Friday, August 21, 2015

Hillary Email Scandal News Roundup, Panicked Liberal Media Edition

When Hillary Clinton claimed that her use of a private email server was legal, it turns out (///shocked face///) that she was full of bullion. Federal Judge Emmet Sullivan, a Clinton appointee, says otherwise according to the mouthpiece of the Vast Rightwing Conspiracy known as The New York Times:

A federal judge on Thursday said that Hillary Rodham Clinton did not comply with government policies in her exclusive use of a personal email account while she was secretary of state, challenging her longstanding position that she abided by the rules.

At a hearing for a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against the State Department, the judge, Emmet G. Sullivan of Federal District Court for the District of Columbia, said that “we wouldn’t be here today if the employee had followed government policy.”

Judge Sullivan also opened the door for the F.B.I., which is investigating whether there was classified information on Mrs. Clinton’s account, to expand its inquiry to pursue emails that she may have deleted. The judge ordered the State Department to ask the F.B.I. to give it any emails recovered from Mrs. Clinton’s private server that were not already in the State Department’s possession or that may be related to the lawsuit.


The New Yorker worries that Hillary could face criminal charges over her various misdeeds:

LEGACY: Obama will leave Democrats in their worst shape since the Great Depression—even if Hillary wins

Writing at Politico, veteran liberal pundit Jeff Greenfield offers some sobering reality bombs for the treasonous Democrat Party:

Even as Democrats look favorably ahead to the presidential landscape of 2016, the strength in the Electoral College belies huge losses across much of the country. In fact, no president in modern times has presided over so disastrous a stretch for his party, at almost every level of politics...


...The party’s record over the past six years has made clear that when Barack Obama leaves office in January 2017 the Democratic Party will have ceded vast sections of the country to Republicans, and will be left with a weak bench of high-level elected officials. It is, in fact, so bleak a record that even if the Democrats hold the White House and retake the Senate in 2016, the party’s wounds will remain deep and enduring, threatening the enactment of anything like a “progressive” agenda across much of the nation and eliminating nearly a decade’s worth of rising stars who might help strengthen the party in elections ahead...

Larwyn's Linx: NBC Says Democrats Believe Clinton Staffers In Denial About Server Scandal

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Nation

NBC News: Democrats Believe Clinton Staffers In Denial About Server Scandal: Lid
‘She Deglided, Um, Because She Didn’t…’: #Hillary2016: Camp o' the Saints
Liberal Double Standards and Planned Parenthood: David Limbaugh

Iran is Already Violating the Nuke Deal: Joseph Klein
FNC exclusively obtains copy of agreement between Iran and IAEA: Gretawire
Mitch McConnell is Professor Chaos: Joe Cunningham

Could Ted Cruz End Up as the Establishment Candidate?: Scott McKay
Force Karl Rove to choose between Cruz and Trump: Jeffrey A. Randall
Trump Rally In AL Moves from 14K Seat Venue To 50K Seat Stadium: RightPundit

RWN Interview with Donald Trump: RWN
Trump vs. Birthright Citizenship : Ann Coulter
Chart Lists Terrorists in U.S. Due to Lax Immigration Policies: JW

Scandal Central

Sources: Formal Criminal Investigation of Clinton Coming Soon: Nice Deb
Hillary Clinton’s Team Consciously Violated US Secrecy Laws: The XX Committee
Why did Hillary have to desperately wipe yoga routines and wedding plans?: Flopping Aces

Climate & Energy

EPA Causes Second Spill Disaster in GA: Lead Levels 20,000 TIMES Above Normal: GWP
George Soros Is Buying Up Coal Stocks On The Cheap: LoneCon
The Sound of Settled Science: SDA

Media

Even When Announcing His Grave Illness Jimmy Carter Spews Vile Anti-Semitism: Lid
A Jerusalem grocer answers Tom Friedman on Iran: Matzav
Carly Fiorina Fails to Disavow Her Praise of Islam in Post 9/11 Speech, Pushes Conservatives Away: Joe Miller

The True Conservative Choice is Ted Cruz, not Donald Trump, Part 2: Eminent Domain Abuse: Patterico
93-Year Old Tuskegee Airmen Veteran Robbed Twice By Black Thugs In The Same Day: DownTrend
Hillary Clinton Campaign Says Classified Emails Were on Server: WSJ

World

The Bridge to Shariah Initiative: CSP
Michigan: Lansing mayors to host Ramadan party…on 9/11!!: Creeping
Slovakia refuses EU plan to resettle Muslim refugees, ‘will only accept Christians’: Ralph Sidway

Islamic State overruns Iraqi base near Fallujah: LWJ
Palestinians Flock to Islamic State: Khaled Abu Toameh
North Korea orders military to be ready for war, says report: Asia Times

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Lovable blobfish figure is lovable: Deep Sea News
Microsoft and Its Surface Pro: In the Right Place at the Right Time: Carl Weinschenk
Snake-Oil Cryptography Competition: Bruce Schneier

Cornucopia

This Is What Tourette Syndrome Looks Like: Michelle Malkin
Mr. Pinko – Making Liberal Heads Explode One Empty Skull at a Time!: iOTWreport
Charm Offensive: Riot

Image: ‘She Deglided, Um, Because She Didn’t…’: #Hillary2016
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QOTD: "The terror group Islamic State has become extremely popular among Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Four recent public opinion polls show that at least one million Palestinians support the Islamic State...

...The Palestinians' two governments, Hamas and the Palestinian Authority (PA), have good reason to be worried about the Islamic State. In recent weeks, Islamic State spokesmen have issued threats against both the PA and Hamas, accusing them of "collaboration" with the "Zionist entity."" --Khaled Abu Toameh

Thursday, August 20, 2015

Mark Levin Obliterates the Legitimacy of "Anchor Children"

On Sean Hannity's show this evening, bestselling author, radio host, and president of Landmark Legal Foundation Mark Levin deconstructed the Fourteenth Amendment and the notion of "anchor children":

SEAN HANNITY: You mentioned on your radio program yesterday -- and I think this is important. I think it's worth putting up. Republican senator Jacob Howard of Michigan, while they were debating the 14th Amendment -- he's the author of the clause -- every person born within the limits of the United States and subject to their jurisdiction is by virtue of natural law and national law a citizen of the U.S. This will not, of course, include persons born in the United States who are foreigners, aliens, who belong to the families of ambassadors or foreign ministers accredited to the government of the United States, but will include every other class of persons.

You know, and as you pointed out, it settles the great question of citizenship and removes all doubt as to what this clause meant. Why are so many people getting this wrong?

MARK LEVIN: Because they're result-oriented, because they want to insist the Constitution says what it doesn't say. Moreover, the Supreme Court has never ruled that the children of illegal aliens are American citizens. So the Supreme Court has never ruled, and even if they did, it would be wrong.

Larwyn's Linx: Hillary Clinton Covers Up Yesterday's Cavalcade of Lies With, Get This, More Lies

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Nation

Hillary Clinton Covers Up Yesterday's Cavalcade of Lies With, Get This, More Lies: Ace
Special Ops Vets Demand Kerry Strip Hillary Of Security Clearance: Richard Pollock
Huma Abedin Received Over $40K From Hillary’s Former PAC: Joe Schoffstall

Bob Corker goes for a curtain call at Failure Theater: RS
Quelle Surprise: Mitch McConnell Offically Surrenders: RS
Trump Accused of Trashing GOP ‘Brand’ — By GOP Brand-Trashers: Larry Elder

Latest Planned Parenthood Video Exposes Potential Infanticide: David French
PPFA May Keep Aborted Babies Alive 'Until Their Hearts are Cut Out': LifeNews
IGs ask Congress to Help after DOJ Restricts Access to Info: JW

Communal Salvation: The Z Man
The Strange Death of the Center-Left: Michael Barone
Clinton emails that sparked intelligence concerns identified: Jesse Byrnes

Economy

The Facts on H-1B Visas: John Hinderaker
The sinking of the USS America: Lyle J. Rapacki
Cruz 'absolutely' backs ending birthright citizenship: Jordain Carney

Scandal Central

7th Planned Parenthood Video Might Be Worst of All: Ace
Backup Server would be very bad news for Hillary: LI
Letter: Obama Administration Releasing Violent Illegal Immigrants Back into U.S. Towns: Adam Kredo

Planned Parenthood Clinic Cut Through Dead Baby's Face to Get His Intact Brain: Breitbart
Hillary Clinton's communications problem may go beyond email: Jan Crawford, CBS News
Hillary's email albatross: Rem Rieder, USA Today

Climate & Energy

How Does The IPCC Explain the Severe Storms Of History?: Dr. Tim Ball
When "Science Journalists" Attack: Mark Steyn
Big government as the new Terminator: Victor Davis Hanson

Media

Mark Levin: Congress can end birthright citizenship without amending the Constitution: Scoop
Clinton Tells Black Lives Matter Activists White 'Sinners' Still Haven't Atoned: MRC
Muslim Insults Cashier Wearing U.S. Flag, Man’s Reaction Had Store CHEERING: Sean Brown

Mark Levin nails birthright citizenship and Hillary Clinton all in one Hannity interview: Scoop
Donald Trump crowd in New Hampshire Vs Jeb Bush: FAM
Disrupting a false media narrative -- what next?: Ashe Schow

World

Sleep well: UN plans to keep Iran in check with nuclear containment by honor system: Doug Powers
Rabbis for Hamas, Obama and Iran: Daniel Greenfield
Russia to Sell Iran Advanced S-300 Missile System Despite U.S. Objections: The Tower

What Are Palestinians Doing With U.S. Taxpayers' Money?: Khaled Abu Toameh
China's Newest Long-Range Heavy Bomber Should Unnerve US: SputnikNews
Rain on China blast city raises pollution fears : Economic Times

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

‘Eiffel Tower’ solar prominence towers over sun: Shayne Jacopian
12-Mile-High Tower May Launch Spacecraft Horizontally: TNW
Has a Nazi ghost train laden with gold been found in Poland?: DailyMail

Cornucopia

Is The Glass Half Full Or Half Empty?: Springer's Blog
“I Know Nothink!”: MOTUS
Video: Mad Max Fury Road has been remade with go-karts, and it is amazing: TopGear

Image: Video: Mad Max Fury Road has been remade with go-karts, and it is amazing
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QOTD: "Hillary Clinton just keeps digging herself in deeper.

From the get-go, her response to the controversy over her mind-boggling use of a personal email server while she was secretary of State has been a textbook example of how not to handle a crisis...

...She is defensive, dismissive and legalistic. In time-dishonored Clinton fashion, she treats the affair as a meaningless distraction, yet another bludgeon wielded by the vast right-wing conspiracy that hates the Clintons rather than a bonafide matter of concern, a trifle of interest only to Beltway insiders and a group for whom she has little love: Reporters. She releases only as much information as she feels she needs to, grudgingly.

How's that working for her? Not all that well. More than five months after The New York Timesbroke the story about her penchant for using private email while in public service, the electronic messages continue to dog her campaign. Clinton either can't figure out or can't bring herself to deal with the nagging issue in a way that tamps it down rather than fans the flames." --Rem Rieder, USA Today

Wednesday, August 19, 2015

A SIMPLE PLAN: How Obama and Hillary made the Arab world safe for radical Islam

By Lawrence Sellin

Far from being "spontaneous" and "indigenous," the uprisings known as the "Arab Spring" that swept North Africa and the Middle East were long planned and planned from abroad with the Muslim Brotherhood's role hidden in plain sight.

The Muslim Brotherhood was founded in Egypt in 1928 as a Sunni Islamist religious, political and social movement.  According to Lawrence Wright in his book "The Looming Tower," its founder Hassan al-Banna "rejected the Western model of secular, democratic government, which contradicted his notion of universal Islamic rule." The fundamental goal of the Muslim Brotherhood remains Islam's global domination, an effort that quickly turned violent and eventually spread to over eighty other nations. For example, one Muslim Brotherhood splinter group was responsible for the 1981 assassination of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat for his peace treaty with Israel and another offshoot is the terrorist organization Hamas.

Barack Obama clearly supports the Muslim Brotherhood as a so-called "moderate" alternative to more violent Islamist groups like al Qaeda and the Islamic State, and a vehicle for political reform in the Middle East and North Africa, as outlined in the secret 2011 directive called Presidential Study Directive-11, or PSD-11.

SEN. MENENDEZ (D-NJ): Obama’s Iran Deal is a complete and utter failure -- and I will vote to override a veto

By Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ)

For twenty three years as a member of the House Foreign Affairs and Senate Foreign Relations Committees, I have had the privilege of dealing with major foreign policy and national security issues.  Many of those have been of a momentous nature. This is one of those moments.

I come to the issue of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, with Iran, as someone who has followed Iran's nuclear ambition for the better part of two decades.  I decide on whether to support or oppose an issue on the basis of whether, it is in my judgment, in the national interest and security of our country to do so.

In this case a secondary, but important, question is what it means for our great ally -- the State of Israel -- and our other partners in the Gulf.

Unlike President Obama's characterization of those who have raised serious questions about the agreement, or who have opposed it, I did not vote for the war in Iraq, I opposed it, unlike the Vice President and the Secretary of State, who both supported it.  My vote against the Iraq war was unpopular at the time, but it was one of the best decisions I have ever made.

I also don't come to this question as someone, unlike many of my Republican colleagues, who reflexively oppose everything the President proposes.  In fact, I have supported President Obama, according to Congressional Quarterly, 98 percent of the time in 2013 and 2014.  My dear, late mother would have been happy if I had agreed with her 98 percent of the time -- and I revered her.

On key policies ranging from voting in the Finance Committee and on the Senate Floor for the Affordable Care Act, to Wall Street Reform, to supporting the President's Supreme Court Nominees and defending the Administration’s actions on the Benghazi tragedy, his Pivot to Asia, shepherding the authorization for the Use of Military Force (AUMF) to stop President Assad's use of chemical weapons, during the time I was Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, to so much more, I have been a reliable supporter of President Obama.

But my support is not – and has not been driven by party loyalty, but rather by principled agreement, not political expediency.  When I have disagreed it is also based on principled disagreement.

The issue before the Congress in September is whether to vote to approve or disapprove the agreement struck by the President and our P5+1 partners with Iran.  This is one of the most serious national security, nuclear nonproliferation, arms control issues of our time.  It is not an issue of supporting or opposing the President.  This issue is much greater and graver than that.

And when you thought the Iran deal couldn’t get any worse, we discover Barack Obama is secretly sabotaging sanctions

It appears President Obama is actively sabotaging any attempt at international sanctions against Iran even if the terror state violates the terms of the nuclear deal.   Because Crusades, I suppose.

...U.S. lawmakers have been shown copies of several letters sent by the Obama administration to the Chinese, German, French, and British governments assuring them that companies doing business with Iran will not come under penalty... The Obama administration is purportedly promising the foreign governments that if Iran violates the parameters of a recently inked nuclear accord, European companies will not be penalized, according to the secret letters.

Another of the secret side deals allows Iran to use its own "experts and equipment" to provide inspectors with samples from suspected nuke sites.

In a departure from the usual procedure, Iran will be allowed to use its own “experts and equipment” to provide international inspectors with environmental samples from the military base and suspected nuclear site Parchin, the [AP] reported today, citing a classified draft of a side agreement between Iran and the [IAEA] that its reporters had seen.

Obama and Kerry may get their legacy, alright, and if they do it will be written in the ashes of the thousands (or millions) of innocents who perished in pursuit of narcissism.


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Larwyn's Linx: Menendez lays down marker for Democrats: Will your name be on Iran’s nuclear bomb?

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Nation

Menendez lays down marker for Dems: Will your name be on Iran’s nuclear bomb?: LI
House Intelligence Committee Democrats Play Political Games on Iran Deal: Fred Fleitz
Stumbling Upon a Worthy Cause: Steve Sailer

Hillary Clinton’s dumpster fire press conference: RS
Granny Clinton Shuts Down Presser After Tough Questions About Email Server: Sooper
Hillary Clinton's tense backstage confrontation with Black Lives Matter activists: DailyMail

Crushing the GOPe Road Map: Message to Trump & Cruz Supporters: Treehouse
The GOP Consulting Class Is Becoming Seriously Unhinged: Treehouse
Bush donors getting uneasy: RS

The Somali Mafia: Grooming and Pimping in Minnesota: GoV
Illegal Alien Child Abuser Skips Town: iOTWreport
Illegal alien ‘afraid of being deported’ kills six in car wreck in Texas: FAM

Economy

Unchecked Medicare Fraud is Government Run Amok: Matt Schuck
Interesting Petition Drive About Getting The Able-Bodied Off Of Food Stamps: Kevin Boyd
Teachers overwhelmingly oppose Obama’s race-based school discipline policies: Victor Skinner

Scandal Central

Hillary’s email problem gets worse: RS
State Dept. Finds 17855 Missing Hillary Clinton Adviser Emails: John Sexton
Latest Hillary server sighting: Bathroom in a Colorado loft apartment; Updated: Michelle Malkin

Many State Dept Emails Used To Register On ‘Adulterer’ Site Ashley Madison: WZ
Clinton Refuses to Say Whether She Wiped the Server: Daniel Halper
Clinton Emails and The Privatization of Mexico's State Owned Oil and Gas Company: TheRealNews

Climate & Energy

Obama’s Toxic Environmental Pollution Agency Unleashes a $30 Billion Disaster: Michelle Malkin
This Was The Moment That The Rise Of The Oceans Began To Slow: SDA
State Still Releasing Water to Save a Few Fish: Steven Greenhut

Media

Hillary Clinton, Liar: “We turned over everything that was work related. Every single thing.”: Patterico
Leftists Circulate Picture of Little Girl Carrying Governor Scott Walker’s Severed Head: ProgsToday
Police search for teens who attacked, terrorized young family: WSB 95.5

Breaking the Rules: John Stossel
Academic Fascism II: Walter Williams
Straight Outta Solutions: Ben Shapiro

World

Iran Government publishes threat to Israel video via official channels.: Vlad Tepes
What Does President Park Know?: Ethan Epstein
Islamic State jihadis 'behead top archaeologist in Palmyra': Telegraph

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

First rainfall since Tianjin explosion leaves city covered in mysterious white foam: Shanghaist
The world’s smallest drone gets ready to take flight: Zach Epstein
Increasingly bad science is still considered sacrosanct: Jim Jamitis

Cornucopia

Where are OUR Woodwards and Bernsteins?: MOTUS
Former Marine, 66, survives bloody hand-to-claw combat with black bear: Lindsey Bever
Six Alinsky Rules That Explain Obama’s Words and Deeds: Jack Kerwick (2013)

Image: Leftists Circulate Picture of Little Girl Carrying Governor Scott Walker’s Severed Head
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QOTD: "... if I had not asked for my emails all to be made public, none of  this would have been in the public arena. But I want people to know what  we did, I’m proud of the four years I was Secretary of State. So I know  this is all just going to work itself out as we go forward" --Hillary Clinton

Tuesday, August 18, 2015

STATE OF THE ART SECURITY: Hillary’s Email Server Kept in the Bathroom Closet of an Apartment

It turns out that the top diplomatic secrets of the Obama administration and the Hillary State Department were maintained on a home-brew server stashed in the bathroom of an apartment complex. Which seems perfectly consistent with the quality of governance:


This is the apartment complex where Platte River Networks was based until this year. It used a residential apartment as its base.
The IT company Hillary Clinton chose to maintain her private email account was run from a loft apartment and its servers were housed in the bathroom closet... ex-employees of Platte River Networks in Denver, Colorado ... revealed the outfit's strong links to the Democratic Party but expressed shock that the 2016 presidential candidate chose the small private company for such a sensitive job.

One, Tera Dadiotis, called it 'a mom and pop shop' which was an excellent place to work, but hardly seemed likely to be used to secure state secrets. And Tom Welch, who helped found the company, confirmed the servers were in a bathroom closet.

It can also be disclosed that the small number of employees who were aware of the Clinton contract were told to keep it secret.

The way in which Clinton came to contract a company described as a 'mom and pop' operation remains unclear, [though there is likely] a series of connections between the firm and the Democratic Party...

...Platte River Networks worked for Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper - once heavily tipped to be Clinton's 2016 running mate - during his election to be mayor of the city in 2003... The company's controversial vice president of sales David DeCamillis is also said to be a 'big Democrat' supporter who offered his house to Joe Biden for the party's convention held in Denver in 2008.

It will be the small scale of the firm and its own home-made arrangements which will raise the most significant questions over security and over what checks Clinton's aides made about how suitable it was for dealing with what new transpires to be classified material.

Given the level of IT professionalism, little wonder the FBI believes it may be able to recover the data on Hillary's "wiped" server.

Federal Judge Accelerates Hearing on Hillary Email Case to... This Week

By Judicial Watch

Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton made the following statement regarding the recent court order granting Judicial Watch’s request for a hearing this week, on Thursday, August 20, 2015 at 12:00 p.m., which had previously been scheduled for September:

The Obama administration’s obstruction of the courts and our Freedom of Information Act litigation must end. The court and the American people are weary of their legal gamesmanship. We are fighting for the public’s right to know what Hillary Clinton, Huma Abedin and others were sending and receiving during their four years running the State Department.

Judicial Watch responded yesterday to the latest State Department filing from August 14:

Taking [the State Department’s] sworn statement on its face, it appears as though the declarant made no effort whatsoever to find out what electronic devices the former head of the agency and two of her closest advisors used to conduct official government business for four years and where these electronic devices may be located or if they are still in existence.

Hitler and Islam

By Baron Bodissey

The following article concerns the rich historical and contemporary connections between the Third Reich and the Islamic world. It was written by a Dutch investigative journalist, writer and blogger named Joost Niemöller, whose work has appeared here occasionally in the past. Many thanks to our Flemish correspondent GB for the translation.

It is well known that Mein Kampf is still very popular in the Muslim world: for example, in Egypt[1] and some Arab countries. But also in Turkey[2]. In Iran[3]. Or Pakistan[4]. Germans in the Islamic world are being addressed enthusiastically, because they hail from “The Land of Hitler”. Not so long ago I heard this again from a German friend who travels to the Middle East regularly. In the Islamic world a direct link[5] is being drawn between Hitler’s warfare and the Jihad. At the same time it’s very fashionable among Muslims to deny the Holocaust, which in the eyes of an anti-Semitic would rather damage Hitler’s status as a hero; why then still read his book? But then the denial of the Holocaust[6] is again necessary to refuse the justification for the State of Israel.

When it comes to feeding hate, logic is irrelevant.

Mein Kampf‘s popularity in the Muslim world is only one signal. Many links exist between Nazism and present day Islamism. One of the abundant examples is the fact that the fake document “The Protocols of the Elders of Zion”[7], promoted by the Nazi ideologist Rosenberg, which would be the ultimate proof of a Jewish complot to overthrow the Christian world, became popular again among the PLO via the Islamic world.

Larwyn’s Linx: Classified Clinton emails grow to 305

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Nation

Classified Clinton emails grow to 305: Sarah Westwood
What Did This Marine Do That Hillary Clinton Didn’t?: Patterico
Slim Fast has donated $6 million to Hillary Clinton: FAM

ABC: 'Highly Likely' FBI Will Find BackUp of Hillary's Deleted Emails: Guy Benson
State Dept. uncovers 17,000 missing emails from Hillary spokesman: Sarah Westwood
State Dept. ‘Unaware’ if Clinton's, Aides’ Devices Were Secure: Daniel Bassali

Obama: The L. Ron Hubbard of Modern Liberalism: The Z Man
The 1980s Called: They Want Their American Military Back: David French
The summer of our discontent: Cal Thomas

Has the Unrepresented Majority Finally Reached Its Boiling Point?: David Limbaugh
Trump Panics the Inside-the-Beltway Establishment with His Immigration Plan: EIB
Lindsey "Fredo" Graham: Sad Little Man: AWD

Economy

Minimum Wage Spurs Restaurants to Automate?: AmInt
Qualcomm laysing off after applying for thousands of foreign workers: Mike Freeman
Donald Trump calls out Mark Zuckerberg on immigration: CNN

Scandal Central

Obama’s Betrayals: Illegality and Malfeasance in OfficeJoseph Klein: FPM
Clinton Aides Conducted Official Government Business on Personal Email: John Hayward
Oh my: State Dept suddenly finds thousands of Hillary aide’s e-mails they denied existed in 2013: Ed Morrissey

Climate & Energy

Lies Progressives Tell Us: Climate Change: Bruce Thornton
Wind Power? Forget It!: Paul Homewood
ToDaZeD CA *facepalm*: Sondrakistan

Media

BuzzFeed’s Liberal Founder Doesn’t Want Employees To Unionize…SHOCKER: Chicks on the Right
Telling The Truth About Trump Is Not Why We Lose: Jay Caruso
George Will’s wife works for Scott Walker campaign: FAM

Donald Trump on ‘Meet the Press,’ annotated: WaPo
Do You See a Difference Between Watergate & HillaryEmailGate?: MagNote
Auto Burglaries Skyrocket 47-Percent In San Francisco After Penalties Reduced: KCBS

Mark Levin: American Kids are Dreamers, Too: Michelle Moons
How Do You Know What’s Right and Wrong? Left-Right Differences, Part VII: Dennis Prager
Trump, Carson, Cruz Get Good News In Latest Poll: KTRH

World

With new plan, Trump blows up 2016 immigration debate: Byron York
Immigration Is About More Than Trump–It’s About The Survival Of The West: VDARE
CBP: 135 Unaccompanied Children Caught At U.S. Border Per Day in July: Brittany M. Hughes

Delusions Of Grandeur: John Kerry Is Mentally Deranged: Camp o' the Saints
Iranian Official Says IAEA Chief “Would Have Been Harmed” Had He Disclosed Side Agreements: The Tower
Sen. Ted Cruz Speaks On Iran Nuclear Deal: Justin Dougherty, News9

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Judge: 3D Gun Files Will Start a War, and Justify Dropping Bill of Rights: WeaponsMan
Study finds that coffee could prevent colon cancer from returning: The Week
IRS Admits Breach May Have Compromised Over 300,000 Taxpayer Accounts: Morgan Chalfant

Cornucopia

I love the smell of desperation in the morning: Cold Fury
Doomsday clock for global market crash nears midnight as central banks lose control: John Ficenec
Vrooooooooom: Sondrakistan

Image: Bangkok Shrine Bombing: Suspect on Security Video Hunted by Thai Cops
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QOTD: "State Department officials have uncovered 17,855 emails sent between a former Hillary Clinton spokesman and reporters that the agency long claimed did not exist.

The trove was among more than 80,000 emails belonging to Philippe Reines, a Clinton aide, that were discovered on his State Department account, officials said in court filings Aug. 13.

In response to a Freedom of Information Act request filed by Gawker Media in 2013, the State Department said it had no responsive records. Gawker was seeking official correspondence between Reines and reporters from 33 news outlets.

But State officials responded Thursday with the news that they had inexplicably found 81,159 emails on Reines' ".gov" email account despite asserting two years ago that none existed. Twenty-two percent, or 17,855, of the emails were likely related to Gawker's request." --Sarah Westwood

Monday, August 17, 2015

Propagandem Fail o’ the Day

Speaking of conflicts of interest:


Iraq, Libya, Tunisia, Turkey, the invasion of Ukraine, and a nuclear Iran. Yes, Hill has a done a bang-up job.


Priceless.

Hat tip: Willie.
 

GEORGE WILL EXPOSED AS A COMPLETE HACK: Repeatedly Rips Donald Trump While His Wife Works for Scott Walker

Well, this is rather corrupt and evil:

• Will calls Trump a "One-Man Todd Akin"
• Will demands the GOP purge Trump and his Trumpite supporters
• Will asks: "Do we really want to give nuclear weapons to Donald Trump?
• Will: If Trump were a Democrat mole, "how would his behavior be different?"

Well, it's fine to have an opinion, but shouldn't Will's bizarre comments be accompanied by a full disclosure?


That is, his "wife, Mari Will, works for Scott Walker."


Hat tip: BadBlue News.
 

THE COMING COLLAPSE: Fed Lunacy is to Blame

By Jim Quinn

This week John Hussman’s pondering about the state of our markets is as clear and concise as it’s ever been. He starts off by describing the difference between an economy operating at a low level versus a high level. He’s essentially describing a 2% GDP economy versus a 4% GDP economy. We have been stuck in a low level economy since 2008. And there is one primary culprit for the suffering of millions – The Federal Reserve and their Wall Street Bank owners. They are the reason incomes are stagnant, the labor participation rate is at 40 year lows, savers can only earn .25% on their savings, and consumers have been forced further into debt to make ends meet. Meanwhile, corporate America and the Wall Street banks are siphoning off record profits, paying obscene pay packages to their executives, buying off the politicians in Washington to pass legislation (TPP) designed to enrich them further, and arrogantly telling the peasants to work harder.

In economics, we often describe “equilibrium” as a condition where demand is equal to supply. Textbooks usually depict this as a single point where a demand curve and a supply curve intersect, and all is right with the world.

In reality, we know that economies often face a whole range of possible equilibria. One can imagine “low level” equilibria where producers are idle, jobs are scarce, incomes stagnate, consumers struggle or go into debt to make ends meet, and the economy sits in a state of depression – which is often the case in developing countries. One can also imagine “high level” equilibria where producers generate desirable goods and services, jobs are plentiful, and household income is sufficient to demand all of that output.

The problem is that troubled economies don’t just naturally slide up to “high level” equilibria. Low level equilibria are typically supported and reinforced by a whole set of distortions, constraints, and even incentives for the low level equilibrium to persist. In developing countries, these often take the form of legal restrictions, price controls, weak property rights, political and civil instability, savings disincentives, lending restrictions, and a full catastrophe of other barriers to economic improvement. Good economic policy involves the art of relaxing constraints where they are binding, and imposing constraints where their absence allows the activities of some to injure or violate the rights of others.

In the United States, observers seem to scratch their heads as to why the economy has shifted down to such a low level of labor force participation. Even after years of recovery and trillions of dollars directed toward persistent monetary intervention, the economy seems locked in a low level equilibrium. Yet at the same time, corporate profits and margins have pushed to record highs, contributing to gaping income disparities.

Dr. Hussman presents his case against the Federal Reserve as clearly as anything I’ve ever read. Bailing out criminally negligent Wall Street banks with taxpayer money, allowing fraudulent accounting to cover up insolvency, printing $3 trillion out of thin air and handing it to the Wall Street banks, penalizing savings while encouraging consumers and corporations to go further into debt, and gearing all of your efforts towards creating stock, bond, and real estate bubbles, is the height of lunacy – unless you are a captured entity working on behalf of a corrupt status quo.

Larwyn's Linx: The real email question: Did Hillary Clinton sell US secrets?

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Nation

The real email question: Did Hillary Clinton sell US secrets?: RS
Number of Hillary Clinton’s emails containing classified info at 60 and counting: Times
Gowdy: Hillary's email server shows high 'level of concealment': Barbara Boland

The Red Pill Revolution: The Z Man
Ted Cruz’s Time: Erick Erickson
A review of the inconsistencies of the major GOP candidates: Newsmachete

A back up Server or database would be very bad news for Hillary: William A. Jacobson
Wanna See How Afraid Hillary Is Of The Email Scandal?: DCwhispers
Hillary Jokes As About 60% Say She Knowingly Lied About Her Emails: Dan Spencer

Another Obama Dreamer Murders Three in Florida: FAM
The Ghetto Jew and Israel: Sultan Knish
American Jewry’s fateful hour: Caroline Glick

Economy

Department Store Results Imploding: Jim Quinn
Fed Lunacy is to Blame for the Coming Crash: Jim Quinn
Trump's Immigration Reform Plan Designed To Get Citizens Back To Work: Breitbart

Scandal Central

Could the Jig Finally Be Up for Huma Abedin? : Robert Spencer
Hillary's State Department Routinely Hid Emails on Purpose: Patrick Howley
Clinton, Obama meet face to face on Martha's Vineyard amid email controversy, Biden chatter: Fox

Climate & Energy

The Greatest Scientific Fraud Of All Time -- Part VI: Francis Menton

Media

America's Culture War Starts Claiming Victims: Bill Wilson
Trump Posts Immigration Plan, Establishment Mouthpieces Go A Little Crazy: James Fulford, VDARE
Trump on Clinton: Anthony Weiner one step away from our national security secrets: Karin McQuillan

New Fox News National Poll – Trump, Carson and Cruz Top Three: Treehouse
John Kasich: liberal flavor of the day: RS
I'm Number #206 But I Try Harder: Lid

World

Hey, Let’s Not Give Terrorists $150 Billion.: WeaponsMan
Obama Willfully Supporting Al-Qaeda And The Muslim Brotherhood : Jamie Glazov
Islamic State takes Libyan port city: Robert Spencer

Socialism: The Most Corrupt Path To Great Wealth: John Hinderaker
Quebec bill targets “people who write against the Islamic religion”: Robert Spencer
Hillary Clinton’s Emails: ‘Top Secret’ Problem: IHS

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Miraculous You: R.S. McCain
The Dad of the Year Built His Daughter a Custom Speeder Bike Rocking Horse: Andrew Liszewski
Jeff Bezos responds to brutal NYT story, says it doesn’t represent the Amazon he leads: John Cook

Cornucopia

Our Next First Lady or Laddy: Choose Wisely Weedhopper: MOTUS
I’m Never Doing This Again: Derek Hunter
25 maps that will change the way you see the world: Mark J. Perry

Image: China Shutters 50 Websites for ‘Inciting Panic’ Over the Tianjin Disaster
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: TED CRUZ FOR PRESIDENT

QOTD: "Beijing’s internet regulators have suspended or shut down 50 Chinese websites in the wake of last week’s explosions at a chemical warehouse in the city of Tianjin — the world’s 10th largest port — claiming they incited panic by spreading unconfirmed information about the blasts...

...Meanwhile, by midday Monday local time, the official fatality count in Tianjin was 114, with hundreds injured and at least 70 people still unaccounted for in the rubble of the blast site, CNN reported. The destruction has left thousands homeless and frustration is mounting in the city, where displaced residents and relatives of the missing await answers to questions about the cause and consequences of the explosion." --Nash Jenkins

Sunday, August 16, 2015

THE REAL EMAIL QUESTION: Did Hillary Clinton Sell U.S. Secrets?

Over at RedState, author "streiff" makes a stunning -- and quite rational -- assertion:

While the media is focusing your attention on the shiny object that is her email server, the real story is not being told. The circumstantial evidence indicates that Hillary Clinton, or members of her inner circle with her connivance, purloined highly classified US intelligence and either sold it, traded it, or used it for personal gain. This is not a conspiracy theory and it is not hyperbole. Stick with me for a moment.

Let's summarize what Clinton and her associates may be in for:

• Removing TOP SECRET documents from a SCIF (Secure Compartmented Information Facility, an installation specifically designed to handle highly sensitive information) and placing them on a non-secure system: A Felony

• Removing classification markings from government documents: A Felony

• Trading classified information for money or favors: Not Just a Felony, Possibly Treason

Back to streiff's agenda, the first bullet point of which is the media smokescreen, happily relayed by -- among other -- the Associated Press.

CLINTON CRIME FAMILY COMICS: Hillary’s 5 Funniest Email Lies

Another instant classic by our long-suffering summer intern @BiffSpackle, based upon an editorial by The New York Post:
On Fox News the other day, blogger and counterterror analyst John Schindler explained the ramifications of Clinton's actions.

And if Vegas had a line on it, my guess is that longtime aides Huma Abedin and/or Cheryl Mills illegally removed the classification markings from the emails destined for Hillary, so she could always claim she didn't know they contained TOP SECRET information. And each such action is a felony, too.
 
 
Hat tip: BadBlue News.
 

Larwyn's Linx: Understanding just how serious Hillary’s email server problem really is

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Nation

Understanding just how serious Hillary’s server problem really is: Bookworm
Contra Media Spin, It’s Hillary Under Investigation, Not a Server: Jonah Goldberg
Hillary's Emails Were Backed Up On Another Server: David Martosko

Colorado court outlaws religious freedom: RS
Illegal Alien Deported 14 Times Arrested For Transporting Meth In Billings, MT: WZ
Backers fear Clinton hurt by old weaknesses: WaPo

"Immigrant": The New N-Word: Ann Coulter
In the Wake of Proposition 47, California Sees a Crime Wave: Debra Saunders
Obama Illegal Kills Three in Florida: FAM

Congress Can Rewrite the Iran Deal: Orde Kittrie
Progressives Push for New “Right”: The Right Not to Bear Arms: LI
The Brilliantly Run Campaign of Senator Ted Cruz: VA Right

Economy

Did Mass Incarceration Destroy the Black Family?: Kay S. Hymowitz
Greece’s painful and irresponsible bail out: John Redwood
Hard Times Goin’ ’Round: Daily Pundit

Scandal Central

Prosecutor Who Took Down Petraeus Now Looking Into Clinton Server: Katie Pavlich
Senior Clinton Adviser Huma Abedin Facing Investigation for Her Role in Hillary’s Email Scandal: Chris Enloe
State Dept. confirms Clinton aides had other unreported email accounts: Stephen Dinan

Hillary Clinton’s five email lies: Post
Obama's Betrayals: The President's Secret Offer to Iran Before Negotiations: Ari Lieberman
Obama, Koch Bros Team Up to Help Oppressed Drug Dealer: Daniel Greenfield

Climate & Energy

The anti-human Green movement: “The mission, once noble, had become corrupted.”: ProWis

Media

Sarah Palin bashes Erick Erickson for mocking her family: FAM
MSNBC Targets “Stump for Trump” Girls, Wants Childrens’ Names and Name of Employers: GWP
Why Yes, I am Insta-Posting These Days: Ed Driscoll

The Conservative Heart – A Book Review: NoisyRm
Obama Ignores V-J Day Remembrance: Kim Quade
How Hillary will probably shrug off the email server story: Jazz Shaw

NYT’s Castrated House Conservative Reveals How Low His Information Really Is: Daily Pundit
This Commercial For Raisin Bran Makes Me Want to Break Things: Glob
Obamacare Could be Heading to the Supreme Court (Again): Andrew Kloster

World

All the President's Lies: Annika Hernroth-Rothstein
Obama’s Iran deal: A fight to a very bitter end: David Horovitz
‘Schindler’s List’ producer slams Hollywood Jews’ support for nuke deal: Times of Israel

'ISIS Head Repeatedly Raped US Aid Worker Kayla Mueller': Clarion
“France is no Longer for the French”: Baron Bodissey
Modern Day Slavery in Vietnam and Malaysia: Michael Benge

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Kaspersky faked malware to harm rivals: Ex-employees: itnews
Police radios will be KILLED soon – yet no one dares say 'Huawei': Simon Rockman and Kat Hall
Scientists Discover Marijuana Actually Helps Heal Broken Bones: Saso Denkovik

Cornucopia

White House vs. Big House: Springer
National Airborne Day 2015: BlackFive
Reaganite's Sunday Funnies: RRR

Image: Backers fear Clinton hurt by old weaknesses
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: A Constitutional Conservative: TED CRUZ FOR PRESIDENT

QOTD: "Tens of thousands of emails once housed on former secretary of state Hillary Clinton's private computer server were moved to another device after a Colorado company took possession of the device in 2013, leaving open the possibility that copies of messages Clinton later chose to delete might still exist.

The FBI seized the server this week in a stunning move, signaling a new intensity in the investigation into whether Clinton knowingly send or received top-secret classified information through her private address while she was America's top diplomat.

Bloomberg reported Thursday night that Barbara Wells, an attorney for Platte River Networks, Inc., confirmed that while the server hardware now controlled by the FBI 'is blank and does not contain any useful data,' its contents could still be safe and sound elsewhere.

That's because the server's messages were 'migrated' to another server that still exists, she said, before ending the Bloomberg interview without specifying where that device is located and who owns it – only that her company no longer has it." --David Martosko