Monday, October 05, 2015

For those who doubt the GOPe Splitter Strategy actually exists, please answer me one simple question...

The Beltway Establishment's secretive plan to hand Jeb Bush the GOP nomination (also known as the "GOPe Splitter Strategy") hinged on flooding the zone with establishment candidates.

Friends of mine -- knowledgeable operators in the Republican hemisphere -- have pooh-poohed the idea of such a conspiracy. To which I respond with a single question:


Why are Lindsey Graham, Bobby Jindal, Chris Christie, Mike Huckabee, John Kasich, George Pataki (Who? Exactly) and other non-entities still pretending to be in the race?

All six candidates are drawing -- in aggregate -- six percent. How can they afford a campaign under these conditions? Simple, they can't. They're being funded by the GOPe.

Problem is: a very large monkey wrench was thrown into the establishment's machinery.

And things will never be the same.


Hat tip: BadBlue Real-Time News.
 

My Gun Control Debate With a Liberal

Via email, a response to a far left totalitarian who seeks the confiscation of America's guns. Because that would save all the children, dontcha know?:

Dear L,

The history and text of the Second Amendment are crystal clear. The Bill of Rights podcast I sent you provides an excellent description of the Federalist vs. Anti-Federalist Debate on these topics.

As an aside, as Americans bought 170 million new guns since 1991, violent crime has dropped by more than half (source).

Concealed carry (CCW), once restricted to one state just a few decades ago, is allowed almost everywhere. And as CCW has proliferated, murder rates have dropped precipitously (source).

But since we're talking about saving the children, shouldn't we be more worried about the epidemic of violent crime by illegal aliens (by the Obama administration's own numbers, 37 percent of all federal sentences were levied against illegal aliens).

In fact, the Government Accountability Office reports that more than 25,000 homicides (1,000 Sandy Hooks!) were committed by illegal aliens over the last few years.

So, in fact, if you would like to save thousands of lives without having to repeal the Bill of Rights, perhaps sealing the border might serve as an excellent appetizer.

Larwyn's Linx: Chaffetz Enters Race for Speaker On Fox News Sunday

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Nation

Chaffetz Enters Race for Speaker On Fox News Sunday: LidBlog
How to elect a conservative-leaning speaker of the House: Ed Straker
Rep. Jason Chaffetz enters Speaker’s race: Moe Lane

Bush and Kasich Have Little To Show After Spending Millions In NH: Treehouse
Jeb Bush’s Faltering Money Men: Noah Rothman
Scumbat Elizabeth Warren: Republicans Want Women to Get Cancer: RightPundit

Only mystery left: how much damage will last gasp of 2016 bring?: Victor Davis Hanson
Hillary Unable To Distinguish Herself From Obama, Plays Identity Politics: Derek Hunter
How Gen. David Petraeus gets it, and Hillary Clinton still doesn’t: John A. Tures

Barack Obama’s Rhetoric and the Rise of the Rampage Killing: Erick Erickson
Gun-Controlled Chicago Sees Deadliest Month In 13 Years: WZ
Sheriff on Roseburg killings: ‘I will not enforce tighter Obama gun laws’: Unyielding

How bad is it for the Democrats? Biden is touted as their savior: DTG
TN Lt. Gov. Ramsey: ‘Fellow Christians’ Should Arm Themselves: John Binder
Only 22% of GOP voters want Mitch McConnell to stay: Unyielding

Economy

The Obama Depression continues: Cold Fury
Mini-Fascists in Training: Derek Hunter
Why, of course they did: DC Cartel allows law on H-1B visa fee to lapse: IIFL

Scandal Central

Hillary Clinton’s legal adviser warns her — Time to lawyer up: Edward Klein
The (too) many hats of Huma Abedin: A tale of Clintonworld: Post
Secret Service Targeting of Chaffetz Alarms Lawmakers: Hannah Hess and Matthew Fleming

Climate & Energy

India will need $2.5 trillion of foreign aid to meet "climate change" dictates: Steven Hayward
John Tierney in NY Times: Recycling was ‘garbage’ in 1996, it’s still that way today: Mark J. Perry
Finally: visualized OCO2 satellite data showing global carbon dioxide concentrations: Erik Swenson

Media

Hillary has long history of beating up Bill behind closed doors: book: Maureen Callahan
Emails reveal Clinton team's press obsession: T. Becket Adams
Obama, Silent on Christians Being Targeted for Their Religion, Not So When Muslims Were Targeted: Patterico

Press Yawns As U.S. PR Firm Flaks for Venezuela’s Oppressive Government: BizzyBlog
“How to expose CNN’s dimwitted, by turning on your own” . . . by John McCain: James Raider
Cruz: ‘Run and hide’ from establishment candidates: Bradford Richardson

Ben Carson Asks IRS To Pull CAIR’s Tax Exempt Status: WZ
Waco “Twin Peaks” Shooting Update – No-One Charged: Treehouse
Defiant Planned Parenthood president calls Fiorina a liar: Barbara Boland

World

12 Hair-Raising Facts from Congressional Terror Report: Ryan Mauro
The Specter of Saudi Instability: Walter Russell Mead
Czechs Propose Polish-Czech-Slovak-Hungarian Force to Protect Borders From Muslim Migrants: Jim Hoft

End of ISIS? Putin 'sending 150,000 soldiers to Syria to WIPE OUT evil Islamic State': Scott Campbell
Russia Claims ISIS Now On The Ropes As Fighters Desert After 60 Airstrikes In 72 Hours: ZH
ISIS left so weakened by airstrikes and desertion it could be destroyed in just HOURS: Nick Gutteridge

Jihadist Shooter Kills Two in “Gun-Free” Australia: LI
Obama kills 22 Doctors without Border then golfs: FAM
Netanyahu: Israel 'in fight to death against Palestinian terror': AFP

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

What people in 1900 thought the year 2000 would look like: Ana Swanson
Huawei’s first Android Wear watch is a beautiful yet basic timepiece: Valentina Palladino
The Rise and Fall of the Plane "Anyone Could Fly": Matt Blitz

Cornucopia

Playing The Trump Card On A Corrupt GOPe…: Treehouse
8 secrets to grit and resilience, courtesy of the Navy SEALs: Eric Barker
Poetry Sunday: The Wisdom of the Gods of The Copybook Headings: MOTUS

Image: South Carolina flood: Door-to-door searches, swamped roads
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: #RestoreOurConstitution: TED CRUZ FOR PRESIDENT

QOTD: "One of the Clintons’ oldest and most trusted legal advisers has urged Hillary to hire a criminal defense attorney to represent her in case she’s indicted for mishandling classified documents on her private e-mail server and for lying under oath...

...“This e-mail thing is spiraling out of control,” he said. “To paraphrase John Dean of Watergate fame, it’s a cancer on her candidacy ... I’ve told them repeatedly that this FBI e-mail investigation could go in a very dangerous direction very quickly."

“I think Bill takes the matter seriously. But Hillary is still acting as though it’s a political smear job by right-wing zealots.”" --Edward Klein

Sunday, October 04, 2015

BLUE STATE UTOPIA: Illinois enters fourth month without a budget; standoff could mean lights out at Capitol

In the unfolding -- and somewhat hilarious Blue-on-Blue war between the Democrat-Union Axis and the people of Illinois who unfailingly elect them -- the nation's most broke-ass state is going on its fourth month without a budget.

Illinois Secretary of State Jesse White warned the governor this week that the ongoing budget standoff would cause major problems at government facilities statewide, "including the possibility that the electricity could be shut off at the Capitol".

Please consider: "Illinois' budget standoff could mean lights out at Capitol" (the article itself disappeared from the IUSB website, so the link goes to the cached version):

TED KENNEDY’S PLOT TO DESTROY AMERICA TURNS 50

By Julia Hahn

Fifty years ago today, Ted Kennedy began changing the face of the United States by ushering the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act through Congress. That legislation resulted in the fundamental transformation of the demographic, economic, social, and political landscape of nation, exactly the opposite of what its supporters promised.

The Kennedy immigration law abolished the national origins quota system, which had favored immigrants from nations with a similar heritage to our own, and opened up American immigration visas to the entire world.

While about nine in ten of the immigrants who came to the United States during the 19th and 20th century hailed from Europe, the 1965 law inverted that figure. Today about 9 out of every 10 new immigrants brought into the country on green cards come from Latin America, Africa, Asia or the Middle East.

The size of the numbers also grew exponentially as well. According to Pew Research Center, 59 million immigrants entered the United States following the Act’s passage. Including their children, that added 72 million new residents to the U.S. population.

In 1965, according to Pew, the country was 84 percent white, 11 percent black, 4 percent Hispanic and less than 1 percent Asian.

ANAPHYLACTIC SHOCK: GOPe in panic mode as Kasich support evaporates and Jeb! numbers drop below IQ of Biden

The Beltway Establishment's secretive plan to hand Jeb Bush the GOP nomination by flooding the zone with candidates (also known as the "GOPe Splitter Strategy") has totally unravelled.


Let's start in New Hampshire, where support for John Kasich has fallen off the cliff:

Larwyn's Linx: Kevin McCarthy: Too Dumb and Incoherent to be Speaker

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Nation

Kevin McCarthy: Too Dumb and Incoherent to be Speaker: George Rasley
Hillary Clinton doesn’t like that Constitution thing: RS
Mark Levin: Obama Trashes the Constitution and No One Says a Thing: Scoop

Obama Goes Beyond Mere Gun Control, Hints at Confiscation: AWR Hawkins
Anti-gunnites More Overt Reaching For Ban On Private Gun Ownership: William Teach
ISIS Claims Responsibility for Umpqua College Shooting: Pamela Geller

Arne Duncan Resigns: Remember Who He is & Why Obama Chose Him: MagNote
America Is Not Japan, and ‘Common Sense’ Won’t End Mass Shootings: Trevor Burrus
Why Are Democrats Still Supporting a Compulsive Liar?: Dave Jolly

Clinton emails show simmering tensions with Obama: Sarah Westwood
Oh Snap: Obama Smacks Hillary's Syria Strategy: Caleb Howe
Here Are the Shocking Numbers On Crimes Committed By Illegals: John Binder

Panic in Bushworld: Rubio now most likely GOP nominee in predictions market: Hot Air
Rep. Jason Chaffetz Running for Speaker of the House: Ace
Guns Killed in Oregon Not Shooter Per Dad: Toni Williams

Scandal Central

Jordan: Congress will impeach IRS' Koskinen: Barbara Boland
Emails show Hillary's deep involvement in bank investigation: Sarah Westwood
Secret Service director changes account of his role in Chaffetz leak case: WaPo

Obama Administration and UN Announce Global Police Force to Fight 'Extremism' In U.S.: Pamela Geller
Emails Reveal How Far Clinton Was Willing to Go to Promote Ex-Ambassador's Interests: Avi Asher-Schapiro
9 Emails That Hillary Clinton Received About Anthony Weiner's Weiner: Alicia Lu

Climate & Energy

Did James Hansen Unwittingly Prove The Null Hypothesis Of AGW?: Dr. Tim Ball

Media

Challenged By NRO Reporter, Halperin Can’t Offer Single Policy Solution To Gun Violence: Daniel Bassali
NBC Military Analyst tells Obama to “Shut Up” on Syria – “We Don’t Even have a Strategy”: Onan Coca
Campus speaker touting men’s rights has fire alarm pulled on her: Jason Weaver

E-Mail to Hillary Assures Her State Department 'Planted' Questions With '60 Minutes': Tim Graham
Actor James Woods: 'Hate Crime Massacre of Christians Finally Silences Obama': Mark Judge
Ben Carson’s AWESOME response to Oregon shooting is going viral: Michelle Jesse

Why are students now cheering about the massacre at Charlie Hebdo?: Brendan O'Neill
What if shooter had targeted Muslims, not Christians?: BPR
Survivor of Oregon Shooting Rejects Obama's Gun Control Inanity: GJWHG

World

House of Bribes: How the United States Led the Way to a Nuclear Iran: GoV
A Nightmare, Reborn, Part 2: GoV
The Other Immigrant Invasion: GoV

I guess Obama just didn't notice the ISIS Command Center there: Ace
Largest US Foreign Policy Blunder Since Vietnam Complete: Iran Readies Massive Syrian Ground Invasion: ZH
The "Obama Doctrine" is just misguided dithering: Taylor Dibbert

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Cape Verde Volcano Triggered Megatsunami 73,000 Years Ago, Could History Repeat Itself?: Matthew Buchanan
This machine produces the largest humanmade waves in the world: Martin Enserink
'Legacy' London Car Hire Companies Lawyer Up Against Uber: Slashdot

Cornucopia

In London, a cupboard beneath a staircase asks $750 a month: The Real Deal
Geraldo Says the 2nd Amendment is “bullsh*t”: Sara Noble
If There Were No Guns: Joe Huffman

Image: Today's Pompous Putz
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: #RestoreOurConstitution: TED CRUZ FOR PRESIDENT

QOTD: "In 1999, at the height of the Lewinsky scandal, Hillary again assaulted the president. Stone cites Christopher Andersen’s account:

“Much of what transpired . . . was plainly audible to Secret Service and household staff members down the hall. In the past, Hillary had thrown books and an ashtray at the president — both hitting their mark . . . Hillary slapped him across the face — hard enough to leave a red mark that would be clearly visible to Secret Service agents when he left the room.

“ ‘You stupid, stupid, stupid bastard,’ Hillary shouted.”

As editor and author R. Emmett Tyrell has reported, the verbal and physical abuse has not relented since the Clintons left the White House: “Sources close to the Secret Service . . . report that dreadful altercations have erupted several times,” and usually involve “yelling, screaming, throwing of soft and hard objects, breakage of vases and glasses and just plain nastiness.”" --Maureen Callahan

Saturday, October 03, 2015

CNN Photoshops Oregon Jihadist Shooter to "Fundamentally Transform" Him into a Caucasian Male

More yeoman's work by The Last Refuge, which has been tracking down the rapidly disappearing social media profile of Scumbag McScumbag (it is the policy of our august and highly respected journal not to name psychopathic jihadist mass-murderers).

Remember the Trayvon Martin case? You know, the dude involved in burglary, PCP-like drug cocktails, and/or drug dealing who assaulted George Zimmerman and got capped for his trouble?

Remember how the media claimed there was a new race called "White Hispanics", a term invented "by The New York Times to describe Zimmerman, apparently in some kind of push for a white vs. Black narrative"?

Good times.

Well, the media is at it again, this time photoshopping the Black Jihadist Oregon shooter -- whose name, if memory serves, was Abdul Bin Scumbag -- to make him appear white:

CHART: Five Most Expensive Commercial Real Estate Properties in the World

Despite President Obama's best efforts to ..., the U.S. still has the highest priced property in the world.


There are plenty of concerns by global real estate investors, however. And they related directly to the Democrats' insane and oppressive tax policies:

OBAMA AND THE UN 2030 AGENDA: An Almost Unbelievably Criminal Plan for One World Government

By Daniel John Sobieski

Lost among the addresses to the U.N. General Assembly by Pope Francis, President Obama, Russian President Vladimir Putin and other world leaders, is the fact that this U.N. session is also the kickoff for the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development conference. “Sustainable” is U.N.-speak for “controlled.” And that means controlled by governments at the expense of liberty and freedom around the world.

The planet is in peril, don’t you know, and humanity is the plague infecting it. The U.N., with U.S. compliance, is hammering out an agenda that will determine not only how many people there will be, but where they will live, how they will live, and what governments will permit them to do in order to save the planet.

If this sounds familiar, it should, for it is the follow-on for the failed Agenda 21 which was rolled out in 1992 at the U.N. Earth Summit in Rio De Janiero, Brazil. Agenda 21 failed in its attempt to eradict poverty and save the earth, but it did serve as a justification for world governments to enhance their power at the expense of the liberty and freedom of their people. Agenda 2030 is no less ambitious in its goal for global government control, according to the preamble of the document outlining the agenda:

10 STARTLING FACTS: Obama, Putin and Syria

By Lawrence Sellin

Ed.: We may be seeing the opening moves of World War III:
  1. Vladimir Putin's overall strategy is to prop up Russia's long-time regional ally, Syrian President Bashar al Assad.
  2. Russia has bombed targets in northwestern Syria, an area mainly held by non-ISIS rebel groups such as the Free Syrian Army and an Islamist coalition, Jaysh al-Fatah.
  3. The aim is to eliminate non-ISIS groups first. Then the Syrian, Russian, Iranian, Hezbollah alliance can turn its attention to ISIS and, thereby, force the United States to support or, at least, do nothing to hinder their operations.
  4. Controlling northwest Syria also safeguards Assad's Shia-Alawite home region and his base of support, as well as securing the strategically critical coastal area containing the Latakia airbase used by Russian forces and the important port of Tartus.

The Bear Has Awakened

By Jim Quinn

“Every man has a right to his own opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts” ― Bernard M. Baruch

As the market drops 200 to 300 points daily on a fairly frequent basis these days, and has now dropped 13% in the last four months, John Hussman’s valuation analysis based upon historical facts is proving to be accurate. He’s not an “I told you so” type of person, but I am. The MSM stories follow the same old storyline – this is just a correction, time to buy the dip, stocks are undervalued, the Fed won’t let the market fall. We’ve been here before, twice in the last fifteen years. Wall Street and their media mouthpieces attempted to spread misinformation about the nature of the markets in 2000 and 2007, as epic bear markets were just getting underway. John Hussman cut through their crap then and he is cutting through it now:

Top 10 Misleading Obama Statements After Oregon Shooting That Was Praised by ISIS as an Act of Jihad

By Erich Pratt

On October 1, 2015, the nation witnessed another tragic shooting -- this one at the Umpqua Community College in Oregon.

The President shortly took to a national platform to address the killings.

This should have been an opportunity for the President to unite a grieving nation. But instead, he chose to foment division. He even bragged that it was right for him to politicize this tragedy.

Over and over again, on nationwide television, the President misled the American people in an effort to further restrict the rights of law-abiding Americans who have done no wrong.

But to the President, we say: Shame on you, for leveling so many false accusations about guns and crime in America.

Here are the Top Ten misstatements he made during that nationwide address.

Larwyn's Linx: Oregon Jihadist Killer On Terror List Obama Refused To Take From Russia

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Nation

Oregon Jihadist On Terror List Obama Refused To Take From Russia: WAW
Air Force Vet with Gun Held Back From Stopping Attack By UCC Staff: Jenn Jacques
Ted Cruz slams president for 'politicizing' Oregon massacre: Chris Cassidy

The Curious Case of Oregon Shooter Chris Harper-Mercer: Treehouse
Polling Convergence: Polls Show Trump Surging With 34 – 35% Support: Treehouse
The Dogs That Aren’t Barking in the 2016 Campaign: Michael Barone

Pew: Jeb Collapsing, Now Polling at 4 Percent: Cathy Burke
Jeb! at 4%: Will he drop out?: Ryan Girdusky
Ted Cruz, On Mark Levin, Continues Criticizing Mitch McConnell: HayRide

So the Oregon shooter’s guns were legal. Now what?: Jazz Shaw
Today’s Soft-On-Crime, Anti-Cop, Democratic Party: Susan Brown
DOJ Sues Town for Nixing Rezoning Plan to Build Islamic Temple: JW

Economy

Wage Apocalypse: Typical male worker earned less in 2014 than in 1973: MyBudget360
The Fed's Grotesque "Explanation" Why 94.6 Million Are Out Of The Labor Force: ZH
Fighting back against Islamic teachings in school curriculum: iOTWreport

Scandal Central

A Dismal Anniversary—50 Years Of The Immigration Act Of 1965: John Derbyshire
These Are The REAL NUMBERS On Illegal Immigrant Crime In America: John Binder
Oregon Shooter, You Didn't Kill Those People. Liberals Did!: AWD

Liberals Trash Christianity Non-Stop, Then Blame Guns When Someone Murders Christians: John Hawkins
From FUBAR To Russian Phishing: The Latest From Hillary Clinton's Emails: Jessica Taylor
Will Property Crime Uptick Become Crime Wave?: Debra Saunders

Climate & Energy

Climate Alarmist 'Largest Science Scandal in U.S. History': James Delingpole
Bummer: Oceans Not Dying After All: Steven Hayward
A Warming World Could Totally Mean Crocodiles Everywhere Or Something: Cove

Media

Shakespeare in American Politics: Chicago Boyz
'Sicario' Review: A Two-Hour 'Donald Trump for President' Campaign Ad: Breitbart
Bill Kristol’s WEEKLY STANDARD On Trump–Feeling The Heat?: James Fulford

Irony Alert: Hillary Calls Trump ‘Demagogue, Stokes Prejudice’ … To Al Sharpton: Tammy Bruce
Mark Levin: Liberalism Lacks an Appreciation for Human Life: Sam Dorman
Students go berserk after conservative club uses term ‘anchor babies’: Nick Pappas

World

The Elephant In The Room: Yigal Carmon
Obama Pulled Kerry and Amb. Power From Netanyahu Speech: Breitbart
Netanyahu to Kerry: Where's Abbas's Condemnation of Terror?: INN

Could someone have saved the Shafia girls?: Michael Friscolanti
Islamic State disfigures 15 women with acid for not wearing niqab: Robert Spencer
Sweden: 'No Apartments, No Jobs, No Shopping Without a Gun': Ingrid Carlqvist

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Lost 'Epic of Gilgamesh' Verse Depicts Cacophonous Abode of Gods: Elizabeth Palermo
More on food mythology: Maggie's Farm
BMW, Mercedes, and GM Could Be Cheating Emissions Tests as Well: Jeff Perez

Cornucopia

Russia in Syria? Look! A College Shooting!: Tad Cronn
"Whom The Gods Would Destroy...": Springer's Blog
Liberalism: It’s not a choice, “it’s a need based on a disorder of the brain.": MOTUS

Image: Pew: Jeb Collapsing, Now Polling at 4 Percent
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: #LibertyRising: TED CRUZ FOR PRESIDENT

QOTD: "Now, I don’t know what Obama thinks, or any of the people on the left think, that just by outlawing more and more guns or controlling more and more law-abiding people that somehow you’re gonna reduce the murder rate. You’re not gonna reduce the murder rate. You’re not gonna do it. You’ve gotta change the culture. You’ve gotta have tough-as-nails prosecutors and judges. After people go through the trial process and get their due process, they need to be put away, if they’re guilty.

The President has unleashed a hate campaign against local law enforcement, and the people who wind up suffering, quite frankly, are the poorest people and minorities in our inner cities.

...Instead, we just need gun control. We don’t even have the facts in this case. We don’t have border control. We don’t control who’s coming here. That he doesn’t care about... We have sanctuary cities that are safe havens for the lawless. That he doesn’t care about. Quite the contrary, he encourages it.

And I might add, we have massive numbers of abortions every year, a majority of which actually occur in the black community, and he supports it. We have this phony Planned Parenthood. That name needs to change. ‘Ooh Planned Parent, ooh we’re planning parenthood.’ No you’re not. Planned Slaughterhouse. We have videos, which have not been altered, which tell the truth and the President won’t even look at them.

“There’s something about liberalism. There’s something about liberalism that truly does not have an appreciation for human life. It’s just true. They want you to believe: we pass another gun control law, ‘Oh, oh, this stuff. Well, it won’t end it, but it’ll help.’ No, it won’t help. It won’t do a thing, except harm those who actually follow the rule of law." --Mark Levin

Friday, October 02, 2015

Larwyn's Linx: Day #1 – Operation “Cold Anger” Begins

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Nation

Day #1 – Operation “Cold Anger” Begins: Treehouse
Levin: ‘Ted Cruz Is the Most Consistently Conservative Candidate Running’: PJM
Latest National Poll: Trump Leading With 25%, Rubio 16%, Carson 15%: Treehouse

Luis Gutiérrez Wants You Dead: The Z Man
Clinton Says Supreme Court Is ‘Wrong’ on Second Amendment: WFB
Jeb Bush: I’m the John McCain of 2016 : FAM

Oregon Shooting Pre Planned Act of Jihad – Warning Posted Yesterday: Treehouse
The Shooter At Umpqua Community College In Oregon IDENTIFIED: Shoebat
Jihadist Oregon gunman singled out Christians during rampage: Chris Perez

Obama likes talking about some deaths, but not so much about others: Ace
Cruz, Rubio and Clarity in the GOP Race: Scott Rasmussen
Planned Parenthood Can’t Handle the Truth: David Limbaugh

Scandal Central

Argentine President: Obama tried to get us to give Iran nuclear fuel: Robert Spencer
Number of classified e-mails on Hillary server doubles in latest release: Ed Morrissey
U.S. Chamber Plans $100 Million Campaign Against Conservatives: Mike Flynn

Media

The Baby Butchers and Their Media Butchers: Michelle Malkin
Pope Disappoints His Cheering Section in the Leftwing Press by Visiting Kim Davis: Ace
Flashback: The 1994 Hillary-Care ‘Debate’: S&L

NYT Writer Attempts to Explain What It Is To Be a "Modern Man," to Everyone's Great Embarrassment: Ace
Jeb Bush Rips Rubio's "Readiness" on... MSNBC: WS
CRACKED: Leftist Humor Site Claims Trump is Just Like Hitler: ProgsToday

World

Understanding the Devastating Impact of the Iran Nuclear Deal on Israel in 45 Seconds: Matthew Clark
The Progressive Left and Israel's Right to Exist: Charles Lipson
Obama Snubs Netanyahu At UN: Both John Kerry And Ambassador Power Skip Bibi’s Speech: WZ

Three Cheers for Terroristine: Sultan Knish
Putin Cutting Obama Down to Size: Jonah Goldberg
ISIS Members posing as refugees Fight with German Police: MINA

Ralph Peters Explains: Scott Johnson
Iran troops to join Syria war, Russia bombs group trained by CIA: Laila Bassam and Andrew Osborn, Reuters
Mark Levin: ‘The Forerunner to War Has Begun’: Michael Morris

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

15 Million T-Mobile Customer Records Compromised In Experian Hack: Chris Thompson
Blockchain explained in three minutes: eFinancial
University of Washington scientists develop 3D printing process to make realistic new ears: 3ders

Cornucopia

Kevin McCarthy Comes Clean About Benghazi: Springer's Blog
Leadership: You Know It When You See It. And When You Don’t: MOTUS
UK: 14-year-old Muslim told teacher, “You are on my beheading list”: Robert Spencer

Image: Understanding the Devastating Impact of the Iran Nuclear Deal on Israel in 45 Seconds
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: #The TimeIsNow: TED CRUZ FOR PRESIDENT

QOTD: "[N]ow we find out that extremely sensitive diplomatic data on the Iranian nuclear negotiations may as well have been on Hotmail [thanks to Hillary Clinton's private email server]. I’m sure that will bolster trust among our allies about our ability to protect discussions held in confidence with our diplomatic personnel.

State’s not the only group distancing itself from Hillary... Valerie Jarrett [just told] Andrea Mitchell that the White House warned Hillary not to use private e-mail for government business, although Jarrett follows that up with a sop to Hillary’s belated dedication to transparency. Looks like the Obama administration wants to keep its distance from the aroma of collapse." --Ed Morrissey

Thursday, October 01, 2015

The Impressive Performance of the Obama Economy in One Simple Chart

Yesterday the non-partisan Congressional Research Service published a brand new report on poverty in America [PDF]. One chart especially struck me:


Notice that after each recession -- depicted in the sudden, upward moves in poverty rate -- a recovery quickly ensued. Each event looks like a pyramid. Until Obama.

For each recession in American history the pattern repeated itself: a rapid rise in the poverty rate, followed by a quick recovery as the economy steamed back.

That is, until Barack Obama took office. Obama has been -- in the words of Mark Levin -- an economic wrecking ball. Whether through nationalizing health care or regulatory strangulation, America's most "historic" president has simply devastated the country's poorest citizens.

The science, as they say, is settled.

Mr. Obama is historic, all right.


Guy who intentionally distributed thousands of assault weapons to criminals offers America lectures on gun control

To paraphrase Rahm Emanuel, never let a tragedy go to waste.

Such is the situation with Democrats, who have once again attempted to leverage a tragic mass-shooting in Oregon as yet another lever to confiscate America's guns.

The sheer idiocy of such advocacy never seems to cross their addled brains. After all, nothing short of a time machine will un-invent guns; new 3D printers have made the home manufacturing of firearms a reality; and the idea of confiscating 800 million guns seems rather irrational when Leftists argue that deporting a few million illegal aliens is impossible.

As it turns out, the Oregon shooter asked victims their religion before shooting them. I don't know, but for me that spells "Militant Quaker terror attack" all the way -- not the typical work of a right-wing Constitutionalist.

So leave it to the terror apologist, racialist hack, and former Attorney General Eric "Nation of Cowards" Holder to weigh in:

Larwyn's Linx: Mitch McConnell Calls for the Destruction of the Republican Party

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Nation

Mitch McConnell Calls for the Destruction of the Republican Party: George Rasley
Mark Levin Was Right – Kevin McCarthy Is an Idiot: Treehouse
Here's a crazy idea: leadership that actually leads: NoisyRm

Ted Cruz Gives Epic Speech on Senate Floor Exposing GOP Leadership: PJM
The GOP Is Overmatched: David Harsanyi
Senate Control Up for Grabs Next Year: Kyle Trygstad

October Surprise on Amnesty from Exiting Boehner?: Steve Sailer
Teamsters Refuse to Endorse Hillary, Want to Sit Down With Trump: TR
The Republican Party’s Big Choice: Ben Shapiro

Pope burnout: Victor Davis Hanson
Democratic Candidates for Governor Avoiding Ties to Clinton: Karyn Bruggeman
Rand Paul: Ted Cruz ‘Pretty Much Done For’ in Senate: Niels Lesniewski

Economy

If You Think Health Insurance Increases Are Personal Only...: Karl Denninger
150 UT professors vow to defy campus carry law: Peter Hasson
Op-ed about Sharia draws ire of student government at UK: Peter Fricke

Scandal Central

Huma Abedin Used One Of Hillary Clinton’s Email Accounts: WZ
State Department Releases New Trove of Clinton Emails: Emily Schultheis
Republicans Fail at Hearings — Again: Mona Charen

Agenda 2030: The UN plan for global socialism: David Leach
NY Democrat Arrested For Submitting Fraudulent Petitions: Rusty Weiss
Hillary Campaign Using Photos Of Trump To Illegally Register Voters: NoisyRm

Media

The Faith of the Crazy: The Z Man
Ted Cruz & My Pal Dave bets and Promises: DTG
CNBC raises the bar for upcoming GOP debate: Dylan Byers

World

Russian Airstrike In Syria Hits US-Backed Rebels Who Were Receiving Weaponry From CIA: WZ
Putin in Syria: Russian Airstrikes Begin, But ISIS Is Not Primary Target: Interpreter
Russian Submarine Carrying Nuclear Weapons Arrives In Pacific Region: Christopher Harress

Meet The New Holocaust / Same As The Old Holocaust: Camp of the Saints
ISIS cut out healthy captives' kidneys and corneas and drain their blood for transplants: Daily Mail
ISIS Cures AIDS!: WeaponsMan

Pentagon: Russia Violated Treaty with Recent Missile Test: Brendan McGarry
Report: Russia demands that American planes stay out of Syrian skies: JPost
Putin Calls Out Obama For Arming And Training Fighters For ISIS: ConPost

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

New discovery: Surface of the oceans affects climate more than thought: WUWT
Gartner Says These Vendors Lead in Digital Customer Analytics: Dom Nicastro
The Earth-Twin Planet That Nobody Talks About: Corey S. Powell

Cornucopia

Mandy Nagy – One year later: LI
From “Degrade and Destroy” to “Cease and Desist – in just 12 months: MOTUS
Hillary Clinton says it’s DISRESPECTFUL to the military to make her answer for BENGHAZI: Scoop

Image: Ted Cruz Gives Epic Speech on Senate Floor Exposing GOP Leadership
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: #NukeThe Establishment: TED CRUZ FOR PRESIDENT

QOTD: Vladimir Putin is back – and stealing Barack Obama's thunder.

The Russian president showed up at the United Nations on Monday (September 28) for the first time in a decade, proposing a coup against U.S. global leadership and seeking to wrest control of a coalition battling ISIS away from America's grip.

And he wasn't the only leader of a country challenging the United States to effectively upstage Obama at the annual global meeting, which a U.S. president traditionally uses to command the spotlight.

Speeches by Chinese President Xi Jinping and Iranian President Hassan Rouhani on the 70th anniversary of the creation of the world body also left Obama defending not only his personal foreign policy legacy, which is already under assault at home from Republican presidential candidates, but the entire concept of a world order based on seven decades of U.S. global leadership.

The day of speech-making, which also included an address by Cuban leader Raul Castro and Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, underscored the multipolar challenges to U.S. power, as slumbering empires seek a resurgence and America faces military challenges from Eastern Europe across the Middle East to Asia." --Stephen Collinson

Wednesday, September 30, 2015

RFK, Theodore White, and the Great Debate over Immigration

By Jerry Kammer

In 1968, when Robert F. Kennedy was a senator from New York campaigning for the presidency, he frequently made a call to idealism that survives as a quotation vividly tied to his memory: "Some men see things as they are and say, why? I dream things that never were and say, why not?"

Over the past several months, as I researched the transformative 1965 Hart-Celler Immigration Act to write the paper we will release Thursday at the National Press Club, I thought often of Kennedy's famous quote.

The Hart-Celler Act was an expression of a national commitment to ideals that had been contradicted by the blatantly discriminatory immigration policy Congress adopted 41 years earlier. Under that earlier legislation immigrants were admitted not according to merit, but under a system that issued visas on the basis of national origin.

ATTACK SCENARIO: How Hillary Clinton’s Lust for Money and Power Led to America’s "Digital Pearl Harbor"

It's hard to overstate the impact on national security of what is commonly known as "The OPM Hack". The secret files of 22 million individuals who have applied for security clearances -- maintained by the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) -- was ripped off as cleanly as Michael Moore stealing cookies from a Girl Scout.

WHAT WAS THE 'OPM HACK'?


Every person who applies for a security clearance fills out an electronic application called an EQIP or EPSQ, which are questionnaires of applicants.

Those applying for a Top Secret clearance must answer an extremely detailed questionnaire delving into every aspect of their personal life: marital affairs, drug use, criminal activity, and any other bit of information that foreign intelligence services might use to blackmail or compromise a cleared individual.

All of those files were stolen by Red China.

The OPM hack has been so devastating to clandestine operations, including NOCs (agents operating under non-official cover), that the CIA just pulled its agents from Beijing "for their safety".

Virtually every current and future military and intelligence operation was put at risk by the OPM hack.