Friday, August 14, 2015

I’M WARNING DEMOCRATS HERE AND NOW: Putting Obama Over Country Is Treason

By Daniel Greenfield

“I think it's a bad deal and I've said so for several weeks now. I think we need to put country ahead of party,” Senator Jim Webb said. "It troubles me when I see all this debate about whether this is disloyalty to the president or the Democratic Party.”

Webb is a Democrat and he joins a number of other Democrats in criticizing a bad deal that even Obama admitted will allow Iran to get nuclear weapons after a number of years.

Obama and his cronies have pursued an extraordinary campaign of vilification against Republicans and Democrats who dared to question the deal that will allow Iran to upgrade its nuclear program and obtain ICBM missiles, that will fund its terrorist activities around the world and even lift sanctions on terrorists like Anis Naccache, who engaged in nuclear proliferation, over European protests.

The apocalyptic rhetoric out of the White House is meant to shut down the debate. Threats of war and accusations of treason are not the language of an administration that is confident in its own arguments.

The Top 300 Conservative Websites, August 2015

Here are the latest standings of conservative news and opinion sites, which are ordered using their Alexa traffic rankings. Yes, some of these are center-right, libertarian, or more middle-of-the-road sites, but they are included because they do publish center-right opinion pieces on a regular basis.
RankWebsiteTraffic Rank
1foxnews.com196
2telegraph.co.uk221
3wsj.com317
4conservativetribune.com 336
5ijreview.com 356
6drudgereport.com 629
7westernjournalism.com 724
8nypost.com 844
9theblaze.com 984
10breitbart.com 1257
11zerohedge.com 1886
12wnd.com 2016
13youngcons.com 2205
14newsmax.com 2393
15washingtontimes.com 2969
16dailycaller.com 3268
17thehill.com 3298
18realclearpolitics.com 4561
19nationalreview.com 4651
20theweek.com 5088
21townhall.com 5755
22qpolitical.com 5796
23allenbwest.com 5853
24jpost.com 5896
25timesofisrael.com 6146
26pjmedia.com 6455
27military.com 6468
28investors.com 6768
29hotair.com 7031
30thefederalistpapers.org 7660
31reason.com 8227
32freebeacon.com 8265
33rightwingnews.com 8825
34washingtonexaminer.com 9144
35thepoliticalinsider.com 10108
36ocregister.com 10289
37freerepublic.com 10439
38nationalinterest.org 10675
39twitchy.com 10855
40weeklystandard.com 11308
41thegatewaypundit.com 11772
42dailysignal.com 11827
43madworldnews.com 12000
44cnsnews.com 12265
45americanthinker.com 12550
46thefederalist.com 12631
47newsbusters.org 12663
48rushlimbaugh.com 13843
49buzzpo.com 14385
50spectator.co.uk 16166
51blog.heritage.org16628
52lifenews.com 18200
53bizpacreview.com 18960
54therightscoop.com 19370
55powerlineblog.com 19946
56shoebat.com 20391
57debka.com 20618
58lucianne.com 20831
59joeforamerica.com 22252
60redstate.com 22472
61bearingarms.com 23140
62clashdaily.com 24015
64ace.mu.nu24483
64mypetjawa.mu24483
64rhymeswithright.mu.nu24483
66the-diplomat.com 25280
67wattsupwiththat.com 25770
68scotusblog.com 26169
69truthrevolt.org 28330
70jihadwatch.org 28352
71theconservativetreehouse.com 30964
72frontpagemag.com 31230
73mrconservative.com 33127
74weaselzippers.us 33322
75firstthings.com 34028
76fas.org 35270
77personalliberty.com 35486
78creators.com 35977
79freedomoutpost.com 36792
80universalfreepress.com 37616
81takimag.com 37726
82strategypage.com 39663
83mises.org 41038
84theamericanconservative.com 41506
85downtrend.com 41655
86steynonline.com 43206
87spectator.org 43372
88legalinsurrection.com 46953
89eaglerising.com 49345
90judicialwatch.org 49479
91woundedamericanwarrior.com 49785
92aei.org 51070
93everyjoe.com 51955
94commentarymagazine.com 54289
95badblue.com 55008
96eagnews.org 55084
97gatestoneinstitute.org 58134
98teaparty.org 59442
99market-ticker.org 60324
100thenewamerican.com 64015
101patriotupdate.com 64097
102dcgazette.com 65943
103algemeiner.com 65993
104humanevents.com 66942
105onenewsnow.com 69428
106watchdog.org 70196
107anncoulter.com 72225
108freedomworks.org 72514
109city-journal.org 73038
110libertynews.com 74602
111michellemalkin.com 74777
112defensetech.org 75443
113canadafreepress.com 75841
114rasmussenreports.com 76571
115althouse.blogspot.com 76769
116memeorandum.com 79629
117amren.com 79978
118ricochet.com 80324
119numbersusa.com 82375
120imprimis.hillsdale 82588
121cagle.com 86691
122liberallogic101.com 90807
123marklevinshow.com 92026
124daybydaycartoon.com 95519
125clarionproject.org 96590
126conservative-headlines.com 96925
127vdare.com 97833
128longwarjournal.org 104745
129conservativereview.com 107046
130the-american-interest.com 109906
131foxnewsinsider.com 111900
132thetrumpet.com 114907
133linkiest.com 115866
134publicintegrity.org 116952
135libertyunyielding.com 118696
136theothermccain.com 124981
137iotwreport.com 128565
138israelhayom.com 130393
139cato-at-liberty.org 131626
140moonbattery.com 133455
141atr.org 138250
142hoover.org 139813
143borderlandbeat.com 143287
144gotnews.com 144535
145cis.org 146269
146danielpipes.org 149085
147worldaffairsjournal.org 155376
148thisainthell.us 157540
149hannity.com 158369
150cowboybyte.com 160008
151sharylattkisson.com 163582
152cafehayek.com 167464
153redalertpolitics.com 172552
154mrc.org 176738
155americandigest.org 178088
156muckrock.com 178760
157againstcronycapitalism.org 180681
158interpretermag.com 189267
159maggiesfarm.anotherdotcom.com 193223
160smalldeadanimals.com 195982
161memri.org 200252
162soopermexican.com 204255
163patterico.com 204600
164thecommentator.com 206862
165gatesofvienna.net 208366
166jammiewf.com 214099
167moelane.com 215279
168independentsentinel.com 215482
169jpupdates.com 221381
170thetower.org 224500
171reagancoalition.com 232301
172westernrifleshooters.wordpress.com 237099
17320committee.com 242301
174dailysurge.com 259127
175creepingsharia.wordpress.com 263045
176aim.org 266472
177mediaequalizer.com 266509
178sultanknish.blogspot.com 267725
179whitehousedossier.com 267821
180conservatives4palin.com 275570
181coyoteblog.com 276656
182dennisprager.com 296143
183directorblue.blogspot.com 297134
184progressivestoday.com 299071
185volokh.com 308358
186winteryknight.wordpress 308733
187shark-tank.net 326379
188ihatethemedia.com 329597
189wizbangblog.com 330820
190sayanythingblog.com 331013
191floppingaces.net 355665
192politichicks.com 358601
193centerforsecuritypolicy.org 361119
194danaloeschradio.com 364226
195theobjectivestandard.com 373112
196thehayride.com 374355
197blurbrain.com 377488
198tammybruce.com 382671
199poorrichardsnews.com 386145
200proteinwisdom.com 399344
201redstatements.co 417377
202dcwhispers.com 418226
203donsurber.blogspot.com 425369
204justoneminute.typepad.com 427140
205newenglishreview.org 430544
206yidwithlid.blogspot.com 431615
207drrichswier.com 432873
208investigativeproject.org 440698
209refugeeresettlementwatch.wordpress.com 442253
210gaypatriot.net 442608
211datechguyblog.com 454021
212fed-soc.org 460982
213cei.org 461633
214libertylawsite.org 461754
215mediatrackers.org 462053
216capitalismmagazine.com 463220
217mackinac.org 467659
218angrywhitedude.com 469510
219www.fairus.org 478974
220climateaudit.org 502314
221collegeinsurrection.com 505431
222bookwormroom.com 506905
223thecampofthesaints.org 532840
224blackfive.net 544621
225capoliticalreview.com 553262
226israelmatzav.blogspot.com 560814
227atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com 572232
228imao.us 572412
229thepiratescove.us 576457
230theminorityreportblog.com 577313
231americanpowerblog.blogspot.com 584510
232qando.net 584578
233fireandreamitchell.com 592269
234pointsandfigures.com 596921
235gunwatch.blogspot.com608690
236conservativehq.com 647145
237chicagoboyz.net 648241
238vladtepesblog.com 648563
239camera.org 654843
240victorygirlsblog.com 662881
241freeenterprise.com 681690
242trevorloudon.com 703992
243henrydampier.com 733690
244zombietime.com 735780
245michellesmirror.com 750130
246noisyroom.net 756868
247newsrealblog.com 789600
248freedomslighthouse.net 802848
249sondrakistan.com 813392
250reaganiterepublicanresistance.blogspot.com 818482
251sweetness-light.com820976
252nakeddc.com 824840
253dailypundit.com 827452
254americanglob.com 843389
255ashbrook.org 856012
256rightpundits.com 869749
257lonelyconservative.com 871585
258conservativedailynews.com 880366
259peekinthewell.net 883899
260intellectualconservative.com 889175
261scaredmonkeys.com 890858
262cfif.org 914315
263publiusforum.com 934460
264coldfury.com 942150
265breitbart.tv 951551
266carolineglick.com 953329
267claremont.org 957693
268thezman.com 968418
269theblogmocracy.com 973171
270babalublog.com 993784
271nlpc.org 1086080
272thepunditpress.com 1119771
273thediplomad.blogspot.com 1135234
274formerspook.blogspot.com 1143881
275jenkuznicki.com 1151742
276dougpowers.com 1158098
277maggiesnotebook.com 1166978
278curmudgeonlyskeptical.blogspot.com 1167977
279therightplanet.com 1177530
280rightwingriot.com 1184234
281captainsjournal.com 1188353
282iowahawk.typepad.com 1201130
283globalguerrillas.typepad.com 1221855
284economicnoise.com 1236182
285hyscience.com 1248770
286themellowjihadi.com 1267266
287menrec.com 1273933
288sweasel.com 1292317
289amnation.com 1295935
290suckersonparade.blogspot.com1297091
291pocketfullofliberty.com 1307003
292hillbuzz.org 1308070
293the-american-journal.com 1321300
294larryelder.com 1465286
295nicedeb.wordpress.com 1485650
296faustasblog.com 1487310
297nicedoggie.net 1499978
298conservativehideout.com 1509924
299thehillarydaily.com 1527608
300astuteblogger.blogspot.com1664275
Update: As usual, I missed a few sites: JoeMiller.us should be around #147.
 
Related:

The Top 150 Conservative Websites, April 2014.

The Top 150 Conservative Websites, November 2013.

The Top 150 Conservative Websites, June 2013.

The Top 150 Conservative Websites, Feburary 2013.

The Top 150 Conservative Websites, October 2012.

The Top 150 Conservative Websites, July 2012.

Larwyn's Linx: Dems in Full Panic Mode Over Clinton Email Scandal

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Nation

Dems in Full Panic Mode Over Clinton Email Scandal: JWF
The Countless Crimes of Hillary Clinton: Special Prosecutor Needed Now: Sidney Powell
Hillary’s emails show she sought info on how to delete emails permanently: Howard Portnoy

Florida Dem Says No to Iran Deal, to Intro Bill to Authorize Military Force: Bridget Johnson
Obama Opposes Legislation to Fix the VA: Susan Brown
Trump aside, Democrats’ Bernie Sanders troubles are just beginning: Jonah Goldberg

Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump in the Mirror: Erick Erickson
John Kasich, the anti-conservative, cuts into Jeb Bush: RS
Christie giving serious consideration to dropping out: FAM

The Reformation, Reconciliation, and Revenge of Al Gore: Joe Cunningham
What was the Point of GM Share Buyback?: Mike Modica
Mission accomplished in Barstow: Mike Lamb

Economy

The Collapse of California: James Kirkpatrick
Hillary’s Plan Makes College More Unaffordable: Stephen Moore
Immigrant Population Hits Record 42.1 Million in Second Quarter of 2015: CIS

Scandal Central

Clinton's "Inner Circle" May Have Stripped Classification Markers from Documents, Illegally: Ace
Tech company which maintained Hillary's secret server was sued for illegal access: DailyMail
Hillary Clinton protected herself and left America exposed: Exam

Will Huma Abedin Survive the Clinton Scandal Vortex? : Brendan Bordelon
Chapter From Book Hillary Clinton Borrowed: “How to Delete Something So It Stays Deleted”: JWF
Conservative video-maker James O’Keefe: I was targeted by DHS: Jerry Markon, WaPo

Climate & Energy

Geologist Who Predicted EPA Spill: 'They Just Didn't Think': Breitbart
The New Sunspot Data … and Satellite Sea Levels: Willis Eschenbach
"Dramatic Cooling In The Arctic”, Says Former NOAA Meteorologist: Principia Scientific

Media

Stem Express injunction tossed by court: RS
Michael Bloomberg: We Need To Disarm Minorities: Dana Loesch
Straight Outta Whitewash: Michelle Malkin

World

Mexico To Trump: No, We Won’t Pay For Your Wall: Doug Mataconis
An open letter to John Kerry, Secretary of State: Guillermo Martinez
US should consider deploying ground troops to Iraq: Army general: World Affairs

Orlando Airport To Build $250,000 Muslim Prayer Room: Downtrend
Great Moments in Socialism: SDA
Cold War Disaster: The Loss of USS PUEBLO: The XX Committee (2012)

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

A Congressman Goes to DEF CON: Patrick Tucker
Sixth Undercover Planned Parenthood Video Released: Ken Meyer
Real estate site helps house-hunters Airbnb before they buy: Springwise

Cornucopia

Trump and RedState: Can We Recalibrate?: Erick Erickson
Yes, Target, I Do Want My Daughter To Conform To Her Gender: Matt Walsh
The Bill Clinton of His Time: Marathon

Image: Kerry to See U.S. Flag Fly Over Cuba Embassy After 54 Years
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: Ready for a Conservative? TED CRUZ FOR PRESIDENT

QOTD: "At this point Mr. Secretary [John Kerry] there is only one thing you can do to avoid making this trip [to Cuba, the first such trip in 70 years] the disaster that it already is. You could, if you truly believe in the principles of what our founding fathers said in Philadelphia more than 200 years ago, demand to see the Cuban dissidents [imprisoned and tortured by the Castro regime].

Go shake hands with them and say that freedom-loving Americans believe in their cause. Give them hope for a better tomorrow. Show them that the United States truly is looking for a day when Cuba will be a democracy again." --Guillermo Martinez

Thursday, August 13, 2015

IF I WERE TREY GOWDY...

If I were Trey Gowdy and actually concerned with the future of the Republic, here's the statement I'd make:

Ladies and gentlemen of the press:

I'm about to lose my job as the chairman of the House Select Investivative Committee on Benghazi. I'm about to lose my office in the Capitol Building and get relegated to Melvin's office in the basement. I'm about to be ridiculed on ABC, CBS, NBC and the pages of Politico.

I can predict this with absolute certainty because I'm about to reveal the dirty, ugly secret of Washington: if you disturb the status quo, whether you are a Democrat or a Republican, you will be crushed.

The elites in DC -- I call them the Beltway One Percenters -- don't give a flying monkey poop what the people think. Representative government has become corporatist government. And that goes for Democrats and Republicans alike.

Ever wonder why Hillary Clinton's long history of felonious malfeasance (an easy prosecution, I can assure you) hasn't led to criminal charges?

Easy answer: Democrats and Republicans alike are protecting her, because public sector unions, corporate cronies, and other rentseekers carry far more influence than do the people.

Term limits be damned: my suggestion is even simpler. A full term in the House should be three months; and nine months in the Senate. It would cut down on the election cycles, on the fundraising, and -- most importantly -- recidivism. The Internet has empowered voters with more information than the Framers could ever imagine. Faster election cycles for our representatives, I'm now convinced, would tilt the balance of power back to the people.

Plus, it would distract members of Congress from legislating on all but the most urgent of matters. It would get them out of our undershorts, like legislating on our toilet paper and lightbulbs.

Every member of Congress needs to be looking over their shoulder for the voter, every day. And the special interests would be hard-pressed to get priority over the interests of the electorate.

That's why a Senator like Ted Cruz is so popular. He dares to speak truth to the Beltway Elite.

So think about it. Let me know your thoughts in the comments.

Sincerely, Trey Gowdy, soon to be writing to you from the House Basement.
 
 

WELL, AT LEAST THE DHS FINALLY STARTED PROFILING: Problem is, they’re only targeting conservatives

James O'Keefe, an investigative reporter with Project Veritas, crossed the border in 2014 dressed as Osama Bin Laden. Since the video showing his crossing was posted on YouTube, an apparently embarrassed DHS has targeted O'Keefe for interrogation at least a half-dozen times.

It all started in August 2014 when O’Keefe donned green fatigues and an Osama bin Laden costume and sneaked across the U.S. border to Mexico and then back into Texas, a stunt cited by Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) during congressional hearings. His point, O’Keefe said in an interview Wednesday, was to “show that our elected officials were lying to the American people” by saying the border is secure.

But he may have messed with the wrong bureaucrats, since the powerful DHS — the third-largest Cabinet department — controls border security. Ever since, O’Keefe says, he has been stopped and questioned at length by U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers each of the five times he has tried to reenter the United States. The questions, he says have been overly intrusive, covering everything from his business operations and what his next investigative project will be to his political views.

“It is our contention that this is retaliation for our journalism along the Mexican border,” O’Keefe said. “It’s troubling that they are doing this to a citizen reporter. … These questions have nothing to do with national security or border issues or smuggling narcotics into the country. They are questions that they would never ask a Washington Post reporter, that they would never ask NBC News"...

In other words, DHS is profiling investigative journalists, but not those who actually penetrate America's porous southern borders with intent to smuggle drugs, or humans, or weapons, or actual weapons of mass destruction.

Here's a thought experiment for even the most dimwitted of drones.

Imagine James O'Keefe had brandished a 33-round magazine like NBC's dimwitted hairpiece known as David Gregory did on national televsion.

Do you think he'd avoid prosecution as Gregory did? </Rhetorical>


Hat tip: BadBlue News.
 

Federal Judge Orders State Department to Report on Status of Hillary Email Server by... Friday

The invaluable investigators at Judicial Watch continue to perform the Congressional oversight duties that Darrell Issa, Trey Gowdy, John Boehner, and the rest of the feckless GOP leadership hacks refuse to do. That is, actually see some tangible results related to the serial perfidy of Hillary Clinton and the entire Obama administration.

...Judge Emmet Sullivan today ordered the State Department to file by noon, Friday information about what it is doing to search Hillary Clinton’s email server now in the custody of the Justice Department and FBI. The court also reiterated its directive that the State Department disclose additional information about where government records may reside. The order is the result of a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit that seeks records about the controversial employment status of Huma Abedin, Clinton’s former deputy chief of staff (Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of State (No. 1:13-cv-01363)). The lawsuit was reopened because of revelations about Hillary Clinton’s email records...

...Late last night, the State Department filed correspondence in response to another order by Judge Sullivan requiring the State Department to report on his directive to take steps to ensure that Mrs. Clinton, Ms. Abedin, and Clinton aide Cheryl Mills did not destroy government records. The filing included a letter from Hillary Clinton’s lawyer David Kendall that read in part:

[W]e have voluntarily provided to the Department of Justice on August 6, 2015, the .pst file containing electronic copies of the 55,000 pages of emails on a thumb drive (along with two copies), which had been securely stored in my possession, after receiving from the Department of Justice an assurance that it would maintain this file in an appropriately secure manner and the Department’s opinion that such maintenance would satisfy any preservation obligations I am under. Similarly, Platte River Networks is today providing to the Department of Justice the server and related equipment on which emails to and from Secretary Clinton’s clintonemail.com were stored from 2009 to 2013 and which PRN took possession of in 2013. This is following the Department of Justice’s assurances to us and counsel for PRN that it would maintain the server equipment in an appropriately secure manner. The Department also gave counsel its opinion that such maintenance would satisfy any preservation obligations we have.

“This latest order shows the courts are expecting quick action on Mrs. Clinton’s email system and that the Justice Department won’t be able to bury her emails,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. “And her lawyer’s letter in response to the court’s orders shows Mrs. Clinton continues to withhold material information from the court. It also looks as if Mrs. Clinton is still withholding emails from the FBI and Justice Department.”

I hope you're sitting down to hear this bit of breaking news: Hillary Clinton hasn't been fully forthcoming in answering questions about her secret email server and the reasons for its mysterious degaussed hard drive.


Hat tip: BadBlue News.
 

Larwyn’s Linx: Cruz, Sessions: How Many ‘Homegrown’ Terrorists Were Immigrants?

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Nation

Cruz, Sessions: How Many ‘Homegrown’ Terrorists Were Immigrants?: Joel Gehrke
Gowdy: Hillary Should Be Treated As Petreaus Was, Equal Under The Law: Katie Pavlich
Mark Levin explains why Hillary's INTENT doesn't matter in email scandal: Scoop

Lunatic Sanders Opens Sizable Lead Over Granny Clinton in New Hampshire: JWF
Ted Cruz refuses to play ‘good Republican’: RS
Yet Another Tuitiion-Exploding Education Subsidy, This Time From Hillary: Cal Thomas

Kerry: Accept Deal Or Dollar Won’t Be Reserve Currency: S&L
Federal Agencies Fight for Warrantless Access to Emails: Veronique De Rugy
30 Homes, Cars in San Antonio Jewish Community Hit With Antisemitic Graffiti: Shiryn

Donald Trump for Priceline Negotiator: Stuart Schneiderman
John Kasich Runs From His Own Record: Erick Erickson
The Futility of a Third Bush: Brent Bozell

Economy

Not Post-Industrial: Henry Dampier
Obama’s “Community Schools” Aim to Replace the Family: Alex Newman
On The Yuan Devaluation: WRSA

Scandal Central

All data gone from Hillary Clinton’s email server: FAM
Report: Hillary Aide REMOVED ‘Top Secret’ Markings Upping The Ante To A FELONY: Shoebat
Did Bill Clinton’s Aides Access Hillary’s Server?: Eileen McGann

The Spy Satellite Secrets in Hillary’s Emails: John R. Schindler
Hillary’s Private E-Mail Server Contains Exactly what we Thought it would: RS
Emails May Show Hillary’s Connection To The Muslim Brotherhood via Huma Abedin: Walid Shoebat

Climate & Energy

EPA Is “Upset” About Three Million Gallon Animas River Spill: John Hinderaker
Mizz McCarthy Regrets: Geoffrey Norman
Radical Marxist Politico Cartoonist Blames Colorado EPA Disaster on the Tea Party: Progs Today

Media

Carly Up, Trump Down: Rasmussen
The One I Got Wrong: Erick Erickson
Mark Levin's Plunder and Deceit Debuts at #1 on NYT Bestseller List: Stephen K. Bannon

World

Obama's Betrayals: Willfully Supporting Al-Qaeda and the Muslim Brotherhood: Robert Spencer
Compromised – Secretary Kerry’s ties to Tehran revealed: New English Review
Massive Explosion Rocks Chinese Port City, Martial Law Declared (17 Dead, 32 Critical, 100s Injured): ZH

Voter ID Works in Mexico … It Could Also Work In LA and the US: Stephen Frank
Another Bailout Won’t Keep Greece in the Eurozone: ForPol
New York Lawsuit for Victims of Terror Goes After Kerry, Lew and Unfrozen Iranian Assets: Eliezer Sherman

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

How ISIS Infiltrated My Facebook Account: My Warning To Other Conservatives: X Tribune
Periscope Has 10 Million Users (Kinda): Kurt Wagner
FCC Hits A-hole Robocallers With $2.94 Million Fine: Chris Mills

Cornucopia

Klintonerdämmerung: NoisyRm
Hillary’s Email Server Chronology: “Don’t Shoot! I’m Just the Piano Player.”: MOTUS
The Richest Zip Codes in America in One Map: Jeff Desjardins

Image: The Richest Zip Codes in America in One Map
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: Protect the Rising Generations: TED CRUZ FOR PRESIDENT

QOTD: "The lady out in front of the Department of Justice wears a blindfold and holds a set of scales and she does so that she treats everybody the same whether it's me or you, whether it's General Petreaus, whether it's a cabinet level official. I was not part of the prosecution team or the defense team for David Petreaus, I don't know all of the facts. I know this, the same rule ought to apply people irrespective of their station in life.

So, I'm going to have to count on the Bureau [FBI] and [Director] Jim Comey has a reputation for even handedness and fairness. The same folks who investigated and prosecuted General Petreaus are looking into the current allegations [regarding Hillary Clinton] with respect to classified information and if the facts are the same then I expect the result to be the same." --Rep. Trey Gowdy

Wednesday, August 12, 2015

THE PIE CHART FROM HELL: Your Future, Illustrated

Spotted at WRSA comes this ominous chart:


Read more at Jim Sinclair's shop.
 
 

YOU KNOW THE NEW YORK TIMES IS ECSTATIC: Mark Levin's PLUNDER AND DECEIT Debuts at #1 in Non-Fiction

By Threshold Editions:

Mark R. Levin’s PLUNDER AND DECEIT will debut at #1 on the August 23, 2015 New York Times Hardcover Non-Fiction Bestsellers list. Published on August 4, 2015, this is Levin’s fourth consecutive #1 New York Times bestseller.

With PLUNDER AND DECEIT, Levin has struck a chord with readers through his message that a ubiquitous federal government is threatening the liberty and prosperity of the citizenry, and in particular younger people, which Levin describes as the rising generation. As is his hallmark, through his exemplary scholarship – in which he draws from history, philosophy, and evidence -- Levin powerfully analyzes significant issues threatening the well-being of the rising generation and future generations. In each chapter, Levin uniquely and thoroughly exposes the calamitous consequences of governmental policies, as he deconstructs one disastrous federal policy after another -- from the massive federal debt, out-of-control entitlements, the failing educational system, to open-ended immigration, job-killing minimum wage laws, anti-capitalist environmental regulations, and usurpations of the constitutional system. In the end, Levin calls for a new civil rights movement in which the rising generation stirs itself to act in its own defense and against the exploitation of statists, big government, and their devastating public policies.

Mark R. Levin, nationally syndicated talk-radio host and president of Landmark Legal Foundation, is the author of Liberty and Tyranny, the 38-week New York Times bestseller that spent three months at #1 and sold more than one million copies; and the #1 New York Times bestsellers The Liberty Amendments and Ameritopia [Ed: Graphic Novel Version Here]. His books Men in Black and Rescuing Sprite were also New York Times and national bestsellers. He has worked as an attorney in the private sector and as a top adviser to several members of President Reagan’s cabinet. He holds a B.A. from Temple University, where he graduate magna cum laude and Phil Beta Kappa, and a J.D. from Temple University School of Law School.

Editor's note: For my review of Plunder and Deceit please click here.
 

ALINSKY TACTIC #5,034: Hillary Blames the Clinton Global Graft Initiative and Email Scandal on... Judicial Watch

No, really, she did.

In an interview with the Mexican government's official broadcasting system, which is aligned with the Beltway One-Percenters' policies of open borders and the breakdown of the civil society, Hillary asserted that she has done absolutely nothing wrong.

Conducting official government business on a private email server, transferring classified files over insecure networks, violating the National Records Act, allowing sensitive White House communications to be compromised by foreign entities, running the Clinton Global Graft Initiative to generate nine figures in income during her term as secretary of state, and then deleting the evidence... well, it's the fault of the Vast Rightwing Conspiracy a small group of investigative journalists, you see:

MES: Let’s talk about a subject that seems that it’s very difficult to go away. And that’s the e-mail scandal. Even though you swore under penalty of perjury that you have turned over all e-mails that are related to any kind of, you know, federal record. Judicial Watch is still claiming that it’s not enough. Do you think that at the least that this has created the perception that you’re hiding something?

Larwyn's Linx: FBI Gets Thumb Drives of Hillary Emails, Including “Top Secret” Ones

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Nation

FBI Gets Thumb Drives of Hillary Emails, Including “Top Secret” Ones: Deanna Fisher
Why Did Taxpayers Foot The Bill For Maintaining Hillary’s Private Server?: THD
FBI Seizes Hillary Emails; Revelations of TOP SECRET emails: Treehouse

Traitor-In-Chief: Sara Noble
Trump? Hillary Ignored for Saying All Cops, Judges are Racists: Publius
Breaking: Bernie Pulls Ahead of Hillary in NH Poll: Steven Hayward

Academic Fascism: Walter Williams
The Smart Way To Deal With The Trump Phenomenon: Camp o' the Saints
The Nihilistic Populism of Donald Trump: Walter Russell Mead

The Three Republican Members of the Fighting Caucus: Leon H. Wolf
Cruz may be angling to snatch up Rand Paul’s supporters: Jazz Shaw
Ted Cruz energizes conservative base in Tenn.: Jill Cowan

Economy

Illegal Alien Family Detainees Sue US For Untold Millions: S&L
Valerie Jarrett Made $200K On Land Deal Via Tax Break She Opposes: WFB
My, How You've Grown: iOTWreport

Scandal Central

Colorado Company Visited as Part of FBI Investigation into Hillary Clinton emails: LI
Hillary, Huma and Cheryl Mills Blow Off Court-Appointed Deadline: Ann-Marie Murrell
FBI SEIZES Hillary Thumbdrive, Emails; Private Server Will Be Surrendered To DOJ: Sooper

UW Experiments Involved Fetal Tissue from Supplier Tied to Planned Parenthood: Brian Sikma
The Cheating Goes On: Sol Stern
Ohio Judges Can't Choose Not to Marry Couples: Mark Hemingway

Climate & Energy

REVIEW: Steyn’s scathing new book about Michael Mann: “A Disgrace To The Profession”: WUWT
What a Piece of Work on Mann!: Mark Steyn
Echo chamber of outrage: Ars attends a climate skeptics’ summit: Scott K. Johnson

Media

The Extreme Party: Ben Shapiro
Laura Ingraham Gets Punked By Donald Trump: Dan McLaughlin
Why Is Trump Following A Nazi Twitter Account?: Mike Peters

ATF Denies Being an ‘Agency’ to Avoid FOIA Compliance Requirements: David Codrea
In GOP field, Ted Cruz stands alone by refusing to bash Donald Trump: Ben Bullard
Media fact-checking Ted Cruz's father now: T. Becket Adams

World

No Means No: Keep Gitmo Jihadists Out of U.S.A.: Michelle Malkin
Gowdy: Clinton email bombshell a 'serious national security issue': Pete Kasperowicz
Taliban condemns execution of tribal elders by ISIS: News24

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

CDC Stumbles As Legionnaires’ Deaths Climb: Betsy McCaughey
EPA won’t face fines for polluting rivers with orange muck: Valerie Richardson
New Kingdom Mummies Re-Examined: Archaeology

Cornucopia

Clinton-appointed judge dismisses RICO case against Clintons: FreedomWatch
What Gift Do You Buy for Newlyweds Who Are Planning to Join ISIS?: Glob
The Coddling of the American Mind: MagFarm

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QOTD: "Hillary Clinton has directed her aides to hand over to the Justice Department a private e-mail server that she used during her tenure as secretary of state, her presidential campaign said Tuesday... [she] has also asked that the department be given a thumb drive that contains copies of her e-mails...

...Clinton's promise to to hand over the server and thumb drive came after the Intelligence Community Inspector General [said they] had identified materials in two out of four suspect e-mails that had gone through her private server that "include information classified up to ‘TOP SECRET//SI/TK//NOFORN.'"--Jennifer Epstein

Tuesday, August 11, 2015

CARTOON O’ THE DAY: The Obama Clean Energy Plan

Via the world's finest political cartoonist, Michael Ramirez:

You can follow Mr. Ramirez on Twitter at @RamirezToons.

You'd be foolish not to.

Just sayin'.

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WHITE HOUSE: China's been hacking our emails since, oh, around the time Hillary began using her own insecure email server

Completely unexpected news o' the day: it would appear that Red China's cyber-warriors have been hacking sensitive White House, State Department, and related diplomatic emails since -- you guessed it -- Hillary Clinton began operating her own private email server to conduct official government business.

Chinese cyberspies have been reading the private emails of Obama-administration officials and "top national security and trade officials" since 2010, according to a senior administration official and a top-secret NSA document obtained by NBC.

The email espionage — codenamed "Dancing Panda" by the US before being dubbed "Legion Amethyst" — was detected in April 2010... "The intrusion into personal emails was still active at the time of the briefing and, according to the senior official, is still going on," NBC reported... "Dancing Panda" has successfully attacked at least 600 targets over the last five years, according to NBC.

The period overlaps with Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server for work-related correspondences while she served as secretary of state from 2009 to 2013...

In fact, a wide variety of cybersecurity experts had claimed that it was a virtual certainty that Clinton's private email server had been hacked by China, Russia, and Iran.

As even the ludicrous DNC (and GOP establishment) newsletter known as Politico opined in March:

Larwyn's Linx: Transparently Predictable Political “Tripwires”

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Nation

Transparently Predictable Political “Tripwires”: Treehouse
The Candidates on the Issues, Compared: Conservative Review
Schumer: Iran Inspections Regime Has “Lots Of Holes In It”: LI

Obama vs. the Jews: Daniel Greenfield
Obama Admits He’s Been Lying About Deal Blocking Iran’s Nuke Aspirations: RWN
Responses to the President’s Arguments for the Nuclear Deal: Dennis Prager

The Disgusting Big Lie About Donald Trump: Jeffrey Lord
Trump is No Friend of Free Market Health Care: David Catron
Donald Trump is just like President Obama where it counts: Exam

Ted Cruz Lists Five Things He’ll Do On His First Day in Office: LI
Regarding Jeb Bush and Me: Erick Erickson
A Debatable ‘Debate’: Thomas Sowell

Ferguson looters stealing everything from milk to dogs: FAM
Driver breaks through protesters barricading I-70 in Ferguson: Twitchy
Armed Oath-Keepers Have Shown Up in Ferguson: Sooper

Scandal Central

Team Obama Goes Full Anti-Semite on Schumer: JWF
Special Assistant to Obama Arrested for Shooting at Her Boyfriend: JWF
Killed By an Illegal Alien: Police Chief: “Blood Trail from DC To Bedroom of Marilyn Pharis”: Treehouse

Climate & Energy

EPA causes major environmental disaster: will it fine itself and fire those involved?: WUWT

Media

NBC Poll: Cruz, Fiorina, Rubio Big Winners of Debate, Not Trump: EveryJoe
New NBC Post-Debate Poll Shows Ted Cruz At No. 2, But The Sunday Shows Stiffed Him: NoisyRm
Ted Cruz: ‘Our fundraising EXPLODED after the debate’: Scoop

If It Bleeds, It Leads: Mark Steyn
Charles Murray: America’s Government Is ‘Irreparably Broken’: Vlad Tepes
QQQ: MagFarm

World

Liberal Jewish Mag Accuses WH Of ‘Jew Baiting’ To Slam Critics Of Iran Nuke Deal: Tammy Bruce
Inspired by Oscar Schindler, Jewish Businessman Rescuing Christian, Yazidi Girls From ISIS: Shiryn
Hero SAS sniper saves father and eight-year-old son from being beheaded by ISIS maniac: Nick Gutteridge

Islamic State Raids in Macedonia: The XX Committee
Understanding the Islamic State’s Treatment of Women: Caitlin Anglemier and Kyle Shideler
Obama’s DOJ quietly gives plea deal to Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry’s murderer: ProWis

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

The Cost Shifting Economy: The Z Man
Study Suggests Carbs Fueled Human Evolution: Archaeology
Road Unearthed at Battle of Fulford Site: Archaeology

Cornucopia

My Tank: Driving the Sherman M-4A3: Automnews
9 Sexiest Ronda Rousey Pics, #6 will knock you out: DC Gazette
How Far We’ve Come: “If It Bleeds…”: MOTUS

Image: Team Obama Goes Full Anti-Semite on Schumer
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QOTD: "Obama is using every anti-Jewish ‘dog whistle’ he can think of to slam American Jewish critics of the Iran nuke deal: ‘Dual loyalties,’ ‘moneyed interests,’ ‘Jewish lobby,’ ‘billionaires,’ hoping Congress evaluates the deal fairly “not based on lobbying, but based on what’s in the national interests of the United States of America.”

Our Divider-in-Chief, who has done so much to harm race relations in the U.S., is now dividing Americans based on religion." --Shifra