Friday, August 07, 2015
DOUG’S REPORT CARD: The First 2016 GOP Presidential Debate
Jeb Bush: D
In what was a surprisingly awful performance, Jeb looked like a deer in the headlights on multiple occasions. In person, Jeb's tall and imposing; but on the debate stage he looked small and weak. His attempt to bolster his prior, bizarre comments on illegal immigration, especially in the wake of Kate Steinle's murder, was a rambling, hot mess.
Ben Carson: B-
Carson is an appealing candidate who appeared overwhelmed at the beginning of the debate and then seemed to find his footing as the night wore on. His likable personality is both tempered and bolstered by the fact that he's not a professional politician.
Larwyn's Linx: GOP Debate Winners: Trump, Cruz, Huckabee, Christie
Nation
GOP Debate Winners: Trump, Cruz, Huckabee, Christie: Dick MorrisFive Takeaways From The First GOP Debate: Glob
These Are the Two Calls Fiorina Would Make on ‘Day One’ in Oval Office: Olivery Darcy
The Most Dangerous Threat America Faces is Barack Obama: Mark Levin
Hume: Obama's Speech on Iran Deal "Dishonest, Partisan, Insulting": RCP
No More Mr. Nice Conservative: Sultan Knish
Blame America First: The Real Goal of the Kerry-Obama Iran Deal: Robert Tracinski
Arabic: Most Common Language of Refugees in America: Pamela Geller
Kerry continues meeting with Egypt’s banned Muslim Brotherhood: Raymond Ibrahim
Analysis of the First Fox GOP Presidential Debate: John Hawkins
It's Official: No Difference Between Jeb And Hillary; Biggest Donors Are the Same: ZH
Planned Parenthood To CMP: Stop Keeping Our Depravity In The Public Eye: Patterico
Cruz Slams Obama Comparing GOP To Iran's "Death To America" Chants: Lid
Prince Jeb the Unready: Mark Steyn
Report: Jeb Calls Trump An Ass****: Right Pundit
Economy
Obama "Recovery" Objectively Worst on Record: Timothy H. LeeMcConnell: No Planned Parenthood defunding in fall spending fight: Susan Ferrechio
Obama pushes up start of family's 40th vacation -- leaves Friday for Martha's Vineyard: Paul Bedard
Scandal Central
FBI investigation of Hillary’s emails is ‘criminal probe’: PostHuma planned party for Clinton pal on taxpayers’ dime: Geoff Earle
4 Planned Parenthood clinics in Florida caught breaking the law: Twitchy
Court asked to seize copies of Clinton's emails: Sarah Westwood
IRS's Lois Lerner called conservatives 'assholes' in emails: Exam
Lois Lerner Wanted to Investigate... Bristol Palin: Ace
Media
A Crushing New Argument Against Gun Control: Bob OwensCruz confronts Maddow’s slam with a bigger gun, a new video, and humor: Patriot Outdoor News
Obama gets in Twitter fights over Iran deal: Barbara Boland
Some observations on the Fox Prime Time Debate: The best debate ever: Michael Barone
I Watched Ted Cruz Debate in College. Don't Count Him Out.: Sacha Zimmerman
A Foxy, Rowdy Republican Debate: Frank Bruni
World
Schumer to Oppose Iran Deal: AmIntObama Allies Blast Schumer on Iran Deal, Talk of New Leader: Steven Dennis
To Defend Iran Deal, Obama Boasts that He's Bombed Seven Countries: Glenn Greenwald
On Obama's Case for the Iran Deal: CFIF
German Police Warn of De Facto No-Go Zones: Soeren Kern
Russia's Latest Land Grab Attempt In The Arctic: ZH
Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)
Day 1 Bad PBX Install Translates To 7-Year Pain: Matt Brunk, NoJitterLexus' Fancy Board Really Hovers, but It's Just for Show: TNW
What Should the Users of Ashley Madison Do?: David Spark
Cornucopia
If GOP Candidates Were Guns: Marybeth GlennSnopes.com CEO arrested on charges of fraud and corruption: Cube
Hillary Corners Vote Of Morons Who Can’t Spell ‘President’: Sooper
Image: Obama Allies Blast Schumer on Iran Deal, Talk of New Leader
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: Crush the Washington Cartel: TED CRUZ FOR PRESIDENT
QOTD: "...the questions that the moderators asked weren’t just discomfiting, humiliating ones. They were the right ones, starting with a brilliant opener: Was there any candidate who was unwilling to pledge support to the eventual Republican nominee and swear off a third-party run?
Trump alone wouldn’t make those promises, even though the moderator who asked that question, Bret Baier, pointed out that such a third-party run would likely hand the presidency to the Democratic nominee.
And thus, in the first minute of the debate, Trump was undressed and unmasked, and he stood there as the unprincipled, naked egomaniac that he is. He never quite recovered. His admission of political infidelity was the prism through which all of his subsequent bluster had to be viewed." --Frank Bruni
Thursday, August 06, 2015
The 2016 election for dummies
The two most important issues of the 2016 election are non-partisan.
(1) The federal government and the media are, as institutions, hopelessly corrupt.
(2) The United States has elections, but we no longer have representative government.
None of the problems facing the country can be solved effectively without first confronting those two issues. Without doing so, we are just kicking the can down the road toward national collapse and fragmentation.Americans are no longer citizens of a republic, but subjects of a reigning oligarchy composed of a self-absorbed permanent political class, which services the interests of wealthy financiers at the expense of the wider population. They maintain their authority by an ever-expanding and increasingly intrusive government and using a compliant media to manipulate public perception and opinion in order to maintain the illusion of democracy.
The federal government is now an industry competing with the private sector, but unconstrained by regulation and the rule of law, which has inevitably led to massive and wide-spread corruption.
From the perspective of the oligarchy, elections are nothing more than an opportunity to redistribute power among select Democrat and Republican elites, who use the legislative process and tax revenues to increase the personal wealth of the ruling class.
There is no clearer example of the absence of representative government than the actions of the Republican Party after the November 2014 election. Despite the fact that the Republicans sailed to victory in one of the biggest election routs of the past century and grew to historic levels in the U.S. House, they never intended to honor their pledges to the voters, caving to Barack Obama and the Democrats on every major issue.
FOR "WOMEN’S HEALTH": Human Fetus Brains Sold to Labs for Transplantation into Rats
One thing is clear from the videos and media that have emerged in this recent scandal – we are not dealing with a one dimension “pro-choice/pro-life” debate. Instead, there is a dark organization inside an industrial complex Americans have not dared to contemplate or uncover. Secret scientific research, genetic engineering, synthetic DNA, vaccines made from human fetal cell tissue… and a host of other uses for human organs, limbs, brains and tissue.
The “ethics” behind closed doors, where doctors and clinics are apparently all too willing to break the rules and allow human experimentation, are projected into the medical system collective that we are all being pushed into. Decisions about the value of human life and how far the State can go in deciding what is best for you are being weighed… your will see it in the hidden costs of Obamacare, where life becomes cheap but the bills for services rendered remain sky high.
While the Planned Parenthood harvesting scandal rumbles on, fewer news items have actually focused on what those who procure aborted fetal tissue and organs are actually doing with it.
Pro life website LifeNews.com sheds some light on this today with a piece that reveals the brains of aborted babies are being transplanted into mice.
The article notes that a recent commentary piece in The Scientist, entitled “When Does a Smart Mouse Become Human?” highlights how researchers at the University of Rochester injected lab mice with glial cells from human fetuses, and discusses the ethical issue of transplanting human cells into animals.
The article states:
Larwyn's Linx: President Chickenhawk Threatens to Have Iranian Rockets Hit Israel If it Won't Back Nuke Deal
Nation
President Chickenhawk: Iranian Rockets will Hit Israel If it Opposes Nuke Deal: WZAnd When We Are Faced with a Nuclear Iran?: Peter Huessy
After Senators Meet with IAEA, They're “Fuming,” Have Even More Doubts: The Tower
Iran on Steroids: What Happens When the Dollars Start Rolling In: Ryan Mauro
New Secret Iranian Nuclear Facility Revealed: Ryan Mauro
You won't believe the best man at John Kerry’s daughter’s wedding was: Michele Hickford
Clinton greedy grab for Saudi petro-dollars serves her, not America: John Myers
Jeb Bush: Not Ready for Prime Time: John Hinderaker
What’s the cost of avoiding the Planned Parenthood videos?: John Kass
The Obama-Hillary Libya Debacle: Paul Mirengoff
Obama Demanding That AIPAC Follow 'Omerta' On Iran Deal: Lid
Donald Trump: Still Right About Mexican Rapists: Ann Coulter
Economy
Democrats: They’re All Socialists Now: Larry ElderWashington’s Millennial Betrayal: Veronique De Rugy
The Great Inflation Lie: Comparing cost of living, 1975 vs. 2015: David Stockman
Scandal Central
Bakin' Baby Syndrome: Mark SteynPP Transcript: Nurse Admits It’s ‘Fun’ To Dissect Fetuses: S&L
StemExpress Sees Astronomical Growth With Planned Parenthood Partnership: Dana Loesch
Climate & Energy
EPA: A Rogue Agency: Michael GreibrokMedia
Social media ERUPTS at McConnell’s no shutdown pledge; read Trump’s book, ‘moron’: Joe SaundersThe Illusion of Government: Diogenes
Obama Advisor Dan Pfeiffer On Clinton Polls: “These Are Not Good Numbers”: Right Pundit
World
Obama: Don’t believe the alarmists, Iran not a threat to the world: ScoopIran reportedly points weapon at U.S. helicopter as Obama set to give speech on Iran deal: Twitchy
The Russian Government Tells The Obama Administration: Stop Protecting Islamic Terrorists: Theodore Shoebat
Health Care Hell in Venezuela: AmInt
Call to Action: The Iraq Strategy America Really Needs: Derek Chollet and Robert Ford
Where's the Coverage: Jewish Athletes Threatened in Berlin: CAMERA
Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)
The Ebola Gamble: How Public Health Authorities Put Reassurance Before Protection: Ari N. SchulmanObamanomics: Mapping the Rising Poverty of the U.S.: Jamie Condliffe
Frederique Constant smartwatch: Time-tested activity tracking in a beautiful Swiss watch: PC World
Cornucopia
Rapid Response: Nashville Metro PD showed us how active shooter response is done: Richard FairburnHistory’s Complexity Should Discourage Retroactive Morality: Victor Davis Hanson
Making Common Cause; One Way To Lose Those Walkin’ Blues: MOTUS
Image: Rapid Response: Nashville Metro PD showed us how active shooter response is done
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: Protect Our Precious Constitution: TED CRUZ FOR PRESIDENT
QOTD: "Rather than helping the U.S. combat terrorism, as Qaddafi did during his last decade in power, Libya now serves as a safe haven for militias affiliated with both al Qaeda and ISIS.
...The U.N. estimates that 400,000 Libyans have fled their homes. Many of them have fled their country, as recent stories about attempts to enter Italy have highlighted...
...The demise of Qaddafi was a bonanza for anti-American terrorists in an additional respect. By virtue of his overthrow, the former strongman’s arsenal of weapons fell into the hands of terrorists throughout North Africa. Human Rights Watch says that the amount of weapons on the loose in Libya today dwarfs the number in Somalia, Afghanistan, and Iraq. For example, an estimated 15,000 man-portable air defense systems are unaccounted for.
Under Qaddafi, during his last years, Libya aided the U.S. in fighting terrorism. Qaddafi’s intelligence service regularly provided information about Libyan fighters in places like Pakistan, as well as intel about A.Q. Khan, who sold nuclear know-how to our enemies.
Qaddafi’s contributions were such that, in 2009, Gen. William Wood, head of the U.S. African command, called Libya “a top U.S. partner in combating transnational terrorism.”
Thanks to Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, Libya, once part of the solution to terrorism, is now a significant part of the problem." --Paul Mirengoff
Wednesday, August 05, 2015
CHART O’ THE DAY: Sure glad we’re crippling the economy for this "reduction" in global CO2!
Or, as Ed Morrissey drily captions it, "If you like your electricity, you can keep your electricity."
What I enjoy most about the Obama era is the civility: Prez says GOP supports Iranian "Death to America" Chants
I realize that resorting to force may be tempting in the face of the rhetoric and behavior that emanates from parts of Iran. It is offensive. It is incendiary. We do take it seriously. But superpowers should not act impulsively in response to talks… Just because Iranian hardliners chant ‘Death to America” does not mean that that’s what all Iranians believe. In fact, it’s those hardliners that are more satisfied with the status quo. It’s those hardliners chanting “death to America” who’ve been most opposed to the deal. They’re making common cause with the Republican Caucus.
In related news, Iran's leaders openly seek the nuclear annihilation of America, England, and Israel.
And water is wet.
Hat tip: BadBlue News.
DHS Says ‘Path To Citizenship’ Will Help Fight Homegrown Terror
The top U.S. immigration agency told a Senate subcommittee it is working to blunt homegrown terrorism by marketing U.S. citizenship to immigrants.
“In furtherance of DHS’s mission to safeguard the homeland, [United States Citizenship and Immigration Services] is committed to fostering integration and community cohesion,” the agency recently told the Immigration and the National Interest Subcommittee in records obtained by The Daily Caller News Foundation.“USCIS engages and supports partners to welcome immigrants, promote English language learning and education on the rights and responsibilities of citizenship, and encourage U.S. citizenship.”
The subcommittee had pointed to the arrest of Six Somali men on terror-related charges in Minnesota — where a large population of Somali refugees was resettled — as evidence of the threat and then asked whether USCIS can guarantee other communities won’t face similar threats from the thousands of Syrian war refugees that have been settled stateside.
Referring to its efforts to promote citizenship, officials from USCIS made an appeal to nationalism: “These efforts emphasize the role that shared citizenship rights and responsibilities play to unify all Americans.”
The For the Record Questions with USCIS followed an April hearing on the Obama Administration’s plan to grant Central American minors related to illegal immigrants in the U.S. refugee or parole status, and fly them into the country.
Terror Victims’ Lawsuit Seeks to Block Obama’s Gift of $150 Billion to Iran
A deal to provide Iran with as much as $150 billion in sanctions relief over its nuclear weapons program should be blocked until the Islamic Republic pays court-awarded damages to American victims of Iranian-sponsored terrorism, a lawsuit filed Wednesday in New York federal court said.
The plaintiffs, victims of attacks by Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad, have judgments worth $152 million that they have been unable to collect. Similar lawsuits in U.S. courts have generated billions of dollars more in damages. Iran, the lawsuit said, should not see a dime of sanctions relief until those victims are compensated.By law, the lawsuit said, Iran should not be granted any relief until there is "a certification by the President that Iran is no longer a financier and sponsor of terror. That terrorism condition has not been satisfied."
Even the White House admits that Iran continues to sponsor international terrorism.
The lawsuit, facilitated by Shurat Hadin, or Israel Law Center, names the departments of State and Treasury, along with their respective secretaries, John Kerry and Jacob Lew. The two departments are responsible for enacting and enforcing the sanctions against Iran.
Releasing the frozen Iranian assets strips victims of "their last remaining opportunity to pressure Iran to satisfy their judgments,' the lawsuit said. And it violates terms of the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act, passed by Congress in 2002. The law aimed to help victims enforce their judgments by pursuing blocked assets belonging to terror sponsors. It contains the phrase "Notwithstanding any other provision of law," which should prevail over the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, the formal name of the Iran deal, negotiated by the U.S. and the P5+1 allies, the lawsuit said.
Larwyn's Linx: Iran: U.S. Banned from Knowing Details of Iran Nuclear Inspection Agreement
Nation
Iran: U.S. Banned from Knowing Details of Iran Nuclear Inspection Agreement: Adam KredoFBI investigating security of Hillary Clinton's private email server: Fox
Gun Lies: John Stossel
Their Lies Have Boxed Them In: Erick Erickson
Hillary Clinton's tax returns: the most hilarious chart: Thomas Lifson
More than 2 of 3 Obamacare enrollees unsatisfied with coverage: survey: Tom Howell Jr.
Here are the contenders in the first Republican presidential debate: Philip Klein
Sen. Ted Cruz’ Courageous Stand Against ‘Washington Cartel’: Don Loucks
Jeb Bush says he 'misspoke' about women’s health being overfunded: Rebecca Shabad
Our Fascist Age: The Z Man
Congressional Research Service Releases Study of Mass Shootings: Jesse Walker
New York Cracking Down on Guns. Toy Guns.: MenRec
Economy
‘Secret Shopper’Audit Reveals Obamacare Wide Open To Fraud: Tammy BruceThe Lethal Deferral of Greek Debt Restructuring: Yanis Varoufakis
The Economics of Europe's Migrant Crisis: Mohamed El-Erian
Scandal Central
New documents suggest Clinton's email server may have crashed: Sarah WestwoodIt’s Come To This: California Town Appointing Illegals as City Commissioners: Warner Todd Huston
New Planned Parenthood video lands: RS
5th video shows Planned Parenthood selling “fully intact” aborted babies: Kemberlee Kaye
New CMP video: Intact fetuses “just a matter of line items” for Planned Parenthood: Ed Morrissey
Wife of Obama-bundler judge, William Orrick III, is a pro-abort activist: RS
Climate & Energy
Obama: Everybody’s going to die without my ‘clean power’ plan, so ignore the fear mongers: Doug PowersObama shouldn't have the last laugh on carbon rules: Examiner
States, Senate Ready to Fight Obama’s Clean Power Plan: Rod Kackley
Media
Cable news hammers Hillary Clinton: T. Becket AdamsO'Reilly Erupts When Juan Williams Tries to Blame The Economy on Bush (6 Years In): Right Pundit
Adam Carolla’s TO CATCH A CONTRACTOR Catches Almost Nothing But Immigrants: VDARE
Mark Levin to Sean Hannity: We Need a New Civil Rights Movement: Scoop
Ezekiel Emanuel Must Have Tears of Joy in His Eyes: iOTWreport
2 Prig Journalists Create Twitter Bot That Harangues Users When They Use the Term Illegal Alien: iOTWreport
World
Empowering the Iranian Who Murdered Americans: Michael BarberoFilmmaker Tells Congress: ISIS Raped 'Girls as Young as Nine': Penny Starr
Airline Pilot Confirms White House Trying to Make it Easier to Hijack Planes: BuzzPo
Next Up in Donbas: A Dirty Bomb?: AmInt
The new climate plan and China: Derek Scissors
Obama’s Climate Hubris: Betsy McCaughey
WH Tweets About Iran Deal… To Vicious Anti-Jewish Hate Site: Tammy Bruce
Refugees, Immigration and the Agenda to Erase America: Creeping
Senior DHS Advisor: America is an “Islamic Country”: Ryan Mauro (2013)
Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)
Insect-Inspired Eyes Give Sight to Mini Drones: Carl EngelkingNew York Times Capitalizes on 'Mobile Moments' for Tailored Ads: Emily Alford
Chinese VPN Service as Attack Platform?: Brian Krebs
Cornucopia
Happy Birthday Barry: MOTUSPlunder & Deceit is Out TODAY: Erick Erickson
T-Mobile Posts Pro-Amnesty Ad on Social Media; Quickly Takes it Down After Backlash: Kristine Marsh
Image: Crazy Alert: Harry Reid Says GOP, Trying To Defund PP, ‘Has Lost Its Moral Compass’
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: End the Washington Cartel: TED CRUZ FOR PRESIDENT
QOTD: "As bad as the trafficking in human organs and tissue is. As reprehensible as it is to put women an medical risk by changing the abortion procedure in order to maximize the dollar value of the dead baby. What really strikes one over the course of the videos is the utter callousness of the people involved. The total lack of basic humanity that the alleged medical professionals in this horrible practice exhibit.
We saw Deborah Nucatola calmly talking about revenue based on dead babies who ordering wine and chowing down on a nice, green salad. If you go the 9:45 in today’s video you can hear the staff laughing, that’s right laughing, about how hard their day has been and how they have plenty of dead babies in the freezer...
...What one sees in these videos is not unlike what one saw in the series of war crimes trials visited upon the German military and political classes after World War II. There is a top tier of ideologues who are carrying out an agenda. They could be questioned on the morality of their actions and convince any polygraph examiner in the world that they truly believe they are on the side of the angels. There are a handful of truly malevolent individuals, in the case of abortion this would be the doctors who carry out the procedure. But most of these people, oddly enough nearly all in the video are women, just put their conscience in a lock box, stuff dead babies in the cooler, and go home and fix dinner. That casual cruelty is what makes this series of videos so powerful." --streiff
Tuesday, August 04, 2015
If Governor John Kasich is on the Republican ticket, Obamacare repeal is off the table
Republicans can forget about campaigning against Obamacare in 2016 if Ohio Gov. John Kasich is on the party’s presidential ticket.
Conventional wisdom says Kasich will need to explain his Obamacare Medicaid expansion to Republican primary voters — but he’s been explaining it for two years.That’s the problem: most of Kasich’s arguments for Medicaid coverage for working-age adults with no kids and no disabilities sound like they were written by Democratic strategists.
The longer Kasich is in the presidential race, the greater the potential for Democrats to capitalize on Kasich’s promotion of Obamacare.
“What we’ve seen as a result of this? Saved lives, there’s no question about it,” Kasich said when asked about Obamacare expansion at an Ohio Chamber of Commerce event.
“Turning down your money back to Montana on an ideological basis when people can lose their lives because they get no help doesn’t make a lot of sense to me,” Kasich growled at an Obamacare skeptic in Montana.
If Kasich is the Republican nominee for president or vice president, expect to see Democratic campaign ads using Kasich’s tortured talking points against Obamacare critics.
In short, Kasich has worked to turn his own primary election problem into a general election problem for every Republican candidate.
Today’s Hillarious Hillary Highlights
Data point 1:
Data point 2:Uh-Oh: Hillary Losing White Women.. and Every Other Demographic
The Wall Street Journal is sounding the alarm for Team Hillary after the results of a new WSJ/NBC News poll show her losing white women voters and, well, basically every other demographic...
But WSJ notes that that's not the only "worrisome trend" for the Democratic presidential frontrunner. She's also lost many Independents, whose opinion of her has plummeted from an "evenly split" perception earlier this year to now being underwater 27/52. The opinion of Clinton among African-Americans also dropped in the last few months, falling from 81/3 to 66/15.
All That’s Wrong With Washington in One Picture
I’ve gotten some criticism over the last couple of days for not being hard enough on the Republicans. Trust me: the crony Republicans are full on targets for sure. Long time readers know this. Saying that, here’s a good one from one of the generally good guys in Washington, who happens to be a Republican.
Just finished printing the highway bill. Received at 3:06 pm. 1,030 pages long. 1st vote on it at 4:00 pm. pic.twitter.com/sVUMSLV0XS
— Mike Lee (@SenMikeLee) July 21, 2015On the other hand it could be worse.
CAPITALISM COMIX: The $70K Minimum Wage
Meet 31-year-old Dan Price... Dan is the CEO of Seattle-based credit card payments processing firm Gravity Payments, and three months ago, he did a funny thing. After talking with a friend who confessed to having difficulties making student loan payments and rent each month on an annual salary of $40,000, Dan decided to set a $70,000 per year pay floor at Gravity.Needless to say, the unintended consequences were catastrophic. Employees who earned $70,000 by dint of hard work felt they had been shafted; several quit. Price's friends in the business community were ticked off - he had established what they felt was an unsustainable minimum wage. And his older brother is suing him, presumably because of his, uhm, novel approach to management.
Which led our long-suffering summer intern Biff Spackle (@BiffSpackle) to create this riff on Mr. Price's folly.
Can I get a rimshot, please?
Hat tip: BadBlue News.
Larwyn's Linx: Majority of House Backs Resolution to Kill Iran Deal
Nation
Majority of House Backs Resolution to Kill Iran Deal: Adam KredoWill Chuck Schumer Oppose The Iran Deal?: RWN
Democrat Rep. Brad Sherman: Iran Deal Is “Terrorism With Impunity” : Breitbart
Time For Conservatives To Get Medieval On The Liberal Establishment: Kurt Schlichter
Mike Lee’s Terrific Planned Parenthood De-Fund Speech: HayRide
Which Senators Voted to Make You Pay for Abortion Harvesting?: Matthew Clark
Trump Triumphant: Erick Erickson
Willingness to Fight: Ted Cruz Has Earned a Second Look From Us All: Leon H. Wolf
Ted Cruz, Jeb Bush Shine at Koch Brothers Event: Zachary Mider, Bloomberg
Liberalism: From “Mainstreaming Dumb” To “Mainstreaming Crazy”: John Hawkins
Iran Deal Is Obama’s Foreign Policy Obamacare: David Limbaugh
Mitch McConnell Must Never Be Elected Again: RS
Economy
'Medical Meltdown:' Obamacare Ushers in Doctor Shortages: Trey SanchezComing to a market near you: increased food costs, thanks to California bureaucrats: Dan Spencer
CEO Hikes Minimum Wage To $70K, Capitalist Tragicomedy Ensues: ZH
Scandal Central
Clinton aide Huma Abedin may have 'delivered favors' for friends, IG finds: Sarah WestwoodReport: Clinton Aide’s Dual Roles May Have Broken Conflict of Interest Laws: Alan Goodman
U.S. Pays Black Comedian to Deliver Anti-White Racist Tirade at Fed Agency: JW
Climate & Energy
Obama orders 30% cut in CO2 emissions in new EPA rule change: Ed MorrisseyObama Kills Another Industry: A $600 million coal mine just sold for less than $1: Stephen Frank
World’s Top Climate Experts Predictions in 2003... Startlingly Wrong: Climatism
Media
WSJ Op-Ed: Iran Nuke Deal Reveals Obama’s “Blind Spot” Towards Anti-Semitism: The TowerMother Jones’ Kevin Drum: Liberals don’t believe aborting a fetus involves killing a human being: ProWis
If It's Monday, It's Time For Another Group of Obese Women To Strip Down to Prove Fat is Beautiful: Ace
Before We Fry Ray Tensing in the Death of Sam DuBose …: BizzyBlog
"Stomp Them and Kill Them": Farrakhan Inciting Deadly Civil War Of Mass Proportions: ConByte
This child was #BurnedAlive in West Bank, but you probably never heard of her: LI
World
Iran Publishes Play-by-Play on How to Defeat US, Destroy Israel: Amy MillerU.S. Terror Victims Win Judgment; Obama Regime Thinking Of Weighing In On Lawsuit… On Side Of Terrorists: WZ
Obama detains 27 Christian asylum seekers: Leo Hohmann
China building Naval bases across Asia, eyes Horn of Africa: LI
IAEA Will Not Share Its Agreements With Iran, and John Kerry is Okay With That: Deanna Fisher
Iran’s Rouhani Says Nuclear Deal ‘More Than What Was Imagined’: Golnar Motevalli
Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)
Newly Married AT&T/DirecTV Unveil Underwhelming Combined Wireless/TV Plans: Chris MorranThe Most Expensive Keywords on Google [Infographic]: Brent Carnduff
A Drone Captured This Adorable Orca Family Photo: Jamie Condliffe
Cornucopia
On L'Affaire Cecil and Why Internet Outrage May Doom the Lions of Zimbabwe: AceAll Rhodes Lead to Cecil: Mark Steyn
Obama Takes Air Force One Jet, Marine One Helicopter To Golf Before Climate Speech: WZ
Image: Report: Clinton Aide’s Dual Roles May Have Broken Conflict of Interest Laws
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: The Time is Now: TED CRUZ FOR PRESIDENT
QOTD: "I have yet to meet a person in America whose criticism of Congress is, 'You guys haven’t cooperated with Obama enough.' People are fed up." --Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX)
Monday, August 03, 2015
FUNNIEST CHART O' THE DAY: Breakdown of Where Bill and Hillary Clinton’s "Charitable" Donations Went
As TaxProf notes, the family’s charitable giving from 2007 onward has been a case study in moving money around. Since 2007, the Clintons “made $15 million (10.8 percent of their AGI) of charitable contributions, $14.9 million of which went to the Clinton Family Foundation and the Clinton Global Initiative.”
That leaves $100,000 for charitable uses that don’t directly involve the Clinton family and their globalist friends.
As a reminder, in April I created a chart illustrating where the Clinton Global Graft Initiative's various expenditures went. It's equally amusing.
Little wonder Hillary's email server "disappeared".
Hat tip: BadBlue News.
WELFARE STATE SUCCESS STORY #8,091: More Kids Living In Poverty Now Than During Great Recession
A picture from an Indian reservation in South Dakota. American Indians have gotten the rawest deal in America as a group, and the US government has managed their affairs to a large degree since conquering them. So what does that tell you?No child should be hungry. But the welfare state is not the way to keep bellies full. Non-profits need to be empowered, and government and the dependence it creates must be reduced in a real way. (This must be done over time but with tangible and verifiable milestones. Corporate dependence needs to be cut tomorrow however.)
NEW BOOK BY OBAMA’S PARTNER IN PEACE: Denies Holocausts, Calls for Destruction of Israel
A new book by Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei refers to the Holocaust as “a propaganda ploy” and promotes the destruction of Israel as a Jewish state, Iran expert Amir Taheri wrote Saturday for The New York Post.
Taheri wrote that he received a copy of the book, currently available only in Iran, from a friend living there. In the book, Khamenei writes that his plan does not involve a plan to “massacre the Jews” or engage in “classical wars” to destroy Israel. Rather, his goal is to engage Israel in a long period of “low-intensity warfare,” which would prompt most Israeli Jews to leave for the safety of other countries.Khamenei boasts about the success of his plans to make life impossible for Israelis through terror attacks from Lebanon and Gaza. His latest scheme is to recruit “fighters” in the West Bank to set up Hezbollah-style units.
“We have intervened in anti-Israel matters, and it brought victory in the 33-day war by Hezbollah against Israel in 2006 and in the 22-day war between Hamas and Israel in the Gaza Strip,” he boasts.
Khamenei describes Israel as “a cancerous tumor” whose elimination would mean that “the West’s hegemony and threats will be discredited” in the Middle East. In its place, he boasts, “the hegemony of Iran will be promoted.”
Khamenei’s plan would allow Jews with “genuine roots” to remain in Israel as “protected minorities.” At some point, Israel would revert to United Nations control, and a referendum of Palestinians and their descendants and any remaining Jews would be held “to create the new state of Palestine.”
Khamenei wrote that his proposal is not based on anti-Semitism, which he claimed was a European phenomenon, but on “well-established Islamic principles.” One of those principles is that any land that was once under Muslim control – which includes large chunks of Europe, China, and India – can never be ruled by non-Muslims.
John Kasich Has a $14 Billion Obamacare Problem
Ohio Gov. John Kasich’s habit of telling voters “Ohio money” pays for his Obamacare Medicaid expansion is about to catch up to him.
To silence conservative critics, Kasich says Obamacare expansion is bringing $14 billion of Ohio money back to Ohio from the federal government.But that’s not how the expansion works — a fact Kasich’s opponents in a crowded Republican presidential primary are certain to point out.
There is no vault of “Ohio money” set aside to pay for Kasich’s Obamacare expansion, which has already increased federal welfare spending by $4 billion.
Matt Mayer, president of free-market think tank Opportunity Ohio, expects the governor’s message to fall apart when it’s challenged by other presidential candidates.
Larwyn's Linx: Human Smugglers Running Wild in Texas Border City
Nation
Human Smugglers Running Wild in Texas Border City: Ildefonso OrtizOhio Judge to Illegal Accused of Murder: ‘I Can’t Set a Bond High Enough’: Andrew Husband
Hundreds of Muslim refugees headed to Idaho: Leo Hohmann
Kerry: 'No Knowledge' that 'Death to America' is 'Specific Plan': Clarion
Ted Cruz Responds to Obama’s Iran ‘Rhetoric’: Jennifer Van Laar
How to Stop Planned Parenthood: John Drogin
'Draft Biden' gears up for VP entering race: Ryan Lovelace
The Teflon Dame: Derek Hunter
Desperate Dems panicking over Hillary as stilettos are unsheathed: Thomas Lifson
New California Law – No Bosses: Bruce Bialosky
The Man with a Plan: Donald Trump’s 5-Part Strategy to Make America Great Again: Breitbart
Gov. Christie likely to pardon legal gun owners arrested in New Jersey: CDN
Crime and Punishment: Illinois Edition: WUIS 91.9
Push is on to get Nebraska to join the call for a convention of states: Martha Stoddard
Gun-Free NYC: 12 hurt as gunman opens fire at Brooklyn house party: Daily Mail
Scandal Central
Hillary’s Two Races: To Keep Ahead of the Investigators, and to Win the White House: John FundHillary Clinton’s Lawyer has Copy of Classified Emails on Thumb Drive- Could she be Prosecuted?: Frank Camp
Clinton aide and confidante was overpaid at State Dept.: Paul Mirengoff
Climate & Energy
The ObamaCare of Energy Sector Regulations – Obama To Unveil EPA Carbon Tax: TreehouseSix items to look for in the EPA power plant rule: Zack Colman
EPA diktats: Pushing back: TribLive
Media
About Those Planned Parenthood "Idiots": Kevin McCulloughScapegoating 101: In From the Cold
Hillary! Goes Full Otter: Ace
World
Hamas's Child Abuse Camps: Khaled Abu ToamehIslam's 'Fair-Haired Women' Problem: Raymond Ibrahim
The invasion of much of Europe seems to be getting noticed: Vlad Tepes
The Islamic State's Campaign Plan: Vijeta Uniyal
Humiliation as a Tool of Blackmail: Lilia Shevtsova
Nigerian Troops Rescue 178 People, Mostly Children, Kill Large Number Of Boko Haram: WZ
Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)
Ancient Huts Provide New Information on Magnetic Pole Reversal and the South Atlantic Anomaly: Ancient OriginsOr Maybe We Shouldn't Ban Killer Robots: Motherboard
Microsoft Getting Very Googley with Windows 10: Ace
Cornucopia
Buzz Aldrin's Travel Voucher To The Moon: LidNorman Lear: Patriot: Ace
Death of a Diploma Mill: University of Phoenix Going Down in Flames?: Samantha Allen
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: FIGHT DC: TED CRUZ FOR PRESIDENT
QOTD: "The gross federal debt now stands at $18.15 trillion, while current-dollar GDP is lagging behind at $17.665 trillion. The federal debt is now larger than our entire economy, and based on the current trajectory, it will remain that way indefinitely. In fact, precisely because the debt has grown so large relative to the size of the economy – it is unlikely that the economy can ever grow quickly enough to overcome the debt with so much dead weight on its shoulders.
Just 30 years ago, the gross federal debt was only 40% of GDP. Think of it this way: it’s a lot easier to hike five miles in a forest in a timely fashion while carrying a 40-pound rucksack as opposed to a 100-pound one.
So the next time you hear a liberal feign moral outrage over the need to spend more money on entitlement programs and regulatory agencies, ask how that helps the “middle class” when the ensuing creation of debt permanently depresses wage growth and job opportunities." --Daniel Horowitz


















