited to current technology; Kerry has ceded Iran’s right to experiment with new-generation centrifuges exponentially more powerful than Iran has now.

But centrifuges are only one part of Iran’s illicit program. In 2013, Kerry told Congress the “whole point of the [sanctions] regime” was to force Iran to “dismantle its nuclear program.” But the deal to which Kerry agreed lets Iran keep everything in place.

#IranDeal: One Picture Says It All

Would it be trite to bring up Santayana?

I ask that rhetorically, because under no circumstances can Democrats -- a party consisting exclusively of rabid ideologues -- leverage facts, logic, reason, history or introspection to evaluate their policies.

In announcing a nuclear deal with Iran, President Barack Obama echoed many of the same sentiments of another Democratic president announcing a similar deal.

On Oct. 21, 1994, President Bill Clinton announced the “Agreed Framework,” a deal negotiated with North Korea to end their pursuit of a nuclear weapon from the exact spot in the White House where President Obama announced his deal with Iran.


“Before I take your questions, I’d like to say just a word about the framework with North Korea that Ambassador Gallucci signed this morning. This is a good deal for the United States,” Clinton said. “North Korea will freeze and then dismantle its nuclear program. South Korea and our other allies will be better protected. The entire world will be safer as we slow the spread of nuclear weapons.”

President Obama said, “Iran is permanently prohibited from pursuing a nuclear weapon under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, which provided the basis for the international community’s efforts to apply pressure on Iran.”

Clinton concluded his remarks by saying, “The United States and international inspectors will carefully monitor North Korea to make sure it keeps its commitments. Only as it does so will North Korea fully join the community of nations.”

Writing in Mein Kampf, Hitler told the world with startling clarity the extent of his ambitions.

Just a few days ago, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani attended a massive rally in Tehran. He led chants of "Death to America" and "Death to Israel" as effigies of Obama, Netanyahu, and King Salman of Saudi Arabia were set afire.

The lesson of history could not be more clear: when a powerful fanatic repeatedly pledges to exterminate you, take them at their word.


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Larwyn's Linx: Time to Call Obama and Kerry What They Are - Traitors

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Nuclear Iran

Time to Call Obama and Kerry What They Are: Traitors: Daniel Greenfield
Mark Levin: Barack Obama has Planted the Seeds for World War III: Scoop
The More We Find Out About #IranDeal, The Worse It Gets: Cove

We Already Know What Will Happen: Erick Erickson
‘This deal is a historic surrender by the West to the axis of evil’: JWF
Kristol: Iran Deal Worse Than We Imagined Possible: TR

Obama caves to Iran on every issue: RS
Obama gets his bad Iran deal: LI
The Best Arguments for an Iran Deal: Bret Stephens

Nation

The Wine-Sipping Butchers of Planned Parenthood: Michelle Malkin
Our Broken Country: Leon H. Wolf
Historical Ignorance: Walter Williams

Murder rates drop as concealed carry permits soar: report: Kellan Howell
The Gruesome Ghouls of ‘Choice’: R.S. McCain
10th Circuit to Little Sisters of the Poor: Comply with contraception mandate: Ed Morrissey

Americans View Hillary As More Extreme Than Any Republican: Blake Neff
Boehner: Hillary Clinton is lying about State Department emails: S.A. Miller, Times
State withheld two Benghazi emails from House investigators: Martin Matishak

Economy

Deal Obligates Obama to Pressure State Pension Funds to Invest in Iran: Daniel Greenfield
Why Yes–Food Stamps Have Exploded Once Work Requirements Were Gutted: Matt Vespa
Illinois is now the biggest food-stamp user in the Midwest: Michael Lucci

Hillary unveils economic plan: No Ubers, more Solyndras: Doug Powers
Will Robo-Advisors Kill Personal Service?: Kevin Tynan
Rubio Doubles-Down on H-1B Increase Amid Microsoft Layoffs: Adelle Nazarian

Scandal Central

Planned Parenthood Busted On Tape Trying To Sell Aborted Baby Body Parts: Sean Davis
DISGRACE: One-Third Of Vets Waiting For VA Medical Care Already Dead: WZ
Obama Officials Haven’t Called Kate Steinle Family …And They Don’t Even Know Who She Is: GWP

Climate & Energy

Chamber sues EPA over water rule: John Siciliano
House caucus vows to fight EPA 'overreach': John Siciliano

Media

Just Another Obama-Dreamer: Murdering and Burning Babies.: Michael Becker
No Kiddin': Salon Writes In Praise of the Beta Male: Ace
Obama's 'Better Ideas': Ed Lasky

On The #IranDeal – Shouldn’t ‘Pretend Time’ Be Over By Now?: Camp o' the Saints
DC Metro riders continue to look out for each other: RS
There will never be a President Trump: Carl Hiaasen

World

The Iran Deal: What Difference, at this Point, Does it Make?: Paul Mirengoff
Iran Nuclear Deal: the World Reacts: LI
U.S. Will Teach Iran to Thwart Nuke Threats: Adam Kredo

Obama Just Abandoned 3 American Hostages With His Odious Nuke Deal: RWN
Obama: Trust me, Iran won’t build a nuclear weapon: Ed Morrissey
After Receiving $1 Billion Line of Credit From Iran, Assad Calls Nuke Deal “Great Victory”: The Tower

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

The FBI Asked Hacking Team for Help Unmasking a Tor User: Joseph Cox, Motherboard
Seven Fast Cars That Got Slower When They Were Redesigned: Robert Sorokanich
2017 Mercedes-Benz E-Class to Showcase Incredible New Technologies: Scott Burgess

Cornucopia

Obama's New Plan?: Springer
Barry and Carré’s Excellent Adventure: MOTUS
Insanity ~ Woodsterman Style: Woodsterman

Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: TED CRUZ FOR PRESIDENT

QOTD: "We already know what is going to happen with Iran. In a few years, there will be an underground nuclear detonation signaling that Iran has learned to make a bomb and is deploying a nuclear arsenal. It will destabilize the region and provoke a war that is even now foreseeable.

But until the moment the seismographs register the nuclear explosion, Democrats and the media will deny the possibility.

We know this will happen.

We know it from recent history. Mitt Romney publicly spoke about the dangers of Chinese hackers and the Chinese stance toward our national security. He was mocked my supposed foreign policy experts. He was maligned by a press corps that thinks itself an expert on these matters. And he has been proven right.

The same happened with Russia. The media attacked Mitt Romney for the audacity of suggesting Hillary Clinton’s reset with Russia was not really a reset so much as a signal that we could be taken.

The very same media that ridiculed and maligned Mitt Romney as out of his league is already heralding the President’s deal with Iran as some great and grand scheme to give us peace in our times ... ... And it will remain that way until Iran signals that it has a bomb. War will begin. The right and Israel will be proven correct. But by then it will be too late.

President Obama brings the world one step closer to war, but the media that has defended the precious for so long will keep doing so. They are invested in the legacy of the man they made." --Erick Erickson

Tuesday, July 14, 2015

Living in an Age of Evil

Preamble:

Sodom and Gomorrah were cities mentioned in the Book of Genesis and throughout the Hebrew Bible, the New Testament and in deuterocanonical sources...

According to the Torah, the kingdoms of Sodom and Gomorrah were allied with the cities of Admah, Zeboim and Bela. These five cities, also known as the "cities of the plain", were situated on the Jordan River plain in the southern region of the land of Canaan. The plain, which corresponds to the area just north of the modern-day Dead Sea, was compared to the garden of Eden as being a land well-watered and green, suitable for grazing livestock.

Divine judgment by God was then passed upon Sodom and Gomorrah and two neighboring cities, which were completely consumed by fire and brimstone. Neighboring Zoar (Bela) was the only city to be spared. In Abrahamic religions, Sodom and Gomorrah have become synonymous with impenitent sin, and their fall with a proverbial manifestation of divine retribution...

Planned Parenthood Busted On Tape Trying To Sell Aborted Baby Body Parts

In shocking video obtained by the Center for Medical Progress and first reported by Live Action News, a top Planned Parenthood executive is seen attempting to sell body parts from aborted babies.

Dr. Deborah Nucatola, Planned Parenthood’s senior director for medical services, is caught on video bragging about how she aborts babies in such a way that their body parts and organs can later be sold for profit.

10 Insanely Vicious Crimes Committed By Illegal Immigrants, Most of Which Media Refuse to Report

By Michael Snyder

Yes, illegal immigrants are responsible for lots of crime in this country. In recent years, nearly 1000 illegal immigrants have been convicted of committing sex crimes against children in the state of Texas alone.

And as you will read about below, illegal immigrants have a murder rate that is 3 to 10 times higher than the general population. So anyone that suggests that illegal immigrants don’t commit more crime than the rest of us is simply lying to you.

Unfortunately, even though we could prevent thousands upon thousands of violent crimes by securing our borders, the Obama administration refuses to do so and it has become very politically incorrect to even talk about this. Every single day, American citizens are being murdered and raped by people that should not be in this country and yet nobody is supposed to address this issue. No wonder our nation is in the process of self-destructing. The following are 10 horribly violent crimes that were committed by illegal immigrants…

TED CRUZ ON #IRANDEAL: We still have a chance to stop a 'mistake of historic proportion'

By Sen. Ted Cruz

Today, the international community led by the United States has agreed to not only legitimize and perpetuate the Iranian nuclear program, but also to further arm and enrich the brutal theocratic regime that has oppressed the Iranian people for more than thirty years – a regime that is wrongfully holding United States citizens captive, that is sponsoring radical Islamic terrorism across the globe, and that regularly promotes the destruction of both Israel and America throughout its streets.

Despite these facts, it seems President Obama would concede almost anything to get any deal – even a terrible deal – from the Islamic Republic of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. Under the terms of this deal, Iran will retain all of its centrifuges, one-third of which will continue to spin. Rather than the most intrusive inspections regime in history that we were promised, IAEA inspectors must petition the mullahs to visit sensitive sites, and wait for two weeks for their permission. In a final, shocking concession, the United States will support lifting of the United Nations arms embargos that restrict the Iranian ballistic missile program and arms trafficking. And in return, billions of dollars of economic relief will flow to Tehran.

Yet, in his remarks this morning, the President glossed over the truth about Iran’s world-leading state-sponsorship of terrorism that is violently destabilizing the region, and would grow more deadly should the Iranians get a nuclear bomb. He failed to mention American citizens, Saeed Abedini, Amir Hekmati, and Jason Rezaian, who continue to languish in Iranian prisons or Robert Levinson, who is still unaccounted for. For them, today is no ‘opportunity to move in a new direction’ as the President claimed.

Larwyn's Linx: "License to Kill": Iran Nuke Deal "Sealed"

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Nation

"License to Kill": Iran Nuke Deal "Sealed": Caleb Howe
Bob Corker’s Iran Nuclear Deal and the triumph of Failure Theater: RS
Last-Minute Iran Deal Details Make Democrats Nervous: Alex Rogers

Scott Walker: The Left’s Keyser Söze: Jon Gabriel
Walker promises to turn back the clock on taxes to Reagan era: Times
Hillary’s Tired, Demagogic Economic Proposals: David Limbaugh

There should be no sanctuary from the law: Cal Thomas
Kate Steinle’s brother speaks out as Obama remains silent: LI
Hillary Opts For Obamanomics Over Clintonomics: Steve Moore

Is the Civil War Over?: Thomas Sowell
Teachers union rushes Hillary’s endorsement as Sanders surges: Kyle Olson
Sanders Says Redistribution More Important Than Growth, WaPo Approves: Mark Tapson

Economy

The Sharing Economy versus the Centralized State: John O. McGinnis
Chicago’s Financial Fire: Aaron M. Renn
Food Stamp Beneficiaries Have Exceeded 45 Million For 48 Straight Months: Ali Meyer

Scandal Central

Common Core Is Rewriting History Like a Tin Pot Dictatorship: Sara Noble
The real goal of Obama’s HUD rule: RS
Obama’s silence on Kathryn Steinle killing is deafening: Marc A. Thiessen

Climate & Energy

Courts Stop Confused Guv Brown Illegal Fines on Water Districts: Stephen Frank

Media

National Review’s Real Problem isn’t with Trump, it’s with the People: RebelPundit
Escaped Mexican Drug Lord Threatens Trump Over Twitter: Sam Peterson
Amazon Defends Ted Cruz: Scoop

Harper Lee Personally Hammers the Final Nail in the Coffin of Post-Racial America: Monte Cristo
Chuck Todd and Doris Kearns Goodwin instruct us not to think about Donald Trump.: Althouse
Brit Hume: Trump Will Fade When Voters Realize He Is More a Dem : Breitbart

NY Times Taking a Beating In Its Battle With Ted Cruz: John Hinderaker
It's a day that ends in 'y', that means Amanda Marcotte is lying: Ramesh Ponnuru
Unexpected thanks to Legal Insurrection on 2nd Anniversary of Zimmerman Acquittal: LI

An Act of Kindness by the Obama Administration: Erick Erickson
Sen. Cotton Sees ‘Open Congressional Rebellion’ Over Imminent Iran Nuclear Deal: Patrick Goodenough
Now, it’s illegal to be a punk rocker: Brian Maloney

World

Israel is ready to defend itself, by itself, defense minister says: Hayom
Iran's Fars News: Nuke Deal Includes All Iran's Key Demands: Clarion
Senate Democrats Warn White House on Iran Arms Embargo: Seven Dennis

It Starts: Greeks Rebel Against Bailout, Risk Collapse: Wolf Richter
Greece discovers that the European Union has altered the deal.: Moe Lane
Munchau: "The Eurozone As We Know It Is Destroyed": ZH

The Ultimate Crony Capitalist State struggles with reality, Tom Friedman: ACC
The Pope and the Hammer and Sickle: Dennis Prager
Is ISIS Growing Persecution a Sign of the End Times?: Rachel Alexander

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Hillary Clinton Goes After Uber and AirBnB: Josh Constine
Are You Ready for Remote Concealed Carry Detection Devices?: Dan Zimmerman
Here's what to takes to lay Google's 9,000km undersea cable: Tim Hornyak

Cornucopia

Affirmation For The MOTI: MOTUS
Preppers: Meet the paranoid Americans awaiting the apocalypse: Rod O'Connor
Snapshots: FUSA, Summer 2015: WRSA

Image: Scott Walker: The Left’s Keyser Söze
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: A REAL CONSERVATIVE: TED CRUZ FOR PRESIDENT

QOTD: "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." --Marc A. Thiessen

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
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: TED CRUZ FOR PRESIDENT: THE TIME IS NOW

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

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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.