Saturday, August 08, 2015

Larwyn's Linx: A Cynical Scam: Schumer's Iran Announcement Was Made To Protect Iran Deal

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Nation

A Cynical Scam: Schumer's Iran Announcement Was Made To Protect Iran Deal: Lid
MoveOn to withhold $10M in donations from Dems who oppose Iran deal: Catherine Ho
White House: Up to Senate Democrats Whether to Dump Chuck Schumer: Steven Dennis

The 10 Worst Trump Moments From The First GOP Debate: Mollie Hemingway
Erick Erickson Uninvites Donald Trump from RedState Gathering: Kemberlee Kaye
Trump Kicked Out Of RedState Over Megyn Kelly Comments: Caleb Howe

Obama, the Vindictive, Treacherous Queen: Ace
Demonic Loser James E. Holmes Given Life in Prison: Ace
Puerto Rican Bond Default Raises Likelihood of U.S. Bailout: Carl Horowitz

Debbie Wasserman Schultz’s Unanswered Question: Susan Brown
Sen. Cruz on 1st GOP Debate: Hannity
Where is Fiorina on the Issues?: CR

Economy

When Work Is Punished: The Ongoing Tragedy Of America's Welfare State: Tyler Durden
Everything you need to know about the July jobs report in one chart: LI
24,710,000 Foreign-Born People Employed In U.S.: Breitbart

Scandal Central

Another Brutal Murder By Illegal Alien – Another Sanctuary City Release: Treehouse
Blockbuster Court Action in Hillary Clinton Email Scandal: JW
Obama Slams the Jewish Lobby: Julie Hirschfeld Davis

Climate & Energy

Don’t invite the EPA to a pool party: Sondrakistan
Government Is Just Another Word For The Things We Choose To Do Together: SDA

Media

24 Million Watch GOP Debate on Fox News; Most-Watched Cable News Program Ever: Chris Ariens, AdWeek
Liberals, CNN agree: Fox did a great job!: Brian Maloney
Megyn Kelly: I’m confident Democratic nominee will become president: FAM

5,000+ Conservatives Vote in Post Debate Poll, Donald Trump Tanks While Cruz and Fiorina Surge: LibertyNews
In Which Carly Fiorina Takes a Sledgehammer to Tinglethigh’s Pie Face: Right Pundit
Why I’m Running For President and How I’ll Re-Establish American Leadership in the World: Carly Fiorina

Google's Search Algorithm Could Steal the Presidency: Adam Rogers
Ben Carson, Ted Cruz, and you-know-who won the Google search war: Philip Bump
Mark Levin Rips Megyn Kelly on Her Trump Gotcha Question: GWP

World

Toying with Genocide: The "Unthinkable" Can and Is Being Thought: American Digest
“We are committed to being active participants in our society, but it has to be on Islam’s terms”: Robert Spencer
Virginia: Muslim firefighter on leave for saying, “We have to start putting [cops] in body bags”: Robert Spencer

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

WalkCar personal transporter is small enough to fit in a bag: DigitalTrends
Grilled cheese sandwiches by mail: There’s now a subscription service for that: Mic Wright
Target Bets Big on Beacons: Pymnts

Cornucopia

#HostageOnTheVineyard: MOTUS
Heh: SDA
The Right Wing News 2016 GOP Presidential Candidate Survey For August: John Hawkins

Image:
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: Fight the Washington Cartel: TED CRUZ FOR PRESIDENT

QOTD: "A day after a posse of former White House aides torched Sen. Charles E. Schumer over his rejection of the Iran deal, Press Secretary Josh Earnest politely but firmly knocked the senior senator from New York.

Earnest wouldn’t go so far as ex-aides Dan Pfeiffer, Tommy Vietor and Jon Favreau in questioning Schumer’s ability to lead Democrats, but he left the door open to dumping Schumer, the heir apparent to Minority Leader Harry Reid, from the top of the Democratic ranks.

Earnest said, frostily, that the decision about Democratic leadership is “a question for Democratic senators.”

But, he added, “I certainly wouldn’t be surprised if there are individual members of the Senate Democratic Caucus that will consider the voting record of those who say they would like to lead the caucus.”" --Steven Dennis

Friday, August 07, 2015

MUY MACHO: The 9 Most Badass Sedans in Automotive History

If you're interested in tracking car news, you may want to check out BadBlue Car News, a real-time automotive news portal. A couple of recent articles spurred me to come up with this list, a purely personal set of choices representing what I consider the premiere badass sedans over the past few decades.

1984 Mercedes 190E 2.3-16
It's hard to express how different -- and badass -- the original macho sports sedan was. Back in the day, everyone stared at the 2.3-16 as it drove by. Cosworth designed the unique, for the time, 16-valve cylinder head. In 1983, the racing version of the 190E shattered multiple world records, including averaging 154 MPH over 30,000 miles.

1986 BMW M3
When I was a kid, I thought of this vehicle as a "drug dealer's car", which was a compliment. Not that I condone drug-dealing, nimrod, but the fact that it was truly a uniquely wicked-looking car. Airbags? Digital displays? Ha! You're so cute. Its puffy fenders and 6.9 0-to-60 were astoundingly radical in 1986; its wildly successful reign arguably made the business case for a whole spectrum of M models.

I DON’T TRUST TRUMP: The Donald Secretly Conspired with Bill Clinton Prior to Announcing Candidacy

The more I read about Donald Trump's history and track record, the more doubtful I become that he would be a legitimate change agent in Washington. In fact, he readily admits that he's been an eager crony capitalist, listing the politicians he's donated to in order to advance his business interests.

Then there are more recent and troubling disclosures. Exhibit A: "Donald Trump talked politics with Bill Clinton weeks before launching 2016 bid."
Former president Bill Clinton had a private telephone conversation in late spring with Donald Trump at the same time that the billionaire investor and reality-television star was nearing a decision to run for the White House, according to associates of both men.

Four Trump allies and one Clinton associate familiar with the exchange said that Clinton encouraged Trump’s efforts to play a larger role in the Republican Party and offered his own views of the political landscape.

...The talk with Clinton — the spouse of the Democratic presidential front-runner and one of his party’s preeminent political strategists — came just weeks before Trump jumped into the GOP race and surged to the front of the crowded Republican field.

The revelation of the call comes as many Republicans have begun criticizing Trump for his ties to Democrats, including past financial donations to the Clintons and their charitable foundation.
False flag, anyone?

Writing at The Federalist, Mollie Hemingway added some valuable data from the debate as context:

DOUG’S REPORT CARD: The First 2016 GOP Presidential Debate

What follows are my personal impressions of the initial 2016 debate. I've tried to fairly assign each candidate a letter grade based solely upon the night's performance, not my personal advocacy/animosity level for the candidate.

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

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Nation

GOP Debate Winners: Trump, Cruz, Huckabee, Christie: Dick Morris
Five 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. Lee
McConnell: 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’: Post
Huma 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 Owens
Cruz 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: AmInt
Obama 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, NoJitter
Lexus' 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 Glenn
Snopes.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
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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

By Lawrence Sellin

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

By Steve Watson

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

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Nation

President Chickenhawk: Iranian Rockets will Hit Israel If it Opposes Nuke Deal: WZ
And 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 Elder
Washington’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 Steyn
PP 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 Greibrok

Media

Social media ERUPTS at McConnell’s no shutdown pledge; read Trump’s book, ‘moron’: Joe Saunders
The 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: Scoop
Iran 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. Schulman
Obamanomics: 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 Fairburn
History’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!

The real science deniers are Democrats:
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

Post-racial, post-partisan healing. It's what I love most about this administration.

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.


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DHS Says ‘Path To Citizenship’ Will Help Fight Homegrown Terror

By Rachel Stoltzfoos

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

By Investigative Project on Terrorism

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

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Nation

Iran: U.S. Banned from Knowing Details of Iran Nuclear Inspection Agreement: Adam Kredo
FBI 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 Bruce
The 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 Westwood
It’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 Powers
Obama 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 Adams
O'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 Barbero
Filmmaker 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 Engelking
New York Times Capitalizes on 'Mobile Moments' for Tailored Ads: Emily Alford
Chinese VPN Service as Attack Platform?: Brian Krebs

Cornucopia

Happy Birthday Barry: MOTUS
Plunder & 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

By Jason Hart

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

Collected from the real-time news portal you may know as BadBlue News. You're welcome, America.

Data point 1:

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.
Data point 2:

All That’s Wrong With Washington in One Picture

By Against Crony Capitalism

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.

On the other hand it could be worse.

CAPITALISM COMIX: The $70K Minimum Wage

With a tip o' the cap to ZeroHedge:
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

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Nation

Majority of House Backs Resolution to Kill Iran Deal: Adam Kredo
Will 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 Sanchez
Coming 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 Westwood
Report: 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 Morrissey
Obama 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 Tower
Mother 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 Miller
U.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 Morran
The 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: Ace
All 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

According to their tax returns, it turns out that essentially all of the Clinton family's "charitable donations" were directed back to their own "charities".

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

By Nick Sorrentino

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?
This is what happens when government layers regulations on top of regulations. When it makes it very difficult to start businesses. When it encourages government dependence for electoral reasons. (It does. I hate that it does, but it does.) When government rewards companies which partner with politicians with taxpayer money and favors.This is what happens when the people running the show in Washington abandon the spirit of free enterprise, the spirit of freedom, and instead embrace the languid mediocrity of the welfare state.

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.)

Cue this story in USA Today: