Thursday, September 17, 2015

Actual Email From My Brother

Received from my brother at 5:49am ET:

The following is an exchange between Peter ****** (a good friend of mine from school) and me during last night’s debate:

PETER: Doug is a big Cruz guy, isn’t he?

ME: Yes. Doug thinks Cruz is the only true Republican.

PETER: I devoted my life to Doug’s teachings.

ME: That will get you a cup to piss in.

PETER: Doug is a national treasure. You are the Billy Carter of the Ross family.

 

Larwyn's Linx: Donald Trump is the Candidate the Establishment GOP has Sought for Decades

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Donald Trump is the Candidate the Establishment GOP has Sought for Decades: VAright
The Modified GOPe Strategy (Road Map) – The Full Monte…: Treehouse
Winners and Losers from the CNN/Salem Debate: Leon H. Wolf

Jeb Bush Doesn’t See a National Right to Gun Ownership: Onan Coca
Carly Fiorina, Cheap Labor Lobby Waitress: Patrick Cleburne
Know Why Voters Cheer Donald Trump, GOP? Because Of Immigration!: Ann Coulter

Donald Trump: The Only People Who Like Him Are The Voters: Ann Coulter
Donald Trump is Getting Under President Obama’s Skin: Rebecca Nelson
Ted Cruz, Sitting Pretty: Rich Lowry

President Obama Orders Behavioral Experiments On American Public: Chuck Ross
This Constitution Day, It’s Time To Evict The Constitutional Squatters: Rita Dunaway
GOP Debate Wrap-Up: Fiorina cleans up at the big kids’ table: Mary Katherine Ham

McConnell Plans More Failure Theater on Iran: RS
Life Is Short; CNN Debate Is Long: Debra Saunders
What Went Down In The Second GOP Debate: 538

Economy

Hillary Isn’t Biden’s Problem — Obama Is: Larry Elder
Crossing Borders with Gold and Silver Coins - a Glimpse of Things to Come: Doug Casey
Rich Socialists and the Bernie Sanders Moment: Ben Shapiro

The American Disease: I Deserve to Get Away with Anything and Everything: Charles Hugh Smith
Carly Fiorina Delivers Passionate Speech Against Planned Parenthood During GOP Debate: Jay Caruso
This Was Not A Good Debate For Jeb Bush and John Kasich: Dan McLaughlin

Scandal Central

Bill Clinton's office checked with State Dept. on paid speech to group with Tehran ties: Ed Henry
Hillary’s Secret Police: New Target Is Bryan Pagliano: Hillary Daily
Congressman Hank Johnson (D-Ga.) Defends Planned Parenthood But Hasn’t ‘Even Seen’ Videos: MRC

Climate & Energy

The Sound of Settled Science: SDA
Use behavioral science to help fight climate change, says Obama executive order: Clayton Aldern
Antarctic Sea Ice Hits 35-Year Record High Saturday: WZ

Media

The Bull Mouse Party: The Z Man
Levin: There Is An Effort Underway To Push Donald Trump Out Of The Race: NoisyRm
Initial Reactions to the Second Debate: RS

Democrat Party Ropes Off Protesters Demanding More Democrat Debates: ProgsToday
Top 5 Lies From the Democrat Party About CNN's #GOPdebate: ProgsToday
Obama breaks out Satanist Aleister Crowley t-shirt: FAM

World

Cheney: Israel, Arabs Allies Think Obama Supports Muslim Brotherhood: Breitbart
Report: Obama ignored Russian offer to have Assad step down: Paul Mirengoff
Britain Plans to Require All Clerics to Register with the Government: Leon H. Wolf

Where The Hell Are “Syrian Refugees” Getting All These Bullhorns From Anyway?: WZ
“Refugees” Leave Heaps of Rubbish at the Hungarian/Austrian Border: AmRen
Sighting of R-166-0.5 Signals Vehicle Affirms Inflow of Russian Military into Syria: The Interpreter

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Air Force delivers new and innovative vision of future warfare: Mackenzie Eaglen
Who’s Behind Bluetooth Skimming in Mexico?: Brian Krebs
Dreamforce: Uber CEO Tells How the Cloud Made Ride-Sharing Possible: David Needle

Cornucopia

The Eternal Sunshine of the Compartmentalized Mind: MOTUS
An Evening Drive: Joe Posnanski
JPMorgan's Vault Is One Withdrawal Away From Running Out Of Deliverable Gold: Tyler Durden

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QOTD: " • Trump on McCain: “I like people who weren’t captured”
• Trump on Megyn Kelly: “There was blood coming out of her… wherever.”
• Trump: Rick Perry “should be forced to take an IQ test” before debate
• Trump is going to war with Scott Walker after being called “DumbDumb” by one of his supporters
• Trump on Fiorina: “Can you imagine that, the face of our next president?”
• Trump on Heidi Klum: “She’s no longer a 10.”

These are the lofty policy debates dominating the presidential election of a 21st century superpower. We aren’t discussing America’s $18.4 trillion national debt and our insolvent social programs. The stagnant economy and an expansionist China, Russia, and Islamic State. Burning cities at home and burning countries abroad.

Instead we’re trading GIFs of a reality show star on “The Tonight Show,” giggling about menstruation, and wondering if the most impressive GOP field in a generation are a bunch of “dummies” or if they’re a bunch of “losers.”

These are serious times. We are not a serious people." --Jon Gabriel

Wednesday, September 16, 2015

OH, MY: Politico Notes "Ted Cruz, Sitting Pretty"

Rich Lowry, writing at -- of all places -- Politico has an interesting analysis of the current GOP state of play ("Ted Cruz, Sitting Pretty"):

Ted Cruz isn’t topping the polls or dominating the conversation, but he’s one of the winners of the past few months.

His odds of winning the nomination have increased more than anyone else’s besides Donald Trump, and if you believe (reasonably enough) that Trump isn’t built to last, more than anyone else’s, period.

Let’s review. There was always the danger of Cruz, who made his national reputation on the strength of a misbegotten government shutdown, seeming like too much of a bomb-thrower. That was before it began to look like the Republican Party is open to a candidate only slightly less disruptive than Auguste Vaillant, the 19th-century French anarchist who struck a blow against politics as usual by literally throwing a bomb into the French Chamber of Deputies in 1893 (the establishment wasn’t amused — it executed him).

Such is the disgust with the Republican leadership, that there is no longer such a thing as going too far.

The Obama Recovery in 9 Simple Charts

By Tyler Durden


Read more at ZeroHedge.com.
 

OUTRAGE: Muslim Kid Brings Steel Case with Timer and Wires Hanging Out to School, Teachers Suspect the Worst

So a kid in Dallas named Mohamed has made headlines around the world for bringing an electronic clock to school; teachers suspected foul play, the police were called and the kid taken into custody for a brief period of time.

Social media blew up: targeting a poor, innocent kid for building a clock? Curiously, I noticed most media outlets never showed this clever device that terrified teachers. So it turns out the clock was constructed inside a steel box with an LED timer/clock mounted on it and wires hanging out. Here's a picture of the device once it was opened up:


In other words, the media and the White House are using these very sensible precautions to pillory the school system and Texas in general.

Just don't mention that the Tsarnaev brothers had backpacks.

And the overall level of hypocrisy, if you think about recent events in schools, is pretty stunning:

Larwyn's Linx: Is Obamism Correctable?

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Is Obamism Correctable?: Victor Davis Hanson
Senate Republicans Gear Up for Failure Theater: Erick Erickson
How America's political and economic elite gave birth to Trump: Damon Linker

Kathleen Willey slams Hillary’s new sex assault survivors ad: Kyle Olson
America Has Taken More Than Our Share of Refugees: Phyllis Schlafly
Flash Mob Storms Europe: Steve Sailer

Trump Crushed GOP Plan to Axe Immigration Issue and Nominate Jeb: GayPatriot
Trump’s Business Success Is More Than Marginal: Ethan Epstein
Is Biden Inevitable?: Dick Morris

Jeb Bush’s cookie-cutter campaign: Marc A. Thiessen
The Republican Establishment is in Deep Trouble: Chris Cillizza
Ted Cruz Campaign’s Latest Pursuit — High School Students: Kaitlyn Schallhorn

Economy

Opportunity Versus Outcomes: Thomas Sowell
Thanks Obamacare!: Coyote Blog
Several House Democrats concerned over DOL fiduciary rule: Nick Thornton

Scandal Central

Forget Justice: Government Just Wants Money: Steven Greenhut
Time for VA’s McDonald to Step Aside: Betsy McCaughey
Your Moral And Intellectual Superiors: SDA

New Video Shows Planned Parenthood Clearly Discussing the Sale of Baby Parts: Leon H. Wolf
Minnesota Muslim suspected of jihad recruitment given school bus driver’s license: Robert Spencer
Clinton email update: missing emails and missing classified information: RS

Media

Rush on the conservative intelligentsia: Erick Erickson
59% Think Hillary Likely To Have Broken The Law: Rasmussen
How Hillary Clinton is using old photographs to make herself more 'relatable': Annie Karni

Kathleen Willey Not a Big Hillary Fan: “She’s a lying pig … I hope she rots in hell“: JWF
A David Brock group attacks Bernie Sanders: RS
War on Teachers: Walter Williams

World

The Weapons Of Benghazi: Herschel Smith
Fecklessness 101: AmInt
Putin: ISIS has designs on Mecca, Medina, Jerusalem, endangers Europe & Russia: RT

The Consequences Of Obama's Weakness: Richard A. Epstein
China’s creeping influence in Djibouti: Malcolm Stuart
Montreal: Muslim teens charged with possessing explosives, facilitating terror act: Robert Spencer

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

What’s it really like in the driver’s seat of a driverless car?: Charlie Gillis
Uber chief advisor David Plouffe shrugs off wage complaints as driver pool booms: Sam Shead
Enlisting a Drone to Sell Your House Just Won’t Fly: Craig Donofrio

Cornucopia

From Character to Caricature: Bruce Hanify
I figured out how to make the upper receiver from a bolt (maybe) .... by drilling ....: Winter Soldier
Qatari caught in Beverly Hills street race with Ferrari and Porsche claims diplomatic immunity: DailyMail

Image: Flash Mob Storms Europe
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QOTD: "I fear no man, and only one woman, but I wouldn't mess with Mark Steyn for all the carbon credits in China." --Theo Caldwell

Tuesday, September 15, 2015

SHOCKA: Obama’s Iranian Lobby Tied Directly to Islamist Terror Regime

By The Tower

A prominent Iranian dissident has exposed the extensive commercial and political links between National Iranian American Council (NIAC) and a number of key figures in the Iranian regime, including current President Hassan Rouhani and Foreign Minister Javad Zarif.

Writing in the Daily Beast under the pseudonym “Alex Shirazi,” the dissident – who concealed his identity out of fear of reprisals against his family in Iran – chronicled NIAC’s evolution within the broader ambitions of the Namazis, a little-known but influential Iranian family that first rose to prominence under the Shah and returned to Iranian public life following the death of Ayatollah Khomeini in 1989. Under the 1989-97 Presidency of Hashemi Rasfanjani, who combined doctrinal orthodoxy with an eye for a smart deal, the Namazis were again in their element. Writes Shirazi:

IMPORTING "MIGRANTS" FROM SYRIA: What Could Go Wrong?

Europe is now discovering all of the benefits of unchecked immigration.


Which makes you wonder: why are dozens of Democrats lobbying to import 150,000 Syrians (and untold number of ISIS terrorists) into the United States?

Any Democrat advocating this insanity should be required to accept these "migrants" into their Congressional districts and their neighborhoods. We'll see how that plays with their constituents.
 
 
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How to Create a Banana Republic

By Daniel Greenfield

You get a banana republic by starting with a dictator.

Obama's position has been straightforward, at least privately. He will do whatever he wants and no one will stop him. He has repeatedly defied Congress and the courts to do so.

While he plays the game of giving speech in which he demands that Congress do X or Y, it's in practice shut out of the process. Here's how it worked on the Iran Deal.

Obama made it clear to Democrats in Congress that he would implement the deal no matter what. The Republican leadership by now has gotten the message. The message is that Congressional voters are irrelevant. They don't affect policy unless the dictator-in-chief allows them to.

That reduces all such votes to positioning. Gestures. Some are more meaningful than others, but barring impeachment proceedings, they don't really matter.

Obama illegally allocates money, goes to war, makes treaties and makes appointments while bypassing the Senate. In such an environment, you either defy or you appear to defy. Compromise is irrelevant because Obama doesn't compromise. Not even with fellow Democrats.

PRIORITIES: Democrats Attack FanDuel and DraftKings, Yet Ignore a Nuclear Iran and a bankrupt Social Security

It's pretty cool how a Congressional Representative from Atlantic City has nothing better to focus on than fantasy sports.

If you were watching NFL games this weekend, there was something that everyone saw that was hard to miss. Commercials for daily fantasy sports (dubbed “DFS”) websites like DraftKings and FanDuel played regularly, and their ads were plastered everywhere at stadiums...

As opposed to normal fantasy leagues, where players (or ‘managers’ as they are called) draft a team for an entire season, DFS is, just like the name implies, daily. Managers draft players for a single day based on player values using a website imposed salary cap. With DFS, the player values combined with the salary cap creates ‘odds’ in gambling parlance for the probability of a certain outcome; basically the higher the player value, or cost, the more likely the player will have a better game compared to similar players.

...With rising popularity, exposure and money coming to sites like DraftKings and FanDuel, comes new scrutiny. Rep. Frank Pallone (D-NJ), ranking member the Energy and Commerce Committee, has requested an inquiry into the relationship between gambling and playing DFS. Said Rep. Pallone in a statement on DFS sites: “These sites are enormously popular, arguably central to the fans’ experience, and professional leagues are seeing the enormous profits as a result. Despite how mainstream these sites have become, though, the legal landscape governing these activities remains murky and should be reviewed.”

WHO KNEW? Intel Chiefs Reveal Obama’s "War" on ISIS is a Charade

By Allen West

When I was a young captain and artillery battery commander, I learned quickly that there were two folks you did not cross — the Mess Sergeant and the Supply Sergeant. One, well, is self-explanatory, because he prepares the chow, but the other maintains your property account. And trust me, I saw what happened to young captains who screwed over their supply sergeants — somehow stuff went missing, even if it had been inventoried and accounted for.

Now there’s another group of folks you do not want to cross — we lovingly refer to them as “spooks” — the brave and brilliant men and women of the intelligence community. They know the secrets and where the “bodies” are buried. And it seems they’re leading us to the gravesite.

As reported by the not so conservative Daily Beast,”It’s being called a ‘revolt’ by intelligence pros who are paid to give their honest assessment of the ISIS war—but are instead seeing their reports turned into happy talk.

Larwyn's Linx: 'The Twin Cities have an ISIS problem'

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'The Twin Cities have an ISIS problem': Carol Brown
Why There Are So Few Women and Children Amid the Hordes of Islamic “Refugees”: MB
Idiots Graham And McCain Call for America to Take Syrian Terrorists: Brenda Walker

Mitch McConnell fails with Iran nuke deal – Blames Democrats: David Leach
Mitch McConnell Doesn’t Even Project Leadership: Jay Caruso
Because He Fights!: Erick Erickson

ABC/WaPo National Poll – Donald Trump With 33%, Carson 20%, Bush 8%…: Treehouse
Rise of the “Crazy Buts”: Ron Fournier
Carson: 'Doesn't Make Sense' To Take In Refugees When Others Won't: Ian Hanchett

Only a Clinton...: Sultan Knish
The Incredible Shrinking Pantsuit: Grandma Loses 21 Points in New ABC Poll: JWF
And the News Gets Worse for Clinton: Stuart Rothenberg

America’s Legal Order Begins to Fray: Heather Mac Donald
‘We’ve seen a rise in anti-police rhetoric instead of hope and change’: JWF
Lawmaker says Obama’s refugee plan will bring in terrorists: Kelley Martin

Economy

Bulls*** from Bernie: John Hinderaker
I pledge to end federal public-employee unions: Gov. Scott Walker
U.S. Federal Government Program: Pay Minnesota Muslims Not To Kill People: Treehouse

Scandal Central

New State Department Documents Reveal Hillary Clinton Email Gap: JW
The Hillary Clinton Email Saga: “Senior Intelligence Officials Said”: Charles Lipson
Ted Cruz Says Obama Will Be To Blame if the Government Shuts Down Over Planned Parenthood: Chris Enloe

The Scheming Marxist Architect Of Obamacare, Robert Creamer, Helped Sell The Iran Deal: NoisyRm
Hillary Clinton, wife of Bill, says women with sexual assault claims have right to be heard: Malkin
Full Speech: 20,000 Cheer Trump At Texas Rally, Hammers ‘This Sanctuary Cities Crap’: WZ

Media

Three Pinocchios for Obama’s claim of “strong support” for Iran deal: Ed Morrissey
Dave Brat: Conservative Who Ousted Eric Cantor Sees Little Change in Washington: Melissa Quinn
Joe Scarborough and Media Matters’ David Brock Spar Over Hillary Clinton’s Email: Alex Griswold

Mark Levin explains the Donald Trump phenomenon…like nobody else: Scoop
What Has America Accomplished After Two-Terms Of A Barack Obama Presidency?: PolFi
‘Total and Complete Joke': Trump Targets Corporate America on Face the Nation: Josh Feldman

Hillary Clinton’s campaign shocked that women can read and think: RS
Clinton Speaks To Mostly Empty Hall In Ohio: Alicia Powe
Muslim Day Parade 2015: Urban Infidel

World

Ruminations on the Russians: The Z Man
The Map Comes To Life: Richard Fernandez
Bill Clinton Worked Hand in Glove with Al Qaeda: “Helped Turn Bosnia into Militant Islamic Base”: Chossudovsky

Federal Data: U.S. Annually Admits Quarter Of A Million Muslim Migrants: Julia Hahn
Corbyn is the UK left’s tantrum against Bush and Blair: Neil Stevens
The US airman who stopped the French train gunman will receive the purple heart: Insider

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Cancer Research, Irreproducibility, and the Insidiousness of the “Julia Child Argument”: Judge Starling
Netflix And Amazon Users Sue Chicago Over 9% Streaming Tax: Tammy Bruce
How Apple’s 3D Touch changes UIs: Alex Handy

Cornucopia

“Make America Great Again”… Miss America That Is…: MOTUS
The Democrat Hall of Shame: FSM
Get ready for a new war: TRUMP v. KARL ROVE or KARL ROVE v. TRUMP: Gretawire

Image: Hillary Clinton’s campaign shocked that women can read and think
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QOTD: "On Iran, it looks like things are going the wrong way. On the debt, the deficit, the fiscal picture, we’re going in the wrong way. On Planned Parenthood, we’re going the wrong way. On unconstitutional amnesty, we’re going the wrong way. On trade, we’re going the wrong way. So yeah, everybody’s frustrated, and leadership is in charge of that agenda." --Rep. Dave Brat (R-VA)

Monday, September 14, 2015

Trump Hammers Bush, Rubio, Kasich, and GOP Establishment Plan to Import Thousands of ISIS Terrorists

By Julia Hahn

Donald Trump is facing down the establishment pressure that has already prompted Jeb Bush and Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) to announce they would provide residency to some of Muslim refugees or economic migrants now fleeing Islamic wars in the Middle East.

“Look, from a humanitarian standpoint, I’d love to help. But we have our own problems. We have so many problems that we have to solve,” Trump declared on Wednesday night’s broadcast of Hannity.

“We are the only country in the world whose immigration system puts the needs of other nations ahead of our own. That must change,” Trump wrote in his August migration policy paper that has supercharged his 2016 campaign.

On Sept. 10, a White House spokesman said President Barack Obama would grant residence to 10,000 additional Syrians in 2016, along with the routine inflow of 70,000 refugees and 1 million new immigrants.

Bush says the United States should accept more Middle East refugees: “We should accept — we’re a country that has a noble tradition of accepting refugees. We need to make sure that they’re not part of ISIS or something like that,” Bush told Fox and Friends.

Marco Rubio echoed Bush.

GROOVY: Invasion of Obama "Dreamers" Adding Thousands of Members to Ultra-Violent MS-13 Street Gang

By Judicial Watch

A government agency reveals that the nation’s most violent street gang has been energized by the barrage of illegal immigrant minors who have entered the U.S. through Mexico, confirming a Judicial Watch report last summer that gangs were actively recruiting members at shelters housing the new arrivals.

The tens of thousands of illegal immigrants, coined Unaccompanied Alien Children (UAC) by the government, came mostly from Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala. The Obama administration rolled out the welcome mat, quickly offering housing, food, medical treatment and a free education. The UACs have brought in dangerous diseases—including swine flu, dengue fever, Ebola virus and tuberculosis— and have occupied our military bases as shelters. Many have been disbursed throughout the U.S., igniting a crisis for overwhelmed public school districts nationwide.

As soon as the UACs started arriving, Homeland Security sources told Judicial Watch that many had ties to gang members in the U.S. In fact, JW reported last July that street gangs—including Mara Salvatrucha or MS-13—went on a recruiting frenzy at U.S. shelters housing the illegal immigrant minors and they were using Red Cross phones to communicate. The MS-13 is a feared street gang of mostly Central American illegal immigrants that’s spread throughout the U.S. and is renowned for drug distribution, murder, rape, robbery, home invasions, kidnappings, vandalism and other violent crimes. The Justice Department’s National Gang Intelligence Center (NGIC) says criminal street gangs like the MS-13 are responsible for the majority of violent crimes in the U.S. and are the primary distributors of most illicit drugs.

Now the Texas Department of Public Safety confirms that the MS-13 has emerged as a top tier gang in Texas this year thanks to the influx of illegal alien gang members that crossed into the state last year.

TED CRUZ: Here is How John Boehner and Mitch McConnell Can Still Stop the Iran Nuclear Deal

By Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas)

The specter of a nuclear-armed Islamic Republic of Iran is the single greatest threat facing our nation, and if President Barack Obama's catastrophic nuclear deal with the mullahs goes forward, there will be nothing to stop them from obtaining a nuclear bomb. 

Astonishingly, we do not even know how bad the deal is because the Administration has not released all of the information relating to side deals with Iran as they are obligated to do under the terms of Corker-Cardin, the Iran Nuclear Agreement Review Act that Congress passed and the President signed into law.

Today I sent Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and House Speaker John Boehner a letter that lays out the legal authority they possess as leaders in both Houses of Congress to actually stop this deal.

If we believe what we say about this deal—that it is a profound threat to our national security, to the survival of our friend and ally the nation of Israel and potentially to the lives of millions of Americans—then we should act like it. No show votes that are destined to lose; instead, the leadership should exercise their legal authority to actually prevent more than $100 billion from going to the Ayatollah Khamenei.

The approach I recommend entails a three-step process, and McConnell and Boehner should seize this opportunity to demonstrate leadership and make it happen.

Progressive Rapper Azealia Banks Likes Trump's Plan: Blacks Disproportionately Hurt by Illegal Immigration

By Julia Hahn

As polls show Donald Trump performing better than ever with black voters, progressive rapper Azealia Banks is expressing support for Trump’s popular immigration policy because of the positive impact it could have on black Americans.

“Do you think it’s bad that I sort of agree with [Trump’s] stance on immigration?” the rapper wrote on her Instagram account on September 7th.

Banks, a black rapper from Harlem, made headlines in March of this year by declaring her hatred for “this country” and “white Americans.”

Banks explained that her support for Trump’s immigration plan is based on the detrimental impact mass immigration has had on the black community. “Black Americans still have not been paid reparations for slavery,” she wrote. “It’s selfish, but America has been really good at convincing me that everyone else’s problems are more important than my own.”

Following an immediate onslaught of progressive backlash, Banks tried to vaguely signal to progressives that her pro-America immigration statement was just a “social experiment.” However, all of her social media posts thereafter demonstrate a strong support for the ideas underpinning Trump’s rise.

“If the United States of America is an aircraft on its way down, (which it seems to be) I must put my own air mask on before I assist others,” Banks later wrote.

Larwyn's Linx: Calls to depose GOP leadership mount

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Calls to depose GOP leadership mount: 'Who is in charge right now?': Barbara Boland
Making sense of the GOP's cave-in on the Iran deal: Lee Cary
McCain: Internet, Not Muslim Immigrants, The Threat To U.S. Safety: Patrick Cleburne

Judge: Congress can sue over Obamacare: Amy Miller
How Obama has fundamentally transformed politics: Michael Barone
Whoa: 50 military intel chiefs just REVOLTED against Obama: Allen West

Poll: Trump commands lead in Iowa, N.H. and S.C.: Curt Mills
Ben Carson sets forth a sort of amnestyish sounding immigration plan: Jazz Shaw
Ted Cruz Wins FreedomWorks Straw Poll at 9/12 Grassroots Summit: Iris Somberg

The GOPe Roadmap, Status Update and The Event Horizon…: Treehouse
Hillary Trails 8 GOP Hopefuls, with Dr. Ben Carson Running Strongest Against Her: EIB
Hillary Says She’s a Progressive Moderate: S. Noble

Economy

Just How Big is the Government?: Steven Hayward
Judge rules on taxi industry lawsuit: Compete with Uber or die: Erik Engquist
Minimum wage increase push just a political ploy: Chris Woodward

Scandal Central

Is the White House behind the manipulation of ISIS reporting?: RS
In the Left’s Story of Government, the State Is Always the Hero: Jonah Goldberg
Obama's happy-talk policy spills into the intel world: Exam

Clinton’s Emails from Private Server ‘Might Not Be Erased After All’: David Rutz
Justice Department on emails: No reason not to believe Hillary: Byron York
Here’s what Trey Gowdy thinks about giving Clinton staffers’ immunity . . . and pleading the 5th: BPR

Climate & Energy

Court rips EPA for approving Dow insecticide linked to honeybee deaths: Paul Bedard

Media

Jake Tapper thinks the GOP debate is all about him: FAM
Clinton surrogates declare war on the NY Times: T. Becket Adams
So Much Scolding, So Little Time: SDA

The Obnoxious and Important Questions I Would Ask At The GOP Debate: Kurt Schlichter
Maker of ‘Airplane’ Movies Destroys Obama’s Horrid Iran Deal With Hilarious ‘Iran Side Effects’: Publius
CNN Laughs at Hillary Clinton After Clips Where She Claims To Be Progressive AND Moderate: Right Pundit

World

The Third World Is On The Move. This Will Get WAY Worse Before It Gets Better: John Derbyshire
“We Can’t Take Any More!” German Ministers Call For Controls On Borders, Trains: WZ
Residents Cheer as Michigan City Denies Muslims Building Permit for 20,500 Sq. Ft Mosque: LibertyNews

Europe's Refugee Crisis: Violence, Demands, and Muslim Conquest: Carol Brown
Syrian military and ISIS have been ‘ignoring’ each other on the battlefield: Matthew Henman
The collapse of Christianity in the Middle East: RS

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

People began creating own TSA master keys using 3D printing: Suzanne Jean
How I broke the 40 minute 10K barrier with tech: Gareth Beavis
An Angry China May Cancel Xi Trip To Washington Over US Cyber Sanctions: ZH

Cornucopia

Statements on the death of Moses Malone: InsideHoops
Intense color footage of WWI [video]: Holy Kaw!
Marcus Mariota Finished with a Perfect Passing Rating, 4 TD Passes in Debut: Jason McIntyre

Image: California Wildfire Forces Thousands From Homes
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QOTD: "This is not a fight about politics. This is a fight about life and death. That Washington Republicans refuse to see that explains why they’re getting their butts kicked by a guy like Donald Trump. Their cynicism will be their death, even as they try to keep the death train rolling for Planned Parenthood." --Erick Erickson

Sunday, September 13, 2015

"Come out to the pyramids, we'll get together, have a few laughs"

Not to make light of yet another tragedy in the Middle East, but the latest news out of Egypt isn't going to help the tourism trade:

Egyptian security forces accidentally shoot at Mexican tourist convoy, killing 12

Egypt's police and military killed 12 Egyptians and Mexicans and injured 10 when they accidentally shot at a Mexican tourist convoy whilst engaging militants in the country's western desert, the Ministry of Interior said on Monday.

"The incident resulted in the death of 12 Mexicans and Egyptians and the injury of 10 others who have been transferred to hospitals," the ministry said in a statement.

It added that the convoy was made up of four four-wheel drive vehicles and that there would be an investigation into how and why the tourists entered an off-limits area.

Egypt is battling an insurgency that gained pace after the military ousted Islamist President Mohamed Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood in mid-2013 after mass protests against his rule.

The insurgency, mounted by Islamic State's Egyptian affiliate, has killed hundreds of soldiers and police and has started to attack Western targets.

By all means, let's import more Muslim refugees into the United States -- hundreds of thousands of them if Democrats had their way. That should make things better. After all, the higher the percentage of a country's citizens are Muslims, the more that peace and tranquility rule the day.


Hat tip: BadBlue News.
 

SHOCKER: Two of Three Illegal Immigrant Households Dependent on Welfare Payments

Steven A. Camarota, writing at the Center for Immigration Studies, has some astoundingly useful data to help inform the 2016 Presidential election. Using Census Bureau data, a comprehensive study examined welfare use by all immigrant households.

The executive summary: roughly two of every three illegal immigrant households are dependent on one or more types of welfare payment. And more than half are on Medicaid.


...The overwhelming majority of illegal immigrants have modest levels of education; therefore, the high use of welfare associated with less-educated legal immigrants indicates that legalization would likely increase welfare costs, particularly for cash and housing programs...

...households headed by legal immigrants shows that, unlike illegal immigrant households, legal immigrant households use every type of program at relatively high rates. Legal immigrant households have higher welfare use than native households for cash, food, and Medicaid. Looking at the individual programs shown in Table 1 indicates that legal immigrant households have statistically significant higher use than natives for SSI, school lunch, WIC, food stamps, and Medicaid. Table 1 makes clear that the inclusion of illegal immigrants in the SIPP does not explain the relatively high use of welfare by immigrant households overall. Illegal immigrants tend to lower the rates for immigrants for some programs, while raising it for others. But both legal and illegal immigrant households make extensive use of the welfare system.

But remember, folks: according to the loathsome Tom Donahue and the Chamber of Crony Capitalism, these unvetted welfare recipients are here to do the work Americans won't do.

Hat tip: BadBlue News.
 

Larwyn's Linx: Tech Company: Clinton 'server wasn't wiped'

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Nation

Tech Company: Clinton 'server wasn't wiped': Barbara Boland
Sanctuary City enjoys skyrocketing rates of murder, rape: Jazz Shaw
Hours after Dems celebrated nuke deal ‘victory,’ Iran announces...: Doug Powers

Descent Into Lawlessness: Victor Davis Hanson
The Invasion of the West Has Begun: Brent Smith
The Billionaire Candidate and His Blue-Collar Following: Ronald Brownstein

Obama's Navy Secretary Slanders Marines: John McCormack
Gag Orders & More: BlackFive
We need more background checks, and the statistics prove it! (or not): GFZ

The Trump Effect: The Z Man
Mark Levin HITS BACK at the gang effort to tear down Trump and push him out: Scoop
Lawlessness and Kim Davis’ Fireweed-like Faith: Susan Brown

Latest Iowa Poll Devastating For Scott Walker: Cancels California GOP Trip: Treehouse
The Plot To Topple Speaker Boehner: Matt K. Lewis
Rep. Meadows Throws Down the Gauntlet: Anti-Gunner John Boehner Must Go!: Erich Pratt

Economy

Tennessee Common Core Teaches One Nation Under Allah: Daniel John Sobieski
Microsoft Lays Off Workers Amid Calls for Expanded H1-B Visas: Ronald Shapiro
Expatriates choosing to leave the U.S. rather than pay taxes: Linda Dimyan

Scandal Central

Justice Department lawyers argue Hillary Clinton had the right to delete any emails she chose: Thomas Lifson
Justice Department Rejected Criminal Probe of Hillary Aide's Overpayment: Sandy Fitzgerald
State Dept. has no plans to make all Abedin, Mills emails public: Stephen Dinan

So the DEA has been seizing patient records without a warrant: Jazz Shaw
Time for a Special Prosecutor: Obama DOJ Participating in Hillary Email Cover-Up: TAB
The Video Of Hillary Clinton Trying Really Hard To Dance To ‘Watch Me Whip Nae Nae’ Song: HayRide

Climate & Energy

Californian climate mutiny! Democrats side with Republicans to defeat Jerry Brown: Eric Worrall
Wake up, Obama, climate change has been happening forever: Betsy McCaughey
Another green group declares war: Tony Dokoupil

Media

‘Terrorist’ Troll Pretended to Be ISIS, White Supremacist, and Jewish Lawyer: Katie Zavadski
“Black Holes Are Where God Divided By Zero”: MOTUS
Trump Gets HUGE News, As CNN Caves to His Demands: Mr. Conservative

The Two Mark Levins: Michael Ledeen
MSNBC Panelist Says Hillary Should Emulate Palin's Authenticity: Jack Coleman
Sabato on Hillary: "It is stunning how bad a candidate she has been": Marathon

World

Here Come Iran’s Drones: Ben Lerner
Iran says finds unexpectedly high uranium reserve: Reuters
More Setbacks for Iran: Heshmat Alavi

AQAP’s Inspire magazine contains ‘military analysis’ of Charlie Hebdo massacre: Thomas Joscelyn
By the Temple Mount, we sat and wept: Lahav Harkov
Israel Finally Outlaws “Temple Mount Screamers”: Miriam Elman

Angelina Jolie Discusses the Enslavement of Women by the Islamic State: GoV
Rape and forced prostitution common in muslim refugee camps in Germany: Vlad Tepes
Syrian Refugees Are Happy in Turkish Camp: Brenda Walker

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Hackers had full access to your GM car for five years: Kevin Downey
The Black Death: the Plague that Sowed Terror and Death in Medieval Europe: Ancient Origins
Here’s what Google looked like in 1998: Kristen V. Brown

Cornucopia

Psalm 144:1: Springer's Blog
SHAMEFUL: Look what these top Obama admins did on 9/11: Earl Hall
9/11. We will never forget. We will never forgive. (CAUTION: EXTREMELY GRAPHIC): BNI

Image: Vox voxplains the Clinton email scandal that she’s sorry confused people
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: #LIBERTY: TED CRUZ FOR PRESIDENT

QOTD: "Platte River Networks, the company that managed Hillary Clinton's private email server, says the server "wasn't wiped," making tens of thousands of deleted emails potentially recoverable, reported the Washington Post.

"Platte River has no knowledge of the server being wiped," company spokesman Andy Boian said. "All the information we have is that the server wasn't wiped."" --Barbara Boland