Friday, October 23, 2015

GRANNY CATLADY CLINTON: Hey Rubes, I Never Blamed a Video for the Attack in Benghazi!

By Matthew Vadum

Former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's testimony yesterday before the congressional committee formed to investigate the deadly Benghazi debacle that she allowed to happen and then tried to cover up can be summed up in two words: she lied.

Boiled down: Despite mountains of email evidence to the contrary, Clinton denied that she previously blamed the Sept. 11, 2012 terrorist attack that took four American lives on an at-the-time unwatched anti-Islam YouTube video. She denied that left-wing slime merchant and Clinton groupie Sidney Blumenthal was her advisor. She even denied having a computer on her desk at the State Department. (The Washington Post has what appears to be a largely accurate complete transcript of the hearing.)

Hillary wants Americans to believe that her official government emails, sometimes containing TOP SECRET (TS/NOFORN) classified information, which she sent around the globe through the insecure, hacker-friendly private email server created to facilitate anticipatory bribes for the would-be U.S. president -- funneled through the Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton Foundation -- don't say what your lying eyes tell you they say.

Republicans made the case yesterday that foreign policy neophyte Sidney Blumenthal, a Clinton crony with business interests in Libya, had easy access to Clinton while her own ambassador struggled heroically to reach her. The many requests from Ambassador Chris Stevens for extra security measures fell upon deaf ears.

Hillary effectively blamed Stevens for getting himself killed, saying he was supposed to take care of his own security. “We were really counting on Chris to guide us and give us information on the ground,” Clinton said when questioned methodically by Rep. Susan Brooks (R-Ind.).

Obama’s Purge

By Capt. Joseph R. John

The article discusses how the US Armed Forces’ need for warriors—-men of rare talent, intellect, and courage that has always been essential for victory in any armed conflict by the US Military, have been systematically purged from the US Armed Forces by the occupant of the Oval Office.– the subtle purge has been underway for nearly 7 years. Over the same nearly 7 years, China, Russia, Iran, and the ISIS Radical Islamic Terrorists have grown in strength, modernized their military weapon systems, and have been honing their combat skills in Crimea, Ukraine, Yemen, Iraq, Syria, Libya, Lebanon, the Philippines, the Diaoyu/Senkaku Islands, and the Spratly Islands in the South China Sea.

Obama’s priority has been to replace warriors in front line combat units with Illegal Aliens who are not proficient in English, women, transgender individuals, felons with police records, and gay members who are being recruited into Obama’s new “Politically Correct” US military. Obama has turned the US Armed Forces into the first major openly gay military force in the world, and last year11,000 straight male members in the US Armed Forces were sexually assaulted by gays—driving the retention rate for straight males to new lows.

The commanding officers of combat forces that once were warriors are slowly being replaced by briefcase-carrying, yes-men and yes-women, more interested in driving the Social Experiment On Diversity into the military, driving the “Political Correct” agenda requirement for promotion, howling out the strength of the US Armed Forces, and purging thousands of senior enlisted Non Commissioned Officers who opposed massive social change in the US Armed Forces. The leaders of Obama’s US Military seem to care more about their careers than about the Obama administration’s downsizing of the US military and the steady degrading of the National Security of the Republic.

The last two Chairmen of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral Michael Mullins and General Martin Dempsey:

Larwyn's Linx: Hillary’s Libyan Lies From the Muslim Brotherhood to Clinton Foundation Payoffs

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Hillary Clinton's Trail of Lies

Hillary’s Libyan Lies: Muslim Brotherhood, Terror and Dirty Money: Daniel Greenfield
Hillary Health Scare: Clinton Coughing Fit at Benghazi Hearing: Daniel Halper
Clinton's E-mail Cover Is So Full of Holes, Even the NYT Noticed: Trey Sanchez

Hillary Clinton’s public vs. private Benghazi facts: Sharyl Attkisson
Hillary Told Family On Night Of Benghazi Attack That It Was A Terrorist Attack: WZ
8 major warnings before Benghazi terrorist attacks: Sharyl Attkisson

Hillary Clinton’s enabler-in-chief: Jonah Goldberg
Committee buried by last-minute document dump before Hillary's testimony: Malkin
Hillary Lied, People Died: Jay Caruso

Nation

Jeb Bush Is Toast: Lawrence Brinton
Conservatives United Get Huge Wins for the GOP: Erick Erickson
Democrats are More Bothered by the Second Amendment than Socialism: Leon H. Wolf

American Islamic organization slams Trump for mosque comments: Gabby Morrongiello
Massachusetts Poll – Donald Trump Laps Entire Field With 48%: Treehouse
Clock Boy And Family Leave For Qatar: Bon Voyage…Don’t Hurry Back!: A.W. Morgan

Economy

Federal Government Bribes Employers to Hire Foreigners Instead of Americans: MB
Barack Obama Vetos Defense Bill Because It Spends Too Little: Erick Erickson
Bradley University combats 'fatism' by promoting 'fat acceptance': Peter Hasson

Scandal Central

Clinton Library Funded By Offshore Tax Haven: Mike Flynn
Hacker obtains, leaks 11 undercover Planned Parenthood videos blocked by court: Ben Johnson
Hillary: I Didn't Know The Spymaster on My Payroll Was Giving Me Intel I Was Paying Him For: Ace

Media

Obama: Don't Blame Me For the Soldier Who Died; That Was Someone Else's Call: Ace
Trump On Benghazi Hearings, 'Maybe Biden Did The Wrong Thing Getting Out Yesterday': LidBlog
Bevin's appearances on conservative talk radio give glimpses at talking points ahead: Kevin Wheatley

World

Good News: Iran’s Past Nuclear Work/Current Weaponization No Barrier To Iran Deal: William Teach
ISIS will 'Inevitably' Gain and Use Weapons of Mass Destruction: Clarion
Pockets of Sanity Emerge in Crazed Palestinian Attacks: IPT

The new East-West divide: multiculturalism vs sovereignty: Ed West
Pentagon: American killed in raid to free Iraqis held by IS: Daily Progress
Majority Say More Concealed Weapons Would Make U.S. Safer: Gallup

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Russia’s Winning the Electronic War: Paul McLeary
Doctors Agree: Obama’s Electronic Medical Records Mandate Sucks!: Michelle Malkin
BMW M5 Pure Metal Edition with 600 horsepower: Horatiu Boeriu

Cornucopia

“I’m Worried Now, But I Won’t Be Worried Long.”: MOTUS
"The show will be monitored" Alfred Hitchcock's FBI file: MuckRock
The Highlight Of Hillary Clinton’s Testimony: LoneCon

Image: OH, MY: Jim Jordan Absolutely Blisters Hillary Clinton’s Benghazi Lies
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QOTD: "[Hillary's] Libyan War, like the rest of the Arab Spring, was about empowering the Muslim Brotherhood.

And there were cruder motives in the mix.

Hillary Clinton hid emails discussing the exploitation of Libya’s oil fields. The Clintons had made an art out of merging their political and financial agendas. They had extensive ties with figures in the energy industry and the companies that dug into Libya’s energy sector, Royal Dutch Shell and BP, were Clinton Foundation donors...

...The entire nightmarish mess of Democratic conspiracy theories about Iraq, Blood for Oil, politicians fighting wars to win elections, corporate conflicts of interest and even private military companies are all here and no one will touch it. A roster of Democratic candidates still running against the Iraq War won’t talk about an illegal dirty regime change war that took place with their backing and support." --Daniel Greenfield

Thursday, October 22, 2015

OH, MY: Jim Jordan Absolutely Blisters Hillary Clinton’s Benghazi Lies

Watch the video. It is. Simply. Brutal.

Short version: the day of the attack, Hillary Clinton emailed her family and, separately, the Egyptian Prime Minister that she knew the fatal Benghazi assault "had nothing to do with the film... it was a planned attack -- not a protest."


On Sunday, September 16th -- days later -- Hillary avoided the Sunday talk shows and instead sent national security adviser Susan Rice out to lie to the American public: that Americans died because of a "spontaneous protest" over an "offensive video".

...our current best assessment, based on the information that we have at present, is that, in fact, what this began as, it was a spontaneous — not a premeditated — response to what had transpired in Cairo. In Cairo, as you know, a few hours earlier, there was a violent protest that was undertaken in reaction to this very offensive video that was disseminated...

If you look up the term "liar" in the dictionary, you'll see the visage of Hillary Rodham Abedin.

I would call these people pond scum, but I don't want to tarnish the reputation of hard-working algae.

PACK. OF. LIARS.

Oh, I'm sorry. Let me some get ice for that, Mr. Abedin Mrs. Rodham?


Hat tip: BadBlue News.
 

The Strange Case of the Missing "Moderate" Islamists

By Lawrence Sellin

If George W. Bush naively flirted with the concept of acceptable "moderate" Islamist regimes, Barack Obama passionately consummated the relationship.

In the wake of 9/11, the Bush Administration, sought a long-term political solution to international terrorism, which they believed emanated from the lack of democratic participation, where resentful individuals, having been excluded from the political process in their own countries, directed their hatred and violence against the West. Bush chose Iraq as a starting point for the democratization of the Middle East, from where he had expected democracy to spread and, consequently, would both assimilate and contain potential terrorists.

When democracy failed to take hold in Iraq or anywhere else for that matter, Bush initiated an alternative approach, the idea to integrate unspecified "moderate" Islamists into their own countries' governments. The concept quickly gained popularity, particularly in Qatar, a long-time supporter of the Muslim Brotherhood, who sponsored seminars, conferences and meetings, all promoted by the Al-Jazeera Channel to speed up a process that they hoped would reshape the entire region to reflect Muslim Brotherhood beliefs and practices.

That shift in US policy away from supporting authoritarian, but stable Arab governments to accepting "moderate" Islamist regimes was expressed, albeit cryptically by then Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice in Cairo, Egypt on June 20, 2005:

PAUL RYAN UNITES THE PARTY: 93 Percent of Republicans Oppose His Amnesty Agenda

By Julia Hahn

Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) says he’ll take the job as House Speaker only if particular groups — including the important House Freedom Caucus — concede to a list of significant demands. Ryan is demanding support across the Republican conference and says he wants to be “that unifying candidate.”

However, polling data reveals that a Ryan Speakership would do anything but unite the party.

On two of the issues of immense importance to GOP voters — trade and immigration — polling from the Pew Research Center shows that most GOP voters oppose some of the key ideological stances to which Ryan is devoted. The issues of trade and immigration also take on an especial importance as the Ryan-Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) immigration agenda led to the unseating of former Majority Leader Eric Cantor- which began the leadership shuffle – and the recent Ryan-led Obamatrade push helped bring the base’s criticism of the Boehner leadership team to a fever pitch.

During the 2013 push to pass comprehensive immigration reform, pro-amnesty Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL) said that Paul Ryan was working “every day” to further the immigration expansion plan. In 2013, while aggressively stumping for Rubio’s immigration plan, Ryan called for the implementation of open borders immigration policies which would allow for the legal and free movement of foreign labor and foreign goods across national boundaries. Ryan insisted that the U.S. needs an immigration system that has, “gates open to the people who are coming in pursuit of their version of the American dream.”

America, Ryan declared, “is more than our borders.”

STUNNING ADMISSION BY HILLARY CLINTON: She Never Gave Ambassador Stevens Her Email Address

In today's testimony in front of Congress, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton offered several startling admissions. One stood out as particularly disgusting.

Anti-semitic nutjobs like Sidney Blumenthal had direct access to the Secretary of State while Ambassadors -- like the late Christopher Stevens -- were not permitted to email her directly.

It seems like a fairly obvious question when you think about it. Why didn’t Hillary Clinton have any emails from Libyan Ambassador Chris Stevens?

That’s precisely what Georgia Congressman Lynn Westmoreland wanted to find out at today’s congressional hearing.

“You got a lot of emails from Sidney Blumenthal, and you say that Mr. Blumenthal was a friend of yours, and he had your person email,” Westmoreland noted. “You say Chris Stevens was a friend of yours,” he added as Clinton nodded in agreement.

Larwyn's Linx: Benghazi, Tomorrow and Beyond

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Nation

Benghazi, Tomorrow and Beyond: Paul Mirengoff
How many lies will Hillary tell today?: Chip Wood
Republican voters are spitting mad at the establishment GOP: Nick Sorrentino

Donald Trump Crushing Field 32% and Rising…: Treehouse
Ted Cruz is Determined to Defund Sanctuary Cities: EveryJoe
Facing nervous donors, Bush Super PAC Reverses Course on Ads: S.V. Dáte

Joe Biden will not run for president: RS
Biden's Incoherent Farewell Address: the Democrat Party: Ben Shapiro
Is There A Plan B If Hillary’s Campaign Collapses?: John Fund

The New Speaker

House Freedom Caucus Will Not Endorse Ryan: Elaina Plott
Save Us From Paul Ryan and the Kemp Boys: Ann Coulter
PBS film exposed Ryan as chief House GOP amnesty plotter: Roy Beck

Why Daniel Webster is Right for Speaker: Steve King
Ryan Demands Repeal of Founding Father Thomas Jefferson's Rule: Alex Swoyer
Paul Ryan’s Detractors Have Zero Leverage: Jon Gabriel

Economy

Obama to Give $4.3 billion to Syrian Refugees; Leaving Our Vets to Suffer This: RWN
Goodbye Middle Class: 51% Of All American Workers Make Less Than $30K: Michael Snyder
Democrat Debate: More Economic Inequality, No Interest in Economic Growth: Michael Barone

Scandal Central

Global Police, Precrime and the War on Domestic ‘Extremists’: John W. Whitehead
Five Reasons Benghazi Still Matters: Matthew Clark
WikiLeaks Releases CIA Director’s Emails: Daily Beast

VA Officials Refuse To Appear Before Committee, Get Hit With Subpoena: Jonah Bennett
DOJ Officials Fear Foreign Telecoms Hacked Clinton Emails, Server: Elizabeth MacDonald
Hillary's bathroom email server company billed her or its legal and PR costs after scandal broke: DailyMail

Climate & Energy

The confused carbon profile of a massive solar power plant: Jazz Shaw

Media

Why a Secret Service Detail Matters: Dan Bongino
The Top Ten Ways Liberalism Makes America Worse: Elephant
Biden Takes Veiled Shot at Hillary in 2016 Announcement: GOP ‘Not Our Enemies’: Josh Feldman

See why people LOVE what Ted Cruz just said about GOP 'leadership': Twitchy
Kim Davis Should Have Declared Rowan County a Sanctuary City: Leon H. Wolf
FBI: Muslim Beats Up Jet Blue Flight Attendant, Threatens To Blow Up Plane: Pamela Geller

World

What Just Happened in Syria?: Michael J. Totten
Warning to West – Look what happened to nation that accepted Muslim migrants: Creeping
U.S. pilots told not to react to aggressive Russian jets in Syria: DailyMail

Christians Persecuted by Muslims Even in the West: Raymond Ibrahim
Senator Ted Cruz to 'Post': US should stop lecturing the Israelis: Post
Mufti Advised Hitler on Holocaust, Says Middle East Forum Scholar: MEForum

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Wikileaks is a Front for Russian Intelligence: The XX Committee
Cat And Intelsat: SDA
Drivers are being idiots with Tesla’s new autopilot features: Owen Williams

Cornucopia

Hey, ‘Black Lives Matter’ — Do Black Opinions on Guns Matter?: Larry Elder
“You Say You Want a Revolution?”: MOTUS
Court decision paves the way for Australian-style gun ban: Michael Filozof

Image: How Biden got to ‘no’
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: #TheConstitutionMan: TED CRUZ FOR PRESIDENT

QOTD: "I mentioned to you that Nancy Pelosi had offered to help the Republicans choose their next Speaker, right? And now you're telling me that Harry Reid has endorsed Paul Ryan? Did you see that? Harry Reid's endorsed Paul Ryan. Paul Ryan says (paraphrasing), "I'll do it, but I have to be unanimously elected. I am not traveling on weekends, I stay with my family. And you gotta get rid of that provision that Thomas Jefferson wrote that can recall the Speaker. If you do all that, I might think about doing it." And the Democrats are right along line with this.

Now, if I'm not mistaken, isn't Paul Ryan the guy the Democrats accused of pushing a wheelchair-bound granny over the cliff? And now they're deciding that's the guy they want to be the Republican Speaker? What does that tell us all? " --Rush Limbaugh

Wednesday, October 21, 2015

THE NAKED HILLARY CLINTON: DOJ believes China telecoms hacked Hillary's insecure bathroom email server

Over at Fox Business News, Elizabeth MacDonald reveals that the Obama administration is doing everything in its power to destroy Hillary Clinton's campaign. In this case, insiders at the Department of Justice have leaked stunning new information regarding Hillary Clinton's illegal bathroom email server.

Officials close to the matter at the Department of Justice are concerned the emails Hillary Clinton sent from her personal devices while overseas on business as U.S. Secretary of State were breached by foreign telecoms in the countries she visited—a list which includes China...

“Those telecommunications companies over there often have government workers in there. That telecom in that foreign country could then follow the trail of emails back to her server in the U.S. and break into the server” remotely over the Internet. At various points in this process, there were multiple entry points to hack into Clinton’s server to steal information, as well as eavesdrop, the Justice Department officials say.

This is the first indication that officials at the Justice Department are concerned that foreign telecom workers may have broken into Clinton’s emails and home server. The Federal Bureau of Investigation is currently investigating the national security issues surrounding Clinton’s emails and server.

The Justice Department officials also used the words “reckless", “stunning,” and “unbelievable” in discussing the controversy swirling around Clinton’s use of a private, nongovernment email account...

Of course Hillary wants your guns

By Daniel John Sobieski

Hillary Clinton, who served an administration that ran thousands of guns to Mexican drug lords under Operation Fast and Furious, is now fast and furiously trying to resurrect a failing campaign by taking aim at so-called gun rights “extremists”.

In the wake of the shootings at Umpqua Community College in Oregon, Mrs. Clinton advocated in New Hampshire for a new gun group for “responsible gun owners” apart from the National Rifle Association, which she considers extremist, even though no NRA member has ever been involved in a mass shooting:

While discussing the NRA Clinton said, “I mean ideally what I would love to see is gun owners, responsible gun owners, hunters form a different organization and take back the Second Amendment from these extremists.”

At last report, the shooter at Umpqua was not an NRA member. Neither were the shooters at Sandy Hook, Columbine, Virginia Tech, Aurora, Colorado, or any of the other mass shootings. Interestingly, there has never been a mass shooting at gun shows, which Hillary Clinton considers to be a loophole to be closed by universal background checks Chicago gang bangers, for example will never submit to.

Perhaps she could name just one mass shooting that would have been prevented by any of the gun “loopholes” she would close, and. as for her pledge to take executive action as president, she seems to forget a couple of Supreme Court decisions that have certified that the right to keep and bear arms is both a national and individual right that shall not be infringed:

This isn't the future you were looking for

By CIS.org

Today is Back to the Future Day, the date when Doc Brown and Marty McFly appear in their time-traveling DeLorean in the movie Back to the Future Part II. Their starting date was 1985, the year before the IRCA amnesty was passed that was supposed to solve the illegal immigration problem once and for all.


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Larwyn's Linx: Just Say “NO” To Amnesty and Paul Ryan As Speaker

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Nation

Just Say “NO” To Amnesty and Paul Ryan As Speaker: CHQ
Ryan Wants Conservatives To Sign Their Own Death Warrant: Erick Erickson
Liberal and Progressive Vision: Walter Williams

Filling the Void: The Z Man
Poll: Trump Increases Lead, Bush Fades: Mike Flynn
The GOPe Will Never Accept Trump; Beltway Insiders Will Vote for Hillary: Treehouse

Democrats and GOP Senator Mark Kirk team up to block ‘sanctuary cities’ law: RS
What happened to the president's immigration programs?: Molly Hennessy-Fiske
Illegal alien with 3 DUI's, Spared Deportation by Obama, Kills Cyclist: Virtuous

Biden Disputes Clinton’s Story About Bin Laden Raid: Blake Seitz
Smelly Old Joe Biden Changes Stories on Bin Laden Raid: Scoop
Appeals Court Upholds NY, CT "Assault Weapons" Bans: Bob Adelmann

Panicked establishment gets ready for war against Trump: Byron York
Ted Cruz. Ted Cruz? Ted Cruz!: Harry Enten, Five Thirty Eight
The bell tolls for Jeb Bush in Florida: RS

Economy

Confusion, Delusions and Illusions: Jim Quinn
Obamacare's problems are only just beginning: Exam
Peak Debt, Peak Doubt And Peak Double-Down: Contra Corner

Scandal Central

Former Assistant Director Of The FBI: Hillary May Be Guilty Of Conspiracy Too: Hannity
Clinton Aide Huma Abedin Employment at State Department Flouted the Law: Tom Fitton
Hillary Clinton's enabler-in-chief: Jonah Goldberg

Stop Obama’s War On Watchdogs: Michelle Malkin
Erie PA: Impoverished refugees to get special federal savings plan (you pay for it): Ann Corcoran
Obamacare on the Rocks: Betsy McCaughey

Media

Rove explains George W. Bush disdain for Ted Cruz: Colin Campbell
Latest NRA Ad Featuring Black Woman from Projects Will Leave You Speechless: GWP
"Over A Year Before 9/11, Trump Wrote Of Terror Threat With Remarkable Clarity.": Althouse

Clinton Presidential Campaign Video Shows Hillary in Hijab: GWP
Five Dirty Little Secrets About Hillary That the Media Isn’t Talking About: Ed Klein
Harry Reid Calls Sanctuary Cities Bill ‘The Donald Trump Act’: Nina Bookout

World

Foreign Aid and Poverty: Maggie's Farm
The Clock Ticks On: Mark Steyn
Islamic State Raked in Over $1 Billion in 2014: Bill Gertz

Justin Trudeau: Canada’s Obama: Robert Spencer
Thousands of Germans take to the streets to fight the Islamic tide: Ann Corcoran
UN Agency to Make the Jewish Wailing Wall an Islamic Holy Site?: Matthew Clark

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Tech Scandals That Hurt So Good: The Information
Where Did Dogs Originate?: Archaeology
Teen Hackers Socially Engineered Way Into CIA Director's Private E-Mail: Hacked

Cornucopia

#BetterMakeRoom for Joey: MOTUS
How To Survive In The Woods: Alec Deacon
Goodbye Sweden: SwedenReport

Image: Latest NRA Ad Featuring Black Woman from Projects Will Leave You Speechless
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: #TheConstitutionMan: TED CRUZ FOR PRESIDENT

QOTD: "The world divides into those who sincerely believe in that "Coexist" sticker and those who think it's a delusional evasion. After all, if it weren't for that big Muslim crescent "C" at the front, you wouldn't need a bumper sticker at all:

That peace-symbol "O"? It's Muslims, alas, who kill secular hippie pacifist backpackers in Bali nightclubs.

That equal-rights "E"? It's Muslims who take girls as their sex slaves in Nigeria and kill their own daughters and sisters in Germany because rape has rendered them "unclean".

The star-of-David "X"? It's Muslims who are currently stabbing and running over Jews in Jerusalem and then celebrating by passing out free candy.

In India, it's Muslims vs Hindus. In southern Thailand, Muslims vs Buddhists. The world is a messy, violent, complicated place, but as a rule of thumb, as I said all those years ago in America Alone, in most corners of the planet it boils down to: Muslims vs [Your Team Here]." --Mark Steyn

Tuesday, October 20, 2015

FINALLY, HILLARY CLINTON FACES PANEL ON BENGHAZI: 5 Key Questions She Must Be Asked

By Helle Dale

On Thursday, Hillary Clinton will make her long-awaited appearance before the House Select Committee on Benghazi.

This will be a crucial moment in the Benghazi investigation, and without the testimony of the former Secretary of State, the record will never be complete. We have had eight congressional investigations and one Accountability Review Board (ARB) report, but the secretary was not interviewed by the ARB.

Furthermore, Clinton’s only testimony on this matter, on Jan. 23, 2013, was truncated by her health problems and by the fact that she appeared before two committees on the same day.

Getting to the bottom of the Benghazi affair is important for many reasons: The families of the four men who were killed in Benghazi deserve the truth, as they were promised by the Obama administration over three years ago. Government accountability and personal responsibility matters.

So does making every possible effort to ensure the safety of U.S. diplomats sent overseas to do the nation’s business.

This country has missions, consulates and embassies all over the world, and we need to make sure we know what needs to be done to keep them safe and enable them to do their jobs.

That’s why we need to get to the full truth of what happened before, during and after the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi on Sept. 11, 2012, so we know how we can do to do better.

Some of the important questions that have never been adequately answered,

Paul Ryan Doesn’t Believe in Borders or National Sovereignty

By Julia Hahn

As the donor class continues to push for a Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) Speakership, conservative activists have renewed their scrutiny of Ryan’s support for a radical Republican policy of open borders. Breitbart News has discovered yet another little-noticed video in which Ryan articulates his commitment to immigration policies that would dissolve America’s sovereignty.

The video, uploaded by the Journal Times, shows Ryan at a July 2013 bilingual Hispanic Listening Session in Racine, Wisconsin. At the meeting, Paul Ryan told a predominantly Hispanic audience that the job of a U.S. lawmaker is to put oneself in the shoes of foreign nationals who want to come to the United States, then work to discover solutions to make their lives better.

The Journal Times notes that the purpose of the meeting was for Ryan to “explai[n] to them his motives” for pushing to enact Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL)’s amnesty and mass immigration agenda in the House of Representatives.

As Ryan spoke, translators conveyed his message to audience members who did not speak English:

The Embarrassing Spectacle Known as the Democrat Debate

By Richard Larsen

There are several self-evident truths about the Democrat Party that were revealed at their presidential debate earlier this week. And as they relate to the character of the party, what it stands for, and what its adherents believe, none bode well for the future of the country.

Bernie Sanders, the self-avowed Democrat-Socialist Senator from Vermont, drew perhaps the most boisterous response to his comment, “Let me say something that may not be great politics. The American people are sick and tired of hearing about your damn emails,” referring to Hillary Clinton’s FBI email investigation. Clearly Sanders was echoing the sentiment of the Democrat faithful as evidenced by the raucous response in the debate hall, but such a sentiment underscores the elitism of the party; the “rule of law” is selectively applied, and has little or no relevance to the elite. And in Democrat circles, there are none more elite than the Clintons.

Those with high level security clearance are beholden to the regulations designed to protect national security, and knowingly mishandling classified information (or even sensitive information not classified “Top Secret”), bears criminal repercussions. The cases of former CIA directors General David Petraeus and John Deutch clearly prove the criminal liability. And according to Judicial Watch, the Obama Administration has charged more government employees under the Espionage Act than any since the post-WWI era law was enacted.

Larwyn's Linx: Memo to GOP: Curb Immigration or Quit

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Nation

Memo to GOP: Curb Immigration or Quit: Roll Call
Republicans Would Rather Lose Than Help Conservatives: Erick on the Radio
George W. Bush Attacks Ted Cruz. Advantage to Ted Cruz.: Erick Erickson

Lies and Flopsweat: The 3 Democrat Attacks on the Benghazi Committee: Leon H. Wolf
House Leaders Devise Way to Fund PPFA, Avoid Obamacare Repeal: Erick Erickson
Dividing Lines – President George W Bush Attacks Senator Ted Cruz: Treehouse

Democrats Without Borders: Debra Saunders
Open Season on the Police: Thomas Sowell
Jim Webb May Run As Independent and Elect Hillary Clinton: Ace

Sources tell Fox Biden is running: Ace
Biden 2016: A Bad Idea Gets Worse: Michael Tomasky
Husband of Hong Kong cosmetics tycoon bankrolls Jeb super PAC: Shanghaiist

Economy

In Case You Were Wondering, Obamacare is Going Great: Leon H. Wolf
Income Inequality: Totally Irrelevant In A Country Like America: John Hawkins
Racialist Cali Middle School Principal Withholding Student Election Results: Blaze

Scandal Central

Memos recovered from Benghazi compound detail staff security worries: Times
State Dept. cybersecurity under Hillary Clinton assailed: CBS News
Emails: Clinton Foundation donor lobbied State Department for Haiti hotels: Alana Goodman

Media

Crazy Salon Writer Who Wanted Gun Owners Shot Wrote That He Possessed Guns: Cove
How the MSM spins, example #926: Politico provides Team Hillary a talking point: Doug Powers
Dan Rather: Hey, We Totally "Got to the Truth" of that Bush Air National Guard Story: Ace

The Republican Front Runner is a Huge Fan of Michael Moore: Leon H. Wolf
Even the LA Times thinks California Governor Brown’s latest Climate Claim is Nonsense: Eric Worrall
Ben Carson Confuses Iraq, Afghanistan, Past, Future, Space, Time, Whatever: Charles P. Pierce

World

Israel Must Deport the PLO: Daniel Greenfield
Why Obama Keeps Blaming The Victims Of Terrorism In Israel: LidBlog
Canada election: Trudeau promises change after Liberals rout Conservatives: Guardian

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Are You Part Iceman? Famous Ötzi Has 19 Living Relatives: Tia Ghose, LiveScience
Top 5 Risks You Hadn't Considered in Connected Cars: IT Business Edge
Scented cup gives the illusion of flavored water: Springwise

Cornucopia

Old West gunfight reenactment gets a bit too real: France24
The Zombie Apocalypse Will NOT Be Televised: MOTUS
Jeb Bush, Hillary Clinton offer prizes and fine print: Stephanie Condon

Image: Biden 2016: A Bad Idea Gets Worse
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: #ConstitutionMan: TED CRUZ FOR PRESIDENT

QOTD: "A Biden candidacy was always a bad idea, in part for reasons I wrote about back in early August: no real rationale, no major policy differences with Hillary Clinton, he’ll just end up attacking her trustworthiness if he wants to get anywhere.

In the 10 weeks that have passed since I wrote that column, it’s only become a worse idea. First of all, Biden’s polling performance isn’t so hot. He’s third, behind Clinton and Sanders. He’s been pretty steady for the last two months, at 15 to 20 percent. So it’s not as if he’s lost ground, but the general assumption in politics is that once a person announces, he slips a bit in the polls because he goes from being a neat hypothetical idea to someone whose warts the electorate actually begins to contemplate (and whom the press begins to scrutinize). He’s also third in Iowa, and a pretty distant third in New Hampshire. Oh, and third in South Carolina, too,  25 or 30 points behind Clinton. Polls can change, of course—they often do. But there’s no obvious reason to think they’re going to change much here, for such a known quantity as Joe.

The second reason it’s become a worse idea is that Clinton seems to have stabilized. She topped everybody’s expectations in the debate. She showed life, zest for battle. (She’s a high-energy person!) She regained the lead over Sanders in New Hampshire—well, according to one poll anyway. " --Michael Tomasky

Monday, October 19, 2015

Being Barack Obama

By Lawrence Sellin

It is no longer considered a brilliant or unwarranted diagnosis to conclude that Barack Hussein Obama suffers from Narcissistic Personality Disorder, in which people have an inflated sense of their own importance, a deep need for admiration and a lack of empathy for others; all usually disguising a fragile self-image that is vulnerable to the slightest criticism.

It would not be unfair, in my opinion, to speculate that Obama may also demonstrate some characteristics of malignant narcissism, where individuals might display an increased level of hostility and sadistically undermine organizations in which they are involved, as well as dehumanize the people with whom they associate; in this case, the United States and ordinary Americans, respectively.

In government, such conduct can manifest itself as a form of antisocial behavior, camouflaged aggression, in which the formal regulations and procedures of an organization are used in both delivering and masking aggression, appearing as non-confrontational, in which the perpetrator can go unnoticed and those harmed may not even be seen as victims of aggression.

"We are five days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America." - Barack Obama, October 30, 2008.

"We are going to have to change our conversation; we're going to have to change our traditions, our history; we're going to have to move into a different place as a nation." - Michelle Obama, May 14, 2008.

MOST! TRANSPARENT! EVAH! White House concealing list of a dozen dying Obamacare insurers

By Richard Pollock

Federal officials have a secret list of 11 Obamacare health insurance co-ops they fear are on the verge of failure, but they refuse to disclose them to the public or to Congress, a Daily Caller News Foundation investigation has learned.

Just in the last three weeks, five of the original 24 Obamacare co-ops announced plans to close, bringing the total of failures to eight barely two years after their launch with $2 billion in start-up capital from the taxpayers under the Affordable Care Act.

All 24 received 15-year loans in varying amounts to offer health insurance to poor and low income customers and provide publicly funded competition to private, for-profit insurers. The eight co-ops to announce closings served populations in ten states: Iowa, Nebraska, Kentucky, West Virginia, Louisiana, Nevada, Tennessee, Vermont, New York and Colorado.

Nearly half a million failing co-op customers will have to find new coverage in 2016. More than $900 million of the original $2 billion in loans has been lost.

The 11 unidentified co-ops appear to be still operating but are now on “enhanced oversight” by the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid, which manages the Obamacare program. The 11 received letters from CMS demanding that they take urgent actions to avoid closing.

Aaron Albright, chief CMS spokesman, said 11 co-ops “are either on a corrective action plan or enhanced oversight. We have not released the letters or names.” He gave no grounds for withholding the information from either the public or Congress.

SHOCKA: Clinton Foundation Donor Successfully Lobbied Hillary State Dept. for Massive Hotel Project in Haiti

Writing at the consistently excellent Washington Free Beacon, Alana Goodman reveals Chapter 918 of the Clinton Global Graft Almanac. In this case, a conspicuous contributor to the Clinton Foundation successfully bribed lobbied the Secretary of State -- Hillary Clinton --- and the Clinton Global Graft Initiative itself for a hotel project in Haiti that successfully opened last March.

A donor to the Clinton Foundation reached out to Hillary Clinton’s office to promote a Haiti hotel project that later received support from the U.S. government and Bill Clinton, according to emails released by the Department of State.

Richard L. Friedman, a Boston hotel developer emailed Cheryl Mills, Clinton’s chief of staff, to tout the project on May 17, 2011 ... [noting] he recently had a discussion with Hillary Clinton at the White House and asked Mills to forward her a note for him. It is unclear what he and Clinton discussed, and portions of his email have been redacted by the State Department due to “personal private interests.” The note he asked Mills to send to Clinton is also redacted.

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QOTD: "The debate about whether the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action with Iran regarding its nuclear program stabilized the Middle East’s strategic framework had barely begun when the region’s geopolitical framework collapsed. Russia’s unilateral military action in Syria is the latest symptom of the disintegration of the American role in stabilizing the Middle East order that emerged from the Arab-Israeli war of 1973.

In the aftermath of that conflict, Egypt abandoned its military ties with the Soviet Union and joined an American-backed negotiating process that produced peace treaties between Israel and Egypt, and Israel and Jordan, a United Nations-supervised disengagement agreement between Israel and Syria, which has been observed for over four decades (even by the parties of the Syrian civil war), and international support of Lebanon’s sovereign territorial integrity. Later, Saddam Hussein’s war to incorporate Kuwait into Iraq was defeated by an international coalition under U.S. leadership. American forces led the war against terror in Iraq and Afghanistan. Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and the other Gulf States were our allies in all these efforts. The Russian military presence disappeared from the region.

That geopolitical pattern is now in shambles. Four states in the region have ceased to function as sovereign. Libya, Yemen, Syria and Iraq have become targets for nonstate movements seeking to impose their rule. Over large swaths in Iraq and Syria, an ideologically radical religious army has declared itself the Islamic State (also called ISIS or ISIL) as an unrelenting foe of established world order. It seeks to replace the international system’s multiplicity of states with a caliphate, a single Islamic empire governed by Shariah law.

ISIS’ claim has given the millennium-old split between the Shiite and Sunni sects of Islam an apocalyptic dimension. The remaining Sunni states feel threatened by both the religious fervor of ISIS as well as by Shiite Iran, potentially the most powerful state in the region. Iran compounds its menace by presenting itself in a dual capacity. On one level, Iran acts as a legitimate Westphalian state conducting traditional diplomacy, even invoking the safeguards of the international system. At the same time, it organizes and guides nonstate actors seeking regional hegemony based on jihadist principles: Hezbollah in Lebanon and Syria; Hamas in Gaza; the Houthis in Yemen." --Henry Kissinger