Tuesday, November 03, 2015

CRUZ TO DOJ: Preserve Every Record Related to the IRS Scandal, Eh, For the Next Administration. Or Else.

This is why we love us some Ted Cruz.

Yesterday, Cruz sent a letter to Attorney General Loretta Lynch suggesting that it would be in the administration's best interests to preserve all IRS records for the next administration. The request came after the DOJ covered up closed its investigation into political targeting of conservative and pro-Israel groups by the IRS.

November 2, 2015

Dear Attorney General Lynch:

I write today to strongly urge you, as head of the Department of Justice, to take specific steps to ensure that the Department preserves all of its Internal Revenue Service-related documents and information indefinitely. This Administration’s recent announcement that it does not intend to conduct or allow an appropriate criminal investigation of the IRS’s targeting of Tea Party and other conservative organizations has finally made it abundantly clear that the responsibility of ensuring a thorough, fair, and impartial investigation of IRS employees and their potential criminal conduct will fall to the next presidential administration, and relevant materials must be protected accordingly.

HARSH: Obama Official Who Pled Guilty to Espionage Gets... $250 Fine

By Richard Pollock

Glenn Woodell, a NASA supervisor who pled guilty to violating U.S. espionage laws involving a Chinese NASA contractor was given a slap on the wrist with six months’ probation and a $250 fine, the Daily Caller News Foundation has learned.

Daniel Jobson, a Woodell colleague and fellow NASA supervisor, had his espionage charges reduced to a misdemeanor and was released without any penalty.

The lenient plea deals were quietly delivered October 26 in U.S. District Court in Newport News, Virginia. The U.S. Attorneys office did not to issue a press release about the deals and declined comment when contacted by the DCNF.

Woodell was charged under Title 18 of the nation’s espionage laws and faced a maximum penalty of one-year imprisonment and a fine of $100,000.

“It’s like a traffic ticket or something for littering,” commented former U.S. Rep. Frank Wolf in an interview with the DCNF. A former Virginia Republican congressman who was chairman of a House appropriations oversight subcommittee for NASA, worked to expose Bo Jiang, the Chinese NASA contractor at the heart of the espionage case.

Bizarro President

By Caroline Glick

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s meeting with US President Barack Obama next week is likely to look less like a rapprochement than a showdown at the OK Corral.

The flurry of spy stories spinning around in recent weeks makes clear that US-Israel relations remain in crisis.

Two weeks ago, The Wall Street Journal published a fairly detailed account of the US’s massive spying operations against Israel between 2010 and 2012.

Their purpose was to prevent Israel from attacking Iran’s nuclear installations. The Journal report, which was based on US sources, also detailed the evasion tactics the Obama administration employed to try to hide its covert nuclear talks with Iran from Israel. According to the report, the administration was infuriated that through its spy operations against Iran, Israel discovered the talks and the government asked the White House to tell it what was going on.

Over the past several days, the Israeli media have reported the Israeli side of the US spying story.

Larwyn's Linx: Has the liberal wing of the Democrats finally pushed the party too far?

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Nation

Has the liberal wing of the Democrats finally pushed the party too far?: Jazz Shaw
The Criminal Alien Emergency: American Lives Matter: Daniel Horowitz
Illegal Convicted of Drunk Driving Death Back 4 Days After Deportation: Ildefonso Ortiz

Boehner II: The Revenge -- Ryan Will Fund Planned Parenthood: Ben Shapiro
Vote For Or Support Rubio, Lose Your Job: Karl Denninger
Feds Send Man to Jail for Overfishing as 6,000 Drug Convicts are Freed: JW

Latest IA Poll: Trump Leads, Cruz Third, Jindal, Huckabee top Bush: Treehouse
NH Poll: Trump Remains Leader, GOPe Counting On Rubio: Treehouse
Marco Rubio in Spanish says he will keep Obama amnesty: FAM

The Final Four of the GOP Election: Steve Deace
Wealthy Republican donors look to Rubio: Financial Times
How Rubio and Cruz Are Already Consolidating Their Wings of the GOP: Scott Bland

Ignoring the Obvious: Thomas Sowell
Thug Lives Matter: Karl Denninger, Market Ticker
Two dead, 28 wounded in Halloween weekend shootings: Chicago Sun-Times

Economy

Obama Proves, Once Again, That His Promises Are Meaningless: Jason Pye
Students Who Do NOTHING Now Get C Grades: The Daily Caller
5 out of 6 top university donations go to Dems: James Mietus

The 7 Keys To Trapping As Many Americans As Possible In Poverty: John Hawkins
Barack Obama is set to double the National Debt: Neil Stevens
Breaking the Ivy League Monopoly: AmInt

Scandal Central

Leaked DHS memo shows Obama might circumvent federal injunction: Ian M. Smith
Clinton Made Time For Donors At State Department: Shoshana Weissman
Emails show Clinton had 2 Benghazi stories: 1 for Libyans, 1 for Americans: Sarah Westwood

Climate & Energy

Dem Senator Continues To Push To Prosecute Climate Skeptics: William Teach
EPA Finds Emissions Defeat Device In More Diesels Sold By Audi, Porsche & VW: Automnews
Good News: Climate Bigwigs Coming For Your Fridge And AC: William Teach

Media

Ted Cruz ad blasts left media for bias GOP debate display: Daily Mail
Watch Clinton supporters cheer for Sharia law: Personal Liberty
Bad Day for Gay Rights in Missouri: Molly Willms

The Criminal Arrogance of Hillary Clinton: GraniteGrok
“Say That to My Face!” Fiorina Challenges ‘The View’: Mark Edward
Rand Paul’s Political Stock Dipping Back Home: Josh Kraushaar, NationalJournal

5 Hillary scandals the media is missing: Edward Klein
Granny Clinton Adds Media Matters Lunatic as ‘Director of Rapid Response’: JWF
NY Times’ mindless editorial over Stand-Your-Ground law: Andrew Branca

World

Iran Launches Blockade On U.S. Goods: Adam Kredo
Erdogan won't condemn ISIS for shooting down Russian airplane because Putin's supporting Assad: MFS-TON
Heroic Muslim Terrorist Stabs 80-Year-Old Israeli Woman: Daniel Greenfield

Richest Man in the World: ‘Representative Democracy Is a Problem.’: Jim Geraghty
“Palestinian” stabby fashions [Darleen Click]: PW
European concern: Refugees coming, Jews leaving: Hillel Fendel

The Camp of the Saints is Here: John Hinderaker
German village to be overrun this week with Middle Eastern and African migrants: Ann Corcoran
Why Islam is Not a Religion: Rebecca Bynum

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

3D Metal Printing Startup Announces $14 Million in First Funding Round: Sandra Helsel
Mexicans come up with “World’s Worst” internet law: Nick Farrell
Candy Crush Maker King Digital Sells to Activision For $5.9 Billion: Peter Kafka

Cornucopia

My 2016 Presidential Campaign Platform [McGehee]: PW
Gaslighting or Audiographic Memory: Which Superpower Will Win the Day?: MOTUS
Stunning 1981 BMW M1 Heading to Auction: Brad Anderson, GT Spirit

Image: “Palestinian” stabby fashions [Darleen Click]
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: #ConstitutionMan: TED CRUZ FOR PRESIDENT

QOTD: "ntil now, I have taken a benign view of Jeb Bush’s presidential candidacy. I have said from the beginning that he has zero chance of getting the Republican nomination, but he was a good governor and he has as much right to seek the nomination as anyone else.

But now, Bush has turned into a negative, anti-Republican force. To an even greater degree than Donald Trump, he mouths Democratic Party talking points. In particular, he is engaged in an obsessive and destructive vendetta against Marco Rubio, who, unlike Bush, is a serious candidate for the nomination...

...At this point, Bush’s continuing his fruitless campaign serves no one except the Democrats. If he can’t stop attacking his fellow Republicans, he should do the right thing and retire gracefully from the field." --John Hinderaker

Monday, November 02, 2015

Radical 80-Year Old Israeli Woman Terrorist Interferes with Innocent Palestinian's Knife-Wielding Practice

By Daniel Greenfield

Another one of Kerry's frustrated oppressed "Palestinians" went on a stabbing spree in Israel. The 19-year-old terrorist stabbed an 80-year-old Israeli woman. She is in serious condition. The terrorist stabbed two others as well.

The crowd attempted to attack the terrorist, but were held back by the police. A local Rishon Letzion politician named Yitzchak Avshalom has managed to get himself in every news story by bragging that he helped protect the terrorist from angry residents. I'm not sure how he's planning to run on that, but there have been worse political platforms than protecting terrorists. I just can't think of any.

OBAMA’S MASS RELEASE OF FELONS: How many more Americans will be killed or maimed as a result?

Writing at Conservative Review, the consistently excellent Daniel Horowitz offers a concise summary of the outrageous behavior of the Obama administration as it pertains to criminal illegal aliens.

There seems to be a grievance group that has successfully attracted the attention of all or a portion of the political class for any perceived injustice under the sun.  But why is it that nobody in the political class finds a need to act with urgency to protect American lives from violent illegal aliens?  Why are American victims of violence from illegal aliens the only group that garners no attention from the media or politicians?  

ASYLUM SCAMMERS: Fake Passport Business is Booming

By Ann Corcoran

That’s what the Wall Street Journal is reporting, thanks to Jeff for sending the story.

The ‘stars’ of the WSJ piece landed in the UK, but I wonder how many are landing at an airport near you as we speak?

ISTANBUL—Somewhere over Europe, Kassem went to the airplane’s bathroom and flushed his fake Italian passport down the toilet.

When he landed in London’s Heathrow Airport a few hours later, Kassem presented his Syrian ID to U.K. immigration officials and requested asylum. The trip wouldn’t have been possible using his actual, Syrian passport—the country’s four-year civil war has turned it into a burden for anyone fleeing the conflict.

When asked where his passport was, Kassem told the officials: “It’s in the toilet.”

TIMELINE: Hillary Clinton’s Lies to the American People, the Families of the Victims and Herself

By Raj Shah

There is a growing disconnect between Hillary Clinton’s public statements following the Benghazi terror attack and what was being communicated in private. 

New information reveals that the State Department not only knew that the attack had nothing to do with a video, but that officials were specifically cautioned to stay clear of that false narrative.

Yet despite the evidence, Hillary maintains, “I still believe to this day that the video played a role.”

During her testimony before the Benghazi committee, she blamed the contradictions between public and private communications as the result of “conflicting information we were trying to make sense of.” But, a breakdown of internal communications shows that there was a clear understanding that the video had nothing to do with the Benghazi attack. 

Larwyn's Linx: Georgia's Growing Problem with Violent Illegal Aliens

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Nation

Georgia's Growing Problem with Violent Illegal Aliens: New English Review
America's Soft Tyranny is Hardening: Patricia McCarthy
Nearly Half of Obamacare Co-Ops Have Failed: Ali Meyer

The Deceit and Lawlessness Just Keep on Coming: Gary Hancock
He’s in league with the Democrats: Robert Romano
When irresistible voter anger meets immovable partisan division: Michael Barone

POWER RANKINGS: It's now Marco's world, with Cruz rising: Timothy P. Carney
GOP Campaigns Cut RNC Out of Debate Process: Matthew Boyle
R.E.S.P.E.C.T. for Cruz coming from the strangest places: Reaganite

Baltimore Mayor: Bring on the refugees to save dying city!: Ann Corcoran
15 Wounded In Gun-Free Chicago Shootings Since Friday Evening: WZ
Michigan: County Violated Constitutional Rights of Christians: Creeping

Economy

Education: A Winning Issue for Republicans: Josh Gelernter
'In the long run our system will collapse': The Local se
Utah nonprofit co-op’s collapse illustrates Obamacare’s Big Lie.: Moe Lane

Scandal Central

Hillary Clinton's lies about Benghazi disqualify her for presidency: Washington Examiner
Looking at the latest round of Hillary's emails: RS
Marco Rubio’s Donor-Class Agenda – Open Border Globalists: Treehouse

Hillary Too Big To Jail? Nonsense! They Have an Orange Pantsuit in Just Her Size: RWN
Here Are 16 Times Obama Promised No "Boots On The Ground" In Syria: ZH
White House Panicked as Even Michelle is Embroiled in Scandal: Coach is Right

Climate & Energy

Climate science frauds try to hide data from Congress: RS
Justice Kennedy will decide the EPA climate plan's fate: John Siciliano
NASA study: Antarctic ice increasing faster than warming can melt it, but panic anyway: Doug Powers

Media

Reclaim the Debates: Ending ties with NBC should be just step one for Reince Priebus: Mark Corallo
Analysis: CNBC’s Agenda Designed To Make GOP Candidates Look Stupid: Robert Gehl
NPR: Non-entity Kasich gets more GOP debate talk time than Trump and Cruz: FAM

The Best Debate Ever: Derek Hunter
‘Had some fun and no reporters were shot’: Ted Cruz reflects on Saturday pheasant hunt : Twitchy
Non-Entity Kasich Thinks the CNBC Debate Was Awesome: Leon H. Wolf

World

Did Hillary’s Libyan “Rebels” Just Shoot Down A Passenger Plane?: Treehouse
Europe’s Migration Policies Threaten Jews and All Europeans: Judith Bergman
IDF warns soldiers against CIA recruitment efforts: Times of Israel

Israel is Avoiding the Abyss, For Now: Jonathan Spyer
Syrian rebels use caged civilians, fighters to deter airstrikes: Thomas Joscelyn
Controversial Erdogan wins re-election in Turkey: Curt Mills

China takes over the sea and ‘Bamlet’ dithers — again: Ralph Peters
Why the Arab Spring Failed: the Cultural Roots of the Arab Predicament: Jonathan W. Pidluzny
1937: ‘Palestine Arabs’ Celebrate Mohammed’s Birthday With Pictures of Hitler, Mussolini: Algemeiner

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

How Does a Patriot Hacker Tell Time? Check this out!: Liberty Speaks
GM And Google To Team Up On Autonomous Cars?: Trevor Collett
British Researchers Make Lighter, Cheaper, Longer Lithium-oxygen Batteries: Aaron Cole

Cornucopia

Black Hawk tragedy: Orders were ignored and 11 men died: Kevin Lilley
Adriani Relandi's trip to 'Palestine' A.D. 1699 revisited.: MFS-TON
Hurrah for the cleaner who acccidentally threw away a modern art exhibit: Rod Liddle

Image: Fred Thompson, with larger-than-life persona, dies at 73
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: #SaveOurConstitution: TED CRUZ FOR PRESIDENT

QOTD: "The school districts of most big cities are awful, but two stand out as utter, pathetic failures: Cleveland and Detroit. In Cleveland, 90 percent of students are unable to read “proficiently”; 91 percent are non-proficient at math. Detroit, remarkably, is even worse: 93 percent of kids fail at reading and 96 percent fail at math. It’s staggering.

Cleveland has had Democratic mayors for the last 25 years. Detroit has had Democratic mayors for the last 63 years. It’s hard to imagine that either city could be run worse — but Republicans barely contest mayoral elections in either. The last mayor’s race in each city featured two candidates who were both Democrats. No Republican thinks he would have a chance in either city. No Republican has the requisite ambition.

In 2012, nine of ten blacks voted Democratic, along with seven of ten Hispanics. As of 2010, Cleveland was 63 percent black and Hispanic, and Detroit was 89 percent black and Hispanic. In the minds of Republicans, those numbers represent an insurmountable obstacle. But they shouldn’t. Education is the number-one issue among both black and Hispanic voters, and the Democrats they overwhelmingly support have in no area failed more overwhelmingly than in education. Education is the number-one issue among both black and Hispanic voters, and the Democrats they overwhelmingly support have in no area failed more overwhelmingly than in education. What makes Republicans think that black and Hispanic voters have more loyalty to party than to self-interest? If that were the case, black voters would never have begun supporting the Democratic party in the first place — they would have stayed loyal to the Grand Old Party that ended slavery." --Josh Gelernter

Sunday, November 01, 2015

POLL: For First Time, Most Democrats View Insane, Failed, Murderous Political Philosophy Favorably

Over at Rasmussen, the pollsters have discovered that -- for the first time in history -- self-identified members of the Democrat Party now view socialism favorably.

The man currently running a distant second for the Democratic presidential nomination, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, is a self-declared socialist, and most of his party’s voters now have a positive view of socialism. They are almost evenly divided as to whether they like capitalism or socialism more.

Socialism, Communism, Maoism, and National Socialism (e.g., the Nazi Party) are all offshoots of Marxism. They are all branches of the same defective tree.

Marxism has failed in literally every venue it has been tried, despite progressives' laughable efforts to claim certain countries have implemented it successfully.

IMPRISONMENT, NOT IMPEACHMENT: What Rogue IRS Commissioner John Koskinen Really Deserves

By Daniel John Sobieski

The introduction of a resolution to impeach IRS commissioner John Koskinen should come as no surprise considering the lawlessness of the Obama administration and its use of the IRS to bludgeon its political opponents and the refusal by the DOJ to prosecute Lois Lerner for her political targeting of the Tea Party and other conservative political groups, as well as her destruction of evidence.

The resolution, introduced by .House Oversight Chairman Jason Chaffetz (R-UT), Rep. James Jordan (R-OH) and 18 other committee members, accuses Koskinen of making false statements under oath, failing to comply with a subpoena, and failing to notify Congress that key evidence was missing or destroyed. As they explained it to Fox News’ Sean Hannity:

EXPERT: Marco Rubio Misleading Voters, Plans to Open the Floodgates to Foreign Tech Workers

By Julia Hahn

Marco Rubio is trying to defend his unpopular effort to expand the controversial H-1B outsourcing program by claiming that he wants to protect American professionals from being replaced by low-wage foreign professionals.

In a Thursday morning radio interview, Rubio amped up the defensive claims he made at Wednesday night’s CNBC debate. Rubio said that he “proposed… reforms” that would prevent wealthy corporations from using foreign professionals as low-cost alternatives to experienced American professionals.

But Rubio’s claim is “an outright fabrication,” said Howard University’s Ron Hira, an expert on the H-1B outsourcing program. Rubio “has not included any such [anti-abuse] proposal in his bill, even though he had ample opportunity to do so.”

Larwyn's Linx: Ben Affleck Had Hillary’s Email Address, But Ambassador Chris Stevens Didn’t

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Nation

Ben Affleck Had Hillary’s Email, But Amb. Chris Stevens Didn’t: WZ
Classification rate continues to rise in Clinton emails: Times
Babel: The Z Man

Cruz Dominates, Priebus in Hot Water, Jeb Wants to Regulate Fantasy Sports: CR
Top Officer Bails on Jeb!'s Dying Campaign: Instapundit
Trump Is America’s Chance To Fix A Broken System: Rachel Marsden

#BlackLivesMatter Plays Hillary Like a Fiddle: Amy Miller
Liberals having tough time coming to grips with Dr. Ben Carson: LI
Black Suspect Arrested in Spate of Arson Fires at Black Churches in St. Louis: AmPower

IBD Poll – Donald Trump Easily Leading Shrinking Field: Treehouse
Hillary Demands Probe of Exxon After It Stops Funding Clinton Foundation: IBT
Johnny Can’t Read Or Add: Tammy Bruce

Economy

The Fed Has Hurt Business Investment: Michael Spence and Kevin M. Warsh
$11 Billion in Excess Disability Payments Found by GAO: Eric Planin
Creeping Sharia in the EEOC: Muslim Beer Truck Drivers Don't Have to Deliver Beer: Sean Higgins

Scandal Central

Tripoli Embassy Warned Clinton Not to ‘Conflate’ Video With Benghazi Attack: Kaitlyn Schallhorn
Email: Hillary Forgot to Secure Sensitive Info: Daniel Halper
Blumenthal to Hillary: Set Up 'Secret Channels Between Insurgents And Governments’: Chuck Ross

Climate & Energy

What did the EPA need with $1.4M worth of guns?: Jazz Shaw
#PoliceState: Stunning Expose on the EPA: Sara Noble
Ted Cruz: Climate Change Is A Religion, Not Science: William Teach

Media

The New York Times vs. The New York Times on Presidential Prerogatives: Moe Lane
A Preview of The Fox Business Debate – Will It Be Different From CNBC? You Decide: Treehouse
ESPN Shutters Grantland, Continuing Recent Trend: James Joyner

CNBC Debate Executive Worked in the Clinton White House for Al Gore: Patrick Howley
Wommen of the Year: C&S
White Racist: C&S

World

Jobless and desperate Palestinians: The BDS campaign will produce more of them: Clifford D. May
Meanwhile, in an Average German City: MB
New ISIS Video Threatens Death to Christians, Jews: Clarion

ISIS Claims Responsibility For Russian Plane Crash In Egypt: Reuters
ISIS Released Video Showing Russian Airliner Crashing In Sinai Egypt: Walid Shoebat
Russian airliner with 224 aboard crashes in Egypt's Sinai, all killed: Reuters

Muslim Neighbors: Bill Warner
Denmark: Sex education for wannabe refugee rapists: Ann Corcoran
7/7 bombings 'were aimed at Olympic bid': Telegraph

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Greater than the sum of its parts: Economist
2,000 year old 'computer' discovered: How tech and shipwrecks are rewriting human history: Jo Best
Tesla Owners Training Their Autonomous Cars to Drive: John Robb

Cornucopia

Happy Halloween From Washington D.C.: MOTUS
FBI Knew Jared Fogle Was a Pedophile, Let Him Continue Molesting Children for Years: Justin Gardner
It's Coooooooooming: Sondrakistan

Image: New ISIS Video Threatens Death to Christians, Jews
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: #ConstitutionMan: TED CRUZ FOR PRESIDENT

QOTD: "Carson has the highest favorables of any candidate in the GOP field. But…most analysis of Carson’s popularity from pundits focuses on his likable personality and his sincere Christian faith. But it’s intriguingly rare to hear people talk about the fact that he’s black. One could argue that he’s even more authentically African-American than Barack Obama, given that Obama’s mother was white and he was raised in part by his white grandparents…

He was a towering figure in the black community in Baltimore and nationally — at least, until he became a Republican politician. And that probably explains why his race seems to be such a non-issue for the media…

How strange it must be for people who comfort themselves with the slander that the GOP is a cult of organized racial hatred that the most popular politician among conservatives is a black man. Better to ignore the elephant in the room than account for such an inconvenient fact. The race card is just too valuable politically and psychologically for liberals who need to believe that their political opponents are evil." --Jonah Goldberg

Bonus QOTD: "Is it better for Jeb to bow out gracefully now, or spend millions weakening Rubio so Cruz has a better shot at winning in the end?" --Mark Krikorian

Saturday, October 31, 2015

MISSION ACCOMPLISHED: Former Adviser Reveals Obama Wanted to Impress Muslims by Ditching Israel

By Daniel Greenfield

Jennifer Rubin has an excerpt from an interview with Dennis Ross, a former senior adviser to Obama.

"When the president comes in, he thinks we have a major problem with Arabs and Muslims. And he sees that as a function of the Bush administration — an image, fairly or not, that Bush was at war with Islam. So one of the ways that he wants to show that he’s going to have an outreach to the Muslim world is that he’s going to give this speech in Cairo. So he wants to reach out and show that the US is not so close to the Israelis, which he thinks also feeds this perception. That’s why there’s an impulse to do some distancing from Israel, and that’s why the settlement issue is seized in a way."

It's not news, but it is confirmation that Obama deliberately sought to alienate and distance Israel. And would have done so regardless of who was the Prime Minister of Israel.

MAP: Did your state silently absorb more Syrian Muslim Refugees (with likely ISIS infiltrators) this month?

By Ann Corcoran

The Obama Administration says they will resettle 10,000 Syrian refugees in the US in FY 2016 which began October 1. Here is a map showing where the first 187 Syrians have been placed (as of today)*. Two weeks ago, it had been only 51 (see here), but Kentucky is still the number one destination (here with 26).

Of the 187 admitted to the US this month, 183 are Sunni Muslims. There were 3 Catholics and 1 Christian. That is 98% Muslim. Last year the percentage of Muslims in the Syrian flow to America was 97%.

If Obama wants to get 10,000 in here in one year, they will surely have to step this up. I expect the slow start involves the problem they are having doing the security screening. He will have to get almost 900 a month in here to make his quota.

War of the Worlds

By Jim Quinn

“We know now that in the early years of the twentieth century this world was being watched closely by intelligences greater than man’s and yet as mortal as his own. We know now that as human beings busied themselves about their various concerns they were scrutinized and studied, perhaps almost as narrowly as a man with a microscope might scrutinize the transient creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water. With infinite complacence men went to and fro over the earth about their little affairs … In the thirty-ninth year of the twentieth century came the great disillusionment. It was near the end of October. Business was better. The war scare was over. More men were back at work. Sales were picking up.” – Opening monologue of War of the Worlds broadcast – October 30,1938

It was 77 years ago this week that Orson Welles struck terror into the hearts of Americans with his live radio broadcast of the HG Wells classic War of the Worlds. The broadcast began at 8:00 pm on Mischief Night 1938. As I was searching for anything of interest to watch the other night on the 600 cable stations available 24/7, I stumbled across a PBS program about Welles’ famous broadcast. As I watched the program, I was struck by how this episode during the last Fourth Turning and how people react to events is so similar to how people are reacting during the current Fourth Turning. History may not repeat exactly, but it certainly rhymes.

Larwyn's Linx: RNC to NBC: You're Fired

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Nation

RNC to NBC: You're Fired: Ace
Paul Ryan's Debt-Limit Disaster: David Harsanyi
RNC Cans NBC After Levin Calls For Priebus Firing: CR Wire

Time For a Debate Moderated by Limbaugh, Hannity and Levin: John Hayward
Establishment RNC Does Not want a Debate with Conservative Moderators: Godfather
Yeah, Jeb Bush Is Probably Toast: 534

Ted Cruz’s ‘Secret’ Skill That No President Has Likely Had Since Thomas Jefferson: IJR
Why Jeb Bush Should Not Be The Republican Nominee in 20 Quotes: John Hawkins
Jeb Campaign Facing Cash-Strapped Weeks Ahead: Todd Beamon

Zombie Candidate: Establishment Declares Jeb Dead Man Walking: Ben Shapiro
Granny Clinton Snags Key Communist Endorsement: JWF
The “National Debate” About Gun Control Is Over. Gun Control Lost.: Bob Owens

Economy

The Death of the American Welfare State: Daniel Greenfield
The Commerce Department’s GDP numbers don’t make any sense: John Crudele
Senate approves budget deal and here’s how they voted: Scoop

Scandal Central

I spent a week pouring over the Benghazi hearing transcript. Here's what I concluded: Jay Cost
German Official Sent ‘Classified’ Email That Was Forwarded To Hillary Clinton: Chuck Ross
Hundreds of new Clinton emails classified: Sarah Westwood

Dept. Of Education Issues Guide Urging Schools To Help Illegals Apply For Amnesty: Chuck Ross
Elijah Cummings Wins Pea Brain Award for IRS Defense: MB
Networks Censor Latest Hillary E-Mail Dump, But Find Time for Giant Flying Pumpkin: Curtis Houck

Climate & Energy

Did Federal Agency Commit Climate Fraud? Sure Looks Like It: IBD
Ted Cruz: ‘Climate Change Is Not Science -- It’s Religion’: Michael W. Chapman
Today in Liberal Tolerance: Steven Hayward

Media

Rush Limbaugh: ‘Ted Cruz scares the heck out of the Establishment’: CR Wire
Ted Cruz’s Epic Takedown of CNBC Scored Highest in History of Pollster Luntz’s Focus Group: Michael Cantrell
"Experts" struggle to explain rise in Cleveland gun violence: Mark Gillespie

DSM-IV 301.95 Progressive Personality Disorder: A Classic by John Moore: American Digest
Here Are The 7 (Non-Benghazi) Lies The Press Refuses To Take Hillary To Task For: Hannity
Video Comparison: CNBC’s Insulting Questions To CNN’s Softball Questions Of Democrats: Sooper

World

Obama to Troops If you like your boots not being on the ground in Syria, you can keep them: Doug Powers
Amnesty: Israelis Shooting Knife-Slashing Terrorists Using Disproportionate Force: Daniel Greenfield
Syrian citizen-journalist and friend both found Beheaded in Turkey: MFS-TON

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

University Students Find 1000s of Medical Studies Presented to FDA Riddled with Fraud: TSW
Judge rules man had right to shoot down drone over his house: CNet
Fortran, assembly programmers ... NASA needs you – for Voyager: Shaun Nichols

Cornucopia

Don't Nuke Me, Bro: Truesbury
Ted Cruz Is Right: Let Limbaugh and Hannity Moderate a GOP Debate!: Joan Waaaaaaaaalsh
Trick or Trick: Dan Youra, UToons

Image: Jeb Campaign Facing Cash-Strapped Weeks Ahead
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: #ConstitutionMan: TED CRUZ FOR PRESIDENT

QOTD:


Friday, October 30, 2015

I’M SICK OF THIS S***: Time for Mark Levin, Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity to Moderate a GOP Debate

Writing at Breitbart, John Hayward points us to an excellent missive by the Ronald Reagan PAC imploring the Republican candidates to use real debate moderators.

...the Republican National Committee has chosen liberal moderators to handle the Republican presidential primary debates. To the surprise of nobody, the [CNBC] debate that ensued consisted of moderators insulting, demeaning and embarrassing the Republican candidates who participated.

Indeed, in the words of Reagan’s own Attorney General Ed Meese, “After 15 minutes it was clear that this was not a debate, but a verbal shooting gallery set up by CNBC, with the targets the Republican candidates and the shooters their biased antagonists from the press.”

...The Republican National Committee offered sanctioned debates to left-leaning networks such as NBC and CNN, yet offered nothing to actual conservative opinion leaders such as ... Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity ... and Mark Levin, who together influence more Republican primary voters than all the television networks combined. As a result, the past three debates have come across as reality television instead of a serious debate on the issues.

Hayward adds some compelling observations:

SICK: Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) Endangers Military by Playing Politics with Weapons Purchases

By Institute for Legislative Action

In 1995, Bob Dole said of Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), “[t]he most dangerous place is between him and a camera.”

Last Friday, Schumer publicly announced a plan to require bidders for a $580 million Department of Defense contract to supply the U.S. Army with handguns to submit to questioning regarding efforts to push a gun control agenda. The fact is, Schumer’s attempt to subject the vital fighting equipment of our nation’s servicemen and women to petty politics is nothing more than a cynical attempt to indulge his lust for press coverage, and is a reckless and dangerous threat to the safety of our service men and women.

The sole intent of the DOD procurement process should be to equip our fighting men and women with the best arms for their mission. To factor in the supplier’s willingness to kowtow to Schumer’s gun control demands alongside criteria such as accuracy and reliability risks supplying our troops with inferior equipment. Our soldier’s lives rely in part on the functional capability of their weapons, and to suggest that these soldiers should be used as a political pawn to enact gun control the Senator cannot achieve through our democratic process is reprehensible.

The specifics of the proposal are outlined in a letter from Schumer to Secretary of the Army John M. McHugh.

This Is What The "Invasion Of Europe" Looks Like

By Tyler Durden

On Monday, we brought you a series of still shots along with a video which depicted the scope of Europe’s migrant crisis via drone footage.

The point in highlighting the imagery was to demonstrate just how futile the EU’s effort to establish a series of refugee “holding camps” along the Balkan route to Germany is likely to be.