Sunday, August 23, 2015

OBAMA’S PARTNERS IN PEACE: We Will Cleanse the Earth of Jews

By The Tower

Hussein Sheikholeslam, a senior adviser to Iran’s Speaker of Parliament, told the Hamas-affiliated newspaper al-Resalah that Tehran “reject[s] the existence of any Israeli on this earth,” a position he says Iran relayed to the P5+1 powers during the nuclear negotiations, The Times of Israel reported Wednesday. According to Sheikholeslam, Iran “will do everything to renew” its support for Hamas, which Tehran lessened in retaliation to the Sunni group’s opposition to the regime of Bashar al-Assad after the outbreak of the Syrian civil war.

Sheikholeslam’s comments are the latest in a series of threats issued against Israel by Iran since the Islamic Republic signed a nuclear agreement with the P5+1 powers last month.

A video posted on a website linked to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), titled “Preparation of the complete destruction of Israel by the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Islamic Revolution in Iran,” called for Israel’s “erasure from the annals of history,” according to another report in The Times of Israel on Wednesday. The clip depicts an invasion of Jerusalem by an Islamic army that includes Hamas and Hezbollah among its ranks.

Larwyn's Linx: Hillary and the five stages of grief

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Nation

Hillary and the five stages of grief: Bookworm
Clinton to cut vacation short amid controversy: Sarah Westwood
Biden holds surprise meeting with Sen. Warren: Barbara Boland

Something’s Happening Here: The Z Man
Ranking the GOP Candidates by their Ability to Win the General Election: JD Rucker
John Kasich: The GOP Establishment’s Spare Prince: George Rasley

Iran's President Vows To Break Terms Of Deal Regarding Missiles And Weapons: RWN
'Anchor Baby' Flap Shows Left Losing Grip: Jack Cashill
GOP Elites Can’t Secure Border, can’t Deport, Can’t Stop Illegals: Treehouse

The "I" Word: The Z Man
Guide for the Mexican Migrant: AmRen
Ed Klein: Michelle and Valerie 'Connected at the Hip': NewsMax

Economy

Plunge Protection Teams of the World, Unite!: Charles Hugh Smith
Americas "Most Trusted Personal Finance Expert" Demands New Fed Bailout: ZH
Obama plays 248th round of golf as market tanks: Paul Bedard

Scandal Central

Federal Appeals Court Slams Holder DOJ for Misconduct in Police Prosecution: Paul Mirengoff
Massive Planned Parenthood protests across US: Barbara Boland
Secret IAEA deal inked with reported ex-head of Iran nuclear bomb effort: Times of Israel

Climate & Energy

Realities Of Climate Change, Politics And Public Knowledge: Dr. Tim Ball
EPA knew of 'blowout' risk for tainted water at gold mine: Michael Biesecker


Media

This Pic Of Obama on Vacation Is Just Sad: Sooper
Phyllis Bennis Slams Israel on C-SPAN While Promoting ISIS Book : CAMERA
Ted Cruz Jokes About Where He’d Send 90,000 IRS Employees After Abolishing the Federal Agency: Blaze

Clinton Campaign Uses TIME to Smoke Out Conservative Journalist 'Dirty Tricks': Tim Graham
Black Mom Gives #BlackLivesMatter a Serious Tongue Lashing, Viral Video Results: Dave Urbanski
Memphis Mayoral Candidate Arrested for Vandalizing Confederate Statue: Jim Hoft

World

"My first reaction was to sit down and hide. Then I heard an American say 'go get him'.": Ace
First Person: Alek Skarlatos Narrates What Happened In His Own Video: Ace
West Virginia: “Support ISIS & The Taliban” sign left at war memorial: Robert Spencer

Agenda 21 soon to become ”the 2030 Agenda”: John C. Velisek
Hacking In The Name Of The Islamic State (ISIS): Steven Stalinsky and R. Sosnow*
Iran Is Responsible for More Than 1,000 American Military Deaths Since 9/11: David French

Belfast Pastor on Trial for Offending Islam: Soeren Kern
The IKEA Murders: Sweden in Crisis: Ingrid Carlqvist
Mohammed Was a Pig: Daniel Greenfield

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Mars Opportunity Time-Lapse is Mind Blowing: Karli Petrovic
“Yolks” and “shells” improve rechargeable batteries: David L. Chandler, MIT News Office
Here's proof that Uber is obliterating New York City's taxi industry: Maya Kosoff

Cornucopia

Top 10 Reagan Achievements: Human Events (2011)
She was the music heard faintly at the edge of sound: Letters of Note
Islamic Jihadi opens fire with AK-47. Terrorism not ruled out.: MOTUS

Image: Friday's other big number: Obama plays 248th round of golf as market tanks
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: Reignite America: TED CRUZ FOR PRESIDENT

QOTD: "Undersecretary Patrick Kennedy, a man whose name swirled around Benghazi (and who was not subject to the whitewash investigation) and likely sent more than a few of those classified emails to Hildabeast, is the same man now in charge of handling Hillary's production to the State Dept. He is the man who has cut off all cooperation with the IG of the Intelligence Communities and is refusing to allow them to review any of the produced documents. Why the House Select Committee on Benghazi does not have Kennedy and Lurch before them yesterday to discuss the handling of these documents and the criteria for redaction is beyond me." --Commenter "GW"

Saturday, August 22, 2015

Key Hillary Aide Huma Abedin Could be in a World of Trouble

Longtime Hillary aide and confidante Huma Abedin may be behind the illegal movement of classified documents to Clinton's private email server, Doug Ross @ Journal can now reveal (I'm experimenting with the Daily Mail's style guide).

[One] message [that should have been classified], dated April 10, 2011, was forwarded to “H,” for Hillary Clinton, then the secretary of state. It came from one of her closest aides, Huma Abedin, who is now vice chairwoman of her presidential campaign ... The matter could form the basis for a criminal probe of whether laws for handling classified material were broken.

...There are other examples that suggest Clinton aides drew upon a variety of classified information to produce updates of events in Libya and elsewhere and sent them via email, according to the officials familiar with the investigation who asked not to be identified.

...Anybody who knowingly emailed classified material to Clinton or her top aides when she was secretary of state could face criminal prosecution, according to current and former U.S. national security officials. Those who inadvertently send or receive classified data could be prosecuted for gross negligence.

"A STIMULUS PACKAGE FOR JIHAD": Obama’s Deal with Iran

Last month, David French offered the perfect description of the Democrat Party's insane and suicidal nuclear deal with Iran.

The Obama administration’s nuclear agreement is nothing more than a stimulus package for jihad. Billions of dollars will flow into the world’s worst terror-exporting country — a sworn enemy of the United States — and it will soon enough even have (legal) access to international conventional-arms markets. It can continue to export terror and even kill American soldiers without breaching the nuclear agreement.

According to military experts, Iran has already slaughtered more than 1,000 U.S. soldiers since 9/11.

Larwyn's Linx: Hillary’s Air Gap Problem

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Nation

Hillary’s Air Gap Problem: Charlie Martin
Great news: Hillary planning to “educate the public” on how data is classifiied: Hot Air
Why is Trump holding a mega-rally in Alabama tonight?: Hot Air

With unfrozen assets, Iran could increase funding to terror groups by 50%: Matt Vespa
Iranian Official: We “Reject the Existence of Any Israeli on This Earth”: Tower
Congressional Democrats Targeting Group Behind Planned Parenthood Videos: WZ

Illegal Immigration is the Disease and Trump’s Plan is the Cure: John Hawkins
Obama will leave his party in its worst shape since the Great Depression: Jeff Greenfield
China Tests Most Dangerous Nuclear Weapon of All Time: Zachery Zeck

Why Jeb’s Not Catching Fire — And Probably Never Will: Troy Senik
Bobby Jindal Just Hit A Home Run At The Defending The Dream Summit: Kevin Boyd
Detroit: With police chief's blessing more residents carry guns: Marathon

Economy

Truly, a case of the Federal Government not working: GraniteGrok
The jobs Americans won't do: illegals kidnapped, tortured other illegals in U.S.: Breitbart
Carnage: Worst Week For Stocks In 4 Years, VIX Soars Most Ever: ZH

Scandal Central

StemExpress CEO admits Planned Parenthood sells fully intact aborted babies: FAM
Hillary Clinton’s Email: the Definitive Timeline: Sharyl Attkisson
‘The FBI asked’: John Sexton spots discrepancy in Hillary’s server story (another lie?): Twitchy

Climate & Energy

Europe hit by one of the worst droughts since 2003: WUWT

Media

Ted Cruz Schools Ellen Page on Gay Rights: Variety
Good news…noboby sees the evil…: American Irony
The pantsuit of shamelessness: Hillary now blaming State Dept’s ‘ridiculous classification rules’: Doug Powers

Fox News anchored in stupidity on the 14th Amendment: Ann Coulter
What Kind of Liberalism Won the Culture Wars?: AmInt
Judge Says She’ll Let Anti-Abortion Group Release Videos: WZ

World

U.S. Marines HEAR Terrorist Muslim Loading Up Kalashnikov, Prevent MASSACRE On French Train: Sooper
Unarmed US Marines "saved hundreds" from Islamonazi Terrorists: Daily Mail
French official: 2 Americans subdued train gunman: Greg Keller

Pushback Against Iran Deal Is Warranted: CSP
Obama and Cuba: ‘Am I on the ball or what, Camilo?’: Babalú
Not ONE European Country Gives Automatic Birthright Citizenship to Children Born There Illegally: EIB

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Exclusive: The OPM breach details you haven't seen: Sean Lyngaas
Aztec Skull Rack Unearthed in Mexico: Archaeology
The Mysterious Marree Man of Outback Australia: Largest Geoglyph in the World: April Holloway

Cornucopia

Peter Schramm: ‘You Americans invented freedom': Jonah Goldberg
Hands Up! Or I’ll Shoot!: MOTUS
STOUGH and more STUFF: Woodsterman

Image: PHOTOS of HEROIC U.S. Marines That Thwarted Terrorist Attack in France
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: Time for a Constitutional Conservative: TED CRUZ FOR PRESIDENT

QOTD: "As historians begin to assess Barack Obama’s record as president, there’s at least one legacy he’ll leave that will indeed be historic—but not in the way he would have hoped. 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." --Jeff Greenfield

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
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: The Road Back to Reagan Conservatism: TED CRUZ FOR PRESIDENT

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
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: Do you choose liberty or tyranny? TED CRUZ FOR PRESIDENT

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.


Hat tip: BadBlue News.
 

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
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: Protect our Precious Constitution: TED CRUZ FOR PRESIDENT

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.