Friday, October 09, 2015

BUMMER: Top Iranian General in Syria Dies of Natural Causes and Artillery Shells, But Mostly Artillery Shells

By The Tower

A top Iranian general responsible for shoring up the support of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad was killed in a battle with anti-Assad forces outside the Syrian city of Aleppo, The Wall Street Journal reported (Google link) today.

Brig. Gen. Hossein Hamedani died at the hands of “Daesh terrorists” on Thursday while conducting advisory duties, Iranian state media said, quoting a statement by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, or IRGC.

Although the statement used the Arab acronym for the extremist group Islamic State to describe those responsible for Gen. Hamedani’s death, the circumstances of his demise weren’t disclosed. The Iranian government, like the Syrian regime, tends to use “Daesh” and “terrorists” as catchall terms for all opponents of President Bashar al-Assad.

Gen. Hamedani, a longtime commander in the elite military unit of the IRGC, is believed to have directly overseen the organization of pro-Assad forces into groups such as the Popular Committees, which were later folded into the so-called National Defense Force.

Those groups were drawn largely drawn from Syria’s Alawite population and number between 150,000 and 190,000 men.

The European Union sanctioned Hamedani in 2011 for human rights violations, due to his role in suppressing the pro-democracy Green Movement protests after the stolen presidential election in 2009.

In January of this year, another IRGC general was killed in an airstrike against a joint Iranian-Hezbollah convoy on the Syrian Golan Heights. Israel is believed to have carried out the airstrike.


Read more at The Tower.
 

Clinton Emailed Identity Of Top CIA Asset Over Unsecure Server

By Masked Avenger

Last night, Yahoo News broke another big development in Hillary Clinton’s growing email scandal. According the below report, Hillary Clinton used her secret email server to “pass along the identity of one of the CIA’s top Libyan intelligence sources,” material the government considers “some of the most protected information in our intelligence community.”

This latest shoe to drop underscores the recklessness of Hillary Clinton’s decision to skirt transparency laws with her secret email server.

NOTE: Hillary Clinton used her private email account to pass along the identity of one of the CIA’s top Libyan intelligence sources, raising new questions about her handling of classified information...

...On March 18, 2011, Sidney Blumenthal — Clinton’s longtime friend and political adviser — sent the then secretary of state an email to her private account that contained apparently highly sensitive information he had received from Tyler Drumheller, a former top CIA official with whom Blumenthal at the time had a business relationship. “Tyler spoke to a colleague currently at CIA, who told him the agency had been dependent for intelligence from [redacted due to sources and methods],” the email states, according to Gowdy’s letter. The redacted information was “the name of a human source,” Gowdy wrote to his Democratic counterpart, Rep. Elijah Cummings of Maryland, and was therefore “some of the most protected information in our intelligence community.”

And what did our genius Democrat frontrunner for President -- Bill's wife -- do with this highly sensitive information that, if disclosed, could get people killed?

In which I obliterate the Wall Street Journal's pathetic attempt to see Paul Ryan become Speaker of the House

Over at the GOP establishment's press release reprint service known as The Wall Street Journal, the panic over Kevin McCarthy's sudden withdrawal from the race for the Speaker's gavel is palpable.

Decrying a "toxic crack-up inside the Republican conference", the Journal says the real issues in Washington are the fault of the "Refuseniks" (the party's conservative base and its representatives, albeit a better epithet than "hobbits"). According to the WSJ rocket scientists, conservatives blame the GOPe "for all the country’s problems, not President Obama."

That kind of sheer unvarnished idiocy is not unexpected from the GOP, which now seeks to install Boehner Lite -- Paul Ryan -- as Speaker.

Let's put aside the reason McCarthy is rumored to have withdrawn ("perhaps McCarthy shouldn't have been schtupping Renee Ellmers on the side, the worst-kept secret in Washington").

No, the real problem -- as Leon H. Wolf reminds us -- is the GOP establishment itself:

Larwyn's Linx: Bill's Wife: It's Probably Nothing

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Nation

Bill's Wife: It's Probably Nothing: SDA
Conservative opposition researchers drop report on top Clinton aide: Sarah Westwood
Progressive Republican Caucus (GOPe) Prepare To Force Rep. Paul Ryan: Treehouse

McCarthy Bombshell: Is Something Strange Going On?: LidBlog
Moderates Are the Problem in the House GOP: Leon H. Wolf
Roseburg Rally Goes Viral, Patriots Standing Nationwide: Patrick Henry Society

Flip-flops show Hillary’s long on ambition, short on principles: Jonah Goldberg
Ted Cruz Just Outraised Marco Rubio and it's Doubly Good: Scoop
Clinton is performing as poorly with men as GOP does with Hispanics: Josh Kraushaar

The Tyranny of Idealism: Sultan Knish
French Train Hero Spencer Stone “Repeatedly Stabbed” Last Night: Jim Hoft
Was OR Mass Shooting An Islamist Attempt To Assassinate Alek Skarlatos?: Matthew Vadum

Economy

What Happens to our Economy as Millions Lose Habits of Hard Work?: Of Two Minds
$3 trillion corporate credit crunch looms; debtors face day of reckoning, says IMF: Mehreen Khan
How Likely are Investor Suits Under the TPP?: Yves Smith

Scandal Central

Benghazi Committee: New Emails Show Clinton Promoted Blumenthal Interests in Libya: Stephen F. Hayes
Technology Shall Be the Death of Hillary: Joe Cunningham
Illegal immigrants don’t need to vote to help Hillary win : Leo Hohmann

Media

WaPo: Yes, We Want Your Guns: Dana Loesch
Hillary’s lastest speech on gun control — or, do Leftists even bother to listen to themselves anymore?: Bookworm
MSNBC Admits it Cut Parts Of Hillary Focus Group Because it was “Too Negative”: WZ

So Hillary’s a Liar? What’s Your Point?: John Hinderaker
The Carson Cure for Obamacare: David Catron
The Media’s Latest Phony Attack on Ben Carson: David Limbaugh

World

Obama’s Iran Deal Violates a Law Obama Signed in 2012: Joe Cunningham
Four Syria-Bound Russian Missiles Crashed in Iran, U.S. Officials Say: NYT
Flip and Flop: Hillary opposes ObamaTrade deal she helped negotiate: RS

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Gambling scandals like Daily Fantasy Sports need prosecution, not regulation: Neil Stevens
What are White Holes?: Fraser Cain
It Took This Robot 10 Days to Learn How to Grasp Objects From Scratch: Jamie Condliffe

Cornucopia

The Only Gun Law That Will End Mass Shootings: MOTUS
Tenn. officers asked to leave TGI Friday’s restaurant: PoliceOne
The Establishment GOP or Cancelling Elections for Fun and Profit: DTG

Image: Conservative opposition researchers drop report on top Clinton aide
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: #OneManWithCojonesInDC: TED CRUZ FOR PRESIDENT

QOTD: "The latest round of polling for Clin­ton is bru­tal. This week’s NBC News/Wall Street Journ­al/Mar­ist sur­vey in Iowa shows her fa­vor­ab­il­ity rat­ing with men at a mere 27 per­cent, while two-thirds view her un­fa­vor­ably. Her minus-39 net fa­vor­ab­il­ity with men is 28 points worse than Vice Pres­id­ent Joe Biden and 27 points be­hind Sen. Bernie Sanders. The story is the same in New Hamp­shire, where the NBC/WSJ/Mar­ist poll found both Sanders and Biden with net-pos­it­ive rat­ings, while Clin­ton’s ap­prov­al is deeply un­der­wa­ter, stuck at 30 per­cent.

The swing-state polling is a mir­ror im­age of her na­tion­al num­bers. Last week, Quin­nipi­ac found Clin­ton’s neg­at­ive rat­ings with white men at a stun­ning 72 per­cent—sig­ni­fic­antly worse than the Demo­crat­ic Party’s already-ser­i­ous struggles with that demo­graph­ic group. Mean­while, she’s not per­form­ing at nearly a strong-enough level with wo­men to coun­ter­act the prob­lem. Only 49 per­cent of wo­men viewed her fa­vor­ably in the poll, with 47 per­cent hold­ing neg­at­ive views." --Josh Kraushaar

Thursday, October 08, 2015

HEY, LIBS: Here’s How to Create a Gun-Free America in 5 Easy Steps

By Austin Bragg

Want to create a gun-free America in 5 easy steps?

Here's all there is to it:

Step 1: Elect. For a gun-free America, the first thing you'll need is two-thirds of Congress. So elect a minimum of 67 Senators and 290 Representatives who are on your side.

Step 2: Propose. Then, have them vote to propose an amendment to the Constitution which repeals Second Amendment gun rights for all Americans.

Step 3: Ratify. Then convince the legislators of 38 states to ratify that change.

At this point, the Second Amendment is history, but you've done nothing to decrease gun violence. All you've done is remove the barrier for Congress to act.

Step 4: Legislate. Now you need to enact "common sense" reform...

Why Does It Feel Like a Depression for Most of Us?

By Jim Quinn

“And the little screaming fact that sounds through all history: repression works only to strengthen and knit the repressed.” John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

Everyone has seen the pictures of the unemployed waiting in soup lines during the Great Depression. When you try to tell a propaganda believing, willfully ignorant, mainstream media watching, math challenged consumer we are in the midst of a Greater Depression, they act as if you’ve lost your mind. They will immediately bluster about the 5.1% unemployment rate, record corporate profits, and stock market near all-time highs. The cognitive dissonance of these people is only exceeded by their inability to understand basic mathematical concepts.

The reason you don’t see huge lines of people waiting in soup lines during this Greater Depression is because the government has figured out how to disguise suffering through modern technology. During the height of the Great Depression in 1933, there were 12.8 million Americans unemployed. These were the men pictured in the soup lines. Today, there are 46 million Americans in an electronic soup kitchen line, as their food is distributed through EBT cards (with that angel of mercy JP Morgan reaping billions in profits by processing the transactions):

DEMOCRATS: The Pro-Crime Party. And Chicago is Proof.

By Daniel Greenfield

They're always talking about gun control in Chicago. And it never seems to work.

With at least 60 murders citywide, last month was the deadliest September in Chicago since 2002, reports the Chicago Tribune.

According to CBS Chicago, the explosion of homicides last month pushed the murder rate for the year to date to 21 percent above last year. Compared to 2014, shooting incidents were up 19 percent, and the number of shooting victims was up 14 percent. Overall crime - including robberies, burglaries, and thefts - was down 7 percent.

The Ferguson Effect is still doing its work. Because #BlackLivesMatter.

Larwyn’s Linx: The Republican Establishment’s Plan If They Can Remove Donald Trump

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Nation

The GOPe Plan If You Remove Donald Trump: Treehouse
Biden Still Hasn’t Decided To Challenge Hillary: Edward Klein
7 Gun Control Myths That Just Won’t Die: Sean Davis

President Jackass: Ben Shapiro
Hillary Compares The NRA To ‘The Iranians And Communists’: Chuck Ross
The ‘new’ Hillary: Cal Thomas

IRS Commissioner John Koskinen Facing Impeachment: Sara Noble
Obama’s U.N. plan: Globalize cops against ‘violent extremists’: Leo Hohmann
Samuel Adams On The GOP And Us: Camp of the Saints

Conservatives reject McCarthy, endorse Webster for speaker: Susan Ferrechio
When Cruz Makes His Move, Watch Out: Eliana Johnson
GOP's major donors writing big checks to everyone but Trump: Hanna Kozlowska

Amazing: Cheryl Mills Emailed Classified Info to The Clinton Foundation: Ace
Daniel Webster as Speaker: Erick Erickson
Hillary Comes Out Against TPP, Pleasing Her Left Flank: Ace

Economy

Obamacare payment to insurers $2.5 billion less than expected: Kristina Ribali
400,000 Midwestern Teamster retirees face pension cuts: Marathon
A Key Part Of Common Core Isn’t Working Out: Blake Neff

Scandal Central

FBI Seizes Four State Department Servers in Clinton Email Probe: Bill Gertz
Clinton subject to hack attempts from China, Korea, Germany: AP
And Now Obama Threatens our National Defense with This...: Tim Brown

Climate & Energy

The 97 Per Cent Standard Response from Big Climate: Mark Steyn
The Question Sierra Club’s President Didn’t Want to Answer: Natalie Johnson
Newly appointed IPCC chairman worked for Exxon: Anthony Watts

Media

Obama #BlackLivesMatter Leader Demands New Constitution or There will be "Bullets": Social Memo
Rift among Kennedy's following Patrick Kennedy memoir: Jack Replman
Muslim refugee riots ignored in U.S. media blackout: Leo Hohmann

Drudge: ‘Old And Sick’ Hillary Is Only A Contender Because Media Is Propping Her Up: Surge
Hillary Clinton described as bitchy, condescending in New Hampshire: FAM
‘Clock Kid’ Ahmed’s Dad Pushes 9/11 Conspiracy Theories, Including That It’s U.S. Hoax: WZ

Who Knew? ‘Obamacare Helps Prevent Mass Shootings’: Tammy Bruce
Fox News turns 19, what they looked like then: Brian Maloney
Hillary needs MSM to jump for her, and they’ve changed into their Air Jordans: Doug Powers

World

This will give John Kerry a long face: Ayatollah Khamenei bans further negotiations with US: Doug Powers
Obama Admin’s Iran Point Man Promotes Anti-Israel Conspiracy Theories: Adam Kredo
One Simple Fact To Blow Up Any Liberal Whining About The Cost of The Benghazi Hearings: Sooper

What Percentage Are Infiltrators?: WeaponsMan
Russia launches CRUISE MISSILES at ISIS from warships 900 miles away: DailyMail
Syrian gang rape victim who fled to Germany is stabbed to death 'in honour killing': Daily Mail

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

The Analog Revolution: Rian van der Merwe
The Era Of Automatic Facial Recognition And Surveillance Is Here: Bruce Schneier
AWS Unleashes Torrent of New Services, Plus Some Hardware: Chris Preimesberge

Cornucopia

Utopia...This Is What It Will Look Like: Springer's Blog
Discuss: iOTWreport
Harvard's prestigious debate team loses to NY inmates: Fox

Image: FBI Seizes Four State Department Servers in Clinton Email Probe
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: Defend Roseburg - Deny barack 0bama

QOTD: "The FBI has seized four State Department computer servers as part of its probe into how classified information was compromised on former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s private email system, according to people familiar with the investigation.

The four servers, which were located at the State Department’s headquarters building, were seized by the FBI several weeks ago. They are being checked by technical forensic analysts charged with determining how Top Secret material was sent to Clinton’s private email by State Department aides during her tenure as secretary from 2009 to 2013, said two people familiar with the probe. The people spoke on condition of anonymity because it is an ongoing investigation...

...The politics surrounding the probe prompted FBI Director James Comey to tell reporters last week that the bureau will not be influenced by politics.

“One of the main reasons I have a 10-year term is to make sure that this organization stays outside of politics, and if you know my folks, you know that they don’t give a whit about politics,” Comey said, adding that the FBI has devoted sufficient resources and personnel so that the Clinton email probe can be completed in a timely way... Those remarks were the first official confirmation of the investigation." --Bill Gertz

Wednesday, October 07, 2015

FBI SEIZES HILLARY STATE DEPT. SERVERS: Who cops a plea deal first, Huma or Cheryl Mills?

It now appears certain that someone in Hillary Clinton's inner circle copied Top Secret information from a SCIF (Secure Compartmented Information Facility) to an unclassified email system, thereby committing multiple felonies. Each such instance is punishable by up to 10 years in prison.

The FBI is so certain that this occurred that it has seized four (count 'em: four) State Department servers in order to forensically determine who perpetrated these crimes.

The FBI has seized four State Department computer servers as part of its probe into how classified information was compromised on former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s private email system ... They are being checked by technical forensic analysts charged with determining how Top Secret material was sent to Clinton’s private email by State Department aides during her tenure as secretary from 2009 to 2013...

...The FBI is trying to determine the origin of the highly classified information that was found in Clinton emails ... the department also has been unwilling to say whether the private email system, used by Clinton and close aides Huma Abedin and Cheryl Mills, should be considered an official State Department network covered by FOIA laws.

JAYVEE TEAM: Nuke Smugglers Trying to Sell Dirty Bomb Material to ISIS to "Bomb the Americans"

'I really want an Islamic buyer because they will bomb the Americans.'

If this is the Jayvee team, I don't think we want to see the varsity.

Over the pulsating beat at an exclusive nightclub, the arms smuggler made his pitch to a client: 2.5 million euros for enough radioactive cesium to contaminate several city blocks.

It was earlier this year, and the two men were plotting their deal at an unlikely spot: the terrace of Cocos Prive, a dance club and sushi bar in Chisinau, the capital of Moldova.

"You can make a dirty bomb, which would be perfect for the Islamic State," the smuggler said. "If you have a connection with them, the business will go smoothly."

MR. CRUZ GOES TO WASHINGTON: The Man the Establishment Loves to Hate Rips Democrat Plantation Politics

By Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX)

In his very first inaugural address, President Thomas Jefferson defined ‘good government’ as one that ‘shall restrain men from injuring one another’ and ‘shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement.’

This pro-liberty standard—embraced by our Founding Fathers and the Constitution—has served us well. Today, the United States stands as the most powerful and prosperous nation in history – a beacon of hope to people throughout the world

But there is a growing sense among many that our nation is in decline.

We have now seen years of sluggish economic growth, stagnant household income – the largest percentage of Americans not working since 1977 -- far too many who’ve simply given up any hope of having a job, of starting a business, of having a future.

Entrepreneurship—truly one of America’s defining traits—is hurting, badly. It is a tough time to own a small business in America today.

Larwyn's Linx: Obama Wants to Take Our Guns, So We Can All Experience The “Peace” Of Chicago

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Nation

Obama Wants to Take Our Guns So We Can All Experience Chicago: Jenn Jacques
Gun-Free Chicago Has Deadliest Murder Month in 13 Years: Daniel Greenfield
The truth about gun deaths: numbers and actual solutions: Jazz Shaw

#OUTLAW Activity: People In Roseburg Rebel: Camp of the Saints
Ted Cruz Throws a Haymaker at Obama’s Plan to Accept Syrian Refugees: Chris Enloe
SCF Gets Hold Of Ted Cruz’ Speech; The Result Is Fantastic: HayRide

Gitmo Extended Stay America Suites in Colorado? Hell No!: Michelle Malkin
Joe Biden: The Three Dollar Bill of American Politics: RS
Bernie Sanders Supporters Claim Free Health Care Invented by Jesus: ProgsToday

Note To Phyllis Schlafly: There Is No “Plan B”: Treehouse
Carly Fiorina is basically a transgendered version of Jeb: NewsMachete
Jeb is cooked: Why megadonors' cash won't save disastrous campaign: Simon Maloy

Economy

Here’s a Thought – Repeal “Fast Track” Trade Authority: Treehouse
Ivy League prof. calls Ben Carson a 'coon': Christian Spencer
Record 63.2 million non-English speaking residents, surge in Arabic, Chinese, Spanish: Paul Bedard

Scandal Central

Tech firm gives ‘cloud’ backup of Hillary’s (aka Val the bartender) email to FBI: Doug Powers
Giuliani: Hillary Clinton Should Be Investigated for Breaking 15 Federal Laws : GWP
What could go wrong? DOJ set to free 6,000 prisoners, largest one-time release: Sari Horwitz

Climate & Energy

Suppressing Free Speech: Walter Williams
Ted Cruz finds a question that the Sierra Club DARED not answer.: Moe Lane
The Devastating Corporate Response to Carbon Madness: Eric Worrall

Media

Jesse Watters Goes to Dearbornistan: Scoop
Invert Reality, Double Down: SDA
FLASHBACK: The Tweetable Guide To Media Myths And Left-wing Violence: Ace

Ghoulish Obama to Visit Roseburg: ‘The President is not welcome here’: JWF
New York Police Allow Muslims to Openly Attack Journalists, No Arrests Made: Publius
Sharyl Attkisson: Democrats and African-Americans Tell Me They’re Voting for Trump: Jim Hoft

A couple of complimentary examples of media manipulation for leftist effect: Vlad Tepes
Past Blast: Hillary Clinton Claimed We “Dodged Sniper Fire”: Sharyl Attkisson
A Growing Trend In Dunkin Donuts – Refuse Service To Police Officers: Treehouse

World

The Obama Administration Goes Big On Extraordinary Rendition: Dan McLaughlin
The Roots of Obama’s Catastrophic Foreign Policy: sBruce Thornton
Misunderstanderers of Islam torture 11-year old, crucifies father for not converting to Islam: Sooper

How we get to World War III: Danielle Pletka
Putin’s Pianos: Andrew A. Michta
U.S. vs. Russia: What a war would look like between the world's most fearsome militaries: MilitaryTimes

The Russian infringement of Turkish airspace is bigger than it seems: RS
US Officials Ask How ISIS Got So Many Toyota Trucks: ABC
US government deports fewest immigrants in nearly a decade: Alicia A. Caldwell

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Ugliest Cars Ever Made: Reaganite
Lumo's running shorts fix your form to avoid injury: Daniel Cooper
Exact Sciences Shares Plunge, Questions Arise for Insurers, Doctors: Jeff Engel, Xconomy

Cornucopia

How About Them Sweet Potatoes?: MOTUS
Heroic Veteran From Oregon Shooting Just Glad He's Not In VA Hospital: DuffelBlog
Students warned: Bulging biceps, big guns advance unhealthy masculinity: JR Ridley

Image: Joe Biden: The Three Dollar Bill of American Politics
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: #DefendTheConstitution: TED CRUZ FOR PRESIDENT

QOTD: "In 1982, the city of Chicago instituted a ban on handguns. The ban prohibited civilians from possessing handguns, except those registered with the city government prior to enactment of the law. The law also specified that such handguns had to be re-registered every two years or owners would forfeit their right to possess them. In 1994, the law was amended to require annual re-registration.

It’s no surprise to gun owners and Second Amendment supporters that Chicago is the best model to prove gun control does not work.

Since the handgun ban went into effect, the percentage of Chicago murders committed with handguns has averaged about 40% higher than it was before the law took effect... by 2005, an astronomical 96% of firearm murder victims in Chicago were killed with handguns." --Jenn Jacques

Tuesday, October 06, 2015

TREE RING BOY HARDEST HIT: Climate Fraud Implodes as Slight Order-of-Magnitude-Sized Math Error Discovered

By Karl Denninger

Now about those so-called "scientists" that want those who do not believe the "climate narrative" prosecuted -- can we go after them under 42 USC 1983 and 18 USC 242 for attempting to deprive persons of their rights under color of law?

A MATHEMATICAL discovery by Perth-based electrical engineer Dr David Evans may change everything about the climate debate, on the eve of the UN climate change conference in Paris next month.

A former climate modeller for the Government’s Australian Greenhouse Office, with six degrees in applied mathematics, Dr Evans has unpacked the architecture of the basic climate model which underpins all climate science.

He has found that, while the underlying physics of the model is correct, it had been applied incorrectly.

He has fixed two errors and the new corrected model finds the climate’s sensitivity to carbon dioxide (CO2) is much lower than was thought.

It turns out the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has over-estimated future global warming by as much as 10 times, he says.

Do you know why science requires (1) the publication of your raw data, (2) the publication of all the manipulations, constants, formulas and other transformations you do to your data, (3) the publication of your methods (that is, your means of collection of data, how you decided what data to collect, etc) and your analytical process?

FORMER HOUSE INTELLIGENCE CHAIR: Of Course Islamic Law is Incompatible With the Constitution

By Former House Intelligence Committee Chairman Pete Hoekstra

NBC's "Meet the Press" moderator Chuck Todd in a recent exchange with a presidential candidate raised an issue that should be discussed not only by all of the candidates, but debated and analyzed by the American people.

Is Islamic law (Shariah) compatible with the U.S. Constitution?

The question has no simple answer, but we have three recent examples of where regime change forced national leaders to determine Shariah's role in their governance, all failing to reach a definitive conclusion.

The first two followed interventions by the Obama administration, in one case actively and in the other passively, that facilitated the overthrow of stable authorities.

In Libya, NATO precipitated the overthrow of Moammar Gadhafi's 42-year dictatorship. In Egypt, the U.S. sent clear and unambiguous indications that replacing President Hosni Mubarak with the Islamist Muslim Brotherhood would be acceptable, if not desirable.

In both cases new governments rose to power through American support.

I illustrate how events unfolded following Gaddafi's deposition in my upcoming book, "Architects of Disaster: the Destruction of Libya."

OH, MY: Hillary Email’s Company Worried About a "Cover Up", Had Extra Backups Made

By Masked Avenger

Big developments today in Hillary Clinton’s email scandal. According to emails uncovered by congressional investigators, the IT firm contracted to maintain Hillary Clinton’s secret email server became concerned about being roped into a “cover up” when they were asked to reduce email data after the State Department requested Clinton’s correspondence. Additionally, her deleted emails may still be recoverable as a SECOND company was involved in backing up the server.

Hillary Clinton hired a Connecticut company to back up her emails, and due to a technical glitch some may still reside on one of the firm’s “cloud” storage sites ... The disclosures, in a letter Monday from Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson, heighten the possibility that some of Clinton’s more than 31,000 personal emails may still be recovered. She said last March that she deleted them all upon turning over her official emails to the State Department in December 2014.

...His letter to the chief executive of Datto Inc. of Norwalk, Conn., offers the first public confirmation that Clinton or her aides arranged for a backup of her email server after leaving office ... The letter also recounts a series of events that led an employee of Colorado-based Platte River Networks to air suspicions in an email as to whether “this whole thing really is covering up some shaddy sh**,” according to an excerpt of an email cited by Johnson, who is chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee.

Larwyn's Linx: Hillary Will Grab your Guns, With or Without Congress’ Help

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Nation

Hillary Will Grab your Guns, With or Without Congress’ Help: Leon H. Wolf
Number of recent school mass shootings by gun permit-holders: Zero: Anthony Hennen
Obama preparing more lawless "executive actions" on gun control: Charlie Spiering

New poll: Carson leads Trump. Bush behind “undecided”: RS
Cruz to meet with House insurgents one day before GOP elections: David M. Drucker
Ted Cruz sees slow and steady path to 2016 presidential victory: Ben Kamisar

Hillary Is About as Qualified To Be President as Paris Hilton: John Hawkins
Blue Chicago: 74 People Overdose on Heroin in Three Days: Sarah Fisher
New York DA caves on gun ban for prosecutors: Jazz Shaw

Exclusive --- Jeff Sessions: ObamaTrade can be killed: Julia Hahn
Hillary Clinton's Multiple Personality Disorder: Ed Lasky
Charlatans and Sheep: Thomas Sowell

The Mask Falls: Left Calling for "Gun-Free Society": Ace
Oregon mass murderer was also a fan of the Islamic State (ISIS): BNI
Facts Don’t Work on Gun Control, so Obama Uses Emotion: David Limbaugh

Economy

Obama Violates the Constitution with Education Appointment: Logan Albright
World's Largest Sovereign Wealth Fund Is Forced To Begin Liquidating Assets: ZH
BIS Warns of ‘Major Faultlines’ In Global Debt Bubble: ZH

Scandal Central

Empress Hillary Would Close Down Congress: Leon H. Wolf
Clinton: Questions About my Email Are ‘Beyond the Pale’: David Rutz
Ted Cruz: Allowing Syrian Refugees Into the US is 'Nothing Short of Crazy': Cathy Burke

Climate & Energy

New Ozone Regulations Will Save Lots of Imaginary People: Charles Battig

Media

NY Times On How Mass Shooters Got Firearms Exposes Gun Grabber Reform Myths: Jay Caruso
Unhinged Daily News Writer Wants NRA Designated A “Terrorist Group”: Bob Owens
Hillary Attacks The NRA: “Take Back The Second Amendment From These Extremists!”: WZ

The Media Has a Real Problem: Political Wrinkles
Hillary Clinton set limits with NBC for SNL: FAM
The Washington Post’s Dana Milbank Hands Donald Trump 10,000 Votes In Iowa: George Rasley

World

Russia Is Putting On A Display Of Firepower That Is Shocking The World: Michael Snyder
The Baltic Defense Bubble: Elisabeth Braw
“So many trouble spots”: Former UN Ambassador Makes Keen Observation: Tamy Bruce

We get it, Obama: Vic Rosenthal
German Jews Worried About Muslim Migrant Anti-Semitism: Daniel Greenfield
After Russia’s bombing campaign, 450 Obama-funded Syrian ‘rebels’ surrender : BNI

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Tallest 3D Printed Sculpture in US Installed at MODA: Michael Molitch
10 new trends in fashion retail: Tammy Smulders
Wildlife Is Making a Comeback at Chernobyl — Now That People Have Left: Jamie Condliffe

Cornucopia

How to get Democrats to agree gun ownership is a right: American Irony
Pictorial Essay: 18 Things I Did That My Grand-kids Can’t Do Without Someone Getting Arrested: TBP
Ham Sandwiches And Sausage Rolls May Be Banned From Office Kitchens For Being ‘Offensive’: Yahoo!

Image: Hillary Will Grab your Guns, With or Without Congress’ Help
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: Tired of RINOs who won't fight? TED CRUZ FOR PRESIDENT

QOTD: "The RNC/GOPe will never give up on the original objective, elect Jeb Bush. In order to clear the field, the first priority is to remove the threat of Donald Trump. Marco Rubio and Carly Fiorina are the tools they are using to try and deliver this outcome.

If/when this approach succeeds, it then becomes a simple matter to seed the media machine with opposition research that will remove Rubio and Fiorina from consideration. The planned natural attrition then brings Jeb back into the race.

This is a similar process, carried out by the same people, which aided Mitt Romney to this outcome in 2012. Unfortunately for the RNC/GOPe, in this election cycle, the vast majority of the electorate is well aware of the formula." --The Last Refuge

Monday, October 05, 2015

Boehner Readies Final Surrender As Debt Ceiling Debacle Looms

By Stephen Gleason

It’s campaign season, and that means non-stop media coverage of candidate polls, quips, gaffes, tweets, emails, controversies, lies, and scandals. It all makes for a good soap opera. Unfortunately, it’s almost all irrelevant in the big picture.

The media prefer to focus on the sideshow rather than the 800-pound gorilla in the room: the looming debt crisis. Nothing that comes out of a pundit’s mouth or a Hillary Clinton email will close the $210 trillion long-term fiscal gap the U.S. now faces.

More immediately, Congress faces a likely debt ceiling debacle in the next few weeks.

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