Friday, December 04, 2015

San Bernardino ISIS Attacks Expose Democrats’ Failure to Address -- or Even Name -- Radical Islam

By Pete Hoekstra

Law enforcement and intelligence officials continue to gather evidence on the motivation Wednesday's mass murder in San Bernardino, Calif., but nearly all indications thus far suggest Islamist radicalization was a significant factor.

Syed Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik killed 14 people at an office party for county workers, Farook's colleagues, and later were killed in a shootout with law enforcement officers. Preliminary investigative work already has found that Farook was radicalized and communicated with extremists.

Larwyn's Linx: The Media's Cover Up of Immigrant Mass Shootings

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Nation

The Media's Cover Up of Immigrant Mass Shootings: Ann Coulter
The Left Prays After Islamist Shooting, To Its God Of Government: Mollie Hemingway
Obama’s pathetic failure to transform … anything: Seth Mandel

Let’s Get Real About Islamic Terrorism: Keith Koffler
Ted Cruz: ‘We Are At A Time Of War’ With Radical Islam: Breitbart
Alabama Muslim woman among ISIS’ most active recruiters: Creeping

Shooting Suspect Town Is Site for Syrian Refugee Settlement: Breitbart
NY Sheriff: Please Exercise Your Constitutional Right to Bear Arms: DailyPundit
FBI Expert Pokes Obama: One Thing Clear… This Was Not “Climate Change” : GWP

Developments in the San Bernardino Shooting: Leon H. Wolf
Neighbors: Cali Terrorist Grew Beard, Put on Religious Garb: Daniel Greenfield
The infidels Syed Farook slaughtered threw him a baby shower earlier this year: Scoop

The truth about gun deaths: numbers and actual solutions: Jazz Shaw
America’s Massive Decline in Gun Violence: James Joyner
Shooter Traveled to Saudi Arabia, Lived the "American Dream": Daniel Greenfield

Scandal Central

Hillary met with Susan Rice the day before her Benzhazi “prep” session: Paul Mirengoff
Inspector General Offices Stonewalled by Obama Administration Officials: Spencer Irvine
The Left is, In Fact, A Collective Moron: Blogmocracy

Media

The New York Times and the Twilight Zone: MB
Choose Your Own Gun Statistics: MagFarm
Despite No Previous Threats Against San Bernadino...: WZ

Democrats Are Rampaging About Guns, Don’t Care Much About Possible Terrorism: Sara Noble
Arpaio calls on 250K armed citizens to stop terrorism and mass shootings: KPHO
Obama Unwittingly Destroys Lunatic Left's Narrative, Offers ‘Thoughts and Prayers’ to Terror Victims: JWF

Media and left heaped shame on themselves as terror attack unfolded in San Bernardino: Poor Richard
NAACP President Busted for Dealing Coke: Media Ignores: Joe
NYT Throws Gender-Neutral ‘Mx.’ Into The Mix: Tammy Bruce

World

Joint Staff Warns Islamic State Terrorists Travel to Europe Unimpeded: Bill Gertz
Just revealed: Palestinian terrorists castrated Israeli hostage at Munich Olympics: LI
The World That Pearl Harbor Created is Coming to An End: Scott Rasmussen

The Middle East as It Will Be: Eliot A. Cohen
The New French "Résistance": Guy Millière
Yemeni Cleric: Jews Most Despicable of Allah's Creatures, Are Enemies of Mankind and Peace: MEMRI

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

$100k prize…The MITRE Challenge: Countering Unauthorized Unmanned Aircraft Systems: sUAS
LISA Pathfinder to pave way for gravitational wave detection: Christopher Crockett
Stone Age Picasso made oldest known drawing of human settlement: New Scientist

Cornucopia

Our Son Made It Through: R.S. McCain
A Gambling Ban’s Federalism Problem: Andrew Moylan
ENOUGH !! – Just Who The Hell is “Tashfeen Malik”?: Treehouse

Image: LISA Pathfinder to pave way for gravitational wave detection
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QOTD: "The [New York Times and other media] don’t know the [San Bernardino shooters'] motive, not having heard of the escalating terror war Muslims have been waging against the rest of the human race. But the motive doesn’t matter, because the Muslims didn’t kill anyone, their guns did.

Take away our guns and the problem is solved. All we need to do is repeal the Second Amendment and impose common sense gun control, like they have in leftist-run France (where last month Muslims butchered 130 innocents in the capital city). Then all will be safe, and we can focus on more serious problems like white privilege, climate change, and the fascist menace posed by Donald Trump.

The liberal establishment’s disconnect from reality — clearly shared by its figurehead Obama, who is absurdly trying to pass off the San Bernardino terror attack as “workplace violence,” just as he did with Fort Hood — is as close to absolute as you would find in an asylum for the incurably insane." --Dave Blount

Thursday, December 03, 2015

TEXAS SUES: Syrian refugees and ISIS sympathizers headed to state under cover of darkness

By Kenric Ward

Syrian refugees in the United States will nearly double the cost of federal resettlement programs over the next two years. But Texas officials aren’t going along.

Late Wednesday, they sued the Obama administration to stop the refugees. Officials in Austin charged that Washington is keeping Texans in the dark about the status of the Mideast migrants, who could begin arriving in the Lone Star State by the end of this week.

Obama and the Democrats must answer for San Bernardino

By David Horowitz

On the heels of the Paris attacks, ISIS issues threats against the United States. A Muslim couple highly trained and armed to the teeth, with an IED factory in their house, with GoPro cameras on board, murders 14 and wounds 17 members of a seasonal gathering in San Bernardino, and a day later no one in the media will say it’s a terrorist attack. Even on Fox, the word is “No one will say whether it’s workplace violence or a terrorist attack.” Really? Who leaves a meeting goes back home, as the killer did, gathers up his wife, drops his six month old child with the grandmother, dons battle fatigues and drives back to the meeting to carry out his mayhem?

AND... The FBI reports that the #1 weapon used in violent crime is...

...the baseball bat.


And yet the statists continue to shriek for gun control, in spite of the Paris attacks that took place in a country that disarms virtually all of its citizens. Despite the 9/11 attacks, in which Islamists wielding box-cutters killed 3,000 Americans. Despite statistics like the above.

If they were real Americans, the progressive left would be calling for jihad control. But they're not real Americans, they're Marxist revolutionaries, sixties retreads, and America-haters.

Larwyn's Linx: His Own Former Intelligence Head Admits Obama Ignored ISIS Rise to Win Reelection

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His Own Former Intel Head: Obama Ignored ISIS Rise to Win Reelection: Ben Shapiro
San Bernardino County Residents Feared Syrian Resettlement: Daniel Greenfield
Father of suspect who killed 14: “He was very religious. He’s Muslim.”: Creeping

Syed Raheel Farook: Terror Suspect Traveled to Saudi Arabia Last Year: Debbie Schussel
Neighbor Suspicious of Middle Eastern Men, But Didn't Want to "Profile": Sooper
Treason, Cowardice, and Islamic Invasion: States Must Retool the Militia: Publius Huldah

Syed Farook: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know: Heavy
Suspect ID'd in San Bernardino Massacre as Syed Farook: Daily Beast
Governors not falling for Obama’s ploy on Muslim refugees: Leo Hohmann

Leaked GOPe Strategy Memo: Be Trump-like (Even If You Have To Fake It): Treehouse
New Poll: Good News For Trump, Bad News For Ben Carson: Hannity
Chicagoland: A Tale of 2 Tragedies: Larry Elder

Economy

Congress Hands Obama a Blank Check on Refugees: Leo Hohmann
Obamacare: Everything Is Going According To Plan: SDA
How to Structure Infrastructure Spending: Veronique De Rugy

Climate & Energy

TREE RING BOY HARDEST HIT: Climate skeptics are winning the public opinion war:

Media

Dear @Clementine_Ford …: R.S. McCain
Howard Dean Group Fundraising Off CA Shootings—GOP 'Standing With Terrorists': NB
Two of Obama's sons punch and stomp a handicapped man half to death: DailyMail

Obama Gives Gun Control Rant In Paris, Ignores French Tragedy: BlurBrain
The Walrus and the New York Times: John Hinderaker
14 killed in San Bernardino, so the New York Daily News slams Republicans for offering prayers: Doug Powers

World

This Business Will Get Out Of Control: Christian Mercenary
Why So Few Christians Among Syrian Refugees? State Dept 'Helping the Most Vulnerable': CNS
France Shuts Down 3 Mosques in Crackdown: AP

The Turkish-ISIS Alliance: William S. Lind
Russia bans George Soros foundation as state security 'threat': Reuters
State Department 'troubled' by Moscow's move against Soros groups : Fox

In Israel, the more things change…: Cal Thomas
EU internal borders may be reimposed for two years: EU Observer
Ottawa Public Library Book: ‘Kill non-Muslims, go to paradise’: Creeping

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Deadly fungus found in soil is spreading through crops worldwide: DailyMail
12 top enterprise tech startups: ComputerWorldUK
The Government’s Rushed Drone Registry Will Be Ineffective and Unenforceable: Gary Mortimer

Cornucopia

You Look Mahvelous!: MOTUS
Tweet o' the Day: Don Surber
Boom! Herman Cain Gets The Last Laugh After Jeb Bush Insult: Hannity

Image: San Bernardino Shooting: Suspects Left Baby Daughter With Grandma
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QOTD: "President Obama has now deployed 200 special ops troops back into Iraq to take part in training and overseeing missions. This comes just a few years after Obama pulled out all troops and claimed that Iraq had been stabilized, with Vice President Joe Biden saying in 2010 that Iraq would be one of Obama’s “greatest achievements.” It comes about a year after Obama called ISIS “jayvee.” It comes just a few weeks after Obama said that ISIS had been “contained,” after which ISIS attacked Paris, killing 130 people; Obama’s chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Marine Gen. Joseph Dunford, admitted this week that the United States had “not contained” ISIS.

President Obama doesn’t care about the national security of the United States. That’s a distraction from his grand mission of global wealth and power redistribution. If both Americans and foreigners have to die to maintain the illusion that he is a powerful war leader successful in keeping people safe, then they’ll die. It’s that simple." --Ben Shapiro

Wednesday, December 02, 2015

REPORT: Photos of San Bernardino Shooting Suspect Farooq Saeed

Via Inquisitr, Daily Beast and WAW, several possible photos of San Bernardino terror shooting suspect Farook Syed:


I SUSPECT MILITANT QUAKERS: ISIS Already Celebrating San Bernardino Terror Attack

Shortly after the terror attacks in San Bernardino, police scanners (audio below) erupted with the name of a suspect:
Based upon FBI reports, that name led to an address near the original shooting where the SUV was located. A chase ensued, followed by a shootout in which two suspects were killed.

UPDATE: NBC is confirming (9:36PM ET):

MAKES SENSE: Obama’s New ISIS Czar Was Once Fired by His Own Administration for Ties to Terror Grooups

By Judicial Watch

A radical foreign policy adviser fired by President Obama years ago for meeting with the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas is back as the administration’s new czar in charge of countering the Islamic State of Iraq and Greater Syria (ISIS).

The White House downplayed the new appointment by burying it deep in a press briefing delivered at a Paris hotel during the recent climate summit. “The President recently elevated Rob Malley, the NSC [National Security Council] Coordinator for the Middle East and North Africa, to serve now as the Senior Advisor to the President for the Counter-ISIL Campaign in Iraq and Syria,” White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest said during the briefing at the Marriott Rive Gauche Hotel and Conference Center. Before moving onto the next topic Earnest said the president has directed Malley to “support our reinvigorated diplomatic track toward a political transition in Syria…”

Larwyn's Linx: Gun Control Group Calls For Obama To Declare “State of Emergency,” Ban Guns

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Gun Control Group: Obama Must Declare 'State of Emergency,' Ban Guns: Bob Owens
House Dem: Obama Could Cause ‘Devastating Nuclear War’ With Russia: Joel Gehrke
H laughing at governors: we'll teach you how to use State Dept. data base!: RRW

Deadly D.C.: The Land of No Consequences: Michelle Malkin
NC Man Arrested After Assuming Constitution Applied In NY: Bob Owens
In DC: Says Uncle

To Stop Cruz, Fates of Trump and Rubio Are Now Intertwined: Erick Erickson
Who Can Beat Hillary?: Edward Klein
Is Hillary Manipulating the Investigation Into Her Email Server?: TR

Thanks, Obama! Feds Quietly Sneak Family of Seven Syrian ‘Refugees’ Into NJ: JWF
423 Syrians admitted to US in first two months of fiscal year; 99% Sunni Muslims: RRW
Baylor Buries Lead On Chagas Disease: “Imported From Latin America”: A.W. Morgan

Can We Learn From Europe?: Walter Williams
Chicago Communist Scum Lead Anti-Cop Protests Over McDonald Shooting: NoisyRm
CBS Channel 2 NJ News: Jersey City Residents Celebrated on 9/11: Treehouse

Economy

Levin: Consent of the Governed is Dead: CR Wire
U.S. Total Debt Soars By $674 Billion In November: ZH
Black Friday breaks record with 185K gun background checks: Nick Penzenstadler

Scandal Central

Judicial Watch Sues Treasury for Records on Hillary Clinton-Russian Uranium Scandal: JW
New Report: ISIS Gaining ‘Unprecedented’ Recruitment in U.S.: Fred Lucas
21-Year-Old with Preferred Pigmentation Says He'll Murder 16 Whites, Will Be Released to his Mom: MB

Climate & Energy

Obama Blows Off Time Limits, Holds Forth Like Castro at Farcical Climate Summit: MB
Warmers Dine on Haute Cuisine as They Plot Global Redistribution: Jim Hoft
Kochs, Exxon “influence”? Yale experts search 40,000 documents, find almost nothing: JoNova

Media

Why I Am Endorsing Senator Ted Cruz for President 2016: Ann-Marie Murrell
Media Rushes To Blame Christians, Republicans For Planned Parenthood Shooting: Peter Hasson
Dems: A Nut Shot People Near Planned Parenthood. That Means You Should Fund Abortion.: Ben Shapiro

World

Joint Chiefs chair: No, ISIS is not contained: Ed Morrissey
Hillary: Hey, Let's Learn From Latin America's 'Success' and Elect a Woman President: Guy Benson
Refugee-welcoming Germany could soon ban the BURQA as it ‘doesn’t fit’ society: Allan Hall

Obama Says US Is Only Country With Mass Shootings. In Paris. Where 130 People Just Got Shot.: DailyWire
OH. MY. GOODNESS. Obama Just Said The Most Stunningly Idiotic Thing EVER.: DC Whispers
Obama Appoints Anti-Israel Hamas Supporter As New ISIL Czar: LidBlog

House Calls for Jihadists: Mark Steyn
Russia's Failed Adventure in Syria: Con Coughlin
The Media Owes Donald Trump an Apology: iOTWreport

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Hillary Clinton is getting crushed on social media, captured in one word cloud: James Hohmann
This underwater tennis center in Dubai is probably never going to happen (but it’s cool anyway): Isabel Schwab
20 Big Data Companies Leading the Way: Juan Carlos Perez

Cornucopia

What to Do in an Active Shooter Situation: Art of Manliness
JANET, America's Most Secret Airline, Is Hiring: David Cenciotti
Obama Shines His Light Upon The World.: MOTUS

Image: NATO countries to step up fight against Islamic State
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QOTD: "Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everybody you meet." --Gen. James Mattis, U.S. Marines

Tuesday, December 01, 2015

COJONES: Illegals Sue to Overturn Oregon Ballot Initiative That Overwhelmingly Refused Them Drivers Licenses

By Dan Cadman

Fox News is reporting that a group of aliens living illegally in the United States, Oregon specifically, is suing to overturn a ballot initiative in that state in which voters resoundingly rebuffed attempts to legislatively permit illegal aliens to obtain Oregon driver's licenses.

The basis? Discrimination. The plaintiffs allege that the ballot initiative, Measure 88, is unconstitutional "because it 'arbitrarily' denies driving privileges based on membership in a 'disfavored minority group.' It [the lawsuit] alleges Oregon voters were motivated by "animus toward persons from Mexico and Central America."

The Idiocy of Central Planning in One Simple Chart

Hubris is one of the most risible characteristics of the Leftists who seek to orchestrate and manage society.

They believe that they can set a single minimum wage that, on the one hand, provides a "living wage" for entry-level workers, yet somehow suits vastly different economic environments ranging from San Francisco, California to Bangor, Maine.

They insist that government-run health care -- despite the horrific track records of the Veterans Administration and the Indian Health Care System -- can somehow work even as Medicare and Medicaid sink into quagmires of fraud, inaccessible care and bankrupt states.

They claim that their Great Society programs, which sentenced the urban poor to Section 8 ghettos and destroyed the two-parent African-American family, just need more money and time -- as if $22 trillion and 50 years weren't enough.

DOMESTIC TERRORISM: Vintage Media’s Manufactured Outrage

By Cliff Kincaid

We don’t remember any outrage from the media over the alleged roles played by Obama associates Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn in the 1970 bombing murder of San Francisco police officer Brian V. McDonnell. In fact, the media peddled the nonsense that Ayers and Dohrn, who helped launch Barack Obama’s political career, were “anti-war activists” who bombed a few buildings and never hurt anyone.

Since “domestic terrorism” is now a topic of concern for the media, in the wake of the attack on the Planned Parenthood facility in Colorado, can we expect the media to pressure Obama Attorney General Loretta Lynch to gather new evidence in the McDonnell case? It’s not likely.

The Real Climate Crisis that the Global Warming Scammers are Ignoring

By Karl Denninger

No, folks, it's not "globull warming."

I know, I know, we're all going to drown if we don't "stop" it.  Of course this means forcing India and China to cut carbon emissions, since they're the largest emission growth engines and will be for the foreseeable future, following by sub-Saharan Africa and other parts of the world that are yet to become industrialized nations.

That is never going to happen without the use of force -- that is, killing people -- and for good reason too, because if you live in a straw hut you'd probably like to do better, and to do better you need energy.

The real reason to impose carbon taxes and similar nonsense is to disadvantage the west and our modern society for the purpose of control while giving huge sums of money to favored people to redistribute under the guise of "leadership."  What it really amounts to is theft at gunpoint used for "global welfare payments."

Nothing more or less. Further, it gets (much) worse.

Larwyn's Linx: Trump or Cruz: Which Revolution Will it Be?

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Nation

Trump or Cruz: Which Revolution Will it Be?: Steve Deace
I Am the Republican Uncle: Erathosthenes
As Cruz gains, GOP senators rally for Rubio: Politicon

Clinton Appoints Ex-Congressman Who Blamed His Defeat on Jews: Alana Goodman
ISIS Threat Represents Clash of Civilizations-and Hillary Won’t Admit It: Fred Fleitz
McConnell's Reelection Emergency: Daniel Horowtiz

The Conservative Case For Ted Cruz: John Hawkins
Desperately Seeking ISIS: Scott Johnson
Texas governor threatens lawsuit against resettlement contractor over Syrians: RRW

The Left And The Mentally Ill: A Band Of Lunatic Brothers: Camp o' the Saints
San Francisco Is Needle City: Debra Saunders
Thank Liberals for Today’s Chaotic and Dangerous World: Star Parker

Rename the Racist Democrat Party: Daniel Greenfield
Did Team Jeb try smearing Rubio to derail his presidential bid?: Ed Morrissey
46 Times President Obama Told Americans ‘That’s Not Who We Are’: David Rutz

Scandal Central

Nearly 1,000 Clinton emails had classified info: Fox
Clinton opened State Dept. to dozens of corporate donors, Dem fundraisers: AP
Emails: Hillary Clinton Praised Release of Gitmo Detainee and Killer of American Soldier: Jason Leopold

Malfeasance Rewarded: NL-OG&M
Henry: Indication Of More Classified Information Contained In Hillary Clinton’s Emails: Daniel Bassali
State Dept., intel watchdog tangle over Clinton emails: Politicon

Climate & Energy

Why Scientists Disagree about Global Warming: Anthony Watts
In Effort to Fight So-Called “Climate Change,” Hysterical Obama Recycles Dire Predictions: JWF
Developing Countries: We want a Trillion Dollars to Sign your Stupid Climate Agreement: Eric Worrall

Media

Did New York Post Scrub 2001 Story Because It Supported Donald Trump’s Claim?: Treehouse
Who's Obama's greater enemy: GOP or ISIS?: Chad Groening
Possibly the Best Argument Yet in Favor of Trump: MB

That Many? Only 27 Percent of Voters Think Hillary Clinton is Honest: ProgsToday
Microaggressions and Other Fictions: Joel Hilliker
Did New Jersey Muslims Celebrate on 9/11? : Danusha V. Goska

World

The Welfare Caliphate built by Welfare Jihad in Germany: Daniel Greenfield
The Real Lesson of the Paris Attacks: Douglas Murray
"Yeah, Let's Bring Some of That Here.": Stuart Schneiderman

Fresh Perspectives on Benghazi Keep the Scandals Alive: Roger Aronoff
The EU’s Historic Cave to Turkey: AmInt
Invading Germany: Cal Thomas

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

How can people safely take control from a self-driving car?: Justin Pritchard
Search for fossils from the comfort of home: Erin Wayman
Apple Pay Adoption: PYMNTS

Cornucopia

Creed: All-American: Armond White
We’ll Tell You Which Black Lives Matter: MOTUS
Beretta's M9A3, spurned by Army, for sale to public: Kevin Lilley

Image: Rename the Racist Democrat Party
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QOTD: "“The grim reality is that dishonesty is so fundamental to leftism today that while all politicians connive with the facts a bit if they think that there is no chance of getting caught, the pathological liars of establishment leftism more and more resemble the Stalinist Lillian Hellman, about whom Mary McCarthy famously wrote: ‘Every word [she] writes is a lie, including ‘and’ and ‘the.’ The establishment media, like entrenched government bureaucracies and corrupt academia, long since stopped caring about intellectual integrity. All of these organs care only about either advancing an ideological agenda or protecting their comfortable perches and perks. Over the last fifty years or so, there has been virtually no governor or check upon the most outrageous frauds.”" --Bruce Walker

Monday, November 30, 2015

THE REAL 2016 ELECTION: The Bipartisan Political-Media Establishment vs. the American People

By Lawrence Sellin

The 2016 election is not a contest between the Democrat and Republican ideologies, nor is it a choice among various approaches to address the nation's problems, but something far more fundamental.

It is a battle between the entrenched power of the bipartisan political-media establishment versus the rights and liberties of the American people.

University of Chicago Surrenders to Jihad

By Karl Denninger

And yet again UofC shows why you should shred any resume you get from any of their grads.

The University of Chicago announced Sunday that all classes and other activities planned for Monday on its Hyde Park campus will be canceled after FBI counterterrorism officials informed the university of a gun violence threat to the campus.

University President Robert Zimmer sent an email to students and staff warning them of a threat posted online by an unknown individual, which specifically mentioned "the campus quad" at 10 a.m. Monday.

President Zimmer is a coward.

Powerful NY Democrat Gets Gold Watch Plus 130 Years in Prison, But Mostly 130 Years in Prison

By Rusty Weiss

Following a month-long criminal trial, and 10 months after his arrest on multiple corruption charges, former Assembly Speaker and one of the famed ‘three men in a room’ controlling New York politics, Sheldon Silver, has been found guilty on all seven counts involving corruption schemes that netted him $4 million in legal fees.

Prior to his arrest, Silver was widely considered the most powerful Democrat in the State Legislature.

Via the Times Union:

Larwyn's Linx: Islam, Jihad, and our Ignorance

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Nation

Islam, Jihad, and our Ignorance: Politically Short
Obama’s Fundamental Transformation of America: The Syrian Scheme: Brenda Walker
Office of Refugee Resettlement threatens governors, says they can’t stop Syrians: RRW

Syrian Refugee Question: What We Should be Asking: Andrew C. McCarthy
Obama Has Done More Damage To Border Security Than Any Recent POTUS: LidBlog
Crazy People are Dangerous: R.S. MCain

GOP donors wrestle with possibility of Trump nomination: Jonathan Swan
Cruz, Rubio line up to steal away Bush supporters: Eli Stokols
Failed Candidate Jeb Bush: Trump not a 'serious candidate': Louis Nelson

Charges in Homicide: Second City Cop
Karl Rove Helping Ben Carson Has Everything to do With Ted Cruz: Erick on the Radio
Cruz Campaign Capitalizes on Carson’s Inexperience: VARight

Economy

Life Rules: Stuart Schneiderman
Puerto Rico Girds for Default: AmInt
How High Corporate Taxes Lost America The World’s Next Biggest Drug Company: Guy Bentley

Scandal Central

Gibson Guitar “Government Series”: Walter Olson
Jihad expert banished from college campus over safety concerns: Robert Spencer
NSA stopped from indiscriminately collecting millions of phone records, but it’s not enough: Ben Woods

Climate & Energy

Climate and Human Civilization over the last 18,000 years: Andy May
IPCC ≠ SCIENCE ↔ IPCC = GOVERNMENT: Wim Rost
Ex-NYC mayor with multiple mansions, jets: ‘Crazies’ like Ted Cruz don’t accept climate change reality: Doug Powers

Media

Shooter was unaffiliated politically; heavy pot smoker who sought B&D, S&M online: John Lott
Graphic promotes the Islamic State’s prolific media machine: Thomas Joscelyn
“You Gotta See This Guy” – Trump’s Lie Exposed: Leon H. Wolf

Obama "Enough is Enough" - Background Checks for Citizens, Not Syrian Refugees: Reid Henrichs
7 Photos From ISIS We Still Owe Them Royalty Payments For: Clickhole
A Ted Cruz moment for me: William A. Jacobson

Confused Hillary Forgets Who Is In The WH: WZ
ESPN says there is too much patriotism in sports: RS
Hoekstra: Obama Thought the ‘Power of His Personality’ Would Change Jihadists’ Behavior: Nicholas Ballasy

World

IRAN: Qods Force’s Qassem Soleimani was allegedly severely injured in Syria.: MFS-TON
Any volunteers for peace talks with ISIS?: Iain Martin
Ted Cruz's Favorite Rabbi: Betsy Woodruff

Tet, Take Two – Islam’s 2016 European Offensive : Matt Bracken
Sweden: 'No Apartments, No Jobs, No Shopping Without a Gun': Ingrid Carlqvist
Economist Concludes Refugees Will Ultimately Cost Germany €900 Billion: Mish

U.S. Refugees and Terrorism – Minneapolis Edition: Treehouse
A Twinge That Could Stop a Catastrophe: Counter Jihad Report
Source: ISIS cut off ears of 70 of its elements in Nineveh: Abdelhak Mamoun

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Will the answer to public cloud be Google?: Robert Stroud
Wal-Mart’s Online Shopping Experience Was Miserable On Thanksgiving: Peter Mondrose
Amazon reveals new delivery drone design with range of 15 miles: Taylor Soper

Cornucopia

Post-Thanksgiving Jedi Moves: MOTUS
Ducka Ducka Ducka: Sondrakistan
Kobe Bryant to retire after this season: ESPN

Image: Obama Thought the ‘Power of His Personality’ Would Change Jihadists’ Behavior
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QOTD: "[Former Rep. Pete] Hoekstra argued that the U.S. has lost Libya and northern Africa, which has fueled the crisis in Syria and Iraq... “We’ve dug a hole deeper rather than making progress,” he said.

Hoekstra criticized President Obama for believing the “power of his personality” would bring peace to the Middle East.

“This president, as he did in Egypt, as he’s done in Iran, as he’s done in Syria, has decided that in America’s best interest he believes he can manage, work with, but most importantly he believed that because of the power of his personality the radical jihadist movement would fundamentally change their view of America and change their behavior,” he said [citing] a quote from Obama in November 2007 during his first run for president.

“I truly believe that the day I’m inaugurated, not only the country looks at itself differently, but the world looks at America differently,” Obama said at the time. “If I’m reaching out to the Muslim world they understand that I’ve lived in a Muslim country and I may be a Christian, but I also understand their point of view.”" --Nicholas Ballasy

Sunday, November 29, 2015

INTERESTING: A Carly Fiorina Story from the Harvard Business Review

Happened to be perusing an article in HBR on how companies engage employees (you can probably guess the punchline: there is no single formula for success) and I spotted this interesting tale regarding GOP establishment favorite Carly Fiorina:

It takes years to build a strong purpose- and values-driven high commitment, high performance culture. It cannot be done with a simple training program. Every policy and practice has to be evaluated in the context of espoused purpose and values. Culture is, however, very fragile. A few decisions and behaviors by top management or leaders of key businesses or operating units can undermine decades of culture building.

Consider what happened to HP...